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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Diane Whitehead on May 01, 2010, 05:33:28 AM
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I removed three sheets of plywood left by some carpenters
and found these wan beauties. The leaves had already gained
a bit of colour by the time I came back with the camera.
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Darlingtonia californica is now pushing up this year's crop of flowers.
Don't ask me to post a group shot please, I'd get a hernia moving the trays to a photo position.
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Darlingtonia californica
Wow! :o Great!
Corydalis solida selection
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_7273bf24.jpg)
And another one
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_24307c6f.jpg)
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_c85dd76a.jpg)
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Jeffersonia dubia
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_2fa01651.jpg)
Bulbocodium vernum
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_f2679d90.jpg)
Erythronium sibiricum
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_2c98857b.jpg)
Gymnospermium sp.
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_8560410a.jpg)
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Wonderful pictures Olga, love the Jeffersonia.
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It's a real challenge to post just after Olga's superb images... :-\ ...
Here we go anyway
1-2-3- Arenaria tetraquetra var. granatensis is not exactly grown for its abundant flowering (see pic 3) ;D
4) Aethonema 'Warley ruber' had frost damage - no sign of it anymore... ;)
5) Alyssum ????? (lost the label on this one - any ideas somebody ?? :-\
6) Anemone pavonina in full glory
7) Berberis 'Mistery fire'
8. Potentilla porphyranta
9) Ramonda nathaliae
10) Ranunculus millefoliatus
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Luc - Is that berberis a B. darwinii hybrid and hardy to what temperature?
johnw
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Sorry John, I have no idea of the origin.
I've had it for 10 years or so and it must have survived temperatures to -12 or -15°C
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John,
here are some information about the Berberis. It is hardy in Zone 6 (Europe). I know it with a more orange-yellow flower colour.
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Berberis+x+lologensis
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I'm excited by this afternoon's purchase of Boronia heterophylla.
I have never seen a boronia for sale before. I hope this is just
the beginning of a surfeit of Australian plants offered for sale here.
My car was perfumed by the flowers all the way home, and I am
sure my hummingbirds are going to be delighted with them too.
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A great colour, Diane... the scent is a real bonus.... I've never seen one in "the flesh" so to speak :(
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Wow, what a terrific arenaria, Luc!
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Luc,
A fine selection of 'flowers' - especially the Arenaria, which is a favorite for me too.
It seems to me your Ranunculus millefoliatus is something different because my plants were more lax than yours (and an awful weed too - more spreading than Ranunculus ficaria for instance).
Gerd
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Wow, what a terrific arenaria, Luc!
I agree with Lori, it looks like a mountain range 8)
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It's been a rediculously cold spring here, so few things have started flowering, I can't remember Paeonia mairei ever being so late :P
Below;
Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra Plena' still in flower.
Oxygraphis glacialis, which sprouted as a weed among some seedlings of Mec lancifolia from Shaluli Shan.
Trollius dzhungaricus, which has been very slow to reach flowering size. Ex Holubec, Ala Archa, Tien Shan.
Corydalis ornata going over.
Erythronium sibiricum
...and Corydalis turtschaninovii ssp. vernyi from North-Korea.
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Luc - your Arenarias are great plant's!
some pics today,
regards, Wolfgang
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A real treasure trove again some super pictures, I think the Arenaria looks like a brain. A few pictures from the garden the Iris is a lost lable any ideas? cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Tr grand Roseum dark leaf 2
I'm lost for words...
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Some flowers from this weekend
1.+2. Viola canina alba - of Swedish origin - with special thanks to the sender
3. Viola clauseniana - an endemit originally from the western US
4.+5. Viola chelmea ssp. vratnicensis - a white flowering variant from
Mt. Orjen/Montenegro
6.+7. Ranunculus cupreus from Crete - seems to be hardy here
Gerd
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Tr grand Roseum dark leaf 2
I'm lost for words...
same here incredible
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Luc, I hope you haven't got false teeth. According to Reginald Farrer that name mustn't be spoken by people with false teeth. ;D I think the form of Arenaria tetraquetra that we have here can't be v. granatensis as it is much looser than yours.
Ian, could your iris be I. humilis, or bloudowii or flavissima? Love P. maximowiczsii. Hoping mine may flower in the coming spring.
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Ian's trillium is spectacular. I consulted one of my trillium books,
and Frederick Case says Trillium grandiflorum f roseum sometimes
seems to produce so much anthocyanine pigment that it floods into
the leaves. However, this seems to happen best in Scotland. Plants
from RBG Edinburgh that were moved to warmer climates lost their
deep colour.
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Hi all Lesley you could be correct I seem to remember Iris humilis thanks. The dark Trillium grand Roseum is the only plant to produce this dark pigment all the others have a dark tinge but none as good as this one. I thought perhaps the cold winter was what caused this but it is like this every year, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Some flowers from this weekend
1.+2. Viola canina alba - of Swedish origin - with special thanks to the sender
3. Viola clauseniana - an endemit originally from the western US
4.+5. Viola chelmea ssp. vratnicensis - a white flowering variant from
Mt. Orjen/Montenegro
Gerd
Gerd, I like all of the little violets you show... such cute plants. Here's a native one that likes dry sunny areas, Viola palmata. It has seeded into a bark mulch area that I use as a pseudo-nursery area or "holding area" for plants to be planted out. It seeds about gently and pops up here and there, never a lot of it, but always welcome when I see the large size blue flowers among neatly dissected leaves.
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Some Gentiana
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Hans, are you going to tell us a little something about these four beautiful gentian color forms?
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All these Gentiana are wild collected in the Austrian and Italian Alps!
Gentiana alpina alba
Gentiana clusii - the flowers are very red, more red than you can see!
Gentiana ?? - a very well growing form from the Alps; limestone
Gentiana angustifolia - looks like the so called "Iceberg"
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Thank you Mark,
Viola palmata is one of my favirtes too - your plant is a fine specimen!
Gerd
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Thanks Hans for the identify information, such beautiful gentians.
In bloom for a week or so, just approaching full flower now, is Triteleia grandiflora var. howellii, found in British Columbia and Washington State, Oregon, and California. These long slender plants are a photographic challenge, but finally got a few decent photos yesterday... I think it liked the 92 F heat (33 C), and there were still air moments where these 24" (60 cm) wands could stand still for a few seconds. The flowers are large and soft powder blue, never failing to bloom out in the garden each year.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=TRGRH
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I think it liked the 92 F heat (33 C)
Good grief, that's ridiculous.... you had more snow just about ten days ago, didn't you? :o
That pale powder blue is a deliciously delicate colour.
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I think it liked the 92 F heat (33 C)
Good grief, that's ridiculous.... you had more snow just about ten days ago, didn't you? :o
That pale powder blue is a deliciously delicate colour.
We did... just a mere skim coat of snow, but a sharp deep frost after 6 weeks without a frost, many things got "zapped" with some frost damage, the Magnolias taking the hardest hit. But it is extra warm again today, although in late afternoon, a furious weather front passed through... a 2-3 minute "wall of air" blasts through at about 50 miles per hour, no rain to speak of, no thunder or lightning... just a wall or wave of air that rips leaves off trees, knocks tree limbs down, knocks over deck furniture, the after 2-3 minutes, back to normal. ::) The "trits" didn't notice a thing, except open the rest of the buds (so a new picture uploaded).
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Here are a few pictures of our garden and some of the Show plants and garden specimens that are looking rather good at the moment.
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And the last nine pictures. It has been a beautiful day here with very little of that biting wind.
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Oops missed the last one.
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Your garden is looking lovely, Shelagh.... my compliments to you and your "Staff" ;)
You don't fancy a long drive up to Aberdeen for the 15th with those show plants, do you? They would grace any bench. I'm surprised to see the Campanula in full bloom already.... must be the warmth from your smile!!
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The Ramonda, Coronilla and the Lewisia's did win prizes on Saturday at East Cheshire Maggi. The Campanula was on the bench looking pretty good but was overlooked by the judges.
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The Ramonda, Coronilla and the Lewisia's did win prizes on Saturday at East Cheshire Maggi. The Campanula was on the bench looking pretty good but was overlooked by the judges.
was overlooked by the judges ------ go figure!??
Well done, you had a successful day... how were the cakes?
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Shelag - your garden is a feast for the eyes!
Regards, Wolfgang
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Gentian's begin to bloom
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Gentian's Part 2
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Wolfgang,
A whole bed of Gentians :)
And so many varieties, so many labels!!!
Just the one spring Gentian for me.
Gentiana acaulis
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Shelagh, it's lovely to see your garden and everything looking just so healthy and happy. Obviously Lewisias love you and you love Lewisias. :D Thank you for showing us where you live.
Wolfgang, such brilliant gentians, especially the apricot ones, quite different from any I've seen before, a real treat. Many thanks.
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Gentian's begin to bloom
Wolfgang, fabulous gentians. Are the peach colored ones part of a breeding program, color sports that showed up in your garden, or are they named color forms?
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Thanks for showing us around in your lovely garden Shelagh !
Nice to see a fellow Lewisia enthousiast ! 8)
Wolfgang,
Do you suffer from Gentianitis ?? 8) ;D ;)
What a wonderful collection !
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Shelagh, I will give you a first for your Ramonda..I just love it. Your garden is superb.
Wish I could just pop in and see all those lovely plants.
Wolfgang.. amazing collection 8)
Angie :)
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Corydalis solida selection
Olga,
Your blue solida is the most clear blue I have seen in a solida. Do you have any particular info about it??
Superb photos as always
Göte
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Gentian's Part 3
kind regards, Wolfgang
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Olga,
Your blue solida is the most clear blue I have seen in a solida. Do you have any particular info about it??
Gote,
I found it in the forest near Moscow. That's all. :) It is still alone.
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Wolfgang
Your gentians are outstanding! :o
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Blue corydalis from Far East. Not solida. :)
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_558e5f1a.jpg)
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Scilla monanthos
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_bc6754ca.jpg)
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(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_47f541ca.jpg)
Double Sanguinaria, Anemone nemorosa, Corydalis bracteata.
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Fritillaria caucasica
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_7fcfde22.jpg)
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Wonderful flowers and photos from everyone... what a great time of year this is! 8)
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Thanks for all the kind comments.
Wolfgang the thought of Apricot and Alba Violet gentians just makes the mouth water. Thanks for your wonderful pictures.
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a few tulips.some of them are unnamed because they are not the ones we bought of the seller(cheeky)
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Pinguicula grandiflora
A good flower show and will help dispose of whitefly ;D
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A couple of plants flowering with me tonight.
Aquilegia scopulorum
Calceolaria 'Walter Shrimpton'
Erigeron 'Canary Bird'
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Wolfgang,
Do you suffer from Gentianitis ?? 8) ;D ;)
What a wonderful collection !
What a wonderful disease! ;D
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Lovely aquilegia Mick with those long windswept spurs.
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Welsh poppy
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Primula x intermedia (? minima x clusiana hybrid)
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_f0c43dfb.jpg)
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Olga,
Your blue solida is the most clear blue I have seen in a solida. Do you have any particular info about it??
Gote,
I found it in the forest near Moscow. That's all. :) It is still alone.
OK thanks. I hope it will not remain alone too long :)
Göte
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Pinguicula grandiflora
A good flower show and will help dispose of whitefly ;D
nice one, fred--i really like pings!
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Anemone blanda different
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a few images from the forest by my house-on my acreage, or just beyond on the farm.... still very little flowering on the edge of the boreal forest, so i make myself happy with signs of green, even if most of those are evergreens!
oops! i just realised these are still april shots-but i suppose its not worth the trouble to move the whole thing....
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Cohan,
Wonderful photos of the moss. I think they are amazing plants.
I spent some time admiring a wall full of moss this morning whilst out walking.
I have passed it many times before and not noticed it.
Graham
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Androsace villosa taurica.
Rhodoendron impeditum.
Allium zebdanense.
Anemone nemerosa ‘Blue Eyes’
Exochorda the bride.
Alyssoides utriculata.
Hebe raouli.
Oxalis enneaphylla 'Sheffield Swan'.
Chrysanthemum mariesii.
Linum Gemmells Hybrid.
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Cohan,
Wonderful photos of the moss. I think they are amazing plants.
I spent some time admiring a wall full of moss this morning whilst out walking.
I have passed it many times before and not noticed it.
Graham
thanks, graham--great favourites of mine as well--whole landscapes unto themselves (including various other of those wee things!)
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Androsace villosa taurica.
Rhodoendron impeditum.
Allium zebdanense.
Anemone nemerosa ‘Blue Eyes’
Exochorda the bride.
Alyssoides utriculata.
Hebe raouli.
Oxalis enneaphylla 'Sheffield Swan'.
Chrysanthemum mariesii.
Linum Gemmells Hybrid.
michael--you are awash in bloom! so now, at this distance--how extensive were your losses this past winter?
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Cohan, I lost all my Australasian shrubs and a lot of herbaceous plants, but no alpines or bulbs. For some reason all my South African bulbs survived,(they are in a south facing bed close to the house) the foliage of the Watsonias was killed back to ground level, but I see some green shoots peeping just last week so I think they are ok.
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Beggar with a child. :)
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_5283e822.jpg)
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There I was, having a quiet lurk on the pages of the VRV (FlemishRock Garden Club) forum, and what do you suppose I saw pictured there, flowering happily in the garden of Jozef (Jef) Lemmens?
It was a hybrid gesneriad raised Aberdeen local members Maureen and Brian Wilson, a Ramonda x Haberlea cross called Ramberlea 'Inchgarth'......I expect they will be pleased to see their "baby" doing well across the Channel! See the photo here:
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=82.msg2257#msg2257 8)
In a later post on that page Jef shows Primula forrestii and says he thinks it is probably only suitable for culture in an alpine house but I know various Scots have found it to live for several years out in the rock garden.
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Cohan, I lost all my Australasian shrubs and a lot of herbaceous plants, but no alpines or bulbs. For some reason all my South African bulbs survived,(they are in a south facing bed close to the house) the foliage of the Watsonias was killed back to ground level, but I see some green shoots peeping just last week so I think they are ok.
sounds like a lot of losses still---but at least you have lots of other things flowering!
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Beggar with a child. :)
very fancy beggar to use such a parasol ;)
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"Can't these people write in English?" I thought, then realized where I was. Please forgive me all Flemings. ::)
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Lesley, I mostly just enjoy the photos but I use Google translate for the Flemish/Dutch I cannot make out and while it garbles things dreadfully, I can usually get the gist.
The two Lucs and their lady wives are coming to the Aberdeen show next Saturday and to visit our garden....... see this page for photos of their gardens..... they're going to get a frightful shock when they see how the BD and I garden!! :-\ :o
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=9.msg2321#new
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A lovely day for being in the garden today, unfortunately the shed needed a spring clean.
Still found time to have a look around though.
Fritillaria pyrenaica x2
Arisaema sikokianum with Osmanthus burkwoodii or delavayi I can't remember which.
Dicentra specabilis
A Bergenia and Trillium grandiflorum
A bank of Aubretia
Sempervivum octopoides apelatum with its tentacles spreading out
Graham
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Nearly forgot this one!
Phlox subulata 'McDaniel's Cushion'.
Graham
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I am at home with pneumonia :(, but last Sunday ( May 2nd ) I was out on a trip with my boys and we saw some nice Swedish spring flowers:
1 & 2 Anemone nemorosa is abundant in decidious forests and clearings in mixed forests too
3. Pulmonaria obscura started flowering about a month ago, but here was an especially nice specimen hanging out over the stream with last year's grass beneath
4. Daphne mezereum is quite rare and protected in Sweden
5. Hepatica nobilis has mostly passed but here was a very big flowered specimen.
6. A spring mushroom with an eye-catching color.
7. Chrososplenium alternifolium carpets wet clayey areas close to the water.
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very fancy beggar to use such a parasol ;)
She was rich in her previous life. :)
Jeffersonia diphylla
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_4dce5291.jpg)
Anemone blanda Alba from Caucasus
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_82e2f4d9.jpg)
Erythronium japonicum
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_c9cc8236.jpg)
Pulsatilla vulgaris Alba
(http://cs9807.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_e042e061.jpg)
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Last year I asked for some help with siting Ramonda nathalie in my trough. After only one or two flowers last year (and they were eaten by slugs) I'm impressed this year.
Also, can anyone identify this corydalis that is growing out of another plant..I assume I need to get seed off it because it needs to come out, it's smothering the plant underneath.
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The Corydalis looks like C. linstowiana. It's short-lived, usually biennial, so should disappear by itself once it's set seeds.
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Clematis integrifolia
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I am at home with pneumonia :(
I feel guilty at enjoying your photos, Paul, when you are ill. :-X
Thank you for sharing what must have been a very nice day out with your sons.
I do hope that you are soon restored to full health.
Paul T in Australia has got his poor wife suffering with pneumonia at the moment, too.... and I believe she is making some improvement, if slowly. It's not a recovery you can rush, is it?
I am moving Paul's post and this one to the Flowering Now: May 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere thread 8)
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so much colour!
graham--i will have to get that semp -i've seen pics before, but its so cute with new stolons..
olga--lovely delicate colour on the erythronium, and the white pulsatilla is very nice--i think i sowed some last year--it looks much nicer than the name sounds!
pau;--hope you feel better soon!-glorious spring there! love the anemones--we just don't get this sort of display in spring--boreal/mixed forest doesn't really have flowering till summer, and then never one species without grasses and other things between...
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Beautiful spring plants, all! Absolutely wonderful photos, Olga!
While the weather outdoors still can't decide on snow or sun, Stuart's waterlilies in the greenhouse ponds are doing nicely:
1) Nymphaea 'Attraction'
2, 3) 'Marliac Albida'
4, 5) An old 'Helvola' blossom and a new one
6) 'Crystal', a tropical.
From the garden:
1) Caltha palustris... I loved seeing these in brilliant profusion in the wet places in the boreal forest of Northern Saskatchewan, but as we have not travelled anywhere lately, this plant in the acid bed will have to do. Cohan, are they getting close to blooming in your area?
2) Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardaghensis in the crevice garden... this would really look stunning against dark rock.
3) Chionodoxa 'Pink Giant'
4) And a few daffodils...
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Some pictures of plants which are flowering here today:
Armeria trojana
and Haberlea rhodopensis 'Virginalis' which was part of a swap with someone from the southerm hemisphere (many thanks :-*) two years ago and which is now flowering here for the first time.
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"Can't these people write in English?" I thought, then realized where I was. Please forgive me all Flemings. ::)
You are forgiven Lesley ! ;D ;D ;)
The two Lucs and their lady wives are coming to the Aberdeen show next Saturday and to visit our garden....... see this page for photos of their gardens..... they're going to get a frightful shock when they see how the BD and I garden!! :-\ :o
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=9.msg2321#new
We're quite "shockfree" Maggi - and we always envy the lush green in your garden.. :D :D
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Luc, I hope you are shockfree.... today there is rain and snow/sleet! :-\ :-X :'(
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The two Lucs and their lady wives are coming to the Aberdeen show next Saturday and to visit our garden. they're going to get a frightful shock when they see how the BD and I garden!! :-\ :o
Apropos “frightful”. Luc, I hope you don’t have the same shoe measure as I have ???
I still see the frightful look in the BD’s eyes, when I walked into the garden three years ago ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Some more plants which were flowering here today:
Anemone oppositifolia 'Yellow'
Armeria juniperifolia 'Drake's Deep Form'
Dactylorhiza maculata
Lewisia 'Ashwood Carousel' (2 x)
Potentilla pulvinaris
Sarracenia flava 'Heavy veined form' x oreophila.
Trillium luteum
Uvularia grandiflora
Uvularia grandiflora 'Gold Leaf Form'
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And a few more:
Uvularia perfoliata
Veronica oltensis
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Beautiful spring plants, all! Absolutely wonderful photos, Olga!
While the weather outdoors still can't decide on snow or sun, Stuart's waterlilies in the greenhouse ponds are doing nicely:
1) Nymphaea 'Attraction'
2, 3) 'Marliac Albida'
4, 5) An old 'Helvola' blossom and a new one
6) 'Crystal', a tropical.
From the garden:
1) Caltha palustris... I loved seeing these in brilliant profusion in the wet places in the boreal forest of Northern Saskatchewan, but as we have not travelled anywhere lately, this plant in the acid bed will have to do. Cohan, are they getting close to blooming in your area?
2) Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardaghensis in the crevice garden... this would really look stunning against dark rock.
3) Chionodoxa 'Pink Giant'
4) And a few daffodils...
lori--you and your husband are wise to have some tropical colour to help take the edge off our short season1 but you are far ahead of me in the garden! the veronica is beautiful!
caltha here is just barely starting--i went out yesterday to pick a mother's day bouquet, as usual, and while there were tons of petasites, and i got a really nice willow--yellow stems and a lot of yellow pollen on tiny catkins-but i had to hunt to find exactly one caltha with open flowers--lots of buds in sunny places, just poking up a few leaves in shadier spots; likely if one could find a sunny place in a wet ditch with southern exposure they'd be farther ahead..
wim--lots of treasures in your garden!
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Luc, I hope you are shockfree.... today there is rain and snow/sleet! :-\ :-X :'(
Thanks for the warning Maggi - just in time for us to pack our woollies - gloves and snowbots ;D ;D
The two Lucs and their lady wives are coming to the Aberdeen show next Saturday and to visit our garden. they're going to get a frightful shock when they see how the BD and I garden!! :-\ :o
Apropos “frightful”. Luc, I hope you don’t have the same shoe measure as I have ???
I still see the frightful look in the BD’s eyes, when I walked into the garden three years ago ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Walking between Ian and Maggi's goodies in snowboots won't help Luit... :-\ ::) ;D ;D ;)
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;D ;D ;D
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I have an idea.... the visitors can hang out of an upstairs window and view the garden with binoculars ;D ::)
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Please arrange for a strong safetyrope Maggi.. :o :o ::) :-\
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A shot of the garden showing my favourite flowering tree, Paulownia tormentosa. Needless to say, it grows like a weed. This tree is 7 years old.
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Oh! That is a garden? I though for a moment it was a forest clearing ...... lovely Jamie, every bit of ground used.... lovely!
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In China, an old custom is to plant an Empress Tree when a baby girl is born. The fast-growing tree matures when she does. When she is eligible for marriage the tree is cut down and carved into wooden articles for her dowry. Carving the wood of Paulownia is an art form in Japan and China. In legend, it is said that the Phoenix will only land on the Empress Tree and only when a good ruler is in power. Several Asian string instruments are made from P. tomentosa, including the Japanese koto and Korean gayageum zithers.
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Just a gentle warning to wrap up well if you are visiting the Aberdeen Show on Saturday. This is the second day in a row we have had a little burst of "iffy" weather. The photos below show that there were a few hailstones at about 2.15pm today. However don't let that put you off coming to the show, (It's held inside after all) and according to the BBC weather forcast Aberdeen reached the giddy heights of 7 degrees today and in reality was basking in intermittent sunshine.
Graeme Strachan
P.S. I look forward to serving you with a cup of soup and sandwich.
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8) 8) 8) 8)
Won't need these.... ;D ;D
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In China, an old custom is to plant an Empress Tree when a baby girl is born. The fast-growing tree matures when she does. When she is eligible for marriage the tree is cut down and carved into wooden articles for her dowry. Carving the wood of Paulownia is an art form in Japan and China. In legend, it is said that the Phoenix will only land on the Empress Tree and only when a good ruler is in power. Several Asian string instruments are made from P. tomentosa, including the Japanese koto and Korean gayageum zithers.
Arnold, very interesting. Surprisingly this tree is hardy all the way up here in New England, even up to Maine, although not as lush growing as in the mid-Atlantic states where you are. This tree is regarded as an aggressive invasive exotic in many US States, and is now spreading in 25 States. It is unlikely to become invasive this far north, but whenever I visit my inlaws down in your neck of the woods, when I get to the New Jersey turnpike and into Delaware and Maryland, it is apparent that this tree is out of control in these more temperate climate states, colonizing the roadsides for endless miles. Maybe we should practice similar rituals, and start cutting down Paulownia trees for various symbolic reasons.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=PATO2
http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/printree.shtml
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McMark,
the wood of this tree is a major source of furniture wood in Japan and Asia, where it is caller kiri. Ultra light, flexible, easy to work. I could well imagine it becoming popular for dressers and bureaus. I used to have a lot of furniture built of it, mainly from Japan. It has a fine surface when sanded, as well. And it's growing on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. What are people waiting for?
Maggie,
I have a small garden and no space is wasted. Everything is chock full, but I love it. My German friends call it the jungle paradise. This is the land of manicured lawns and barkmulched rhodi beds with petunia and begonia inbetween.
Here is another shot, to the right of the snakebark maple in the first shot, showing the pond and the woodland behind it.
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Just a gentle warning to wrap up well if you are visiting the Aberdeen Show on Saturday. This is the second day in a row we have had a little burst of "iffy" weather. The photos below show that there were a few hailstones at about 2.15pm today. However don't let that put you off coming to the show, (It's held inside after all) and according to the BBC weather forcast Aberdeen reached the giddy heights of 7 degrees today and in reality was basking in intermittent sunshine.
By the time Saturday comes around it will be sunny and warm for our show ::) ::) ::) and if not the soup that Maggi always makes will warm anybody up ;).
Looking forward to meeting our overseas guests.
I was in my polytunnel today happily potting up plants, fleece on fleece off but at least I was dry, but nothing in flower for the show yet:'(
Angie :)
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Angie,
Are the ladies going to be nice to me ths year?
Graeme
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McMark,
the wood of this tree is a major source of furniture wood in Japan and Asia, where it is caller kiri. Ultra light, flexible, easy to work. I could well imagine it becoming popular for dressers and bureaus. I used to have a lot of furniture built of it, mainly from Japan. It has a fine surface when sanded, as well. And it's growing on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. What are people waiting for?
Maggie,
I have a small garden and no space is wasted. Everything is chock full, but I love it. My German friends call it the jungle paradise. This is the land of manicured lawns and barkmulched rhodi beds with petunia and begonia inbetween.
Here is another shot, to the right of the snakebark maple in the first shot, showing the pong and the woodland behind it.
wow, jaime, wonderful garden, congratulations on defying the manicurists! ;)
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The first of my Sarracenia to flower this year.
Sarracenia flava v rugelii (Green throat)
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Angie,
Are the ladies going to be nice to me ths year?
Graeme
Of course we are :o ;D ;D ;D
Hope Helen remembers the aprons, she has been so busy getting her garden ready for her open day or should I say open days. Her garden is looking lovely.
Angie :)
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The Helen Angela is speaking of is Helen McGregor of the Aberdeen Group... a vital cog in our wheel.... her husband, Bill, is uor Group Treasurer.
Their beautiful garden is open under the Scotland's Gardens scheme.... see details and some lovely pictures, here :
http://www.gardensofscotland.org/garden.aspx?id=57273426-f968-43bd-baf7-9cab010e81e3 8)
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Thanks Maggi for the link they have put so much hard work in there garden this year, weeding in this cold weather isn't to much fun for them.
Teas and cakes are alwaysworth the visit.
Angie :)
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Lilium oxypetalum.
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I was going to remark that the Paulownia is very easy to raise from seed but it seems that is already noted. ::) There have been massive plantings in warmer parts of NZ over recent years, for furniture but whether anything has come of that I don't know. Whatever, it is a beautiful tree but not as lovely as Lilium oxypetalum. :)
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We are enjoying a very warm spel. Everything rushed to bloom
1. Anemonella thalictroides Single white
2. Anemonella thalictroides Double white
3. Anemonella thalictroides
4. Dicentra Burning hearts
5. Anemone glabra
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We are enjoying a very warm spel. Everything rushed to bloom
1. Anemonella thalictroides Single white
2. Anemonella thalictroides Double white
3. Anemonella thalictroides
4. Dicentra Burning hearts
5. Anemone glabra
Love that Dicentra
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We are enjoying a very warm spel. Everything rushed to bloom
1. Anemonella thalictroides Single white
2. Anemonella thalictroides Double white
3. Anemonella thalictroides
4. Dicentra Burning hearts
5. Anemone glabra
i haven't seen a dicentra like this before--very nice!
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Oleg, as others said, the Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' is stunning. Curious to know more about it, I googled:
http://www.skagitgardens.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail&plant_id=40
http://www.gpnmag.com/articles/dicentraburninghearts.pdf
http://www.perennialresource.com/plants/general-perennial/1908_dicentra-burning-hearts-pp20797.aspx
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Thanks everyone for good comments. In your last reference they are absolutely right it blows you away
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I may have missed it but I didn't see in Mark's links, any reference to the parentage of 'Burning Hearts.' It seems to be a red version of Dicentra 'Ivory Hearts' which is white of course with very similar silvery-grey foliage and is a seedling of D. peregrina and D.
cuccularia. (I'm wrong there, the other parent is eximia) 'Ivory Hearts' is fertile and comes pretty much true from seed. If you have 'Burning Hearts it would be worth trying that from seed too. (Only protected from asexual propagation.) Surely the red form of peregrina is a parent.
I had a couple of seeds of 'Ivory Hearts' from one of the seedlists about 3 or 4 years ago I think. They grew, flowered and have given me some seed which in turn is now growing on, looking just like the parent. There's a lot of Google stuff about it and some great pictures, and a super one from Laurence Moon in Flowers and Foliage Now Early May 2006, on the Old Forum, as well as some fantastic other plants. WELL worth a look back there. It was because of that picture that I wanted it in the first place and couldn't believe my luck when I got it. :D
This is my original seedling. The next generation are a little less floppy but this one was in heavy shade.
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Here's Laurence (Buddy) Moon's photo, for those of you in a hurry :D
We haven't heard from him and his great photos for a long time.... anyone know if he's okay?
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/30636.html
is the link to the olfd Forum page for anyone who enjoys a look back in Forum history... all sorts of great plants there, too!
Here's Laurence (Buddy) Moon's photo, for those of you in a hurry :D
We haven't heard from him and his great photos for a long time.... anyone know if he's okay?
the plants in mark's links are great, as is the white-but following lesley's comments, i looked up d peregrina, and that may be my favourite of all!
do these have short lived seed?
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Possibly, but the seed I received must have been all of 6 months old, perhaps older.
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so there is some hope...lol
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Lesley, a wonderful plant you are having! You are certainly good at seed and now I'm encouraged to try to propagate mine.
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Those are beautiful Dicentra's, especially Burning Hearts.
Here are some plants which were flowering here now:
Arisaema triphyllum f. zebrinum with a double spathe (that's the second year in a row it does that and it ruins the flower)
Heuchera x brizoides 'Pruhoniciana Alba'
Ramonda myconi
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We have an Arisaema that has made that double spathe this year. never happened before.
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We have an Arisaema that has made that double spathe this year. never happened before.
Maggi,
last year was the first year this Arisaema made that double spathe too, before that it flowered normally.
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Oleg, I hope you will get some seed from your lovely Dicentra and be able to share it with some Russian gardeners as a start then perhaps later through the seed exchanges. It is truly beautiful. Of course anyone with D. peregrina could well try some pollinating and who knows what may result? :D
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Beautiful Dicentra Oleg and Lesley - I do love them, they're so graceful arching over such pretty foliage, a real flower and foliage plant 8)
Wim you have some wonderful flowering plants in your garden - what is the foliage like on your Heuchera x brizoides 'Pruhoniciana Alba' ?
Jamie, I love your secret garden jungle it is so lush - I see lots of pots with hidden treasures growing too 8)
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Due to an unseasonably mild, and oftentimes overly warm spring, so much has been popping into bloom that it all got way ahead of me. Here's a smattering of recent bloomers.
1. Diphylleia cymosa - Umbrella Leaf, beautiful southeastern USA native woodlander, emerging leaves are strikingly mottled with brown. Beautiful blue berries on bright color pedicels.
2. Clematis albicoma var. coactilis - rare shale barren plant, from Eagle Rock, Virginia. Flowers are light yellow if the blooms are lifted up to peer inside. Very slow to establish.
3. Deutzia parviflora var. amurensis - 5' (150 cm) tall shrub, perfectly spherical spaced buds give an unusual look, showy in full flower.
4. Iris cristata 'Dick Redfield' - rare form with 6 falls instead of 3, with highly ornamental fancy frilled crests of white and gold. One flower in the photo has 7 falls!
5. Iris cristata 'Shenandoah Sky'- beautiful blue, with white signal spots looking pronounced because they're underscored with dark purple.
6. Iris henryi - a Chinese woodlander at early anthesis, with lots of unopened buds... appoximately 200 flowers on this clump.
7. Syringa vulgaris 'California Rose' - among the finest pink cultivars, at early anthesis the buds are copper tinged. And the fragrance...
8. Syringa vulgaris 'California Rose' & 'Wonder Blue' at full bloom, the colors harmonize and join forces with incredible fragance near my deck.
9. Trillium vaseyi - hard to sufficiently capture the elegance of this trillium, the brooding flowers are large, long-lasting, and textured.
10. Viola pedata - infinitely variable, this one has survived the constant nibbling to the ground by rabbits.
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Wim you have some wonderful flowering plants in your garden - what is the foliage like on your Heuchera x brizoides 'Pruhoniciana Alba' ?
Thanks Robin,
Here's a picture of the leaves. Not really special.
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Mark,
love the irisses.
And Viola pedata is really lovely. I bought it several times here in Belgium (as a plant and as seed) and everytime I got Viola pedatifida. I'll have to buy it in the UK next time.
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Nomocharis aperta
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Due to an unseasonably mild, and oftentimes overly warm spring, so much has been popping into bloom that it all got way ahead of me. Here's a smattering of recent bloomers.
6. Iris henryi - a Chinese woodlander at early anthesis, with lots of unopened buds... appoximately 200 flowers on this clump.
great show overall, and this one is intriguing--'woodlander' always catches my attention..
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Ooh, I love that nomocharis, Giles. I've tried growing them twice before and failed. I did get a seedling once but it disappeared.
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Mark,
love the irisses.
And Viola pedata is really lovely. I bought it several times here in Belgium (as a plant and as seed) and everytime I got Viola pedatifida. I'll have to buy it in the UK next time.
Mark,
your Viola pedata seems ' to feel at home ' - I never had such a well grown plant!
Wim,
Had the same experience - 99,5 % pedatifida (plants and seeds) - but as a compensation, Viola pedatifida is much easier ;)
Gerd
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Wim,
Had the same experience - 99,5 % pedatifida (plants and seeds) - but as a compensation, Viola pedatifida is much easier ;)
Gerd
Gerd;
much easier indeed. And also beautiful... but still I'd like to try Viola pedata too ;)
Giles,
wonderful Nomocharis
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The first of my Meconopsis punicea is flowering now. Still four to go. Can't wait to pollinate with my paint brush.
Cheers,
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Every Nomocharis is a good Nomocharis. :)
Mark I really love Iris cristata 'Shenandoah Sky' is a real gem, but much as I admired Dick Redfield (the man) I think I would have put 'Dick Redfield' (the iris) on the compost heap. Don't like it at all. Love I. henryi too. I've never heard of that one.
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After many attempts to grow V. pedata and always getting V. pedatifisa, Jim Waddick, a kindly American took pity on me and sent seed. I'd still love to have the bicolor forms and the white though. ::)
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After many attempts to grow V. pedata and always getting V. pedatifida, Jim Waddick, a kindly American took pity on me and sent seed. I'd still love to have the bicolor forms and the white though. ::)
Not sure why it is so difficult to get the real thing, it makes lots of seed. Perhaps because there are a number of dissected leaf Viola species here in the USA, and assumptions get made regarding identifications, particularly overseas where they are unfamiliar with the various US dissected leaf violets. The type species was first described for the so-called bicolor form, which I find is not as strong a grower as the more widespread concolorous form, which itself is amazingly variable in almost every aspect. All white forms I have seen are junk, small flowered and weak growers. Why go for these pallid inferior forms, when there are amazing forms in every shade of blue, to deep midnight blue. I upload some images from my garden, all were taken in the early 2000s before the wild bunnies started coming in and decimating my plants.
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I think I would have put 'Dick Redfield' (the iris) on the compost heap. Don't like it at all.
umm... I like this plant very much. Thank you so much for sharing your strong dislike of it, makes me feel real good about posting a photo of what I believe to be a very special form ::) :-\
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You're welcome Mark. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me. My tastes are different from yours and no doubt yours are, from from some others.' :)
Your pedatas are all beautiful. Mine are all the same (7 plants) and I should say are the same shade as your paler forms. My leaves seems to be more finely dissected too. Although they're planted in a group and although I've hand-pollinated sometimes, I've never had a seed yet.
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Not sure why it is so difficult to get the real thing, it makes lots of seed. Perhaps because there are a number of dissected leaf Viola species here in the USA, and assumptions get made regarding identifications, particularly overseas where they are unfamiliar with the various US dissected leaf violets. The type species was first described for the so-called bicolor form, which I find is not as strong a grower as the more widespread concolorous form, which itself is amazingly variable in almost every aspect. All white forms I have seen are junk, small flowered and weak growers. Why go for these pallid inferior forms, when there are amazing forms in every shade of blue, to deep midnight blue. I upload some images from my garden, all were taken in the early 2000s before the wild bunnies started coming in and decimating my plants.
Wonderful Mark,
I really should buy some (real ones ::))
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Lovely. I keep missing out on seed for some reason. Will try again this year
After many attempts to grow V. pedata and always getting V. pedatifida, Jim Waddick, a kindly American took pity on me and sent seed. I'd still love to have the bicolor forms and the white though. ::)
Not sure why it is so difficult to get the real thing, it makes lots of seed. Perhaps because there are a number of dissected leaf Viola species here in the USA, and assumptions get made regarding identifications, particularly overseas where they are unfamiliar with the various US dissected leaf violets. The type species was first described for the so-called bicolor form, which I find is not as strong a grower as the more widespread concolorous form, which itself is amazingly variable in almost every aspect. All white forms I have seen are junk, small flowered and weak growers. Why go for these pallid inferior forms, when there are amazing forms in every shade of blue, to deep midnight blue. I upload some images from my garden, all were taken in the early 2000s before the wild bunnies started coming in and decimating my plants.
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Mark I really love Iris cristata 'Shenandoah Sky' is a real gem, but much as I admired Dick Redfield (the man) I think I would have put 'Dick Redfield' (the iris) on the compost heap.
And I would have rescued it from your compost heap and brought it home.... I like both forms! :)
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I have uploaded a PDF scanned from an old 1983 newsletter from the Northwest Chapter of the American Rock Garden Society, with an article written by Roy Davidson on Viola pedata. Also included is species synonymy and some links. The important thing to note, there are NO recognized varieties of birdfoot violet, and the fictitious one called V. pedata bicolor is just plain made up. The species is not only extremely variable in flower shape, size and color, but the leaves which are always dissected, run the gamut in extent of leaf dissection, size, shape, and character... I include a link to a very finely dissected one.
There is a famous location here in Massachusetts, in the western end of the State, where V. pedata grows by the acres in the middle of an interstate highway clover-leaf (exit ramp system). On several occasions I have exited the highway at this location, parked at a local business area, then walked back to the highway interchange and jumped the 5' chain link fence to observe the astounding colonies. They grow by the millions in full sun in nutrient poor soils that barely support grass. Each colony of 50-100 plants was quite unique and unlike its neighboring colony just inches away, found in nearly every color except pure white (I have found pure whites elsewhere, but they always seem to be squinny runts). Flower size varies, sometimes triple the size of other forms, color range from rose, lavender, to every nuance and shade of blue to darkest midnight blue, and flower shape can be rather amusing with oddly shaped flower forms... the best types however being those with full rounded blooms and extra wide grinning "faces". There was a time where I grew a number of selected forms, my favorite being one with comparitively enormous gray-lavender flowers that I called Grey Ghost, which I gave to a couple nurseries in hope of their getting into the trade, but don't think it went much beyond that.
Synonym(s):
Viola pedata var. atropurpurea DC.
Viola pedata var. concolor Holm ex Brainerd
Viola pedata var. lineariloba DC.
Viola pedata var. ranunculifolia DC.
Invalid:
Viola pedata var. bicolor
Distribution map and information
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=vipe
Extremely variable, particularly in foliage, some forms with exceptionally narrow divided foliage:
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=7631
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Mark I really love Iris cristata 'Shenandoah Sky' is a real gem, but much as I admired Dick Redfield (the man) I think I would have put 'Dick Redfield' (the iris) on the compost heap.
And I would have rescued it from your compost heap and brought it home.... I like both forms! :)
hear hear!i can't imagine i will ever get to see I.cristata Dick Redfield over this side of the pond so its fantastic to see your photo.
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Mark,
Thanks for the detailed information concerning Viola pedata!
Although there are only few problems in cultivation of most north American violets for me the plant mentioned above seems to be impossible to keep in my garden.
After collecting some informations from US-growers I planted it several times in a bed with very poor (sandy) limefree soil and in full sun.
They flowered occasionally - but very poor and no seed set. Later on they became smaller and smaller - more dead than alive.
I once got an another information that a dry periode in autumn which stops the growth of the leaves would be essentional for this species.
We have rain all year round - a total of about 800 to 1000 mm (USDA zone 7 b).
So I suppose that local conditions cause my bad results with this species.
I would be glad if you'll tell me your opionion about this - especially concerning soil and rainfall!
Thanks god rabbits are unable to enter the garden - only squirrels, but here are still only the 'good ones' i.e. the European reds.
Gerd
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In spite of the rainy a and cold weather which is quite unusual for the beginning of may
many of our plants give a fine display.
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And I would have rescued it from your compost heap and brought it home.... I like both forms! :)
Good for you Gail. Had I known that I would have sent it direct (if I had had it) and cut out the middle man. :)
Viola pedata must be very widespread in the USA because I'm sure that Jim Waddick collected seed near his home in Kansas.
Maybe the bicolor epithet is another of those UK cultivar names which are mandatory for a plant to gain an award? (A system on which I've given my opinion previously so won't again, lest I be thought TOO opinionated, which I suspect some already think I am. :o ???)
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Thanks for these great photos, information & links Mark 8)
'V. pedata' & 'V. pedatifida' I've had from exchanges look more or less identical, but from comments elsewhere on the forum I assume they must be the latter. How are these two species distinguished?
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In spite of the rainy a and cold weather which is quite unusual for the beginning of may
many of our plants give a fine display.
a really nice selection, rudi--great colour on the erigeron aurea form, and speiranthes is nice--looks a lot like maianthemum here..
mark--great violets--we have several local species, but no divided leaf forms right here...
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After collecting some informations from US-growers I planted it several times in a bed with very poor (sandy) limefree soil and in full sun.
They flowered occasionally - but very poor and no seed set. Later on they became smaller and smaller - more dead than alive.
I once got an another information that a dry periode in autumn which stops the growth of the leaves would be essentional for this species.
We have rain all year round - a total of about 800 to 1000 mm (USDA zone 7 b).
So I suppose that local conditions cause my bad results with this species.
I would be glad if you'll tell me your opionion about this - especially concerning soil and rainfall!
Gerd
When I lived in Seattle, 2-3 zones milder than my New England garden, I struggled with Viola pedata. Gerd, the climate there was very similar to what you report... USDA Zone 7 and 38" (950 mm) of rain. The problem was that the leaves and broad clasping leaf bases will persist in a milder climate, in the fall and winter becoming soggy and wet, rotting the thick central rhizome. Planting in full sun, in very well drained sandy soil (mostly sand, with a gravel mulch), AND cutting off all foliage in the late autumn did the trick, and then they would winter over just fine. Also, the slugs are partial to this plant, so a permanent diligently-replenished perimeter barrier of slug poison was necessary. Depending on one's outlook, it might not be worth the effort.
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Thanks for these great photos, information & links Mark 8)
'V. pedata' & 'V. pedatifida' I've had from exchanges look more or less identical, but from comments elsewhere on the forum I assume they must be the latter. How are these two species distinguished?
Ashley, once you've seen both, it is not difficult to tell the two apart. Now, telling V. pedatifida apart from other similar species, like V. palmata, that's another story. Viola pedata has beardless flowers, with the distinctive orange center (the anthers), and a really fat carrot-like or parsnip-like vertical rhizome. Viola pedatifida has bearded flowers, without the orange center, and much thinner fleshy rhizome. Also, the types of leaf dissections look different... usually coarser and less divided in V. pedata, more divided and with more consistently narrowed leaf segments in pedatifida... but again, they're variable in both species.
But a picture is worth a 1000 words,... you've already seen the V. pedata pics, so here's a couple of V. pedatifida, with accompanying links.
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24.0;attach=3729;image
http://www.prairiemoon.com/images/D/Viola-pedatifida-Prairie-Violet.jpg (notice the beard on the lateral petals)
http://www.alpinissimum.de/Homepage/gartenrdg/Fotogalerie/Viola%20pedatifida.JPG
http://www.rmrp.com/Photo%20Pages/VV/Viola%20pedatifida%20100DPI.htm
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=VIPE2
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/pr_violetx.htm
Not to confuse, but there is a more eastern USA species (native here, and occuring naturally in my yard) named V. palmata which is in flower now. It too is a bearded species, unlike V. pedata which is beardless. This is a fine well-behaved species.
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=24.0;attach=3713;image
I hope that helps.
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When I lived in Seattle, 2-3 zones milder than my New England garden, I struggled with Viola pedata. Gerd, the climate there was very similar to what you report... USDA Zone 7 and 38" (950 mm) of rain. The problem was that the leaves and broad clasping leaf bases will persist in a milder climate, in the fall and winter becoming soggy and wet, rotting the thick central rhizome. Planting in full sun, in very well drained sandy soil (mostly sand, with a gravel mulch), AND cutting off all foliage in the late autumn did the trick, and then they would winter over just fine. Also, the slugs are partial to this plant, so a permanent diligently-replenished perimeter barrier of slug poison was necessary. Depending on one's outlook, it might not be worth the effort.
Mark,
Thank you once again for this useful hints! I'll try the autumn treatment.
Our slugs seem to have a different taste - they never ate pedata but are
keen on other species, especially Viola hondoensis.
For me Viola pedata is one of the most desirable violet species - so no problems with additional treatments!
Gerd
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Many thanks for pointing out the key differences Mark. As suspected, all mine are V. pedatifida.
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some plants in my border ( east site ) are flowering in this time :
Convallaria majalis f.rosea
Polygonatum multiflorum
Polygonatum odoratum
Polygonatum verticillatum
Polygonatum X 'Weihenstephan'
Cephelanthera ( I have never plant this plant ...the seeds must be on the bark )
all this plants growing in shade and wood conditions -always a little wet and only few sun
Hans
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Hans enjoying the pictures - what is the shrub in the picture with Cephelanthera.
Angie :)
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Angie ,
thank you :D
this is our old Hibiscus .....we must every year really much prune it to hold the size
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Some shrubs flowering here this week:
Magnolia Lois 1
Magnolia Lois 2
Cercis canadensis Forest Pansy
Cercis canadensis Forest Pansy cl
Halesia carolina
Halesia carolina cl.
Cornus florida Sweetwater
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Magnolia 'Lois' is a wonderful colour.... is it a strong growing plant, Luit?
I like the colour of the Cornus 'Sweetwater' too.... like crushed raspberrie s in cream ;)
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Hans I thought it might be a hibiscus - does it flower with you. I have a couple that my mum had but I only manage to get them to flower if l start them in off in my polytunnel.
Angie :)
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Angie ,
This kind of Hibiscus are really common here ....they are in near each garden -but I dont know the name.
They are always full of flowers each year ...I will send later a pic
In gardencenters they sell here a other kind of Hibiscus -they are not hardy outside .
Hans
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Some shrubs flowering here this week:
Magnolia Lois 1
Magnolia Lois 2
Cercis canadensis Forest Pansy
Cercis canadensis Forest Pansy cl
Halesia carolina
Halesia carolina cl.
Cornus florida Sweetwater
Luit, now a bittersweet moment regarding my Magnolia 'Lois', which I successfully bid for in a silent auction about 6 years ago, which I had for several years in my shaded "nursery area" awaiting planting out in the yard someplace, died after a long stretch of dry weather. What a beautiful classic flower form it has, and a good clear yellow, glad to see what it would have looked like. I photographed my three varieties of Halesia (carolina, tetraptera 'Rosea', monticola), but most the photos except for monticola came out lousy, and I didn't bother reshoot the pics. These are such lovely trees when covered with hanging white (or pink) bells.
Be sure to show Forest Pansy in leaf, so that forumists see why it is called Forest Pansy!
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Mark, I know what it is losing some more expensive plant, :'( :'(, see my next reply!
I showed the Forest Pansy last year here already. It is one of the best shrubs I ever planted
The leaves are so beautiful all summer and stay on the plant till late autumn ! ! ! !
Magnolia 'Lois' is a wonderful colour.... is it a strong growing plant, Luit?
Maggi, I bought some years ago M. Lois and M. Serene.
Both varieties are known as growing in soils with pH around 6.5, like we have here and the yellow flower is rather exclusive in Magnolia’s.
Don’t know how fast it grows but when staying alive I am already very satisfied :D
M. Serene flowered last year, for the first time (picture showed here last year) but the plant died later in the year.
I hope that I am more lucky with M. Lois. ::) ::)
I like the colour of the Cornus 'Sweetwater' too.... like crushed raspberrie s in cream ;)
What is the cream for……? ;D ;D ;D
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Flowering here now, one of the very few species of Pinguicula which can grow on calcareous soil. It's been growing here for two years in tufa.
Pinguicula mundii
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And some more plants flowering here today:
A Clematis hybrid
Muscari anatolicum
Trillium recurvatum
and a plant of which I always forget the name (maybe I should write it down ::))
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Hello Hans
P. multiflorum looks correct
P. odoratum looks like P. odoratum var. odoratum but a poor one
where did you get P. verticilatum it doe's not like the one witch in the trade
P.X Weihenstephan looks more as P. multiflorum
I think the flowers are to small for P.X Weihenstephan but it can be P.X Weihenstephan
I will post under Polygonatum later my pictures
maybe Aaron can also have a look
Roland
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Hi Roland ,
Many thanks ....I will write you a PM
Hans
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This extremely warm May the garden looks summer like
1-3 Aristolochia (sorry. have forgotten the actual name) grown from a small rooted cutting given by a friend
4 Scilla riverchonii
5 Scilla persica
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Angie ,
This kind of Hibiscus are really common here ....they are in near each garden -but I dont know the name.
They are always full of flowers each year ...I will send later a pic
In gardencenters they sell here a other kind of Hibiscus -they are not hardy outside .
Hans
Hibiscus syriaca? Presumably from Syria and quite hardy here. There are a lot of different forms in pinks, lavenders etc. The bigger, flashier ones are tropical and only grow in the far north of NZ.
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here are two Geranium phaeum seedlings just coming into bloom. I really love this Geranium. There are seedlings ranging from ashen white to black-purple
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Growing in my garden is a pot of nascissus "Sun Disc". However a couple of the bulbs I bought last year have thrown up a couple of oddities. The bulbs have the same leaves but the flowers are weird. Is this a throw-back to some wild form or a species that it was crossed with at some stage. I am sorry if I appear naive, but could someone enlighten me.
thanks
Graeme Strachan
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Ooh! An Ornithogalum has sneaked in there, Graeme...... :P
I'll just take this chance to thank you for all the work you put in at the Aberdeen Show on the 15th..... I know all Show Secretaries think they have good teams of helpers, but Ian and I are convinced none are so good as the Aberdeen Gang! 8)
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Graeme, in the area where these Narcissus are grown here, often Ornithogalum umbellatum ( or something like that) are often growing in the bulbfields.
It is a difficult plant to get rid off, because they flower later than the bulbs and hand weeding is seldom done nowadays.
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Hans will look forward to seeing the hibiscus in flower.
Does anyone in Scotland get there Hibiscus to flower ?
Angie :)
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Maggi and Landelft - Thank you for identifying my "oddity". So it's an Ornithogalum. The bulbs must look very similar because I chose the individual bulbs myself.
Thanks again.
Graeme
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Graeme, it must be Ornithogallum nutans
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Angie ,
This kind of Hibiscus are really common here ....they are in near each garden -but I dont know the name.
They are always full of flowers each year ...I will send later a pic
In gardencenters they sell here a other kind of Hibiscus -they are not hardy outside .
Hans
Hibiscus syriaca? Presumably from Syria and quite hardy here. There are a lot of different forms in pinks, lavenders etc. The bigger, flashier ones are tropical and only grow in the far north of NZ.
H syriacus -'rose of sharon' was somewhat popular in toronto (around usda z5, lows to -20Cat least), though not as popular as it deserved to be, since it formed a nice shrub to small tree and flowered in mid-summer when many things in that hot humid yet dry summer would not be looking good..white, pink, and blue/purple forms, all with red centres... not, i think hardy here, but i would absolutely grow them if i were a couple zones warmer..
there were also some other kind of hibiscus grown there which i believe were perennial and hardy but herbaceous (at least in that climate) so they usually only grew a couple feet tall that i saw, but had much larger flowers than syriacus in several colours--very tropical looking, though not tall..
of course, in those fairly long warm summers, it was also quite easy to seasonally grow the tropical hibiscus outdoors to good effect...
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H syriacus -'rose of sharon' was somewhat popular in toronto (around usda z5, lows to -20Cat least), though not as popular as it deserved to be, since it formed a nice shrub to small tree and flowered in mid-summer when many things in that hot humid yet dry summer would not be looking good..white, pink, and blue/purple forms, all with red centres... not, i think hardy here, but i would absolutely grow them if i were a couple zones warmer..
there were also some other kind of hibiscus grown there which i believe were perennial and hardy but herbaceous (at least in that climate) so they usually only grew a couple feet tall that i saw, but had much larger flowers than syriacus in several colours--very tropical looking, though not tall..
of course, in those fairly long warm summers, it was also quite easy to seasonally grow the tropical hibiscus outdoors to good effect...
I grow and work on hybridizing both the shrubby H. syriacus (single-flowered forms) and the herbaceous North American native species and hybrids (H. moscheutos, palustris, coccinea, etc) which sprout late (just beginning to sprout now) and grow to 3-6' (1-2 meters) by late summer depending on variety, flowering with enormous disks that can be 12" across (30 cm) starting in August. They're not everyone's cup of tea, I find them them to be fun plants, and surprisingly, being from wet habitats, they seem completely drought resistant. Cohan, I wonder if H. moscheutos would be hardy for you, it grows up into Ontario, but not sure how far up it reaches, so maybe it is just a Zone 5 species. I upload one photo showing a white hybrid with pink-dot center.
In milder climates, H. syriacus can become a nuisance by seeding around prolifically, even here. I like the tawny beige star-shaped seed heads that cover the shrubs through the winter, but I do believe every single seed germinates, and they get around all over the place, I think due to the bristly ruff of hairs that encircle each seed. The flower color lines and possibilities seem rather entrenched in this species, and after 6-7 years of making crosses and growing on many hundreds of seedlings, I will only potentially name one of them, and several other seedlings show odd or unusual characteristics that could be used in further breeding work. But one thing for sure, a garden full of "hardy hibiscus", both shrubby and herbaceous, is one that comes alive in late summer to autumn.
I upload two photos of the only worthy H. syriacus hybrid seedling to come out of my hybridization efforts so far. One parent is H. syriacus 'Helene', one of the US National Arboretum hybrids named after Greek gods... this one with white flowers and a deep red eye zone with penetrating rays of color. The selection is supposedly sterile, but I found that it would indeed make viable seed when crossed late in the season (early fall) when temperatures got cool. My parent plant of 'Helene' eventually died; of the USNA hybrids it always showed branch and twig kill over winter, thus not the hardiest of the group. My selected seedling has not shown any tendencies for winter die back, and has very large silvery lilac flowers and similar red-rayed centers. Thus far, it has set no viable seed, thus likely sterile.
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My Lysischitons are not (yet) very impressive but they are the first to flower at the lakeside.
Dicentra cucullaria has become a near weed in my garden. It seems that the rice grains spread in mysterious ways. Usually it does not flower much - perhaps it needs more light??
The wild Anemone nemorosa flower very well this year they nearly overwhelm the Trillium grandiflorums in their midst.
The various special varieties have fared less well except 'virescens'.
My experience is that pink nemorosas usually are under stress so it is natural that this one which I moved from the forest some years ago is nicely pink this year.
Ranuncloides semiplena, however, does very well.
A friend helped me to get a Heloniopsis orientalis supposedly varigeated from Crug Farm last year. It is not variegated but light pink - much better. Thank you again!
And last a wild 'weed' but a beauty Oxalis acetocella (If you do not like them - eat them :) )
Cheers
Göte
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gote
I see I live at south country. :D It strange most of plants you show finished blooming here.
Gentiana dinarica
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_abfae1aa.jpg)
Aquilegia laramiensis
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_e3780590.jpg)
Omphalodes lojkae
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_49d8460c.jpg)
Daphne julia Apple Blossom
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_2188246c.jpg)
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Atragene sibirica
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_6af4d70a.jpg)
Different Pulsatilla vulgaris Papageno
(http://cs10081.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_21832e29.jpg)
(http://cs10081.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_df5c8dde.jpg)
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_58b690e2.jpg)
Spontaneous garden hybrid of Primula elatior
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_62ac3b7d.jpg)
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Göte, Dicentra cuccularia is a near weed here too, but it does flower very well and makes beautiful clumps that redeem its aggressive spreading habits. In the first photo, I show the base of a plant going dormant, where the clustered red bulbs (rhizome scales, whatever they are technically) rise to the surface and easily spread around. I often dig these, then replant a few inches deep, to "reset" them into a location wanted. Since they are so ephemeral, I don't get overly worried by their appearance. In the photo, the stems going off camera are Trillium vaseyi, and I spy several 2-yr seedlings at the base.
I like Oxalis acetosella, finally determined that is what I have, but in a particularly good deep rose pink form. Maybe we should exchange seed color forms?
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Paeonia peregrina
Magnolia laevifolia
Pimelea prostrata
Lilium mackliniae (dark form)
Magnolia 'Touch of Pink'
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I like the look of Magnolia laevifolia Giles and it's said to be lime tolerant? Is it scented?
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Magnolia laevifolia is something of a 'wonder plant', Gail.
It's easy from fresh seed (that hasn't been dried), flowers within 2 yrs of sowing, is fully frost hardy and is lime tolerant.
No fragrance, though (Sorry).
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lots of good stuff today!
mark--i remembered kristl having H moscheutos on her list, so i checked to see what hardiness rating she gave it: currently she lists H moscheutos ssp palustris, and rates it zone 4, while mentioning that it survived some -40C/F winters--i presume that was in her ontario garden; worth trying sometime, you never know..of course its not just about minimum temps--i have a cooler and shorter summer than kristl did in ontario...
göte--great to see those swathes of woodland plants-love the nemorosas, and Oxalis is really nice..
olga--some beauties as usual, esp like the Atragene and Aquilegia
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Magnolia laevifolia is something of a 'wonder plant', Gail.
It's easy from fresh seed (that hasn't been dried), flowers within 2 yrs of sowing, is fully frost hardy and is lime tolerant.
No fragrance, though (Sorry).
I remembered this old thread: michelia yunnanensis seeds.....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4213.0
I've read that this plant is said to have lightly, but pleasantly, scented flowers..... perhaps yours need to mature, Giles, or have sunnier weather?
I am very impressed at the time from seed to flower...... also, if it its lime tolerant rather than lime -loving, would it like life in slightly acidic Aberdeen, does anyone think??
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Have you had a sniff at Pimelea prostrata Giles? It should smell of wild honey. Honey with a sort of tussocky/earthy/cat's pee smell and typical of much of NZ's high country when a soft, warm wind is blowing. :)
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Göte, Dicentra cuccularia is a near weed here too, but it does flower very well and makes beautiful clumps that redeem its aggressive spreading habits. Since they are so ephemeral, I don't get overly worried by their appearance. In the photo, the stems going off camera are Trillium vaseyi, and I spy several 2-yr seedlings at the base.
Problem is that the early leaf is not unlike some forms of Corydalis turtschaninowii so I get confused when weeding.
Have written separately about Oxalis
Göte
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gote
I see I live at south country. :D It strange most of plants you show finished blooming here.
It looks that way. I assume that my spring is colder than yours even if your mid-winter is colder than mine. Your pics are beautiful as always. I think you told us what camera you use but can you repeat I am thinking of upgrading.
Regards
Göte
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Magnolia laevifolia
Lilium mackliniae (dark form)
I will put Magnolia laevifolia on my look out for seed list. Hoping that frost hardy means frost hardy here ;)
The flower shape of the lilium looks unusual to me. Will it open to be more bowl shaped?
Göte
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Flowering in my garden now. Nothing rare, but nice colours.
Poul
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some perennials flowering here:
Aquilegia viridiflora
Iris Stockholm
Melittis melissophyllum Rosea
Cypripedium calceolus
Smilacina racemosa
Trollius Maigold
Triosteum pinnatifidum
Aurinia sax. Citrina
Aurinia sax. Flore Pleno
Ramonda nathaliae
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Some plants flowering here today:
Echinocereus viridiflorus
Primula chungensis
Ramonda myconi
Silene argaea
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Cypripedium macranthum Alboroseum
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_4e08b276.jpg)
Cypripedium ventricosum
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_3c62c35d.jpg)
Dwarf phloxes
(http://cs9312.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_03e3f3d5.jpg)
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Some flowers from this week
1. Calceolaria tenella - nearly hardy here
2. Dodecatheon dentatum
3. Freesia species - from escaped plants, found in Eastern Spain
4. Tropaeolum hookerianum ssp. austropurpureum with T.beuthii
5. Viola hispida - one of the few violets of the pansy type which stay
in the garden by self seeding
6. Streptocarpus rexii - the original species from South Africa
Gerd
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28oC here yesterday, I think that may be the highest temperature for at least two years.
Here's a few pictures from yesterday
Seed pod on Erathis hyemalis
Rhododendron campylogynum Myrtilloides
Lewisia cotyledon in the garden
ditto, smaller plant
Anemone sylvestris
Paeonia obovata alba
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And the real star of the show .... I have waited years for this. I know it's no big deal to those of you in northern climes, but I have never before had a BIG BLUE POPPY in flower in the garden. Every year I have sowed seed, usually had it germinate, then watched it damp off, and I have many times bought plants and got them through the winter, to then see them die in the spring. Mec x cookei does quite well for me, but the big ones don't like it here. This one I had completely forgotten about, (and I am not absolutely sure what it is) suddenly a couple of days ago it was in flower, looking rather out of place. There's a couple more species in my jungle so I'm hopeful for more later.
Meconopsis 'Lingholm' (I think)
and Meconopsis x cookei
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Is spring much later that usual, Diane? I thought it was late here, but it seems you're just a week ahead of me.
Some pics from the last 5 days below;
Primula limbata
P. maximowiczii
Trollium dzhungaricus still flowering
Primula (not?) 'Garryarde Guinevere'
Fritillaria raddeana
F. pallidiflora
Meconopsis cf. impedita
Tulipa 'Black Jewel'
Anemonella 'Oscar Shoaf'
and Paeonia obovata alba
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Is spring much later that usual, Diane? I thought it was late here, but it seems you're just a week ahead of me.
I've just checked back to pictures from this time last year, and the plants are at exactly the same stage, strangely.
Of course, some plants that have in recent years been flowering in February and March this year waited until April, but I think everything has caught up now.
I think your season is more compressed than ours, so Anemonella and Fritillaria pallidiflora have finished flowering here, but that's normal.
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I just did the same, and curiously a lot of those pictured above were flowering at the exact same time last year, when I thought spring was early... Maybe I'm using the wrong plants as a reference, Paeonia mairei was two weeks later than usual, but Fritillaria pallidiflora and the Anemonellas are right on schedule.
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Beautiful spring colour folks, thanks for posting them.
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The Sarracenia are now starting to get into full stride. ;D
The wonderful greeting " l'Odour de Tom Cat' as you enter the greenhouse is unfortunate. ::)
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Could they not go outdoors at this time of year, Fred?
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They sit in special water trays (lagoons) Maggi.
They'd fill up a patio if I put them out and the pigeons would have a field day.
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Some from today :)
Pinguicula grandiflora
Lewisia 'Johns Special'
Penstemon serratus
Allium karataviense, Pulsatilla with seed heads, Tulip 'Queen of the night' and in the background almost ready Iris 'Black Swan'
Allium karataviense and Pulsatilla 'Blaue Glocke' seed heads
Graham
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Nice selection Graham. I particularly liked Lewisia 'John's Special' do you know it's history?
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Thanks David,
I'm afraid I don't know anything about the history of the Lewisia. I would be interested if anyone else does.
I bought it 3 years ago from a SRGC Glasgow show from the members sales tables.
Graham
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Some from today :)
Pinguicula grandiflora
Lewisia 'Johns Special'
Penstemon serratus
Allium karataviense, Pulsatilla with seed heads, Tulip 'Queen of the night' and in the background almost ready Iris 'Black Swan'
Allium karataviense and Pulsatilla 'Blaue Glocke' seed heads
Graham
really nice planting of Pinguicula, and great show on the Penstemon :)
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Just Googled it and it is on Ian Christie's List maybe he knows who originally raised it. Could it possibly be one of Ashwood Nurseries raising?
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Lewisia John's Special was raised at Inshriach on Speyside and named by/for John Lawson, who took over the nursery when Jack Drake retired.
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Thanks Maggi,
I visited the nursery a couple of years ago On A WEDNESDAY - they were closed :'( as it seems they are every Wednesday.
Fortunately I was in the area anyway so it wasn't a wasted trip.
Not managed to get back YET!
Famous for its Tea Room and CAKES :D
Graham
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Thanks Maggi, it's a cracking colour.
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It is a great colour and a good strong plant.
John is retired now, of course..... I didn't know the new owner was continuing the wednesday closing.... it was always a pest ! ::) :P
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Thanks Cohan!
Maggi how do you get those blue quote boxes that people use?????
Graham
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Thanks Cohan!
Maggi how do you get those blue quote boxes that people use?????
Graham
I click on the "quote" button at the top of the post I wish to quote and the whole thing is donne automatically. Or you can copy the text you wish to quote and clik on the yellow-square-speech-bubble icon( second left in the second row of icons above the text box) and paste the comment in between the sets of square brackets that appear .
Thus: yellow-square-speech-bubble icon
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Thanks Maggi,
I can do that now.
Graham
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Arisaema, I think you Primula IS x garryade 'Guinivere.' It looks just right to me. A lovely strong and healthy clump too.
Diane, maybe the lush growth of other plants around your Meconopsis has helped, keeping it cool and the soil damp while soaking up any excess moisture and so keeping it well drained. Isn't it thrilling when a long term failure suddenly is successful? :D
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Maggi and Landelft - Thank you for identifying my "oddity". So it's an Ornithogalum. The bulbs must look very similar because I chose the individual bulbs myself.
Thanks again.
Graeme
Today I saw in a tulip field near the road where we were cycling some Ornithogalum nutans.
In tulips it’s not such a problem, there are mostly just a few of these growing in a field.
I noticed that in Narcissus fields there are sometimes many more visible after flowering of Narcissus.
Ornithogalum nutans and close-up
for comparising:
Ornithogalum umbellatum
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Two shade lovers flowering here for the first time today:
Ramonda myconi 'Alba'
and Polygonatum roseum
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Wim,
the P. roseum has long been on my wish list. Did you raise it from seed? Wonderful colour!
I am currently attempting Ramonda from seed with little success.
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Hi Wim your Ramonda alba is so sweet. 8) Does it take a long time to bulk up.
Angie :)
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One of my pride and joy: Meconopsis delavayi started to flower.
It is in my garden for the first time (planted last fall). I hope it wil do well.
Cheers,
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Fantastic, John!
I got this as Aethionema pseudarmena. Is it the same as A.armenum?
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Test post of photo......
Lily and Poppy take the May sun.......
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Wim,
the P. roseum has long been on my wish list. Did you raise it from seed? Wonderful colour!
I am currently attempting Ramonda from seed with little success.
Jamie,
I received the P. roseum from a friend who has grown it from seed. If it sets seed this year I'll let you know and you can have some.
I've never sown Ramonda... I believe it's a slow germinator which needs light to germinate.
Hi Wim your Ramonda alba is so sweet. 8) Does it take a long time to bulk up.
Angie :)
Thanks Angie,
I wouldn't know if it's quick to bulk up since it's the first year I'm growing it. I think it grows at the same rate as the regular R. myconi.
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Lily and Poppy take the May sun.......
Lovely Maggi, they look so contented, and clean. When I was growing up we had a Westie called Heidi who would persist in rubbing herself along the underside of the car, so she was always more black than white!
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Thank you Gail; they don't always look so white......
Here is Poppy last week, after she swam through the pond (which is covered in duckweed) and then rolled to clean off said duckweed....... ( well, it worked to get rid of the duckweed! ::) )
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Well it has been another roasting day down here in sunny Bury and I thought yopu might like to see some pics. I'm having to post them singly at the moment.
Anemone sylvestris Elise Fellman
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Horminum pyrenaicum roseum
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Horminum pyrenaicum album
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Greenhouse dressed for sunshine likewise gardener.
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Leiophyllum buxifolium
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Armeria rubra
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6 inch bed behind 'temporary' ::) frame
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Tulip batalanii Bright Gem
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Dianthus bed
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Last one for now a view across the rock garden
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Lily and Poppy take the May sun.......
Hi Maggi,
You and Ian have lots of treasures in the garden, but these are pretty special aren't they....... ;)?
Very cute.
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Looks terrific, Shelagh! Love the horminum... must try it.
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Wim,
This looks correct for P. roseum. I have some from Chen Yi, but I am beginning to think that mine are not P. roseum. They have yet to flower though.
See here; <http://books.google.com/books?id=tg0XAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA5049&dq=POlygonatum+roseum&cd=1#v=onepage&q=POlygonatum%20roseum&f=false>
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Well done Shelagh - your garden looks gorgeous !
Like Lori, I love the Horminum !
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Thanks for positive comments. Lori and Luc if you want me to save you some seed of the Horminums please PM me.
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Just time to do a few more more although still singly I'm afraid.
Geranium cinereum Ballerina
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Rock Garden view
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Ptilotrichium spinosum
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Rhodanthe catanache
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Silver Sax.
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Silver Sax mark 2
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Rhodanthe catanache Tik'n Ticha
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Finally for this batch Sedum humifusum.
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new Anemone nemerosa this year
....A. nemerosa Lehna 1
A. nemerosa Lehna
A. nem. Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Miss Eucine
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Anemone nemerosa
.....Anemonen and Helleborus
various.
a. nem. Tilo
A. nem. Robinsoniana
A. nem. Pleugers Plena.
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You have a lovely garden Shelagh (and Brian). I take it the "dig" about 'temporary frame' was aimed at poor old Brian ;D
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Wolfgang,
A wonderful selection - and some very strong colours in your anemone nemerosas.
Paddy
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Beautiful show Wolfgang.
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Thank you Paddy and David
Anemone trifolia
A. trifolia bright blue.
A. trifolia bright blue
Anemone narcissiflora 1
Anemone narcissiflora
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Wim,
This looks correct for P. roseum. I have some from Chen Yi, but I am beginning to think that mine are not P. roseum. They have yet to flower though.
See here; <http://books.google.com/books?id=tg0XAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA5049&dq=POlygonatum+roseum&cd=1#v=onepage&q=POlygonatum%20roseum&f=false>
Aaron,
Thanks for the determination
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The grubby Poppy almost bears a resemblance to a small Highland cow! with that shaggy fur and grumpy face. Actually I'm deeply shocked to see her in this state as Lily is always so pristine. I hope Poppy isn't a bad influence and leading Lily into naughty ways. :D
Shelagh, you must be having a lot of pleasure from your garden at present. It looks great and if there's a small "dig" at Brian he can only take it as an appreciation of other digging done, I hope, by him.
Wonderful plants as always Wolfgang. Those are really super forms of Anemone nemorosa. The first, the double soft pink is especially beautiful and what a great deep blue.
Thanks everyone for sharing your spring pictures. Winter has started here, not so terribly cold yet but the whole country is being deluged with very heavy rain and flooding in areas from the top of the North Is to the bottom of the South. My daughter's rain guage registerd 186mm from 6pm yesterday to 8am this morning. Nearly more than 7 inches of rain, for those still using old money. Not so much here and we are on a hill so won't flood but litle plants are being drowned. I've covered all my seed pots and trays with thick layers of newspaper to keep more rain off but will have to remove it soon for light and air.
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Shelagh that's some lovely plants you have show us 8) - your garden looks so lovely.
Maggi Lily and Poppy look as if they were enjoying the sun , hope they had on there sun cream.
Lesley the weather has been great in Aberdeen the last week but today the t. shirt was back in the wardrobe. Hope the rain doesn't do to much damage.
Angie :)
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new Anemone nemerosa this year
....A. nemerosa Lehna 1
A. nemerosa Lehna
A. nem. Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Miss Eucine
Wolfgang,
It seems 'Miss Eucine' is the most blue A. nemorosa - if you don't mind me asking - where did you get it?
Gerd
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Thank you Gail; they don't always look so white......
Here is Poppy last week, after she swam through the pond (which is covered in duckweed) and then rolled to clean off said duckweed....... ( well, it workded to get rid of the duckweed! ::) )
Yep, she looks much more recognisably Westie like that to me!
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A very impressive series of Anemone Wolfgang !! 8)
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I am quite happy with this plant combination; Wisteria 'longissima alba' on a wild birch (seeded itself). I planted the Wisteria 10 years ago and it has put on an amazing diplay for the last 3 years. The fragrance is incredible. Wish the picture was better, but you get the idea.
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Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.
Paddy
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Jamie it's a pity that we don't have smelly-vision on lots of the contributions on the Forum. I love Wisteria. We had one in a container against the back of the house. It stayed nice and neat but didn't flower until one year it shot up like a rocket. When Brian checked it had come through the bottom of the container and had worked its way between the flags and down down and away. It was sad but it had to go. :'(
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Beautiful Jamie. We once visited a garden that had a massive weeping willow tree with a purple wisteria cascading through it - it was just stunning; one of those images that stays in your mind.
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Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.
Paddy
It all in how you dress it up! I would have cut it down, but we are not allowed to remove trees without a permit in Cologne. This was my best solution, although I may have been wiser to use a violet coloured cultivar.
Shelagh,
I have three other wisterias in containers which do flower every other year. The best cultivar I've found for containers is 'Issai', a lovely blue. Rosea is not good at all. They are always better in the ground. I have 4 others grwoing about that all flower earlier. 'Shiro Capitain' is very fragrant and early.
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Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.
Paddy
It all in how you dress it up! I would have cut it down, but we are not allowed to remove trees without a permit in Cologne. This was my best solution, although I may have been wiser to use a violet coloured cultivar.
No, not at all... the white is perfect in the scene you show us.... I was just thinking that no other colour would be as good there 8)
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Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.
Paddy
It all in how you dress it up! I would have cut it down, but we are not allowed to remove trees without a permit in Cologne. This was my best solution, although I may have been wiser to use a violet coloured cultivar.
No, not at all... the white is perfect in the scene you show us.... I was just thinking that no other colour would be aso good there 8)
Thanks, Maggie, you know how afterthoughts are.....what if? At the time, white was the right choice for a background plant. I guess I DID know what I was doing.
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Wolfgang,
You have some fantastic Anemones. I have never seen any quite as blue or red or any double pink.
My experience is that "pink" Anemone nemorosa are only pink certain years This year being one.
Also I would be interested in knowing from where you got them - Or are they your own cultivars?
Your pictures show the stage of development I have here in mid Sweden now. Where in Sachsen are you?
Grüße
Göte
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Anemone nemorosa 'Miss Eucine'
I googled for this extraordinary plant without success - so I would be glad if there is someone who can tell me more about it, for instance where is it obtainable.
Gerd
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Anemone nemorosa 'Miss Eucine'
I googled for this extraordinary plant without success - so I would be glad if there is someone who can tell me more about it, for instance where is it obtainable.
Gerd
Gerd, I believe this plant might more correctly be 'Miss Eunice' and I found a listing in the RHS plantfinder for a stockist in the UK, but a search of their website is not showing the plant listed now. :-X
www.plantsforshade.co.uk
Nigel & Michelle Rowland
Address
South Marsh, Charlton Musgrove
Nr Wincanton
Somerset
BA9 8EX
United Kingdom
Telephone
(01963) 32802
Fax
(01963) 32802
Email
info@plantsforshade.co.uk
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Anemone nemorosa 'Miss Eucine'
I googled for this extraordinary plant without success - so I would be glad if there is someone who can tell me more about it, for instance where is it obtainable.
Gerd
Gerd, I believe this plant might more correctly be 'Miss Eunice' and I found a listing in the RHS plantfinder for a stockist in the UK, but a search of their website is not showing the plant listed now. :-X
www.plantsforshade.co.uk
Nigel & Michelle Rowland
Address
South Marsh, Charlton Musgrove
Nr Wincanton
Somerset
BA9 8EX
United Kingdom
Telephone
(01963) 32802
Fax
(01963) 32802
Email
info@plantsforshade.co.uk
More widely known as Long Acre Plants.
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Maggi + David,
Thank you both for your kind help!
Gerd
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Hallo Maggy, David and Gerd,
Sorry, the name confusion is my fault. The correct name is Anemone Nemerosa "Miss Eunice"
Regards, Wolfgang
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Here is a Monarda species in flower now. This is the third species to flower for me just after bradburiana and russeliana. This one is undescribed! It has been called clinopodia, but flowers earlier, has larger flowers, is pure white, and is a small plant of shale banks along two river systems in the southern Appalachians.
And a mystery plant that I want to see if anyone can put a name on. It is not yet in flower. I know what it is and one or two other people on here know what this is also. Up close and one of the habitat - a highly calcareous alkaline seep, pH ca. 8 with ca. 180-200 ppm total alkalinity.
Aaron
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Dunno, but I don't think I'd want to let it loose in the garden. :o
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And a mystery plant that I want to see if anyone can put a name on.
Is it DiphyllieaDiphylleia cymosa?
...a highly calcareous alkaline seep, pH ca. 8...
You know, that's actually our normal soil pH here... ;)
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Some pictures from this month:
Several selfseedlings of Androsace alpina in a rockery
Two years old Andosace hausmannii in a trough
First flowers of Androsace robusta in another trough
Draba rigida, about 20 years old
Petrocallis pyrenaica 'Alba'
First flowering of Physaria chambersii
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(More) Nomocharis aperta
Lilium pyrenaicum
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Lovely stuff Zedenek, I did like the Petrocallis.
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Some plants flowering here in the garden today:
Acantholimon cilicinum
Dianthus arpadianus
Epipactis gigantea 'Enchantment'
Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina
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That's lovely, Arnold. Something to look forward to!
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Clematis texensis 'Pagoda'
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...a highly calcareous alkaline seep, pH ca. 8...
You know, that's actually our normal soil pH here... ;)
i actually have no idea about my soil ph, and i have done some online searching, but thus far unsuccessfully; my area is where luvisolic soils of foothills and boreal forest meet the chernozemics of grassland/parkland, but i think right here its all luvisolic, apart from organic on common wet areas..i assume (not sure if its correct) that the organics would be acidic, as would spruce stands, but have no idea about the grey luvisolics with very shallow organic topsoils, which is mostly under the mixed woods....
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Some plants flowering here in the garden today:
Acantholimon cilicinum
Dianthus arpadianus
Epipactis gigantea 'Enchantment'
Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina
wim-love your escobaria! the fruits are from last year? still in great shape! i have seed in from a form of the species, not sure what colour the flowers will be, some are greener....
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Some plants flowering here in the garden today:
Acantholimon cilicinum
Dianthus arpadianus
Epipactis gigantea 'Enchantment'
Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina
wim-love your escobaria! the fruits are from last year? still in great shape! i have seed in from a form of the species, not sure what colour the flowers will be, some are greener....
Thanks Cohan,
the fruits are from last year indeed. I bought it last year and I've planted it outside this year (they say it's hardy outside so I'll see)
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Some plants flowering here in the garden today:
Acantholimon cilicinum
Dianthus arpadianus
Epipactis gigantea 'Enchantment'
Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina
wim-love your escobaria! the fruits are from last year? still in great shape! i have seed in from a form of the species, not sure what colour the flowers will be, some are greener....
Thanks Cohan,
the fruits are from last year indeed. I bought it last year and I've planted it outside this year (they say it's hardy outside so I'll see)
that species should even be hardy for me :) of course you need to watch drainage very closely....
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Trillium vaseyi
(http://cs9472.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_8989c3fd.jpg)
Dodecatheon sp.
(http://cs9472.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_78ef83e5.jpg)
Cypripedium ventricosum
(http://cs9472.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_4416fb52.jpg)
Ajuga "Burgundy Glow"
(http://cs9472.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_fe2e2500.jpg)
Primula sieboldii Alba
(http://cs9472.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_689b68f8.jpg)
Primula sieboldii "Kumor"
(http://cs9472.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_007e6e22.jpg)
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Superb images from all!
In flower now various columbines
A. alpina
A. vulgaris Blue Barlow
A. vulgaris William Guiness
A. chrysantha
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Armin,
A lovely set of photographs, good garden flowers.
Ogla, love the trillium photograph and that dodecatheon is very different. I've never seen one that opens its petals in this manner before.
Paddy
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Paddy, thanks for your comment :)
more good garden flowers... ;)
Allium triquetrum: nothing spectacular for many of you but a bit special for me. In winter 2008/2009 I lost the first bulbs by frost. I got new ones last autuum and worried in spring if the bulbs would have survived the strong 2009/2010 winter as the early foliage withered completely. To my surprise they've survived, recovered and even flower.
Hyacinthoides non-scripta: did not flower in the first year but now seem to have settled and flower.
Special thanks to Ashley the generous donator for above 2 species. ;) :D
Papaver dubium: an annual wild weed, this poppy is very short flowering 1-2 days only, but I like it as it closes gaps in the bulb beds when tulips and narcissus go dormant and it is a good honey and pollen donator for bumble and solitary bees. Images captured the moments of unfolding...
Asphodeline lutea: winter hard perennial from central and eastern mediterranean sea territory doing very well in a sandy soil and sunny spot.
Leucanthum vulgare: simple a nice wild flower in my crocus meadow.
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It snowed from Thursday afternoon through Saturday afternoon here. Fortunately, the temperature did not get far below freezing, so all the plants that are now lying on the ground will perk up again.
Well, we're glad that the May snowstorms are over... now we can move on to the June ones! ;D
1. Aubrieta deltoides 'Blue Indigo', still soldiering on after being frozen many times and snowed on in at least two bouts.
2. Dianthus microlepis; the sun was only out for a few minutes today, so Gentiana verna, in the background, did not deign to open.
3. Physaria didymocarpa, starting to bloom.
4. Primula saxatilis - last year's little green-eyed seedlings.
5. Ahh, a plant that is not fazed by snow! I may put the whole yard into Bergenia cordifolia!
6. A rather good photo of my hand, which also happened to include Helleborus cyclophyllus.
7. An early Penstemon procerus.
8. A purchased Patrinia sibirica, getting ready to bloom, in the tufa bed extension.
9. Native plant, Geum triflorum, in the front yard.
10. Veronica whitleyi.
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Lori, beautiful photos, beautiful plants, each and every one :o :o. I really like the little Patrinia. And a plant that can be thought of as common or easy, so easy to take it for granted, but one that I do love... Geum triflorum, nothing quite like it. I have the white form too, but it completely lacks the charm of the regular pink form. It doesn't seem that the cold weather and late snows has bothered your plants at all. The opposite here, we've been getting a number of hot days, up to 94 F (35 C) and stuff is going over too quickly, but all in all, it's been a fabulous spring here.
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Thanks, Mark.
A few more...
1) One of last year's seedlings, Calyptridium umbellatum (or Cistanthe umbellatum now, I guess), with Thymus neiceffii... the latter had a hard winter. (Odd, since snow cover is usually thought of as a good thing.)
2) Veronica saturejoides
3) A very cute little Jovibarba(?)/semp(?)... must pay attention when it blooms.
4) Primula x juliana 'Allure', looking a bit droopy from the weather.
5) Mukdenia rossii
6) Draba rigida
7) Anemone trifolia - what a gorgeous plant it is! (Very dark photo, sorry.)
8 ) And various lungworts in bloom...
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A very nice set of pix Lori !!
They do give us the true "mountain feeling" ! 8)
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Lori is being snowed on, McMark is being fried alive ( or that's how it appears from chilly Aberdeen!)... all have wonderful plants in their gardens to share with us....this encapsulates all the joy and charms of the little mountainplants ....is there any wonder we are so enthrall to them? :) :) 8)
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Lilium pumilum
Magnolia x weiseneri
(no lily beetle here, yet)
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Giles, love the magnolia. Brilliant!
Paddy
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A couple of yellow/cream Roscoea cautleyoides
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Lori is being snowed on, McMark is being fried alive ( or that's how it appears from chilly Aberdeen!)... all have wonderful plants in their gardens to share with us....this encapsulates all the joy and charms of the little mountainplants ....is there any wonder we are so enthrall to them? :) :) 8)
true--i haven't even thought about being frost free, we've had days of almost 30C and other days of 3C, snow, rain, fierce dry winds and my sempervivum have been actively growing for ages, as are some natives from the foothills/mountains...
my muscari are still at the low bud stage!
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(no lily beetle here, yet)
Oddly enough I haven't seen one this year but had loads last year. Must have squashed them all before they laid eggs.
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Lovely stuff Paddy, Armin and Lorri. I moan about my climate Lorri but yours would drive me to suicide ;D
Like your Roscoea Fred.
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a few land/skyscapes from the same day (may 02) as the above shots..not really flowers or foliage, but....
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hi there, I'd appreciate an ID on this. I got this as A.saximontana from AGS seed..not particularly suprised it's not, does it look like A. bertolinii?
Whatever it is it's very nice, big flowers on a tiny plant, has survived outside in troughs and in the rock garden.
The other pic is of Polygonatum hookerii which is flowering for the first time and is just tiny, hopefully more flowers as more tufts are breaking through.
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lori had asked me some time ago about Caltha palustris
they did not flower as early as the petasites, but i managed to find exactly one plant in flower for mother's day (i usually pick a bouquet of caltha and petasites)..
funny thing is, i realised i forgot to photograph the caltha before picking it, so i later stuck the flowering stem into another caltha plant for a couple of shots ;D
many more plants were in bud, and by now they are in full flower all over, including shady areas where they are slower..
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Calypso bulbosa arguably our loveliest native orchid; this is on the farm my acreage was once a part of...just a few minutes walk from my house into the bush..
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Cohan,
How wonderful to have such a lovely selection of plants on your doorstep.
Paddy
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Campanula nitida blue.
Campanula oreadum
Clematis ?
Dianthus pavonius.
Edrianthus pumilo.
Gypsophila cerastioides.
halmiocistus Merristwood cream.
hypericum cerastioides.
Nemisia confetti.
Penstemon cardwellii.
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Phyteuma confusum.
Silene Elisabethae.
sisyrinchium macrocarpum.
Viola Molly Sanderson.
Wisteria amethyt falls.
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Michael, great selection of plants but most taken by the Edrianthus.
Paddy
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hi there, I'd appreciate an ID on this. I got this as A.saximontana from AGS seed..not particularly suprised it's not, does it look like A. bertolinii?
Whatever it is it's very nice, big flowers on a tiny plant, has survived outside in troughs and in the rock garden.
My bet would go for A. bertolinii as well Mark!
An exquisite Alpine - it seeds out gently all around the garden here - I love it !
Michael,
What a beautiful selection of Alpines, a lot of gems there !
Hard to choose from...
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Just time to get this one before May ends even if it's a little past it's best (though it has been flowering for weeks now). It's the first Penstomen species I have grown but I shall be looking for more now. Penstemon virens.
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A super Penstemon David, and so many others as well. Too many to name though except the Calypso, which has a somewhat similar appearance to Gerry, TTG.
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Calypso bulbosa arguably our loveliest native orchid; this is on the farm my acreage was once a part of...just a few minutes walk from my house into the bush..
Cohan, this orchid is fabulous - how wonderful to see it close by, I love the shape and the markings, how big is it?
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Michael, your alpines are exceptional and very well photographed....the Edrianthus pumilo is wonderful and something for my new seedlings to aspire to!
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Thank you Luc for the confirmation..
Lovely Edrianthus Michael
Nice Penstemon, David. I have a similar one in the garden, never flowers
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tks, paddy and robin ... lesley--were you talking about the orchid calypso? if so, i have no idea what you meant ...lol
robin, my book says 5-15cm tall for the calypso, though i have a feeling i have seen them just a touch taller..this one is probably around 10cm..they just have the one single flowering stem, but can form clumps over time-i photographed a lovely patch of them in the mountains last year around this time..
here their habitat is a bit unstable--they seem to be mostly in mixed/deciduous forest not to far from wet areas, and these areas are usually in flux-trending towards over shading conifers if left alone, and populated meantime by birch and poplars and the birch, in particular, tend to have short lived trunks, very prone to falling over..
add to that the fact that this is farmland, and subject to variable grazing (potential to be trampled if heavily grazed and the plant is exposed, or to be overgrown with other plants if not much grazing..
i used to know of a couple of patches on the farm, but i have not found any plants in either area--however, they are hard to find in flower, and virtually impossible out of flower unless you have a marked plant--the forest floor is full of debris and other plants...
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lesley--were you talking about the orchid calypso? if so, i have no idea what you meant ...lol
I agree with Lesley... I too can see a resemblance between the gorgeous Calypso and Gerry, the Travel Giraffe..... here they are together......
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lesley--were you talking about the orchid calypso? if so, i have no idea what you meant ...lol
I agree with Lesley... I too can see a resemblance between the gorgeous Calypso and Gerry, the Travel Giraffe..... here they are together......
lol! well, that is some excellent visual pattern recognition! ;)
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Sorry Cohan. Some say I have a twisted sense of humour and no doubt would call my eyesight in doubt too. :D
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lesley--were you talking about the orchid calypso? if so, i have no idea what you meant ...lol
I agree with Lesley... I too can see a resemblance between the gorgeous Calypso and Gerry, the Travel Giraffe..... here they are together......
lol! well, that is some excellent visual pattern recognition! ;)
But, don't you think, this represents a 'luteum' form of the original species?
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lesley--were you talking about the orchid calypso? if so, i have no idea what you meant ...lol
I agree with Lesley... I too can see a resemblance between the gorgeous Calypso and Gerry, the Travel Giraffe..... here they are together......
lol! well, that is some excellent visual pattern recognition! ;)
But, don't you think, this represents a 'luteum' form of the original species?
sure, luteum, and much wider ranging than the original species.....
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Especially widespread in Central Asia. :)
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Two pictures of Silene atropurpurea from the mountains of Greece