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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: johnw on July 02, 2010, 03:10:13 AM
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Magnolia sieboldii, one of the best Magnolias with a delicious fragrance, is still flowering thanks to recent rains. Last year it continued into August. We potted over 100 self-sown seedlings last week.
Unfortunately those in the trade are disappointing, small-flowered and facing the ground, often more of a bush than a tree. This strain is second generation from collected wild seed from Korea, has quite sizeable flowers and grows like mad for the first few years often attaining its ultimate height in 3 years.
johnw
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Beautiful, pristine flowers John. Something to thank the rainfall for!
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Splendid flower John !! :o :o
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Campanula pulla from the rock garden today.
I don't have much luck with the small Campanulas and normally buy a few plants each year to replace the ones decimated by slugs.
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A lovely start to July John and David with your postings :) Looking up into the Magnolia flower is wonderful and I love the blue of the Campanula bells.
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After an unusual cold and rainy spring our weather now turns to an other
extreme,-it gets hotter and hotter. Today we had 35° C and the forecast
promises still more. I am sure,that several plants will not survive this torture!
Campanula fragilis(the Abruzzi form) flowers profusely in the alpine house
Eriogonum umbellatum, a living souvenir from the NARGS conference 1986 is a reliable
flowerer every year. The flowers are quite useful for small flower arrangements
A new plant and a real gem for my taste is Hypericum kazdaghensis, I raised it from
seed which ZZ(alias Stone Rider) collected on Nif Dag in Western Turkey
Helichrysum milfordiae, very common nowadays but still one of my favourites.
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Splendid flower John !! :o :o
Luc / Brian
I should mention that the mother plant I grew from high altitude collected wild seed from Korea. As there are no other sieboldiis in the neighborhood so the seed from this tree is selfed. This seed gives large-flowered progeny and the photo is of one of them. We collect more than 3kg of cleaned seed every year for various societies, a time comsuming job it is and it can leave you with orange hands for a week. It seems the small-flowered ones in the trade originate from the west coast.
This species even grows in central New Brunswick where winter temperstures can go to the low -30's celsius. Here it stands full sun but drought and heat & humidity can be problematic in hot summer areas.
If you want seed just sing out.
johnw
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today a lot of flowers in our garden:
Dahlia X
Petunia X
Verbene bonariensis
Punica 'Nana'
Plumbago
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...and more :
Littonia modesta
Nerium oleander yellow
Nerium oleander white
Trachelospermum
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..and more :
Pelargonium
Aeonium spec.
Zamia furfuracea
Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost'
Basilicum 'Magic Blue'
Enjoy 8)
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Lots of lovely stuff there Hans.
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David :D Thank you for your friendly comment ;D
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Magnolia sieboldii, one of the best Magnolias with a delicious fragrance, is still flowering thanks to recent rains. Last year it continued into August. We potted over 100 self-sown seedlings last week.
Unfortunately those in the trade are disappointing, small-flowered and facing the ground, often more of a bush than a tree. This strain is second generation from collected wild seed from Korea, has quite sizeable flowers and grows like mad for the first few years often attaining its ultimate height in 3 years.
johnw
John, beautiful Magnolia sieboldii. My goodness, 100 self-sown seedlings! It's a dang weed!!! I've let my membership in the Magnolia Society lapse, but our local magnolia guy, Stephen Cover, runs the seed exchange, and several years back I received seed of the Korean form of M. sieboldii. With all of the warm (hot) weather we've been having, I have two seedlings that I planted out last year that are practically leaping out of the ground, putting on so much growth, about 3' (1 meter) tall right now. Thanks for showing this, something to look forward to.
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today a lot of flowers in our garden:
Plumbago
Lovely plants Hans. Is the plumbago hardy in your garden? I tried one outside here and it survived one winter but was killed the next.
The Zamia is fascinating too - presumably the corn-on-the-cob looking structure is the fruit??
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Thank you Gail :D
No ...the Plumbago is in a pot !
We have here in winter aound -10° and 3 weeks with snow :-\
This Zamia has in last winter also such a flower ....it is not a fruit ! ....in some days it will open this structure and the is pollen inside - so there must exist also female flower ...
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John, beautiful Magnolia sieboldii. My goodness, 100 self-sown seedlings! It's a dang weed!!! I've let my membership in the Magnolia Society lapse, but our local magnolia guy, Stephen Cover, runs the seed exchange, and several years back I received seed of the Korean form of M. sieboldii. With all of the warm (hot) weather we've been having, I have two seedlings that I planted out last year that are practically leaping out of the ground, putting on so much growth, about 3' (1 meter) tall right now. Thanks for showing this, something to look forward to.
Mark - Glad you have a few there. You're right they grow like the dickens. Mother plant went out as a 2 footer and was 12 feet in 3 years. I will try to take a shot of the mother tonight. The progeny are very good and one fellow got a double. The centre on the mother is quite red while some of the seedlings are almost black / purple.
Keep us posted as you should have flowers in the spring.
johnw
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A minute-flowered Fuchsia thymifolia from Cistus Nursery is just about to give a real "show", hundreds of buds are getting ready to open, all nightmare to photograph. One won't be decorated the Royal Albert Hall with this one. It flowers well into November.
johnw
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Hi Folks, I was wondering if someone on this forum could help me aquiring/locating some Crinum species seed, and as always, I am more than happy to return the favour with seed from our extensive collection of bulbs.
For more info look under SEED WANTED or SEED EXCHANGE forum.
Thanks, Bill
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Some plants flowering here today:
Fuchsia procumbens
Gladiolus imbricatus
Lilium candidum
Notocactus mammulosus
Primula sikkimensis
Rhododendron sp. (anyone care to guess which species this might be?)
Viola hederacea
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Hi Wim, your wee azalea is perhaps a R. kiusianum or maybe one of the hybrid Kurume types (R. obtusum and R. kiusianum) though they tend to be larger.
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Rhododendron sp. (anyone care to guess which species this might be?)
Wim - Given the late flowering and narrow leaves with prominent hairs I'd say that is nakaharai or a hybrid thereof. The plant will be prostrate or almost so. There are two selections in the trade 'Mariko' and 'Mt. Seven Star'. The latter is a paler colour than yours, sort of a salmon/orange.
johnw
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Here are some Hibiscus blooming now.
John
Copper King
Lord Baltimore
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Hmmm,
I bought R. kiusianum a couple of years ago but I don't remember where I planted it. It could be R. nakaharai too, since I bought that one too. I'll have a look at distinguishing features.
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1 Allium prattii - ex. Chen Yi (misidentified as A. aciphyllum)
2 Anthericum ramosum - superb summer blooming plant, very neat refined disease-free foliage, masses of white starts atop 3' (1 meter) stems for a long period in July-August.
3 Lots of alliums in the garden now; approaching peak.
4 Bloomeria crocea var. montana - hardy southern californian member of the Alliaceae. Blooms for 4-5 weeks June-July.
5 Lilium formosanum var. pricei, with some alliums in my "allium garden".
6 Monarda punctata (spotted beebalm) - a fantastic underappreciated native species, with yellow spotted flowers and even showier colorful bracts, pink shading to white in my plants. Web photos reveal it is quite variable in color, flowers from light yellow to dark orangish-yellow, bracts can be red, green, buff, or yellow. Best treated as a self-sowing short-lived perennial or biennial.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MOPU
7-8 Hemerocallis 'Toy Trumpets' - I have a love/hate relationship with daylilies (mostly hate), but there are some hybridizers working on more refined types, looking more "species like", such as this hybrid from Bob Sobek, a local daylily breeder here in Massachusetts. I welcome the slender vertical accent, neat basal foliage, and small waxy yellow trumpets with bronzed sepals.
9 Marshallia grandiflora (Barbara's buttons) - an excellent small genus of composites (7 species) from southeastern USA, with late blooming white or pink flowers, suitable for the rock garden. This is an endangered species.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MAGR7
10 Rhododendron (deciduous Azalea) 'Late Date' - arborescens x prunifolium, just starting into bloom now, and the scent... oh my, so richly perfumed.
http://www.rarefindnursery.com/index.cfm/action/productdetail/product_id/2547.htm
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Mark,
A nice selection. I particularly like the Hemerocallis 'Toy Trumpets'. I have been looking for a yellow that is similar to that one. Like you I like the neat basal foliage and vertical accent.
I have never seen Lilium formosanum var. pricei with so many flower heads. Perhaps I have only ever seen young ones.
Graham
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nice stuff, everyone!
mark-very fancy monarda! marshallia is interesting too..
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Just from today
1. Campanula choruhensis - raised from AGS seeds 2008
2. Viola hispida - a selfseeded plant
3. Viola hallii
4. Mitraria coccinea
5. x Rhodoxis hybrida - one of the Hebron Farm's colour variants
Gerd
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Hi Hans
Some really nice plants in your garden 8). I like your Littonia modesta and also your Euphorbia diamond frost.
I also have a lot of plants in pots which I pop them into the greenhouse or polytunnel for winter protection.
I have 3 Australian grass trees( Xanthorrhoea ) which I was a little worried this year as the winter was really long and hard...the two large ones have done okay but the smaller one didn't look good but with all this sun its starting to grow again. I hope one day they might get a flower...Oh I better say that I am not a greedy person( having three of the same plant ) one was my late mums and one was my sisters who left me all her unusual plants when she died.
Hans you must be kept busy watering your pots as it takes me ages and we get a lot more rain than you do.. still I think its worth the time and effort to be able to grow the more tender plants.
I thought the same as Gail it was a fruit on your Zamia not a flower...something I have never seen before.
Great stuff Hans.
Angie :)
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Hi Angie ,
thank you for your friendly words ...each psychatric doctor would say that I'm crazy :o
No problem with sending you later seeds from my Littonia -I have each year seeds ( my plants are also grown from seeds ex AGS -it has flowered after 2 years )
The most of this plants are in winter in our garage or in cellar ;D no room in my greenhouse !
Good luck for your Australian Grass !
...watering ....our plants are not spoiled ::)
The Zamia is easy for me - in summer outside on our terace and in winter in our living room ( side by side with Cycas revuluta )
Hans 8)
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1.Not at all an alpine - Oenothera glazioviana
2.Zigadenus elegans (to the right) with Zigadenus nuttalii (to the left). Have measured it for Maggi this year - 105 cm (Z.elegans)
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1.Not at all an alpine - Oenothera glazioviana
2.Zigadenus elegans (to the right) with Zigadenus nuttalii (to the left). Have measured it for Maggi this year - 105 cm (Z.elegans)
1) lovely phot
2) OOH! Big plant looking VERY nice, Oleg!
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Hans
I think most of us on this forum must be a LITTLE crazy ::), I bet most of us don't have the room for anymore plants but if like me its hard to leave a plant behind, they seem to look at you and say please, please don't leave me here, I need a new home and as I am a bit of a softy ,Well you can guess the rest :-X
Thanks for the kind offer of the seeds of Littonia.
Angie :)
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I feel exactly the same, Angie! ;)
A few flowers blooming these days...
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1.Not at all an alpine - Oenothera glazioviana
2.Zigadenus elegans (to the right) with Zigadenus nuttalii (to the left). Have measured it for Maggi this year - 105 cm (Z.elegans)
very nice zigadenus, oleg! i have a nice old plant, but i'm sure yours has me beat, i don't think it gets as tall here, either, but i should measure when its in full bloom--just starting..the wild ones in the roadsides are not blooming yet, but i did see a couple of small ones in the mountains last week..
nutallii looks nice--smaller with bigger greener flowers?
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Trachelium asperuloides (even better when it was Diosphaera!), one of my favourite alpines and one of the first proper ones I bought. Roy Elliott thought it was a great plant. I lost my plants from the 70s so these are divisions and props from my plant bought in 1990 (it had an ant's nest in the pan forcing a major divsion exercise).
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That's a cracker.
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Mark,
They are really impressive. WOW :o
Graham
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Some flowers from the last days:
The Saussurea is from V.Holubec's seeds, collected in China. The label has gone lost, maybe a forumist
knows the exact name.
The Alliums are also from seed from the same source.
Campanula seraglio is a seedling from seed which was collected by J.Jurasek on Mt. Sarigol in Turkey.
It is related with C. troegerae, C.choruhensis and C.betulifolia.
Convolvulus holosericeus flowered for the first time with me, it seems to enjoy more cooler conditions
than its cousins from the dry steppe regions.
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Rudi, regarding the beautiful blue Allium, there is no Allium farreri, although there is the combination Allium cyathophorum var. farreri. That species has pointed purple flowers, it can be seen here in the Allium 2010 thread:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4757.msg156836#msg156836
You photo looks like Allium sikkimense, which is an excellent species. It is close to Allium beesianum, most easily separated by the larger flowers (petals 6-10 mm long in sikkimense, 11-14(17) mm in beesianum). I believe your plant is A. sikkimense.
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Rudi,
You photo looks like Allium sikkimense, which is an excellent species. It is close to Allium beesianum, most easily separated by the larger flowers (petals 6-10 mm long in sikkimense, 11-14(17) mm in beesianum). I believe your plant is A. sikkimense.
Boy it's a good one! I must post a shot of ours when it flowers, I can tell you it's not nearly as good as Rudi's if the one here is indeed sikkimense.
johnw
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Oleg,
Your Z. nuttallii is not that species -- Z. nuttallii should have a dense inflorescence of nearly pure white flowers with a hint of butter-yellow near the nectaries. I should have seed of this next spring. I have two collections growing.
Zepherine,
Your Phlox amplifolia is not that species. Phlox amplifolia has very broad leaves with strong venation and usually pale lavender flowers. The leaves also narrow quickly near the base. It also blooms before P. paniculata which is what your species looks like. I see both frequently in the field and can collect seed of the true amplifolia. One has glandular hairs in the inflorescence (P. ampl. I think), but the selected forms of P. paniculata in cultivation may have P. amplifolia in its genetics.
Aaron
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Thank you for your comment, Afloden! It was sold to me as P. amplifolia. The nursery had a whole bench of them, with various colours, since they were grown from seed, from what I remember. They would probably have been open-pollinated by P. paniculata, from what I understand...
These plants, whatever they are, are doing very well here. They bloom way in advance of other paniculata (not a bloom in sight on them at the moment), and I never saw any oïdium on them (which is alas not so rare for paniculatas, in my garden).
That makes it an interesting cross, as far as I'm concerned! Lol
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Boy it's a good one! I must post a shot of ours when it flowers, I can tell you it's not nearly as good as Rudi's if the one here is indeed sikkimense.
johnw
Yes, it looks much more vigorous than the A. sikkimense I have! How tall is it, Rudi?
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I love your Campanula seraglio Rudi, never seen the likes of it before!
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Very hot and dry here now and my Salvias and Geraniums like it more than I do.
Salvia jurisicii - with its funny hairy upside down flowers
Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'
Epipactis
Arisaema triphyllum
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Rudi, regarding the beautiful blue Allium, there is no Allium farreri, although there is the combination Allium cyathophorum var. farreri. That species has pointed purple flowers, it can be seen here in the Allium 2010 thread:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4757.msg156836#msg156836
You photo looks like Allium sikkimense, which is an excellent species. It is close to Allium beesianum, most easily separated by the larger flowers (petals 6-10 mm long in sikkimense, 11-14(17) mm in beesianum). I believe your plant is A. sikkimense.
Thank you all for the kind comments. The plants were sown in January 2008 and are now about 35cm in height.
Vojtech Holubec collected the seed in China, Manigaggo,Sechuan at 4100m. The plants grew there in fine scree
or grass.
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Very hot and dry here now and my Salvias and Geraniums like it more than I do.
Salvia jurisicii - with its funny hairy upside down flowers
Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'
Epipactis
Arisaema triphyllum
Gorgeous light and wonderful scenes from you garden Gunilla - the Salvia jurisicii is a such a pretty colour and the hairs really stand out :)
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Thanks Aaron for the correction. I'll try to post a close up picture of what I have as Zygadenus nuttallii later. Will appreciate any help in identification
Oleg,
Your Z. nuttallii is not that species -- Z. nuttallii should have a dense inflorescence of nearly pure white flowers with a hint of butter-yellow near the nectaries. I should have seed of this next spring. I have two collections growing.
Zepherine,
Your Phlox amplifolia is not that species. Phlox amplifolia has very broad leaves with strong venation and usually pale lavender flowers. The leaves also narrow quickly near the base. It also blooms before P. paniculata which is what your species looks like. I see both frequently in the field and can collect seed of the true amplifolia. One has glandular hairs in the inflorescence (P. ampl. I think), but the selected forms of P. paniculata in cultivation may have P. amplifolia in its genetics.
Aaron
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Nice little Salvia Gunilla :D How tall is it ?
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I haven't had time to download and process my pictures in a while so I'm a little behind. Here are some of the plants I captured last time I visited the garden in Värmland:
1. Aquilegia barnebyi, which I've had for 10 years. I divided a plant last year, so I have some spare. Taking seeds is pretty much pointless.
2. Closeup of A. barnebyi. I really like the combination of yellow and salmon pink.
3. Campanula lyrata was collected in Turkey in 2004 and it is biennial but self seeds and new plants are always coming up in a sand bed. Very easy and pleasing. Perfectly hardy too.
4. This Campanula comes from Tajikistan and looks a lot like C. glomerata. Not sure which species it really is.
5. Dodecatheon meadia collected in Arkansas many years ago.
6. Inula rhizocephala which I collected seeds of in Tajikistan has been quite easy in a well drained site.
7. Leuzea rhapontica takes three to four years to reach flowering size from seed, but sports very nice scaly heads of purple flowers. I hope it will become a nice multistemmed clump within time.
8. Onosma arenaria self seeds and I first grew it in 2005 or so. Nice to look at but a real pain to collect seeds from becuase of the minute irritating hairs.
9. Packera anonyma from southern USA has proved very hardy. This past winter the temp dropped to -34 C. Nice filler among other plants. I don't know where the epithet anonyma comes from ? Maybe it's easy to overlook ?
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Thanks Robin :).
Fleurbleue, Salvia jurisicii is small and compact, about 30 cm tall and wide. A rock garden salvia.
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Good to have you and your photos back again, Paul!
I have moved your post to the July thread. ;)
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I haven't had time to download and process my pictures in a while so I'm a little behind. Here are some of the plants I captured last time I visited the garden in Värmland:
6. Inula rhizocephala which I collected seeds of in Tajikistan has been quite easy in a well drained site.
lots of good stuff, but i really like this inula :)
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A few flowering here today.
1 Anemone heldreichiana
2 Dianthus Eileen Lever PC96
3 Hypericum buckleyii
4 Carpenteria californica
5 Hypericum Nummularium
6 Campanula sartori
7 Lilium ?
8 Cistus ladanifer
9 Phygelius Candy Drops
10 Gladiolus × colvillei the Bride
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A few more.
11 Campanula zoysii
12 Delphinium grandiflorum summer blues
13 Cyananthus sheriffii
14 Gentiana ?
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Wonderful pictures everyone ! It's great to see so many plants from different plants parts of the world. The members of SRGC really sit on a treasure cove of rare and exquisite plants of which many are rare in nature. Here are some more plants which are/were flowering for me in Värmland, none very exquisite or rare, but still nice:
1.Pimpinella major 'Rosea'
2.Salvia austriaca
3.Salvia austriaca closer view
4. Salvia pratensis 'Rose Rhapsody'
5. Salvia pratensis 'Rose Rhapsody'
6. Tragopogon porrifolius- the flowers are very beautiful when they open in the morning.
7. Vicia sp. from Tajikistan. Looks pretty much like a bigger version of Vicia cracca
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Some very nice and interesting plants Paul and Michael!
Michael, your Hypericum buckleyi looks very much like the Hypericum frondosum Sunburst, I grow here.
It's a very nice compact plant here, but here flowering is over since some weeks here.
Here a picture of my plant (2009)
Hypericum frondosum Sunburst
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And a few more from the garden here in Norrköping:
1.Codonopsis clematidea collected in the Fan Mtns. in 2005
2. A peek inside the flower reveals a hidden treasure
3. Phacelia lutea var glandulifera germinated very poorly when direct sown in a pot with black scree. Should maybe have treated seeds with GA-3 prior to sowing.
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Talking about Hypericum I have to post a picture of Hypericum bupleuroides which I think is very nice, both foliage and flowers:
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Nice pictures Michael and Paul
Michael, I really like your Gladiolus × colvillei the Bride and your Gentiana 8)
Angie :)
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Oh... I like Hypericums, so many good ones, with many of the woody sorts too seldomly grown. I also grow our native H. frondosum 'Sunburst', which has reached almost 3-1/2' tall, by about a 5' spread (105 cm x 150 cm), just started flowering last week, flowers really opening now in the heat. The foliage has a beautiful glaucous bluish cast, and in fall, kaleidoscope foliage colors of red, orange, yellow, to pinks. The spiky seed heads are ornamental through the winter, a good all around shrub. Here, it seeds around a bit too easily.
The second I'm showing is H. prolificum, another native plant found throughout most of eastern USA, a more upright woody species with narrower green leaves, and with age, cinnamon color peeling bark. The flowers are smaller but incredibly prolific. In the late afternoon the age to a brownish or bronzed yellow color. It can grow to about 6' (2 meters).
Paul, love the look of Hypericum bupleuroides, where is it from... I'm assuming it would be tender for my climate.
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Good show Paul, Mark and Michael !
A lot of interesting "late" flowerers :D :D
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Michael, your Hypericum buckleyi looks very much like the Hypericum frondosum Sunburst, I grow here.
It's a very nice compact plant here, but here flowering is over since some weeks here.
Here a picture of my plant (2009)
Luit, I got my plant from Gerd Stopp with that name and I agree it does look a lot like your plant, but both are listed on Google ::)
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Michael, your Hypericum buckleyi looks very much like the Hypericum frondosum Sunburst, I grow here.
It's a very nice compact plant here, but here flowering is over since some weeks here.
Here a picture of my plant (2009)
Luit, I got my plant from Gerd Stopp with that name and I agree it does look a lot like your plant, but both are listed on Google ::)
Michael, I'm not sure you have true Hypericum buckleyi. I grew it for many years but eventually lost it, must grow it again sometime. Curiously, when I do a google search on it, for the USDA source, it fails to come up in the search, but going to the root of the USDA site I finally found the page:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=HYBU
The flower petals tend to recline backwards, and the central stamen cluster is not very dense in this species. Some of the European photo links I found show dubiously identified plants.
Here's some photos from someone's photo gallery, specific photo links given, plus the overall gallery link:
gallery: http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/mp412to423
http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/image/3067528
http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/image/3067527
http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/image/3067766/original
http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/image/3067175
http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/image/3067177
http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/image/3067514
http://www.pbase.com/bstelloh/image/3067521
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I've never really liked Hypericum as I've always associated them with municipal planting - but I am interested to see these different Hypericum here and hope they will help me overcome my prejudice :D I'm sure that if they were my own plants I would love them very much!
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Hi Mark ! Very nice North American Hypericums you grow. H. bupleuroides is from the Caucasus and I'm sure you would have no problem growing it.
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Can anyone remember when SRGC seeds from the 2009/2010 came this year. I ask because I ordered 2 packets of Lewisia tweedyi, one Alba and one Roseum. I sowed them immediately. Only one seed sprouted of the Album about a month later. The plant is in a very cool basement under fluorescents and has grown like a weed. It is 6" across and is now about to flower. Years ago I grew tweedyi from seed from Ashwood but can't remember what I did to sprout them or how long they took to size up. Is this unusually fast growth? One more seedling appeared last month but it has barely grown to date.
johnw
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The first seeds from the SRGC exchange were sent out in January, John, continuing through February. How long they might have taken to arrive with you, is anybody's guess.... the postal system this year was a nightmare.
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An early July selection from me.
My hot sunny border with an orange Lily and a yellow Alstromeria. Crocosmia 'Lucifer' is at the back of this border and I just wish it flowered at the same time completing the effect, but the lilies and Alstromeria will over by then. The Alstromeria don't have the most rigid stems, and the border has been hit by the high winds we have had recently, and they are a little more prone than I would like.
Close up's of the lily and Alstromeria.
A double blue geranium with Iris latifolia in the back ground.
Graham
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I'm surprised to see how big Hypericum frondosum Sunburst will grow. I was told that it should be a small compact shrub.
Well small it may be, but bigger than I suspected.
No problem though, I choose the right place. And when it developes like on Mark's pictures it is a beautiful shrub!
Yesterday I was wrong when mentioning that on my plant the flowers were gone already. After returning from holidays I saw the many round buds which, when not looking carefully look like seed pods.
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A selection of what's flowering here in Sweden for me now:
1. Anchusa azurea self sows and is nice as long as it's in flower which is for a very long time, but it takes up quite a bit of space.
2 Anchusa leptophylla is quite similar, but the flowers lack the boss of protruding white hairs
3 Asclepias viridis is very hardy but has taken four years to reach flowering.
4 As with all the milkweeds the flowers are very intricate.
5 Calylophus berlandieri ssp pinifolius flowers the first year from seed. I haven't managed to overwinter it here, but will give it another try this year.
6 It's really a stunning flower with its sharp contrast of colors
7 Campanula grossekii. I got the seeds as Campanula khasiana ( Adenophora khasiana ) but it looks much more like Campanula grossekii I think.
8 A closer view of the flowers of C. grossekii
9 Campanula sp from Turkey
10. Another picture of this Turkish campanula species which I still wonder what it is
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these were taken in late june, near the Columbia Icefield, Alberta;
more at this thread:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5641.45
1 Dryas octopetala and? 2 more D octopetala, or Dryas integrifolia? hybrids? i wasn't looking closely at leaves while there, but the images show more recurved leaves on image 2, though they still seem toothed (integrifolia should have toothless leaves, or with teeth only at the bottom)..obviously the flowers are quite different, though all lovely! more knowledgeable input welcome!
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A few "end of season" flowers from the rockgarden
Campanula stevenii ssp. beauverdiana
Campanula raineri alba
Penstemon crandellii ssp. glabrescens
Genista depressa moesiaca
Erigeron speciosum
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And...
Linum bulgaricum
Coronilla minima
Hypericum egypticum
Scutellaria pontica
Adenophora confusa
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And more
Micromeria croatica
Origanum microphyllus
Sideritis glacialis
Limonium (statice) sp. 'Blauer Zwerg'
Acaena novae-zelandiae
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some pics from today :
Begonia X
Portulac
Sandersonia
Thunbergia natalensis
Acanthus mollis
Hibiscus ( for Angie )
Hans 8)
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Likes a wet spot. Also known as sneezeweed.
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I have a Ruellia humilis in flower at the moment.
Can someone give me some info on the plant or its genus ?
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Luc,
Ruellia is in the Acanthaceae. Humilis is from the eastern US and is fairly common in glades and prairie like habitats. Those from the western edge of its range are more decumbent while those from the eastern edge of its range are short, but erect. Two strange forms exist in the Ozark Highlands and in the Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma (?) sandhills. Yours looks like one of the Texas sandhill types with long tubeb erect flowers and heavy pubescence. The genus in North America is fairly typical of your plant with opposite leaves, axillary flowers in shades of purple to white. Humilis, purshiana, longipedunculata, and one or two others are really good non-weedy plants. Ruellia strepens is a weed -- do not accept it into your garden. It flowers, but you rarely see them and it seeds around everywhere. I've not noted any problems with the others mention. In fact longipedunculata has never had a seedling show up... sadly.
Aaron
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Hi Hans
I like your Portulac I have never seen this before 8)
And thanks for showing me your Hibiscus flowering...I only seem to get the buds and then they go yellow:'( I am going to cheat a little I have left one in my polytunnel. My mum always got her one to flower.
I also like your Begonia 8)
Thanks
Angie
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Hi Angie ,
I dont know exactly which species of Portulaceae this is - I have bought in last week in a very good nursery in my area and the owner could not tell me the name .
It is only a annual plant but maybe it will make seeds !!!
This kind of Hibiscus grows here free in our borders -it exist in some colors but I dont know the name of this cultivar
Hans
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Possibly Portulaca grandiflora. I've seen it in quite a few garden centres this year marketed as a basket annual trailing plant.
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David :
I dont believe it is P.grandiflora ....I know this plant and we have it near each year as pot plant .
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Luc,
Ruellia is in the Acanthaceae. Humilis is from the eastern US and is fairly common in glades and prairie like habitats. Those from the western edge of its range are more decumbent while those from the eastern edge of its range are short, but erect. Two strange forms exist in the Ozark Highlands and in the Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma (?) sandhills. Yours looks like one of the Texas sandhill types with long tubeb erect flowers and heavy pubescence. The genus in North America is fairly typical of your plant with opposite leaves, axillary flowers in shades of purple to white. Humilis, purshiana, longipedunculata, and one or two others are really good non-weedy plants. Ruellia strepens is a weed -- do not accept it into your garden. It flowers, but you rarely see them and it seeds around everywhere. I've not noted any problems with the others mention. In fact longipedunculata has never had a seedling show up... sadly.
Aaron
Thanks for the info Aaron.
Is it a normal behaviour of the plant to die down completely during wintertime ?
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And thanks for showing me your Hibiscus flowering...I only seem to get the buds and then they go yellow:'( I am going to cheat a little I have left one in my polytunnel. My mum always got her one to flower.
I also like your Begonia 8)
Thanks
Angie
Hi Angie, check out Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Bird' here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5568.msg159428#msg159428
I have specialized in hybriding these things over the last 7-8 years. These things LOVE THE HEAT, that might be part of the reason they are difficult or not free-flowering for you.
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Nothochelone nemorosa
Parochetus communis
Ligularia or Cremanthodium sp. from Maqen Gangri, Qinghai
Saussurea stella
Iris received as 'Laughing Lion'
Morina alba
Aconitum columbianum ssp. columbianum
Iris chrysographes
Corydalis panda
Notholirion campanulatum
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Can anyone remember when SRGC seeds from the 2009/2010 came this year. I ask because I ordered 2 packets of Lewisia tweedyi, one Alba and one Roseum. I sowed them immediately. Only one seed sprouted of the Album about a month later. The plant is in a very cool basement under fluorescents and has grown like a weed. It is 6" across and is now about to flower. Years ago I grew tweedyi from seed from Ashwood but can't remember what I did to sprout them or how long they took to size up. Is this unusually fast growth? One more seedling appeared last month but it has barely grown to date.
johnw
John,
In my experience L. tweedyi sprouts best after a frost period - without frost, germination can be erratic.
I have seen seedlings develop very quickly and flower by the end of the growing season.
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Wonderful plants you all have been displaying. Very interesting and it's always as nice to hear of "new" plants all the time. Here are a few pictures of Delphinium novomexicanum and Papaver persicum
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And more
Micromeria croatica
Origanum microphyllus
Sideritis glacialis
Limonium (statice) sp. 'Blauer Zwerg'
Acaena novae-zelandiae
Thanks for your pictures, Luc. I am pleased that I see some true alpines once again
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Luc - Thanks for that information. Would it be safe to transplant the second tiny seedling out of the pot with the monster? I'll leave all pots outside for the winter but under a plastic cover, maybe the pink one will come next year. The pots were originally kept at 5c after sowing and as mentioned only two came up, I guess not cold enough.
johnw
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At this moment flowering in pots:
Hypericum pulchrum, 2nd generation from seed originally collected in Brittany, France (Mark/Onion Man, if you want i can collect some seed of it)
Veronica longifolia, not the garden plant, but the wild genotype (cutting), Overijsselse Vecht (NE-Holland)
Thymus pulegioides, the true species from near Haarlem (Zuid Kennemerland)
Dianthus deltoides, the wild genotype (cutting), Overijsselse Vecht
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Hi Angie, check out Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Bird' here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5568.msg159428#msg159428
I have specialized in hybriding these things over the last 7-8 years. These things LOVE THE HEAT, that might be part of the reason they are difficult or not free-flowering for you.
Mark...your Hibiscus are lovely, maybe my polytunnel will be the place to grow them. My mum managed some years to get her plants to flower but she had a sheltered garden . I have all my mums plants in pots, maybe one day they will flower for me. I have one in the tunnel so will wait and see if the flowers turn yellow and drop off, if they do I can always look at you and Hans plants.
Thanks
Angie :)
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I promised to post a close up picture of what I have as Zygadenus nuttallii (Aaron had doubts about the name). Could those who are familiar with the genus help identify it. The tird picture is that of Z.elegans
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I have already shown Codonopsis ussuriensis in this Forum. Just one more time for those who like it brown. I wonder how the poor thing can survive in +33 heat.
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Oleg, the brown Codonopsis is super!
My Zigadenus went over very quickly this year and I do not have close -up photos to compare with yours.... but I look forward to hearing the comments from Aaron and others and will make note for next year.... I'm not sure mine are correctly named either! :-[ :-\
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Luc - Thanks for that information. Would it be safe to transplant the second tiny seedling out of the pot with the monster? I'll leave all pots outside for the winter but under a plastic cover, maybe the pink one will come next year. The pots were originally kept at 5c after sowing and as mentioned only two came up, I guess not cold enough.
johnw
I've never experienced them to be too fussy on pricking the seedlings of L. tweedyi John - I guess it won't be a bad idea to save the small one from it's giant neighbour... ;D
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Oleg,
I am convinced that your Ziagdenus from the left hand picture is a more eastern form of Z. elegans and the one on the right is a western, low elevation Z. elegans. Does the other have similar shaped glands (the greenish marks)? Elegans (and vaginatus) have obcordate glands, which your plant clearly has. The eastern forms are usually smaller, more glaucous, and with greener flowers. The western ones vary greatly. I have seen plants growing at 10,000 ft in Wyoming that were 10 cm tall, and others to nearly 1m at lower elevations. The western are typically creamier flowered and less glaucous.
Run it through http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=135314 (http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=135314) and see where it takes you, but I am pretty sure both are Z. elegans. These, or some of the Zigadenus are now in Anticlea, Toxioscordion, or something else!
Aaron
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Campanula zoysii flowering in my tufa-garden.
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That's looking good, Kris.
Do you find that the rough surface of the tufa stops the slugs and snails from attaching the campanulas?
Or do they just wear climbing boots and get there to eat the plants just the same? ::) :'(
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That's looking good, Kris.
Do you find that the rough surface of the tufa stops the slugs and snails from attaching the campanulas?
Or do they just wear climbing boots and get there to eat the plants just the same? ::) :'(
This one is planted at 1 meter hight and even there it is not safe... Sometimes I catch a slug who is on the way to this beauty .
Now it stays in that rock about 4 years.
Other ones planted at lower points near the surface of the garden are eaten too by slugs .And they don't have to wear boots Maggi .
The rough surface don't stop them at all in my experience.Just put them so high that you can catch them before they reach the meal... I am so happy that they are no Usain Bolts ...
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Campanula zoysii flowering in my tufa-garden.
very nice, a cliff right at home :)
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very nice, a cliff right at home :)
Thanks Cohan ,but it is not that big and only 1.5m high ...But I am happy with it . :D
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The hot summer is very good for my Pelargonium endlicherianum .
During our trip to NE Turkey (june 2010) we saw this one flower on very hot screes...
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Kris, remember this one?... the cool night-blooming saponaria endemic to the high regions of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus; Saponaria cypria.
This year the plant is outdoing itself, I think because we've had so much hot weather in the 90s to nearly 100 F (32-37 C) which is to its liking. The last few nights at dusk, the plant looks particularly fetching, lots of bubblegum pink flowers and dark red calyxes hovering just above a low mat of neat succulent spoon-shaped leaves. How wonderful to have a mat-forming Saponaria that flowers so late, typically starting in August, but starting in July this year with our advanced season.
PS: the Pelargonium colors are hot-hot-hot, hot pink and red pedicels, wowza :o
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Kris, remember this one?... the cool night-blooming saponaria endemic to the high regions of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus; Saponaria cypria.
This year the plant is outdoing itself, I think because we've had so much hot weather in the 90s to nearly 100 F (32-37 C) which is to its liking. The last few nights at dusk, the plant looks particularly fetching, lots of bubblegum pink flowers and dark red calyxes hovering just above a low mat of neat succulent spoon-shaped leaves. How wonderful to have a mat-forming Saponaria that flowers so late, typically starting in August, but starting in July this year with our advanced season.
Offcourse I remember this one Mark .I could hardly forget ,and I must say your plant is a better flowering one ! In Cyprus they have not that much flowers.Very good result ,be prood .I hope to introduce it sometimes in my garden...
Here I have some results with Onosma troodi from seed ! I hope to show in the future.
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Silene elisabethae is still in flower here .In tufa rocks the flowering stems remain much lower then the plants that planted out in a usual crevice !
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My Campanula zoysii,the slugs have not got to it yet. :P
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My Campanula zoysii,the slugs have not got to it yet. :P
Great result Michael .Where did you hide it ?
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My Campanula zoysii,the slugs have not got to it yet. :P
Well that's a bit of luck because that is a five course slug dinner if ever I saw one. :-X
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It is outside on a bench 120cm high and quite difficult for the slugs to negotiate, and with the usual supply of slug pellets.
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It is outside on a bench 120cm high and quite difficult for the slugs to negotiate, and with the usual supply of slug pellets.
Maggi ,Michael ,they have acrophobia ? Mine are 100cm abouve ground level...,so....;D
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My slugs and snails are too hungry to fear anything :'( >:(
Also, I think they can fly........ ::) :P
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Tw campanulas grown from AGS seed sown in December 2008.
Campanula thessala is a biennial and was wild collected seed. It has been flowering for about six weeks now, starting on long trailing, rather brittle branches and now on side branches nearer the centre of the plant. My plants are not so compact as the one pictured at a recent AGS show. The secret according to Graham Nichols book is to pinch back the early shoots, but there are no summer shows here and I wanted to see the flowers.
I managed to rear three Campanula troegerae. One has not flowered this year and one has flowers that I think are not flat enough. A hybrid?
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Nearly forgot this one. Still looking good
Scutellaria laeteviolacea
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I managed to rear three Campanula troegerae. One has not flowered this year and one has flowers that I think are not flat enough. A hybrid?
Hello Roma,
We have been in the Coruh-region this year .We have seen hundreds of Campanula of the troegerae/betulifolia/coruhensis -group. Now after visiting this area I am more confused then ever because I think they often hybridise in nature.In this region it was very difficult to say wich one we have seen.
So much diversity and forms that looks like each other...
But anyway you show us some fine plants.
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I love your photos of Silene elisabethae Kris. I have a rosette which is one years old, and three more going which I started from seed this year. I hope the one year rosette will produce some flowers next year. I have them in a limestone crack though, no tufa here.
The Campanulas were very nice too. I have Campanula versicolor flowering now, which I like very much:
Also two pictures of Ptilostemon afer, which I got thru a Swedish seed exchange as Notobasis syriaca, which I don't think it is. Which is the correct name for Ptilstemon afer nowadays as it is sometimes referred to as Cirsium diacanthus ( diacanthum ) as well. Anybody knows ?
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Nearly forgot this one. Still looking good
Scutellaria laeteviolacea
Roma, refreshing to see a plant *after* flowering, as in the case of Scuellaria laeteviolacea, those little pillbox seed heads are neat, colorful and pretty in their own right. What's also interesting, is that different species have similarly interesting seed pods displays after flowering, here is the American Scutellaria incana seed pods on October 2008 & 2009.
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Thanks, Maggi and Aaron. There is a challenge now to find real Z. nuttallii.
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Chaenomeles-- Japanese quince
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Chinese quince Fruit grows to10 to 12 inches long.
Pseudocydonia sinensis
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crikey, Arnold.... those are not fruiting to that stage outside already are they? :o
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They're outside and pictures taken this morning.
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They're outside and pictures taken this morning.
Goodness me! I suppose the fact that here we seem to have reverted to winter.... or at least early spring, has coloured my viewpoint at the minute.... that hardly seem possible :-X
Impressive fruits....
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Maggi:
They are Chinese quinces a very different fruit than the quince you can make a jelly or marmalade from.
They reach the size of a American football or rugby ball.
Careful not to walk under the tree around ripening time.
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Maggi:
They are Chinese quinces a very different fruit than the quince you can make a jelly or marmalade from.
They reach the size of a American football or rugby ball.
Careful not to walk under the tree around ripening time.
I should think not!
I don't really know about Pseudocydonia sinensis.... I don't believe I've seen one. Is ist related to those strange "Asian Pears" or "Nashi" ( Nachi?) we get in our supermarkets , do you think? They are odd fruits, not verty tasty, I reckon... and someone told me they were related in some way to the quinces, I think.... ???
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I'm not sure about the systemics of the Psuedosinensis.
The local Korean's where I live relish them.
They are used as a medicinal agent for chest problems. Apparently they are cut up and let stand in the Korean spirit, Soju for a week or two and then drunk and everything feels better. I'll bet it sure does.
It has wonderful flaking bark and pink flowers which appear all over the tree including the interior.
Mine is being destroyed by a guest pest, the Oriental Fruit Moth.
Tried a commercial spraying program which only reduced the damage to about 20 percent per year.
I decided that I didn't want to live with the insecticides all over the property.
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Arnold & Maggi,
I believe I have the same species growing here and it is also now in fruit, still swelling and just now at about the size of a pear. They can be used to make a jam/jelly though not as good as those from Cydonia oblonga, the quince tree, but that has not set fruit for me at all this year, very disappointing as they are delicious baked. It's poor fruit set has me mystified as it seems to be a good year here for fruit with apples, pears and plums cropping very heavily.
Paddy
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Paddy:
finely serrated leaf margin, twisted trunk, peeling bark.
Mine took five or six to flower after planting. Sadly I'm going to lose it. Maybe repalce with a camperdown elm.
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Silene elisabethae is still in flower here .In tufa rocks the flowering stems remain much lower then the plants that planted out in a usual crevice !
so it is 6cm in tufa and 17cm in the crevice? either way, a lovely plant--i love silenes with 'bladders'
love the little blue tuft behind the second photo, also..
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Chaenomeles-- Japanese quince
i have seedlings of this, seed from kristl, coming along..supposed to be hardy to z3, so wish me luck :) orange flowers in spring would be a great change!
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Silene elisabethae is still in flower here .In tufa rocks the flowering stems remain much lower then the plants that planted out in a usual crevice !
so it is 6cm in tufa and 17cm in the crevice? either way, a lovely plant--i love silenes with 'bladders'
love the little blue tuft behind the second photo, also..
That is correct Cohan .I also like Silenes and even find it an underrated genus....
The blue tuft is Dianthus microlepis ,this one is also planted in tufarocks .
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I love your photos of Silene elisabethae Kris. I have a rosette which is one years old, and three more going which I started from seed this year. I hope the one year rosette will produce some flowers next year. I have them in a limestone crack though, no tufa here.
Thanks Paul .I think they wil flower soon ,but mine are young plants that I bought .So I don't know exactly the age of the plants.I suppose they will grow and flower good in your limestone crack.Tufa is not the only way for this one ...
But I find it remarkable that in tufa the flowerstems remains lower!
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Late flowering woody species are always a treat.
Itea virginica (Virginia Sweetspire), native to the eastern USA, has been blooming for a while now.
This spreading small shrub is usually found in moist places in the wild, but does fine in ordinary garden conditions here. It has a wonderful erect-arching habit and colors nicely in autumn.
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Just some shots from this week
1. - 3. Dicranostigma franchetianum (leptopodum), a nice annual 'poppy' which managed the jump from the old to the new garden without my help - i.e. its seed were taken away with other plants by chance
4 + 5. Chamaemelum (Anthemis) nobile 'Plena'
6.+ 7. Gladiolus flanaganii
8. Erodium glandulosum ex seeds from Rafa
9. Spigelia marilandica
10. Mentha requienii
Gerd
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this mint is very interesting! :o
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this mint is very interesting! :o
Thank you, Cohan! A good mini cover but unfortunately not hardy here - but in spring there are always some seedlings!
Gerd
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Flowering in the rock garden today. Planted for the foliage really.
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
Graham
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Flowering in the rock garden today. Planted for the foliage really.
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
Graham
great colour!
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Flowering in the rock garden today. Planted for the foliage really.
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
Graham
Graham, Ophiopogons are great plants, really like em. I had the black one before, but lost it, need to try it again. Fortunately, some really intriguing dwarf species are showing up in commerce. One that is popular here in the USA, is sold as Ophiopogon "chingii", but going through the Flora of China, it seems not to be O. chingii... it keys much closer to O. umbraticola. It is flowering now, short racemes of tiny white flowers (actually, palest lavender), but in October, beautiful showy shiny blue "berries". This is a tight clumper, not a rhizomatous runner, and it is evergreen through the winter and rock hardy here.
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some pics from yesterday :
Perovskia
Echinacea ( thats some new cultivars but I dont know the name )
Lilium henryii
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Flowering in the rock garden today. Planted for the foliage really.
Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'
Graham
Graham, so many people use this plant as edging but I have never seen such an imaginative use of it on stone steps - WOW! Dark colours are wonderful but have to have a background that makes them stand out even if only a few tones lighter or just light play as in your Ebony lilies. I really enjoy your planting ideas in addition to your wonderfully grown plants :D
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Hi Hans
Some lovely flowers there and I can see you still have that lovely sun shinning ;D...I do like your Echinacea, lovely colour.
Graham
I like your Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' growing on your steps.I have it in my gravel paths but I think I will copy what you have done ;D ;D
I to have seen it growing as edging...what comes to mind is York Gate garden in Wales, they had made broad borders with it.
Angie :)
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Due to the extremely hot weather Gentianas started earlier than usual
1. Gentiana pneumonantha
2. Gentiana tibetica
3. Another Zygadenus received as Z.leimonthoides
4. Origanum vulgare 'Nanum'
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great colour!
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Thanks to Cohan, Mark, Robin and Angie,
Graham, Ophiopogons are great plants, really like em. I had the black one before, but lost it, need to try it again. Fortunately, some really intriguing dwarf species are showing up in commerce. One that is popular here in the USA, is sold as Ophiopogon "chingii", but going through the Flora of China, it seems not to be O. chingii... it keys much closer to O. umbraticola. It is flowering now, short racemes of tiny white flowers (actually, palest lavender), but in October, beautiful showy shiny blue "berries". This is a tight clumper, not a rhizomatous runner, and it is evergreen through the winter and rock hardy here.
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Mark
The berries on the O. umbraticola? are really unusual, they are so blue. As you will know the berries on the Nigrescens are black or at least really dark.
Angie
Whilst it looks as though it grows between steps this is in fact part of the terraced rock garden but growing between steps would be a really good idea.
This forum is so good - for everything from serious scientific discussion to seeing something that you hadn't thought of yourself and taking the idea and using it. Good luck with the planting between your steps.
Graham
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I agree Graham, one sees such great ideas on this forum. One thing I've done a lot of this year is visit gardens, and I always see interesting ideas and learn new things; here's one that caught my fancy, in the garden of a friend, where a Thymus is trailed over the rock edge of a raised garden down onto weed-mat. It looks like flowing water of a small stream. I envision making a faux stream garden feature, on a larger scale, where thymus or other carpeting plant is the water.
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Mark
The berries on the O. umbraticola? are really unusual, they are so blue. As you will know the berries on the Nigrescens are black or at least really dark.
Some of the Ophios do have such attractive "berries", although the show is short-lived... just a week or two until they start to shrivel and drop off. This year I will have even fewer I'm afraid, a number of flowering stems were given up for the scientific effort of identifying the plant, scanning the floral parts.
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I agree Graham, one sees such great ideas on this forum. One thing I've done a lot of this year is visit gardens, and I always see interesting ideas and learn new things; here's one that caught my fancy, in the garden of a friend, where a Thymus is trailed over the rock edge of a raised garden down onto weed-mat. It looks like flowing water of a small stream. I envision making a faux stream garden feature, on a larger scale, where thymus or other carpeting plant is the water.
I also like to visit other Gardens and get ideas. I particularly like mat plants grown in inventive ways. The one you show looks really good.
Luc Gilgemin has an Arenaria that grows over rocks, its one of my favourite photos from the AGS on-line show.
I've added the link below but I'm not sure if I have done it correctly.
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/competitions/online-show/2008/cushion+plant/562/
Graham
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Graham, just a small impression of ideas for foliage and flowers now as discussed in the lilium thread
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Robin they are stunning images,I know they are in a garden context but they don't half remind me of a woodland understory.Lovely
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Graham, just a small impression of ideas for foliage and flowers now as discussed in the lilium thread
Robin,
Thats a lovely combination. I like the way the colour of the Heuchera stands out and the Fuchsia nods over the area. I imagine it looked even better a week or so ago when the Primula was at its best.
Davey is right It looks like a woodland setting.
Graham
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Thanks Davey, you've made my day :)
That's exactly the effect I was trying to create but it's getting the balance of sun and shade and moisture right to suit all the plants in a small space.
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Glad you like it too Graham...it was really good, as you say, when the P.vialii were at the height of flowering - it's the first time I have succeeded with them and I really hope they spread and pop up through the fern fronds.
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Robin lovely pictures I like your fuchsia in amongst your foliage plants 8).
Angie :)
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I captured the following plant tapestries on a garden visit on July 2nd. All common plants but beautifully interwoven. The plants were covering steep and really rather dangerous steps down a grassy slope.
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Thanks Angie, the fuchsia come up each year like bright jewels amongst the green :)
Roma, I think the tapestries of leaves you show are exceptionally lovely mingling together.
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Nothing really special flowering here now, but a good colour show (even in the hot and VERY DRY summer we've been having)
Three hortensia's (I don't remember the cv-name)
Caltha palustris 'Alba' (flowering for the second time this year)
Three Clematis (Again, I forgot the cv-name, I'm really bad at remembering the names of shrubs and climbers ::))
1 Clematis 'Jackmanii'
2 Clematis 'Ville de Lyon' Thanks to Uli for the determination
Echinacea 'Harvest Moon'
Echinacea 'Summer Sky'
Echinacea 'Sunrise'
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And some more:
Echinacea 'Virgin'
Glycirrhiza glabra
Lippia citriodora
2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names) Lonicera periclymenum Thanks to Uli for the determination
Saponaria officinalis
Viola tricolor
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Wim, it struck a nerve seeing a photo of Saponaria officinalis (bouncingbet)... while pretty enough in flower, it is on noxious weed lists for many US States, the species considered invasive, now successfully colonizing most of North America and Canada. I pull them out of my lawn all the time, the sturdy pull-resistant tap roots need a tool such as a dandelion weeder to pry out the root. I see some yards around the area, where homeowners probably not knowing this is an invasive pest, allow them to grow into big patches because of the pretty flowers. Is this plant considered invasive in Europe or other countries/continents?
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SAOF4&mapType=nativity&photoID=saof4_002_avp.tif
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Wim, it struck a nerve seeing a photo of Saponaria officinalis (bouncingbet)... while pretty enough in flower, it is on noxious weed lists for many US States, the species considered invasive, now successfully colonizing most of North America and Canada. I pull them out of my lawn all the time, the sturdy pull-resistant tap roots need a tool such as a dandelion weeder to pry out the root. I see some yards around the area, where homeowners probably not knowing this is an invasive pest, allow them to grow into big patches because of the pretty flowers. Is this plant considered invasive in Europe or other countries/continents?
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SAOF4&mapType=nativity&photoID=saof4_002_avp.tif
Marc,
if I'm correct S. officinalis is indigenous in Europe. So it was probably imported in the USA ??
Here it grows in my herbgarden and is planted in a plastic bucket with the bottom cut out so I do not really have a problem with this plant.
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Marc,
if I'm correct S. officinalis is indigenous in Europe. So it was probably imported in the USA ??
Here it grows in my herbgarden and is planted in a plastic bucket with the bottom cut out so I do not really have a problem with this plant.
It is native to Europe to western Siberia, apparently introduced and escaped to most all of North America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponaria_officinalis
I find that the tall stems, when they dry and go to seed, are brittle and the open capsules are just like salt shakers, with tiny poppy like seed that fly out everywhere. I try to get the stems removed before they reach this phase, otherwise picking the stems effectively disperses the seed. I wonder if this plant is on the invasives list for other countries, Australia and New Zealand for instance, or just for North America?
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Marc,
maybe I should remove the picture.
I do not want to be responsible for you getting to much stress ;)
Never heard that it could be an invasive weed, there are a lot of people which have this plant in their herbgarden.
Since it's native here it probably has too many natural predators to be invasive. ???
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Marc,
maybe I should remove the picture.
I do not want to be responsible for you getting to much stress ;)
Never heard that it could be an invasive weed, there are a lot of people which have this plant in their herbgarden.
Since it's native here it probably has too many natural predators to be invasive. ???
that's the difference, of course, where the plants are native, they have controls--i have many native plants here which have aggressive stolons and seeds, but few if any native plants here grow in stands which exclude other plants as invasives can do...
saponaria may be in alberta, but is not a feature of the landscape in my area..
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And some more:
Echinacea 'Virgin'
Glycirrhiza glabra
Lippia citriodora
2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)
Saponaria officinalis
Viola tricolor
Wim, What a nice pattern on Viola tricolor - is it a cultivar or did it appear spontaneously in your garden?
Gerd
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I have seen Saponaria growing near roadsides or along railway tracks here in the Netherlands but never in high numbers, just some small patches. Actually it is quite rare nowadays whereas my mum used to remember using it during the war for what it was: natural soap. Crushing the leaves & stems and using the resulting water to wash themselves. According to my mum (now almost 80) it is much rarer than it used to be, at least in the Amsterdam area where I live.
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And some more:
Echinacea 'Virgin'
Glycirrhiza glabra
Lippia citriodora
2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)
Saponaria officinalis
Viola tricolor
Wim, What a nice pattern on Viola tricolor - is it a cultivar or did it appear spontaneously in your garden?
Gerd
Thanks Gerd,
it's a spontaneous seedling. Do you want some seeds from it?
Wim
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And some more:
2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)
Wim,
the Lonicera looks like L. periclymenum. A standard honeysuckle species. Sometimes mislabeled as L. serotina.
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Nothing really special flowering here now, but a good colour show (even in the hot and VERY DRY summer we've been having)
Three Clematis (Again, I forgot the cv-name, I'm really bad at remembering the names of shrubs and climbers ::))
The first Clematis I think is 'Jackmannii'or 'Etoile de Violette'
The second Clematis is 'Ville de Lyon'.
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And some more:
2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)
Wim,
the Lonicera looks like L. periclymenum. A standard honeysuckle species. Sometimes mislabeled as L. serotina.
Thanks Uli,
I think it's from a cutting I took from a plant in the wild. So you're probably right.
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Nothing really special flowering here now, but a good colour show (even in the hot and VERY DRY summer we've been having)
Three Clematis (Again, I forgot the cv-name, I'm really bad at remembering the names of shrubs and climbers ::))
The first Clematis I think is 'Jackmannii'or 'Etoile de Violette'
The second Clematis is 'Ville de Lyon'.
Ulli,
As soon as you say those names, I remember them, it's 'Jackmanii' and 'Ville de Lyon' indeed. You really know your climbers. Thanks you very much.
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I have seen Saponaria growing near roadsides or along railway tracks here in the Netherlands but never in high numbers, just some small patches. Actually it is quite rare nowadays whereas my mum used to remember using it during the war for what it was: natural soap. Crushing the leaves & stems and using the resulting water to wash themselves. According to my mum (now almost 80) it is much rarer than it used to be, at least in the Amsterdam area where I live.
Maybe most of Saponaria officinalis packed up and moved away to North America ;D... it showed no particular preference, it is now found as an invasive in all 48 contiguous states and most Canadian provinces. Just pointing it out, useful to know when any particular plant is considered an invasive that makes it onto most US State lists of invasives. Pascal, if you mum needs a replenishment of this plant, I have many hundreds upon hundreds that seed into my lawn each year, I can send a bushel or two. ;)
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And some more:
Echinacea 'Virgin'
Glycirrhiza glabra
Lippia citriodora
2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)
Saponaria officinalis
Viola tricolor
Wim, What a nice pattern on Viola tricolor - is it a cultivar or did it appear spontaneously in your garden?
Gerd
Thanks Gerd,
it's a spontaneous seedling. Do you want some seeds from it?
Wim
Thank you for the reply and for this kind offer. I'll 'pm' you!
Gerd
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Centaurium erytraea. This one spontaneously grows on the car drive, from seed washed out from the garden. I had some trouble sowing them, but they pop up on the most unexpected spots :)
Veronica spicata, a clone collected just near the Dutch border in Germany, where is reaches its most NW distribution.
Teucrium marum ssp. marum. From seed collected in Sardinia, Italy
Sedum cf. ochroleuca, collected from the Olot area, NE Spain. I'm not sure if it really is S. ochroleuca.... Any Sedum specialists around???
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I beg your pardon as I am late again due the fact that my garden is 50 km far from my flat and computer. I enclose here several pictures from the second half of June:
Campanula dolomitica
Campanula garganica
Erigeron elegantulus
Gentiana newberryi
Salvia caespitosa
Silene elisabethae
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Another batch of my plants flowering in the late June:
Campanula planiflora (in Czechia we call it C. nitida)
Dianthus oschtenicus
Dianthus repens
Felicia uliginosa
Gentiana boissieri
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Finally two small curiosities:
On the first picture there is the commonly known Campanula 'Joe Elliott'. I collected some seed from it three years ago and sowed it. I maybe expected something between C. morettiana and C. raineri. I was immensely surprised however when the resulting seedling flowered. It is on the second picture.
On the third picture is Campanula cenisia flowering in my trough on 25th June. On the fourth picture there is the same plant flowering almost a month later, on 21st July. It is already out of its compact character but it still flowers and flowers.
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Hans, I really like the Centaurium erytraea growing in your car drive ("driveway" to us in the USA).
Zdenek, beautiful photographs and plants, all of them. I'm always delighted to see American native plants so far from their home and grown so well, Erigeron elegantulus and Gentiana newberryi are two beauties that would be hard to find even in American gardens. Best of all though, love the photo of Silene elisabethae, yet another of those plants hopelessly confused in the seed exchanges, yet when seen in a portrait such as yours, is such a distinct species and easily distinguishable.
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Very nice Zdenek .June brings you still a lot of colour !
Here today in flower : Teucrium aroanium from Greece.This one is adapted to the dry and hot conditions of july .
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Nice photo of those well marked flowers and grey leaves, Kris.... makes me feel guilty that I tend not to grow Lamiaceae :-[
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Nice photo of those well marked flowers and grey leaves, Kris.... makes me feel guilty that I tend not to grow Lamiaceae :-[
Maybe you change your mind Maggi ? This is the habitat of this fine plant on Mount Chelmos .
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Maybe you change your mind Maggi ? This is the habitat of this fine plant on Mount Chelmos .
Maybe I would change my mind, Kris..... if you had a little seed, maybe?!! ;) ;D
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Maybe you change your mind Maggi ? This is the habitat of this fine plant on Mount Chelmos .
Maybe I would change my mind, Kris..... if you had a little seed, maybe?!! ;) ;D
I try to inspire my Teucrium Maggi ... ;) Now he must give some seed this year ...
In the name of The Lamiaceae ......
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This Clematis is a nice surprise as I wasn't sure what it was ::)
My inclination is that it is Blue Angel ::) however some of the flowers only have four petals and others five so I'm confused ???
The colour is a wonderful pale lavender blue with creamy-green anthers and frilled edge with stripes on the reverse of the petals.
I seems to like the woodland edge setting climbing through an old Pieris 'forest flame'
This link leads on to an article about the breeder which is really interesting:
http://www.gorgetopgardens.com/perennials/clematis-blueangel.html
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Robin, that's a coincidence. (no joke !) ;)
Today I planted a Clematis Blue Angel here. Could not resist yesterday when I saw it priced at € 5.99 :D
Made just a picture for you to compare.
Clematis Blue Angel
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Looking again at both pictures, I don't think we have the same plant?
Mine has this special so-called ice blue.
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May be a happy co-incidence :D
Luit, the blue does look more icy and paler in the centre of each petal - could there be new hybrids ::)
The photo below is definitely Blue Angel which was photographed in my previous garden in 2004 flowering in July
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Dierama 'Merlin' doing well at last. This has taken several years to get this many flowering spikes. I split it last year and improved the compost. I just need to wait for it to bulk up properly now.
And it will be no surprise to you now that it is a deep rich colour ;)
Graham
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Robin, I googled some pictures and I think now we both have the same plant. So many different pictures there.
Different camera's etc.
But both of us think it is a nice plant to grow in our garden, don't we? :D
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Good dark dierama, Graham.
Paddy
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But both of us think it is a nice plant to grow in our garden, don't we?
Absolutely, I agree we made a good choice - a happy co-incidence on either side of the channel 8)
'though come to think of it ::) mine was not such a good bargain @ 9 Euro :o
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Robin and Luit..... I googled some Blue Angel photos too and was not surprised to see quite a variation in colour and in the number of petals...... it is a pretty colour and not one I have seen but I was interested to read of its origins and Brother Stefan.
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Good dark dierama, Graham.
Paddy
I agree.... very tasty colour.
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Perhaps someone can give me a name to these plants:
- 14+15 Dianthus grown from seeds, could this be D. gratianopolis?
- 24 is from a friend, found on Crimea, but I don't know whether in the wild or in a garden
- 22+23 was also grown from seed, but the label got lost
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I don't think your 14/15 Dianthus is gratianopolis, ... perhaps more alpinus or even hirsutus.
The colourful one 24 is a Portulaca and the last 22/23 is a sweet Erinus alpinus.
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Thanks for your help Maggi - I can't remember that I received Erinus alpinus seeds ??? But it's a lovely plant.
The Dianthus is growing like a weed here - one plant needs a space of more than 60cm in diameter!
I fear I will have to remove it from the rockgarden - it's to big. So if anybody wants them let me know soon!
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Thomas, I am far from an expert on Crimean Pinks ;D but it looks very much like a D. deltoides. It can be weedy given the right circumstances.
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Wow! Love that colour
Dierama 'Merlin' doing well at last. This has taken several years to get this many flowering spikes. I split it last year and improved the compost. I just need to wait for it to bulk up properly now.
And it will be no surprise to you now that it is a deep rich colour ;)
Graham
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Thanks Hans, but I don't think it's D. deltoides. If I compare the photos on the www I see that
deltoides has different leaves in colour and form. I've checked my seed list for the according time
and found that I received: D. alpinus, haemantocalyx ssp pindicula and myrtvinervis, is this of any help for the experts?
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A few things in flower at the moment:
Thalictrum delavayi decorum; a small seedling. It's big-flowered and grows rather massive, but probably best grown thru something as it always flops.
Adenophora triphylla
Zigadenus elegans
Morina - but which one?
Filipendula received as "palmata 'Nana'", probably a form of F. multijuga, with red-veined leaves.
Geranium delavayi
Gentiana georgei (hard to tell size from a pic, but that's an 11cm pot!)
Corydalis shihmienensis
Heuchera 'Pinot Gris'
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Arisaema, your garden looks full of interesting plants flowering now.... Geranium delavayi is fabulous (insects think so too, I see :D)
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Arisaema, not only great plants, but beautiful photos too. Good diversity of late flowering plants, something I'm always looking for.
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Just several pictures taken at my garden in the first half of this month:
Androsace ciliata x pubescens (its second flowering)
Briggsia aurantiaca
Campanula raineri
Campanula troegerae
Campanula waldsteiniana
Potentilla cuneata