John, your Cassiope is a picture indeed.
Here in Aberdeen we have found that when Cassiope of whatever sort, get to that size they stop flowering so well. What is your secret?
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A few pics from my friend Margaret's meadow(front lawn) today.Amazing!! :o What are the little yellow ones in the foreground of the first pic?
At the risk of being told it is wrong here is what I have Trillium albidum with a cherry base.Ian your clumps are fantastic,i will glady home some of your bad boy rogues.
Also a very old clump of chlorapetalum now at its best
I mentioned that what I had as Trillium "sessile" was probably a form of chlorapetalum and also it is a bit of a weed and thug in the garden (no complaints) Here are a few pictures of some of the clumps that have mostly self seeded around. I have got some lovely leaf forms with flower colours. I think this is probably hybridised with the "true" chlorapetalum. These plants however stand up well and stay in good condition for several months better than most others. I would welcome any opinions on its progeny
Lori they are Ranunculus ficaria a thug but very pretty on mass.A few pics from my friend Margaret's meadow(front lawn) today.Amazing!! :o What are the little yellow ones in the foreground of the first pic?
My, that's a lovely sight, Davey. My congratulations to your friend Margaret on her meadow.
A few pics from my friend Margaret's meadow(front lawn) today.
I love your red camellia. 8) Lots of other flowers looking grand but that red is a show stopper!
At the risk of being told it is wrong here is what I have Trillium albidum with a cherry base.Ian your clumps are fantastic,i will glady home some of your bad boy rogues.
Also a very old clump of chlorapetalum now at its best
I mentioned that what I had as Trillium "sessile" was probably a form of chlorapetalum and also it is a bit of a weed and thug in the garden (no complaints) Here are a few pictures of some of the clumps that have mostly self seeded around. I have got some lovely leaf forms with flower colours. I think this is probably hybridised with the "true" chlorapetalum. These plants however stand up well and stay in good condition for several months better than most others. I would welcome any opinions on its progeny
Graham, you have been telling me lies, you said your garden wasn't at it's best but what you have shown is fantastic. That Camelia is something else. My Pulsatillas haven't even got flower heads on yet.
Looking forward to seeing more of your garden plants.
Angie :)
In my garden showed the first Galanthus.
Jeffersonia dubia ‘Alba’
Would I be correct in thinking that many of the leaves would have been clipped off to display the blooms for show purposes?
I have read that it’s a bit risky to move Jeffersonia, is that right?
A really attractive walk down that garden path John, with 'drops and crocuses at one's feet. :D
It's a bit of an awkward ballet dance I'm afraid.
Unknown Red Camellia
Oh dear, has Anemonella been stuck into Thalictrum then?
Here some plants out in my garden today.
Two photos - today in my garden.
Hepatica asiatica
Tulipa silvestris
Unknown Red Camellia
Graham
Your unknown red Camellia from a few posts back looks like C. 'Freedom Bell' to me.
A few pics from my friend Margaret's meadow(front lawn) today.
Scoliopus bigelovii
Traxacum ?
Cammelias in the back garden.
Wim, Anne, Luc, gorgeous plants! Prior to this flowering of our gardens - even a month or more ...
Goodness, Ian - they seem to be unaffected by the recent winter.Only prolonged cold without snow cover seems to be a problem and so far (over 30 years) it hasn't been terminal
The final phase of my alpine lawn before the japanese acers take the stage and some shots of the early rhodos.adjoining.
Knud, my Heloniopsis must be self fertile as it is the only one I have. It is a relatively new plant but when I had it previously, also a single plant, it always set seed which I sometimes was able to harvest but more often it just drifted away before I realized the capsules had dehisced. I lost it a few years ago after several years of bad summer drought.
The final phase of my alpine lawn before the japanese acers take the stage and some shots of the early rhodos.adjoining.
Thank you also for a 'new' word - dehisced - a nice one.
Pictures taken today. :)
8)
Well there's the answer to the question asked a few days ago by someone, on another thread I think, Does anyone have the true Verbascum acaule? All we had in reply were tales of wrong species from seed lists. Do you get any seed on yours Luc? I know it's not long-lived, alas. And what superb plants of Viola delphinantha and the stunning little Veronica. All of them, in fact. :)This seedgrown verbascum acaule is in its 3rd season. If there is a seedset you can have the seeds.
What beauties all, Luc!I modified the names as discussed earlier.
As we have been discussing over at the NARGS forum, Luc's second pulsatilla (above) does not appear to be P. patens (a native plant here), but what is it? I would love to grow it!
Nice Viola Wim!
Does it have a fragrance?
Best,
Nice Viola Wim!
Does it have a fragrance?
Best,
Thanks, John,
don't know. I'll have a sniff tomorrow and I'll let you know.
Viola corsica flowers very beautifully this year.I love the variation in these charming flowers.
The colour is very variable.
Cohan,
The Sollya is a great little climber, reaching for to five feet. Native to NSW (where I believe that it's considered almost a weed) it's a little too tender even for the UK. However, the eldest of my three plants spent the winter in the garage after I discovered red spider mite on it where it remained evergreen. The two that were overwintered in the conservatory went outdoors full time just over a month ago and are the ones with lots of flower buds; the one that lived in the garage is probably a month behind but has an awful lot of new growth, which is where the blooms will form.
Todays offering are pretty common Tulips.
First up is Queen of the Night, which is my favourite Tulip. Really good sized flowers this year, although the colour seems a shade or two lighter.
Graham - my bulbs are several years old and they're definitely lighter this year. I wonder if it's a virus or down to age, or maybe just the severity of the winter. They're also a lot larger than in years past.
A marvellous Syneilesis there Brian. Not to fear, it's as tough as an old boot. BTW it has more hair than the two of us. :-X;D ;D ;D
Trond, it looks as if you have some nice company for your Easter holiday. :D
Alpineover, you have some lovely plants there, especially, for me, the almost black Pulsatilla. It looks very sleek and sumptuous. Did you know that the Phlox 'Pink Buttons' is a NZ-raised variety? It is P. douglasii, not subulata, and was raised by the Salmond brother and sister team at Hokonui Alpines, south of where I live. They distributed it to a nursery friend in Germany, some years ago. I don't think there is a better colour form in the reds/pinks. group.
Masses of colour in your garden, Frankie.
I'm surprised to see that lovely Phlox in flower this early. :) Perhaps I should suggest to mine that they speed up!
Trond, it looks as if you have some nice company for your Easter holiday. :D
Isn't this a grand season !!!
Luc, are all your plants flowering now? Must be quite a sight! Anything left for the summer display;)
“Consider how the lilies grow. They don't work or spin yarn, but I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them”.
Hope this part is under some protection and not an idiot suddenly mowing (like here)
Luc, Frankie : is every garden in Belgium perfect like yours? :o ;) What a fine display of so many lovely plants in such pretty gardens..... it is a pleasure to see and share your pictures. Thank you!
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Nice Erythronium japonicum you have there, Stephen . ;D ::)
....and I haven't even been to Barcelona :-X
A lot of poeple think that ,John.... and who is to say they are wrong?! :-\ ::) ;)¿qué?Sorry! Seem to have lost the typing plot there.... I meant to write....
Nice Erythronium japonicum you have there, Stephen . ;D ::)
....and I haven't even been to Barcelona :-X
I think you might be from another planet Maggi! :o ::) ;D
A lot of poeple think that ,John.... and who is to say they are wrong?! :-\ ::) ;)
probably , though I've never been there either :-XA lot of poeple think that ,John.... and who is to say they are wrong?! :-\ ::) ;)
:)
Did you mean Popele?
I think you might be from another planet Maggi! :o ::) ;D
Hoy, Thats a great clump of Glaucidium palmatum, mine only has three flowers on it. Hope one day it looks as good as yours.
Angie :)
The two Phlox names are the same plant, definitely but there does seem to be confusion about the name. I also bought it as 'Daniel's Cushion' and was later told by ?someone? that it should be 'McDaniel's Cushion.'
I bought it in the south of England in 1981 and the nurseryman told me it was named by his friend, as 'Daniel's Cushion' because he, the nurseryman - can't remember his name - had a small son called Daniel who persisted in sitting on it or something silly like that. But it could have just been a story told to make the plant seem more interesting.
Some lovely things about just now.I once planted one Lathyrus Alboroseus, but oversaw the seedlings some years I'm afraid ::) ::) ;D
Luit - the Laythrus look great in a mass planting.
The Phlox looks good too. I see you call it 'Daniel's' Cushion which is what I bought mine as but I kept seeing it as 'McDaniels Cushion' so changed it. I wonder if the Scots are trying to claim it and added the Mc. Or are they two different plants?
Do you know the little book :
Who Does Your Garden Grow, by Alex Pankhurst , 1992 ? It is wonderful to read!
If not you should try to get it. It will not cost a fortune and is really a bedside book! ;D :D
My Gentians are at their best just now. There is no better blue.
I have patches in a variety of places.
Some photos taken recently. I only know the name of one Phlox - 'Crackerjack'. If anyone can guess names for the other two I would be grateful.
John,
Primula 'Peter Klein'.....it's very nice, but I can only find a P.rosea hybrid with that name in my books.
Can you remember where you got it?
- as I would like to get one too.
Giles
Brian I had to google about the "clapperboard" and found out that these are typical wooden houses in the Colchester area.QuoteDo you know the little book :
Who Does Your Garden Grow, by Alex Pankhurst , 1992 ? It is wonderful to read!
If not you should try to get it. It will not cost a fortune and is really a bedside book! ;D :D
She has a very pretty cottage garden in Dedham around a white clapperboard cottage Luit.
First bloom from my Lathyrus sativus azureus today!It's a lovely color, probably annual? Is it easy to grow? I'm just asking because never seen or heard about it before?
This is the first time that I've grown these and I think that it's an absolute gem. The flowers are small but apparently (judging by the number of buds on mine) abundant, with nice delicate thin leaves.
Do you know the little book :
Who Does Your Garden Grow, by Alex Pankhurst , 1992 ? It is wonderful to read!
If not you should try to get it. It will not cost a fortune and is really a bedside book! ;D :D
Brian I had to google about the "clapperboard" and found out that these are typical wooden houses in the Colchester area.QuoteDo you know the little book :
Who Does Your Garden Grow, by Alex Pankhurst , 1992 ? It is wonderful to read!
If not you should try to get it. It will not cost a fortune and is really a bedside book! ;D :D
She has a very pretty cottage garden in Dedham around a white clapperboard cottage Luit.
In the first edition of the book the place Dedham is already mentioned. Must be a very nice village?
BTW google says "Clapboard cottage :) ;)
Phlox 'Crackerjack' is a douglasii cultivar, and the first of yours Art, looks very like the subulata var 'Scarlet Flame.' P. douglasii is smaller, neater, more compact than subulata which grows in a very flamboyant and abandoned way.
Thanks Brian, that looks like a plantswoman's garden. And the house and the chimney at the outside, alltogether looking wonderful. 8)
Here it is Luit, this end is a new (last year) gravel garden.
Even with a close-up of the flowers it will not become a P. douglasii, Arthur :)Phlox 'Crackerjack' is a douglasii cultivar, and the first of yours Art, looks very like the subulata var 'Scarlet Flame.' P. douglasii is smaller, neater, more compact than subulata which grows in a very flamboyant and abandoned way.
I will take a close up of the flowers. I remember buying a very small potful from someone who shows regulalryl at AGS National Shows - and wins - so would think it is correct. However...
Even with a close-up of the flowers it will not become a P. douglasii, Arthur :)Phlox 'Crackerjack' is a douglasii cultivar, and the first of yours Art, looks very like the subulata var 'Scarlet Flame.' P. douglasii is smaller, neater, more compact than subulata which grows in a very flamboyant and abandoned way.
I will take a close up of the flowers. I remember buying a very small potful from someone who shows regulalryl at AGS National Shows - and wins - so would think it is correct. However...
I agree for at least 80 % with Lesley about Scarlet Flame, though there is a newer one which is more in the trade nowadays. Have to find the name??
Kris, what a show... the buds are just growing here - lovely to see these beauties.... it must be almost summer!
Lvandelft - it's an annual to the best of my knowledge. I tried to get seeds in 2009, but everywhere had sold out. So I ordered these late 2009 so as not to miss out again. Supposed to come true from seed, so shouldn't have a problem next year.Thanks for this information!
Davids Allium karataviense looks rather special - love the colour particularly.
Davids Allium karataviense looks rather special - love the colour particularly.
meanie, mine's the form most commonly available but there are better forms with a richer colour.
meanie,
that is a Calochortus, not a Tulipa. It may be, or is at least related to, C. palmeri or C. uniflorus. These are American natives, largely found in the Pacific North West running down through the mountains toward and into Mexico. many are quite hardy, while others are so specifically adapted to their semi-desert environments, the are close to impossible to maintain in the garden. Wonderful plants, to say the least.