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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Lvandelft on May 01, 2011, 03:21:05 PM
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I think it's ok when starting new pages here.
Some plants flowering here:
Anthyllis montana Rubra
Mosses on a big stone:
Speirantha convallarioides
Dodecatheon tetrandrum Red Wings
Rheum Hartswood Purple knop
RHeum Hartswood Purple
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Some dwarf phloxes:
Phlox Janous
Phlox sub. Benita
Phlox sub. Emerald Cushion Blue
Phlox subulata Kelly's Eye
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and a few allium :
Allium jesdianum Michael Hoog
Allium jesdianum Pendjikent
Allium jesdianum Shing
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Bergenia ciliatum just passing peak.
johnw
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Some lovely colour there Luit.
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A few Shortia uniflora (ex Denmark) just coming into flower.
johnw
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They're delicious John. :)
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From SRGC seed last year, I grew both Anthyllis vulneraria - the scarlet one which I'd lost - and A. montana rubra, having seen such a fine plant on John Husband's lovely website. Neither has flowered yet but from the foliage, I'm pretty sure both are A. vulneraria, which I'm sad about, as the deep pink is a really good thing, judging from John's, and now yours Luit. :'(
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They're delicious John. :)
Lesley - Shush. I'm getting nervous now with Fermi still in this hemisphaere. ;)
johnw
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They're delicious John. :)
Lesley - Shush. I'm getting nervous now with Fermi still in this hemisphaere. ;)
johnw
His climate's too hot and dry to grow them but I suppose they might make a nice pre-dinner snack. ;D Is he visiting Canada?
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May is here, so let me start with a plant than came into bloom the last week of april, but which is now peaking here, Ranunculus montanus.
The second and third pictures are of Tulipa sylvestris, the first ones opened a few days ago. It is such a cheerful sight on a sunny day. We have a patch that is slowly taking over an old bed, and attempting to get a foothold in the lawn as well. My mother brought it into the garden 30-40 years ago from an island outside her home village on the southern tip of Norway, where it had naturalised as a so-called ballast plant. This tulip, along with many other "exotics", were brought to Norway in soil used as ballast on sailships (18th and 19th centuries) returning empty from trips to Europe. The ballast was dumped in the harbour until that was stopped, then mainly on islands in or near the harbour (and sometimes in the captain's garden). Many of these islands now have interesting floras, and the town of Arendal even has Tulipa sylvestris as its floral symbol.
Knud
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Yellow is the perfect colour to give us that sunny feeling. A lovely set of shots.
Paddy
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Two of numerous pulsatillas flowering now
1,2. Pulsatilla alpina or vernalis
3. Pulsatilla rubra at the beginning of flowering
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A very colourful beginning of May everyone:
Here in flower now in the garden:
Cypripedium 'Emil'
Echinocereus viridiflorus
Hosta 'Cat's eye'
Hosta 'Pandora's box'
Meconopsis quintuplinervia x betonicifolia (a perennial plant)
Paris bashanensis
Ramonda myconi
Ramonda myconi 'Alba'
Sauromatum venosum
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Meconopsis ... .... :)
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Wim,
Mary was delighted to see Hosta 'Cat'e Eyes' as she has just had a plant in the post from a nursery in the UK. It looks lovely.
She had a very good reason for wanting this plant: she wanted to plant it beside Hosta 'Mouse Ears'.
Paddy
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Meconopsis ... .... :)
Still a very young plant, in a year or two, I'm sure I'll be able to miss a few plantlets ;)
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Wim,
Mary was delighted to see Hosta 'Cat'e Eyes' as she has just had a plant in the post from a nursery in the UK. It looks lovely.
She had a very good reason for wanting this plant: she wanted to plant it beside Hosta 'Mouse Ears'.
Paddy
;D ;D I have 'Mouse Ears' too, never thought to plant them beside one another ;D
It's a lovely plant, indeed, but very slow growing.
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...it was an admiration of your success with the Meconopsis, Wim.
I can kill one in a couple of days ( ;D ) ....so thanks for the offer, but it would be an act of plant cruelty to send me one....just post lots of pictures of yours for me to enjoy ;)
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Hi,
dodecatheon meadia from SRGC seed ex 06/07 flowering for the first time. Main interest to me is that it eventually flowered and survived, because the plants are so flimsy.
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I love the green flowers on the Echinocereus Wim. :)
Does the cat see better than the mouse ears, sorry hears? Which lives longer may depend on that answer :o.
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Dodecatheaon meadia alba, a newcomer for me this year...
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A wild, white and highly fragrant Viola jooi
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A few pics from the garden today:-
Phlox-unknown species and variety. I trim it each year or it would take over the bed. It's extra straggly in the foreground as I've just trimmed off a dead section as a result of it beeing peed on, with great regularity, by next door's dog!
Roscoea cautleoides 'Purple Form' which yesterday looked very nice and today looks a little trampled-next door's dog again!
Allium aflatunense 'Purple Sensation', I have a clump of five and they are tremendous value.
Trollius x culturum 'Alabaster'
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Roscoeas not even above ground here as yet, David. And won't be for several weeks yet. That's not an invitation to send up next door's dog, though..... :-X
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Roscoeas not even above ground here as yet, David. And won't be for several weeks yet. That's not an invitation to send up next door's dog, though..... :-X
Most of my others are showing noses-it's a crazy year. He's as daft as a brush, he sees me and thinks 'Ah! choccie bickies'
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David the Phlox looks like my P. subulata 'Daniels (McDaniels) Cushion'
And this one here
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7015.210
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Shortia soldanelloides ilicifolia flowering for the first time. It was grown from a cutting from Glassford Sprunt's plant which has been a regular on the show bench both as a foliage plant and flowering plant. It never fails to wow the judges.
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I certainly was wowed by that Shortia. Its got everything going for it, beautiful flower and lovely foliage. The new leaves are so nice. Here are to of my pictures taken in Maureens garden.
Maureen also had another plant that I was taken with 3rd picture, sorry don't have the name.
Angie :)
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that Shortia
Now that is delicious. :o
johnw
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Soldanella time.
johnw
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I just love this Fritillaria.
Fritillaria camschatcensis
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Magnolia seiboldii flowers opened today; photo taken just before the welcome rain drove me indoors for lunch.
Grown from SRGC seed (sown many years ago!)
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A few miscellaneous things in flower today before the rain started again.
johnw
Trillium erectum
Polygonatum curvistylum
Iris bucharica
Hanabusaya asiatica cw Korea
Erythronium tuolomnense
Disporum Cobblewood Gold Uvularia sessilifolia 'Cobblewood Gold'
Carex morrowii Ice Dance
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John, now I understand at last the naming of this Carex 8)
Never heard of Hanabusaya, but found out Symphyandra is a synonym, so might have some nice flowers. I hope you show it again when flowering?
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The hellebores are still going strong here.
johnw
Helleborus x hybridus Ashwood pink bowl
Helleborus x hybridus Ken's white
Helleborus x hybridus Ashwood Picotee
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The hellebores are still going strong here.
johnw
If only! Love the Disporum Cobblewood Gold on your previous posting John, our tastes are very similar!
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I love soldanellas, and that's a lovely clump John. I never managed to get a clump to flower that well.
That pic of the Magnolia seiboldii is superb Peter, and grown from seed. That's dedication!
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Just goes to show I've been doing this for too long.
Still think of myself as a beginner though....
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Two trees of note in friends' garden, their magnificent Stewartia pseudocamellia and Clethra barbinervis. The latter is just now developing bark similar to the Stewartia's, last year's flowers are reminscent of spanish moss from a distance.
The Corylopsis show continues with spicata and pauciflora.
Spied Trillium rivale hiding itself amongst Galanthus foliage.
johnw
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I see that spring has truly sprung in coastal Nova Scotia. Thanks for the pics John, lovely show.
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Not much in flower today in the alpine house except for this Alstromeria patagonica.
The flower is only just over 1cm across (you can see some slug damage from earlier in the season on the leaf tips) and generally flowers about now as the foliage begins to turn brown.
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A set in the sun today after the heavy showers this morning.
Part of the rock garden
Dodecathon media - this is planted between Bletilla striata which is just pocking through now.
Dodecathion media
Aubritia 'Elsa Lancaster'
Erinus alpinus self seeds around the rock garden.
Erinus alpinus
Garden views from the upper level as I haven't shown these views before.
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Hi Graham, lovely pictures of your garden. Its so well stocked and so much colour. Must get to see it someday.
Hi Peter, that's a lovely Alstromeria, never new you got them for the alpine house.
I cant imagine growing a Magnolia from seed, the thought of the time it would take would put me of trying ;D
Angie :)
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Pictures taken a few days ago.
Anthyllis Montana ‘Rubra’
Cytisus decumbens
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Penstemon virens-
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Here the Rhododendrons dominate the show but in the "wilderness" of shrubs Tulipa sylvestris roams. This tulip grows wild in Norway now - a garden escape and ballast plant from the tall ships age.
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Penstemon virens-
David, a very fine plant!
I spot a garden snail in your first photo. Does this kind of gastropod damage anything in your garden? her it sometimes is a pest climbing high in the plants eating the flowers.
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That is a stunning Anthyllis. Unfortunately mine from the seedlist 09/10 has turned out to be A. vulneraria.
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An alpine form of Embothrium coccineum
These are the first flowers of a small Embothrium - collected 2003 as a tiny sucker near Antillanca/Chile around 1350 m in the Andes.
Until now I didn't dare to plant it outside.
Gerd
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An alpine form of Embothrium coccineum
These are the first flowers of a small Embothrium - collected 2003 as a tiny sucker near Antillanca/Chile around 1350 m in the Andes.
Until now I didn't dare to plant it outside.
Gerd
Nice and short!
I have three plants in my garden but they haven't flowered yet. They are about 5 years.
A friend has a shrub in his garden which is 4m tall now and flower every year. They are from the same batch - he collected seed in Chile and I grew them and allocated seedlings!
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A few images that I thought worth showing fro my garden in the last few days.
Standard wisteria'Lipstick'
Close-up
Round the corner
Deciduous azaleas
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Woodland path
Tree paeony with 70 blloms
Close-up
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and the rest
Phlox stolonifera'Arianne'
Phlox stolonifera 'Anne and 'Blue Ridge'
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Tree paeony 'Flight of Cranes'
Close-up
Viburnum plicatum grandiflorum
" Mariesii
Staphyllea colchica
Close-up
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Magnificent pictures of stunning plants John. I have P. 'Flight of Cranes' under the name 'Renkaku.' I think they are the same?
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Nice and short!
I have three plants in my garden but they haven't flowered yet. They are about 5 years.
A friend has a shrub in his garden which is 4m tall now and flower every year. They are from the same batch - he collected seed in Chile and I grew them and allocated seedlings!
Thank you Trond!
We are USDA - zone 7 b, I suppose you are about in the same region.
What are the minima there last winter?
Perhaps I'll plant my shrub into the garden also.
Gerd
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I may have said it before, John, but you have a stunning garden! The Staphylea went straight to the top of my "wants-list", but I notice a few sites mentioning a suckering habit - is it bad?
Ribes lobbii below, first time flowering from seeds + a Filipendula multijuga.
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I hardly dare to show some pictures from my plants after the stunning GARDEN pictures of John.
This must be a gorgeous garden!
Anthriscus sylvestris Ravenswing
This plant seeds itself and I often think that I've lost it,
but in the next spring they suddenly appear somewhere again.
and a few other plants in shady places:
Melittis melissophyllum Rosea
Arisaema ringens
Smilacina trifolia
Convallaria majalis Variegata
Trollius Maigold
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Carduncellus pinnatifida
Eriogonum douglasii var. douglasii
Paeonia lutea Yellow Queen
Paeonia lutea Yellow Queen cl.
Iris barbata MDB ?
Iris pallida ssp. cengialtii
This I. pallida form is not often seen in gardens here.
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5. Oresitrophe rupifraga - Saxifragaceae from China, acquired at the occasion of the Galanthus event at Oirlich
Gerd
(from Gerd K. March 2011.)
Gerd, I had this plant outside without cover this winter, but the buds were so early out
and were frozen. Now I have some nice leaves and know that it is hardy at -15C at least but should not flower to early ::)!
Oresitrophe rupifraga
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Penstemon virens-
David, a very fine plant!
I spot a garden snail in your first photo. Does this kind of gastropod damage anything in your garden? her it sometimes is a pest climbing high in the plants eating the flowers.
They do indeed Trond, if the weather is damp, as it is at the moment, they can devastate a plant overnight.
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Fantastic plants on this page!
David, thank you for posting the penstemon - I have one and wondered what it was. It makes a great display.
John, what more can be said, a beautiful garden. I especially like the Staphylea which appears to have heads of small white trumpet daffodils!
Arisaema, I LOVE that Ribes, which is, I suppose, fully hardy with you?
Luit, the Mellitis is very interesting, and the yellow paeony is pretty too, as well as your others.
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The Ribes is fully hardy here, with no freeze-back :)
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5. Oresitrophe rupifraga - Saxifragaceae from China, acquired at the occasion of the Galanthus event at Oirlich
Gerd
(from Gerd K. March 2011.)
Gerd, I had this plant outside without cover this winter, but the buds were so early out
and were frozen. Now I have some nice leaves and know that it is hardy at -15C at least but should not flower to early ::)!
Oresitrophe rupifraga
Luit,
Thank you for this information! My plant is outside also now although Erich Pasche lost his one last winter - he wasn't sure what the reason was.
Gerd
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Luit, I can't find any details on Iris barbata and Brian Mathew doesn't mention it. Could you fill me in please?
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David, I don't think I. barbata is in general use, not now anyway. It was a sort of coverall name for the cultivated bearded irises, talls, medians, dwarfs. It is used in the index of my edition of 'Iris' by Fritz Kohlein, (he refers to Barbata - Elatior Group, Barbata - Media Group and Barbata - Nana Group so Iris barbata 'Silverado,' Iris barbata 'Gingerbread Man' etc. Much the way Hellebores are all Helleborus hybridus, (unless they're from other known species) even though originating mostly from H. orientalis. I doubt if it was ever applied to the other beardeds, such as the oncos or regelias.
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Luit, I can't find any details on Iris barbata and Brian Mathew doesn't mention it. Could you fill me in please?
David I named it as a I. barbata MDB but I should have named it as a SDB, or a Small Bearded Iris. I don't know how I otherwise should call it now.
May be just Iris+Hybrid Name+SDB.(Group)
Many years ago I acquired this plant as Iris Barbata Nana Gingerbread Man, (thanks Lesley to awake my brains) but it is not this cultivar because there is no blue in the beard. I still hope by showing this beautiful plant to find out the real name ::)
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It's great to have berries and flowers at the same time on Skimmia japonica. But why do the birds consistently only eat the berries on the south side?
johnw
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Oh my that Ribes is stunning. :o
What sort of low temperatures can it take?
johnw
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I have three plants in my garden but they haven't flowered yet. They are about 5 years.
A friend has a shrub in his garden which is 4m tall now and flower every year. They are from the same batch - he collected seed in Chile and I grew them and allocated seedlings!
Gerd / Hoy - Can the Embothrium survive very low temperatures? I have a knack for killing them in pots (even kept frost-free), usually they die in August. I'd be interested in the mixes you and Gerd are using.
johnw
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I have three plants in my garden but they haven't flowered yet. They are about 5 years.
A friend has a shrub in his garden which is 4m tall now and flower every year. They are from the same batch - he collected seed in Chile and I grew them and allocated seedlings!
Gerd / Hoy - Can the Embothrium survive very low temperatures? I have a knack for killing them in pots (even kept frost-free), usually they die in August. I'd be interested in the mixes you and Gerd are using.
johnw
John, I'm not sure about the minimum the plants tolerate. I once lost Embothrium coccineum var. lanceatum 'Norquinco Valley' outside in winter. This proveniance is told to be hardier than others.
I believe Trond/Hoy is able to tell more about this topic.
Concerning the mix I use:
Because I found the species in Chile growing on vulcanic ashes I add about one third lava grit. The rest is a peat based compost and a little loam.
I hope Trond/Hoy will report more about the conditions concerning temperatures and soil in which his specimen grows.
Gerd
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Oh my that Ribes is stunning. :o
What sort of low temperatures can it take?
johnw
We had -20C, and that was with hardly any snow cover following a cool and moist summer and autumn.
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Regarding Embotrium.
Our plants are from seed collected far south in Patagonia. almost all the seeds germinated and we got lots of plants. Many were given away and I don't know how they fare but of those my friend and I kept some have died. The two last winters have been very cold and dry. One plant which were huge died this winter after suffering dieback the other winter. However the biggest plant in my friend's garden has survived with only some burnt leaves and my three plants have survived but they are smaller. My friend grows his plant in ordinary garden soil (that is mostly peat and sand here) in the open and I grow my plants in the woodland with woodland type soil. All plants have excellent drainage - they make very long roots!
The lowest temps was about -18C the other winter (with snowcover) and -16C without snowcover the last year. I think desiccating dry wind in winter can be a problem - not only the cold.
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David, I don't think I. barbata is in general use, not now anyway. It was a sort of coverall name for the cultivated bearded irises, talls, medians, dwarfs. It is used in the index of my edition Of 'Irises' by Kohlein, so Iris barbata 'Silverado,' Iris barbata 'Gingerbread Man' etc. Much the way Hellebores are all Helleborus hybridus, (unless they're from other known species) even though originating mostly from H. orientalis. I doubt if it was ever applied to the other beardeds, such as the oncos or regelias.
Many thanks Lesley and Luit for the clarification. Thus, my education is further improved ;D
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I may have said it before, John, but you have a stunning garden! The Staphylea went straight to the top of my "wants-list", but I notice a few sites mentioning a suckering habit - is it bad?
Ribes lobbii below, first time flowering from seeds + a Filipendula multijuga.
I have never heard of staphyllea colchica suckering and in the 4oyrs. that I have had this plant it has never produced a sucker
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Trond,
Thank you for the Embothrium notes.
The hint at good drainage will be helpful if I ever plant my specimen out!
Gerd
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Spring blooms in Ann Arbor, Michigan
claytonia virginica-2
brunnera 1
brunnera 2
brunnera 3
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I really like the Claytonia virginica KK. I remember seeing Claytonia megarhiza in the Rockies, but it is quite different.
I am a little behind schedule uploading my pictures, so here are some which are actually from last month, but they are still nice and when photographing them I really felt that the long cold winter was over. Don't miss the ants on the spathe of the skunk cabbage. I wonder if they are attracted by the smell or by the warmth.
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Beautiful Viola, Paul! But are you sure it is V. odorata? The flower and hairy leafs looks more like V. hirta...
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Far too many here for me to comment individually, but I have enjoyed looking.
My contribution is a photo of my Sollya heterophylla in full bloom......
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Two more contributions.
The second is my white form of Sollya heterophylla, which has just started to flower.
The first is my first ever Meconopsis (lindholm).
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My contribution is a photo of my Sollya heterophylla in full bloom......
Crumbs.... you're not growing those Sollya outside, are you? :o
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My contribution is a photo of my Sollya heterophylla in full bloom......
Crumbs.... you're not growing those Sollya outside, are you? :o
They've been outdoors since mid March Maggi. On the odd night where there was a risk of frost I put them in the garage.
These two were in the conservatory for the winter, whilst the third was in the garage. Apart from being a little behind it appears unscathed by that experience, so that's where all three will be this winter.
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Ah, that seems sensible... thought for a minute you had these growing outside and I was going to ask if you had the whole garden covered with a giant heat blanket!!
They are evergreen though, aren't they? Does the garage not get a bit dark for them in winter?
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Yes, they are evergreen.
The garage has a south facing back access door which I replaced with a glass unit to provide some daylight. But in reality, if it's cold (although not freezing), then they are only ticking over anyway.
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Thanks, meanie, useful to know that for anyone wondering how to overwinter tender subjects.
Proves you don't need fancy equipment etc.
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Thanks, meanie, useful to know that for anyone wondering how to overwinter tender subjects.
Proves you don't need fancy equipment etc.
It's all a learning process! Helped a little by my being sent a second blue one instead of the white form that I ordered, which means that I have a free one to experiment with a little......
I'll treat my Erythrina as a deciduous shrub after this winter, allowing it to shed it's leaves in the garage before cutting off last years growth and bringing it into the conservatory late March. That was how I treated it the last winter - it now stands two metres tall and in rude health.
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Here are two seedlings of Papaver bracteatum. I fell in love with this species while wandering about at Sissinghurst. I eventually found seed and these two are the results. The colour is always difficult to capture with a camera, but the darker one is actually pretty close. The more orange is really a deep red.
Also, Echeveria hybrids are apparently 'in' this season, as I see them on offer all over the place. I picked up 4 just for fun.
P. bracteatum
P. bracteatum
Echeveria , 4 different forms(?)
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So many beauties!
Nice Echeverias, Jamie, could be species (there are many many many) or hybrids, even intergenerics... will you keep them over winter?
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Cohan,
I do plan to overwinter them in the house (South window). There is a paucity of info on this group of plants in the internet. Lots of fotos, but few names or useful descriptions. Even the few books I have on succulents only give them a scant overview. Pity, as they are easy and quite lovely, especially in bloom.
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Dear Hans,
it could very well be Viola hirta. I just called it V. odorata as it is one of the most common, but I'll change the name. It's always so wonderful with all the expertise at this forum.
Thanks!
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Here are some pictures I took last Sunday of Dactylorhiza sambucina which is quite common in the archipelago here, and also at some locations along the coast. There might be excessively many pictures of one species, but they are so darn beautiful.
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Yesterday i had the pleasure of working in my friends(Margret)garden so i took a couple of pics.I could show hundreds but don't want to overdo it.
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What a lovely lushly planted garden Davey.... and from little glimpses in some of the shots I see that the view from the garden is equally good. Thanks for sharing.
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great orchids too. It's nice to see the 2 colour forms together, with no intermediate forms.
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Your friend has a cracking garden Dave.
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Cohan,
I do plan to overwinter them in the house (South window). There is a paucity of info on this group of plants in the internet. Lots of fotos, but few names or useful descriptions. Even the few books I have on succulents only give them a scant overview. Pity, as they are easy and quite lovely, especially in bloom.
Some of these I find much easier indoors than others, some will seem to etiolate almost no matter what, others no problem...
There may not be great sites, but there are many experts online; if there are any individual plants you'd like more info/names on, you could forward photos to me, and I could pass them along to more knowledgeable folks!
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Here's two flowering today
a Russian Medlar
and Enkianthus campanulatus
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Some plants flowering here:
Centaurea hypoleuca John Coutts
Centaurea hypoleuca John Coutts cl.
Salvia multicaulis
Saponaria ocymoides
Cyrtanthus brachyscyphus
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On a dry raised bed this little plant grows as a biennial by selfseeding:
Calendula fruticosa
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Not really flowering but both should be in every garden:
Dryas x suendermannii
Raoulia tenuicaulis
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A very nice picture of the Dryas seed heads, Luit. I agree with you, it is a very nice plant. I have a Dryas octopetala (picture 1) blooming now, that during the last 15 years has been allowed to take over the trough it is in. Some years it is covered in flowers, but not this year.
Kalmia polifolia and Meconopsis quintuplinerva (picture 2) are blooming now, as is the lovely little Erigeron vagus (picture 3) (seeding willingly in its trough), and Dodecatheon pulchellum (picture 4).
Knud
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Aquilegia scopulorum
Veronica austriaca ssp. teucrium
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Luit, great colour on the Salvia multicaulis!
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A couple of shots from the month..
First two spp of Antennaria from the Nordegg area growing together.. one showing nice winter colour; not size difference...
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A little Prometheum aizoon (syn Rosularia aizoon ); When I received this in spring 09, I was asking around to see if anyone knew its hardiness, no one did, but after two long winters, it is still looking good, never shows any winter stress at all...
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Common stuff, but no doubt so late they may seem fresh to those of you long finished with these ;)
My only reticulate Iris to come up in this bed, and this is all it opened.. will see if they are late, or maybe didn't like the extended cold/wet melt period?
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Corydalis solida I think the cultivar was Munich Sunrise? from a kind forumist.....
Most of the pics don't capture the intensity of the colour, but I think the last one does...
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Pulsatilla vulgaris
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I didn't realise that spring came so late to southern Alberta Cohan. Lovely to see these early plants again, and what a great picture of the pulsatilla 8)
Here lupins are flaunting their rich colours and musky scent. Something's raiding them, maybe bumblebees after nectar.
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Some others out now:
A lost label; could it be Dianthus 'La Bourboule'?
Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' great depth of colour and contrast with the blue foliage
Rogersia usually grown for its foliage but the flowers are interesting too
Thalictrum aquilegifolium
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Thanks, Ashley!
Although we are about the 1/3 mark from south to north, we consider this 'Central' Alberta ;D also, our nearness to the foothills alters the climate-- tends to be a cooler summer than places farther east..
Finally, though, all of my spring flowers so far are in a bed which is in a late spot to melt, and is then bathed in icey meltwater from elsewhere for a while longer! I have other places that are free of snow weeks sooner, so I will be trying some plantings in other spots!
Wild flowers, however, are just as late here-- first to bloom are Petasites, starting in early May or late April, and then Caltha ...
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Luit, was your Raoulia tenuicaulis from a NZ source? I ask because you seem to have a nice little Craspedia coming up through the mat.
Ashley,does your Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' set seed? My 'Ivory Hearts' does and it comes true. Looks exactly like yours in flower and foliage except for flower colour of course. Maybe we could swap sometime?
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Two more contributions;
The first is Asphodeline lutea, which was bought in the end of season sales last year.
The second is growing in my conservatory (so probably a little inappropriate here), Aeschynanthus "Mona Lisa". I lost a few flower buds early on as I misjudged the watering/warm weather combination. The plant likes a regular misting, with the growing medium being allowed to almost dry out between good soakings.
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Glowing colours, meanie!
Ashley/Lesley--I think I saw that Dicentra available locally recently, at a big box store! But in a large pot (by my standards--rarely buy anything over 4inches!) didn't have money with me..may live to regret that...lol
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A couple of the thuggish Campanulas as they continue in their quest for world domination!
Both very common, but the first, C.glomerata is probably my favourite of them all.
I have a couple of clumps of the second, C.persicifolia, and one will have to go! The clump against the west fence now stands at over four feet tall.
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I remember my grandma had huge areas of lupins! Very nice, Ashley :D
I tried Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' in a bed but it disappeared - rotted, don't know why. Other Dicentras do very well.
When I was a kid I remember picking Campanula persicifolia in the open woodland where we often had our weekend walks.
In my garden there are the bigger plants dominating: Diphylleia sinensis and on a drier spot Asphodelus albus with a strange twist this year.
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Trond, I have some Diphylleia seeds sown, I wonder if they will decide to come up this year?..lol
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Trond, I have some Diphylleia seeds sown, I wonder if they will decide to come up this year?..lol
Hope they will! You are sure birds or rodents haven't eaten the seeds? ;)
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Cohan, nice to see spring is starting in your part of the world too.
Ashley, love all those colours.
Here are some things which are flowering here now:
Darlingtonia californica is showing it's first new pitchers
Heuchera x brizoides 'Pruhoniciana Alba' and Dicentra eximia in flower
Papaver orientale 'Salmon Pink'
Pinguicula grandiflora var. rosea
Polygonatum cirrhifolium 'Red Form'
Primula japonica 'Miller's Crimson'
Sarracenia flava 'Heavily veined form' x oreophila is showing very good colour in it's new pitchers.
Sarracenia minor's first pitcher of the year
Sarracenia purpurea subsp purpurea
and Vancouveria hexandra chrysantha (thanks to Nicole for the correction)
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A mix of things flowering here over the past few weeks :
1) Allium karataviense henrikii
2) Allium karataviense "Ivory Queen"
3) Aethionema capitatum
4) Dianthus haematocalyx v. pindicola
5) Dianthus "La Bourboule"
6) Dianthus "Pudsey Prize" - nearly lost it last summer but it recovered ! :D
7) Eriogonum umbellatum in bud
8 ) Helianthemum canum balcanicum - still very small and new in my garden but looking very promising ! :D
9) Oxalis "Sheffield Swan"
10) Oxalis "Hewswell Knight"
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What a feast of lovely plants from Belgium ;)
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Some more :
1) Paederata bonarata
2) Penstemon rupicola "Ruby"
3) Phlox hoodii
4) Phlox sileniflora "Tiny Buggles"
5) Saponaria "Bressingham Pink"
6) Silene hookeri ssp ingramii
7) Veronica austriaca
8 ) Veronica "Blue sheen"
9) Veronica liwanensis
10) Scutellaria indica japonica
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I thought Vancouveria hexandra had white flowers Wim, perhaps yours is chrysantha ?
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I thought Vancouveria hexandra had white flowers Wim, perhaps yours is chrysantha ?
Nicole,
you're right of course, it is chrysantha
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I thought Vancouveria hexandra had white flowers Wim, perhaps yours is chrysantha ?
Nicole,
you're right of course, it is chrysantha
Keep a very close eye on it, V. hexandra is perhaps the worst weed I've ever introduced in my garden - and I've grown Aegopodium 'Variegata'...
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I thought Vancouveria hexandra had white flowers Wim, perhaps yours is chrysantha ?
Nicole,
you're right of course, it is chrysantha
Keep a very close eye on it, V. hexandra is perhaps the worst weed I've ever introduced in my garden - and I've grown Aegopodium 'Variegata'...
Really :o :o. Thanks for the heads up, Bjørnar. If this species get's invasive too I'll have to find a solution for it, cause I want to keep, maybe in a pot.
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Watch out for seedlings as well, it's one genus that will never be allowed back into my garden! (...and unlike the aforementioned Aegopodium it's fairly Roundup-resistant :P)
A few odds and ends below;
Clematis hirsutissima flowering at last! Not sure it was worth the 9 year wait...
Anemone nemorosa 'Green Fingers'
Trillium hybrid
Trillium camchatscense (or something like that)
Uvularia grandiflora 'Pallida'
Disporum megalanthum
Anemonella 'Diamant'
Corydalis sp. in sect. Mucronatae, or maybe a hybrid with Elatae
Trillium sulcatum
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Trillium kurabayashi and thThe Trillium cuneatum that I posted sometime ago is still in flower.
Epimedium wumengense wushanense.
Glaucidium palmatum.
johnw
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Trond-- I hope not, I have not yet seen any sign of anything disturbing seed pots so far--my only loss was a culinary dandelion in a pot eaten to the root by something--rabbit, squirrel, mouse, vole....lol
Wim, yes, finally starting, and now the wildflowers are going to come quickly...
Luc--lovely rock garden plants!
Bjørnar and John--great woodlanders, love the Trilliums and that Cory! :o
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What a great display from everyone - but Wim's red polygonatum is my absolute favourite!
Vancouveria hexandra is quite vigorous here, but I wouldn't be without it, and it can be controlled. V. chrysantha seems not as hardy, as it didn't survive a winter with me.
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I have two tiny phloxes I don't know the name of. Both look similar to the phloxes shown by Luk (Phlox hoodii and sileniflora). Any suggestions?
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I would definitely say the second picture is sileniflora Oleg - I'm not so sure for the first picture, but it very well could be P. hoodii ... :-\
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You've been waiting 9 years for your Clematis hirsutissima, Arisaema? I've been waiting more than 20 and STILL no flower!
Trond, Dicentra 'Ivory Hearts' and I think also 'Burning Hearts' are hybrids of D. peregrina so perhaps can be expected to be a little more difficult than some other dicentras. I have a beautiful book sent to me many years ago written by the aurthor, Kazuo Mori. The photos are superb but all the text except for botanical names, is in Japanese characters. But the pictures speak for themselves and there are several of D. peregrina in the wild, where it is growing in harsh, rocky scree similar to the scree where Ranunculus haastii would grow in New Zealand.
I've lost 'Ivory Hearts' twice but find it does well in a really gritty, gravelly compost. Fortunately, both times I had a few seeds so could carry on.
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Ashley,does your Dicentra 'Burning Hearts' set seed? My 'Ivory Hearts' does and it comes true. Looks exactly like yours in flower and foliage except for flower colour of course. Maybe we could swap sometime?
Unfortunately none so far Lesley, I assumed because it's a hybrid. However should any set then of course they're yours.
Wonderful plants everyone, both alpines and woodlanders.
Like Anne, I find Wim's red polygonatum hard to resist.
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Bjørnar, love those 'green fingers'.
John, Epimedium wumengense??? I've never heard of a species called like that. Is it newly named or is it Epimedium wushanense?
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I would definitely say the second picture is sileniflora Oleg - I'm not so sure for the first picture, but it very well could be P. hoodii ... :-\
Thank you so much, Luc for the ID
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Luit, was your Raoulia tenuicaulis from a NZ source? I ask because you seem to have a nice little Craspedia coming up through the mat.
No Lesley, it is grown here in Holland for many years, but was never a good selling plant.
I had it more than 30 years ago already and got it from a friend in those days. It is the most hardy Raoulia here without cover in winter!
The grey leaved seedling is a Hieracium which I always thought to be H. villosum, but maybe it is a H. bombycinum.
I will pull it out before it gets to big and I might loose the Raoulia ::)
Here a picture of a bigger plant with some seedlings and a picture of it together with a seedling of Campanula portenschlagiana Major.
Hieracium ? villosum 2x
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You've been waiting 9 years for your Clematis hirsutissima, Arisaema? I've been waiting more than 20 and STILL no flower!
Well worth waiting for, Lesley, I hope it will bloom for you. Ours is clearly a different variety than Ariseama's, we got the seed as Clematis hirsutissima var. hirsutissima. It first bloomed after 6-8 years, and since then offers its single flower each year, early June, normally. A highlight of my gardening year. It is in bud now, but I have included a picture from last year.
Knud
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Lesley;
Guess I shouldn't complain about waiting 9 years then... :P The weird thing is that all 4 of my plants decided to flower this spring, all sown at the same time, but varying in size as I've treated some worse than others. Maybe the cold winter did the trick, if that's the reason I sort of hope I never see them in flower again! Speaking of slow plants, do you still grow Ranunculus semiverticillatus?
Wim;
I think Aaron is calling your orange Polygonatum P. huanense. It's (annoyingly) too tender here, or at least it died this last winter. Lovely plant!
John;
Is the Epimedium hardy for you, or do you move it into the greenhouse over winter?
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Wim;
I think Aaron is calling your orange Polygonatum P. huanense. It's (annoyingly) too tender here, or at least it died this last winter. Lovely plant!
Thanks Bjørnar,
it's been growing here for three years outdoors now, so it's hardy in Belgium. It's a shame you lost it cause it's really nice...if you want a new one, let me know.
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You've been waiting 9 years for your Clematis hirsutissima, Arisaema? I've been waiting more than 20 and STILL no flower!
Well worth waiting for, Lesley, I hope it will bloom for you. Ours is clearly a different variety than Ariseama's, we got the seed as Clematis hirsutissima var. hirsutissima. It first bloomed after 6-8 years, and since then offers its single flower each year, early June, normally. A highlight of my gardening year. It is in bud now, but I have included a picture from last year.
I'm up to two flowers on each plant, I guess that's something ;) My seeds came from From The Forest (http://www.darcyfromtheforest.com/servlet/Detail?no=41) in Idaho, so were presumably collected there or in Washington? Did just read of someone (http://www.gardenbuddies.com/forums/clematis/8548-pink-clematis-hirsutissima.html) flowering a pink one ex Finn Røsholm in just three years from seed, that has to be a new European record!
Thanks, Wim! I'll ask you as soon as the normal winters return, I'm eagerly awaiting the much promised "global warming"...
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Bjørnar - Yes it appears to be very hardy, the Epimedium wintered outdoors in a pot sunk in wood chips. And Wim it is indeed wushanense, I am getting my rhododendrons and epimediums mixed up!
johnw
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Thanks, Wim! I'll ask you as soon as the normal winters return, I'm eagerly awaiting the much promised "global warming"...
:o ;D
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Thanks, Wim! I'll ask you as soon as the normal winters return, I'm eagerly awaiting the much promised "global warming"...
So are we in central Alberta... no sign of it thus far--cold winters and cold summers....lol
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My seeds came from From The Forest (http://www.darcyfromtheforest.com/servlet/Detail?no=41) in Idaho, so were presumably collected there or in Washington?
Interesting seed source, hadn't run across this before!
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That is certainly a lovely Clematis Knud. I wonder what I can do to encourage it. Mine was from seed from Sally Walker ex the SW USA, many years ago. It makes a nice plant each year and the stems appear plump at the tips but always they open out to more leaves. ???
Thanks Luit, about the Hieracium. Perhaps I should have known what it was because Hieracium (H. pilosella) is a major weed in many parts of our high country and is frequently seen growing through Raoulia mats. Neither sheep nor rabbits will graze it so it becomes more and more widespread every year with its billions of seedlings. Other species such as H. aurantiacum are also on the verge of being major pests.
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Lesley;
Speaking of slow plants, do you still grow Ranunculus semiverticillatus?
Is the Epimedium hardy for you, or do you move it into the greenhouse over winter?
I still HAVE it, whether I still GROW it is another matter. It exists. It is just about died off now and (I expect) will come up again late winter, grow, not flower then die down again. I should send it to you or someone who has a really COLD winter as I think that may be the problem. We are just not cold enough to induce flowering. Maybe like the clematis? And a time frame? I received the seed from John Watson in 1989, it germinated (1) in 1992, so a mere 19 years so far. (Yet I get impatient at the traffic lights!)
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We've talked about this plant before, but now I have something to show--Planted in a gallon pot from a piece of root-thanks Stephenb!- late last fall.. so it has survived one winter, and looking great!
Taraxacum 'faroense' which is presumably T rubifolium..
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Its only maybe 3 inches across, most of these leaves are new this spring, and it seems to have a bud coming, we'll see..I'd rather it didn't have regular dandelion colour flowers--it does--but the foliage makes it worthwhile... I wonder if it will stay this dark all year? Hope so....
Anyone know what sort of moisture this sp likes? Faroes look pretty wet to me....
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Lesley;
19 years... Probably a good thing I never got around to ordering seeds from Holubec, that's an insane amount of time (and patience) to wait for a plant to flower - to think I was slightly annoyed at my Hegemone the other day, and that one's a mere 5 years old, still just a toddler! ::)
Cohan;
Very healthy looking plant! It does stay like that all thru summer, or at least it does here in Norway. No idea about other requirements, but it seems happy here in my wet garden, so maybe avoid keeping it too dry?
Both of you: Did the Corydalis seed germinate? If not there's plenty more, and judging by the amount of seedlings popping up I'll have to collect them or the entire border will turn blue!
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One result of the UK having many smallish urban gardens is the rise of the boundary fence. Hence there is a need to hide these features and consequently we grow many clematis here (I say 'we' because although my wife would not call herself a gardener, she never complains about me buying new clematis plants).
Here's some in flower at present:
Lasurstern
Fair Rosamond
Diamantina
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We've talked about this plant before, but now I have something to show--Planted in a gallon pot from a piece of root-thanks Stephenb!- late last fall.. so it has survived one winter, and looking great!
Taraxacum 'faroense' which is presumably T rubifolium..
Its only maybe 3 inches across, most of these leaves are new this spring, and it seems to have a bud coming, we'll see..I'd rather it didn't have regular dandelion colour flowers--it does--but the foliage makes it worthwhile... I wonder if it will stay this dark all year? Hope so....
Anyone know what sort of moisture this sp likes? Faroes look pretty wet to me....
Good to see that it has made it! Even though it has standard coloured flowers, the contrast against the dark leaves is very nice!
Although the Plant List doesn't note a Taraxacum faroense or faeroense, the Botanical Society of the British Isles does note a species with the latter name and it is fairly widespread in the UK: http://www.bsbimaps.org.uk/atlas/map_page.php?spid=3847.0&sppname=Taraxacum faeroense&commname=A dandelion (http://www.bsbimaps.org.uk/atlas/map_page.php?spid=3847.0&sppname=Taraxacum faeroense&commname=A dandelion)
I've not been successful in finding a picture of faeroense in the wild, but one reference refers to it "as distinctive in its blanket bog habitat, leaf form and colour" (so if this is the what we have, it certainly doesn't mind damp conditions!). On the other hand rubifolium isn't noted from the UK, but I've seen pictures of a plant with this name taken in the wild in the Faroe Islands (it looks the same), but no other reference to where it is found in the wild. I would conclude that it is a synonym and that faeroense is accepted as correct in the UK.... Neither are mentioned in the Flora of North America.
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A few plants I just love, doing well in the garden right now:
Dodecatheon ?clevelandii
Centaurea hypoleuca John Coutts
Sempervivum Cmrls Yellow
Cornus controversa variegata
Clematis 'Broughton Star'
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Love the wedding cake tree! Wish it was a little bit hardier, had to settle for C. alternifolia here.
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Cohan;
Very healthy looking plant! It does stay like that all thru summer, or at least it does here in Norway. No idea about other requirements, but it seems happy here in my wet garden, so maybe avoid keeping it too dry?
Both of you: Did the Corydalis seed germinate? If not there's plenty more, and judging by the amount of seedlings popping up I'll have to collect them or the entire border will turn blue!
Tks, for the input on the Tarax, Stephen also.. from this and a comment from McMark on NARGS forum, sounds like I better keep it moist! I put it in a gravelly loamy/clay soil in a pot, and it seems fine.. may put a saucer under to keep it moist till it goes in ground eventually :)
Corys have come up nicely--starting several weeks ago or more, in quite chilly weather, thanks! If you have seed to get rid of, I'd happily take more, want to try some naturalising, but if there are other takers, no urgency ;D
On a related note, I think I am finally seeing some action on a pot of Trillium seed sown in fall '09!
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Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is Scilla bifolia.
Edit I think it looks like Scilla litardierei.
I checked my records and you are absolutely correct Gunilla ;D
Scilla litardierei it is
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I think it looks like Scilla litardierei.
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Love the wedding cake tree! Wish it was a little bit hardier, had to settle for C. alternifolia here.
I too liked the Cornus controversa Christine showed, a very nice tree. Is it specifically the variegata that is not hardy to zone 7, or controversa generally? We have a few three year old seedlings of "plain" controversa that have spent the last two quite cold winters (minimum -15C, but a long cold period) outside in small pots, and they are still fine.
Knud
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Arisaema, you musn't judge any Ran semiverticillatus you may get by how mine behaves. After all, there have been a couple shown in flower either on the (old?) Forum or at AGS shows. Mine is a big plant now with up to a dozen noses but I am sure it is the cold, or lack of it which is the problem. To start with, it comes up far too early in late winter instead of late October/November as it does in the wild. And it grows into a looser plant than those we've seen in the AGS Bulletin. If it were possible I would pass it along to someone with a really cold, snow covered winter but as its roots must now fill the quite large trough, that's not an option. I could divide it of course but that could be fatal to the whole lot and I think it would be impossible to dig. I'd have to smash the trough off from around it. ???
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Arisaema, you musn't judge any Ran semiverticillatus you may get by how mine behaves. After all, there have been a couple shown in flower either on the (old?) Forum or at AGS shows. Mine is a big plant now with up to a dozen noses but I am sure it is the cold, or lack of it which is the problem. To start with, it comes up far too early in late winter instead of late October/November as it does in the wild. And it grows into a looser plant than those we've seen in the AGS Bulletin. If it were possible I would pass it along to someone with a really cold, snow covered winter but as its roots must now fill the quite large trough, that's not an option. I could divide it of course but that could be fatal to the whole lot and I think it would be impossible to dig. I'd have to smash the trough off from around it. ???
Patience my dear Lesley, patience!!! So worth the wait! :D
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Some shoots of flowering now.
My selection of Epimedium colchicum 'Toplenoe moloko' (Baked Milk)
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Phlox kelseyi with unknown phlox
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Townsendia leptotes
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Pulsatilla vulgaris Perlen Glocke
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Spring flowering beds
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I too liked the Cornus controversa Christine showed, a very nice tree. Is it specifically the variegata that is not hardy to zone 7, or controversa generally? We have a few three year old seedlings of "plain" controversa that have spent the last two quite cold winters (minimum -15C, but a long cold period) outside in small pots, and they are still fine.
The variegated form is supposedly a (Swedish/Norwegian) zone or two more tender, H1/2 compared to H2/3 for the plain species. It shouldn't matter for you in tropical Stavanger, but I wasn't tempted to try it here in H2/3 with the last winter fresh in memory, C. alternifolia 'Argentea' was the safer bet.
Lesley;
To be honest I'm not sure my climate would suit it either, probably a little too wet and cold? That said, if I do come across fresh seeds again I'll probably give in to temptation... ;)
Ranunculus;
How many years are we talking about here?
Olga;
Stunning pictures as always! I really like that pale form of Epimedium colchicum.
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Olga, your garden looks terrific! And lovely plants too ;D
Here are a selection of peonies flowering in my garden now. Many are seedlings without a name.
Paeonia lutea ludlowii - aiming for the roof, almost 4m tall!
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Paeonia mlokosewitschii. In the cool weather we have now, the flowers stay like this for a couple weeks.
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Paeonia Rockii group. From seed several years ago. This year it is 40+ buds.
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Unnamed peonies.
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. . . and some non-peonies ;D
One of the many unnamed anemones -
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And an unnamed Arisaema
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This shrub is always very floriferous at this time of the year - Enkianthus campanulatus 'Palibini'
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Clematis integrifolia
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isn't it amazing the range of things in flower in the northern hemisphere at this time, depending on where one lives? My C. integrifolia will not be in bloom for ages yet, and my epimedium flowers have all gone over now except for one. Lovely paeonies too! Wow.
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Spring flowering beds
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Olga - Is that a bamboo I see in the right rear of this photo? I'd be interested in the name. It's seems to have had a rough time but no doubt will re-grow from the roots. A lovely garden you have.
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John
That Bamboo at the left rear of the photo is Sasa tsuboana. It has grown at my garden about 7 years. Now it's really big plant with 1.5 m diameter. Sometimes it loose it's leaves after low snow winters. But re-grow. I like very much song of it's leaves in summer, it rustles at the wind. :)
johnw, Hoy, arisaema, thank you!
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Russian Medlar
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Some shoots of flowering now.
My selection of Epimedium colchicum 'Toplenoe moloko' (Baked Milk)
Phlox kelseyi with unknown phlox
Townsendia leptotes
Pulsatilla vulgaris Perlen Glocke
Spring flowering beds
Very nice garden, Olga.
Some plants in flower this week in the garden.
Corydalis 'Kingfischer'. (photo 1)
Phyteuma hemisphaericum (photo 2 and 3)
Aquilegia pyrenaica (photo 4 and 5)
Campanula nitida (photo 6)
Penstemon hirsutus pygmaeus (photo 7)
Gypsophylla tenuifolia (photo 8)
Scutellaria scordifolia (photo 9)
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Patience my dear Lesley, patience!!! So worth the wait! :D
That's easy for you to say.
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A vendor at my market had some medlar fruit for sale a while back. She's finished selling for the winter now. I wish I had bought a few, as there was probably seed in them and I'd really like a medlar tree, but I've been given 3 fruit of Chaenomeles cathayensis, the Chinese quince and will sow some of their seeds. Paddy, you won't need to remember later, after all. ;D Many thanks though.
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A lost label Phlox flowering at the beginning of May
Azaleas last week
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More pics from last week
Aquilegia flabellata nana alba
Geranium cinereum 'Lawrence Flatman' or a seedling
Aquilegias and Alliums
I would like some more variety in my garden but it is difficult to establish new plants among the prolific self seeders
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Wonderful display everybody !! :o :o :o
I also have some flowers left.. ;D
1) Aquilegia bertolonii
2 - 3) Campanula barbata
4) Campanula nitida (don't the flowers look as if they were made of wax ?? :D)
5) Campanula portenschlagiana does need some space... ;D
6) Dianthus alpinus "Joan's Blood"
7) Edraianthus pumilio seeding about.
8 ) Edraianthus serbicus in a tufa hole
9) Penstemon pinifolius "Wisley Flame"
10) Silene hookeri ssp bolanderi - flowering for the first time :D
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Love your phlox Roma....
And your sweet little silene Luc
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Fantastic plants everyone. This one building up slowly
Stellera chamaejasme
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A wet walk in the woods today..
one of our least common wildflowers.. Calypso bulbosa
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A much more common, but favourite one.. Viola renifolia a plant of moist places, flowering this year throughout the woods, due to our late and heavy snow...
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Calypso bulbosa
It's impossible for me to grow it at the garden. It is very attractive to slugs. :-\ I wonder how them survive in nature. ???
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Yesterdays sunset at the end of my garden
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Calypso bulbosa
It's impossible for me to grow it at the garden. It is very attractive to slugs. :-\ I wonder how them survive in nature. ???
I could be wrong, but I don't think we have slugs in the wild here, as far as I know they are garden animals.. and even in my garden, although I know there are some, they are not really bothering any plants (so far..knock on wood!).. I assume we have enough predators ( a lot of Robins and other birds, maybe rodents?) so the slugs aren't doing much damage...
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Yesterdays sunset at the end of my garden
Lovely atmospheric shot :) What is the little yellow flower?
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I could be wrong, but I don't think we have slugs in the wild here, as far as I know they are garden animals..
Pur slugs are wild. :( They are small but very hungry.
Lovely atmospheric shot :) What is the little yellow flower?
Thank you! Its Trollius europaeus naturalized at the mowing off meadow.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think we have slugs in the wild here, as far as I know they are garden animals..
Pur slugs are wild. :( They are small but very hungry.
Lovely atmospheric shot :) What is the little yellow flower?
Thank you! Its Trollius europaeus naturalized at the mowing off meadow.
Its possible I am wrong and there are slugs in the wild here, but I do not remember ever seeing any--they could be hiding in the day, but when I am photographing I am often close to the ground in damp places...lol..in any case, I don't see much damage--of course many wild plants are eaten-esp deer, moose, rabbits and many insects..
The Calypso is in a wooded area that sometimes has cattle grazing, too.. it was growing beside a small fallen log when I found it several years ago-- I added another log on the other side to protect it from animals stepping on it..
Ah, Trollius, so it is not so small then :)
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Edraianthus pumilio alba has flourished with the first one once today. The plant is a chance seedling at a shady place.
Edraianthus pumilio Alba
Edraianthus pumilio
Edraianthus serpyllifolius
Edraianthus tenuifolius
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One of the few alpines I grow a small potentilla from Japan
Potentilla dickinsii
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That is a VERY nice little Potentilla Tony. Why do you grow just a few alpines? Has the bug not bitten you yet?
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It finally stopped raining, so here are a few pics from today:
Rheum alexandrae
Trillium ?kurabayashii (sown as T. chloropetalum v. giganteum)
Caltha palustris v. barthei
Paeonia mairei
Paeonia obovata
Polygonatum sp. from Hailuogou, Sichuan, 3600m
...and yet another headache-inducing Nujiang Smilacina.
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That is a VERY nice little Potentilla Tony. Why do you grow just a few alpines? Has the bug not bitten you yet?
Lesley the expression 'been there done it' fits I think. I grew alpines for years but my first love is growing bulbs and they suit my conditions best. I can always look at and enjoy other peoples who grow them better than me.
One that probably fits both groups
Weldenia candida
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Tony- exquisite!
Bjornar-- wow wow to the Caltha! What colour! The dark leaf peony is lovely too...
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Oh I really like that Caltha palustris v. barthei 8)
Tony my Weldenia candida is flowering too, I just love the flower.
Angie :)
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That's all right then Tony. :D Of course no-one can live REALLY happily, without a Weldenia. ;D
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Himantoglossum hircinum
Himantoglossum hircinum - The Lizard Orchid captured today in the Picos De Europa National Park in Northern Spain.
Three images showing habitat, flower stem and close-up.
We encountered a total of thirteen plants in three different locations.
To see greatly enlarged images please visit AlpenPix at the following link:-
http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/temperate/?gal=alpenpix
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Fine sturdy plants, Cliff.
Seems the hols are going well... in spite of the Icelandic volvano erupting pretty much as soon as you left the country :-X
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Finally a bit of sun inbetween the showers :)
Dodecatheon amethystinum
Trillium grandiflorum
Paeonia mloko-hybrid
Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink', fantastic hybrid from Susan Band/Pitcairn Alpines
Allium zebdanense
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Finally a bit of sun inbetween the showers :)
Dodecatheon amethystinum
Trillium grandiflorum
Paeonia mloko-hybrid
Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink', fantastic hybrid from Susan Band/Pitcairn Alpines
Allium zebdanense
Looking lovely in your garden :) Sun is supposed to come back here starting tomorrow!
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A few dwarf Salix shoots.
johnw
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And a few more Salix.
johnw
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Finally a bit of sun inbetween the showers :)
Dodecatheon amethystinum
Trillium grandiflorum
Paeonia mloko-hybrid
Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink', fantastic hybrid from Susan Band/Pitcairn Alpines
Allium zebdanense
Nice shooting star!
It has been raining so much, myh shooting start looks like a twisting star.
Koko
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A few in flower today here.
The Narcissus 'Green Pearl' is my absolute favourite.
johnw
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Every one of those willows is cute, John, and I have to agree with you about the narcissus--not a fan of the genus in general, but this one is not silly looking ;D
Oh, and wow to the Podophyllum!
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Nice frilly primula.
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I can't grow many dwarf plants! They are quickly swamped by the really big ones like these:
Lysichiton americanus selfsow and dominate the wetter part of the woodland together with this fern, Matteuccia struthopteris.
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Higher up and closer to the house I have this selfsown peony, a cross between Paeonia lutea and delavayi. Thisone looks more like delavayi but other look more like lutea.
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Lysichiton americanus selfsow and dominate the wetter part of the woodland
Life could be worse Hoy. ;) Lysichitons are fabulous plants. I hope you have L. camtschatcense as well.
johnw
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Lysichiton americanus selfsow and dominate the wetter part of the woodland
Life could be worse Hoy. ;) Lysichitons are fabulous plants. I hope you have L. camtschatcense as well.
johnw
I have camtchatcense but it is a much smaller plant and get swamped too!
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Ten pictures of plants taken in our garden in this month:
Arum nigrum
Calandrinia caespitosa var skottsbergii
Campanula besenginica
Geranium argenteum 'Rubrum'
Houstonia coerulea
Matthiola trojana
Potentilla porphyrantha
Pulsatilla hybrid
Silene nugrescens
Townsendia mensana (I hope the real thing)
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That Potentilla is really lovely - I've occasionally had seed of different species from Czech collectors but never managed to keep them growing, I shall try harder now! I like the Matthiola too, a delicate and very different sort of plant. I have fruticulosa, which came from Richard Bird, and would certainly like to try it again.
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Such a selection of good plants inyour garden, Zdenek.
The Geranium argenteum 'Rubrum' is super... great colour and foliage combination.
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Such a selection of good plants inyour garden, Zdenek.
The Geranium argenteum 'Rubrum' is super... great colour and foliage combination.
I couldn't agree more Maggi !
Wonderful stuff Zdenek !!! ... and the Geranium IS breathtaking !
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Another "RG-size" Geranium is G. sanguineum 'Canon Miles'. The "argenteum" part is on the flower side, on this one! ;o)
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Thank you for your appreciation, Tim, Maggi and Luc. Tim - my Potentilla porphyrantha is however not from any Czech collector, I received its seed from the QARGS.
As tomorrow is June already, I have to hurry to attach here the last selection from my May images:
Calceolaria fothergillii
Cassiope 'Badenoch'
Dianthus repens
Erigeron montanensis
Gentiana acaulis 'Alba'
Haplopappus uniflorus
Incarvillea forrestii
Penstemon eriantherus
Primula reidii williamsii
Saxifraga cebennensis
I leave today to our cottage and garden again and one or two weeks I will not be on internet
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Wonderful plants, Zdenek. I like the Incarvillea forrestii. Mine is not happy at the moment. If I re-pot it, will it require acid or alkaline compost?
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These super photos from Zdenek remind me that none of the Incarvilleas in my garden are doing well... in fact I think none have come up this year at all... of any species :'( Really not sure why... they used to do so well here. :-\
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Beutiful selection Zdenek
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Wonderful plants, Zdenek. I like the Incarvillea forrestii. Mine is not happy at the moment. If I re-pot it, will it require acid or alkaline compost?
As you can see, I grow it in the garden, in a peaty soil which is acid. I am not sure however if it refuse lime.
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These super photos from Zdenek remind me that none of the Incarvilleas in my garden are doing well... in fact I think none have come up this year at all... of any species :'( Really not sure why... they used to do so well here. :-\
Was not there the extraordinary wet winter, Maggi? I leave in several minutes so that I will not be able to reply.
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I can almost smell that plant of Primula reidii - it is one of the only really choice species I have ever tried to foolishly grow down here. Geranium argenteum should do better but I have never managed to grow such a magnificent specimen (Allan Robinson at Wisley years ago was a wizard at propagating these little geraniums, along with quite a bit else!).
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I'm a bit late...no time to sit by the computer but here are some pictures of for me new aquaintances in the garden
Verbascum wiedemannianum is the earliest flowering Verbascum I have ever grown, and the flowers are big and deep lilac in color. It's the only one flowering in the garden this year so I hope to get seed which is true to the species.
Salvia multicaulis has taken a couple of years to reach flowering but started early this year. The bracts are supposed to become maroon later on. I hope it will set some seed too.
I grow Penstemon albertinus in a clay pot outdoors, and it survived fine over the winter, and is now flowering heavily.
Ferula communis was started from seed back in 2005, and comes back every year getting a little bigger each season...I wonder when it will build up a big enough root to support a flowering stem. It's monocarpic , right :'( ?
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It is June now, but the pic is from last week. Calypso bulbosa, classified as vulnerable (VU) in Finland. For last few days I´ve been searching these and got paid for it :).
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It is June now, but the pic is from last week. Calypso bulbosa, classified as vulnerable (VU) in Finland. For last few days I´ve been searching these and got paid for it :).
Getting paid for it would be great! My searching does not help my budget...lol
Interestingly, no orchids on any threatened lists in Alberta, last time I checked--mostly several plants which are really from drylands farther south and just barely make it into Alberta...
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Paul - fantastic to see the Verbascum. It seems hardly ever grown and I never seemed to get good germination of the seed (which seems odd by comparison with the rest of the genus!). My original plants were grown, like so much else, from seed from Jim and Jenny Archibald. The Ferula communis is usually perennial on good well drained soil, especially if it is slow to come up to flowering and has put down a good root. I have a form of it with much more silvery-green leaves, taller habit, and deeper ochre-yellow flowers (ssp. glauca), which does seem less perennial.