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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: meanie on August 05, 2011, 10:47:12 PM
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Really pleased to finally see some action on the Scadoxus multiflorus (Katherine) at last!
Forgive my indulgence in posting Mimosa pudica, but I always grow a couple every year as they amuse me and I do like them.
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I sadly lost most of the perennial Lobelia last winter, but fortunately I had this Fan Scarlet coming along from seed in the cold frame.
The second is a new addition and it's great to see it blooming - Impatiens morsei.
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I have just collected seed from Clintonia andrewsiana before the blackbirds get it what a colour, here is a picture, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Nice plant Ian but hard to find ::)
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Something happened to my birch tree yesterday
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yes, I peels the cracking outer bark and today it is pristine. Today the step ladder comes comes out so I can reach higher
I tried to find the moan about my mother ripping off a small branch because she "thought it was leaning too far over the neighbours fence". The scar is healing nicely
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What about Angelica for the larger rockery/scree? These looked great in a garden I visited on Saturday
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Be careful Mark, they reseed a lot ::)
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1. Eryngium Planum blue hobbit
2. Iberis Betty Swainson. lovely thing
3. Campanula prenanthiodes
4. Lilium Black Beauty
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Very nice Dave.
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My Tacca chantrieri is officially in bloom!
It's getting darker by the day now as well.
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Fred says the attachment facility may need to be out of action for a few more days .... the volume of work required is bigger due to the vast size of the Forum.
For those of you missing the photos on the forum, Ian's latest Bulb Log is online :D
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2011Aug101312971183BULB_LOG__3211.pdf
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Are any of you up there in Scotland going to see the Burryman in Queensferry, Edinburgh on Friday? And if so can you take some pictures?
http://www.ferryfair.co.uk/Burrayman.html
http://www.ferryfair.co.uk/route%202011.html
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A bit of fun in a friend's garden and a very artistic planting of heucheras.
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Yes, the duck clothed with feathery Tanacetum is fun.
I like the mixed pots with the Heucheras, too. Always so good to see planting ideas like that from other folks' gardens.
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I agree with Maggi abouth both the Tanacetum, and the Heucheras, lovely plantings, and photos.
We have a few plants in the garden that have been here from its start in 1937, and one is a Tanacetum my grandmother brought from the farm they moved from. It was intended for a particular use, namely, to be picked and placed in rooms of the house after cleaning to freshen them up. I do not know what detergents they had/used in those times, probably some greensoap, but "fragrancewise" tansy beats most of todays cleaning agents hands down.
Another plant that has been in the garden for a very long time (before 1950) is Rosa 'New Dawn'. The plant we have today is a cutting of the original plant I took when we had to remove the old plant to fix the drainage around the house. The first picture show the 'New Dawn' with a chicory of coffee fame (or should that be "infame"), the seed of which was pick on an Ontario, Canada, roadside verge, about ten years ago. Another Canadian European roadside weed blooming here now is shown in the second picture, Potentilla recta, the seed of which was also picked along an Ontarian road. This plant is for sale in garden centers here, but only a clear yellow form, we like this pale yellow one.
Knud
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I used to have a Rosa 'New Dawn' and was very fond of it, though it had no wonderful provenance and family meaning like yours, Knud.
What a super pair of colours of the rose and the chicory - a classic combiantion of tones to appeal to every eye, I think.
I see what you mean about the 'soft' yellow of the potentilla. There are times when a strong, or acid yellow does give a cheery jolt but that restrained yellow is both rlaxing and cheering. Marvelous what we can achieve with our flowers, isn't it?
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No doubt August is a month of phloxes here.
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Lovely selection, Olga.
Paddy
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Coming in late with this plant because when I cut in down just now I see it had 22 flower stems
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Here are some pictures of Aconitum napellus, which was growing when we went on a hike along some old mines in western Sweden at the end of July. Some were growing at an old abandoned cottage and these in the pictures were growing in a clearing in the woods. They really stood their ground well in competition with the natural flora, and the flowers were really at their peak. I think I might return there in September and collect some seeds, as I would really like to grow some...even though it's a common garden plant.
[attachthumb=6] I enclose a picture of another aconite which I have in the garden, called
Aconitum heterophyllum, which has a nice veining on the lips and helmet.
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Gorgeous phloxes Olga, and I love the eryngium soo. I really liked E. maritimum shown elsewhere. Aconites mean the end of summer here and give a great show. Thank you everyone.
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I like eryngiums very much for their blue color. But I moved them out because they were a real weed. Only one stays at my garden, Eryngium yuccifolium. It blooms much later and does not sow itself.
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At the friend's garden
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Beautiful pics, Olga. Gorgeous!! I love that last one at the friend's place.
Nice Eryngium, Mark. Great display.
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[attachthumb=1] Here are two pictures of a primrose which is new for me in cultivation; Oenothera rhombipetala from the plain states in midwestern USA. I think it's biennial.
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I have also grown Argemone sanguinea from southern Texas which sported flowers in threee different colors
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Prunus spinosa coming closer to maturity... Will be a good harvest this year...
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Is Prunus spinosa the sloe? I remember staying with the late Tony Colmer and though his family had eaten all the sloes, the gin left in the bottle was extremely good. ;D
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[attachthumb=1]Asclepias is an intereseting genus, and some spread terribly by underground runners, like A. syriaca, which I managed to eradicate from one bed, and now moved to another, where it does spread, but no too terribly. The drier the better in controlling it. The flowers smell sweet, and attract all sorts of insects. This species usually set viable seed, while many others don't.
One that doesn't spread and which is very hardy is A. tuberosa. It takes a few years to reach flowering size from seed, but gets better and better the older it gets. The orange flowers really stand out. [attachthumb=2]
When I was out looking for cloudberries I ran into this Calla palustris plant, which usually have green leaves, but this plant had a reddish tone to the leaf
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Cirsium discolor is a thistle from the prairies of North America, and it's monocarpic ( usually biennial ). [attachthumb=4]
And one of the flowers close up: [attachthumb=5]
An annual which I have grown this summer is Clarkia speciosa ssp immaculata, and what can I say it IS immaculate[attachthumb=6]
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Vincetoxicum canescens has flowered every year, but it is first this year that it has formed fruits, which are interesting looking.
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Paul - so nice to see the Asclepias. We used to grow A. tuberosa on the nursery but I never managed to really establish it in the garden. There are some wonderful species, especially the smaller alpine ones, but I am yet to find what they like. One larger species that does well is speciosa, and I am waiting to see if I get flowers on vestita, which has similar but narrower grey-hairy leaves and a less vigorous habit. My memory of Vincetoxicum at Wisley is that it has very good yellow autumn foliage, reminiscent of the related amsonias.
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Hi Tim ! I grow Asclepias speciosa too, and it has nice big flowers. It spreads some, but not quite as much as A. syriaca. Asclepias stenophylla is flowering for me this year as well, also A. exaltata, viridis and A variegata. I have A. quadrifolia, ovalifolia, cordifolia, purpurascens, hirtella, obovata, cryptoceras, sullivantii and fascicularis, but they have not flowered yet.
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Here are some more flowers which are flowering now:
Iliamna remota is a nice mallow with pink flowers.
Lophospermum erubescens. It doesn't survive outdoors here in Sweden, so I will try to overwinter it this year. Anyone else in a nothern climate who has tried ?
Some more pictures of Dianthus libanotis, which really puts on a nice display.
I like Gaillardias and here is a picture of Gaillardia pinnatifida, which likes desert like conditions, which are hard to mimic here.
Saponaria pamphylica
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...and a few more
Sanguisorba canadensis
Salvia campanulata, which is very similar to Salvia castanea, besides for the cream colored flowers
When I was out picking blueberries and mushrooms on Thursday I ran into this peculiar looking mushroom, which is called stink-mushroom or corpse-mushroom in Swedish. It can be detected from up to 10m away by its odour. As young it's burried in the ground looking much like an egg ( also called witch egg ), when it becomes ripe, usually at dusk, the egg cracks open and out rises this penis looking receptacle, and it can grow to its full length ( 15- 20 cm ) in 1,5 to 2hrs, so you can practically see it growíng. The spores are spread by flies and slugs. It looks like its suffering from multiple and severe forms of STD:s
Nature is pretty amazing.
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Paul, on summer 2010 I have grown in a big pot Lophospermum purpusii 'Victoria Falls' and Pelargonium Voodoo I have kept frost free during winter. Lophospermum had produced as a tuber which have grown up again this spring, better display than last year ;D
It could be the same for your erubescens...
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Thank you Nicole ! I will keep in in a pot indoors, and see if it will survive. I will not be able to keep it cool, but maybe it can be cut back if it grows too big.
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Assorted garden pinks by greenhouse.
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Baileys Celebration
Devon Cream
Haytor Rock
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Good value plants Giles, very pretty. Haytor is only about ten miles from where we live
http://www.haytorrock.co.uk/
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- I got them from Whetman's, David, £1.50 each, and guaranteed virus free (I know of no better place to get pinks).
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- I got them from Whetman's, David, £1.50 each, and guaranteed virus free (I know of no better place to get pinks).
Agreed Giles, although Mark's plants bought from Allwood's looked OK
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Giles do you grow any Pinks with the prefix Oakwood,a chap i know from Ollerton a little mining village near me bred them,they are usually show blooms.
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Yes, I grow 'Oakwood Billy Boole'.
The Oakwood pinks (and other show pinks) are available from http://newportmillsnursery.farming.officelive.com/Pinks.aspx
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There are times when a strong, or acid yellow does give a cheery jolt but that restrained yellow is both rlaxing and cheering. Marvelous what we can achieve with our flowers, isn't it?
A cheery jolt for your birthday, Maggi, and all the very best for your new year. A 'King's candle', as we call verbascum, for the leading light of the forum. I am not sure if it is Verbascum olympicum or V. densiflorum. It is a biennial, and self-seeds in the garden. We normally have two-three plants each year, and they grow to just under 2 m (6'+).
The Clematis integrifolia has been blooming for a month now. It still has a few buds, and they are very attractive. We received this plant as seedling about 10 years ago, seeds apparently from near Lake Baikal, Russia.
Knud
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Thank you, Knud,
your Verbascum has made an excellent replacement for the sun which has just disappeared here!
Your photos of the Clematis buds are delightful. The shapes are so sinuous and the delicate bud is just the most sumptuous colour..... very nice indeed.
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Two lovely little Cyclamen are colouring up the alpine-house today.
We have 2 pots of Cyclamen africanum one comes with leaves and one without. The third picture is not upside down this is the pot without leaves and it's mother has not taught it deportment all the flowers are lying flat and thus difficult to photograph.
The Cyclamen intaminatum has the most delicate of veining on the flowers and I think I have managed to capture this so you can all see.
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They're lovely Shelagh. I'm very fond of intaminatum. :)
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One of the most perfect blooms around - Plumbago capensis!
Grown from seed which was sown in January.
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I have three Codonopsis flowering just now.
Codonopsis grey-wilsonii
1 this came in a pot of Corydalis
2 one I've had a long time growing outside
3 the same one growing in the greenhouse
Codonopsis grey-wilsoni 'Himal Snow'
Codonopsis vinciflora
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They're lovely Roma - I tried to grow from seed, but they came to nothing.
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I don't think I've tried this three from seed. We had them at the Cruickshank Garden and when grown in a pot the original tuber grows bigger but also produces lots of smaller ones a bit like a potato so there were always plenty to spare at repotting time. I wanted ovata for a long time and eventually did get a seedling of the true plant. Lots of Codonopsis seed produces Codonopsis clematidea, regardless of the name on the label and it can become a bit of a weed.
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Sorry, I should have said it was C.forrestii.
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Hi Roma
Your Codonopsis are lovely. Many many years ago I bought my first plant. I remember when it came in the post it was the size of a pea. I thought to myself well is that it but that tiny tuber has given me loads. It's such a lovely flower. I put it all over the garden to grow through shrubs, but have to be careful that I don't break the fragile stem when it first comes out of the ground.
I think it is a wonderful plant, worth having.
Angie :)
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One of the most perfect blooms around - Plumbago capensis!
Grown from seed which was sown in January.
That's one for the "Arty Images" thread Meanie. :)
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Roma, your pictures suggest that C. grey-wilsonii varies quite a lot. As I understand it, but could well be wrong, grey-wilsonii is what I used to grow as C. convolvulacea, with a red band in the throat? Yes? No?
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One of the most perfect blooms around - Plumbago capensis!
Grown from seed which was sown in January.
That's one for the "Arty Images" thread Meanie. :)
I had no idea there was one - you've unleashed the beast in me now!
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That's one for the "Arty Images" thread Meanie. :)
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We need the occasional beast on the Forum Meanie. ;)
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I'm not that bad really!
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Yes Lesley, Codonopsis grey-wilsonii used to be convolvulaceae then briefly nepalensis. The 2nd one is nearest to the true colour. I don't know why the one in the greenhouse does not show the red ring as I believe the one in the garden is the same one from used compost. It is possible it is a seedling.
As Angela says it is very easy to break off the new shoots when weeding in the garden, but it is lovely growing up through shrubs and dwarf rhododendrons.
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Codonopsis are just amazing, or at least from the pics I've seen. So variable, but all beautiful. Not something I've ever seen in Australia. Are all climbers/scramblers, or is it a genus that has a variety of types? Sorry if I've asked this before, but if so I cannot remember the answer. ::)
Thanks for the pics Roma.
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Autumn. Ripe berries of the sloe, Prunus spinosa.
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Paul, I think most Codonopsis are light twiners and quite delicate. A few grow short stems from the tuber and so look more like regular perennials. The little twiners grow from small fleshy tubers and as Angie says, it is so easy to break off the thin stems which are almost invisible as they emerge with bluish-green leaves, small and fine. The foliage of C. grey-wilsonii and vincaeflora is almost steely blue colour and the largest leaves are at the top of the stems by which time the stems have become a little thicker. They are generally blue shades and some are beautifully marked but there is the occasional green-flowered species and some species have beautiful white forms, such as C. g-w 'Himal Snow.' They are easy from seed but slow going at first. I may be able to get a little seed to you next season. The tubers of e.g. C. clematidea, a shorter species, are like a mandrake-type tuber but fleshy rather than tough and leathery.
I've sometimes had a batch in the nursery, potted individually as tubers but always made the mistake of putting the plants with each other, in a batch. Before I noticed they were through, the little thin stems had come up and leaned over towards the others and in no time at all there was a mass of twisted conjoined stems, utterly impossible to separate and so not able to be sold. I eventually learned to put a pot here, another there and also to put in a small stake such as a 40 cms twig from a peach tree, with each tuber as I potted it. Then they climbed instead of rushing towards each other. The untrained mass looked like a seething snake pit. :o
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Lesley,
Thanks for the offer. Much as I'd love the seed, probably better to give it to someone who could do them justice. ::) Probably doomed here in my climate by the sound of it. :'(
Thanks heaps! 8)
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I send a dozen of my plants flowering in the second half of July. I apologize myself, I was not able to send them sooner.
They are:
Allium insubricum
Campanula cashmiriana
Campanula kirpicznikovii
Campanula waldsteiniana
Cyananthus flavus
Cyananthus incanus
Erodium cheilanthifolium
Gaultheria procumbens
Hypericum yakusimanum
Paronychia sessiliflora
Potentilla nivea
Townsendia sp.
Note One: I received the Cyananthus flavus as C. lobatus 'Albus'. In fact it can be also C macrocalyx, I am not sure.
Note Two: I received the Townsendia as T. alpigena var. caelilinensis, it is however quite different from T. alpigena by my oppinion. I think it could be T. jonesii or jonesii var tumulosa. Can somebody help me?
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I am sorry, the last two pictures are here.
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One of my favorite plants in the garden today, Romneya coulteri. It just amazes me how it unfolds itself.
Another plant today that caught my eye in the garden was Beesia calthifolia I bought it this year at the conference. I purchased it for its beautiful foliage but I thought the flower and the seed pods looked very attractive.
Angie :)
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Super photos, Angela, especially of the Romneya.
I wonder if your Beesia has made good seeds? I'd love to try a couple if they ripen. ;)
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Maggi the pods are like little chutes. I will look for seed tomorrow. Its a lovely plant and growing well.
Angie :)
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Cyananthus integer x sherriffii
Not sure if it's a valid name but got it as this many years ago from Jack Drake's nursery. It grows in my heather bed but the heathers around it have died off or got so straggly they had to be removed. Erica arborea used to give it shade but there's not much left after last winter though it has put on quite a bit of growth. I will have to protect it this winter from weather and deer or there won't be enough of it left to recover.
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2 Taiwanese Asarum from lower altitudes which often flower several times during the season. Asarum hypogynum is the largest of the Taiwan species, both in leaf (upto 30 cm long) and in flower. A 50 eurocent coin next to it for size comparison. Asarum epigynum comes in a variety of leaf forms and usually occurs in large colonies in the wild due to the ease with which it sets seed, the old flower next to it has lost all its hairs and has a ripening fruit. Unfortunately not hardy enough for the open garden in NL
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Nice, Pascal. 8)
By coincidence, I have Asarum maxima, splendens and delaveyi in flower here at present in the southern hemisphere. ;D I've not come across either of your two species before. Thanks.
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I've not come across either of your two species before.
Epigynum and hypogynum were both introduced for the first time by Crug Farm but epigynum only in the nettled form as "Silver Web" and looking at their website it is not available at the moment (and not much help for you living on the other side of the world). I have a similar form in my collection but also a lime-green leaved form.
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Autumn. Ripe berries of the sloe, Prunus spinosa.
excellent fruit! For the last few years the sloes around here have been very poor
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Just a few pictures from a quick trip to RBGE at the weekend - I was with 'non-plant people' (i.e. the family) and we only went in for a coffee at the very busy restaurant so these pictures are all I managed to grab as we walked past. Something for the delegates at the late bulb display to look forward to at the weekend.
1. A tree in flower! Aesculus parviflora
2. Colchicum bornmuelleri - popping up everywhere, and looking fabulous in the sunshine.
3. Roscoea 'Red Gurkha'. I used to grow this :'(
4. A Rhododendron in flower! Rhododendron beanianum
5. Tropaeolum speciosum
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Clematis Mary Rose has been looking great for several weeks now
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Another plant today that caught my eye in the garden was Beesia calthifolia I bought it this year at the conference. I purchased it for its beautiful foliage but I thought the flower and the seed pods looked very attractive.
Could you post a picture of the foliage? I've never seen the true B. calthifolia in cultivation, they've always been misidentified B. deltophylla.
ETA: Added a picture of the real B. calthifolia, from Zhongdian, 4000m. The leaves are around the same size as Asarum caudatum.
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the foliage on that beesia looks different to mine.when i met dan hinckley at crug he said there beesia isnt calthifolia but another species!!!!cant remember what though..great plant anyhow. ;)
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Another plant today that caught my eye in the garden was Beesia calthifolia I bought it this year at the conference. I purchased it for its beautiful foliage but I thought the flower and the seed pods looked very attractive.
Could you post a picture of the foliage? I've never seen the true B. calthifolia in cultivation, they've always been misidentified B. deltophylla.
ETA: Added a picture of the real B. calthifolia, from Zhongdian, 4000m. The leaves are around the same size as Asarum caudatum.
Here is a picture of my leaves of B. calthifolia, mine look as if they have a more leathery look. Never seen this plant before so nothing to compare with. The foliage is lovely when new.
Hope the picture is good enough.
Angie :)
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Here is a picture of my leaves of B. calthifolia, mine look as if they have a more leathery look. Never seen this plant before so nothing to compare with. The foliage is lovely when new.
Hope the picture is good enough.
Thank you for the pictures, it's the same plant that I grow. It looks (and behaves) quite different from those B. calthifolia I've seen in Sichuan and Yunnan, although to be honest I'm not at all sure what it is... Googling Beesia deltophylla (http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&aq=2h&oq=beesia&rlz=1T4GUEA_enNO332NO332&q=beesia+deltophylla&biw=1024&bih=588) brings up a lot of pictures identical to your plant, but that species is only found in a very remote area of S Tibet, and the herbarium sheets (http://www.cvh.org.cn/lsid/detail.php?lsid=urn:lsid:cvh.org.cn:specimens:PE_00028304) (2) (http://www.cvh.org.cn/lsid/detail.php?lsid=urn:lsid:cvh.org.cn:specimens:PE_00440501) are clearly different. Maybe its true identity is found among some of the synonyms listed in the FoC; B. cordata or B. elongata?