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General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Tim Ingram on March 31, 2012, 06:23:07 PM
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This is the prettiest alpine flowering in our garden at the moment. Very difficult to capture properly on camera. Thalictrum orientale. It runs around loosely on a very gritty sunny raised bed and with T. tuberosum is a good species for dry situations, unlike most species. There is also a nice white form. So far though I have not had good seed set, though once established it is easy to divide.
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What a difference a few hundred miles makes, Tim...... no sign of any Thalictrum here as yet.
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T. orientale was introducd to NZ many many years ago, seed sent by the great Roy Elliott, along with other good things. I haven't seen it about for a few years though. :(
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Another plant flowering very nicely with us at the moment - Iris suaveolens. We also have much smaller plant of the violet-blue form but so far this has not produced many flowers. They both grow well in a very gritty-sandy soil, and will definitely encourage me to try more of the small irises.
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In my zone 4 climate where summers are hot (compare to Europe), Iris suaveolens isn't picky at all about soil. Mine grow in fairly rich, but pretty dry, clay based soil. The "pebbles" you see in the 19 March photo below are bits of dried clay soil, not rocks. The key to growing the arcing, falcate leaves is full sun and NO crowding.
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Perhaps the most beautiful plant in the garden when the flowers open like this - Adonis vernalis. This is slowly forming stronger clumps after sowing seed (from Jelitto) probably seven or eight years ago, and there is slight variation in colour between plants. Although it seems to set seed I have only ever had a few germinate.
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Wonderful Adonis plant and picture, Tim. Who could resist it with those dark, mysterious looking buds ?
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Hi!
Gentiana from My Garden:
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Let a day make nicer to you!
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Iris latifolia photographed today in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Southern Spain in the most glorious weather.
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On your hols, Cliff?
Those lovely Iris are "locally plentiful" it seems :)
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Hols, Maggi ... glorious sun, G&T's and flowers, what more could you want!!!
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Cliff could you take some of that lovely sun back to the UK. Looks great, enjoy yourself.
Angie :)
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Cliff please tell us more about where you are staying it looks great.
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Hi Mark,
We are based at Lanjaron in Las Alpajurras - thirty minutes equidistant from the coast, Granada and the high Sierras (where, incidentally, there is a drought at the moment even though snow is still present). The weather is set fair for the next six days at least.
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Sorry to be picky, but is Iris latifolia not a bulbous iris?, the beginnings of what we know as "English" irises, like larger, more sumptuous "Dutch" irises. Or are the bulbs here growing among another, rhizomatous species, not in flower?
Great holiday though Cliff. Enjoy it and the weather and definitely the G and Ts. ;D
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Sorry to be picky, but is Iris latifolia not a bulbous iris?, the beginnings of what we know as "English" irises, like larger, more sumptuous "Dutch" irises. Or are the bulbs here growing among another, rhizomatous species, not in flower?
Yes, I agree with Lesley, I latifolia is bulbous. I think the picture shows Iris germanica, and what a magnificent clump and a fantastic picture ;D (also, Iris latifolia is native to the north of Spain, although there could be garden escapes further south)
Have a great hol ;D
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Many thanks ladies, I agree with you both. G&T's, a morning tumble in the shower resulting in a 'decent' crack on the cranium and too much sun during the day clouded my judgement, but do I look in the least bit 'bovvered' (as is the vernacular)? Oh no!!!
Off to Granada today and the sun is high!
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G&T's, a morning tumble in the shower resulting in a 'decent' crack on the cranium
well if you will have G&Ts before your morning shower then I've no sympathy ;D
Enjoy Granada (I'm sure you will) ;D
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'Ere 'Ere. To both sentiments. But be careful in the shower, tumbling is supposed to be the prerogative (?)of us oldies. ;D
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I don't know, Lesley. A tumble in the shower can be quite fun..... depending of course on what your definition of having a tumble is? ;D
I'll probably be hit for this. ::) :P
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A tumble in the shower can be quite fun
Hmm... puts me in mind of a friend who said his favourite breakfast was a roll in bed with a little honey...... ;)
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Many thanks for the torrents of sympathy (matched only by the words of my beloved wife and children; "Plonker"; "Dimwit"; "You're too old for shower surfing"!!!
Johnny and Clare Dower were at least ready to offer alcoholic support in the shape of EVENING G&T's.
The Alhambra was ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT today (after a 40 minute queue to get in). Enough images for a future lecture!!!
More plant hunting tomorrow - weather is simply glorious.
Kind regards to you all ... and thanks once again for the sympathy!!! ;D ;D ;D
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That's a very old persons thing to do Mr B. ;D
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I agree totally, Mr. N. ... and so out of character! I'm usually just a big kid!!! ;D
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Even though we can't post pictures at the moment while Fast Fred works at installing the new scent button, I think it is absolutely wonderful that we still can post text, and talk with each other and still be as silly as we usually are. ;D
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Hi!
I suggest meditation on Ribnica lake on Pohorje (Slovenia):
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First flower just opening on , Aquilegia jonesii :)
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Well done Michael - not an easy one to flower.
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Tony, this is the first time I have got one to flower. :)
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My photo of the day - taken high on the French/Swiss border above Le Tours - Gentiana purpurea with the French mountains in the background.
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Cracking picture Cliff.
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Thanks David.
Image of the day ... a bistro sign in Annecy, France ... note the hanging sign to the right.
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Don't they say the French will eat anything!
Sorry French friends, just a humble Islander's joke ;)
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Love your pics Cliff! Ref second one: I'll send them some come winter....
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Orostachys iwarengi and Rosularia sedoides. They are very late this year!
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This little campanula has produced a second flush of flowers, perhaps stimulated by the summer rains we have been having. It is growing in deep pure sandy grit.
Campanula zoysii
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I must have tried this a dozen times over the years but the slugs got the better of it every time.
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I must have tried this a dozen times over the years but the slugs got the better of it every time.
I can echo David's sentiments but must add a few to the total. Lovely plant, Tim.
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Gentianella campestris in excellent shape in the Haut-Vanoise two days ago.
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Cliff, are they all like that? I am familiar with the species but they don't look like that at my cabin!
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Cliff, are they all like that? I am familiar with the species but they don't look like that at my cabin!
This was a particularly fine example, Trond, but most were less floriferous, shorter (some minute) and varied from white through pale lilac to this lovely dark shade. Certainly different from the G. campestris/G. germanica examples that we see in the Dolomites. I feel that the gentianellas are a complex group and find them extremely difficult to split.
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Scutellaria alpina
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The wonderful Paradisia Alpine Botanic Garden, Valnontey, Gran Paradiso, Italy.
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Gentiana nivalis
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Snow gentian it may be but it seems to be reaching for the sky. :)
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A natural rock garden in the Dolomites - so many species growing in happy association.
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Really like the Gentiana nivalis picture Cliff . Arrived back home today and suffering from temperature withdrawal . Will post pictures this weekend hopefully
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A natural rock garden in the Dolomites - so many species growing in happy association.
The Dowers and the McLoughlins weren't there, have they? Last time I saw a garden like that............ ;)
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A day in the Dolomites - great hike, great company (Joe plus Sue and Cliff Booker), and great plants (Papaver rhaeticum). We came to a limestone rubble area and it was mostly populated by hundreds of Papaver rhaeticum - in the standard bright yellow, pale yellow, some going over with orange tones, and the best find ... a pure white form (several). This is also an area where I've seen the white form of Thlaspi rotundifolium.
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We remember it well, Anne ... what a day and what a location.
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Hi!
Some flowers from Muntain of Velika planina (Slovenia):
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This is the first time Gentiana depressa has flowered in the garden, despite growing surprisingly well on the cooler edge of the sand bed. What a wonderful flower, and how would it look if flowering freely?! (The plant came originally from Pottertons Nursery).
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Isn't that just the sweetest little gentian? Congratulations, Tim.
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This is what it's like when it flowers freely Tim. ;D I have this particular shot as my wallpaper when I turn on the computer. It's still not as good though as the one I was able to post on the old original Forum whose archives we can no longer access and I can't find the original. It had over 100 flowers out at once. I've only once had fertile seed from it, and just a single pod but it had more than 100 seeds in it, all fertile. After potting, they quickly went to the great rock garden in the sky and no amount of hand-pollinating since has achieved another pod except a single one this year, which was eaten by something before it fully matured.
I have not grown it under glass and find it does best for me in a raised bed or a trough.
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Mag...ruddy...nificent, Lesley!!!!!!!!!
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I don't what to say Lesley, except that on NARGS I expected someone in Scotland to show a picture like yours! What a sight! I shall hide my light under a bushel from now on!
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Here, for G. depressa, we have only managed foliage.... and that not in the best of condition .... :'(
G. depressa and G. urnula are two of the most attractive little flowers I can imagine .... andd that's all I can do - imagine. ::)
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I don't what to say Lesley, except that on NARGS I expected someone in Scotland to show a picture like yours! What a sight! I shall hide my light under a bushel from now on!
No Tim, don't hide your light. You have so many wonderful things that I can never hope to grow at all let alone well. This one just happens to have done well for me. Many others have not. I bought it from a local nursery but don't know where her plants came from. I once had G. amoena also from a local source, and I believe it is close to G. urnula. It too flowered well for me in a raised bed, the flowers a lovely violet shade and stemless and tubby as well. But I lost it when we moved house and it had to be lifted.
Maggi, it must be possible to grow G. depressa well in Scotland surely. At one time I sent a small piece to Anthony and I believe it established OK for him. If I get fertile seed again..... but I've said that too many times already and have a small queue waiting. ::)
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I would hope it is possible to grow G. depressa well somewhere in Scotland, Lesley - it's just not here, chez nous! :-[
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I was just searching for something else in an old SRGC Journal and I found this note from 1953 :
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A reminder that Journals 1 to 113 of the SRGC are available to download, with a full index (prepared by Glassford Sprunt) from the website:
http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/journal (http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/journal)
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Mine doesn't seem to have any spotting at all so there's obvious variation among forms. The plant I had of amoena had a more compact and squared off rosette, closer to (but not as tight as) that of G. urnula (from the few Internet pics I've been able to find).
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Hi!
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Dianthus plumarius has looked good all year. They went out of favor for some reason, but I love them. Short growing to 25cm, they will flower for two months then given a haircut, will spark into flower again. Tremendous rock plant or front of the border plant.
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This is an appropriate little plant for SRGC because it was raised by Eric Smith and Jim Archibald at 'The Plantsman Nursery'. Geranium x lindavicum 'Gypsy'. (I imagine Jim, who named it, ran into some belles on his travels!). It is a super plant, but slow and difficult to propagate like a lot of these small alpine geraniums. It was a cross between the much paler x lindavicum 'Lissadell' and cinereum ssp. subcaulescens.
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High above Chamonix, France ... with stand of Gentiana purpurea (few in flower).
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High above Chamonix, France ... Gentiana purpurea on the French-Italian border.
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High above Chamonix, France ... Gentiana purpurea on the French-Italian border.
Vau!
Thank's Clif!
Best Regards! zvone
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Many thanks Zvone ... kind regards to you.
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Hi!
Some Pictures from Mount Olševa (Slovenia).
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Hi!
Send some pictures from Mount Peca:
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I visited your website - thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures of beautiful places. I especially liked the close-up of the ranunculus flower surrounded with snow/frost.
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I visited your website - thanks for sharing the beautiful pictures of beautiful places. I especially liked the close-up of the ranunculus flower surrounded with snow/frost.
Thank's astragalus!
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Marry Cristmas and Happy New Year!
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Referring back to Reply 60, Maggi's post with the note about what Gentiana depressa is likely to enjoy. My own two plants show quite clearly that the "full exposure" mentioned, is the right thing.
The first picture was taken this morning in a trough in full sun though I shade it on some of the recent days when the temp has been in the low 30s and with full sun. It is much more compact but spreading along well and undisturbed should fill the crevice very soon, with thin runners at each end. The second is another plant in the tunnel house, shaded and moister and far fewer buds forming, maybe 5 or 6 while the trough plant has at least 20. The second plant is crying out to yield numerous cuttings. Usually I do them in the late spring but without flowers, the stems should root happily now.
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Hi!
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Please don't miss these wonderful images.
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Please don't miss these wonderful images.
Thank's Clif!
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Can we have them without the snow, I have had enough of snow lately. Only joking. Really lovely images and snow with beautiful blue skies is so magical.
Angie :)
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Can we have them without the snow, I have had enough of snow lately. Only joking. Really lovely images and snow with beautiful blue skies is so magical.
Angie :)
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Thank's Angie!
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Beautiful images. Wish we had the snow here - it's mostly gone now, which leaves th eplants exposed to the deer.
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Beautiful images. Wish we had the snow here - it's mostly gone now, which leaves th eplants exposed to the deer.
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Thank's astragalus!
Yas! Winter can be right wonderful!
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