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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Michael J Campbell on April 01, 2012, 08:03:07 PM
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Clematis columbiana var tenuiloba
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Lovely Michael. I saw a nice pot of this on the benches at the South West AGS Show yesterday.
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It was a beautiful day in Kent today - a few pictures from my garden.
1 - Iris attica
2 - Cypripedium formosanum (my first ever flower - shame it is pink! I really want to try some other Cypripedium if anyone has any spares ;) )
3 - Trillium kurabayashii (great leaves - look like my camouflage clothing ;D )
4 - Double Hellebore
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Kentgardener, I see only Carmouflage at the trillium. Where are all the flowers? ::)
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Hagen,
Isn't the camouflage on the trillium flowers absolutely brilliant. I can't see them either and I've stared at the photograph for ages.
Trillium 'John Finch's Camouflage', I wonder?
Paddy
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Of course Pappy, this is it!!!
You have the right words ;).
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Isn't the camouflage on the trillium flowers absolutely brilliant. I can't see them either and I've stared at the photograph for ages.
Cheeky beggar!! :P
Maybe they were just feeling shy this year. ;)
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Who needs flowers when there are leaves as good as those 8)
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John - When the weather gets really hot you can trade your Ficus carica leaf in for a kurabyashii. :-X
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Hi all, the weather has gone Baltic today and I have been running around putting some fleece over plants as we are to have snow HELP. I managed to get a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Amazing Trilliums, Ian !
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John - When the weather gets really hot you can trade your Ficus carica leaf in for a kurabyashii. :-X
I've already got Begonia taliensis lined up for the same effect.
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Hi all, the weather has gone Baltic today and I have been running around putting some fleece over plants as we are to have snow HELP. I managed to get a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind
I hope the cold is not as bad as we all fear, Ian. Raining here so perhaps we will be lucky and miss the frost and snow?
Fingers crossed for you and those beautiful flowers.
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He cut out the flowers so the plants would match his shirt. ;D
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The Trillium simle Purple Haze is gorgeous!! :o
Good luck for those expecting freezes. I hope they don't eventuate.
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Good morning all, well the worst has arrived we have at least 4 inches of snow and still more falling, I am expecting many plans will be finished now. Pictures taken this morning, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Ian, I can't believe that snow. Next reindeer will be chewing on your Trilliums. Here's what was snug in the greenhouse today. Most are seedlings of Podophyllum vietchii, a few are crosses with Podophyllum plieanthum, the ones down the middle came up as root props off Podophyllum Spotty Dotty.
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Hello Phillip, great podophyllums hope Santa will not arrive with the raindeer, the Trilliums are under cover but have no idea if they will stand the big temperature drop, cheers Ian.
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Waouh Philip :o I'm green of envy ;D
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Wonderful selection of pods Philip, I particularly like the snowflake shaped red one above the two green, but they are all super.
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Ian,
Oh bother (nicer way of putting what I really said), that is a lot of snow on a spring display. Ouch!
Philip,
I am amazed at the leaf variation. I had no idea there were so many. I grow 3 or 4 Podophyllums (that's all I've managed to find so far), so your pic is very inspiring. I might have to try to track down more seed now, having seen all of yours. I was given seed of Podophyllum pleianthemum a couple of years ago and it has done brilliantly, so seed works well here for me as well. All green though so far, as is of course expected from that species. ;D
Thanks heaps for the pics. Hopefully you can show us some of the results further down the line, and whether you get interesting flower variations etc from the hybrids. Exciting!!
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Philip - Are you crossing your best veitchiis together or just collecting seed from them all? Spectacular range of colours there.
Is Spotty Dotty fertile?
Have you had failures with Kaleidoscope? Can't keep it going here at all and difforme is another tricky customer.
You must apologize for keeping Maggi up all night as she had a late nigth (early morning) preview of your pix.
johnw
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Some plants in flower here now:
Bellevalia pycnantha
Iris bucharica
Iris x graeberiana 'Yellow Fall'
Trillium albidum
Anemone nemerosa 'Dee Day'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Dark Beauty'
Fritillaria imperialis
Fritillaria meleagris
Ranunculus ficaria 'Salad Bowl'
and Thalictrum thalictroides 'Pink flash'
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Funny ranunculus Wim :D Do you grow your Iris x graeberiana all year in your garden and how please ?
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Funny ranunculus Wim :D Do you grow your Iris x graeberiana all year in your garden and how please ?
Nicole, it grows outside all year round, in pure sand (+/- 40 cm deep) and I put it under cover from half June until half September...so it gets a good dry baking in summer!
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Hiall, thanks for super pictures they have cheered me up, snow beginning to melt, cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Lovely to see the red Fritillaria imperialis, could someone explain to me why I can grow the yellow one with no trouble, but not the red? :-\
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Thank you Wim ;)
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Philip. :o WOW! ;D
That is just my kind of image.
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Wonderful selction Wim.
Particularly like Epimedium Dark Beauty and Thalictrum Pink Flash.
The folliage on the Epi is amazing.
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Philip. :o WOW! ;D
That is just my kind of image.
John - I thought you might be in Philip's podo photos but I still can't find you. ;)
johnw
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John - I thought you might be in Philip's podo photos but I still can't find you. ;)
;D ;D
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Wim,
Lovely photos. So nice to see Frit imperialis..... struggles for me but I will prevail eventually. ::)
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It is not like what you guys show up here in the mountains! The Pulsatilla vernalis has barely showed its buds. However it is at least a month early though.
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Hoy, these hairy buds look like some little fox tails :)
Here is Asarum minamitaniana, 4 petaled flower. I got this plants as a free gift from a nursery last year ;D
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A very good gift ;D Strange form with its four thin petals
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So it is supposed to have 4 petals, or is this just an aberration this year? I love it!
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A few from the garden today, in between the rain, (at last !! ) ;D ;D
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Any names to go with them Ron?
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Sorry Paul, not really. Maybe others can help? Please, ;D ;D
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In spite of the cool temperatures our family went traditionally to the meadow garden and looked what the
Easter Bunny has hidden for them under the shrubs. My most welcome gift was the find of a fasciated
Primula elatior flower among some 'normal' ones. The early geophytes are mostly out of flower, but many
other plants replace them, like Brunnera ,Anemone blanda, ranunculoides and nemerosa flower profusely.
Other plants in the rockgarden and the frames by the house show their pretty faces.
Pr.elatior 1
Pr.elatior
Viola somchetica
Brunnera macrophylla
Callianthemum kernerianum
Callianthemum farreri
A.nemerosa rötlich
Androsace tangulashanensis
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Lovely Rudi !
Here Trillium rivale in flower . Thanks to a forummember :D
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Your blue iris is a gem Ron. :D
I have a very nice form of Anemone nemorosa called 'Winterwood Pink' from an Australian garden. Like the red form above it starts almost white but gradually darkens to this same rich, deep pink then stays that way for a couple of weeks before dying off. It's very good. Sort of hits me in the eye when I drive in through the gateway - in spring of course. :)
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It had a name once Lesley ::). Unfortunately ( pre forum days ) we popped plants we liked in the garden and didn't want labels everywhere. Wonder what it is?
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Viola somcheticais lovely, Rudi.... is it from the Caucasus?
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A few pics from the wood, lots of seedlings and the first flowers.
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Mercy, what a lot of babies, Cheryl :)
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wow. Which orchid is it?
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Mercy, what a lot of babies, Cheryl :)
Yes Maggie, it does appear to be a good doer
I have never tried to Id it Mark, I think it is probally quite common .
I'll take another look when its further on in flower.
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Viola somcheticais lovely, Rudi.... is it from the Caucasus?
Yes Maggi you are right, it grows very well in our garden and we love it.
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I'm not surprised you like the viola, Rudi, it is very lovely.
I showed the photo to a friend today who loves violas... she had never seen it and was most impressed with both the shape and colour of the flowers and the foliage. 8)
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Some pictures from the Alpine house:
Androsace tangulashanensis
Daphne modesta
Daphne calcicola from Zhongdian, a rooted cutting from last year.
The stock plant in the open garden just starts to form buds.
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wow. Which orchid is it?
Orchis Mascula
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wow. Which orchid is it?
Orchis Mascula
Thanks for the ID Davey.
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Rudi,
Those yellow Daphnes are great. Such good colour.
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So it is supposed to have 4 petals, or is this just an aberration this year? I love it!
I'm hoping this character to be stable but not sure ::)
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Asarum minamitanianum 'Ryoku-ho'
This is an albino form found and collected at its natural habitat. I didn't expect its flower this season so the plant in a cheap plastic pot :-[
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This Asarum goes beyond the wildest imagination!
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:o Waouh Tatsuo ! Amazing but nice form ;)
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Beautiful, Tatsuo. Very nice proportions to the flower, and good clean colour (or lack thereof). Nice!! 8)
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Definitely a very special Asarum. 8)
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Asarum minamitanianum 'Ryoku-ho'
This is an albino form found and collected at its natural habitat. I didn't expect its flower this season so the plant in a cheap plastic pot :-[
I don't think any of us noticed the pot, we were so bowled over with the marvellous flower :D
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Thank you for all comments :) I love this flower too :) Many variations in flower colours and patterns are found from natural habitat of A. minamitanianum but these rare varieties are extreamly expensive. My 'Ryoku-ho' is a relatively popular one so I could get it ;D
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Lovely to see the red Fritillaria imperialis, could someone explain to me why I can grow the yellow one with no trouble, but not the red? :-\
Can't explain it, but mine got carried away far too early and were turned to crispy dead flower buds by the cold snap a few weeks ago............
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Asarum minamitanianum 'Ryoku-ho'
This is an albino form found and collected at its natural habitat. I didn't expect its flower this season so the plant in a cheap plastic pot :-[
Must join in with the others - your Asarum are spectacular!
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Everything is a mess here as I move in a few days..............
However, I am particularly chuffed that my Sutherlandia frutescens has started to bloom!
(http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/attachments/dsc_1824-1-jpg.3750/)
(http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/attachments/dsc_1826-jpg.3751/)
Will try to get some shape to it this summer, but not at the expense of the fantastic seed pods!
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Thanks, meanie :)
Here is Anemone nikoensis 'Suzuka', a large flowered and very round petaled selection from a natural habitat at (Mt.) Fujiwara-Dake in Mie Prefacture, Japan.
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Everything is a mess here as I move in a few days..............
Good luck with the move ..... rather you than me!
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Here is Anemone nikoensis 'Suzuka', a large flowered and very round petaled selection from a natural habitat at (Mt.) Fujiwara-Dake in Mie Prefacture.
My word! Another gem..... a perfect flower. 8)
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Tatsuo,
You're not wrong about it being a round petalled form...... perfect flowers!!
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And so pure white Anemone, Tatsuo !
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Wonderful plants, YT. The Asarum is stunning and that Anemone is even more stunning....I guess my knowledge of the English vocabulary is not adequate enough to find a superlative for stunning ;) ;)
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Like everyone else is saying - lovely Anemone
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Here's what was snug in the greenhouse today. Most are seedlings of Podophyllum vietchii, a few are crosses with Podophyllum plieanthum, the ones down the middle came up as root props off Podophyllum Spotty Dotty.
Fantastic variety on those Podophyllums!
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A super Anemone all right. I daresay even Mr C. Booker will be panting gently.
Cohan did you see your Cornus on the Southern Hemisphere thread? Just a few days and some steady rain later, the leaves are all fallen but the red stems come into their own.
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Semiaquilegia adoxoides; very small flowers... ;)
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This is really sweet, Peppa!
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Wonderful plants, YT. The Asarum is stunning and that Anemone is even more stunning....I guess my knowledge of the English vocabulary is not adequate enough to find a superlative for stunning ;) ;)
I think you mean more stunninger or the most stunningist ;D
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Peppa,
That is a cutey!! Tiny little thing, isn't it?
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Anemonella thalictroides today in flower
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Flowering here over the last few days :
1) Aethionema capitatum
2) Dianthus "Eleonor Parker" hiding it's foliage ;D
3) a giant Androsace muscoidea - Schacht's Form - survived the winter under a pane of glass !
4-5) Linum flavum compactum - from seed
6) Phlox kelseyi getting started
7) Silene acaulis
8 ) Iris reichenbachii - yellow form
9) many more to follow... :o
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Luc - super plants! I am amazed you get such good flowering with Silene acaulis; I very rarely get more than a smattering of flowers, which I thought was fairly general in cultivation, even though it flowers wonderfully in Nature. The dianthus and aethionema are very nice - time to consider some troughs!
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Wonderful flowers, Luc! Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?
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Luc - super plants! I am amazed you get such good flowering with Silene acaulis; I very rarely get more than a smattering of flowers, which I thought was fairly general in cultivation, even though it flowers wonderfully in Nature. The dianthus and aethionema are very nice - time to consider some troughs!
Thanks Tim - I must admit it is my first S. acaulis to be such a good flowerer and I have little or no merit as it was recently bought - I had actually given up in trying to grow a well flowering S. acaulis, but when I found this one in a nursery with a lot more buds than it's neighbours, I thought I'd give it another go. Now wait till next year to find out what happens... ;)
Wonderful flowers, Luc! Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?
Glad you like them Lori ! The Linum is from seed from an exchange.... :-\ and we all know that naming may be problematic - I looked for it in the AGS Encyclopedia and it looks entirely different from the picture in there... ??? It's not a bad looking plant though... but I would appreciate it if anyone could confirm or deny its identity.
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Some plants flowering here now:
Bellevalia pycnantha
Epimedium epsteinii
Epimedium x sasakii
Epimedium x warleyense 'Orangekönigin'
Viola sororaria 'Blue Diamond'
Viola sororaria 'Freckles'
and some nice leaves:
Epimedium 'Spine Tingler'
Saxifraga cortusifolia 'Cherry Pie'
Some young leaves on Shortia soldanelloides
and Sempervivum 'Mondstein'
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Wonderful flowers, Luc! Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?
Glad you like them Lori ! The Linum is from seed from an exchange.... :-\ and we all know that naming may be problematic - I looked for it in the AGS Encyclopedia and it looks entirely different from the picture in there... ??? It's not a bad looking plant though... but I would appreciate it if anyone could confirm or deny its identity.
Well, I think I can confirm that it's not Linum flavum 'Compactum' but I couldn't say with certainty what it is, other than that it appears to be a Brassiceae (and I'd guess erysimum)... a very attractive plant nonetheless.
Here's Linum flavum 'Compactum':
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Adonis in flower
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Wonderful flowers, Luc! Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?
Glad you like them Lori ! The Linum is from seed from an exchange.... :-\ and we all know that naming may be problematic - I looked for it in the AGS Encyclopedia and it looks entirely different from the picture in there... ??? It's not a bad looking plant though... but I would appreciate it if anyone could confirm or deny its identity.
Well, I think I can confirm that it's not Linum flavum 'Compactum' but I couldn't say with certainty what it is, other than that it appears to be a Brassiceae (and I'd guess erysimum)... a very attractive plant nonetheless.
Here's Linum flavum 'Compactum':
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Thanks Lori ! :D
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Flowering now in the open garden and the Alpine House.
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Funny though, in Luc's picture of Linum/Erysimum, the foliage on the flower stems looks very like what a Linum stem would be like as do some of the other leaves, but right at the bottom of the image, there are what definitely seem to be wallflower (Erysimum) rosettes of foliage. Is it slightly possible Luc that there are two seedlings there, one a Linum and one the Erysimum? (although, the Linum leaves seem to be on the Erysimum flower stems. Better forget that suggestion. ???)
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Lovely pics, Folks.
That double Adonis in particular caught my eye. I just love it. And the Adonis vernalis with it. Beautiful. And those lovely Lewisias. Thanks everyone. 8)
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Flowering now in the open garden and the Alpine House.
Fantastic Lewisia's Rudy !
Funny though, in Luc's picture of Linum/Erysimum, the foliage on the flower stems looks very like what a Linum stem would be like as do some of the other leaves, but right at the bottom of the image, there are what definitely seem to be wallflower (Erysimum) rosettes of foliage. Is it slightly possible Luc that there are two seedlings there, one a Linum and one the Erysimum? (although, the Linum leaves seem to be on the Erysimum flower stems. Better forget that suggestion. ???)
You're not all that wrong, Lesley. There are in fact 2 seedlings in there, but both were/are identical... ;)
A few days on and more flowers :
1) Anemone obtusiloba "Pradesh" - fond memory of a great visit to Ian Christie's nursery a couple of years ago ! :D
2) Androsace muscoidea "Schacht's Form" - I can't get enough of it !!
3) Androsace alpina - first flowers opening
4) Dianthus x "Conwy Silver" - another little gem from Keith Lever !
5) Phlox bifida "Ralph Haywood" getting started
6) Primula x loiseleuri "Lismore Yellow"
7) Primula marginata "Linda Pope"
8-9-10 : some garden views
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Luc,
That Anemone looks interesting. Interesting shape to the petals?
Lovely to see some broader pics of your garden. Looks great! Thanks.
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wow Luc! I'm coming on the next plane. I really have to remake my rockery ..
After all of Luc's colour I darent show a short video of my front garden. Spring is over but the summer flowerers are still thinking about what they should do.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wxr4UvfCY[/youtube]
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Cracking pics on this thread over the last few days folks.
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Thanks for the comments folks ! Glad you like it !
Always welcome Mark ! 8)
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Always welcome Mark ! 8)
Thanks, great to know
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Daphne x susannae cheriton
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Wow, that's a beauty Michael. :o
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Michael maybe you or me should start a Daphne thread? I have 3 to show
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I was just admiring Anemone obtusiloba on Wrightman's list- seems like a nice one!
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;D
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Daphne x susannae cheriton
..... and snap, here's mine, first flush of flowers beginning to go over now but looking forward to another crop in July. Still a heavenly scent though. I bought the plant from Robin White's stand at the South West AGS Show, I think three years ago now and it's spent most of that time in a pot but now planted out on a new rockery I'm working on. Just behind it is a very small plant of D. blagyana 'Brenda Anderson' bought from the same source at this years South West Show.
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Apart from the Daphneys mentioned above I'm gradually planting up the rockery with plants that are freely available from garden centres. Two reasons for this. Firstly there are no specialist alpine nurseries within easy travelling distance of home, and secondly, since I've scrounged all the stone I've used from skips, I thought I might plant it with stuff that is avaiable in the locality to see if I could entice others in the neighbourhood to have a go too. Who knows, they might get interested enough to join us!
Here's some examples so far:-
Aethionema 'Warley Rose'
Two Mossy Saxifrages-'White Star' and 'Mossy Pink'
Aquilegia flabillata 'Cameo Blue'
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A touch of winter to the forum which is a touch of spring in these parts. Or may be a touch of summer as with the snow layer of 50 cm today it's +20C.
The first 2 pics of Galanthus "Cordelia" were taken yesterday morning and afternoon respectively. So were the second 2 pictures of Iris 'Blue Ice"
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Emerging helleborus
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The mother was not bad - but the offspring is still better! :D ;)
Canarina canariensis
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Your Iris 'Blue Ice' should feel right at home Oleg.
Lovely variation Hans. Is this usual in seedlings of the Canarina?
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Hans,
I have Canarina canariensis in flower (just opened) here in the southern hemisphere as well. ;D Are the 3 colours separate plants? Mine is somewhere between the 2 paler ones, solid pale orange with darker veins, a bit darker than the single pic which I'm assuming is the parent. Still not quite like any of yours. I love all of yours, but the darker ones I think would be very striking. I'm just happy to grow mine here successfully, as it really shouldn't do that well here. I like to push the envelope when it comes to what should and shouldn't grow here. ;)
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Your Iris 'Blue Ice' should feel right at home Oleg.
Thanks, Lesley. I'm grateful to Susan Band for such a beauty.
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I enclose a picture of my Iris winogradowii 'Alba' flowering just recently. Some people suggest that it is a white form of Iris reticulata.
I am not able to recognize its morphologic features, nevertheless I am quite sure that it is winogradowii. Its behaviour is the same. It flowers in the exactly same time and need not to have dry summer, it even hates dry conditions in summer. It is easy to grow in an open garden.
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Several other pictures from this month.
Fritillaria alburyana
Callianthemum kernerianum
Androsace wulfeniana
Corydalis popovii
Fritillaria alburyana
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What beautiful plants - grown to perfection by the expert!
Thank you for showing.
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What beautiful plants - grown to perfection by the expert!
Thank you for showing.
Rudi, you have said what I and others were thinking of Zdenek's lovely plants.
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Beautiful plants Zdenek, especially the iris and...and...
If the iris were reticulata it would surely have more leaf showing at bloom time. In that respect is is like winogradowii, not reticulata, and such a snowy white too, really lovely. :)
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Oleg, its always interesting/amazing to me to see the plants coming through snow-- they can only do that here if it is new snow, the soil needs some time (sometimes a lot of time!!) to thaw and warm up after the snow melts before anything can grow!
Still almost nothing happening here...lol
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Cohan, The snow you see is December snow, so it is not fresh. But I can name a few factors anabling plants to come through it: The snow covered the ground before it was frozen; plants were mulched with leaf mould in autumn; plants radiate some energy enough for the snow and ice to melt around; at the moment I was taking the pics the air temperature was around + 18 which changed the snow structure; heavy rain the day before didn't remove the snow (too much of it this year), but contributed to the change of snow structure and probably to ice melting.
Do you have first flowers there in Canada?
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Beautiful, Zdenek. So many beauties there, and that Frit aurea is amazing!! I love the white Iris too. Thanks for showing us.
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Several other pictures from this month.
Fritillaria alburyana
Callianthemum kernerianum
Androsace wulfeniana
Corydalis popovii
Fritillaria alburyana
Zdenek I would be very interested to know the secret for growing F alburyana as it is very slow with me. It is particularly interesting plant as Sidney Albury was a local Birmingham AGS group member way back in the good old days - too young of course to remember ::)
Here is a good doer for me in he garden
Tulipa stapfii
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A few plants from my own garden:
Lathyrus sylvaticus
Muscari latifolium
Puschkinia libanotica
A viola seedling
Coryalis wild form
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Delphinium nudicaule
Trillium erectum red
Trillium sulcatum
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Lovely trilliums Julie and I haven't seen D. nudicaule for several years so that's a treat too.
Razvan, how big a plant is Lathyrus sylvaticus? It has lovely colour. Is it a climber? And I like your Muscari, pretending to be an Arisaema with a blue spadix. ;D
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Every spring ladies come round the door selling little bouquets of Epigaea repens. At a friend's today and I wonder where this large-flowered white was found. We'll never know unfortunately.
The fragrance is incredible.
johnw
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Jeffersonia
diphylla dubia growing in a nasty spot in the garden.
johnw
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Wonderful plants, John!
In flower here today:
Arisaema griffithii
Fritillaria persica 'Ivory bells'
Iris 'Rabbit's Foot'
Pinguicula corsica
Primula szechuanica
and Tulipa clusiana 'Peppermint Stick' (beaten down by the rain, hail and wind of the last week!)
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That Epigaea almost looks good enough to eat John! Here some of the woodland plantings are coming on. Several woodland species coming into their own at the moment:-
The Doronicum (caucasicum?) is always a nice surprise early in the season, and here is planted with cyclamen and Corydalis temulifolia 'Chocolate Stars'.
Nearby is another good combination, Tiarella cordifolia and Primula 'Strong Bear' (curious name for a very good deep blue double).
The finest wood anemone in the garden, A. nemorosa 'Allenii'. This is only just beginning to flower and has very large, beautifully soft-blue flowers, though perhaps not best placed under a magnolia that has just finished flowering!
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Tim - Your Tiarella-Primula combination is quite special.
johnw
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Nice to see P. sechuanica Wim.
johnw
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No flower, only foliage
but I hope you will like this pic too:
Rheum palmatum - like a black dragon.
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Flowering now:
Chaenomeles japonica
Prunus tenella
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Frit. pallidiflora
Frit. pallidiflora 1
Frit.meleagris
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Iberis spec.
Silene sachalinesis
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Hagan,
I love the black dragon description. Very apt. ;D They look more like one of those dark begonias, but then I've never seen Rheum in the flesh.
Rudi,
Great frits!! Love the pallidiflora.
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Hans,
I have Canarina canariensis in flower (just opened) here in the southern hemisphere as well. ;D Are the 3 colours separate plants? Mine is somewhere between the 2 paler ones, solid pale orange with darker veins, a bit darker than the single pic which I'm assuming is the parent.
Thanks Lesley and Paul - the different colours grow on different plants which are all seedlings from my first plant which I lost. Those seedlings appeared all near the area where the parent plant was. As I have been told Canarina is selfsterile so I never tried to sow any seeds - obviously this information was wrong. ;)
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Too many beauties to comment on!
but, Julie- love the Trilliums, and great colour on that Delphinium :o
Hagen, fantastic Rheum :)
Oleg- I wont say it never happens or never could, but generally my soil is frozen solid long before there is lasting snow.. I have some Jovibarba and Semps which started growing almost immediately after the snow melted, but they are at the top of a steeply sloped bed, in the sun, and Corydalis solida grows when the soil must be very cold, also very soon after the snow goes, but most other things take some time- I have some Crocus and Galanthus just planted last fall- that bed was bare of snow for about 3 weeks before they just barely started to emerge in the last couple days- although much of those 3 weeks was cold..
Nothing in flower yet in my yard - some Petasites sagittatus in the wild on the farm are getting very close- maybe open now after last two very warm days.. but of course other places in Canada ;D (parts of East and West are much much warmer than here- zone 5, even 8 compared to ) even in Calgary not far away, Lori has had flowers for weeks already.. outside the city is always slower, and we are a touch colder than Calgary, and much of my property is shady in winter, so it warms up more slowly. I have Cory solida about 2 inches tall, so that will be the first thing!
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Lovely things there, especially the epigaea and the rheum and I like the combination of deep blue primula and limey tiarella. I could do the same with a heuchera.
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As I have been told Canarina is selfsterile so I never tried to sow any seeds - obviously this information was wrong. ;)
As has been noted elsewhere today, some plants just don't know how to read and so behave in ways contrary to what the books say about them. :D
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Hans,
Mine has attempted to set seed a few times, although never matured before the plant got frost hit. It has certainly looked like it was successfully setting seed. Now you're just going to have to start collecting seed from you various colours and sow them, to see what other different colour forms you'll end up with. You could end up with a miriad of possibilities!! 8)
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Pictures taken today...
Dicentra cucullaria
Eriogonum caespitosum, cult. ex Idaho
Polygala calcarea 'Lillet'
Daphne x susannae 'Cheriton'
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Gentiana acaulis pictures taken today in my garden.
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Franz,
:o :o Wow! Impressive collection of them.
Lampwick,
That Daphne in particular is glorious!! 8)
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Sometimes I pass over pictures that have been shown a few times recently, and maybe would have done that today but a group from Lampwick is always worth a good viewing. That beautiful dog takes such lovely pictures and hasn't disappointed this time either. :)
As for your stunning gentians Franz, they are very special, lovely photos of superb forms. The whites and paler shades are very beautiful, but so is every one.
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Franz, I like all your gentians but paler shades flowers are the best 8)
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Gentiana verna alba.
I am delighted this has stayed alive long enough to flower for a second year.
https://plus.google.com/photos/105169228901870620843/albums/5196219194231611569/5735760522903382226
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Michael,
Super plant and pics. G.verna alba is not an easy plant. Congratulation!
Thanks all for the nice comment
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Was out of the forum for about a week so i'm still surprised to see it updated. It'll take some time to get use to the new design and options. Unfortunately I find it difficult to see many of the pictures or to enlarge them. Hope later I will know how.
Everything in the garden tries to catch up with the rest of Europe but still lags behind. Haven't found the way how to send pictures. Am I the only one to have these problems due to my computer illiteracy?
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Oleg, there are parts of the Update still being worked on including the picture posting part. It will just take a little longer to complete this work.
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Tanks, David. You have given me hope that I'm not that stupid. I can't wait to see the renovated forum in its full glory
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Sometimes I pass over pictures that have been shown a few times recently, and maybe would have done that today but a group from Lampwick is always worth a good viewing. That beautiful dog takes such lovely pictures and hasn't disappointed this time either. :)
As for your stunning gentians Franz, they are very special, lovely photos of superb forms. The whites and paler shades are very beautiful, but so is every one.
Lesley 8) Kai and I want to send you a PM but dont see how to do it at the moment here :'(
Would you please email me here: info@portraitsofalpineplants.com and let me have your email address?
Best wishes,
Kai and John (Lampwick)
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Lesley Kai and I want to send you a PM but dont see how to do it at the moment here
John, try this:-
Go to Lesley's Profile. On the left hand side, under where her avatar would usually be, look for the hyperlink "Send PM". Click on that and the familiar PM form will come up. You won't need to type Lesley's address or name as it will be included as a hyperlink under the name block.
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John, try this:-
Go to Lesley's Profile. On the left hand side, under where her avatar would usually be, look for the hyperlink "Send PM". Click on that and the familiar PM form will come up. You won't need to type Lesley's address or name as it will be included as a hyperlink under the name block.
Thanks David, but I also want to include a few images, which I dont think is possible from here at the moment..... :'(
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John, it wasn't possible to send images by PM on the previous version.
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John has sent an email and included the pictures, one of the beautiful Kai, a lovely dog. Our Cain, the same breed is very old now and spends most of his time asleep, but he's also rather a tatty dog in comparison, not well trimmed. Brushing yes, but the more he is brushed the more he seems to shed.
As for Marley, I have a small medical problem at present and this morning after breakfast lay on my bed for half an hour. Marley being of a cuddly nature lay with me, his head on my chest but the black jersey I was wearing now has a pelt of little tan hairs which need careful hand plucking. A few days ago I had an appointment with a surgeon at the hospital and he was wearing a beautiful black suit and looked as if he's stepped out of a fashion magazine. I did try to listen carefully to what he was saying to me but all I could really think was "This man doesn't own a hairy dog." He saw me looking at his suit and laughed when I had to tell him what I'd been thinking and agreed that no, he didn't.
John, in the seed lists last year I ordered Anthyllis montana 'Rubra' from one and A. m. 'Carminea' from the other in hope of getting your beautiful plant. The SRGC plants (7) were all Anthyllis vulneraria but the AGS (1) is, I think, true. It has been doing nicely for about a year but hasn't flowered yet. I'll take a picture and post it when we can do that again. It is going into winter mode now and compacting its stems a bit but still looks true. So thank you so much for your offer in the email, but no thanks, it just isn't possible to send live material to NZ. Seeds are the only way.
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This Androsace in a piece of tufa is flowering well at the moment, problem is the label is now under the cushion.
Can anyone help with ID.
Thanks
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Not an Androsace-specialist, Mike, but could it be Androsace sarmentosa?
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Some plants in flower in my garden today:
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Queen Esta'
Iris lacustris
Bellevalia romana
Calanthe tricarinata
Glaucidium palmatum
Iris 'Sky Blue'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Akagi Zakura'
and Epimedium x youngianum 'Hana Guruma'
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Daphne calcicola Gang Ho Ba.
Pimelea ferruginea.
Primula aricula. Sonia Nicholle x Yellow.
Viola pedata pedatifida
Gentiana verna alba.
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One or two things from the garden now the rain has finally stopped! Erythronium Joanna starting to bulk up.
E.Kinfaun's Pink
Rhodo Lady Alice Fitzwilliam, flowering for us for the first time (last year the buds caught the frost).and a Lathyrus vernus with much finer foliage.
Whoops, messed that up - must try harder!
Well I tried harder and it didn't work. I hope it's not incompatible :-\
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Trying again! (Some people would say very trying ;) ) One or two things from the garden now the rain has finally stopped! Erythronium Joanna starting to bulk up.
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E.Kinfaun's Pink
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Rhodo Lady Alice Fitzwilliam, flowering for us for the first time (last year the buds caught the frost).
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and a Lathyrus vernus with much finer foliage.
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This bear of little brain will have to put his thinking cap on. Third time lucky -sort of :-[
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Think you just needed a space put in between the attachments to move the pix apart a little, Brian.
I see that when one enlarges a picture that is placed in the body of a post that with the new system it opens as a new window and one must click the "back" button ( the arrow pointing to the left at the top left of the page) to return to the original thread.
Pictures added at the end of a post will enlarge in the same window, as before.
It'll keep us on our toes learning these new tricks!
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I’m very happy to see the forum back……well done! ;D
These trough pictures were taken on 26th April 2012.
The two together were taken from the open back bedroom window.
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I do like troughs...... gardens for everyone!
Do you find the Penstemon pinifolius lives for a decent length of time for you.... it seems to only manage about three years here and there is no seed set.
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This Androsace in a piece of tufa is flowering well at the moment, problem is the label is now under the cushion.
Can anyone help with ID.
Thanks
It is Androsace sempervivoides. Beautiful plant.
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Daphne calcicola Gang Ho Ba.
Pimelea ferruginea.
Primula aricula. Sonia Nicholle x Yellow.
Viloa pedata
Gentiana verna alba.
Beautiful pics, especially the violet - but, sorry this is pedatifida - pedata has glabrous lateral petals.
Gerd
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Thanks Gerd, I will change the label and modify the post.
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I see that when one enlarges a picture that is placed in the body of a post that with the new system it opens as a new window and one must click the "back" button ( the arrow pointing to the left at the top left of the page) to return to the original thread.
Pictures added at the end of a post will enlarge in the same window, as before.
It'll keep us on our toes learning these new tricks!
This has always happened when I looked at the pictures. Often the pic when clicked on would open in another window/page and I had to go to the "back" button to get back to the right page. Really annoying because it all took so long and especially so when viewing images from a show, lots of them. I always found though, after a while, and if I sort of GENTLY clicked on the pic, it would then open in the thread page and from there, go on as it should. It happened with the pics already posted by others but not by pics posted by me, which always opened and still do, in the thread page - by opened I mean enlarged of course.
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It is Androsace sempervivoides. Beautiful plant.
Do you think it is A. sempervivoides? I thought it looked like a furry plant and wondered if it might be a good form of A. jacquemontii.
First snow today, just falling, not lying. Winter is knocking at the door. :(
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Asarum minamitaniana ex. 'Hyuga-Nishiki', stripes and specles on greenish background. The named original plant was found in natural habitat and propagated vegetatively but mine is a self-pollinated seedling from them.
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I do like troughs...... gardens for everyone!
Do you find the Penstemon pinifolius lives for a decent length of time for you.... it seems to only manage about three years here and there is no seed set.
Yes Maggi, I find that very few Penstemons will be willing to put on a good show much after their third season. As you know, a lot of them eventually become “woody” and brittle and don’t look good. Most are relatively easy to root from cuttings and I regularly do this to ensure I don’t permanently lose a desirable plant. :)
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Rooted cuttings of penstemons.(cuttings taken – first week in August 2011)
Back 3: Penstemon fruticosus subsp. scouleri 'Albus'
Front 3: Penstemon newberryi subsp. sonomensis
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Pictures taken today :o
First picture:On first seeing this growing at the feet of my Jeffersonia dubia ‘Alba', I did think it was something Kai had left in the garden!
Second picture:This shows it as a fungi – photographed in the reflection of a mirror placed between it and the Jeffersonia.
Are there any mycology experts here who can positively identify this?
Hold on!!....I have identified it as a Morel - Morchella esculenta; “…the most sought-after of the spring fungi. Once discovered they can be collected from the same site annually – good sites are kept secret!” (From How to Identify Edible Mushrooms – by P. Harding, T. Lyon & G. Tomblin)
There is a poisonous look-alike; Gyromitra esculenta – the False Morel whose stem is multi-chambered.
Third picture:The true Morels are single –chambered as shown.
Anyhow; I have now eaten them, and quite nice they were too! ;D
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...................Anyhow; I have now eaten them, and quite nice they were too! ;D
Hope they stay down John! ;D
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in the garden today
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Lesley - Franz - Wim, thanks for the suggested names.
I'm still not sure, my little grey cells seem not to work so well these days.
Some fritillaria flowering in the garden this week. Unsure about the ID of two, any help appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
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in the garden today
Wolfgang,
your P. flavescens is lovely. I failed growing it from seed. All seedlings, except one, became victims of black frost.
Which type of soil are you using? Any recommendations you can give me?
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Asarum minamitaniana ex. 'Hyuga-Nishiki', stripes and specles on greenish background. The named original plant was found in natural habitat and propagated vegetatively but mine is a self-pollinated seedling from them.
Tatsuo,
that Asarum is wonderful! Super-plant!
in the garden today
Wolfgang,
love the Hacquetia. It's the cultivar 'Thor', isn't it?
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An other amazing Asarum Tatsuo :D Nice to look at these strange flowers ;)
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Thank you Wim and Nicole :) I'll try to pollinate them next season ;)
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Lovely well grown Frits Mike. 8) 8)
F. pontica for the last two pictures. Three nice pics on the link below.
Are all of these growing in the ground or pots please Mike?
http://www.bgflora.net/families/liliaceae/fritillaria/fritillaria_pontica/fritillaria_pontica_1_en.html (http://www.bgflora.net/families/liliaceae/fritillaria/fritillaria_pontica/fritillaria_pontica_1_en.html)
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Hello Wim,
the plant shown is Haquetia "Thor".
kind regards, Wolfgang
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Pictures taken yesterday.
Epimedium grandiflorum subsp. koreanum. (?) This should have very pale yellow flowers; but I have never seen a hint of yellow in the blooms; hence the question mark.
Haberlea ferdinandi-coburgi. I have had this in this trough for over two decades and this year is not one of its best booming years.
Uvularia grandiflora.
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Crikey John, I've just been saying to Wim about how far ahead of mine his Uvularia are... now you're at it too! Mind you, with some ofthe cold wet windy weather we've been having, perhaps mine are sensible to be going more slowly.
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Maggi, this is the first of May. ;)
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Maggi, this is the first of May. ;)
I know Michael.... but John's pix were taken in April. I think my plants think it is still March.
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I know Michael.... but John's pix were taken in April. I think my plants think it is still March.
WOW Maggie, you got me out of a big heap of trouble there!
If I ever need one, I will hire you as my defence lawyer.
Now!...who is going to start the May Thread?
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WOW Maggie, you got me out of a big heap of trouble there!
If I ever need one, I will hire you as my defence lawyer.
Now!...who is going to start the May Thread?
Happy to help!
Wim has started May..... http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9018.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9018.0) ;)
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A few pics of things in my garden last week, posting delayed by the forum upgrade. Aethionema schistosum, Alyssum propinquum, and Aubrieta 'Cascade Blue'.
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Good heavens John. This is not a good flowering year for the Haberlea? :o
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Ron, all the frits are growing in the garden.
Thanks for the I/D, F. pontica seems very variable. The plants have seeded around the garden and the flower colour & stem height vary considerably, as in this photo.
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Wonderful Mike. They're looking very healthy indeed.
F.pontica is very variable in size, and colour and shape of the flowers. Personally I think its much underrated.
Thanks for showing. 8)
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I quite agree that F. pontica is under-rated. It is here anyway. There is the "oh it's only pontica" comment heard around gardens which I think is a shame. Pontica varies from wholly green to wholly (slightly) brownish pink and is always attractive. Easy to identify from the dormant bulbs which uniquely, have antler-like appendages.
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in the garden today
Hacquetia is quite lovely! Is this a species or a cultivar?
nevermind- I looked up 'panaschiert' and see that just means variegated, and read further that this is cultivar 'Thor' :) nice!