Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: ruweiss on July 02, 2012, 09:42:23 PM
-
Flowering now:
Dwarf Hostas
Thalictrum kiusianum
Verbascum Letitia
-
Physoplexis comosa in tufa.
Paronychia albana ssp graeca 12 years old, 8 cm in diameter.
-
The Physoplexis are liking the tufa, I see!
Does the Paronychia not seem to be some sort of sea creature? Marvelous little plant!
-
Super plants and wonderful pics, Kirsten, Thanks for showing.
:)
-
Wonderful plants, Kirsten! Superb!
-
Thanks for the nice words.
Yes, Maggi, the Physoplexis love the tufa, there are a lot of seedlings around the mother plant
-
Last year I belive I posted a few pix of some Adeniums ex 2009 seed that a friend gave us. The trick seems to be a very porous open tropical mix and water heavily and daily when warm but keep bone dry during the coolness of winter in the greenhouse. Potting on frequently produces big plants quickly and I missed repotting by a month or so they have stalled. Two night ago 3 of them went into 10" pots and tonight the first flowers on Adenium 'Magenta Windmill' opened, no sign of magenta to my eyes as it looks hot pink to me. Terrible shots with a Blackberry.
johnw - still 20c at 22:24 and heavy rain on the way.
-
Thanks for your advice John, I have two poor little "things" sown last year in a small pot and I'll give them a bigger pot today ;) Do you feed them or just pot on ?
-
Nicole - I did put blood & bonemeal, superphosphate, slow release fertilizer and some starter fertilizer in the mix. However in a week or so I will fertilize half strength weekly with a water soluble fertilizer.
The site tells all:
http://adenium.tucsoncactus.org/ (http://adenium.tucsoncactus.org/)
johnw
-
Thank you John :D
-
Hi
A couple of plants from the garden to day.
1 and 2 - Saxifraga cotyledon, a nice low form with pure white flowers and red stems (the red color do not show well in the pics) I collected this plant in Namdalen, Norway 10 years ago.
3 and 4 - Lilium martagon, a form I collected in Carpathians, Romania some years ago
5 - Incarvillea younghusbandii, a plant I have been buying several times, but that alway turned out to be something else. But now I'm finally growing plants from wild collected seeds ;D
-
Crikey me that's a super form of L.martagon.
-
I love that ultra spotty martagon lily.
haHa! Davey has posted that comment just as Ian and I were looking at it and thinking the same thing!
-
I love that ultra spotty martagon lily.
haHa! Davey has posted that comment just as Ian and I were looking at it and thinking the same thing!
Dare i say great minds Maggie ;D
-
Dare i say great minds Maggie ;D
Why not? Works for me and cheers me up!
A wee while yet before any martagons are out here. None that smart , though. If you get a good seed set, Geir, I'd be most grateful for a few seeds.
-
No problem Maggi - if ther's seeds this year I be happy to send you some ;)
-
I'll keep my fingers crossed for a good set, Geir, thank you. :D
We are having a very poor seed set on most plants here this year. Flowers are so wet most of the time and not many pollinators around. :(
-
A quick bit of carnivorous foliage. ;D
Drosera prolifera a tropical sundew from Queensland
This one seems to be enjoying a selection of small flies :P yummmm
-
I picked up a nice 2 gallon pot of Galax aphylla in the Annapolis Valley a couple of days ago for $12. 8)
johnw - +22c & overcast.
-
Crikey me that's a super form of L.martagon.
Ooooooooooooooooooooh just seen that.
I need a mop for the drool now ::)
-
John, that Galax looks impressive and what a bargain. They are soooo slow to put on any size, nice flowers and I love the autumn tones. Great plant. Love the Hacquetia thor in the back ground..is this cv known to produce seed at all?
cheers
-
Stephen - No sign of seeds ever on the Thor here.
johnw
-
Trachelium asperuloides
-
Trachelium asperuloides
What a stunner!
-
;D
-
Over a month and still in full flower :D
Utricularia bisquamata 'Bettys Bay'
-
A quick bit of carnivorous foliage. ;D
Drosera prolifera a tropical sundew from Queensland
This one seems to be enjoying a selection of small flies :P yummmm
Is this a very dry while dormant tuberous species Fred? Or regular Drosera conditions. Great plant, :o
-
Not tuberous Ronm.
The Queensland sundews like it humid and shaded, not full sun.
Tropical so must be frost free.
Often refered to as the Three Sisters they are Drosera adelae, D. prolifera and D. schizandra.
Well worth a look at Ronm ;D
-
Well worth a look at Ronm ;D
I totally agree Fred. These are fascinating plants, not only for what they do, but in the range of habitats and variety of conditions in which they grow ( Brazilian Rainforests, Venezuelan Tepuis, British bogs, Australian deserts etc.). I grew many species 20 + years ago. Still have Allen Lowries excellent books boxed up somewhere in the house! May have to dig them out. ;D
-
Some from the garden today.
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/davep1970/001-9.jpg)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/davep1970/003-9.jpg)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/davep1970/007-10.jpg)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae121/davep1970/008-11.jpg)
-
A couple of wonderful alstroemerias originally grown from seed from Jim and Jenny Archibald:-
Alstroemeria garavantae - (Chile, V, Cerro Vizcacha. Ex. a J. Watson coll.). This has done well and self
seeded on a raised bed over many years, growing to around 30cm).
Alstroemeria pulchra - (Chile, V, Valparaiso, Con Con. Ex. Beckett, Cheese and Watson 4762). A more
tenuous plant which by accident has seeded into a peat/bark raised bed!
In Jim & Jenny Archibald's seed list for August 2006 are 25 Alstroemeria of which I have grown 8 or 9, at least for several years, which shows what potentially good plants they can be for the garden once growing conditions have been mastered.
-
fantastic!! Tim, some more piectures to Jim's picture project. Here are som recent blooms in my little garden. I received this neomarica as neomarica sp# aftr several years it has bloomed and I though it was N. coerulea, but now I am not sure and I think it could be N. sabini.
-
I've tried Alstroemeria psitticina in the garden but it has never flowered. In pots under glass it flowers well - a 'Mediterranean' greenhouse would be a useful adjunct to the garden! (Good for a lot of other dryland plants too).
Alstroemerias are great cut flowers and this is a 'Summer Miscellany' from the garden with, in addition, Macleaya, Eryngium bourgatii, Origanum 'Kent Beauty', Bupleurum fruticosum and Euphorbia ceratocarpa. Now I see them together in a vase the garden needs to be replanted accordingly!
-
Taking a minute to post a few shots...
Telesonix jamesii v. heucheriformis:
[attachthumb=1] [attachthumb=2]
Monardella odoratissima v. odoratissima:
[attachthumb=3]
First flowers on Saxifraga cochlearis minor:
[attachthumb=4]
Stachys lavandulifolia, a rather spreading one that I will likely have to control or move (like the Monardella):
[attachthumb=5]
Repeat bloom on Dryas octopetala:
[attachthumb=6]
Flowers developing on Ajuga lupulina:
[attachthumb=7]
And a flower stalk on this teensy Saxifraga umbellulata v. pectinata... the basal rosette is slightly over a cm across:
[attachthumb=8]
Jurinea cadmea:
[attachthumb=9]
Delphinium beesianum:
[attachthumb=10]
-
Another dwarf delphinium blooming in its first year from seed. Is it also D. beesianum?
[attachthumb=1]
Cancrinia tianshanica, adapting to the outdoors with foliage becoming nice and tight:
[attachthumb=2]
Silene saxifraga:
[attachthumb=3]
Lots of bloom in the perennial garden in this short but intense season, though things are not so photogenic as I would like after lots of rain (and resultant flopping!) and two hailstorms in a week!
Lindelofia anchusoides and the very similar Lindelofia longiflora:
[attachthumb=4] [attachthumb=5]
Eryngium alpinum; Scutellaria orientalis v. alpina with Geranium cinereum subcaulescens and G. sanguineum ; Scutellaria alpina:
[attachthumb=6] [attachthumb=7] [attachthumb=8]
Lychnis chalceonica cv. with Veronicastrum sibiricum and Persicaria polymorpha:
[attachthumb=9]
Paeonia cv. and Verbascum:
[attachthumb=10]
-
Lovely selection there Lori. I liked the Telesonix jamesii, one I hadn't heard of before so I looked it up in Graham Nicholls' book, must give it a try.
-
Another of the Verbascum x 'Helen Johnson'; Delphinium nudicaule 'Fox', bought this year; another Scutellaria alpina; Lupinus argenteus:
[attachthumb=1] [attachthumb=2] [attachthumb=3] [attachthumb=4]
Dianthus monspessulanus - rather messy, irregular flowers but a wonderful perfumey (not spice) scent; another dianthus - this one may induce migraines, sorry! ;D :
[attachthumb=5] [attachthumb=6]
The neighbor's bachelor buttons, coming up wherever the wind has blown them; Linum flavum compactum; Lilium 'Painted Pixie'; Allium sp.:
[attachthumb=7] [attachthumb=8] [attachthumb=9] [attachthumb=10]
-
Lori - what a wonderful selection of plants! Your garden becomes more and more remarkable, especially with all the pictures you post on the NARGS Forum. I particularly like the Stachys lavandulifolia (I've tried this in the past and lost it, but definitely must establish it in the garden in the future) and that curious Ajuga lupulina, as well as the charming little Jurinea. I shall look out for seed of all these.
-
Lori,
nice combination of pastels in the Lychnis chalceonica cv. with Veronicastrum sibiricum and Persicaria polymorpha combination
cheers
-
Lovely selection there Lori. I liked the Telesonix jamesii, one I hadn't heard of before so I looked it up in Graham Nicholls' book, must give it a try.
Thanks, David. The Telesonix has bloomed nicely this year, so I'll see if I can collect seeds.
Thanks, Tim and Stephen! The benefit (if there is one ;)) of this brief season is that a lot of things bloom at once.
-
Lovely selection there Lori. I liked the Telesonix jamesii, one I hadn't heard of before so I looked it up in Graham Nicholls' book, must give it a try.
Definitely worth a try David but getting it to flower well is not easy.
-
According to Graham Nicholls it needs a crevice if grown outside and if in a pot a smaller pot than normal so that it becomes pot-bound. He says it will cope with wet winter conditions (I can give it that-in spades!).
-
Flowering yesterday Phormium 'Sea Jade'.
Amazing how quickly those flowering stalks seemingly rise up from nowhere.
johnw - a more civilized +18c and cloudy today.
-
A climbing Dicentra that Ken grows - name escapes me - but it grows like a fiend.
johnw
-
John its Dicentra scandens, I like the way it scrambles everywhere but is cut down by the frost
-
The climbing dicentra were renamed Dactylicapnos some years ago, so this is now Dactylicapnos scandens
-
There is too much to keep up with in the summer garden and it still looks quite good despite all the rain we've been getting - we have probably been a bit drier in Kent. Summer growing South Africans like Dierama pulcherrima must appreciate the rain; these are such delightful plants. Teucrium ackermannii looks nice on a raised bed, especially at this stage with many more buds to open. And finally a mix of plants on the patio steps - the astonishing almost black Aeonium 'Zwartkop', with Viola 'Molly Sanderson' and variegated Alonsoa; and behind the curious origanum-like flowerheads of the annual Cerinthe major 'Purpurascens' - this plant caused quite a stir when it first appeared on the horticultural scene a decade or so ago; it flowers over a very long period and sets a lot of large bullet-like seed which is easy to pick up from around the plant on paving. It is a Mediterranean annual from southern Spain, usually not quite hardy enough to overwinter in British gardens from autumn sowings. Behind are a couple of cycads which were completely defoliated in the cold greenhouse last winter, when temperatures dropped very low. It's pleasing to see them grow out again as both were raised from seed!
-
Hi all! :)
Some July images.
Smoked phlox
(http://cs308219.userapi.com/v308219879/7a9/wic3B2ZX674.jpg)
(http://cs308219.userapi.com/v308219879/6a1/Eqfd4wxCA9w.jpg)
Self-sown daisy
(http://cs308219.userapi.com/v308219879/6a9/e_MPvFk-s3k.jpg)
New Zealand Delphiniums
(http://cs308218.userapi.com/v308218879/4cd/iRhB2tri3Mw.jpg)
-
So pretty, Olga.
What is the Clematis with the small, white flowers, please?
-
Wonderful plants, Tim! I continue to lust after those gorgeous Teucrium spp. that I keep seeing on forums like this one!
Olga, stunningly beautiful photography and plants, as always!
Verbascum chaixii v. album; Salvia nemorosa 'Snow Hill'; Stachys macrantha; Clematis mandshurica - not terribly exciting; Polemonium pauciflorum:
[attachthumb=1] [attachthumb=2] [attachthumb=3] [attachthumb=4] [attachthumb=5]
Calamintha grandiflora; Stachys officinalis 'Hummelo' - having to grow very tall to beat out the competition!; Veronica longifolia(?); Delphinium grandiflorum - the usual intense blue and some self-seeded colour variations; Stachys discolor:
[attachthumb=6] [attachthumb=7] [attachthumb=8] [attachthumb=9] [attachthumb=10]
-
Eryngium alpinum; Cephalaria gigantea; Verbascum eriophorum; Verbascum nigrum; our native Spiraea betulifolium, in the garden:
[attachthumb=1] [attachthumb=2] [attachthumb=3] [attachthumb=4] [attachthumb=5]
-
Hi all! :)
Some July images.
Vau Olga!
Your Pictures is BEST!
Thank's!
Best Regards! zvone
-
Very beautiful pictures Olga and Lori . Many thanks to share them .
Here the first time flowering of Celmisia semicordata . This one is not an easy one to get in flower in our circumstances .Until now we had a bad , wet and cold summer . Much cooler then usual , and I suppose this was something that this Celmisia likes ....Our usual summers are to warm for this one I think ?
-
Some Turkisch species in our rockgarden ...
Not so good as in previous years ..... , they don't like the cool summer and the lack of sunshine ...
Pelargonium endlicherianum
Acantholimon sp.
Convolvulus compactus
-
Beautiful plants, Kris! I would love to grow the Celmisia but I suspect it would be no where near hardy enough for zone 3. Someday... somehow... I will conquer Pelargonium endlicherianum, though... maybe. ::)
-
Beautiful plants, Kris! I would love to grow the Celmisia but I suspect it would be no where near hardy enough for zone 3. Someday... somehow... I will conquer Pelargonium endlicherianum, though... maybe. ::)
Thanks Lori . We had this winter minus 15 degrees (Celsius)and no snow. The Celmisia survived but we have not that cold winters most of the time ...
They say that Clemisia is frost tolerant up to minus 12 °C ? So I suppose you are right ....and he could not stand your winters ... :(
But I suppose you could grow Pelargonium endlicherianum . I already see some pictures from this one growing in Colorado ....Not the same cold as yours ?
Anyway we find this Pelargonium growing on hot screes in NE Turkey . But in winter this place must be very cold to ..I hope you could grow them , they are beautiful and deserves our attention ...
-
Thank you Maggi, Lori, zvone and Kris!
Kris thanks for Celmisia photos. Together with Lori I am not sure it's hardy enough for my climate. The only possibility is to enjoy your images.
Maggi it’s Clematis integrifolia 'Hakurei'. Honestly it looks better on pictures than in real life. I prefer species C. integrifolia.
(http://cs410325.userapi.com/v410325879/1a5/RmpI4To8dwU.jpg)
But sorry that was in May. :)
-
Back to July. :)
Phlox paniculata Kroshechka Havroshechka
(http://cs308219.userapi.com/v308219879/71e/4f_Qnit8lQg.jpg)
Hosta Atlantis
(http://cs308219.userapi.com/v308219879/716/7L7dnLsWrIE.jpg)
Clematis Best Wishes
(http://cs308219.userapi.com/v308219879/780/LzUgmqZTvVQ.jpg)
-
Maggi it’s Clematis integrifolia 'Hakurei'. Honestly it looks better on pictures than in real life. I prefer species C. integrifolia.
Some lovely plants Olga et al, I agree with Olga that 'Hakurei' looks better in a picture, but it's not white Maggi, here's one in our garden, it has a lovely touch of blue.
-
Some views from yesterday - it was sunny - and is this morning :D
Alstromeria - red
Alstromeria - pink
Alstromeria - yellow
Lilium regale
Penstemon kunthii
P. florindae with a large leafed rhodo, white lily and Meconopsis chelidonifolia
Meconipsis chelidonifolia with a mix of leaf forms. It often bends as it gets tall and this stem is now prostrate in this setting. I try to grow it through other things to keep it erect but it often gets too tall.
-
Thank you Maggi, Lori, zvone and Kris!
Maggi it’s Clematis integrifolia 'Hakurei'. Honestly it looks better on pictures than in real life. I prefer species C. integrifolia.
Some lovely plants Olga et al, I agree with Olga that 'Hakurei' looks better in a picture, but it's not white Maggi, here's one in our garden, it has a lovely touch of blue.
Thank you, Olga and Brian.
Wonderful plants in all your lovely gardens, Folks! 8)
-
A nice group of Verbascum yeaterday at East Carleton Manor, Norfolk.
-
Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' - this is growing in deep shade under a magnolia and the fully expanded leaves are quite a spectacle! It came from Bob Brown's remarkable nursery, Cotswald Garden Flowers in Evesham. A perfect plant for dry shade.
-
What an extraordinary leaf, and just right in that deep shade.
-
but it's not white Maggi, here's one in our garden, it has a lovely touch of blue.
I was able to object to you Brian. :) I've always thought it's pure white. But I look at my images and at the pictures in the Internet. Yes you are right! Mine is touched by blue too!
-
Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web' - this is growing in deep shade under a magnolia and the fully expanded leaves are quite a spectacle! It came from Bob Brown's remarkable nursery, Cotswald Garden Flowers in Evesham. A perfect plant for dry shade.
That's a nice one Tim! Don't think it is hardy here though :(
Some wildflowers, Rhodiola rosea and Sedum album:
[attachimg=1][attachimg=2]
-
Rather nice plants Trond - love the strength of colour in the Rhodiola, definitely one to try for the nursery.
-
That certainly is an eye-catcher fatsia, Tim!
Of course, the species is an uncommon houseplant here...
So spring growth is green and summer growth turns variegated?
-
Last year SRGC member Kim very kindly sent me seeds for Fuchsia procumbens all the way from New Zealand. Here is the first flower on one of the resulting plants.................
[attachimg=3]
I'm made up with this, so a big thanks to Kim!
Somewhat baffling is Tricyrtis "Taipei Silk" which is now in bloom..................
[attachimg=2]
Finally, the first blooms on my seed grown Lobelia tupa..............
[attachimg=1]
-
two nice Echinacea from today :
Echinacea "Tangerine Dream"
Echinacea "Milk Shake"
-
Two newcomers in my garden, planted last year and now folwering for the first time
Stellera chamaejasme
Iris acutiloba ssp.lineolata
-
That Iris acutiloba is sublime Magnar!
-
Very nice indeed - I planted one in our sand bed last year, but it hasn't flowered and (I hope!) has now just gone dormant this summer.
-
Colleagues - what a wonderful July was in your gardens! Thanks for the photos!
Some flowers from my garden ... flowering of many plants I missed while I was in the expedition, but some continue to blossom.
-
Great pictures the whole month of July. I haven't been posting here for a long time ( just too busy with other chores ), but here is a picture of Phacelia campanularia whioch I took the other day. It had self seeded in one of the pots where I grew it last year. They stay low and compact and flower best if they are kept really dry.
-
Well, time for another installment before July is done!
Some from the rock gardens...
An unseasonal (even in our late, short season) flower on Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Pearl Bells', a new one just planted recently - nice to get a preview of the bloom colour.
[attachthumb=1]
Cotula hispida, also purchased this year as an experiment - cute and tufty:
[attachthumb=2] [attachthumb=3]
Acantholimon kotschyi ssp. laxispicatum, from seed in 2010 - one plant from this batch bloomed last year and was dead this spring (a disturbing trend with several alpines this year) so it will be interesting to see what these plants do:
[attachthumb=4] [attachthumb=5]
Plantago urvillei, from seed this winter:
[attachthumb=6]
Update on Jurinea cadmea, with seed, buds and flowers all at once:
[attachthumb=7]
Oxytropis megalantha, blooming all season:
[attachthumb=8]
Primula scotica - these are in a moist acid bed, but I'm surprised at how tolerant other plants have been of dry conditions in the tufa bed:
[attachthumb=9]
Heterotheca jonesii:
[attachthumb=10]
-
Melampýrum nemorósum, as it is ... In Russian, Ivan-da-Marya - was considered a talisman of thieves.
-
What a beautiful plant, Natalia - so colourful!
-
Striking colour combination, Natalia.
-
Lori, Paul - I also never tire of admiring these colors! :)
This biennial plant of our flora, something akin to Castilleja. Still occurs and the white form. Here is a picture of my friend from Estonia Svetlana Polonskaya.
-
The two side by side are brilliant. Great plants by the look of it.
-
Extraordinary colourful plant Natalia, I wonder if it is grown elsewhere.
-
Extraordinary colourful plant Natalia, I wonder if it is grown elsewhere.
Brian we have a similar sp in Britian called the field cowwheat Melampyrum arvense and i would think Natalia's plant is semi parasitic like our plant.
-
I have often seen it in the Alps walks, Brian ;)
-
Yes, absolutely right - this plant is semi-parasite or a symbiote on grasses
-
Lori, Paul - I also never tire of admiring these colors! :)
This biennial plant of our flora, something akin to Castilleja. Still occurs and the white form. Here is a picture of my friend from Estonia Svetlana Polonskaya.
Great pic... we have one growing in the wild here in North Norway, but it's by far not as colourful as these
-
Thankyou Natalia, Nicole and Davey. Amazing what you learn from this forum. :)
-
Melampýrum nemorósum, as it is ... In Russian, Ivan-da-Marya - was considered a talisman of thieves.
Beutiful pics, Natalia! I have never seen this species. However, two species are rather commonin Norway (M. pratense & sylvaticum), and one is very rare (M. cristatum).
Here are the common ones - and they don't stand up against yours, Natalia!
[attach=1] [attach=2]
If anybody has sed of Melampyrum nemorosum to offer, I would love to get some ;)
-
What a beautiful plant, Natalia!
-
Brian, annew - is always happy to show something interesting fellow :)
Hoy, thank you. :) We also grow several different kinds, but this - the most expressive of growing in our area...
-
What do you get, if you light up the BBQ firestarter with a bit too moist newspaper. A lot of white smoke. It does give some haunting effect in the garden though and I find it quite awesome 8).