April 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[krisderaeymaeker]

Some white feaver to start this month ......

1- Daphne blagayana 'Bertram Anderson '
2- Saxifraga 'Cumulus '
3- Androsace pyrenaica
4- Tulipa cretica

[angie]

Just love white flowers 

Angie 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Just love white flowers 
Angie 

Like the weather here Angie ....cool colours for cool weather ...

And some white with a little pink , Colchicum bifolium
 

[ebbie]

Kris, your Colchicum bifolium is marvellous!

 The Daphne is certainly 'Brenda Anderson', or isn't it?

[Jozef Lemmens]

Nice plants, Kris.
Two Callianthemums in my raised bed.
Callianthemum anemonoides

   

And Callianthemum farreri. Strange,  this plants is earlier in flower than those in my greenhouse.

[Tim Ingram]

What a wonderful plant of C. anemonoides; with us this is only just appearing on the sand bed but is always a joy to see. I have never heard of C. farreri, a blue flowered species...! (I have just looked this up in the AGS Encyclopaedia, where a much less striking picture is shown and it mentions Farrer describing it as 'a most melting China-blue'; a perfect description. A very special plant).

[Maggi Young]

I agree, Tim, C. farreri is a super plant.  One can see from photos that there is a variation in colour from almost white through to quite a strong blue.

Here are a few examples, both from the SRGC Forum amd other websites :

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3210.msg80840#msg80840

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5263.msg149767#msg149767

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7056.msg196820#msg196820

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=8881.msg242081#msg242081


http://skalnicky-rostliny.blog.cz/galerie/zahrada-2010/obrazek/72361960

http://alpines.dk/plantsgallery/gallery/plants/c/   
http://www.plantarium.ru/page/image/id/174643.html

http://skalnicky-rostliny.blog.cz/galerie/zahrada-2010/obrazek/72361960

http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php?action=showpic&pid=76669&anchor=1550957

[Tim Ingram]

What a marvel the internet is! Thanks Maggi - a space will be reserved for it in the garden if it ever comes my way. All those pictures show quite small plants so perhaps it is quite temperamental like its namesake.

[Maggi Young]

I am eagerly awaiting the day we are shown a fat plant, covered in flower, gracing someone's garden, Tim.  Sadly, I don't think it'll be in my garden.....

[Jozef Lemmens]

I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK. 

[Maggi Young]

I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK.

   Follow this link   from the various Forum threads above, Jef
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=3210.msg80840#msg80840 -

 it already has appeared on UK Show benches. 

[ian mcenery]

Some white feaver to start this month ......

1- Daphne blagayana 'Bertram Anderson '

Kris are you sure that it is not Brenda Anderson? This is the name that I have always used as the compact form of blagayana

[ian mcenery]

I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK. 

Jef lovely in the flesh - I saw it a Loughborough a couple of years ago-  but very difficult to get hold of

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, your Colchicum bifolium is marvellous!
The Daphne is certainly 'Brenda Anderson', or isn't it?

Kris are you sure that it is not Brenda Anderson? This is the name that I have always used as the compact form of blagayana

Hi Ebbie and Ian . Ofcourse it is Brenda Anderson and not Bertram Anderson ! Thanks for the rectification , must have a senior moment 

[krisderaeymaeker]

I bought my first plant about 6 years ago (at the first Czech conference) and I have never seen more than a couple of flowers each year.
This species will probably never appear on the show benches in the UK. 

I tried it two times (once in pot and once in the crevice ) but not succeed .... Jef can you tells us how you manage to grow such good plants of this farreri ?