April 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[johnw]

Ian  - Simply stunning.  Do you suppose last summer's rains helped it along?

johnw

[Gene Mirro]

Haberlea rhodopensis, started from seed in 2008:

[Gene Mirro]

Lewisia leana, in the greenhouse:

[Gerdk]

Gerd - what a great little plant that is (it appeals to someone like me who grows many umbellifers, and some botanists even join the two families). It reminds me that I didn't order seed from Kristl this year and must remember to do so next.

Thank you, Tim. I'll try to pollinate these plants in order to get some seeds (which failed in 2012).
Please let me know if you can't have seeds from Kristl.

Gerd

[ian mcenery]

Ian  - Simply stunning.  Do you suppose last summer's rains helped it along?

johnw

Can't say John but it could have helped. It just looks much healthier this spring. I will watch to see what happens this year

[ebbie]

Beautiful veronica.  Do you cover it in the winter?

Yes, here it is raining too much. Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardahesis is all year round in my greenhouse. Just as Tetraneuris (Hymenoxis) acaulis var. caespitosa  and Chrysanthemum maresii

[Irm]

Not in a greenhouse    but in my garden

Ranzania japonica

[WimB]

Some plants which were flowering here during the last week!

Bellevalia pycnantha
Draba ossetica var. racemosa
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Dark Beauty'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Mukawa Genpei'
Iberis saxatilis 'Pygmaea

[WimB]

Some more:

Iris attica
Iris bucharica
Iris vicaria 'Hodji-obi-garm'
Iris x graeberiana 'Yellow Fall'
Sanguinaria canadensis 'Multiplex'

[WimB]

And some more :

Trillium albidum
Androsace mathildae
Epimedium 'Pink Elf'
Iris orchioides 'Aktash'
and Sanguinaria canadensis 'Star'

[WimB]

Still more   

Thalictrum thalictroides 'Amelia'
Thalictrum thalictroides 'Pink flash'
Uvularia grandiflora 'Gold Leaf form'
Epimedium 'Diabolo'
Epimedium epsteinii

[WimB]

And the last one's for today:

Fritillaria pallidiflora
Lewisia nevadensis
Morisia monanthos
Primula auricula 'Broadwell Gold' and Primula auricula 'Argus'
and Taraxacum albidum

[Botanica]

Extra photos! WimB..is a wonderful flowering !!

Arisaema pictures


Arisaema sikokianum


Ulvularia grandiflora (First flowering)


Paris quadriflolia


Cypripedium formosanum


Pulsatilla vulgaris

[Tim Ingram]

So many great plants flowering now spring has eventually got going. These are extra special - an exhibit of erythroniums put on by Ray Drew at the local Essex Group Show on Saturday. It's very nice to see a group of plants like these compared, and erythroniums are looking perfect just now. (My apologies to Ray that the photographs don't really do the plants justice).

General view of exhibit
E. ex 'Rosalind
E. 'Jeanette Brickell'
E. 'Craigton Cover Girl'
E. revolutum 'God's Valley'

[Tim Ingram]

E. howellii
E. 'Appleblossom'
E. 'Beechpark'
E. 'Joan Wiley'
E. 'Janice'