May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Garden Prince]

My Cypripedium formosanum with more than 100 flowers.

How do you keep the the slugs and snails from your Cypripedium? I thought about buying Cypripedium reginae  and formosanum last year but the thought of snails eating them kept me from it.

[zvone]

Hi!




More pictures: http://zvonem.blogspot.si/news/

Best Regards! zvone

[Gene Mirro]

Kindredspiritkevin, the black planter with the Lewisias in it is very nicely done.

[ebbie]

How do you keep the the slugs and snails from your Cypripedium? I thought about buying Cypripedium reginae  and formosanum last year but the thought of snails eating them kept me from it.

This isn't a problem here. Neither Cypripedium reginae still Cypripedium formosanum are particularly preferred by slugs and snails. Some slug pellets are enough.

[astragalus]

Blooming now.

[Gene Mirro]

Clematis montana rubens on the fence:



Ourisia coccinea:  they will not tolerate dry soil at this time of year:



Penstemon cardwelli, extremely vigorous in this climate:



Polygonatum humile, with Podophyllum emodi in back:



Arisaema triphyllum, doing well in full sun in my cool climate:

[Yann]

Some Geum flowering

[Gene Mirro]

Okra?  No, giant seedpods on Sanguinaria canadensis the normal single form:

[astragalus]

All the genistas and cytisus are coming into bloom.  Everything is very late this year and a few plants got frosted last night when we went down to 29F last night.

[angie]

Back to wearing my fleece again but I do enjoy this time of year when my favourite plant is here.

Angie 

[Yann]

nice trillum set

[Jozef Lemmens]

Beautiful Trilliums, Angie.

Here are two Daphnes.

Daphne 'Pink Star'. A hybrid between D. x burkwoodii ‘Sommerset’ and D. cneorum ‘Eximea’.

   

And something I have from the first Czech conference, 6 years ago.
Daphne cneorum 'Variegata' (Jiri Papousek) + Daphne cneorum (Jiri Papousek).

   

[Maggi Young]

Jef, how well these Daphne grow for you. I wish they would be as happy here in our garden.

Your photos of the plant from Jiri at the first Czech conference will be a great encouragement to those who have gone home with such plants from the 2nd Conference - we will look forward to the photos of those plants in six years' time!

I still have the scent from the Czech daphnes strong in my memory.

[fredg]

A little carnivorous plant, Pinguicula corsica.
Pinguicula are wonderful if you happen to get a white fly outbreak. I once used  four plants to clear a greenhouse.

[gmoen]

Finally it seems spring has arrived here up north. Here are some Hepaticas from the garden yesterday (I only grow forms and hybrids of H. nobilis nobilis and H. transilvanica)

1 A multi petaled form of Hep. nobils collected in the forrest behind my house
2 One of my pink form of Hep. nobilis grown from seed (Hepatica nobilis 'Best Pink')
3 One of my favorite Hepatica is a plant given to my by my friend Severin Schlyter the last time I visited him before he past away. He had no name for it but it is a cross between H. nobilis and H. transilvanica. For my self I have named it Hepatica 'Schlyter's Heritage'
4 Hepatica 'Schlyter's Heritage' closeup

Note: Yesterday I managed to post this under April   
Cheers
Geir