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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #60 on: May 23, 2013, 01:24:50 PM »
A few flowers from my garden today

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Podophyllum hexandrum
Orchys purpurea
Corydalis pachycentra is spreading fast with stolons
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #61 on: May 23, 2013, 01:32:22 PM »
And Nothoscordum bivalve (or Ornithogalum bivalve)
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #62 on: May 23, 2013, 02:18:30 PM »
A couple of tuberous geraniums from Janis.
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #63 on: May 23, 2013, 02:19:40 PM »
Thalictrum ichangense
« Last Edit: May 23, 2013, 02:33:20 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #64 on: May 23, 2013, 03:46:34 PM »
Penstemon virens from the garden today, a difficult colour for my camera (and the photographer!) to capture.

Penstemon davidsonii possibly var. menziesii
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #65 on: May 23, 2013, 07:29:25 PM »
I'm glad you like the glandulosa, I've got the white one too (it was a late frost which finished the last ones off).
Also a nice Asplenium scolopendrium .. Bolton's Nobile

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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #66 on: May 23, 2013, 09:20:53 PM »
Much to admire! Can't decide which one gets my vote today!

Here is Paris japonica from my garden. It is the first time it flowers. It  has taken 3 cold winters without problems. Cuckoo flower in the background.
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #67 on: May 23, 2013, 11:09:00 PM »
Tim. your sand bed looks marvelous.  For me, Erinacea anthyllis seemed to take forever to establish.  It was here quite a few years before it started flowering and each year now there are more flowers  I really liked your Daphne x hendersonii 'Balckthorn'.  That's not one of the ones available in the U.S., even from the daphne specialists.  Our pre-Nottingham tour visited Robin White's garden, a real highlight for me, and people were buying wonderful plants.  The only downside to the whole conference for me was the inability to buy any plants because there was no phyto inspection available.  I still think of the daphnes I had to pass up, not to mention the wonderful plants for sale at the conference.
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #68 on: May 23, 2013, 11:16:03 PM »
Tim. your sand bed looks marvelous.  For me, Erinacea anthyllis seemed to take forever to establish.  It was here quite a few years before it started flowering and each year now there are more flowers  I really liked your Daphne x hendersonii 'Balckthorn'.  That's not one of the ones available in the U.S., even from the daphne specialists.  Our pre-Nottingham tour visited Robin White's garden, a real highlight for me, and people were buying wonderful plants.  The only downside to the whole conference for me was the inability to buy any plants because there was no phyto inspection available.  I still think of the daphnes I had to pass up, not to mention the wonderful plants for sale at the conference.

I was really thinking of you and the others left bereft at Nottingham, Anne, when we saw the exceptional lengths Jiri and Vojtech went to at the Czech conference to enable the easy export of plants - it was even better than Edinburgh in 2001!! They had thought of EVERYTHING!!
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #69 on: May 24, 2013, 09:03:41 AM »
One of my friends grows Corallodiscus lanuginosus and some other Gesneriads in open garden 500 km south Moscow. But it's a great risk I agree.  :(
 
Olga, I tried Corallodiscus several times in the garden, but I lost my plants always during the first winter. They must be hardy because they grow in the wild more or less at the same altitude as Daphne calcicola (3200 – 3500 meters). Probably I didn’t give them the right conditions.


Hi Jef,
Would you please tell me what is  Gesneriaceae 'CY G - 60' ? If here was there another reference anywhere in this forum I didn't catch this.
Gerd
Gerd, I got this plant from Ray Drew in 2005. I never tried to find out the true name. Maybe this is known in the meantime. I will send an e-mail to Ray.

Tim, I believe I will visit your nursery in the near future again  ;).
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #70 on: May 24, 2013, 09:13:50 AM »
Would you please tell me what is  Gesneriaceae 'CY G - 60' ? If here was there another reference anywhere in this forum I didn't catch this.  Gerd
Gerd, I got this plant from Ray Drew in 2005. I never tried to find out the true name. Maybe this is known in the meantime. I will send an e-mail to Ray.

I think CY G60 is Chirita brassicoides   I used to grow this and several other Chiritas but lost them in the cold winters a couple of years ago.

EDIT*** see reply #90 on next page....
« Last Edit: May 25, 2013, 10:45:25 AM by Maggi Young »
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #71 on: May 24, 2013, 11:01:46 AM »
It has been a good year for Oxalis laciniata.
If you are interested in pictures of Oxalis laciniata and Oxalis laciniata v pubescens, you can have a look at our website: www.alpines.dk
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #72 on: May 24, 2013, 11:40:30 AM »
Kirsten, I think you made an understatement.  What an incredible display of oxalis flowers!  Do you have a nursery?  There are so many plants.  Thanks for the links to the website with such marvelous photographs, especially  Ranunculus parnassifolius.

Maggi, yet another reason to mourn missing the Conference.  I've been enjoying the pictures.  Hope there will be more posted of the gardens.
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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #73 on: May 24, 2013, 11:42:24 AM »
Much to admire! Can't decide which one gets my vote today!

Here is Paris japonica from my garden. It is the first time it flowers. It  has taken 3 cold winters without problems. Cuckoo flower in the background.

Trond,

My vote goes to your Paris Japonica!!

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Re: May 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #74 on: May 24, 2013, 03:43:14 PM »
It has been a good year for Oxalis laciniata.
If you are interested in pictures of Oxalis laciniata and Oxalis laciniata v pubescens, you can have a look at our website: www.alpines.dk

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