Bulb Log 05/06/13

[Kirsten]

Thanks for pictures and reportage from Gothenburg. It was a lovely week-end and it is always a great pleasure to visit the Botanical Garden.
I took some pictures in the greenhouse: Petunia patagonia and part of the Dionysia collection.
(The Tropaeolum on your picture is T. sessilifolium, not T. incisum)

[pontus]

I will be there on wednesday, enjoying one of my favourite botanical gardens in the world!

Pontus

[Ian Y]

Thanks Kirsten for correcting me on the name of the Tropaeolum, I had doubts about my memory of the name - it is a fabulous plant.

Pontus you are in for a real treat so much to see including a plant that I do not think has ever been flowered in cultivation before, despite many including ourselves trying, which I think will feature in one of Henrik Zetturland's blogs.

[pontus]

yes i am looking forward to it very much, as i have always visited in july and august in the past...and sometimes early spring, but never june...and by judging from your images and also Henrik's blog, the garden looks amazing now with many bulb treasures.

what is the plant which has never been in flower in cultivation? is it in the bulb rock garden part where they grow alliums, eremurus and other jewels outside one of the main greenhouses?

Pontus

[Ian Y]

what is the plant which has never been in flower in cultivation? is it in the bulb rock garden part where they grow alliums, eremurus and other jewels outside one of the main greenhouses?

Pontus

No it is in the open up in the rock garden area

[pontus]

do you think that it might be in flower tomorrow with some luck?

what is it called?

Pontus

[Maggi Young]

Ian is teasing you Pontus - he's not going to tell you- you'll have to discover it for yourself!
He is confident it will be in flower though.

[pontus]

hahah well i almost thought so!... I will do an advanced search and report back on my return with an image if i located it. Have you ever been there in summer to see their magnificient dark red lilium superbum 3 meters tall, quite an amazing sight! and their disas in the disa house in july/august..quite show stopping!

Pontus

[Maggi Young]

To my great regret, I myself have never been to GBG - Ian has been on various occasions, though not in high summer, and  he loves the place.

I have to tell you that I would dearly love to be able to accompany you to see the garden and this "mystery" plant.

Henrik will be writing about it soon in his blog, I think.   Have a great visit!
 

[Gunilla]

Good luck, Pontus. I'll wait for your image. I think I must have missed that mysterious plant.  It was a great week-end. The botanical garden, the private gardens, the lectures and the finishing plants sale - I loved it all  .

Alliums in the greenhouse.
 

[pontus]

I am now back in Switzerland again after an excellent visit in Gothenburg botanical garden. It was excellent to see plants which i am usually not able to see in july as they are over by then. Arisaemas where at their peak flowering period and looking excellent.

cypripediums and corydalis where also very good, as well as many other things.

to make it easier for uploading, I have uploaded a gallery to my website of high resolution pictures of the arisaemas I saw. The link is here :

http://pontuswallstenplants.smugmug.com/Other/Arisaema-gallery/30129183_xR7jTf#!i=2590548318&k=8qnKXw3

i will make more galleries also soon.

the next may be an allium gallery, as there where many excellent ones as well.

Ian, I am still trying to figure out the mystery plant....I thought to myself on the plane that given Henrik's very good sense of humour it could almost have been one of his jokes.....maybe a dead dysosomia turned into an animal of some sort? hmmm....

as there where plants i had not seen in bloom before it could almost have been anything.....but i did not see anything which stood out from my past years visits as this new mystery plant....apart from maybe a purple meconopsis?

Pontus

[Roma]

There is a picture of the mystery plant in Henrik's latest blog.

[Maggi Young]

There is indeed, Roma - well spotted!  Ian was waiting for Henrik to announce it - wonderful plant.

[kiwi]

Hi, loved to read in Henrik's blog about the Thermopsis barbata flowering in cultivation.
It is such an amazing plant, it will be fantastic to see more plants in cultivation.
I got to enjoy these plants in Nepal last year with Clint and Robin Callens, so had to share with you.
We also stumbled across this beauty also- a yellow form, is this a rare find?

Cheers,
Doug.

[Maggi Young]

Super photos Doug, from what must have  been a magical trip.

 Might the furry little yellow plant be Thermopsis smithiana ?
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242352155