June 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Diane Clement]

Arisaema franchetianum
Arisaema sp.
Arisaema flavum   

Philip, your sp is probably Arisamea ciliatum

[astragalus]

A second flush of flowers on Ranunuculus alpestris.

How wonderful to be able to grow this so well.

[Philip Walker]

Thanks Diane.I could have taken a guess from internet photos,but don't like to put a wrong name up.I bought 4 A.flavum and 2 turned out to be these,so I was quite pleased.

[ichristie]

Hello Steve great picture of the Meconopsis all the recently named forms have either come from what we once knew as G.S 600 or garden hybrids probably are all garden hybrids,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Mike Ireland]

Flowering yesterday before the deluge we had today.
Daphne oleoides, a self sown seedling in chimney pot
Dicentra pergrina x eximia alba grown fron SRGC Seed
Delphinium alpestre

[Maggi Young]

Mike, that Daphne is a real beauty - and a volunteer, eh?  Even better! 

[astragalus]

Gorgeous daphne!

[David King]

Everything in the garden seems to be coming out at the same time this year.   Three that we rather like at the moment:

1.  Meconopsis 'Lingholm'
2.  Cardiocrinum cordatum var Glehnii
3.  Eremurus - label lostii - first time they have flowered for five years so threats of compost heap do work!

[meanie]

I wish everyone would stop teasing me with your Mecanopsis photos! Another year, another failure here

Anyway.................
I got up this morning to find Echinopsis subdenudata in bloom in the greenhouse.................


I had a lone unopened bud hanging in there on a spent raceme on Clianthus puniceus - today it opened Looks a little lonely though)..................


One of the small Clerodendrum ugandense is in bloom.................


Digitalis carillion.....................


Finally a self seeded Impatiens glandulifera....................

[Armin]

great stuff from everybody

A current view on my garden and in comparison the image from March
Amazing change  - isn't it?

Amazing is also Lilium bulbiferum ssp. bulbiferum. Raised more then a dozent from bulbils I got from generous forum member, lost the flowering sized bulbs when I re-worked my raised beds .
Obvious one bulbil fell down between the stones and was overseen for several years and survived also the 2012 black frost desaster...
Surprised me with a single flower this year

[David Nicholson]

I wish everyone would stop teasing me with your Mecanopsis photos! Another year, another failure here

Anyway.................
I got up this morning to find Echinopsis subdenudata in bloom in the greenhouse.................


I had a lone unopened bud hanging in there on a spent raceme on Clianthus puniceus - today it opened Looks a little lonely though)..................

One of the small Clerodendrum ugandense is in bloom.................
Digitalis carillion.....................
Finally a self seeded Impatiens glandulifera....................

You take a cracking image meanie. Would you like to tell us more about your camera etc. please?

[David Nicholson]

Sorry folks I know I said they were cracking images but I didn't mean to repeat them all. Don't know how it happened this way.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Worth repeating!

[meanie]

You take a cracking image meanie. Would you like to tell us more about your camera etc. please?

Thanks!
It's just an old Nikon D40 (could use a service I reckon as I find it's struggling more nowadays in low light). I use manual settings (as low an ASA as possible, generally low f stop, fast a shutter speed as realistic etc). On subjects such as the Impatiens and Digitalis I'm not afraid to use the flash to fill in the shadows.
I very rarely edit apart from cutting to size where appropriate. I must admit however that I tweaked the contrast on the Echinopsis photo using Irfanview as the white in full sun (even at 1/1000th shutter) was a bit too much for nice petal definition.

The real trick though is to simply delete the crappy photos

Three more;
Penstemon proceros...............


First bloom on Salvia buchanii since planting out................


And an unknown Iris.....................

[Lvandelft]

3.  Remurus - label lostii - first time they have flowered for five years so threats of compost heap do work!

probably Eremurus robustus David