Flowers and Foliage July 2008

[johnw]

Aaaron - I guess a new label is required for my michiganense!  Thanks.

johnw

[HClase]

PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title?

There's an article in the latest Garden magazine to reach us by a "Widget Finn". I presume this is a nickname or pen name - I cannot imagine anyone being christened Widget!

[WimB]

John,

do you mean Rhodophiala or Rhodohypoxis? Rhodophiala is very nice too and I believe Rhodophiala bifida can stand quite some rain and frost.

Thanks for the reminder and for the cuttings

Wim

[johanneshoeller]

Autumn is coming here!!???

Gentiana pannonica
 Gentiana pannonoca
 Cypripedium calceolus

[johnw]

Luc,very nice Rhodohypoxis.

Do you let them grow outside all year. No problems with too much rain in winter? Or do you have a special way of growing them?

Wim - I see Rhodophiala in Bodil Larsen's garden near St. John's, Newfoundland! I could hardly believe my eyes.

(reminder - friend will arrive in Antwerp Thursday am and post).

johnw

Rhodohypoxis, sorry.

johnw

[arisaema]

Fantastic plants, both Rhodohypoxis and that wonderful Gentiana. Thanks for posting!

[David Nicholson]

PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title?

There's an article in the latest Garden magazine to reach us by a "Widget Finn". I presume this is a nickname or pen name - I cannot imagine anyone being christened Widget!

Dear Sir,

You obviously have a very infertile imagination,

yours faithfully,

Widget Nicholson.

 

[art600]

PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title?

There's an article in the latest Garden magazine to reach us by a "Widget Finn". I presume this is a nickname or pen name - I cannot imagine anyone being christened Widget!

That is interesting as our Widget Finn seems to be a writer on Economics.

[Kristl Walek]

This week there is not even one day of sun predicted....it's gotten to the point this season where we live for the occasional 1/2 day, and then when it comes it is so steamy, one cannot enjoy it.

It's made seed development problematic, the weeds prolific and the photography dicey...but here are a few.

Aesculus parviflora and Adenophora remotiflora.

Triosteum pinnatifidum is nothing to write home about in flower, but the foliage is great in the woodland garden, and one waits for the other real plus of the plant---the berries---ripening from white to pink.

I look forward to the lovely Adenophora triphylla each year.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks for the nice words Art and Wim !
Actually I grow the Rhodohypoxis in (half)pots which are kept dry and frostfree in winter.

Mid or late May I put the pots in the rock garden in holes where I have then just removed Tulips (planted out in baskets) so that the latter can spend their summer in a warm and dry spot where they get the baking they like so much.

At the end of the summer the Rhodohypoxis pots come out again and in go the tulip baskets to replace them.  As such I get flowers twice a year on the same spot... and don't we all lack space  

I've tried some Rhodohypoxis outside in the past but lost them  ..  winterwet or frost - I don't know what killed them  

I repot them every other year and yes Luit, I have to upgrade my pots regularly, but I don't mind that....  

As to the timeframe to fill up a pot like this Art, - I guess I started up with Tetra Red for example some 6 or 7 years ago with a pot containing 2 or 3 bulbs...

[Pete Clarke]

Pete,
 
 Your middle Lilium looks like L.leichtlinii. Was the plant cobwebby pubescent when young? The flower bud also? If so, that would be the name I put on it. I had one in bloom a few weeks ago.

 Below is a photo of L.michiganense. This is very typical of what you see in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. I assume it looks the same everywhere though. Its one species I have not seen much variation in. In comparison to superbum, michiganense is an overall smaller plant with less flowers, and has less of the tepals forming a trumpet.

 Aaron Floden
 Knoxville,

Thanks Aaron,
The leaves on my plant are very smooth, not hairy or downy at all. Also the orange colour of the flower is completlety uniform into the throat, no yellow suffusion as michiganense seems to have from pictures I have seen.

Has anyone else had problems with their lily leaves suddenly browning & dying over a matter of days? I have several plants almost defoliated. I suspect it is fungal and have sprayed with a systemic fungicide.
Pete.
Birmingham.

[arisaema]

Pete;

If it's not L. leichlinii then it's probably L. lancifolium (syn. L. tigrinum), it's a nice enough plant, but certainly no L. majoense! The disease sounds like it might be botrytis.

Kristl;

Great pictures, that Triostemon in particular looks lovely!

[Lesley Cox]

I really prefer Fidget Winn (To) Self of course, is the term we gardeners would use for the process of pollinating a flower with its own pollen. It also reminds me of slugs and in the case of Mr Leonard, doesn't bear thinking about.

[Lesley Cox]

Re botrytis, last year this was a problem for me in pots of fritillarias and young liliums. It has never been an issue in the garden proper. So this year I've watered all my bulb pots with systemic fungicide, once a couple of months ago when everything was rooting madly, yesterday as frits are beginning to emerge and I'll do it again when the frits begin to make buds and the lilies start to emerge. Fortunately the bulbs themselves haven't been affected though it must make them less vigorous, surely. Anyway, this year I'm going for prevention rather than (attempted) cure.

[WimB]

Here are some of the plants that are flowering in my garden now:

1) Chamaemelum nobile ligulosum
2) Iris taurica
3) Pelargonium endlicherianum
4) Saponaria officinalis