Flowering Now - April 2009

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful Pulsatilla patens Lori !!  Thanks a lot for showing !

Excellent batch of Lewisias David - they've always been favourites of mine !

[Brian Ellis]

Lori they are just beautiful

[BULBISSIME]

I missed this post but Pulsatilla in the wild are stunning !!
I love this kind of wild pictures !
Congratulations Lori !!!

[Hans J]

today some new pics :

Cornus nutallii ' Eddie's White Wonder '
Prunus 'Kanzan'

[Gerdk]

It's not easy to catch all the flowers when spring step forwards - here are some
pics from yesterday and today

1. Cercis chinensis
2 + 3. Weigela middendorfiana
4. Pulsatilla albana - yellow form
5. Aubrieta scardica
6. Haplocarphus rueppelii - thanks to Franz H.!
7. Ranunculus malessianus - from the Sierra de Cazorla
8. Ranunculus muelleri from NZ

- the last two surprisngly hardy here -

Gerd

[Gerdk]

- and the continuation

1. + 2. Viola anagae - from Tenerife, Canary Islands - fine species for alpine
           house cultivation
3. + 4. Viola delphinantha - this year a bad performance -
5. Viola hederacea - from Australia, a very small form
6. Viola pubescens (Syn. V. pensylvanica) from the US
7. The Confederate Violet - Viola sororia priceana - the pink variant is a
    cultivar - name lost
8. + 9. Viola spathulata

Gerd

[Sinchets]

I am almost sure that the last Ranunculus isn't asiaticus because this species has
blackish anthers! But - sorry - no idea what it is.
Gerd

It could possibly be Ranunculus creticus. If it is, it has proved hardier than we imagined and flowered for the first time in many years (we used to grow it in a bulb frame in England).

The flower matches but the leaves look partly divided rather than entire as in creticus. 
Any chance of another pic Simon, showing the leaves & perhaps a side-view of the scape? 
Nice plant anyway

Do these pics help at all?

[Sinchets]

Flowering today on the rock gardens:
Papaver 'alpinum'
Geum montanum
Leontopodium species (name lost in the mists of time but a low creeping/ stoloniferous species)
Pulsatilla (seed grow from AGS SeedExchange 'Papageno')
Penstemon nitidus (flower buds just breaking)
and more Mattholia anchonifolium 

[Sinchets]

The last one for today. One year from seed- a Dianthus hybrid. The parent was a dwarf hybrid from AberConwy Nursery, which I had to leave behind in its trough. I guess it will be landfill by now

[BULBISSIME]

Great plants and rock gardens everybody !
should be a lot of work to keep it so clean 

[Paddy Tobin]

Hans,

The Cornus nutallii is fantastic. Cornus are excellent garden plants. I have a number of young plants in the garden which haven't yet reached their peak and so I am still looking forward to seeing them develop over coming years. Prunus 'Kanzan' was one of those planted everywhere trees here in Ireland, very commonly used as a street tree, very beautiful but seems to have been a troublesome tree in latter years with widespread deaths.

Gerd,

Love the cercis, great display. The Weigela middendorfiana is also in flower here, a species nicely different from the more common weigelas found in gardens.

Paddy

[Armin]

Gerd,
your rock garden burrows a lot of tiny treasures.
Lovely violets.

[Paul T]

Great pics everyone.

Gerd,

That Viola delphinantha is amazing.... I can see why the delphinium link was made... the flowers are so similar.  Definitely like no Viola I've ever seen before. 

[Hans J]

Paddy ,

Yes - those Cornus are fantastic !
I regret that I have not plantet more of them ...
...and my Acer palmatum 'Atropurpureum' looks ugly after this winter .....2/3 are frozen 

[Lesley Cox]

The bees are wild with the Pulsatillas so it's not so hard to get them on photo. This one looks as if he's been having a good time 

He looks like a young man after his first visit to a house of ill repute. Happily dazed but lucky to have got out alive!