Flowering Now - April 2009

[ian mcenery]

What a lot of great plants being shown by everybody.

Here is my Ranunculus asiaticus - very pleased to have this one

[Lvandelft]

So many beautiful plants and great pictures on these pages.
Some pictures of plants flowering here during the last days:

Daphne arbuscula                             
Malus x micromalus 1                       
Malus x micromalus 2                   
Narcissus willkommii                     
Salix 1                                   
Salix 2                                 
Viburnum burkwoodii Anne Russell 

[Gerdk]

Luit, super grown Narcissus willkommii!

Paddy, Armin & Paul - Thanks for the compliments!

Paul, Viola delphinantha from Greece and Bulgaria has two closely related species which are kosaninii from Albania and Macedonia and cazorlensis from Andalucia/Spain. It seems the last one is the most beautiful and the easiest one - nevertheless I lost it due to excess rain in winter.

Gerd

[Oron Peri]

Eremurus spectabilis [syn. E. libanoticus] starts to bloom at the moment on Mt. Hermon and in the Golan Heights.

This species has a wide distribution that includes Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran.

[Ragged Robin]

spectacular eremurus in it's natural environment and what a great photos looking up from the baked earth to the blue sky and closely at the flowers.

I love these pages of what is flowering now in April - congratulations to everyone for such wonderful postings - we're still playing catch-up here in the Alps, the Spring has only just arrived!

[ranunculus]

Gorgeous plants and photos everybody ... LOVE that Ranunculus asiaticus, Ian.

[BULBISSIME]

Oron Eremurus on slopes is Magnifique !!! 
Encore !!  more !!

[BULBISSIME]

Viola ezanensis is flowering with a very nice and unusual foliage

[gote]

A couple of flowers from the weekend.
The Pulmonaria is a self sown seedling close to a rubra 'Redstart' It is obviously a hybrid perhaps with the blue longifolia nearby. Anyway it is as early as rubra (here) and has much larger flowers.
The "Colchicum" is (Merendera) sobolifera looks like a smaller (bulbocodium) Colchium vernum but smaller ans a forthnight later.
The Crocus is heuffelianus 'Brian Duncan' from Janis.
As you see I am much later than most of you.
Göte
 

[Hristo]

Super spring flowers Göte, normally I go up a mountain if I want to see into the floral past , but now I can enjoy early spring from Northern Europe while ( in theory ) I  enjoy warmer temperatures!

[maggiepie]

They are all beautiful, Gerd.
I think if I had to choose a favourite it would be Viola spathulata.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great stuff everyone !!

Luit, I can almost smell the Viburnum birkwoodii !  

Oron,
The view of that Eremurus is awesome !  

Nice to let us relive the early Spring Göte !!  

Here's some flowering in my garden the last few days :

1) Gentiana angustifolia - acaulis group (it's been years since it last flowered this profusely !  Here's a happy chappy !  
2) Dicentra "King of hearts" - starting it's long flowering period !
3) Lewisia tweedyi - yellow form - close up
4) Viola tricolor - I love to see them wherever they pop up !
5) Gentiana clusii - in a trough - 0 flowers last year - 5 now !
6) Saxifraga pedemontana
7) Anemone nemorosa robinsoniana with Rhododendron "Shamrock"
Veronica bombycina

[Gerdk]

They are all beautiful, Gerd.
I think if I had to choose a favourite it would be Viola spathulata.

Thank you Helen - a good choice! According to my opinion V. spathulata is the best recent violet introduction. It comes from Iran and was distributed by Dieter Zschummel - a famous plant lover from eastern Germany.
Unfortunately seedset from this species is very poor here.

Gerd

[ranunculus]

Lovely images Luc ...your big gentian is superb.

[Lesley Cox]

Another great collection. Hard to choose a favourite but Viola eizanensis is super and Ian's beautiful Ran. asicticus - oh, and Ver. bombycina of course.