Flowering Now - June 2009

[Onion]

Robin,

a link for a nursery with some Dianthus species and cultivars


http://www.eschmannpflanzen.ch/index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=4&Itemid=67

(Sorry in German)

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Luc and Uli for your advice and leads - I will spend a happy evening surfing dianthus and dream about the days out  

[hadacekf]

Luc,
Super plants and pics. Good to see that you have such a large plant of Saponaria olivana.

[Regelian]

Another new seedling bloomed this morning.  I didn't get to it until this evening, but it has a nice shape and pattern despite the cold weather.

Free Wheelin' x Venetian Baroque (?)

[Sinchets]

Simply stunning, Jamie. Is the seedling of your own making?

[Paddy Tobin]

 Re: e: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #78 on: June 05, 2009, 08:52:01 PM »

Jamie,

Great result, a very nice flower.  Well done!


RE: Cardiocrinum:
In flower here today, Cardiocrinum giganteum var yunnanense.

Paddy

[Regelian]

Thanks, Simon, and yes, it is of my own making.  Getting the slight ruffling on the edge was what I was aiming for, which is difficult in the open form Hems.  The gene pool is small for this type of breeding.  Below are the parents.

Paddy, I love your Cardiocrinum!  I have some seed from Kristl I hope to sprout and establish in the garden.  I've tried bulbs before, but they always died after a year or two.  I'm hoping that seed will be the answer.  I'll let you know in say, 10 years!

Free Wheelin'
Venetian Baroque

[Brian Ellis]

My favourite Cardiocrinum Paddy, I have fond memories of seeing them at Bide-A-Wee garden in Northumberland, truly stunning.

[Anthony Darby]

Another new seedling bloomed this morning.  I didn't get to it until this evening, but it has a nice shape and pattern despite the cold weather.

Free Wheelin' x Venetian Baroque (?)

That is amazing. I have 'Yabbadabbadoo' and 'Bark  at Me', but the flowers never look like they should do.

Here's Sandy Leven's Chilean flame tree (Embothrium) and my Crinodendron hookeri.

[Sinchets]

Thanks, Simon, and yes, it is of my own making.  Getting the slight ruffling on the edge was what I was aiming for, which is difficult in the open form Hems.  The gene pool is small for this type of breeding.  Below are the parents.

Double congratulations, Jamie. A hybrid with the best qualities of its parents and a whole lot more of its own as well.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Sorry Luc

Sündermann nursery is on the German side of the Bodensee 

Next weekend their is a plant market in the northwest. Will look for Helianthemum lunulatum.

Oops... I mixed up Eschman and Sundermann Uli - thanks for clearing that up !!

Paddy,
You're Cardiocrinum is awesome !!!

[andré B]

Paddy,
I was just preparing a picture of my Cardiocrinum in flower to post here but mine is much more modest so I will leave it. Yours is really stunning.
Congratulations.

[Paddy Tobin]

Andre,

One cannot have too many cardiocrinum.

Paddy

[Lvandelft]

Luit,
Our tastes may be simmilar, but unfortunately they (the strong plants) are not always that "long living" with me...    Good thing for the nurseries... 
If I can be of any assistance with a rooted cutting of H. lunelatum, let me know, I can have a try and bring it back to the sheperds' stable    It's only a fairly small plant yet, so I couldn't take many...   

Luc, for the moment you don't have to bother. It is hardly to believe, but a small piece of my plant is still alive.
Yesterday I went searching on the place where it used to be. The bed is taken over now by Oxalis inops, Geranium sanguineum and a huge Daphne oleoides !
When I pulled enough Geranium away I was really surprised to find the Helianthemum lunulatum  I had not seen it for years, so I thought it died.
Now I will try to pot it and it hopefully will survive.

[Maggi Young]

André , I hope you have a long case of paeony fever  One of the very best fevers to have!!

 I'd love to see your Cardiocrinum, too.... never too many of those, as Paddy says.