Flowering now April 2007

[mark smyth]

Iceberg is a stunner. One of the plants I'll be looking for while at the conference

Maggi has used white paint. Just look at the colour of the Chionodox nearest the tree.

Would a jet wash not strip the delicate paper thin bark? I would be scared to do that to mine

[annew]

Franz, your gentians are beautiful.

[mark smyth]

here are a few plants from the garden from the last few days

Hyacinthoides non scripta bracteata. Anyone got colours other than pale blue?

while dead heading this Pulsatilla I thought I should show you how floriferous it is. One of the three suddenly died in full flower

a Corydalis that first showed last year. Lovely bronzed leaves. Which one is it?

Ranunculus parnassifolius in a crevice but is it happy?

Erythronium 'Craigton Cream'

[ian mcenery]

Seeing Franz's wonderful gentians reminds me that I intended to post this one

G Acaulis Belvedere I had from our esteemed President. It seems quite vigorous and very free flowering

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful photos everyone !
Love the Gentians in particular - I have a nice little clump of G. verna angulosa that carried 20 flowerheads and buds.  Yesterday, they were all lying beside the plant - pecked off by sparrows...

[Anthony Darby]

Sorry you lot only just caught up with the fish thing.  By the way the fish's position is known to fishermen as tail walking.

Anthony as I am a flyfisherman I cast a fly and made him rise.
Carpe diem as they say

Ian, when I was a student, back in the early 70s living with my parents in Callander I tied flies for the Trossachs Rod Company for extra cash. My favourite was the 'Durham Ranger', which I could sell to American tourists for £1 (when simple trout flies were 5p). In those days, 'commercially' made flies were works of art.

Anthony.

[Olga Bondareva]

David, Paddy and everyone! Thanks for compliments! Spring is so beautiful! I’d like to make images of every flower when go to the garden. Plants are new every day. New flowers, new conditions.
   
Paddy
This lovely trollius is native to western Caucasus. It blooms when snow is just melt. And it is very compact when blooms. But later it grows like usual trollius. May be slightly lower.

Franz
Iceberg is outstanding! My is too little and do not bloom yet.

Some pictures from last garden visit:


http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150978/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla aff. ambigua


http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150981/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla flavescens 1


http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150983/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla flavescens 2 (may be subspecies of P. patens)


http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150986/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla grandis


http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150987/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla multifida


http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150994/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla tenuifolia


http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50151000/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla vernalis

[Paddy Tobin]

Franz,

Wonderful flowers, excellent photographs. A great treat to see them all from your garden. Many thanks.


Mark,

Great pulsatilla, what a display of flowers on a plant, a really good one.


Olga,

Many thanks for information on Trollius. I can't view your latest postings at the moment - because of the configuration of the internet system here at work. I will look at them tonight.

Paddy

[hadacekf]

Thanks, all, for the comments.
Ian, Gentiana acaulis ‘Belvedere’ is a good growing and flowering cultivar. It comes from the Alpine Garden Belvedere in Vienna. This is the oldest alpine garden of Europe and was created 1803 by Duke
Johann.

[johngennard]

Mark,you said that you were out peeling your Betula utilis.What's the difference between doing it by hand and removing it with a jet wash.I have jet washed them for several years now with no detriment to the trees.

[mark smyth]

My concern is that when I start to peel before they are ready too much comes away showing the green inner layer under a think layer of bark

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Oxalis is starting to bloom - here are my first ones :

1) oxalis brasiliensis
2) same - close up
3) oxalis triangularis purpurea

[ian mcenery]

Anthony I tie my own flies but a Durham Ranger now that is a work of art. I will certainly buy one for a £1 if you have one 

Franz thanks for the info on Belvedere I was given the impression, maybe incorrectly, this was found around the Marmalade in the Dolomites on or near the Windelbeg. There are certainly some beautiful forms in that area. Maybe both facts are correct

[Anthony Darby]

Ian, I haven't tied a fly in anger for over 20 years. I did take my vice into school to start a fly-tying club, but some little scrote stole it so the club never started.  I never got it back and the culprit was never traced. I gave all my hooks to the janitor. I still have half a jungle cock cape somewhere?

[ian mcenery]

Anthony i should put it for sale on Ebay it's a bit of a rarity now

Here is a photo of a Durham Ranger to remind you