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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #135 on: July 29, 2009, 12:28:28 PM »
Stunning Magnar...simply stunning.
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #136 on: July 29, 2009, 02:27:07 PM »
So fantastic to look into and enjoy each development ending up with the flowers in the centre, thanks Magnar  :)
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #137 on: July 29, 2009, 10:30:15 PM »
Terrific plant, Magnar!
Here's one that never disappoints me, Campanula herzegovina 'Nana':
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #138 on: July 30, 2009, 08:56:14 AM »
Wonderful Campanula. Lori. Never saw that one before.

Im always happy to find that Physoplexis comosa has survived winter and flowers again  :)

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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #139 on: July 30, 2009, 12:26:27 PM »
Lori, what a glorious sight to see spilling over the trough edge in your garden - a fabulous Campanula herzegovina 'Nana'

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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #140 on: July 30, 2009, 12:58:37 PM »
Beautiful, Lori.

Magnar, that Physoplexis is excellent!!  8)
Cheers.

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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #141 on: July 30, 2009, 01:18:00 PM »
Two beautiful plants, Magnar.

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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #142 on: July 30, 2009, 01:32:55 PM »
Thank you Paddy, I'd managed to miss the Saussurea, now in flower.  Absolutely glorious, isn't it.  So glad you mentioned the two plants and I went back to find the second one of Magnar's that I had missed.  ::)

Thanks Magnar!
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #143 on: July 30, 2009, 05:55:46 PM »
Sorry Cohan and Stephen, we have been away for a few days in the Rila mountains. The Seseli gummiferum is about 1m tall with several stems radiating out from what was originally a rosette. The last time I gre it its form was more serpentine along the ground. Erm- no I haven't tried collecting any gum yet. I shall have to look into that one.
The rain at the start of July has persuaded a few plants into repeat flowering. Flowering now:
Scabiosa graminifolia
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #144 on: July 30, 2009, 10:03:29 PM »
Saussurea stella has opened the buds

fascinating! and this is compositae? must be among the more extreme adaptations in the family...
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #145 on: August 01, 2009, 10:42:09 PM »
Silene jenisseenis; it spreads around a bit, which seems rather odd for a silene, based on the ones I've grown.
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #146 on: August 02, 2009, 11:13:35 AM »
Simon, I do love Scabious flowers they pop up randomly repeating here and there in rocky spots, meadows and even woodland clearings where they and Campanula range from the most intense blue to light, like your Scabiosa graminifolia - fabulous :)
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #147 on: August 02, 2009, 01:14:14 PM »
Robin, they are one of my favourite flowers too. In our recent trip to the Rila mountains Scabiosa and Knautia were very prominent members of the grassland communities, flowering in some lovely shades of pastel pinks, purples and blues.
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #148 on: August 03, 2009, 01:43:58 PM »
Terrific plant, Magnar!
Here's one that never disappoints me, Campanula herzegovina 'Nana':
Lori,
I am affraid that the name of your Campanula is not correct. I grow under this name (correct spelling is C. hercegovina Degen at Fiala)
another plant which I got in this spring from Ron Beeston. I believe that this one is correct species as it must be very tiny according my information. I am not sure however on 100%. My plant is very tiny and its height is only about 5 or 6 cm.
 
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Re: Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09
« Reply #149 on: August 03, 2009, 01:55:35 PM »
I am rather late again with several my July pictures. They are:
Calceolaria umbellata
Campanula cenisia
Campanula zoysii
Dianthus callizonus
Hymenoxys acaulis
Phlox pulvinata
Pterocephalus pinnardii
Tricyrtis macropoda

 


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