May 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Lesley Cox]

"Can't these people write in English?" I thought, then realized where I was. Please forgive me all Flemings.

[Maggi Young]

Lesley, I mostly just enjoy the photos but I use Google translate for the Flemish/Dutch I cannot make out and while it garbles things dreadfully, I can usually get the gist.
The two Lucs and their lady wives are coming to the Aberdeen show next Saturday and to visit our garden....... see this page for photos of their gardens..... they're going to get a frightful shock when they see how the BD and I garden!! 
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=9.msg2321#new

[Graham Catlow]

A lovely day for being in the garden today, unfortunately the shed needed a spring clean.
Still found time to have a look around though.

Fritillaria pyrenaica x2
Arisaema sikokianum with Osmanthus burkwoodii or delavayi I can't remember which.
Dicentra specabilis
A Bergenia and Trillium grandiflorum
A bank of Aubretia
Sempervivum octopoides apelatum with its tentacles spreading out

Graham

[Graham Catlow]

Nearly forgot this one!

Phlox subulata 'McDaniel's Cushion'.

Graham

[PaulM]

I am at home with pneumonia  , but last Sunday ( May 2nd ) I was out on a trip with my boys and we saw some nice Swedish spring flowers:

1  & 2 Anemone nemorosa is abundant in decidious forests and clearings in mixed forests too

3. Pulmonaria obscura started flowering about a month ago, but here was an especially nice specimen hanging out over the stream with last year's grass beneath

4. Daphne mezereum is quite rare and protected in Sweden

5. Hepatica nobilis has mostly passed but here was a very big flowered specimen.

6. A spring mushroom with an eye-catching color.

7. Chrososplenium alternifolium carpets wet clayey areas close to the water.

[Olga Bondareva]

very fancy beggar to use such a parasol

She was rich in her previous life.  

Jeffersonia diphylla



Anemone blanda Alba from Caucasus



Erythronium japonicum



Pulsatilla vulgaris Alba

[Mark Griffiths]

Last year I asked for some help with siting Ramonda nathalie in my trough. After only one or two flowers last year (and they were eaten by slugs) I'm impressed this year.

Also, can anyone identify this corydalis that is growing out of another plant..I assume I need to get seed off it because it needs to come out, it's smothering the plant underneath.

[arisaema]

The Corydalis looks like C. linstowiana. It's short-lived, usually biennial, so should disappear by itself once it's set seeds.

[ArnoldT]

Clematis integrifolia

[Maggi Young]

I am at home with pneumonia  

I feel guilty at enjoying your photos, Paul, when you are ill.  

 Thank you for sharing what must have been a very nice day out with your sons.

I do hope that you are soon restored to full health.
Paul T in Australia has got his poor wife suffering with pneumonia at the moment, too....  and I believe she is making some improvement, if slowly. It's not a recovery you can rush, is it?


I am moving Paul's post and this one to the Flowering Now: May 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere thread 

[cohan]

so much colour!
graham--i will have to get that semp -i've seen pics before, but its so cute with new stolons..
olga--lovely delicate colour on the erythronium, and the white pulsatilla is very nice--i think i sowed some last year--it looks much nicer than the name sounds!
pau;--hope you feel better soon!-glorious spring there! love the anemones--we just don't get this sort of display in spring--boreal/mixed forest doesn't really have flowering till summer, and then never one species without grasses and other things between...

[Lori S.]

Beautiful spring plants, all!  Absolutely wonderful photos, Olga!
While the weather outdoors still can't decide on snow or sun, Stuart's waterlilies in the greenhouse ponds are doing nicely:
1)  Nymphaea 'Attraction'
2, 3) 'Marliac Albida'
4, 5) An old 'Helvola' blossom and a new one
6) 'Crystal', a tropical.

From the garden:
1) Caltha palustris...  I loved seeing these in brilliant profusion in the wet places in the boreal forest of Northern Saskatchewan, but as we have not travelled anywhere lately, this plant in the acid bed will have to do.  Cohan, are they getting close to blooming in your area?
2) Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardaghensis in the crevice garden... this would really look stunning against dark rock.
3) Chionodoxa 'Pink Giant'
4) And a few daffodils...

[WimB]

Some pictures of plants which are flowering here today:

Armeria trojana
and Haberlea rhodopensis 'Virginalis' which was part of a swap with someone from the southerm hemisphere (many thanks  ) two years ago and which is now flowering here for the first time.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

"Can't these people write in English?" I thought, then realized where I was. Please forgive me all Flemings.

You are forgiven Lesley ! 

The two Lucs and their lady wives are coming to the Aberdeen show next Saturday and to visit our garden....... see this page for photos of their gardens..... they're going to get a frightful shock when they see how the BD and I garden!! 
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=9.msg2321#new

We're quite "shockfree" Maggi - and we always envy the lush green in your garden..   

[Maggi Young]

Luc, I hope you are shockfree.... today there is rain and snow/sleet!