March 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

Super shots of tone and texture, Cohan.

Wim.... your garden is surely exploding with so many different flowers, you must be really enjoying this time!

[cohan]

Thanks Wim and Maggi
I have to take what I can get-- today the small bare patches that were appearing on the ground are covered again with a fresh 4-5cm of snow!

Wim, great spring showing there, esp love those A blandas

[daveyp1970]

some Hyacinth from today,no idea of names because they were allready in this garden

[WimB]

Wim.... your garden is surely exploding with so many different flowers, you must be really enjoying this time!

Wim, great spring showing there, esp love those A blandas

Thanks Maggi and Cohan, I'm enjoying all the small colourful flowers in my garden indeed.

[Hoy]

To early for Hyacinths here yet but Chrysosplenium macrophyllum is showing the first flowers in the woodland.

[alpinelover]

Natalia and Cohan, thank you for your friendly comments. The pictures of the Pulatilla are from
the same plant how it performed in the last year, I only hope, that it still stays for a long time
me.

Great pulsatilla, wonderfull!

[alpinelover]

And the flowering on the tufa rock continues with some draba's.
Draba condensata (photo 1 and 2)
Draba mawii (photo 3 and 4)
And another time, Draba polytricha (photo 5)

[ruweiss]

The flowers of Ranunculus calandrinioides now are past their best but still look quite interesting.
After Draba hispanica, D.sphaeroides from the USA is very free flowering and easy to cultivate.
Self sown seedlings can occure all around the old plants.

[krisderaeymaeker]

The flowers of Ranunculus calandrinioides now are past their best but still look quite interesting.

I am very surprised about the hardiness of this Ranunculus Rudi ! I keep this one in the glasshouse for 4 years  . But now I started dreaming to plant it out in the rockgarden...

[Lampwick]

Picture taken today.........of a ladybird.  

 

[Gerdk]

Some flowers from today - only the first one grown inside

1. Anemone caucasica
2. Viola species - perhaps a hybrid between V. odorata and V. ambigua
3. + 4. Viola suavis - the sweet violet
5. Oresitrophe rupifraga - Saxifragaceae from China, acquired at the occasion of the Galanthus event at Oirlich

Gerd

[ruweiss]

The flowers of Ranunculus calandrinioides now are past their best but still look quite interesting.

I am very surprised about the hardiness of this Ranunculus Rudi ! I keep this one in the glasshouse for 4 years  . But now I started dreaming to plant it out in the rockgarden...

Kris, after the problems with mildew under glass I planted my plants into the crevice garden.
ZZ mentioned in a lecture, that he keeps and flowers this beauty in his Beauty hill, were the
climate is more harsh than in our wine-growing region and so I dared to plant it out.

[cohan]

Oresitrophe rupifraga - Saxifragaceae from China, acquired at the occasion of the Galanthus event at Oirlich

Gerd-- a very cute and interesting little plant--is it as tiny as it seems? 10cm pot, or less?

[YT]

Thank you for all showing early spring flowers
Here are Illicium anisatum flowers in full blooming

[Maggi Young]

Tatsuo, a real beauty.

At first I thought it was the Star anise.... but I'm glad I checked......http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2006/03/illicium_anisatum.php .... this one is NOT edible!