March 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[YT]

Noooo! Maggi You NEVER eat this Japanese star anis! It's fatal POISONOUS!!!!!!

[Gerdk]

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?

Yes it is a small plant, the pot is 8 cm. The leaves are of a somewhat
bigger dimension.

Gerd

[Graham Catlow]

A few to start my season.

Anemone blanda ingramii
Anemone blanda 'Radar'
Wim these two are what you showed us earlier in this thread - did you get yours from Paul Christian?

A trough that I had to show because the Corydalis flexuosa 'Purple leaf' is (I think) just perfect at this time. Others in the trough - Hepatica nobilis (pink), Anemone blanda and not in flower yet - Primula poisonii, Semiaquilegia ecalcarata, and waiting for Iris chrysographes 'black form' to appear.
C. flexuosa 'Purple leaf' close up. 

[WimB]

Anemone blanda ingramii
Anemone blanda 'Radar'
Wim these two are what you showed us earlier in this thread - did you get yours from Paul Christian?

Hi Graham,

I did get them from PC indeed. You?

Cheers

Wim

[Gail]

Hi Graham,
Have you been photoshopping again or is the ingramii really that blue?

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Wim,
Yes mine are from PC. They aren't bulking up too quickly - three years now.

Hi Gail,
No photoshop this time just a natural blue.

[johngennard]

Spring has arrived in the alpine lawn,the crocus now having been replaced by N.February Gold and Scilla 'Spring Beauty' and Chinodoxia.

[Gerdk]

Here are a few pics from a hike along the river Düssel - this is a tributary of the Rhine from which Düsseldorf (village at the Düssel) got its name.

This small creek has a length of about 40 km and runs through the famous valley Neanderthal before joining the megacity mentioned above.

1. - 4. typical house of the region and pond with the obligatory willow
5. Anemone nemorosa
6. Viola reichenbachiana
7.+ 8. Ilex aquifolium in beech forest
9. + 10. the Düssel

Please enjoy!

Gerd

[alpinelover]

Some draba's, D. mollissima (photo 1) en D. bruniifolia (photo 2)

[WimB]

Hi Wim,
Yes mine are from PC. They aren't bulking up too quickly - three years now.

Hi Graham,

neither are mine. I think I've got them for four years now and they are still quite small.

[Maren]

Here are a few pics from a hike along the river Düssel - this is a tributary of the Rhine from which Düsseldorf (village at the Düssel) got its name.  Gerd

Ah Düsseldorf, the place where I went to school. Do they still keep wild boar in the Neanderthal?

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

I always enjoy photographs of your garden and look at them with the greatest imaginable envy. It is how I think a garden should look - or, to be more precise, it is the style of garden I most enjoy. Today, the corydalis steals the show, a wonderful planting.


Gerd,

The house style is very attractive and the gate is a beautifully simple and elegant style. Very nice.

Now, I must get out and try to do something to make our own garden a little better. Today, Mary has me planting a few dozen box  plants.

Paddy

[johngennard]

Paddy,
Your comments are most gratifying and thanks but having read most of your posts I am sure that your garden is eqally attractive and if not now certainly in the future.I have been working at it for 45 years and only time can make the difference.

[jomowi]

Taken yesterday on the first day of Spring, Aberdeen style.  Nice day as it was, my expectations were raised too high, because we had been promised at 8.00 am by the Met office that we would have the highest temperature in the UK.  Don't know if we achieved it, but it was 1 degree below the estimate of 17 deg. C.  By the afternoon when I took the pic. it had turned cool, cloudy and quite windy (hence some of the overturned Shortia foliage).  Plants are: Corydalis solida 'Beth Evans', the Shortia just coming into bloom is S. X 'Leona' and the very dark large leaved one has lost its label, sorry.

[fleurbleue]

Wonderful colors Maureen