July 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[ruweiss]

Flowering now:
Dwarf Hostas
Thalictrum kiusianum
Verbascum Letitia

[Kirsten]

Physoplexis comosa in tufa.
Paronychia albana ssp graeca 12 years old, 8 cm in diameter.

[Maggi Young]

The Physoplexis are liking the tufa, I see!

Does the Paronychia not seem to be some sort of sea creature? Marvelous little plant!

[Magnar]

Super plants and wonderful pics, Kirsten, Thanks for showing.
 

[WimB]

Wonderful plants, Kirsten! Superb!

[Kirsten]

Thanks for the nice words.
Yes, Maggi, the Physoplexis love the tufa, there are a lot of seedlings around the mother plant

[johnw]

Last year I belive I posted a few pix of some Adeniums ex 2009 seed that a friend gave us.  The trick seems to be a very porous open tropical mix and water heavily and daily when warm but keep bone dry during the coolness of winter in the greenhouse.  Potting on frequently produces big plants quickly and I missed repotting by a month or so they have stalled.  Two night ago 3 of them went into 10" pots and tonight the first flowers on Adenium 'Magenta Windmill' opened, no sign of magenta to my eyes as it looks hot pink to me.  Terrible shots with a Blackberry.

johnw - still 20c at 22:24 and heavy rain on the way.

[fleurbleue]

Thanks for your advice John, I have two poor little "things" sown last year in a small pot and I'll give them a bigger pot  today  Do you feed them or just pot on ?

[johnw]

Nicole  - I did put blood & bonemeal, superphosphate, slow release fertilizer and some starter fertilizer in the mix. However in a week or so I will fertilize half strength weekly with a water soluble fertilizer.

The site tells all:

http://adenium.tucsoncactus.org/

johnw

[fleurbleue]

Thank you John

[gmoen]

Hi

A couple of plants from the garden to day.

1 and 2 - Saxifraga cotyledon, a nice low form with pure white flowers and red stems (the red color do not show well in the pics) I collected this plant in Namdalen, Norway 10 years ago.

3 and 4 - Lilium martagon, a form I collected in Carpathians, Romania some years ago

5 - Incarvillea younghusbandii, a plant I have been buying several times, but that alway turned out to be something else. But now I'm finally growing plants from wild collected seeds 

[daveyp1970]

Crikey me that's a super form of L.martagon.

[Maggi Young]

I love that ultra spotty martagon lily.

haHa! Davey has posted that comment just as Ian and I were looking at it and thinking the same thing!

[daveyp1970]

I love that ultra spotty martagon lily.

haHa! Davey has posted that comment just as Ian and I were looking at it and thinking the same thing!

Dare i say great minds Maggie 

[Maggi Young]

Dare i say great minds Maggie 

Why not? Works for me and cheers me up!

A wee while yet before any martagons are out here.  None that smart , though. If you get a good seed set, Geir, I'd be most grateful for a few seeds.