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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: ian mcdonald on April 01, 2017, 12:29:54 PM
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Did you know that the entrance fee for the Harrogate spring show has been reduced to £5 to attract more visitors. Must check the calendar. More than 50 years ago our gardening teacher encouraged us to buy bulbs and enter them in the schools flower show. I bought some Texas Narcissus then planted them in the garden after the show. There is still one flowering on a surviving progeny after this time img. 1020320. Successes and failures in the new indoor scree img. 1020321. A dead woodmouse on the lawn, no doubt left by a cat img. 1020322. A colourful cyclamen on the raised bed img. 1020323.
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It has been extremely windy (dry north winds) for 4 days out of 5. The garden is holding up well and I managed a few photographs.
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Sisyrinchium bellum is looking good in our garden.
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I make an effort to plant good forms that will repeat bloom throughout the season.
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Heliophila coronopifolia I like growing annuals in our garden. This South African species is easy and looks great. Unfortunately they were blown over by the wind!
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Soldanella montana
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Since this week Townsendia hookeri begins to bloom. It has as many flowers as every year.
I like the foliage especially with Vitaliana primuliflora var. assoana.
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Some scenes of our garden from the kitchen window and back window door.
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Some plants that are looking good.
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Allium campanulatum - Grown from seed gathered in the Sierra Nevada. By far the best form I have grown to date. The large spreading perianth parts are fairly deep colored for the species.
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Erysimum capitatum - A high elevation form grown from seed gathered in Alpine County, California. Very compact and mounding. Many more flower stems are yet to open. Plants found at lower elevations can have tall blooming stalks and are useful in other parts of the garden.
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Potentilla flabellifolia - Another plant grown from seed gathered in the high Sierra Nevada. This species is found in moist meadows. As one can see, this plant is in a tub. In the garden I like how the flowering stems grow through other plants. This how they grow in alpine meadows. This easy-to-grow species brings good memories and a part of the high Sierra Nevada into our garden.
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Primula (Dodecantheon) hendersonii - Grown from seed gathered at 2,600 feet, 792 meters, in the Sierra Nevada. I only got one plant to grow (rarely any seed!), however I am very pleased. This form blooms after the low elevation forms are finished, but before the higher elevation forms of this species start blooming. The high elevation forms are just starting to send up their flowering stem at this time. Having Primula (Dodecatheon) hendersonii blooming in the garden for 2 months will be very pleasing for me.
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Very nice views from the windows, Robert! :)
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Your garden looks dense Robert. With us, the Magnolia soulangeana is recovering from its wounds. By January 2016, the weight of the snow in a few hours had caused a third of the tree to break.
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Some scenes of our garden from the kitchen window and back window door.
Looks very good, Robert!
We are still months away from such lush sights.
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........ With us, the Magnolia soulangeana is recovering from its wounds. By January 2016, the weight of the snow in a few hours had caused a third of the tree to break.
Very nice Cfred!
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Ficaria verna 'Graham Joseph' is very beautiful with closed flowers too.
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Pulsatilla vulgaris and Pulsatilla vernalis
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Looks very good, Robert!
We are still months away from such lush sights.
Hi Trond,
I, too, am pleased with how the garden is progressing. A lot of the new plantings need to grow in, but that is okay. :)
We are about 5 days away from more winter-like weather. This will slow things down for us.
I can tell by the photographs that you have posted, that your garden about 6 weeks behind ours. I can see how things are still many weeks away for you. ....but something to look forward to also.
Trond - can you check on the Viola I posted on the Viola thread? I am not sure as to the species. ???
Very nice views from the windows, Robert! :)
Leena,
Thank you very much! I always enjoy the photographs that you post. Like Trond, your garden must be just waking up? or maybe things are much different that I imagine in Finland. I guess, depending on where one lives, there could still be snow on the ground or maybe the weather is much warmer?
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... because this interesting Sedum is almost coplet red at the time of flowering, I show it already today. Sedum valens ... an Endemite from Idaho. Monocarp but very well to multiply. The form and color I find ingenious.
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For me, spring means not only flowers, but the freshness of the shrubs makes me happy every year. This clone of Betula gladulosa grows flat on the ground and is only a few centimeters high ... no wonder ... comes from the south of Greenland from the region at Narsaq.
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Pictures taken today.
Salix hylematica.
Iphedon 'Rolf Fiedler'.
Cassiope lycopodioides 'Beatrice Lilley'.
Trillium hibbersonii.
The first three plants are relatively new.
The Trillium is about 19 years old now, and has been in the corner of this shady trough from day one!
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I particularly liked the Cassiope.
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Omphalodes cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram'
An Iberis with no name
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nice plants, i should remind Omphalodes to plant this autumn.
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Hi Trond,
I, too, am pleased with how the garden is progressing. A lot of the new plantings need to grow in, but that is okay. :)
We are about 5 days away from more winter-like weather. This will slow things down for us.
I can tell by the photographs that you have posted, that your garden about 6 weeks behind ours. I can see how things are still many weeks away for you. ....but something to look forward to also.
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Robert,
Your winter-like weather is more like summer here ;D I'm at least 6 weeks behind you.
Here are 3 slightly different rhododendrons in flower now - all from (unnamed) seed may years ago.
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Trond,
The Rhodies look nice. 8) The mid-season deciduous Azaleas have just started here! Today, I also saw R. decorum in bloom in our garden. Right now things are so hectic. ...no time to photograph the Azaleas. :( I hope to get everything finished on Tuesday and then my schedule can be more relaxed. :)
After much spring weather, a powerful storm is to arrive on Friday. The weather forecast is for the stormy weather to remain for awhile.
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Hello Trond,
really nice Rhododendrons :)
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A nurseryman once told me he did not grow native plants because they are not interesting. Strange view? Herb paris img. 1020328. Marsh marigold, passed their best img. 1020330. Cuckooflower, Cardamine pratensis img. 1020331. Colour variation in Fritillary with a dark form of Pasque flower in the scree and a white tailed bee img. 1020335. The more usual colour of Pasque flower with Salix boydii img. 1020336.
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Androsace pyrenaica
Asarum canadense
Dionysia gaubae
Erysimum kotschyanum
Iris lutescens
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Lachenalia orchioides var. glaucina
Moraea huttonii
Phlox pulvinata
Primula allionii alba
Vitaliana primuliflora
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Lovely set of pictures K-D.
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Hello, Klaus-Dieter, many thanks for your pictures. Hope, that
you and your family are well.
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Very nice plants and pictures from all! We are very far behind and it's very enjoyable to see this spring display.
Especially I couldn't take my eyes from the little Cassiope and Iris lutescens :)
And what an interesting form of Asarum canadense - the populations here don't have the sepals extended in that measure and are much more pubescent.
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Yes indeed, lovely pictures of lovely plants.Spring here seems a long way away. :'(
John I was once told or maybe read that Trillium hibbersonii tends to be short-lived and mine certainly was. Yours apparently missed that message. It looks a real delight. :)
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I managed to get out into the garden and take a few photographs before the latest storm hits.
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Azalea 'Idi's Laugh' dominates a part of the garden now. It must be 3 meters tall or more.
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Azalea 'Idi's Laugh'
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At the other end of the size scale is Azalea 'Gold Tatiana'. In 15 years it is less than a meter tall. It covers itself with ruffled flowers this time of year.
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An F1 Rhododendron atlanticum hybrid. Another compact plant.
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An early blooming selection of Rhododendron occidentale that I found in the Feather River canyon 15-20 years ago. It blooms 30 to 45 days before most forms of R. occidentale. In addition, it is extremely heat tolerant and the foliage turns brilliant crimson in the autumn.
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A Rhododendron luteum hybrid. Very fragrant!
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We lost the shade for Rhododendron augustinii. It is hanging in there, however it is not as happy as it once was.
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Rhododednron decorum - I'm not sure what I will do with this plant. ??? Someday it will get too big for the garden unless I keep pruning on it. For the time it is quite nice.
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Cornus nuttallii - This grows along our back fence. In our part of California Cornus nuttallii can be extremely difficult to keep alive on its own roots. I grafted this plant on to Cornus florida and it is doing very well. The top has overgrown the rootstock, however it is a compatible union. The trees is over 15 years old and is a beautiful sight in our garden.
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Iris macrosiphon - A white selection with blue-purple veining. It was grown from seed found on one of my outings.
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Trond,
The Rhodies look nice. 8)
Hello Trond,
really nice Rhododendrons :)
Thanks Robert and François :)
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I managed to get out into the garden and take a few photographs before the latest storm hits.
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Very nice colours, Robert!
I have to wait a while before the azaleas flower here!
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Primula auricula (or is it lutea?) and P marginata in flower.
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Thank you, David. Yes spring is a very lovely time many many flowers everywhere.
Hello Rudi, thank you for asking. We're all doing fine. I enjoy your plant pictures in this forum, too.
Hello Gabriela, I got the Asarum canadense from a friend. I don´t know the normal look of the flower.
Adonis vernalis
Kelseya uniflora with only one flower. Better than nothing. ;)
Primula allionii "Crusader"
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... As always great pictures, KD.
Special congratulations on the flowering of Kelseya uniflora. Three weeks ago, I received two small copies of Gerd Stopp, one of them came from a flower. ;D
How old is your Kelseya uniflora?
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Hello Thomas, the Kelseya is from the same source.
How old is it? Let me lie - 3 years. Very slow growing plant. :)
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Draba molissima
Iberis saxatilis 'Pygmaea'
Sebaea thomasii
Uvularia grandiflora, Gold Leaf Form
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The rhododendrons are superb Robert. I have a couple of occidentale forms and like them very much. They are bright red-leaved now, or beginning that and I love the perfume of the flowers.
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Gorgeous plants in bloom for spring. Well done K-D with your Kelseya. It looks very well. :)
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Hello everyone,
on 5.-6. April I visited some populations of Hacquetia epipactis. I have seen this plant for the first time in the wild in larger amount. In the past I found some plans accidentally in Slovakia, but this time I went specially to visit some numerous populations. Wile this two days trip I found more than just Hecquetia epipactis. I found amazing places I have never seen before. Simply amazing. Again I was able to find some nice forms. What is interesting, basically one location was just filled with mutations when other had none, really, none!
My other half and I stopped in every place we felt that was calling us. The first one was a slope covered with Anemone nemorosa. I love that delicate plant, it is really beautiful and Poland could be covered with it in dense carpet. We found there a form that had no petals. I examined the plant carefully and it just grows like that. This species just started flowering in the mountains we visited so it didn't loose its petals. Basically I found two forms:
First that has its stigmas (ovary) strongly regressed:
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And second which has no stigma at all. It is... how should I call it? Changed into anthers.
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Maybe it is not a showy form, but definitely an interesting one.
In that place we also found a yellow stripped Polygonatum odoratum:
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After that we went to out place of destination filled with Allium ursinum and Hecquetia epipactis.
Here are some of our finds and other nice photos of that place:
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Mayybe Allium ursinum is a bit invasive plant in garden, but I have a feeling that those forms won't spread that easily as the typical form... plus imagine a salad made of those leaves. :D
It of goes for Hacquetia epipactis, here are some of more interesting finds:
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The last three:
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Here are some other photos from that place:
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Another day we had to go back home. My time of work was limited to two days, so the last one we just basically visited one place and the second one was just a short glimpse on how it looks like. Here the scenery was amazing, it was so calm and quiet, we just could sunk into that place and sleep there for a wile. Wild hares were hopping around us, but avoiding us with a proper distance. We found there a tiny form of Hequetia and a yellow margined one.
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Here are some photos of the scenery and the second place:
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In the third place we were chased out by a storm cloud, but before the rain struck the area I was able to make some nice photos:
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As for a goodbye we were given the last but not least attractive form of A. ursinum:
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Did you find any forms like the variegated cultivar called 'Thor' Chris?
For some unexplained reason I have always thought Haquetia epipapctis is a native of Japan. Now I know better. :)
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Did you find any forms like the variegated cultivar called 'Thor' Chris?
For some unexplained reason I have always thought Haquetia epipapctis is a native of Japan. Now I know better. :)
Lesley,
I haven't found such white-green form, just a subtle yellowish-green one, which is not that spectacular as H. epipactis 'Thor'. My other half and I were hunting for such form, but we found none. I regret that I didn't take binoculars with me (and my professional digital camera :( ), because than I could just sit in one area and search it through like a live scanner. :D I am most satisfied with the mosaic, that is irregularly spotted with paler and darker green. I wonder what would come out from crossing that one with 'Thor'?
I am glad that H. epipactis is not native just to Japan, I wouldn't be able to have so lovely sights if it was. :)
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Chris,
Beautiful pictures with the woodland just coming out from the winter sleep; and that's for sure a lot of Haquetia!
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It is warm and sunny today. Three butterflies which are firsts for this spring are small white, large white and comma img. 1020374. In the scree there is a single plant of meadow saxifrage S. granulata img. 1020375. Sometimes found in wet meadows but also on wet rocks, as in Perthshire. An uncommon wild flower of our area is spring cinquefoil. P. tabernaemontani/neumanniana. This one is in the scree img. 1020381. Rhododendron Wee Bee is in full flower just now img. 1020382. A common but pleasing flower, Anemone blanda in the raised bed above the dry wall img. 1020383.
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Ian,
I enjoy seeing butterflies in the garden. 8)
I plant Aristolochia californica in our garden to attract the Swallowtail butterflies. The Swallowtail caterpillars strip the Aristolochia foliage every year, however between the nectar from flowers and the Aristolochia foliage for the larva, we have many Swallowtail butterflies.
I like the Potentilla. I used many of our California native Potentilla/Drymocallis/Dasiphora is our garden.
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A few nice plants in our garden before the stormy weather arrived.
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Dianthus alpinus
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Dianthus simulans - it seems fairly close to the species. :-\
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Heuchera micrantha - from wild seed gathered in El Dorado county, California.
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Heuchera micrantha - I like the foliage of the wild plants.
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Some Lewisia seedlings grown from open pollinated seed in our garden.
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Compilation of sights in my garden today
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Delosperma floribundum in its new home in our front border. It will bloom like this most of the summer!
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Maianthemum stellatum grown from wild seed gathered near Camp Creek, El Dorado county, California. The flowers looked nicer last year (weather?). I hope to get the red berries this autumn. At least it is settling down well in our Sacramento garden. :)
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I regret that I didn't take binoculars with me (and my professional digital camera :( ), because than I could just sit in one area and search it through like a live scanner.
The binoculars are a great tool to use when search for specific plants. I use them when looking for certain uncommon trees in winter, too.
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Leena,
Thank you very much! I always enjoy the photographs that you post. Like Trond, your garden must be just waking up? or maybe things are much different that I imagine in Finland. I guess, depending on where one lives, there could still be snow on the ground or maybe the weather is much warmer?
Thank you, Robert! :)
Yes, spring is here, but it is very slow this year. In the south of Finland there is no snow any more, but 250 km north (my parents place) there is still some snow. In part of my garden the ground is still frozen.
Snowdrops are flowering and some of them still only coming up, and the first crocuses are also now flowering. Most Hellebores are still in bud, and H.multifidus, which is the earliest for me, has not advanced much in the last two weeks. The earliest Helleborus niger is in flower. Adonis amurensis is flowering. Bulbocodium vernum is flowering. :)
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Binoculars allow you to identify plants on ledges without the risk of falling.
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Leena, it is lovely to see your garden coming to bloom now.
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Thanks Maggi, it is such a good time now when something new is happening almost every day. :)
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Leena,
I agree with Maggi's comment. :)
It is lovely to see your garden come into bloom. Some of the species that you are able to grow are so different from what works in our part of California. It is very fascinating.
The ground is still partly frozen in parts of your garden!
We are having "normal" weather here in our part of California. It did indeed "snow on the dogwoods" (a local saying) yesterday.
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This photograph was taken yesterday at 600 meters in the Sierra Nevada (foothills). The day before I was attempting to get to Poho Ridge. At this elevation, 1,145 meters, Cornus nuttallii our native "Dogwood" species can be found growing in the forest. At this elevation there was most likely 15 to 30 cm of snow. The previous week it was 25 C most days, and about 20 C at 1,145 meters.
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It is lovely to see your garden come into bloom. Some of the species that you are able to grow are so different from what works in our part of California. It is very fascinating.
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And I envy (in a good way) your long growing season. :) But there are good things here, we don't for instance have many pests which would require warmer weather and shorter (or no) winter. Narcissus fly has been reported from Finland in the 1950s, but it is very rare here and in the Finnish gardening forums no-one has seen it or it's damage either in Narcissus or Galanthus.
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The sun and warm weather is bringing the wildlife into the garden now. Today were first records this year for male brimstone and male orange tip img. 1638 and img. 1010501 (old photos). Also seen was the first record this year of a single house martin flying over. Cyclamen balearicum has just come into flower in the greenhouse img. 1020385.
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Nice to see your garden flowers and butterflies!
Still late winter/early spring here in the mountains although it is less snow than normal at this time of the year.
Looking east:
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The meadow just around the cabin is free from snow but the soil is still frozen.
The rosettes of the sticky catchfly are green during winter, or like this one, red:
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Footprints of a moose that walked here in the afternoon when the soil had thawed a little.
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Pulsatilla vernalis will be the first to flower if the hares don't eat the buds!
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Disporum bodinieri
Ficaria verna 'Wisley Double White'
Morisia monanthos
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Trond,
Moose in Norway! ??? I learn something new all of the time.
How often do you see moose when you are out hiking in the mountains? We do not have moose in California, however I have been told that they can be aggressive at times. Is this true? I do see Elk in the Northern Coastal Mountains. They may be large, but they do not seem aggressive. When I was in South Dakota a tourist was chased by a bison. The fool went into a meadow to photograph the bison close-up and it chased the man into a river. I guess the bison got the last laugh on that one! ;D
It looks like spring is slowly arriving to the mountains of Norway too!
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Pulsatilla vernalis
Phlox 'Tiny Bugles'
Ranunculus ficaria 'Brazen Hussy'
Anemonella thalictroides 'Oscar Schoaf'
Anemonella thalictroides 'Rosea'
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Nice set of pictures Philip. I notice you have your Anemonella in pots, is this by choice or do you not have the right conditions in your garden?
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David, I second your question. They are so lovely and easy in the garden.
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David and Astragalus-We are a bit dry here,but I could create the right place.Really,it's to try to get some show plants.
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Trond,
Moose in Norway! ??? I learn something new all of the time.
How often do you see moose when you are out hiking in the mountains? We do not have moose in California, however I have been told that they can be aggressive at times. Is this true? I do see Elk in the Northern Coastal Mountains. They may be large, but they do not seem aggressive. When I was in South Dakota a tourist was chased by a bison. The fool went into a meadow to photograph the bison close-up and it chased the man into a river. I guess the bison got the last laugh on that one! ;D
It looks like spring is slowly arriving to the mountains of Norway too!
Moose/European elk (Alces alces) is very common in all Norway except at the west coast and some places in the north. During daytime they are hiding so I don't see them as often as I wish, but we cross their paths and tracks very often. The best time to look for them is very early in the morning. In winter they are usually down in the valleys but in spring some of them come up here looking for food where the snow has melted. They are especially fond of rowan trees and pines browsing the young twigs. When the males are in a rut they may be aggressive but the most dangerous ones are probably cows with calves.
We have muskoxen at Dovre. They look very sedate but can be very swift. Tourists often come too close (like you describe) and may be hurt when an animal attacks.
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Trond,
In California, the elk have the same general habits; they are active in the morning and late in the day, and generally rest and hide during the day.
Our deer migrate from high in the mountains to lower elevations in the autumn as the snow begins to fall. I do not know much about our elk.
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It is snowdrop season here now, and the first unnamed Crocus chrysanthus are open.
Nights are still below 0C, and days between +5- +10C.
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Leena,
your plants look so nice and healthy!
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Leena,
I agree, your plants look so healthy. Do you have to deal with slugs? I had some acquaintances in coastal Maine. Even with there cold winters slugs could be a huge problem!
Trond,
Earlier in this thread I wrote about Azalea 'Idi's Laugh'. The "d" should be an "ed". I my key board does not seem to do old Norsk letters. Any ideas?
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Thank you Trond and Robert. :)
I have slugs and snails in the garden, but because of the cold they are not active yet, and so there is no damage to early flowers.
On the other hand, voles and field mice are pests which can eat my flowers, even Galanthus sometimes (but not often), and I can't do anything about them. This year there is a tawny owl nesting about 100 meters from our house, and I hope there are enough food (voles and mice) for their babies, so I don't mind this year about voles eating my flowers. :)
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Leena,
I had a huge problem with voles up at our farm. I trapped them and our farm cat caught many. One year we had a contest between the cat and I to see who would catch more voles. We both caught more than 100 voles and it didn't seem to dent the vole population. Then the raptors moved in, owls and hawks. Day and night terror for the voles! They were effective in controlling the voles, especially when we cleared out there hiding places of overgrowth. I don't think one can ever get rid of them, however the predators seem the best solution.
So, I know what you mean, "I can't do anything about them". My wife and I like the raptors and the voles seem to attract them! :)
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It is snowdrop season here now, and the first unnamed Crocus chrysanthus are open.
Nights are still below 0C, and days between +5- +10C.
I am glad the spring finally begins for you Leena :) The snowdrops are coming to an end here but still some Crocus flowering. Corydalis are just starting and Dicentra sp. are
showing up.
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Nice colour, Gabriela.
Reminds me of peonies in the spring.
Nothing exotic up here.
Noccaea caerulescens
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Ajuga pyramidalis
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Pulsatilla vernalis
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Last year's Centaurea scabiosa
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Trond,
Earlier in this thread I wrote about Azalea 'Idi's Laugh'. The "d" should be an "ed". I my key board does not seem to do old Norsk letters. Any ideas?
Robert,
I don't have those letters either but I think you can connect thenm to your keyboar. I usually copy them when I need them!
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I don't myself believe that cold to whatever degree has much or any effect on slugs. People say to me sometimes "very hard winter, the slugs will be dying in droves." But they don't. I am not able to prove it, though I'm sure someone has done, that slugs have a built-in anti-freeze system which keeps them alive even if relatively dormant, through the coldest times and climates. We may have different species here in the quite mild southern hemisphere countries but whatever we have, they are as bad and prolific in the spring and the rest of the year regardless of what winter we have.
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Lesley - Bad winters have no effect on slugs here, not even the giant introduced one that can be 8+ inches long. I've often wondered if we ever had the misfortune of having NZ flatworms as happened in the UK would a cold snowless winter kill them?
john
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Unfortunately slugs and snails are still alive also here after the winter, but right now they are still dormant, and start to move around only after the temperatures rise above zero at nights and also when day temperatures get higher than what they are now.
Winter 2015-2016 was very cold with little snow in January, and here many people said that there were less snails in the spring than usually, but they are very fast to breed and in the end of the summer there were more of them again.
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I can vouch for the fact that slugs are able to survive freezing. Several years ago I put a glass bowl of frozen peas in the microwave to cook not realising they included a slug. To my horror the heat brought the slug to life and it climbed to the top of the bowl trying to escape before it was cooked to death. In case you're wondering, no we didn't eat them!
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Margaret - Good you spotted it before it became mushy peas tartar. Found an earwig doing the backstroke in my juice one morning, did without juice for some time.
john
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On days without sun is yellow particularly beautiful ... :)
Draba bryoides var. imbricata
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I quite like earwigs. I read somewhere years ago that they were very good mothers. That seemed to be justification for tolerating them. :)
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A lovely Draba Leucogenes. Yellows in the springtime are the very essence of a garden. It amazes me that some gardeners and even alpine gardeners will say "I don't like yellow flowers." How could they not? :o :o :o
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Lesley, I've never understood that either. As you say, yellow is the essence of spring. Even the poets and painters celebrated yellow, i.e. Wordsworth on daffodils, and Monet not only splashing yellow all over his garden but bringing it into his dining room, a really unforgettable sight. Can't imagine a spring without daffodils, or a rock garden without drabas, vitalianas (or whatever new name they've dreamed up for them), genistas and cytisus. For me, the color warms and cheers the cold days of early spring.
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I quite like earwigs.
Believe me they taste as bad as they smell. I failed to mention that for fear of disgusting some. :o
john
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Anemone rupicola
Lewisia cotyledon
Pulsatilla patens var. flavescens
Pulsatilla rubra
and Viola delphinantha
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And Helonias bullata and another Lewisia cotyledon.
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Probably one of the smallest Salix species ... Only a few centimeters high. Salix calyculata from Tibet.
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I am particularly happy about this ... Kalmia procumbens (formerly Loiseleuria procumbens) from the Eastern Alps, Austria
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Extraordinary plants Thomas.
Draba bryoides on the top of a tuffa rock.
Clematis tenuiloba, Erigeron mantanus, Phlox covillei „Alba and Iris lacustris all from North America.
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Viola delphinantha
Veronica bombycina ssp. bolkardagensis
The last Primulas are in flower now:
Primula palinuri
Long waiting for the first flower of Primula recubariensis
Primula auricula var. balbisii in a tuffa hole.
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Colchicum bulbocodium
Scilla siberica
Draba dedeana in bud
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Saxifraga oppositifolia
Draba aizoides
Daphne sp-starting to form bud
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I'm not surprised Leucogenes that you are pleased with your Kalmia/Loiseleuria. It looks lovely. I have a good little one and both it and one (both from SRGC seed) I gave to a good friend are looking very well too. Perhaps this coming spring? :)
John I wonder if our earwigs are different from yours? I've certainly never tasted one but I've never smelled one either. And I do have plenty around. Seems there's one in every mature iris seed pod. I have a good sense of smell too. ;D
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John I wonder if our earwigs are different from yours? I've certainly never tasted one but I've never smelled one either. And I do have plenty around. Seems there's one in every mature iris seed pod. I have a good sense of smell too. ;D
Lesley - The European earwig has a most nauseating smell should you pick one up, very hard to describe it. The smell will linger on your fingers until your give them a good scrub down.
john
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Had to get to the bottom of this:
http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/02/earwig.html (http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/02/earwig.html)
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The earwigs in my neck of the woods (eastern USA) also give off a foul odor when bothered.
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Well ours can't be the same then as I frequently pick one up, or encourage it to walk onto my hand, in order to take it outside if one from a seed pod say, escapes onto the carpet.
Arnold's blog reference talks about an earwig's hind wings. But I don't think ours has wings. Not visibly and I never saw one in 70 odd years that moved other than by walking.
I'll try to find something else and try to photograph the next one I find :D.
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And Helonias bullata and another Lewisia cotyledon.
The helonias looks interesting. I haven't seen it before. It looks similar to heloniopsis and ypsilandra, which can easily be propagated from leaf cuttings, but whose seeds are ephemeral. Seeds seem to be available from plant-world-seeds, but I wonder whether they would be ephemeral like the other two? How hardy is helonias? I see that it grows in wet places, so I wonder whether it would rot when wet AND cold?
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The helonias looks interesting. I haven't seen it before. It looks similar to heloniopsis and ypsilandra, which can easily be propagated from leaf cuttings, but whose seeds are ephemeral. Seeds seem to be available from plant-world-seeds, but I wonder whether they would be ephemeral like the other two? How hardy is helonias? I see that it grows in wet places, so I wonder whether it would rot when wet AND cold?
Carolyn...the seeds are ephemeral too...mine came from freshly harvested seeds. I guess leaf cuttings like in the other Melanthiaceae should be possible. Over here it is perfectly hardy and so it is in the southeast of Belgium, where I've seen them in small stream in a garden at -15°C, I don't know the temps where you life but it seems quite strong!
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Thanks, Wim. I wonder why this plant is not more widely available then? It does not seem to be for sale anywhere.
Our lowest temperature (in that dreadful winter of 2010) was -12C, so it should be OK here.
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Helonias bullata looks interesting, but then I googled it and it seems to require moist but not too wet soil. Difficult combination. How do you grow it, Wim?
Here Daphne mezereum is now in flower.
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Helonias bullata looks interesting, but then I googled it and it seems to require moist but not too wet soil. Difficult combination. How do you grow it, Wim?
Here Daphne mezereum is now in flower.
I grow it together with Sarracenia and other CP's, in constantly humid peat, sometimes even very wet and in winter it can be wet for weeks on end.
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Thanks. :) Here the very wet soil would freeze in the winter, so I better forget Helonias. :)
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Soldanella montana
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bougt as Pulsatilla albana, grown from wild collectes seed.
Possibly violacea. The region the seed is collected could match.
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Beautiful Soldanella!
The Pulsatilla could be P. armena (the once called P. albana ssp. armena) - there are Pulsatilla specialists here on the forum maybe someone can tell better.
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Hi ....and thx for your answer.
Pulsatilla specialists told me its albana.
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My first Hepatica americana seedling to flower :)
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Iris 'White Caucasus' opened today and it is perfect with the bluish shimmer of the mountain snow.
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Corydalis flowering one after another now - this is what I have as 'Beth Evans'
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Hepaticas are also starting to flower in the woodlands
Hepatica acutiloba - a new form for this year
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Hepatica americana
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Bernd...I am not a specialist of Pulsatilla ... but it can be P. albana var. georgica. Great color.
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I would take "moist but mot too wet" to mean moist or wet but well-draining." So the Helonias would probably be OK here but of course we don't have the freeze factor you have in Europe and Scandinavia.
Gabriela that is an amazingly beautiful photo of your hepatica american. The blue on blue is stunning. :)
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I would take "moist but mot too wet" to mean moist or wet but well-draining." So the Helonias would probably be OK here but of course we don't have the freeze factor you have in Europe and Scandinavia.
I guess it doesn't need the frost in winter. Do you want to try some seed, Lesley?
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Beautiful spring flowers, Gabriela. :) Your spring is about two weeks ahead of spring here.
I especially like your Hepaticas, and I'm so happy that the seeds you sent last year have germinated a while ago. :)
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Beautiful pictures, everybody. This year Bulbocodium vernum shows a nice clump
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Clematis alpina with Narcissus bulbocodium
Dicentra 'Aurora'
Trillium erectum
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Thank you Lesley, it is actually a violet flower form, maybe the picture doesn't show the real colour. Deep blue forms are very rare; many populations of H. americana are of a pale blue in the wild.
Beautiful spring flowers, Gabriela. :) Your spring is about two weeks ahead of spring here.
I especially like your Hepaticas, and I'm so happy that the seeds you sent last year have germinated a while ago. :)
Thank you Leena, I also admire yours :) Glad the Hepatica seeds germinated (it can happen for some to germinate in the second year, even if kept moist).
All Corydalis also are germinating ;)
This is my favourite from the H. acutiloba I found.
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Glad the Hepatica seeds germinated (it can happen for some to germinate in the second year, even if kept moist).
Actually also the Hepatica seeds you sent me last winter (moist packed) have now germinated, in their second year :),
so I'm going to have lots of H.americana now. :)
Also here Bulbocodium vernum is flowering, in spite of cold nights. :)
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I do not like anymore :-(
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My first Hepatica americana seedling to flower :)
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Iris 'White Caucasus' opened today and it is perfect with the bluish shimmer of the mountain snow.
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Corydalis flowering one after another now - this is what I have as 'Beth Evans'
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Gabriela, can you take some pictures from the leaves from wild Hepatica americana, they should but different from the ones from Hepatica nobilis?
I have some difficulties with recognize them because I don't know if the americana that I see on markets in Belgium are really americana. Thanks in advance. Herman
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A Cypripedium in the garden img. 1020474. Reliable pleiones, two flowers per stem img. 1020475. A yellow flowered rhododendron img. 1020476.
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Gabriela, can you take some pictures from the leaves from wild Hepatica americana, they should but different from the ones from Hepatica nobilis?
I have some difficulties with recognize them because I don't know if the americana that I see on markets in Belgium are really americana. Thanks in advance. Herman
No problem Herman, I have loads of pictures. I am very interested in the foliage. I know what you mean because I am familiar with H. nobilis from the wild as well.
There is great variability in the foliage in H. americana and indeed that some plants present similar foliage with H. nobilis.
I can only speak for H. americana from my region; as it happens, here the range of americana and acutiloba overlaps and there are intermediate types which are of hybrid origin. Sometimes I cannot tell precisely where they belong. I think those are more that look toward the nobilis. But anyway here are few images (from many...)
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A couple more
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There are also pictures showing leaves in last year's Hepatica thread
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13919.105 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13919.105)
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Aethionema 'Warley Rose'
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That is lovely, David. One of my early purchases in the 1970s but got left behind when we moved house.
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Thanks Chris, it will flower well into September and then gets a hair-cut. It's excellent value for money and I'm looking for a plant of it's sister A. 'Warley Rubra'
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I'll send you a PM Wim.
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Great photo of your Aethionema David. Grows for me quite well but tends to be a bit leggy. Probably I should cut it harder after flowering. I had years ago one called 'Warley Ruber' and suppose this to be the same as what you mention as 'Warley Rubra.' I haven't seen it here for many years. It may have been a little deeper pink than W. Rose.
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No problem Herman, I have loads of pictures. I am very interested in the foliage. I know what you mean because I am familiar with H. nobilis from the wild as well.
There is great variability in the foliage in H. americana and indeed that some plants present similar foliage with H. nobilis.
I can only speak for H. americana from my region; as it happens, here the range of americana and acutiloba overlaps and there are intermediate types which are of hybrid origin. Sometimes I cannot tell precisely where they belong. I think those are more that look toward the nobilis. But anyway here are few images (from many...)
Thank you Gabriela. But can you take more details, focus on the leaves and hairs on the stem and the leaves.
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Great photo of your Aethionema David. Grows for me quite well but tends to be a bit leggy. Probably I should cut it harder after flowering. I had years ago one called 'Warley Ruber' and suppose this to be the same as what you mention as 'Warley Rubra.' I haven't seen it here for many years. It may have been a little deeper pink than W. Rose.
You're right Lesley, it is 'Warley Ruber', and I've found where I can get one from.
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Lewisia
Androsace sarmentosa var. yunnanensis
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Over here also the first Hepatica nobilis is opening it's flowers now (but not photos yet).
Yesterday it was sunny and +10°C, and Crocus tommasianus opened up fast.
Besides snowdrops also Leucojum vernum is flowering.
The third picture is s small early weed, Thlaspi caerulescens, but it is actually very pretty when looked close.
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Leena, your spring is about a month later than here. I wouldn't have thought it was that much difference. Well worth waiting for. Your spring garden looks lovely.
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Glad your Spring has arrived Leena.
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Some wonderful plants being shown by everyone at the moment..
In the alpine house this week,
Wilkstroemia gemmata thanks to Ian ...the Christie kind
Lewisia tweedyi lemon/yellow
Lewisia tweedyi pink/yellow
Tropaeolum tricolorum
Tropaeolum azureum plus another.
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A patch of Trillium kurabayashii seedlings flowering for the first time showing a lovely range of colour forms.
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Super photos Mike - and the plants aren't bad either!!!
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Super photos Mike - and the plants aren't bad either!!!
Will keep trying to do my best Maggie.
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Mike, so many and lovely Trilliums! :)
Leena, your spring is about a month later than here. I wouldn't have thought it was that much difference. Well worth waiting for. Your spring garden looks lovely.
Thank you Gunilla. :) Yes, it is quite a big difference. This spring is said to be late for two weeks here, but even in more normal springs Hepatica nobilis flowers here in the woods in the last week of April and first week of May.
In my garden only in the warmest beds the first crocuses are open, and here under the apple tree they are still only coming up, only snowdrops are flowering. Helleborus, Crocus, Corydalis and Hepatica are showing but not flowering yet, I suspect in the beginning of May it will be very colourful. :)
Snowdrops in another bed, the big one is 'Mrs Macnamara' and in front of it is 'Straffan'. Pictures taken today.
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Our California garden is still full of blooming plants.
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One of a number of Lewisia cotyledon.
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Although pink and white Lewisia cotylon is commonly seen in the wild it is still very beautiful. I will always keep them! :)
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Digitalis purpurea
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I grow and select my own seed lines. I have been doing this for a number of years now. The plants preform well despite our hot summers and some are more or less perennial. I have one white form up at the farm that must be 10 years old now.
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A pot full of white Rhdohypoxis baurii
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Mimulus aurantiacus var aurantiacus blooming through Salvia leucophylla.
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One of a number of Mimulus aurantiacus var. grandiflorus in bloom.
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Mimulus aurantiacus var. pubescens.
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A pot full of the annual Mimulus bicolor coming into bloom. I am very excited about this. I will be doing a seed increase and hope to established them throughout the garden next year. :) !!!
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Pellaea mucronata looking good planted in the garden.
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A pot with Allium obtusum var. conspicuum. It looked very good about 3 days ago when it was very windy and rainy.
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Allium unifolium, another California native, is easy to establish and maintain in our garden. It is not weedy! :)
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Primula japonica
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Looking very colourful Robert.
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Daphne x susannae Tichborne
Clematis hirsutissima
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Mimulus aurantiacus var aurantiacus blooming through Salvia leucophylla.
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One of a number of Mimulus aurantiacus var. grandiflorus in bloom.
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Mimulus aurantiacus var. pubescens.
Robert, I never expected such an amount of variability in Mimulus aurantiacus!
Great!
Gerd
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Robert, I never expected such an amount of variability in Mimulus aurantiacus!
Great!
Gerd
Gerd,
From my observations Mimulus aurantiacus var. aurantiacus is fairly uniform in flower colors, size, etc. in our area (Northern California). Variety grandiflorus shows much more variance in flower color and from. At this time I have not been to the northern end of the range (southern Sierra Nevada Foothills) of variety pubescens in a number of years. In the southern portions of M. aurantiacus range variability in flower color, form, and size seems to increase. I have a number of good reasons to travel to this region. It is a considerable distance from our home, and such a trip is not practical at this time. :'( Things do change, so it is something for me to look forward to in the future. There are so many species that interest me in our southern regions.
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Here's it's very dry, i've flooded the garden : Paeonia withered, soil is cracked, the lawn is in the same state as end of august!
I will soon be able to develop my Mediterranean garden 8)
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I MUST get my photo thing sorted as I have two Mimulus aurantiacus in bloom now not shown above. One is a quite deep red, almost blood red and the other white but the later (now in autumn) flowers are creamy white rather than the pure white of a couple of months ago.
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For a variety of reasons I've not been here for a while so I'll have to catch up with everyone's photos later but for the time being here are a few of mine from April;
Ornithogalum dubium.........
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2885/33682873331_acf0b06748_z.jpg)
My little pot of Pleione that was outdoors all winter in a dry sheltered spot...........
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2894/33776488922_f8f535c183_z.jpg)
Ledebouria socialis which lives in the porch..........
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2836/33550848940_f013e0e072_z.jpg)
Ajuga reptans "Caitlins Giant" which is far from giant............
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2898/34028277666_1b2dd25f86_z.jpg)
Iris japonica.........
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2900/34094052585_0c9ef228f9_z.jpg)
Geranium phaeum...........
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3955/34055209776_b344e96e3a_z.jpg)
Eccremocarpus scaber...........
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2870/33989151752_3a1767b62d_z.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2863/33989151272_255ebe5474_z.jpg)
My first Salvia to bloom this year was S.elegans...........
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2881/34093605116_2717f8c527_z.jpg)
And finally Iris confusa "Martyn Rix".............
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For a variety of reasons I've not been here for a while so I'll have to catch up with everyone's photos later but for the time being here are a few of mine from April;
Welcome back ... I've missed your excellent plants and photographs.
I particularly like the Ornithogalum dubium.
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Agreed, welcome back.
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Ptilotrichum spinosum 'Roseum' bought from Tim Ingram at a South West AGS Show about three years ago.
Tiarella 'Pink Skyrocket' this one from Hartside
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For a variety of reasons I've not been here for a while so I'll have to catch up with everyone's photos later but for the time being here are a few of mine from April;
Meanie,
Ditto! Glad to have you back too! 8)
Iris japonica was always a bit tender for us up at the farm. Are you growing it outside or over wintered in a greenhouse?
I guess I will off for a few days. Off the Snow Mountain tomorrow! :)
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This is Prunus prostrata - flowering reliably each season
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Welcome back ... I've missed your excellent plants and photographs.
I particularly like the Ornithogalum dubium.
Agreed, welcome back.
Meanie,
Ditto! Glad to have you back too! 8)
Iris japonica was always a bit tender for us up at the farm. Are you growing it outside or over wintered in a greenhouse?
Thanks :)
Robert - Iris japonica is just outdoors in a large pot. It sits there all year, too frequently without water if I'm honest and the only care it needs is thinning out every couple of years!
David - nice Tiarella! I've been looking at them recently for a shady spot but I'm not sure that they'll handle the dry conditions.
Chris - I saw O.dubium the other day either in Homebase or B&Q. Might be worth a look if you have one or t'other in your area.
I've always wanted to try Cypripedium so when I found one in the bargain bin for a fiver last August I had to take a punt. Kept in a pot in the greenhouse it came into growth in February (which was the first hurdle overcome) and has been in and out of the greenhouse like a yo-yo since. After what seems like an age it is finally in bloom...............
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2814/33456033983_a123c67723_z.jpg)
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Cypripediums in the bargain bin! We're likely to get petunias and pansies that missed out on the watering system! ;D
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Cypripediums in the bargain bin! We're likely to get petunias and pansies that missed out on the watering system! ;D
That's the one joy of garden centres as opposed to proper plant nurseries - they neither have the space, staff or inclination to overwinter perennials or store out of bloom "exotic" plants. As a result there are some real bargains to be had in the bargain areas ;D
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Thanks :)
Chris - I saw O.dubium the other day either in Homebase or B&Q. Might be worth a look if you have one or t'other in your area.
Ha - nothing that exotic crosses the Minch. The local Co-op might knock 10% off ailing pansies, 20% if they are dead.
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Ha - nothing that exotic crosses the Minch. The local Co-op might knock 10% off ailing pansies, 20% if they are dead.
No more exotic that Lachenalia really.
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You may remember this plant from Brian's article on late colour in the garden. Just to show how long it's flowering season is it is looking in fine fettle at the moment.
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By George - it's doing well, isn't it?
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Helonias bullata
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Nice surprise this afternoon, looking for the Allium....
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One of my favorite Asians ... Pyrethrum leontopodium (Kyrgyzstan, Alatau Mountains, 3400m)
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flowering today.
Psuedocydonia sinensis
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Very pretty plant Arnold. I do not know.
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Fred:
It's a mid sized tree native to Korea and China. Scented blooms with large football ( American kind) sized fruit.
Exfoliating bark with a twist somewhat like a Wisteria.
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Arnold, how tall/old is your Pseudocydonia? I have several 2 year old seedlings that are now just over a meter in height. Wondering how many more years I'll be waiting for bloom.
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Adonis amurensis from Olga-region was planted last autumn and is growing in half shade. It has now flowered for three weeks, longer than plants in full sun.
Hepatica nobilis started to flower last week, these are growing in my woodland beds, in the wild they don't form such big clumps.
Last night it started to snow, and the last two pictures were taken an hour ago. Now it is getting a bit warmer and snow is starting to melt.
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Gordon:
Mine is 25-30 feet.
Got it as a full grown tree. Was attacked by Oriental fruit moth and lost about 25 % of it.
Popular fruit with Koreans who make a medicinal tea from the fruit.
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Leena,
Your plants look so beautiful with the snow.
The forecast is for 30 C + by Wednesday here in California.
A few nice plants from our Sacramento garden.
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A pot full of a California native, Allium falcifolium. I saw plenty of them in the wild the other day.
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A California native annual, Mimulus bicolor. I am extremely pleased to get this species established in our garden. They bloom profusely!
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It is that time of year - Collinsia heterophylla coming into bloom.
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The first Codonopsis flower to open this season.
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Thank you Robert. :)
You have so many nice native plants over there!
Snow is now gone, I'm glad to say, and tomorrow it is going to be nicer weather.
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A hybrid of O.laciniata and O.ennephylla ... made by Gerd Stopp ... Oxalis "Tina"
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flowering today.
Psuedocydonia sinensis
Chinese Quince, and similar flowers to Quince (Cydonia sp.).
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Chinese Quince, and similar flowers to Quince (Cydonia sp.).
I was told that it had been lumped back into Cydonia recently, but checking on The Plantlist I see it has been changed now to Chaenomeles sinenesis!!!
Fruit is apparently edible when stewed like quinces but the parrots never leave us any to try!
cheers
fermi
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Fermi:
Three very different plants.
Chaenomeles sinensis is the Japanese Quince
Cydonia is the traditional Quince found in the Mediterranean
Psuedocydonia sinensis is the Korean quince
The Korean and Mediterranean Quince are median to full size trees and the Japanese grows more as a 5 foot shrub.
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Arnold,
As David N knows, I'm not impressed when taxonomists change names of plants but this is what The Plantlist now calls it. I'm not saying I agree!
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi:
If that is indeed what they are saying it's very odd.
Where is this plant list found.
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You'll find it here, Arnold
http://www.theplantlist.org/ (http://www.theplantlist.org/)
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Gordon thanks,
My apologies Fermi.
Indeed it does list Pseudocydonia sinensis as a synonym for Chaenomeles sinensis.
It's a strange merge.
The Pseudocydonia is a thirty foot tree with fruit the size of a Rugby ball and the Chaenomeles is a small shrub at most 6 feet tall with a small fruit the size of a cricket ball.
I have both within 100 feet of my house.
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I totally agree with you, Arnold. Hard to fathom how the thornless Pseudocydonia gets merged into Chaenomeles. Reclassifications sometimes seem so arbitrary ( the plant I once knew as Laelia purpurata, became Sophronitis purpurata, and now is known as Cattleya purpurata.... makes me wonder when will the madness stop?)Guess I'm old school at 56!
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Gordon:
I think this has to be a mistake.
Who does these things?
Not even close.
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I feel the need to intervene. First it has been mentioned many times not to take The Plant List 'add literam', especially with complicated genera.
Pseudocydonia sinensis - is the chinese/korean quince shown by Arnold; small tree, solitary flowers, large fruits. Syn. have been going around for years as Chaenomeles sinensis, C. chinensis, Pyrus....
Chaenomeles japonica - is the japanese quince; the shrub with clustered flowers, small fruits; also C. speciosa and varieties - mostly cultivated as ornamental shrubs
Cydonia oblonga - is the tree quince of eastern origin with large fruits as well (which gives my favourite jam :)) Fuzzy leaves, large white/pink flowers.
All of them had interchangeable names since ancient times, syn. as Chaenomeles, Cydonia, Pyrus and so on....
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Cydonia oblonga.
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Thank you Gabriela.