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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Lvandelft on July 02, 2008, 10:30:39 PM
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About three weeks ago I showed plants in our garden, of which I cannot resist
showing them again and still in full flower, though the Erigeron will be over in two weeks.
Erigeron Sommerneuschnee (Snowwhite)
Geranium Jolly Bee
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Luit, I believe it is interesting for people to see that someof these plants will flower for a good length of time, providing weeks of pleasure for us. Too often the fact that some blooms are very fleeting causes people to believe that all flowers will pass in a short time..... you are proving otherwise!
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Maggi,
I won't post a pic here in th northern thread, but that Beaugainvillea that I posted pics of in flower before Christmas is still in flower now..... normally has been hit back by the frosts by now, but not this year. We should get 10 months of continuous flower out of it this season, although obviously there are times of year where there were more flowers than others. THAT is pretty impressive in a frosty climate! ;D
That mass of Geranium looks fantastic Luit. Wish I had the space to plant big masses like that here, or else let plants expand to that size if they want to. ::)
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Hi Paul
Bougainvillea struggles in an unheated greenhouse here and would perish in said GH in the winter (I don't bother as it is more trouble than it is worth). Likewise Citrus. I have a miniature orange tree which has yet to be put on the patio this year. I was waiting for it to flower. Fat chance! ::) It will be out next week, as will the Protea cynaroides and Cycas revoluta. We head off to Croatia in two weeks time, so needs must. The latter produces new leaves every other year, if I'm lucky; the former has yet to flower, even though it is a mature plant. I need something small and hardy [to 5oC] that will flower in an 8" pot. A dwarf Banksia perhaps? Tried seed but the seedlings always damp off, even with copper fungicide, so rooted cuttings or small plants?
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Anthony,
Probably our summer heat maturing things again..... the Beaug grows against an eastern wall, so it gets a bit or warmth overnight that way in winter, but not much. I have it attached to the wall and once it has been hit by frost I leave it that way until it starts reshooting (about early October or so) underneath as we get to spring. Usually then I trim it back to about 6 inches thick on the wall and it bursts straight into flower, then continues on flowering until we get heavy frosts, usually in June. Against tthe wall it survives the -8'c or so, but the base is well protected, so even if the top got burnt compeltely off it would reshoot from ground level. The main thing with them is to keep them on the dry side, as they grow and flower much better. Mine pretty much never gets any deliberate watering, just a bit of runoff from the shadehouse next to it (the shadehouse is only there the last couple of years, it grew without it for about 7 years before that). Anyway, I'm not meaning to sidetrack this topic.
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I've been too busy to post much these days, although there is more than plenty happening in the garden.
This dwarf form of Allium paniculatum (barely 3-4" tall) is utterly charming.
The North American heat-loving Callirhoe involucrata needs plenty of space (4-5' spread in every direction from a single prostrate plant)---the magenta cups started a while ago, and will bloom right into autumn.
The Northern Catalpa, C. speciosa is in full swing.
And Seseli gummiferum loves it in the scree garden.
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Many of the hardy succulents are of course blooming at this time--
Here are just a few of the small Sedums that I like.
I really love Sedum lydium--beautiful red foliage in cold weather, but I struggle to keep it in the garden.
S. amplexicaule is an interesting species--just finishing it's bloom now---it then goes summer dormant, leaving naked stems with small propagules at the ends, which fall off and will begin to grow in the fall. The plant then springs back to life and the foliage remains evergreen until bloom time the following summer.
The tiny S. dasyphyllum.
What I know as S. album micranthum chloroticum has bead-like strings of foliage and white flowers.
And two North American natives for shade:
S. nevii, grows on wet, mossy cliffs in the Appalachians, and S. ternatum is found in shady woods in the eastern USA.
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Luit,
you have a nice Geranium collection!
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Jolly Bee = Rozanne
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Jolly Bee = Rozanne
Sorry Mark, but Jolly Bee originated in Holland, about 8 Km. from here, at the
nursery of Marco van Noort, who is a perennial cultivator and innovator of new
plants. He is a beekeeper and let the bees do the pollination.
Another Geranium of him is Sweet Heidy.
In my opinion is Jolly Bee the better plant because it flowers here much better as
Rozanne, which I have too.
There is about no difference in both plants.
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Campanula waldsteiniana
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A note about main website update to "the Rock Garden" Index......
Very remiss of me, I forgot to mention that there is an updated index to "The Rock Garden" online in the main site, also: this courtesy of Glassford Sprunt, hero of the parish of Bridge of Allan!
See the Index here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/index/SRGC%20Introduction%20&%20Index.pdf
It is complete up to issue No. 121
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A few weeks ago I posted pictures of the newest addition to the rock garden...and was told that he was getting ready to change skins...one could see it in his glazed blue eyes.
And then he disappeared, and I have watched for him ever since.
Today my blue-eyed friend came back as a brown-eyed boy...and with pretty new clothes.
He lives in a cool, dark hole underneath the Antennaria alpina.
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Pics from yesterday-Austrian Mt.
Karl
Geum montanum
Draba tomentosa
Androsace hausmannii
Hochmölbing, 02.07.08 054
Minuartia verna
Papaver alpina
Traunsteinera globosa ?
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More pics.
Karl
Campanula alpina
Androsace hausmannii
Gentiana clusii
Helianthemum oelandicum ssp.alpestre
Schrocken 2.289m
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Thanks Karl, they are wonderful! I can hardly wait to go to the Ortler two weeks later! :)
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Kristl - I am always surprised which plants you grow in Ontario - your garden has to be really huge - Thanks for the wonderful photos.
Also thanks to Karl for all the fantastic photos of the austrian alps - perfect as always -
Think Traunsteinera globosa could be mislabeled? It looks like Anacamptis pyramidalis.
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Hans thanks for the correction.
Karl
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Katharine thanks, beauty holliday in the Mountains.
Karl
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I can almost smell the fresh air. Great shots
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Karl....again, bravo!!!
Hans....there used to be almost 8 acres of gardens, but at least half of those have been allowed to revert to nature, because the gardener can no longer care for the plants. I still struggle to maintain the rest, but am only partially winning the battle in the woodland gardens, where the sun does not reach, and the weeds can't thrive.
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Another great mountaintrip, Karl, thank you!
Kristl, your garter friend is very handsome in his new suit and seems to enjoy his new work as a photographic model, too ;)
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Have I had another 'senior moment' but I was sure Luit had recently posted a pic of Calandrinia grandiflorea? I've done a search but can'r locate it, can anyone 'remind' me where it is pleas? I have some seedlings in the greenhouse that are about to come into flower and would like to compare them.
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Have I had another 'senior moment'
I'm afraid you have David. ;D ;D
(But you're not the only one, if this gives you some comfort)
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Thank you Luit, it also looks as if I was having one when I typed the post above!
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Some of the flowers that are in my garden this week:
1) unknown clematis
2) Pelargonium endlicherianum
3) Romneya coulteri
4) Saponaria officinalis
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Here are a few pics of my present flowering plants.
Mimulus cup. Whitecroft Scarlet
Sedum sexangulare
Scutellaria orientalis var. alpina
Scutellaria alpina
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Some pictures from my garden,most plants are still in flower,but some photos were made
some days ago.If anything is misnamed,I am grateful for exact identification.
Arisaema cf.tortuosum
Arisaema fargesii
Arisaema candidissimum
Gentiana gelida
Iris foetidissima
Lilium pomponium.
Lilium debile
Thalictrum kiusianum.
Edraianthus wettsteinii
Origanum rotundifolium
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Nice pictures, Wim, Franz and Ruweiss. A piece of my garden today
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So many nice plants today! Thank you all for sharing.
Oleg, can you tell us which Zygadenus you showed?
I've never see this one.
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Franz, your photographs are as wonderful as ever 8)
Rudi, good to see your garden is full of flowers in the sunshine :)
Oleg, I like Campanula Elizabeth..... reminds me that it got "drowned" here by other plants overgrowing it.
Is the second plant Zigadenus? It looks tall and healthy....taller than any I have.
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Sorry, Maggy and Luit. I forgot to write the name. Its Zigadenus elegans (very robust) and the smaller stems on the left of the picture belong to Z.nuttallii which haven't opened flowers yet. I adore the genus and as only the first buds have opened I hope to see it in full glory in a few days. As for the campanula, I have such a feeling that it tends to suppress everything around. In fact the clump is much bigger
Oleg
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Great pics all of you. I especially like the Scutellaria and Arisaema pics .
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Thank you Oleg.
Until now I had only Z. nuttallii, but it seems I have lost it after 10 years or so.
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Oleg, I like Campanula Elizabeth..... reminds me that it got "drowned" here by other plants overgrowing it.
Is the second plant Zigadenus? It looks tall and healthy....taller than any I have.
Ah Maggi, How climates differ. Here, it took me a couple of years to eradicate that Campanula because IT was drowning everything else around it. Those Campanula types are far too happy here, taking many square kilometres instead of just the proverbial mile when they're given an inch. They had me somewhat nervous about all Campanulas at one point, but I've managed to get that under control. ;D There are some beautiful blue and deeper pink types available in nurseries around here these days, that look to be the same sort of grower as 'Elizabeth'. Much as I would like to grow them I am not game to. ::) Isn't it wonderful that we all have such different conditions and that one man's weed is another's gem. ;)
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I can only agree with Paul, 'Elizabeth' and C. punctata can be real thugs, nearly as bad as Vancouveria and Bishop's weed.
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Agree. All C.punctata are weeds when happy. But what a display at flowering time.
Luit, if you need some seeds of these 2 species or Z.leimonthoides, write me an e-mail. I hope to harvest a lot this year.
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Zigadenus elegans is native (but uncommon) in Ontario--and it ranges west in Canada, right up to Alaska. Hardiness is probably at least -45C, considering where it grows.
I last saw it in the wild in northern Ontario's Manitoulin Island, growing on an alvar along the great lakes. Although it is often found in wet areas in the wild, it will grow anywhere in the garden!!!! A tough, beautiful plant.
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A few from today;
Aconitum ferox
Campanula rigidipila
Gentiana lutea
2 Clematis fusca
Meconopsis aculeata
One of Dowdeswell's Delphiniums
...and the last of the peonies
+ Geranium 'Summer Skies'
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Oleg, we have both Zygadenus elegans and Z. nuttalli, but they never got verty tall... how tall is your plant? It looks quite tall....75cms + ?
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Some more plants flourishing here.
I love such plants like Helianthus salicifolius.
During summer when looking mature nothing happens and then
suddenly in October the small sunflowers will appear.
Helianthus salicifolius
Leucanthemum Fiona Coghill
Geranium Russell Prichard
Coreopsis verticillata Grandiflora
Asclepias tuberosa
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I thought I would show you that I grow other things than alpines and orchids.
Derek
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JUst one from the pots on the patio just now.
Lilium formosanum pricei, the label says very fragrant but I can't detect any scent yet.
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Here is a plant from the Eastern USA, which is already growing 25 years on the same place.
I made the mistake to remove the runners every spring, because I was afraid
it would get to big. With the result that it was never showing its beauty, because the
flowers are rather small. I kept it because the time it's flowering starts just after the
spring flush. But now since some years I leave it within about 50 x 50 cm. and it is
a lovely plant of app. 30 cm.
Aster radula
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Nice pictures all, some lovely plants.
Mick, did you grow your Lilium formosanum pricei from seed, and if so how long before flowering please? I have some in the greenhouse from seed sown last year, received from Lesley, they wont flower this year but maybe next!
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David,
I bought my Lilium formosanum pricei as a growing plant last year. This is just my second year growing from the seed exchanges.
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David,
I seem to recall it took 3-4 years for my L. formosanum pricei to bloom from seed. My clones are the cutest tiny plants (maybe 4" tall at most)...they are sitting poised right now....will post a picture once they open fully.
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Three years usually for me David. The stems should about 20 cms, elongating to maybe 30-35 as the seed pods mature. They are pure white, not the lemon colour of Mick's, and with some flushing of reddish on the backs.
Talking of lilies, you will find something exciting at this link, posted today on Trillium-L
http://farreachesfarm.squarespace.com/
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Maggy, Zigadenus is now 60 sm but will elongate a bit up to 70-75. It must be the result of potassium feeding. You see I follow Ian's advise. Does he? Kristl wrote it can stand -45C and it survives nicely winters in Moscow. Funny enough but RHS encyclopedia claims it's not fully hardy (nice thing for an Alaskan native
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Too hot to photograph much today, although the poor garden has been aching for sun after 3 months of almost solid rain....
The gorgeous and very tall Lilium canadense- grown from seed originally collected from 12 foot tall plants growing along the St. John River in New Brunswick. There are also yellow forms.
The last few blooms of Argemone polyanthemos, which grows in the sand bed.
Clematis ianthina (often mistaken for C. fusca or C. fusca violaceae).
Thalictrum lucidum.
Tricyrtis latifolia---I have grown various early-blooming species under a half-dozen names---and they all bloom now, and vary only in the spots (some are redder), the height, and the pubescent or glaucous foliage.
Clematis mandchurica is unbelievably fragrant and blooms for a full 6 weeks or more.
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Kristl,
Lovely!! The Lilium is glorious, and you have so many wonderful Clematis I've never grown. So very nice!!
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The gorgeous and very tall Lilium canadensis- grown from seed originally collected from 12 foot tall plants growing along the St. John River in New Brunswick. There are also yellow forms.
Kristl - There are red flowered L. canadensis north of Fredericton on the St. John River. Hal Hinds, who wrote the Flora of new Brunswick collected some bulbs for me about 12 years ago. I had a friend in Newton Abbot, Devon who was desperate for them and I sent them off. I should have kept a scale. Have you seen or collected any of these in N.B. or in Ontario?
So you're the one with our rain... we are parched here.
johnw
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John,
There are some reports of L. candense in southern Ontario ---but most thinking is that it is probably rare, if indeed it is in Ontario at all. I do believe L. michiganense is in Ontario somewhere, although I have not seen it in the wild.
I think L. canadense is pretty rare across its range.
I did actually mean to say there are red forms (L. canadense editorum). My specimens are the typical yellow/orange and the picture makes them look more orange than they actually are.
No, I have not seen the red variant---the population I collected from were all yellow/orange. I wish I could find the original of the picture I took of the plants---but all I have is the small version that I reduced for my web site....but it gives you the idea of the site and the plants. Can't remember where on the St. John River I took this picture.
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Another few flowering here.
The Dianthus is since more than 30 years growing in our old rockgarden
and always seeding around, but never becomes a nuisance.
The Gypsophila I just planted to soften the hard corners of the raised bed.
Dianthus petraeus ssp. noeanus
Gypsophila Rosenschleier
Thymus praecox Purple Beauty
Berkheya purpurea
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Kristl..
Lilium canadense is simply breathtaking. I saw one in bloom in North Sweden a few years ago. I ordered seeds the same year. But my plants are still not ready to flower. How long does that usually take from seeds?
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Three years usually for me David. The stems should about 20 cms, elongating to maybe 30-35 as the seed pods mature. They are pure white, not the lemon colour of Mick's, and with some flushing of reddish on the backs.
I bought 3 bulbs last year that flowered beautifully exactly how you describe Lesley - I think I posted a picture last year - however only one of them shows this year and it's not going to flower :'(
I think I remember I read somewhere they're not very long lived - can anyone comment on that ?? ???
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Friends, the array of plants shown in these pages is breathtaking! Thank you all.
Arthur,Derek, how have you time for all those displays? 8) Such a lot of work but so colourful.
Lesley, thanks for the link to the pink Cardiocrinum... what a stunner!!
Oleg You see I follow Ian's advise. Does he?
Ha, Ha! ::) No, he does not feed some of the bulbs outside!! :o I will complain to him! ;)
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Arthur, how have you time for allthose displays? 8) Such a lot of work but so colourful.
Lesley, thanks for the link to the pink Cardiocrinum... what a stunner!!
Maggi - I am mystified. Did you mean Derek? Agree with you the Cardocrinum link was excellent.
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Sorry, Arthur, yes, I did mean Derek! :-[
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Maggi
I wish.....
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Lilium canadense is simply breathtaking. I saw one in bloom in North Sweden a few years ago. I ordered seeds the same year. But my plants are still not ready to flower. How long does that usually take from seeds?
This one is not a fast lilium from seed like L. pumilum, L. concolor strictum or L. formosanum pricei....which will bloom in 2-3 years. It's more like a martagon, or longer. I really can't remember, because it's been so long since I grew mine (but between 5-8 years???)
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Three years usually for me David. The stems should about 20 cms, elongating to maybe 30-35 as the seed pods mature. They are pure white, not the lemon colour of Mick's, and with some flushing of reddish on the backs.
Talking of lilies, you will find something exciting at this link, posted today on Trillium-L
http://farreachesfarm.squarespace.com/
Chucking it down, AGAIN, here today but popped out to the greenhouse to get a pic of one of my Lilium formosanum var. pricei seedlings. Now I see it is out of focus but far too wet to go out to get another one. I sowed a batch of ten on 12 June 2007, from seed Lesley sent me, and think I potted them when they were too small and lost four of them. The remaining six seem to be doing well. I have put your name on a couple of them Luc but not sure when it would be best to send them, maybe Lesley will let me know? I have another batch of ten, sown earlier this year, coming along nicely.
Loved the Cardiocrinum Lesley but far too tall for my windy garden, and probably taller than my greenhouse.
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Luc/David, my L. formosanum v. pricei doesn't seem short-lived. Or at least those I have at present are still going strong after 4 flowerings. I have heaps of seed here from harvest in March-May. I can send some more if you'd like it.
David if you're planning to send a couple to Luc, I'd suggest doing it right now, in their pots though that will be heavier/more expensive of course. Is it OK to send like this to the EU? Then Luc could plant them out right away and they should come away well later in the year.
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35C, with humidex today, pushing many of the July plants into bloom.
A drift of Illiamna remota next to the pond; I. rivularis is pretty too, but doesn't want to stick around here more than a year or two.
Gaura lindheimeri is a permanent fixture---and I look forward to it's long, long bloom each year.
Acanthus hungaricus is just barely hardy here, but now that it has it's deep root system in place, it returns every season.
I like the common Allium flavum---but especially like the multi-colour form A. flavum tauricum, originally grown from seed from Marc McDonough.
Yucca filamentosa is native to eastern North America--and always a joy. I grow Y. glauca as well (has never flowered in 15 years), and the small Y. harrimaniae is also hardy here. Y. baccata will not stay, though I have tried and tried.
Now that global warming has moved me up a full hardiness zone, Morina longifolia has decided it will stay.
And, one of my many wild areas where I do little to control what happens---this year it is a sea of Verbascum olympicum.
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Is this normal size for Bergenia ciliata or is it the new Dutch fertilizer we tried on it last autumn?
johnw
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A few shots of foliage today, very important these days. We are in "the gap" here - when there is little in bloom aside from roses and peonies it seems, the very last of the evergreen azaleas are starting and it's still well before the last of the deciduous azalea species bloom. I know the southerners will cringe....but I love Phormiums (until those big clay pots have to be moved in). The last shot is the variegated daylily, better than usual this year, flowers are bloody awful.
johnw
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I thought I would show you that I grow other things than alpines and orchids.
Derek
Your neighbours must just stand and admire Derek? What a beautiful display. 8)
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Your neighbours must just stand and admire Derek? What a beautiful display. 8)
So Anthony.... Derek is really good looking? Given the neighbours stand around and admire him and all? ;D
Seriously though, the display was quite stunning. I plant a few annuals each year, but nothing on teh scale of that (besides which, they'd take up space that could be dedicated to other things! ;))
John,
Why would be southerners hate the Phormium? They definitely have their place within gardens, no question. That variegated daylily leaf is wonderful!! What is the flower like that goes with it?
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That variegated daylily leaf is wonderful!! What is the flower like that goes with it?
Paul - I recall it is a vile orange mustard shade. I haven't seen the flower in years as I'm quick to snap the buds off, always good in a stir-fry.
As for the phormiums I would have they might be overdone down under and/or with so many new and improved ones these might seem rather commonplace.
johnw
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John,
Ah the poetry..... vile orange mustard shade! ;) Sounds positively disgusting!! ;D But I'd grow it for that foliage if I could find it.
They are a bit overdone here at the moment. They're one of those "flavour of the month" type plants.....along with the red leaf Cordylines etc. So many modern gardens are just combinations of the two, because they're "low maintenance and water requirements". I still like them as part of a planting, just not the whole thing. Some of the Cordylines and Flax now include shades of bright pink, although thankfully that is stripes, not the whole plant. Some of them are spectacular, and they ARE brilliant for their low maintenance and low water usage. it is just that whole gardens of them tend to look a bit sterile. ::) To me at least. :o
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No cringing here John. They are great plants with specific uses. Some of the modern forms are stunning as foliage plants. I especially like the newish series of red/black forms with cultivar names such as 'Shiraz,' 'Merlot,' 'Cabernet' etc. ;D ;D ;D :P
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Is this normal size for Bergenia ciliata or is it the new Dutch fertilizer we tried on it last autumn?
johnw
Are you quite sure that this is Bergenia ciliata? Usually the leaf has a reddish tinge and is quite hairy. Ciliate, in fact. Manus ciliatum though, perhaps?
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They are a bit overdone here at the moment
Far too many stappy leaved 'things' being promoted at the moment IMO. If I see another Dianella tasmanica variety down here I'll climb the walls - a positive menace if it like's it's position. Even Astelia chatamica, which at least has the virtue of reflective leaves, palls a bit when you consider how tall it can grow.
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Is this normal size for Bergenia ciliata or is it the new Dutch fertilizer we tried on it last autumn?
johnw
I suggest Dutch fertilizer can enlarge a lot of things ;) - have a look at one of my Bergenia ciliata leaves - see the 'ciliata'. Did you also find those hairs - especially at the stalk and the leaf margin?
Gerd
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Is this normal size for Bergenia ciliata or is it the new Dutch fertilizer we tried on it last autumn?
johnw
Would like to know what IS Dutch fertilizer John.
I thought the Dutch only export the good things ;D ;D
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Some of the Cordylines and Flax now include shades of bright pink, although thankfully that is stripes, not the whole plant. Some of them are spectacular, and they ARE brilliant for their low maintenance and low water usage. it is just that whole gardens of them tend to look a bit sterile. ::) To me at least. :o
Paul - You're right. Here are two Cordylines I got as tiny tissue cultured plants from Torbay Palm Farm in Devon 10 years ago.
johnw
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Göte has made a great idea for a new thread...for Lilium and allies.... so I have moved his recent posts to the Bulbs General Section, a new page called Lilium and allies (Cardiocrinum. Notholirion and Nomocharis) July 2008, to make this new page.... see here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1996.new#new
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Leslie / Gerdk - Tiny hairs on the leaf edges and quite hairy on the petioles. I photographed see below.
Luit, on the fertilizer, I threw out the original bag but this is the new replacement "charge fertilizer" made in Canada. It seems to supply most everything needed for the first month. I will ask the fellow who sold me the Dutch equivalent what the name was.
johnw
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My extraordinary Lilium martagon ssp. cattaniae, it is higher than 2 m!
Lilium martagon ssp. cattaniae
Campanula raineri
Doronicum grandiflorum
Epipactis atrorubens
Epipactis palustris
Aconitum lycoctonum ssp.lycoctonum
Pedicularis
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John,
It seems it is indeed Bergenia ciliata. Because the species is said to be tender even here in Western Europe, did you cultivate it inside a greenhouse? Maybe this is the reason for the giant leaves?
Gerd
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Here are some pics from today - made during a sunny spell between rain showers
1. + 2. Sandersonia aurantiaca
3. Anthemis nobilis pleniflora
4. Campanula thyrsoides
5. Commelina tuberosa
6. Cyclamen colchicum
7. Cyclamen purpurascens
8. + 9. Cyrtanthus smithiae
10. Tecoma garrocha
Gerd
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Nice Gerd. I particularly liked Cyrtanthus smithiae, do you leave it in the garden all year round please?
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John,
It seems it is indeed Bergenia ciliata. Because the species is said to be tender even here in Western Europe, did you cultivate it inside a greenhouse? Maybe this is the reason for the giant leaves?
Gerd
Gerdk - This Bergenia I got several years ago as a small plant. It was growing outdoors at the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens about 2 hours southwest of Halifax. They had ordered quite a few Bergenias from a nursery in Ontario. When planted out this one stood out from the crowd and was obviously mis-labelled and almost immediately identified as B. ciliata. A friend at the gardens gave me a small piece.
It has been in a pot and stored cold and dark through the winter. It has never made such big leaves in the past, here or at The Gardens. It is pretty much deciduous in Annapolis Royal.
johnw - now +31c and into the mid to upper 30's just 30km inland.
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Nice Gerd. I particularly liked Cyrtanthus smithiae, do you leave it in the garden all year round please?
David,
The plant is potgrown - only the photo was taken in the garden.
I gave it a dry and cold rest during winter (in the basement).
Gerd
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What great pics - and variety.
My favourites just now are the secondary stems on Digitalis grandiflora and the white Fairys' Thimbles - Campanula cochlearifolia alba.
The Digitalis is sheltered so the heavy rains did no harm, but glad I got a pic of the Campanula since it is now a little soggy!
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Nice flowers every one :) 8)
Hans does the Lilium martagon ssp. cattaniae need support or do You not have a lot of wind at Your place? It is great coloured and with that hight it most be lovely in real life. :o
Nice epipactis have they come by them selves or are they planted.
You seem to have lovely orchids in and around Your garden. 8) Do You breed them or try to pollinate them?
Kind regards
Joakim
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Beautiful images everybody ... many thanks for posting.
Don't really know where to post this link, but 'Flowers and Foliage' will suffice.
If you have a few minutes to spare, an alpine eye and a cultured ear then please enjoy the following link ... it isn't Beethoven Lesley but, by gum, I really think it works!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WzKpd0Q7TA&feature=related
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I prefer it without the noise. ::)
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Digitalis obscura in the wild, yesterday
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Bit like marriage Anthony ..... Ouch!!! :)
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Cliff, I remind you and other Forumists that the SRGC may not be held responsible for any injury received from partners in the wake of injudicious comments by forumists :P ::) ;)
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Rafa, that Digitalis obscura is delightful! Wonderful colour! 8)
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LOVE that word 'injudicious', Maggi ... it has really cheered me up in this hospital bed. All cards, grapes, flowers, best wishes and rare seeds to Ward 43 (mixed) via Mrs. Ranunculus at our usual solicitors please.
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Rafa, that Digitalis obscura is delightful! Wonderful colour! 8)
I can only second this Rafa. What a natural beauty!
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We planted more than 25 years ago Romneya coulteri at the southside of our
nursery glasshouses, where it flourished for about 10 years.
The roots were running inside the glasshouse where it was to hot and red
spider took possession of the plants, but they ran outside again at the westside.
I show a picture of a part of it on the westside where it grows over a length of
18 meters.
Between the plants and the garden is a macadam drive of 3 m. wide.
The second picture shows a plantrunner on the gardenside of the drive where it makes
a nice display too.
Now we just have to look out, it does not take over the rest of the garden...
Romneya coulteri [Hillier Form] 1
Romneya coulteri [Hillier Form] 2
Romneya coulteri [Hillier Form] 3
(This Hillier Form differs from another Form which is much lower and easier to
propagate) This one may reach 200 Cm.)
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A interesting Lilium (from China?) and a wonderful Asarum spec.
Does anybody know the correct names?
Photos are taken today.
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Colchicum parnasicum flowers very early this year.
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Pics from this week
Felicia rosulata
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Felicia%20rosulata%2008.jpg)
Paeonia peregrina
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Paeonia%20peregrina%2008.jpg)
Meconopsis betonicifolia at its peak
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/M.%20betonicifolia%2008.jpg)
Meconopsis x Marit still doing well
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/M%20x%20Marit%2008.jpg)
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A Campanula on my raised bed:
Campanula waldsteiniana
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Rafa, I love that Digitalis obscura in the wild---can see the genetic difference between those plants and what I have grown here in the garden as that species (much diluted)!!!!
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Colchicum parnasicum flowers very early this year.
Franz, mine are also up since two days!
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A interesting Lilium (from China?) and a wonderful Asarum spec.
Does anybody know the correct names?
Photos are taken today.
Hans , I think your beautiful Lilium from China is L. lankongense .It and its lelated species : taliense , wardii and duchartrei are doing well in my garden and wander about./
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Another You Tube video ... this time to the Valley of Flowers in India. Mute the soundtrack perhaps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_vEcVIApWM
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More videos,this is Spain!
http://waste.ideal.es/videoswaste.htm#
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More videos,this is Spain!
http://waste.ideal.es/videoswaste.htm#
Nice videos - I think I should leave my island from time to time... :)
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Couldn't have been so bad if you can still eat grapes Cliff! ;D
LOVE that word 'injudicious', Maggi ... it has really cheered me up in this hospital bed. All cards, grapes, flowers, best wishes and rare seeds to Ward 43 (mixed) via Mrs. Ranunculus at our usual solicitors please.
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More videos,this is Spain!
http://waste.ideal.es/videoswaste.htm#
Nice videos - I think I should leave my island from time to time... :)
I think Mallorca would be amazing place as well, but too little ;D
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...Lilium formosanum var. pricei seedlings. I sowed a batch of ten on 12 June 2007, from seed Lesley sent me, and think I potted them when they were too small and lost four of them.
I got some seed from Lesley too, sowed on the 30th. May 2007. One of them is about to flower...
Having killed a few L. formosanum from seed getting to these dizzy heights, I incline to the idea that not disturbing the roots (pot on the entire pot of seedlings) and good drainage are needed. My three bulbs have spent their entire lives in the (unheated) greenhouse. In Winter they kept their foliage - temperatures didn't go much below zero for long this year.
Only four of the seeds I got germinated in June 2007, the rest took until November 2007 - obviously Spring time in NZ.
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Only four of the seeds I got germinated in June 2007, the rest took until November 2007 - obviously Sring time in NZ.
I wonder why this is? Frequently when I sow seed from the northern hemisphere 1 or 2 will germinate quickly while the rest will germinate 6 months or a year or 18 months later. When seeds are often from a single pod, what makes 1 come quickly while the others wait - and wait?
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Maturity of the seed perhaps? I know that immature orchid seed germinate fast but mature seed often needs chilled for a few months after sowing.
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I wonder why this is? Frequently when I sow seed from the northern hemisphere 1 or 2 will germinate quickly while the rest will germinate 6 months or a year or 18 months later.
Variations between seeds in whatever inhibits germination... with your L. Formosanum I tried some in the fridge, some I soaked, some I put outside where it is cool. They all germinated indoors in Winter.
L. Formosanum seed from Northern hemisphere sources germinates at once, but I've only tried them indoors in Winter, maybe it depends on day length, airfreight, or was an oddity of the seeds I had and how I grew them.
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During some dry spells this week I could make some pictures.
This are plants which not really like our "summer" weather.
Dierama dracomontanum
Dierama pulcherrimum 1
Dierama pulcherrimum 2
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Campanula alliarifolia and the very closely related C. makaschvilii.
Digitalis laevigata.
And the last flower stalk of Thermopsis villosa (caroliniana).
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A good plant on my raised bed is this Saponaria, though it is an easy summer
flowering plant for all sunny welldrained places in the garden.
And I show an long known Veronicastrum and an improved one
by selection.
Saponaria x lempergii Max Frei
Veronicastrum virginicum
Veronicastrum virginicum Fascination
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Some Bletillas
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I don't know that Saponaria Luit, a hybrid presumably from S. ocymoides? I have always thought Saponaria is one of the most under-rated genera and I can't understand why, when it contains some outstanding plants like SS. pumilio, caespitosa, 'Olivana', 'Bressingham Hybrid' and others. I get spontaneous hybrids here as well, in my troughs and raised beds. A new one which I'll show in the spring, is a seedling from S. pumilio but obviously pollinated by the nearby S. lutea, with soft orangey-pink flowers in short-stemmed clusters on a neat little pad. A honey of a plant which I think I shall name and propagate.
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Hans,
I love seeing those different Bletilla. so unusual. 8)
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I don't know that Saponaria Luit, a hybrid presumably from S. ocymoides?
Lesley, this is a cross of S. cypria x S. haussknechtii, (in the garden of Dr. Fritz Lemperg in SE. Austria) which is long flowering, from June to September.
The Cultivar ‘Max Frei’ originated in Switzerland and starts flowering earlier.
Dr. Fritz Lemperg was an Austrian botanist who explored in the Balcan Area, before 1940..
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Luit,
Sorry, I'd missed your pics. Love that last Veronicastrum. Rather elegant looking. I don't know Saponaria.
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For every invasive there is a vase....
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8) 8) 8)
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Quite a lot are in bloom now
Allium caesium
Allium splendens v.kurilense
Asclepias syriaca
Delphinium tatsiense.
Digitalis grandiflora
Digitalis lutea
Digitalis mertonensis
Digitalis parviflora
Orostachys spinosus
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a bit more + 2 bianuals
Jasione laevis
Tritellea hyacinthina
Tritellea hyacinthina
Carlina vulgaris
Carlina vulgaris close up
Pilostemon afer
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Oleg
Thank you for posting such an excellent selection.
I am always afraid of putting Allium in the ground in case they prove invasive thugs - are your 2 Allium well behaved?
Particularly like the Digitalis parviflorum and the Jasione
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Arthur
Glad you liked the plants. Both alliums are well-behaved. I wish they weren't, esp. A. splendens which is desperately slow to increase for me. Will try seed propagating (if any) this year. Here is another picture of Jasione (now the whole plant).
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just got back from France to find the first colchicums in flower,and I have not started my repotting yet.
I have called it sp. because I am sure it will have had a new name since the last time I looked.
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Nice to come home to that kind of flowering welcome, isn't it? 8)
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Best place for it Kristl. It looks great in that container. What is it? A sort of tarnished copper bucket or something? The colour is exactly right for the campanula.
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Tony, your Colchicum looks like one I have from Franz H.: Colchicum parnassicum
Mine also have started flowering last week!
Hope you had a great time in France!
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One that may not be common in the north of the UK may be of interest...Magnolia macrophylla. Leaves can be a meter long in woodland conditions, flowers 10-12" across. Fragrance delicious. In bloom near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Flower shot - a day too late.
johnw
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Best place for it Kristl. It looks great in that container. What is it? A sort of tarnished copper bucket or something? The colour is exactly right for the campanula.
It's actually tin, Lesley, with small brass handles and trim at bottom. Not unlike tin maple syrup "buckets" one can buy in these parts. Quite tall (well over two feet) so it can even hold the long ranches of woody species (forced Forsythia, etc). I have quite a few of them and they are always full of something that I am trying to eradicate in the garden- this way I at least stop the self-sowing, while I work on the vegetative spread.
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I think it looks really great!
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I think it looks really great!
Indeed. I wish I had it on my table. ;D
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Thomas thanks for the id. France (Mt. Blanc)was good with masses of orchids which were wonderful but it was a very poor area for alpines which is perhaps why it has never been written up in the journals and I have not found anybody else who has been there looking at flowers.
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Came back from the cabin after the weekend and found these flowering, among others:
Corydalis panda
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Corydalis%20panda%2008.jpg)
Dactylorhiza majalis
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Dactylorhiza%20majalis%2008.jpg)
Delphnium oxycephalum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Delphinium%20oxycephalum%2008.jpg)
Gladiolus kotchyanus
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Gladiolus%20kotchyanus%2008.jpg)
Iris chrysographes
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Iris%20chrysographes%2008.jpg)
Olsynium biflorum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Olsynium%20biflorum%2008.jpg)
Penstemon fruticosus scoulieri albus
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Penstemon%20fruticosus%20scoulieri%20albus%20%2008.jpg)
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These are from the Swiss mountains (Gotthard pass)
Dont know what they are but they were nice and there was still some snow.
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These are from the Swiss mountains (Gotthard pass)
Dont know what they are but they were nice and there was still some snow.
Looks like Pulsatilla alpina ssp apiifolia. Nice photo :)
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Nice plant. 8)
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Magnar,
Any chance of shots of the faces of the Olsynium and the Gladiolus? I am not familiar with either of them, so would love to see pics if you have the time (and it isn't raining too heavily, which by the look of it was happening when you took those pics).
Regardless of any more, those were great pics. :D
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Don't talk about Gladiolus Paul! I have G. flanagani. It flowered in 2006 while I was away on holiday and was finished when I got back! It didn't flower last year, and I reckon the first flower this year will open on Saturday. We go on holiday on Thursday and guess what......! :'(
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Magnar,
Any chance of shots of the faces of the Olsynium and the Gladiolus? I am not familiar with either of them, so would love to see pics if you have the time (and it isn't raining too heavily, which by the look of it was happening when you took those pics).
Regardless of any more, those were great pics. :D
Yes it had been raining yesterday.
Here are 2 pics of the plants from a couple of years back
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Olsynium%20biflorum.jpg)
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Gladiolus%20kotschyanus.jpg)
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Wonderful Magnar !!! :o
How tall is that Gladiolus please - is it hardy ?
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Yes, its perfectly hardy, and about 70 cm tall.
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Gorgeous. Both are beautiful. So is the Olsynium a Gladiolus relative?
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Gorgeous. Both are beautiful. So is the Olsynium a Gladiolus relative?
They are both in the Iridaceae family, but I don't know how closely realted they are. Olsynium biflorum origins from South America,, while the Gladiolus is an Asian species.
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I believe this to be Lilium distichum.
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/SlugKiller/liliumdistichum800.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/SlugKiller/liliumdistichum1800.jpg)
Dave
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Paul, the Olsynium is one of those that used to be included in Sisyrinchium. I had it about 15 years back, from a Pern and Watson collection, in Chile. It is very lovely and in addition, had a gorgeous perfume. BUT, I lost it, too hot and dry I think. Judging from Magnar's first picture, it doesn't mind quite a bit of moisture, among those leaves.
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Thanks for the info Magnar and Lesley. Might keep an eye out for that one (actually, both it and the Gladiolus as well). 8)
Dave, gorgeous Lilium. :)
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paul
a picture of the olsynium I took in Chile in January 2007
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Thanks Tony. That really is rather striking. Reminds me of something, but can't put a name to it. Definitely wouldn't have thought sisyrinchium by looking at it. :o
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Put your sunglasses on for the first species....Ipomopsis rubra (Standing Cypress) a stunningly beautiful biennial, native to the USA. It has become a permanent addition here in ordinary garden conditions (heavy clay) although it grows in dry, sandy or rocky soils in the wild. The common name refers to the foliage on the flowering stalk, the top half of which becomes smothered in these vivid red tubular flowers-a magnet for you know what.
My favorite of the forever-blooming Gaillardia is G. aristata, from the Canadian prairies.
I like Digitalis---and here is D. ferruginea and a second species whose name totally eludes me at the moment.
The beautiful Indigofera kirilowii grows here in half sun, and is the only species I have been able to overwinter.
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Kristl,
More and more beauties I've never seen before..... that Isomopis is stunning! Love the Gallardia, and those Digitalis are great. Now I want all of THEM as well!! ;D
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I really like Gaillardia but find them difficult to keep alive or looking good
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In the summer we are living in our country house, where we don’t have any internet connection. So it is long between my visits on this forum. Today we are in the city and I have collected some pictures from the last days.
1. Alcea rugosa. A perenn hollyhock with simple light yellow flowers. As far as I know not susceptible to hollyhock rost.
2. Alcea rugosa. Close up.
3. Anemone rivularis. White flowers with tepals that often are blue on the reverse side. The blue anthers make a fine contrast to the white tepals.
4. Colchicum parnassicum. Spring or autumn flowering? This species is summer flowering, normally late june into july.
5. Dicentra ‘King of Hearts’. A very nice hybrid from Terra Nova.
6. Dicentra peregrina. This small Dicentra from Japan is not easy. At least I have managed to get it over one rainy winter.
7. Lilium canadense. This is a red form of this variable lily. Seed sown with seeds from Got bot garden.
8. Lilium superbum. This is on the other hand a yellow form of this american lily. Normally the color is orange. Also this comes from seeds from Got bot garden.
9. Lilium superbum. Closer look.
10. Primula vialii. Either you love it or hate it!
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very beautiful plants, thanks for sharing your pictures.
This is Paris quadrifolia this evening in the woods.
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Can anyone identify this lily - grown from AGS seed, sent as L. majoense!
Some other lilies also flowering now.
lilium lijiangense
lilium ???????
Lilium pardalinum
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I havn't got the hang of posting & attaching pics in the right order have I. The middle pic is the one in question.
A few more of my recent garden flowerings.
It is difficult to capture the rich, velvety colour of Roscoea schneideriana.
lilium lankongense
nicotiana noctiflora F&W11528
Roscoea purpurea poss. Wisley Amethyst
Roscoea schneideriana
Saxifraga stolonifera
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Can anyone identify this lily - grown from AGS seed, sent as L. majoense!
Some other lilies also flowering now.
Peter - I middle one looks like L. michiganense.
johnw
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Great plants and pictures everyone ! Glorious.
I've been a bit lazy posting pix lately - here's some from my garden, not really flowering now, but a few weeks ago... ::)
1) Campanula 'Maie Blyth' - for Lesley ;D - I hope it survives next Winter outside... :-\
2) C. raineri
3) C. hybrid - quite dark and compact - I like it
4) Platycodon grandiflorum var. apoyama
5) Geranium cinereum 'Carol'
6) Geranium cinereum 'Alice'
7) Gypsofila repens 'Dorothy teacher' - always reliable for a pink cloud
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I meant to post this Geum picture earlier - it's a cv. of G. rivale that we obtained years ago, we believe it came from Nova Scotia. We call it the "apple blossom" geum. It flowers for a long time in early summer and makes a good cut flower. Anyone recognise it as a named cv?
We are in the middle of the Allium season here and one of my favorites is A. siculum (syn Nectaroscordum siculum).
A few years ago a large population (at least 1000) of a Dactylorhiza was discovered on the outskirts of the city. With the help of specimens sent to Richard Bateman, then at Edinbugh BG, it was identified as the Leopard Marsh Orchid, D. praetermissa var junialis. Our own BG is building up a stock "for the trade", but it's also spreading. One recently appeared on my neighbour's lawn (the close up). They show a very strong "founder effect" i.e. they are all the same!
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Tricyrtis macropoda taken today in garden.
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/SlugKiller/sim.jpg)
Dave
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I meant to post this Geum picture earlier - it's a cv. of G. rivale that we obtained years ago, we believe it came from Nova Scotia. We call it the "apple blossom" geum. It flowers for a long time in early summer and makes a good cut flower. Anyone recognise it as a named cv?
I would not have recognized this as G. rivale at all, had you not told me--it's very pretty. I grow G. rivale var. icelandicum, but it's nothing like this.
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Tricyrtis macropoda taken today in garden.
Dave, I don't think the plant you showed is T. macropoda---here is what I know as the species---which blooms very late in the season (October?)
By the way, is anyone ever able to ripen seed of this?
If so, I would love to beg some.
It barely flowers here in the north---and that is only in a good long warm fall.
I've posted a correction below...although I do not mind being wrong, even publicly, I do very much mind public misinformation, especially when I am the culprit :-[
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Kristl, I see your T. macropoda as t. macrantha ssp macanthropsis! http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/18522.html
Here is Göte's T. macropdoda from the old Forum.....http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/17560.html
confused, yes, I am !! :-[
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I agree with Maggi on T. macrantha ssp. macranthopsis, both Göte's and Dave's plants however look like T. latifolia...
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Having just done a quick search on Google, I agree with arisaema that it looks more like T. latifolia.
Dave
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I should gave done a google before posting my question. The Geum seems to be G rivale 'Leonard's Variety' - I think I prefer our name! There's also a similar cv 'Flames of Passion', but since that was a discovered seedling in 1999 it can't be ours. So I'll modify my question: Who was Leonard?
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correction, correction...this was one of those true mental confusions on my part...an 'M' species confusion, in fact....yes, I did know I posted Tricyrtis macrantha ssp. macranthopsis but the mind did one of those erroneous translations (that I am so prone to).
Too many species....too little mind.
But this leads me back to a Tricrytis question I posted earlier in this thread (early July?).
I have 3 sets of early blooming Tricyrtis in the garden, all grown under different names originally (latifolia, macropoda, puberula (now latifolia var. puberula?...perhaps other names). They all roughly bloom at the same time in early July---and aside from height differences (45cm to 90cm+), glaucous or pubescent foliage and subtle differences in flower colour (more red, more yellow) they appear to be roughly the same plant. I have decided to lump them all under T. latifolia---but it does drive me crazy. Any comments?
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I'd lump them all under T. latifolia, T. puberula has been reduced to a synonym in the FoC, and the confusion with T. macropoda may in part be Chen Yi's fault.
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I should gave done a google before posting my question. The Geum seems to be G rivale 'Leonard's Variety' - I think I prefer our name! There's also a similar cv 'Flames of Passion', but since that was a discovered seedling in 1999 it can't be ours. So I'll modify my question: Who was Leonard?
In June 2007 I read in The Plantsman about Geum rivale Leonard's Variety that it was introduced by the late
Self Leonard of The Guildford Hardy Plan Nursery, Millmead, Guildford, Surrey.
And: It has been suggested that it is derived from Geum rivale ssp. islandicum, a name used
in the past for variants from the Faeroe Islands, Iceland and North America.
(no wonder it is a good doer with you, Howard)
Graham Stuart Thomas gives the date of introduction as 1923.
PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title??
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It has been suggested that it is derived from Geum rivale ssp. islandicum, a name used
in the past for variants from the Faeroe Islands, Iceland and North America.
(no wonder it is a good doer with you, Howard)
Interesting. I grow G. rivale ssp. islandicum, and wish it were still blooming right now, so that I could try to see the parentage.
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PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title??
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Well, it's not a title Luit (at least not one I have heard of). It's either the world's worst given name, who on earth would name their son 'Self'! It could possibly be an amalgamation of two surnames (family names) 'Self' and 'Leonard' as in say 'van Delft Nicholson'
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Here's some more from my garden sowewhat earlier this month :
The Rodohypoxis did extremely well this year !
All are Rhodohypoxis baurii :
1) Dawn
2) Harlequin
3) Tetra red
4) Great Scot
5) Margaret Rose
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Luc,very nice Rhodohypoxis.
Do you let them grow outside all year. No problems with too much rain in winter? Or do you have a special way of growing them?
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Luc
Like Wim I would appreciate you letting us know the secret of growing such outstanding clumps - and outside. How many years to achieve this level of perfection?
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Pete,
Your middle Lilium looks like L.leichtlinii. Was the plant cobwebby pubescent when young? The flower bud also? If so, that would be the name I put on it. I had one in bloom a few weeks ago.
Below is a photo of L.michiganense. This is very typical of what you see in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. I assume it looks the same everywhere though. Its one species I have not seen much variation in. In comparison to superbum, michiganense is an overall smaller plant with less flowers, and has less of the tepals forming a trumpet.
Aaron Floden
Knoxville, TN
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What a stunning lily Aaron, how tall does it get?
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It's either the world's worst given name, who on earth would name their son 'Self'!
That's why I asked David. Never seen that name before.
Maybe a good name for somebody who loves himself..? ;D
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Here's some more from my garden sowewhat earlier this month :
The Rodohypoxis did extremely well this year !
You'll need bigger pots next year Luc! ;) ;D
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Luc,very nice Rhodohypoxis.
Do you let them grow outside all year. No problems with too much rain in winter? Or do you have a special way of growing them?
Wim - I see Rhodophiala Rhodohypoxis in Bodil Larsen's garden near St. John's, Newfoundland! I could hardly believe my eyes.
(reminder - friend will arrive in Antwerp Thursday am and post).
johnw
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Aaaron - I guess a new label is required for my michiganense! Thanks.
johnw
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PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title?
There's an article in the latest Garden magazine to reach us by a "Widget Finn". I presume this is a nickname or pen name - I cannot imagine anyone being christened Widget!
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John,
do you mean Rhodophiala or Rhodohypoxis? Rhodophiala is very nice too and I believe Rhodophiala bifida can stand quite some rain and frost.
Thanks for the reminder and for the cuttings
Wim
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Autumn is coming here!!???
Gentiana pannonica
Gentiana pannonoca
Cypripedium calceolus
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Luc,very nice Rhodohypoxis.
Do you let them grow outside all year. No problems with too much rain in winter? Or do you have a special way of growing them?
Wim - I see Rhodophiala in Bodil Larsen's garden near St. John's, Newfoundland! I could hardly believe my eyes.
(reminder - friend will arrive in Antwerp Thursday am and post).
johnw
Rhodohypoxis, sorry.
johnw
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Fantastic plants, both Rhodohypoxis and that wonderful Gentiana. Thanks for posting!
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PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title?
There's an article in the latest Garden magazine to reach us by a "Widget Finn". I presume this is a nickname or pen name - I cannot imagine anyone being christened Widget!
Dear Sir,
You obviously have a very infertile imagination,
yours faithfully,
Widget Nicholson.
:P :P
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PS: My question now is: is "Self" a name or is it a title?
There's an article in the latest Garden magazine to reach us by a "Widget Finn". I presume this is a nickname or pen name - I cannot imagine anyone being christened Widget!
That is interesting as our Widget Finn seems to be a writer on Economics.
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This week there is not even one day of sun predicted....it's gotten to the point this season where we live for the occasional 1/2 day, and then when it comes it is so steamy, one cannot enjoy it.
It's made seed development problematic, the weeds prolific and the photography dicey...but here are a few.
Aesculus parviflora and Adenophora remotiflora.
Triosteum pinnatifidum is nothing to write home about in flower, but the foliage is great in the woodland garden, and one waits for the other real plus of the plant---the berries---ripening from white to pink.
I look forward to the lovely Adenophora triphylla each year.
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Thanks for the nice words Art and Wim !
Actually I grow the Rhodohypoxis in (half)pots which are kept dry and frostfree in winter.
Mid or late May I put the pots in the rock garden in holes where I have then just removed Tulips (planted out in baskets) so that the latter can spend their summer in a warm and dry spot where they get the baking they like so much.
At the end of the summer the Rhodohypoxis pots come out again and in go the tulip baskets to replace them. As such I get flowers twice a year on the same spot... and don't we all lack space ??? ;)
I've tried some Rhodohypoxis outside in the past but lost them :'(.. winterwet or frost - I don't know what killed them :-\
I repot them every other year and yes Luit, I have to upgrade my pots regularly, but I don't mind that.... ;D
As to the timeframe to fill up a pot like this Art, - I guess I started up with Tetra Red for example some 6 or 7 years ago with a pot containing 2 or 3 bulbs...
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Pete,
Your middle Lilium looks like L.leichtlinii. Was the plant cobwebby pubescent when young? The flower bud also? If so, that would be the name I put on it. I had one in bloom a few weeks ago.
Below is a photo of L.michiganense. This is very typical of what you see in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois. I assume it looks the same everywhere though. Its one species I have not seen much variation in. In comparison to superbum, michiganense is an overall smaller plant with less flowers, and has less of the tepals forming a trumpet.
Aaron Floden
Knoxville,
Thanks Aaron,
The leaves on my plant are very smooth, not hairy or downy at all. Also the orange colour of the flower is completlety uniform into the throat, no yellow suffusion as michiganense seems to have from pictures I have seen.
Has anyone else had problems with their lily leaves suddenly browning & dying over a matter of days? I have several plants almost defoliated. I suspect it is fungal and have sprayed with a systemic fungicide.
Pete.
Birmingham.
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Pete;
If it's not L. leichlinii then it's probably L. lancifolium (syn. L. tigrinum), it's a nice enough plant, but certainly no L. majoense! The disease sounds like it might be botrytis.
Kristl;
Great pictures, that Triostemon in particular looks lovely!
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I really prefer Fidget Winn :) (To) Self of course, is the term we gardeners would use for the process of pollinating a flower with its own pollen. It also reminds me of slugs and in the case of Mr Leonard, doesn't bear thinking about. :o
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Re botrytis, last year this was a problem for me in pots of fritillarias and young liliums. It has never been an issue in the garden proper. So this year I've watered all my bulb pots with systemic fungicide, once a couple of months ago when everything was rooting madly, yesterday as frits are beginning to emerge and I'll do it again when the frits begin to make buds and the lilies start to emerge. Fortunately the bulbs themselves haven't been affected though it must make them less vigorous, surely. Anyway, this year I'm going for prevention rather than (attempted) cure.
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Here are some of the plants that are flowering in my garden now:
1) Chamaemelum nobile ligulosum
2) Iris taurica
3) Pelargonium endlicherianum
4) Saponaria officinalis
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Wim
The Iris taurii is a wonderful plant. I googled to get more information and drew a blank. How tall is it? I presume it comes from Turkey - where did you buy it?
Thanks
Arthur
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Arthur,
Iris taurica has a height of approx. 10 cm/4 inch. It's synonymous with Iris pumila subsp. taurica. You can find it in a purple form and a yellow form. I bought it at a Belgium rock garden nursery: Cathy Portier (Bruges). It grows in the wild in the Caucasus.
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I have had this Campanula for 4 years and this is the first time I have photographed it and I was nearly to late this time, sorry for the dead bit but it was in the front garden and people were stopping and talking so I did it in a hurry. I like the slight pink in the flowers the name I have is Campanula makaschvilii,
if this is not right can someone please tell me.
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I have been given plants called "Roscoea alpina" by two friends, but in each case when they flowered they were R. scillifolia, but this year one bulb is clearly different and seems to fit Brian Mathews' description of the true R. alpina reasonably well, the upper petal is rounder , the flower colour deeper, and the leaves less well developed at flowering time. They are also broader. Here's a closeup of the flower and a comparison of the two plants. Any opinions?
I've also had two visitations from this curious beastie, first on a pile of deciduous wood chippings that I was keeping watered and then again amongst my zucchinis yesterday after the first rain for some time. (After all my complaints about wet and cold it was quite warm and dry for a couple of weeks!) It's the plasmodium of some sort of slime mould, and may form spores in a day or so. Not really flower or foliage, but interesting! This is the smaller patch about 15 cm across.
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Wim,
The Iris taurica is gorgeous.
Howard,
We get the slime molds here too. The first time I saw one I thought a possum had been sick overnight, or something like that. Very strange if you aren't prepared for it. ;D
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Paul, now that I've remembered to final "a" in Roscoea I find that you've been posting pictures of R. alpina. What do you think? I find pictures that resemble mine and also some that seem more like R. scillifolia. I'm inclined to think that this one is the real thing. An earlier flower had the long corolla tube I see in some of the pictures.
Slime moulds aren't that uncommon here either, sometimes I see a bright yellow one.
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Prunus is one of my favorite woody genera for early bloom. It's seed is ripening daily now and I need to work hard to beat the birds to the fruit. The small species noted here today are all exceptionally hardy; Some even grow north of the Arctic Circle.
The first to ripen is always P. tomentosa (Manchu Cherry) - with beautiful bloom in early spring and fruits I adore. This I collected two weeks ago.
And today 3 other species were ripe:
Prunus padus (the Bird Cherry), whose fruits are ornamental, but best left for the birds, if you don't need the seed.
P. virginiana (Chockecherry) is native to my area --- the fruits are delicious when made into jelly. This is the maroon-leaved cultivar 'Canada Red' which comes true from seed.
Lastly, is my favorite Prunus for all season interest: the Amur Chokecherry, P. maackii. I could not be without it's beautiful golden/cinnamon trunk with peeling bark in winter. My seedling bloomed in 5 years from seed, and is now a wonderful specimen, planted close to my seed office, where I can enjoy it every day.
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Shelagh, Lilium michiganense gets about 1-1.2m tall. In the wild it persists as non-flowering clonal stems in very large patches. Once introduced into the garden they bulk up quickly and flower within two years. I have never seen the species in flower in the wild in the 10 years I lived where it was frequent.
Pete, try Kristl's suggestion as Lilium lancifolium, especially if it has bulblets in the leaf axils. If not, I am not sure where to go if it was not leichtlinii (not even pubescent when immature?!!) What are the leaves like? It seems late to flower, but it does look somewhat like davidii.
Kristl, the Triosteum is lovely. That and T.sinuatum are the only ones I still do not grow! I suppose the possible new species from Sichuan is not either, but that will be a long time coming unless the seed from Pilous is it, if it ever germinates.
Aaron
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Kristl,
You are lucky not to have black knot fungus - it attacks almost all Prunus species here in Newfoundland and there's a reservoir in the wild species. Our P. virginiana seems OK but it goes for the other native species, pincherry, P. pennsylvanica. Do you find the suckering of the chokecherry much of a nuisance?
Here's a couple of things from tiny limestone section of our "rock" garden - both native plants from the other side of the Island that I grow as a botanist rather than as a gardener! The viviparous grass has tiny plantlets instead of seed - it was once thought to be the same as Festuca ovina var vivipara, but is now called F. fredrickseniae - it was considered rare until the wildflower society kept finding it on their summer field trips. We have several wild Arnicas, this is A. lonchophylla.
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A few pictures here, from the greenhouse, of Calandrinia grandiflora in a small batch grown from SRGC seed. I have a dozen plants and all are pink apart from one white with a slight pinkish flush.
The stems are quite long, about 40cm, is this normal or are my plants a little drawn? I have read conflicting reports about C. grandiflora, some suggesting that it is an annual, whilst others say it is perennial, can anyone advise please?
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Whoops, nearly forgot, here is Lewisia cotyledon 'Snowstorm', from the greenhouse today.
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The stems are quite long, about 40cm, is this normal or are my plants a little drawn? I have read conflicting reports about C. grandiflora, some suggesting that it is an annual, whilst others say it is perennial, can anyone advise please?
David, I've grown several times years ago and thought it being perennial.
But it never survived our winters outside, because being to wet.
Inside a glasshouse it might survive, but then I would cut the stems of
after setting seed.
It can easy grow to 50 cm in flower. Not really alpine like C. umbellata!
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You do do lewisias very well David. Much of your seed is germinating. Don't know why, the weather's cold and miserable - so perhaps it feels at home? ;D
When I grew Calandrinia grandiflora it always died after flowering. Couldn't be bothered with it eventually. I think if you wanted an extra year, you'd need to cut the flower stems IMMEDIATELY after the majority of flowers had passed. Not wait until there was seed.
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Shelagh, Lilium michiganense gets about 1-1.2m tall. In the wild it persists as non-flowering clonal stems in very large patches. Once introduced into the garden they bulk up quickly and flower within two years. I have never seen the species in flower in the wild in the 10 years I lived where it was frequent.
Pete, try Kristl's suggestion as Lilium lancifolium, especially if it has bulblets in the leaf axils. If not, I am not sure where to go if it was not leichtlinii (not even pubescent when immature?!!) What are the leaves like? It seems late to flower, but it does look somewhat like davidii.
Kristl, the Triosteum is lovely. That and T.sinuatum are the only ones I still do not grow! I suppose the possible new species from Sichuan is not either, but that will be a long time coming unless the seed from Pilous is it, if it ever germinates.
Aaron
I think you have helped - it looks most like L. davidii (looking at other website pics.) There is no sign of any leaf bulbil formation to suggest it is lancifolium.
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I have read conflicting reports about C. grandiflora, some suggesting that it is an annual, whilst others say it is perennial, can anyone advise please?
Hi David,
I'd consider it a short lived perennial, or perhaps a tender, short lived perennial! The only place I've managed to keep it going more than a year has been in the Shadehouse where it gets a modicum of frost protection. The older the plant gets though the more decrepit it appears, so it's better to start off again with young ones. It tends to self seed but not excessively and the seedlings are easily weeded out when small. I've never seen another colour before so you may have something worthwhile in that pale pink/white form.
cheers
fermi
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Some of this week's pics
Allium insubricum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Allium%20insubricum.jpg)
Centaurea bagadensis
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Centaurea%20bagadensis%2008.jpg)
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Centaurea%20bagadensis%20P7144665.jpg)
Cremanthodium ellisii
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Cremanthodium%20ellisii%2008.jpg)
Lilium monadelphum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Lilium%20monadelphum%2008.jpg)
Potentilla sp coll Kulu Valley, West Tibet. Chadwell 2005. So dark flowers that they are very difficult to take good pics of.
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Potentilla%20sp%20coll%20Kulu%20Valley%20West%20Tibet%20Chadwell%202005%20%2008.jpg)
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You are lucky not to have black knot fungus - it attacks almost all Prunus species here in Newfoundland and there's a reservoir in the wild species. Our P. virginiana seems OK but it goes for the other native species, pincherry, P. pennsylvanica. Do you find the suckering of the chokecherry much of a nuisance?
With all that ails and can potentially ail Prunus species, I just assume that most of them are temporary visitors here ----and perhaps I love them even more for that reason. Of the 5 or 6 P. maackii I orginally planted as seedlings, only the one remains, and each year it is still here, I am grateful.
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Oh Magnar, they're all beautiful!!!!! :o
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Hello Magnar,
beautiful! The Centaurea bagadensis is very lovely. I don't know this species.
What is the natural distribution, habitat and size?
Easy to please?
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Hello Magnar,
beautiful! The Centaurea bagadensis is very lovely. I don't know this species.
What is the natural distribution, habitat and size?
Easy to please?
The Centaurea bagadensis is a rather new introduction from Gerogia in the Caucasus mountains. I have been growing it for 3 years now and it seems to be fully hardy here. I grow it in my scree bed where it behaves very well, not spreading by roots like some other Centaureas do. It grows to about 25 cm here, may be it would get taller if it was given more rich soil to grow in, but I like it the way it is now. As you can see in the last pic it also has a nice foliage. It is very easy to grow from seeds. They usually germinate within a week without any cold treatment, and the seedlngs grow fairly fast. It is said to tolerate dry conditions.
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You do do lewisias very well David. Much of your seed is germinating. Don't know why, the weather's cold and miserable - so perhaps it feels at home? ;D
When I grew Calandrinia grandiflora it always died after flowering. Couldn't be bothered with it eventually. I think if you wanted an extra year, you'd need to cut the flower stems IMMEDIATELY after the majority of flowers had passed. Not wait until there was seed.
Thank you Lesley, but if I was as good as Michael Campbell I would be a happy man. I seem to do fairly well with forms and varieties of Lewisia cotyledon and L. oppositifolia but I can't grow L. rediviva to save my life. I've had a plant for three years now but not a single flower. If it doesn't perform next year it's heading for the compost bin.
Thanks also to you, Luit, and to Fermi for advice on Calandrinia grandiflora (just been looking on Google and found a Site that says it is now Cistanthe grandiflora- b****r, I've just learned to spell Calandrinia). All the pics I can find show the pink form but I did see one Site that suggested there were other colours (strange though, none seem to be on the Internet!)
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Lovely Magnar, you do grow a lovely plant, and you take a very good picture too.
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Luit - Finally I heard back from my friend in Newfoundland who I bought the charge fertilizer from. As I said the recent bag was Canadian produced. He e said the bag I just finisheed was made by HYDRO AGRI - ROTTERDAM BV and it was called PG MIX 14-16-18. He also said they have different formulae.
johnw
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David,
I water Lewisia rediviva from about now (when people who keep bulbs in pots start to water them) and keep it watered though out the winter. When the first flower buds start to show in about March I stop watering completely and allow the soil to get like dust (they sit on a shelf in the greenhouse) The leaves will die down but the flower buds continue to grow, flower and set seed. They are then baked until it is time to water them again.
For seedlings I keep them growing for their first summer/autumn
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All Lewisias do well in the open garden here. I guess snow in the winter is good for them.
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Lewisia columbiana v rupicola
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Lewisia%20columbiana%20ssp%20rupicola%2008.jpg)
Crenathodium helianthus hybrid
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Cremanthodium%20helianthus%20hybrid%2008.jpg)
Geranium platyathum
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Geranium%20platyanthum%2008.jpg)
Geranium regellii
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Geranium%20regellii%2008.jpg)
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Photographed in my garden today after a long period of cold and rainy weather
1. Clematis fusca
2. Bomarea edulis - pot grown, flowers in a height of 1.5 m
3. Cyclamen purpurascens - self sown seedling
4. Erodium cazorlense - flowering during the whole summer
5. Heliophyla longifolia - a South African annual
Gerd
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Very cool Geraniums, and that Clematis and Bomarea are excellent. Thanks for posting!
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A few from the garden the other day. A general view with Dierama pulchellum 'Blackbird', Dierama igneum, Morina longiflora. Elsewhere in the garden Dierama 'Lancelot' and 'Guinevere'
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...Aconitum lycoctonum 'Dark Eyes'
Franchoa sonchifolia
Franchoa sonchifolia 'Rodgersons form'
Sanguisorba albiflora
Santolina pinnata 'Edward Bowles'
Scutellaria altissima
Stachys albotomentosa
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Brian,
Some very interesting stuff in there. Not sure I've ever seen a Stachys like that last one. Very pretty markings. Same for that Francoa. The Dieramas are of course very cool. 8) What is the tall mauve clump at the back of that garden pic. Looks impressively imposing but can't quite place what it is?
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Yes Paul I really like the Stachys. The tall plant is Campanula lactiflora Loddon Anna mixed in with Clematis recta 'Velvet Night' which gives a nice froth of creamy flowers amongst the campanula.
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That's a Campanula!!!! :o :o Wouldn't have ever thought that. How tall is it? Obviously it spreads a bit as well by the width of the clump, but I am guessing not too much or you wouldn't have anything else able to live in the garden. ;D Do you have a pic of the flowers? That just looks to be so much bigger than any Campanula I have come across. I don't see the Clematis recta in the picture, but I'll take your word that it is growing in there as well. ;)
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Luit - Finally I heard back from my friend in Newfoundland who I bought the charge fertilizer from. As I said the recent bag was Canadian produced. He e said the bag I just finisheed was made by HYDRO AGRI - ROTTERDAM BV and it was called PG MIX 14-16-18. He also said they have different formulae.
johnw
Thanks John. I already thought you meant some slow release fertilizer.
I wondered just why calling it Dutch fertilizer. Never realized this would travel so far.
Here it is made but also imported from China I read some time ago.
I would in the case of this sort of fertilizer use 6.14.28 for alpines. (Always low N.)
But I don't like the slow released one because in warm winters plants can suddenly start to thrive and
then be killed by severe frosts.
The 14.16.18 might be o.k. for a lawn I think. :-\
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Luit - We use it on perennials, trees and shrubs in pots. Just as a safeguard as it takes care of most deficiencies. It seems to have a bit of everything in it, traces etc. We use it at about 1/10 or less of the recommended rate.
johnw
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That's a Campanula!!!! Wouldn't have ever thought that. How tall is it?
Well it's hardly alpine and that's for sure ;D It stands at about 6 foot and has a footprint of about eighteen inches, it has to be supported, it's head being about four foot across (unless I let it sprawl ::) )and on my extensive garden visits I've not come across one quite like it, it must be in exactly the right conditions and rewards us well. Now a good ten years old I should think, at it's feet is C. glomerata 'Pauline' which fits in rather well too although it is now over, the picture was taken a few weeks ago when Loddon Anna was in its first week of flowering. I shall dead head it and get a few more.
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Brian,
WOW! That really is a beauty. I didn't realise that the perennial type campanulas got that big, particularly not with that substantial a flower head. I love the colour too. Must look out for it and see whether it has ever been brought into Aus. Well worth growing by the looks of it, particularly if it is only 18 inches wide after 10 years.... which means it is somewhat less invasive than some of the genus. ;)
Thanks for the closeup pics. That glomerata is pretty too... I can only recall having seen the normal blue/purple colour in that species, but it isn' like I collect Campanula or am specifically looking around for them. Both the plants you show are lovely shades of pink. Very nice!! 8)
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Hello,
I received last year from Hortus Universitatis Hauniensis, in Denmark, seeds of Hastingia alba. Now blooming I am not sure this is correct. Anybody could identify this plant, thank you in advance.
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Are Hastingsia an Australian native plant? Because we have Aussie natives called Arthropodiums with exactly that flower form.
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Thank you Paul, I am absolutely agree with your Id, it is genus Anthropodium.
I think Hastingsia is from North America?
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Rafa,
Glad to help. I wasn't familiar with the Hastingsia genus, so I had to ask in case it was related to Arthropodium. I can't help with a specific name myself though. The flowers look very much like milliflorum (although they usually have shadings of pink in the flower), but I think there are a few species that are similar from the flower point of view. Very cute, although rather small, flowers.
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Two from me Campanula kirpicznikovii and a Lilly that I would like help with it came from duchartrei seed I know it is not but one of you Lilly experts could help me please, I am not complaining as it is very nice and it was sown on 12-12-06 so has done very well.
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Derek,
Your 'not duchartrei' looks like henryi.
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Some of the late Clematis have begun.
A pretty viorna type (likely a hybrid).
C. heracleifolia and C. heracleifolia var. davidiana
C. stans and it's pink form (which simply arrived in the garden some years ago, and is now self-sowing true).
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Everything is at that voluptuous high summer phase in the garden and I had to look up, way up, at everything I saw today...both climbers and just plain giants.
The vigorous, but beautiful native American, Campsis radicans in its glory.
A tall, white Echinops in one of the sand beds.
Napaea dioica, the Glade Mallow, another North American native, is a monstrous thing--over 12'--looks best combined with woody species. The foliage is great---topped by so-so white flowers, which of course you rarely see because they are so high up. But what a presence the whole plant has!!!!
A Persicaria past it's prime--it may or may not be the entirely well-behaved, clump-forming and long-blooming P. polymorpha.
Cephalaria gigantea is probably 15' this year, with all the moisture. I will have to break down the stalks to collect the seed.
And Digitalis ferruginea---small flowers, but a good upright effect in a shady corner.
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Kristl,
Love those Clematis (and your other pics too!! Such a cute Digitalis). I didn't realise that C. stans came in other colours. I got stans years and years ago but haven't seen it since then. It seeds around very very lightly, and I love the way it grows and the way it flowers all summer if you give it an occasional trim. Mine is the lavendery one, but I do like that pink.
Great pics as always! 8)
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Kristl
I have to say I agree with Paul that pink stans is lovely. Our campsis radicans is not even in bud yet!
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Cremanthodium arnicoides
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Cremanthodium%20arnicoides%20108.jpg)
(http://magnar.aspaker.no/Cremanthodium%20arnicoides%2008.jpg)
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Derek,
Your 'not duchartrei' looks like henryi.
...or L. rosthornii, they are separated by the position of the seed pods.
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Kristl
I have to say I agree with Paul that pink stans is lovely. Our campsis radicans is not even in bud yet!
Brian, that's amazing about the timing difference with the Campsis---especially considering we have had almost constant rain this season. Some of the flowers are already way past finished!!!! The only thing to explain it, I suppose, is that I have a very exposed, large garden. Late in the spring, but once I do the catch-up, things just zoom along at a vigorous pace.
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Kristl, the difference in timing between parts of the country/world/even garden I find amazing. Some snowdrops I grow flower weeks apart from other people who are just a few miles away. Nature is it's own master!
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I have a friend 20 minutes from here in the same city, and the difference between the timing of things in her garden and mine is unbelievable. Some things flower earlier for her than me, and other things the opposite. hers is mostly a more sheltered, older garden while mine is much more open and severe. Some times our gardens are in synch with each other and sometimes we might as well be on different planets..... well, almost! ;) ;D
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Why is it that so many yellow daisies (dandelion, senecios and many more) turn one's "nice" feelings right off while a cremanthodium makes one feel all warm and fuzzy? It's not just that it's relatively difficult while the others are weeds. Something about its statuesqueness maybe? The Norwegians do them so well. Thanks for this one Magnar. I don't believe we have any at all in NZ so we only see them on the Forum. :'(
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A few pictures from this week:
Veratrum nigrum 1
Veratrum nigrum 2
Romneya coulteri
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The Water lilies have started the real show now.
First: Attraction, Then Mooreii and Colossea,
The white one is probably Gladstoniana. I got it under the name Pöstlingberg but i think that this is wrong.
At least one big seller of waterlilies has simply given parts of his stock names that sell better >:(
Thus there are a number of misnamed (but easily propagated) plants out there.
Some waterlilies are more ball shaped like the red James Brydon and the white Gonnere.
Göte
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Lovly waterlillies Göte
Any chance to se a picture of the to see the whole pond/ lake that has all these plants or are they in several small ones?
Kind regards
Joakim
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Lilium nepalense and Arisaema tortuosum (130cm) are flowering in my garden - after weeks with a lot of rain and very cold weather.
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Hjälmaren Joakim! Hjälmaren. ;)
NOt now but I will think about it
I am afraid this will be another "junk-photo"
Göte
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Just to let you know why there is a lack of posts form Aberdeen, Maggi has been struck down with a bad case of labrynthitis and I am working my way through the bulbs and trying to be a good nurse.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as Maggi can stand up without falling over.
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Wish her well, Ian.
Hope she is back to herself quickly.
Paddy
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Hoping for a speedy recovery, wish her all the best!
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I understand that lots of chocolate cures it quite quickly!! Get well soon Maggi.
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All the best wishes to Maggi from me too.. Hope you will soon be ok again.
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I understand that lots of chocolate cures it quite quickly!! Get well soon Maggi.
On the contrary, and believe me, it doesn't! Bed rest and staying dead still are best. If one moves, the room rotates around one's head and brings on major nausea.
Glad you're looking after our favourite lady Ian. You take care too.
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Maggi al the best and a quick recovery.
Göte a view of the whole of Hjälmaren might be to much to wish for but maybe just a overview to see the over all effect of the waterlillies :)
Kind regards
Joakim
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I understand that lots of chocolate cures it quite quickly!! Get well soon Maggi.
On the contrary, and believe me, it doesn't! Bed rest and staying dead still are best. If one moves, the room rotates around one's head and brings on major nausea.
Glad you're looking after our favourite lady Ian. You take care too.
Leslie - You're absolutely right - chocolate and especially salt are major contributors to vertigo. This is one major debilitating affliction, had it for 3 years but gone now, excess salt ist streng verboten. The longitudinal tumble was even worse than the latitudinal spin. Even conversation makes it worse.
johnw
johnw
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That's interesting that you had it for a time John, then it vanished. I had it for around 15 years and it became more and more frequent as a stress source built up. Then when that stress was removed, I had it one more time, then never again, so I always felt there was a psychological cause. It would come on with no warning except perhaps a slight feeling of uneasiness. I'd get up from a chair and fall to the floor. One day in town I fell over after wobbling around a bit, and was accused of being drunk! I almost certainly DO take salt (and chocolate) to excess but they've had no effects whatever, except round my waistline. Last had labrynthitis about 30 years ago. It is a beastly feeling and actually quite frightening.
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All the best wishes to Maggi, our favourite lady! (quote from Lesley) :)
and we hope for a very quick recovery.
Hopefully this virtual bunch of flowers will cheer you up!
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Please give her my very best wishes for a speedy recovery.
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Yes we sure need Maggi back on form, she is the glue that holds us all together.
Thought I had better get into this topic before July ends. Just a few gems from my garden. Sorry about the slight blur bottom R of most pictures. Gunge on the lens but ofcourse I didn't notice it until I had uploaded everything on to the computer. Must try harder next time.
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Just a few more including some foliage which is looking good right now.
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Shelagh
Beautiful plants and foliage. Particulalrly like the Hebe and Ophiopogon - have not seen these varieties before.
Think you must have had more rain than we have - had our first rain last night for over two weeks. Every day the local forecast promises showers and then moves the forecast forward a day. Weeds do not seem to need rain to prosper!
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Shelagh,
Great pics. A lovely selection of thing in your garden now, although I suppose in summer that makes sense. Seems so far away from us here at the moment in the depths of a strange winter! ;) So many nice things, but I rather like the look of the Gauldnettya, and although I am not familiar with the name I feel I should know it? Is the flower as substantial as it appears in the photo? What sort of size plant is it? Rather cool looking!! 8)
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One of my favorite plants to one of my favorites ladies...
All the best, Maggi!!!!
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All the best wishes to Maggi,
and we hope for a very quick recovery.
Franz
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Best wishes from me too Maggi, keep your chin up!
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Maggi,a bit late from Germany,but take my best wishes for a
quick recovery and greetings to Ian.
Rudi
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Wow, had to look that illness up on google, Maggie. Hope you are improving by now, best wishes..... Christine
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David Nicholson sent me seed of Lewisia cotyledon hybrids about a year ago. I sowed half in the autumn, the rest in the spring under his tutilage and I swear they all germinated. Many are now awaiting the N Northumberland AGM and grant plant sale and I'm sure some will be in bloom by the time it happens. This one was the first of the bunch to bloom for me. Many thanks David, I doubt I would ever have tried growing them without that kindness from you.
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Paul, the Gaulnettya is actually x Gaulnettya x wisleyensis a bigeneric hybrid, (Gaultheria x Pernettya) and probably raised at Wisley but as they're all gaultherias now anyway, it is probably just a gaultheria hybrid. Can't remember which two species were involved but someone will know. The fruit are black and edible. There are various selected forms, given cultivar names. 'Wisley Pearl' is one and 'Pink Pixie' another. Sometimes it's listed as x Gaulthettya.
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Thanks Lesley. So only relatively recent a plant? Likely to be in Aus you think?
Get well too from me Maggi.!!
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Paul,
Don't know if the Gaulnettya is in Aus, but down here in Tassie we do have a black-fruited Gaultheria species brought back by Ken from SA.
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Interesting Rob. What does the plant actually look like? I've only ever come across Gaultheria procumbens to be honest, so only know the genus as a groundcover. ::) It's related to Arbutus (Irish Strawberry Tree) I assume?
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A rather open shrub (to 1m), with white flowers and leaves a little smaller than Shelagh's plant
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Sounds nice Rob.
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Thanks Lesley. So only relatively recent a plant? Likely to be in Aus you think?
Not at all recent Paul, I lost mine perhaps 30 years ago during a garden shift. Ken had quite a lot of different species when I was there last year. Some were black fruited, some red, some pinkish. Then there are white fruited and blue and purple fruited species as well. All worth trying.
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I like the idea of the purple fruit. Keep meaning to get a Calliocarpa for that reason.... just love purple. OK, so I can be shallow when it comes to plants. ;D
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For 40 years I've been intending to plant an alpine lawn made up of berrying plants, instead of the more usual thymes. There are so many prostrate fruiting plants and I always thought it would be an amazing sight in autumn. Gaultheria/Pernettya, Myrsine, Mitchella, Cornus canadensis, Coprosma, Nertera.......One day.......
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Dear Maggi,
all my very best wishes for a quick recovery,
love,
otto.
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Dear Friends, many heartfelt thanks for your good wishes :-* :-* I am trying a short spell at the computer to catch up with all your lovely virtual bunches of flowers and kind thoughts, as well, of course, as all the wonderful plants in your gardens.....at the moment though, they are all still too much on the psychedelic side of virtual, since the spinning is still severe :o :P :-X An improvement is certainly happening though, I am delighted to say.
Otto, you are more in need of good wishes than I :'(.... I wish most sincerely that your back would be magically better in the twinkling of an eye :-*
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Derek,
Ls rosthornii and henryii both have leaves of different kind on the same stalk. The upper ones are shorter and wider.
The flower could be any of them. Rosthornii has stiff stems and linear lower leaves. henryii is higher with weaker stems and has more elliptical lower leaves.
I have never been able to see the difference in the seed pods since it is so late here that the frost prevents any seed to form.
The picture is rosthornii. It is easy to see the difference. henryi has much wider lower leaves.
Göte
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Maggie,
Please get well quickly.
Göte
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David Nicholson sent me seed of Lewisia cotyledon hybrids about a year ago. I sowed half in the autumn, the rest in the spring under his tutilage and I swear they all germinated. Many are now awaiting the N Northumberland AGM and grant plant sale and I'm sure some will be in bloom by the time it happens. This one was the first of the bunch to bloom for me. Many thanks David, I doubt I would ever have tried growing them without that kindness from you.
Glad to see they did well for you Chris.
I've just been adding to my stock of Lewisa cotyledon hybrids, with some colours I didn't have, in the hope of producing some different colour breaks in the future. Some pictures below. I bought these last week whilst visiting friends in Scarborough (seaside resort on the East Yorkshire coast) from a Nursery situated between Filey and Bridlington called Reighton Nursery, just outside Reighton village. Not the tidiest of nurseries but a wonderfully eclectic range of plants, alpines and perennials, most of which cost 50p per pot. My five Lewisias, plus a couple of Salvia patens and a little white Phlox douglasii cost me £4.00!!
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Quite the bargain hunter aren't you ;D?
But there you are getting close to my old stomping grounds, David. I'm a Yorkshire woman you know.... I know of this nursery but have not been there. Sounds like they might as well be giving them away.
I have the pale blue S. patens, it is a permanent resident in my garden. Had the dark 'Oxford' blue once, but somehow managed to lose it. Also have the one they call white but isn't really, just a dirty bluey white. Don't like it but it likes me.... One of my favourite salvias is S. elegans, red, long, thin screaming red flowers and pineapple scent in all the foliage. Wonderful. And another that sticks around here is S. chamaedryoides, bright blue flowers on grey foliage. Very nice. Here is a picture of the S. elegans taken the other day, and one of S. chamaedryoides taken last year.
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The lewsias are certainly beautiful with their lovely silken texture. One small gripe however. One above is labelled Pinkie, and while it's definitely pink, it isn't 'Pinkie' which is a recognized hybrid, soft, flesh-pink and sterile, propagated by cuttings. I'm sorry I can't find a reference for its parents and nor do I have a picture. Someone?
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The pale blue form of Salvia patens is S. p. `Cambridge' and so, I suppose, and according to some, should be called S. `Fens Polytech.' ;D
The lavender 'Chilcombe' form is very nice too and I have a very large form (taller, larger flowers of the deeper shade of blue, and with a purple central marking on the larger leaves) called 'Guanajuato' It comes true from seed.
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Just looked that up in my Plantfinder, Lesley. Its Sunday name is S. p. 'Cambridge Blue'. Interesting that the dark blue one is just plain old S. patens guess it was the first to be found or something like that. The white one I have is called Trophy White, but its a dirty white at best, but I cannot be bothered to dig it up now. Haven't seen the others you mention. I do like salvias, the range of bright colours they give are wonderful.
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I like them too Chris. In the summer/autumn I'll send seed of S ? (but in the microphylla group) with hot, magenta flowers. It flowers for months and the foliage smells like meat paste, which I also like. :)
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Aralia continentalis takes up a nice big corner under one of my sugar maples--and I love that it flowers at this time of the year.
I used to grow Epilobium canum garettii as Zauschneria---surprisingly hardy considering it's western USA origins. It blooms for months.
Salvia glutinosa.
Cardiocrinum cordatum glehnii, a northerly, robust form of the species from Japan and the only species in the genus I can grow here. It has survived -40C in the past, and now self-sows in the woodland. Spring foliage is also nice. I am fighting with the lily beetle over this one too.
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Do you seriously mean that Zauschneria cana is now an epilobium? I'll be emigrating too - to Lalaland ???
Super foliage on the Cardiocrinum. Reminds me of Rumex sanguineus, but nicer.
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Rob,
Ken Gillanders [Woodbank Nursery] ,near you , listed 2 xGaulnettya xwisleyensis forms in his swansong catalogh 2002,one named 'WHITE PEARL', the other 'PINK PIXIE', maybe if you contact Ken , he may just have a plant for you. As Lesley already pointed out all Pernetttas are now Gaultherias ,
Otto.
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Enjoying daily temperatures of over 25 Cº flowering abundantly:
Acis autumnalis
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The lewsias are certainly beautiful with their lovely silken texture. One small gripe however. One above is labelled Pinkie, and while it's definitely pink, it isn't 'Pinkie' which is a recognized hybrid, soft, flesh-pink and sterile, propagated by cuttings. I'm sorry I can't find a reference for its parents and nor do I have a picture. Someone?
Where was the one labelled 'Pinkie' Lesley? According to Brian Mathew's monograph 'The Genus Lewisia', 'Pinkie' arose at Ingwerson's nursery and was originally thought to have been a Lewisia cotyledon selection but Mathew thought it more likely to be L.cotyledon x L. longipetala.
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David, Pinkie was in Shelagh's posting, 3 pages back.
And that one looks like a normal L. cotyledon.
Pinkie has very different leaves, not so broad as in cotyledon and the flowers are
a real Pink, not reddish.
You've got some nice colours for a nice price! ;D
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David,
Fantastic colours on the Lewisias, particularly that first one. It positively glows!! So do those wonderful pink ones as well. Great Salvias too, something else I love growing here.
Kristl,
When I saw the Epilobium I was going to ask whether that was related to Zauschneria or not, because it looked similar to me. I grow Z. californicum or something like that (I think) and love the strong colour in combination with the silvery leaves. Fantastic foliage on the Cardiocrinum. Must try to get more species as I only grow (and love) C. giganteum. Great to see your wonderful pics.
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Wow, thanks Lesley, and salvia seeds usually germinate ok for me too. I don't think I've had the one you mention. Can you import seed from salvias? If so I could try to collect some and send them to you. S. chamadryiodes especially is a lovely thing, likes dry dry dry conditions.
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David, Pinkie was in Shelagh's posting, 3 pages back.
And that one looks like a normal L. cotyledon.
Pinkie has very different leaves, not so broad as in cotyledon and the flowers are
a real Pink, not reddish.
You've got some nice colours for a nice price! ;D
Thanks Luit, I had missed that one, yes it does look very much like a normal pink cotyledon. Just had a look at what Roy Davidson had to say about 'Pinkie' in his monograph, 'Lewisias', as it was published some 11 years after Brian Mathew published his.
'........ Lewisia longipetala has become rather famous in cultivation, not so much for it's own merits as for it's charming child 'Pinkie', raised by Ingwerson in the early 1960s and honoured with the Award of merit in June 1965............... 'Pinkie' itself is a vigorous plant, making a cushion of almost grasslike, channeled and pointed leaves each about 2 inches long-a pleasing base for it's many flowers. Each of many stalks bears as many as six flowers; each flower has about eight petals, opening to about 2.5cm across, coloured persian rose. The colour is subtle: on first opening the petals are suffused with rose over an opalescent buff ground, except at the clear butter-yellow base, and they seem to grow rosier as the buff pales during the day............'
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You find Lewisia Pinkie in the Old Forum, Flowers and Foliage now on May 19,
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/31721.html?1149027347 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/31721.html?1149027347)
It's remarkable to see the beautiful plants already show in these pages! :D
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Oh well, you can only go off the label it came with.
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It's still a lovely little plant Shelagh whatever it's called.
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Hi All,
I have some 70 photographs in my on-line album from plants which flowered this year, including July. Most of them are wild-collected from seed or cuttings. If you're interested please drop me a PM. From some i have some cuttings or seed available.
Cheers, Hans
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Hans,
Why not put your on-line album's URL here so that we might visit?
Paddy
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Hi Paddy, if I only knew how...the URL-link is not working..
Hans
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Thanks for the info re 'Pinkie.' I thought it was an Ingwersen plant but he doesn't mention it in the "Manual of Alpine Plants." Odd. It has some similarities to the larger (and fertile) `Little Plum' which suggest a relationship with L. longipetala.
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We can import some salvias Chris, but as it happens, S. chamaedryoides is one which grows well for me. I love its particular shade of blue, with the silver foliage.
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You find Lewisia Pinkie in the Old Forum, Flowers and Foliage now on May 19,
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/31721.html?1149027347 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/31721.html?1149027347)
Utterly glorious pictures posted on this single page alone. What sharpness and detail. I was especially pleased to see the two pics of Laurence Moon's Salvia cyanescens, because he sent me seed of this a couple of months afterwards and I've been trying to find his pics recently. Several seeds germinated then damped off but one more came, and this is still alive (though very damp and sorry for itself at present) with 4 or 5 rosettes, in a trough. No flowers yet. It is the only plant I've covered as protection from all the rain we're having so I hope that does the trick.
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Some more plants which like the high temps. Today ca. 28º C.
Eriogonum umbellatum
Jovibarba arenarium
Daphne jasminea
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Thank you Otto,
I should have looked through the old catalogues. I saw the Gaultheria I mentioned before for sale at Ted Cutlan's place recently. I think it was the one originally listed as G. myrsinites, though the ID is apprently less than certain.
Paul,
Do you want me to enquire?
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Hi All,
I have some 70 photographs in my on-line album from plants which flowered this year, including July. Most of them are wild-collected from seed or cuttings. If you're interested please drop me a PM. From some i have some cuttings or seed available.
Cheers, Hans
Hans
How do we access your on-line album?
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Hi Arthur,
Please try if the following link works:
http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk64/jeepeebee1/
Hans
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It certainly does Hans. Thanks.
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Hi Arthur,
Please try if the following link works:
http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk64/jeepeebee1/
Hans
Hans
Works perfectly. You have some very nice plants
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Hans
Scilla latifolia in your online album ,(page 3),is a beauty.Not one i've ever seen before.
Cheers Dave.
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David,
I water Lewisia rediviva from about now (when people who keep bulbs in pots start to water them) and keep it watered though out the winter. When the first flower buds start to show in about March I stop watering completely and allow the soil to get like dust (they sit on a shelf in the greenhouse) The leaves will die down but the flower buds continue to grow, flower and set seed. They are then baked until it is time to water them again.
For seedlings I keep them growing for their first summer/autumn
Hi Susan, I nearly missed this one so sorry for being so late in replying.
Now you have given me a quandry, on two counts! Firstly, you say 'water from about now-when people who keep bulbs in pots start to water them' NOW? in the past I haven't watered my bulbs in pots until late August when I couldn't wait any longer for the BD's 'September shower' Am I leaving things too late?
My second quandry is on your particular watering regime for Lewisia rediviva. Up to now I have based all my Lewisia cultural regimes around an article Philip Baulk, of Ashwood Nurseries, wrote in an AGS Bulletin in 1988. As far as L. rediviva is concerned he says:-
'........After flowering is finished in May or June it completely disappears into it's layer of grit and will not re-emerge until late September/early October. By the end of October a nice tuft of deep green leaves will be clearly visible and the plants can be re-potted. Only the bare minimum of water should then be given until the turn of the year when a gradual increase in watering will be needed to match a second burst of growth.......'
Now, given my inability to get L. rediviva to flower at all I am happy to try a different regime but yours does seem to be nearly the opposite of Philip Baulks? Maybe my L. rediviva hasn't been reading the Article!
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David,
I used to grow rediviva very sucessfully until the mice tiook them all.
I kept them in a cold frame on sandy soil (no bottom in the frame) on slightly sloping ground.
The soil was a mixture of 1 part well rotted cow manure, two parts sifted peat, three parts coarse sand and four parts loam. Some bone meal was added.
As soon as they died down I put on the glass and kept it until the snow was gone in the spring. They were doing OK on the moisture from below.
I cannot say that this works in a different location but I grew them in commercial quantities and of course they flowered well. Otherwise I would not have any seed.
Göte
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David,
I would treat them the same as your bulbs until about March/ April then stop watering them completly, the tiny flower buds should be starting to show by then. The flowers will continue to develop, although the leaves die down, and open in late May. Any seed is ready quite quickly in the papery seed heads. It is surprisingly, one of the larger Lewisia seed.
Have you more than 1 pot full? Try both methods.
Susan