June 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Chuck]

This is a select clone of the seeds from Fragaria ananassa 'Tristan F1'. The flowers are about 1 inch wide and continuously flowering.

[Gail]

Very pretty. Do the berries have a good flavour?

[arillady]

Ralph thanks for showing the newer Rosa persica breeding. A group that we only have one or two in Oz and then I find them hard to grow - have lost them on both attempts.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Ralph thanks for showing the newer Rosa persica breeding. A group that we only have one or two in Oz and then I find them hard to grow - have lost them on both attempts.

The older cultivars ('Tigris', 'Nigel Hawthorn') are spindly weak looking things, but the new ones are much more robust.

[johnralphcarpenter]

An even more vivid colour - Erysimum wheeleri(from Southwest Native Seed). This is quite a surprising plant because it makes a relatively small and neat rosette and then produces this metre tall flowering stem. It would look stunning en masse, self-seeding in a large gravel garden.

Tim, do you have this for sale in your nursery? If so, I'll be over!

[WimB]

Some plants which have flowered here during the last week:

Iris sibirica 'Snow Prince'
Iris 'Vague à l'âme'
Escobaria missouriensis var. asperispina
Iris 'Burnt Toffee'
and Penstemon hallii

[WimB]

And some more:

Allium cernuum 'White Dwarf'
Echinocereus triglochidiatus
Geranium cinereum 'Signal'
Iris 'Wild Yasmine'
and Linum suffruticosum

[WimB]

And the last batch for this week:

Dictamnus albus
Iris 'Ciel Gris sur Poilly'
Linum austriacum
and Tragopogon porrifolius

[Maggi Young]

It has been a very flower filled week in your garden Wim !
I think I am in love with the 'Snow Prince'

[Tim Ingram]

Some of those irises are extraordinary Wim - the range of colour in one flower!

John - the Erysimum looks certain to be monocarpic to me, and all our plants have come up to flower. We will collect seed and aim to have plants for next year.

Compared with the irises the flowers of Mentha requienii are minute, around 1½mm in diameter! But it is a great little plant that I wouldn't be without (Farrer called it 'a microscopic jewel from Corsica').

[johngennard]

Is this the best Summer flowering common common shrub?Two plants cover the end of my garage facing N.W. and never fail to perform after an annual trim.

Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud'

Cornus alternifolia

Flowers & foliage

[johngennard]

Flowers & foliage

[Maggi Young]

Is this the best Summer flowering common common shrub?Two plants cover the end of my garage facing N.W. and never fail to perform after an annual trim.

Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud'

Cornus alternifolia

Flowers & foliage

All beautiful, John - hard to imagine more flowers.
Your blue meconopsis are looking well, too.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Is there a thread for wildflowers? Anyway, here is an Echium sp. flowering in a wildflower meadow full of yellow rattle, Rhinanthus minor, on the North Downs near Faversham, Kent.

[WimB]

It has been a very flower filled week in your garden Wim !
I think I am in love with the 'Snow Prince'

Yes, it was
For me, 'Snow Prince' is one of the most beautiful Irisses ever! Do you have a space in your garden where he might grow? 

Some of those irises are extraordinary Wim - the range of colour in one flower!

Yes 'Burnt Toffee' and 'Ciel Gris sur Poilly' for example have a few different colours in their flower...