June 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Hoy]

Maianthemum seems still to be an unsolved problem.
Here are two from my garden. The flowers are green but the berries get a nice red-orange colour in fall.
I like the stems and leaves though. They make decorative arching "wands". In the last picture you can see my foot as a scale.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Aubrieta - everyone grows them, but rightly so.

[Michael J Campbell]

Edraianthus pumilio

[kalle-k.dk]

Nomocharis gongshanensis

[Maggi Young]

Nomocharis gongshanensis

Oh my word! That is a rare beauty, Karl.

[WimB]

Nomocharis gongshanensis

Wow, Karl  What's the inside like?

[kalle-k.dk]

Wim it is like that.

[WimB]

Wim it is like that.

Nice, thanks, Karl!

[hadacekf]

Dracunculus vulgaris is hardy in in a protected bed.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Spring seems to be finally arriving in our part of the Northern Hemisphere... time for some pix :

1) Aethionema cordifolium
2) Aethionema kotschyi
3) Androsace bulleyana
4) Arenaria purpurascens
5) Asperula daphneola

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some more :

1) Dianthus haematocalyx pindicola
2) Dianthus 'Pudsey Prize'
3) Dicentra 'King of Hearts'
4) Edraianthus serpyllifolius
5) Geranium cinereum 'Lawrence Flatman'

[David Nicholson]

Lovely show Luc.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thank you David - here's some more :

1) Helianthemum canum ssp balcanicum
2) Penstemon rupicola ruby
3) Ramonda myconii 'Jim's Shadow'
4) Saxifraga 'Southside Seedling'
5) Trio of Veronica, Arenaria montana and Erinus alpinus

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely to see some more spring flowers from the north. It's still reasonably mild here, 14C today but dull and damp with quite a lot of rain recently. precious little colour except for autumn flowering crocuses and the first Cyclamen coum flowers. I bought a cornus tree on Saturday, A new one and I think a local production called 'Greenvale.' There's a pretty pic on the stem and it says the flowers (bracts) are very large, up to 10cms across, and palest jade green though I think the name if for the garden in which it was found. It is produced by my "local" nurseryman, Denis Hughes (he of Galanthus 'Emerald Hughes' fame. It was convenient to collect it on Saturday because after a first visit to the market since I left it, I could go to the garden centre in town while Roger is away on a "dirty" weekend with his mate and cousin. Dirty, in that they are looking at old cars. Roger won't be home until Wed night and I may have done all sorts of interesting things by then.

[Lesley Cox]

Franz, I really had hoped that you may have been at the Czech conference. It would have been a great privilege to meet you.