June 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Two recent views of the most colourful bit of my garden just now.
Veronica gentianoides and an orange geum

You seem to have forgotten to mention that small patch of Meconopsis, Roma... 

[David Nicholson]

Aquilegia moorcroftiana CC7152  delicately scented, a subtle beauty

The white washed with violet and green reminds me of icebergs or fragments of old glacial ice

Gorgeous Ashley, is it a dwarf one please?

[ashley]

No, about 40-50 cm David, albeit among raspberries for reasons I won't bore you with

[astragalus]

An area next to the driveway and within reach of the snowplower - thus everything is allowed to self sow there with abandon - the snowplower is sure to thin things out!  Some of the plants: Arenarias, anthyllis, iris, Penstemons, Phlox douglasii, dianthus, coronillas, ononis sp., symphyandras, Chrysanthemum weyrichii, etc.

[Rogan]

You can bring your snowplower here any day - not too sure what I'll plough with it though, but maybe your beautiful flowers will still come up next to my driveway if I do?   

[David Nicholson]

No, about 40-50 cm David, albeit among raspberries for reasons I won't bore you with

Thanks Ashley.

[astragalus]

You can bring your snowplower here any day - not too sure what I'll plough with it though, but maybe your beautiful flowers will still come up next to my driveway if I do?   

This area had once been planted with some really wonderful plants but the snowplower destroyed that planting during a very heavy snowstorm.  What's there now is what has seeded in.  The only thing I have to do is remove the occasional plant with dingy color.  The Anthyllis vulneraria and Anthyllis vul. v. coccinea have made some really interesting color combinations between them.

[Tim Ingram]

A couple of contrasting plants on the sand bed at the moment - Dianthus squarrosus and Teucrium aroanum.

[arisaema]

M. x cookei
C. sp. nov.

[arisaema]

Nomocharis gongshanensis

Did this one originate with me? Never got a chance to see the seedlings in flower before I moved.

[arisaema]

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.

That's Smilacina tatsienensis, a very variable and wide-spread species.

[kalle-k.dk]

Arisaema; Yes the seeds coming from you, I got the bulb of a good Norwegian friend early spring

[Darren]

Stellera chamaejasme doing well this year.

[Darren]

As is this Saxifraga callosa. The Aciphylla monroi next to it has just finished flowering.

[ranunculus]

Lovely Stellera, Darren.