Circassian plant in July 2013 Rock Garden

[Diane Whitehead]

I hope I'm putting this in the right place.  I was surprised not to find an area for discussion
of the printed journal.

On page 9 there are two long narrow photos of blue flowers.  The text for the photos reads:
Opposite:  Linum hypericifolium; Asyneuma campanuloides

The plant labelled as a pink Linum can't be.  It has a stalk of 5-petalled pale blue flowers with
dark centres and a prominent dark pistil.

I love it, but can't do a search for one until I can find its name.

What is it?

[Maggi Young]

Good point Diane - I'll move this to a general area..... and  when I've done that, I'll  also have the answer for you.

[Maggi Young]

As Diane has pointed out, the tall plant to the left on page nine of The Rock Garden journal #131 is not  the pink Linum hypericifolium as the photo caption states.

The elegant plant is in fact  Delphinium speciosum

I checked this with the author of the article, Michael Almond, who, on learning of the error, was happy to help out with the correction.
He told me of the variability of the Delphinium speciosum in the field and how many colour types there were - I  must agree that it is a charming plant.  As Michael also mentioned, the weather was very grey -even very wet - at times and this can be well seen from the bleak grey sky in the Delphinium photo!

Thanks for your keen eyes and attention to detail, Diane.

[David Nicholson]

Just thought I might pinch Diane's thread for a minute with my usual request for The Rock Garden readers not to forget to take a look at the advertisement pages and wherever possible to support our advertisers.

Just to mention three in particular this month:-

Many think that Rumbling Bridge Nursery are wholesale only specialists. Not so they have a very interesting retail list, take a look at:-
www.rumblingbridgenursery.co.uk

I've just had a very nice email from Ann Earnshaw of Mendle Nursery to let me know that she is continuing to run the nursery and specialising in Sempervivums, Saxifrages and Jovibarbas. Ann's dearly loved husband Bill passed away earlier in the year and I was wondering if we might loose another small specialist nursery. Happily not the case though.
http://www.mendlenursery.co.uk/

A new advertiser this issue is Dr Steve Furness of The Alpine Plant Centre in Calver, Derbyshire (not far from Sheffield). Although he does not offer mail order Steve has an absolutely beautiful alpine garden and his nursery has at least 3000 varieties of Alpine Plants. One not to be missed if you are ever in the area.
www.alpineplantcentre.co.uk


{Edit : correction made to URLs above as mentioned by Roma}

[Roma]

David, I have spotted a problem with a couple of your links.  You missed out the second 'r' in nursery in the Rumbling Bridge link.
www.mendlenursery .com includes some seemingly irrelevant links .  I checked out www.mendlenursery.co.uk and it does not have the links.   

[Maggi Young]

David, I have spotted a problem with a couple of your links.  You missed out the second 'r' in nursery in the Rumbling Bridge link.
www.mendlenursery .com includes some seemingly irrelevant links .  I checked out www.mendlenursery.co.uk and it does not have the links.   

Thanks for the notes, Roma, I've corrected the links in D's post.

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for pointing them out Roma, and many thanks to Maggi for sorting them out. Fingers working way in advance of brain, again

[Carlo]

...and yet, well done all!