September 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere

[astragalus]

Each year this gets better.

Sedum cauticola v lidakense

[Catwheazle]

@Fredg
  how do you cultivate your darlingtonia? I had heard they need cool temp. at roots ?

Bernd

[fredg]

@Fredg
  how do you cultivate your darlingtonia? I had heard they need cool temp. at roots ?

Bernd

I heard the myth too
It depends what you mean by cool, mine reached 90F at one point this summer.
I logged air and root temperatures this summer and the raw data is available online if you wish to see it. http://floridacpsociety.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=cobra&action=display&thread=784

My plants are grown in live sphagnum moss, in undrained trays.
If you wish I could start a new thread

[Catwheazle]

Thanks :-)

[ruweiss]

Flowering today in the Alpine house.
I got the Oxalis from a Viking gardener at the
plant sale in Tabor, a nice souvenir of this
unforgetable event.
The Viola is the smallest species I know, it origins
from the Iran where it grows in company with
Dionysia khatamii.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Flowering today in the Alpine house.
I got the Oxalis from a Viking gardener at the
plant sale in Tabor, a nice souvenir of this
unforgetable event.

A very fine form , that Oxalis with the dark eye Rudi ! Stunning thing ....I suppose it is a adenophylla form ?

[ruweiss]

Hello Kris, thank you for your friendly comment. You could be right ,that the dark-eyed
Oxalis is a form of O.adenophylla. I am only an amateur gardener, but maybe some experts
among the forumists know it.

[Hans J]

Here is flowering Solanum pyracanthum 

I have shown the first pic under puzzle 2013

Hans 

[Pete Clarke]

Colletia hystrix - putting on the best flowering display I have seen since growing it from seed.

[François Lambert]

Here's another autumn beauty : Nepeta.  Started to flower sometime in June I think, maybe even end of May, flowers somewhat less over the summer just to move on  to a smashing flower display now.

[Roma]

Autumn gentians are starting to flower

Gentiana 'Braemar'
Gentiana 'Purity'
Gentiana 'Silken Night'
Gentiana 'Silken Seas'
Gentiana 'Silken Star Group'

[Roma]

Sedum cyaneum

[astragalus]

Beautiful gentians.  I guess that's what you can grow when you have water (sigh...).

[krisderaeymaeker]

Autumn gentians are starting to flower
Gentiana 'Braemar'
Gentiana 'Purity'
Gentiana 'Silken Night'
Gentiana 'Silken Seas'
Gentiana 'Silken Star Group'

  Al beautys Roma and my favorite is 'Silken Star Group ' !  I tried this one 2 times without succes ....
So maybe we can't grow them in our situation ...as Anne suggests , it needs maybe more water .....
I wan't to give a last try (next saturday I wil look in Kent .....)

[David Nicholson]

Lovely display of Gentians Roma. I've tried them a couple of times, without success, first in pots where they were short of water and faded away and secondly in a peaty bed in the garden where they flowered magnificently for one year and didn't come back for a second year. How do you grow them please?