March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[hadacekf]

The Rhodothamnus chamaecistus grows already 30 years in this trough

[Maggi Young]

One of my all-time favourite plants, Franz - and not one that many people can grow so beautifully.
What a picture of health that is.

[ranunculus]

Fabulous, Franz ... one of the gems of the Dolomites.

[astragalus]

A beautiful plant beautifully grown.

[Gerdk]

It's really spring now

Gerd

[Gerdk]

Some violets

1. Viola hispida - a pansy which you will never lost - seeds all around
2. + 3. Viola jaubertiana - a Mallorcan endemic - shiny green leaves, large flowers

Gerd

[Anne Repnow]

Does Viola jaubertiana survive our normal winters, Gerd? Or does it stay warm in that special spot you have found for it?

[Anne Repnow]

Cardamine pentaphyllos (I believe - though there are only 3 parts to the leaves... so, correct me if I'm wrong. It takes a few years to bulk up, so maybe the leaves will mature to their characteristic form when the plant matures?)
It is a lovely woodland plant. Cardamine bulbifera is pretty, too - but a little too invasive unless there is lots of space.

[Jacek]

I believe this is Cardamine (vel Dentaria) glandulosa (vel glanduligera). It is very common in Poland, but only in deciduous mountain forests. This is a low growing plant, taller but superficially similar to anemone nemorosa. You can compare your plant with the pictures posted in Tatra Mountains thread by Chris Ciesielski.

I wonder why this lovely plant is not common in the gardens. I do not have it either.

[Gunilla]

Cardamine glanduligera is early in my garden. C. pentaphyllos is later and a bigger, taller plant.

Cardamine glanduligera

[art600]

Cardamine glanduligera is early in my garden. C. pentaphyllos is later and a bigger, taller plant.

Cardamine glanduligera

Fantastic colour

[Maggi Young]

Quote from: Gunilla on Today at 05:41:05 AM

    Cardamine glanduligera is early in my garden. C. pentaphyllos is later and a bigger, taller plant.

Fantastic colour

 What a great plant - and yes, a super colour.

[Anne Repnow]

Thank you Jacek and Gunilla - you are absolutely right - it is Cardamine glanduligera (though it was given to me a few years ago as C. pentaphyllos). That explains its habit of popping up in unexpected places in this woodland patch - I thought it had seeded but now I have looked it up I realise these are underground offshoots.

Yes, Maggi, it has a lovely colour and the flowers last quite a long time. 

[Catwheazle]

After another winter with lots of snow spring comes back :-)

greetings from Bavaria
Bernd

[Jacek]

Forest with a carpet of Cardamine glanduligera is a magnificent view. I have seen it several times, as I remember, only in Carpathians. Now I do not have time to go there often and when I was there two weeks ago nothing was in flower, yet (except Tussilago farfara). So I do not have any pictures. Does C. glanduligera grows wild only in Carpathians?? What about Alps and hills of Western Europe?