Ranunculus ficaria 2014

[Alan_b]

I used to have it but lost it.

Perhaps you could ask John Carter for another copy?  If he keeps good records he will have one of your previous payment. 

No list of Ranunculus on his web site

He told me mice became a problem, forcing him to give up his National Collection. 

[Anne Repnow]

'Sun Wheel' is very beautiful, Mark!

[shelagh]

WE liked R. f. Brazen Hussy in the first place. but now it has completely over-run the garden.  Attached picture is just one of three bowlfuls Brian has weeded out this week.

[Alan_b]

WE liked R. f. Brazen Hussy in the first place. but now it has completely over-run the garden.

But does it do any harm?  It a spring ground-cover that will have completely vanished by about a month from now.  The leaves protect the soil and stop other low-growing plants being splashed when it rains.  The dark leaves make a good backdrop for lighter-coloured flowers.  The only possible objection I can see is if you are trying to achieve a colour scheme that does not permit the yellow flowers.

Also, this year my local up-market garden centre was selling pots of Brazen Hussey at £4 apiece so you should be marketing the plants you weed-out.   

[David Nicholson]

I don't know where I got this from but my label says Ranunculus ficaria vat. aurantiacus. Images of this on Google don't look like my plant?
 

[Alan_b]

The John Jerrard web site is a great resource for pictures of Ranunculus ficaria.  Here is a link to 'auranticus' http://www.johnjearrard.co.uk/plants/ranunculusficaria/ranunculusficariaaurantiacus/species.html.  It's a nice orange colour becoming two-tone with age, unlike yours David.

[mark smyth]

Some mixed up named plants and self sown seedlings in the garden.

To the eye each is different but the camera doesn't see much difference

[Maggi Young]

Put that lot under your chin ,Mark, and you'll glow like a canary ! Pretty when we see the flowers together.

[mark smyth]

Put that lot under your chin ,Mark, and you'll glow like a canary ! Pretty when we see the flowers together.

I'd bet kids don't do buttercups under chins anymore or shove dandelions in the face and shout "pee the bed"

[Alan_b]

In my childhood both plants were used for divination.

If your chin reflected the yellow glow of the buttercup held beneath it that indicated that you 'like butter'.

If you blew on the dandelion seed head then counted the number of seeds remaining that told you what the time was.  The more sophisticated of used to refer to a device strapped to our wrist to tell the time but I don't think kids do that any more either.

 We never did the 'shove in the face' thing although I was always taught that dandelions are called 'pis-en-lit' in French because the leaves are diuretic. 

 

[mark smyth]

A nice seedling in the garden. A nice seedling in the garden. If I had realised the photo was out of focus I would have taken more but I cant because I picked the only flower

[Alan_b]

That is a nice one, Mark, but I presume it is in it's mature phase now and looked different when it first opened. 

[mark smyth]

It opened pale orange also but I didn't photograph it

[David Nicholson]

Just been reading a note in the May edition of The Garden that Ranunculus ficaria has now been separated from Ranunculus and is now named as Ficaria verna.

[mark smyth]

I think I read that last year. For me they will remain R. ficaria