May 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[hadacekf]

Leontopodium alpinum subsp. nivale (Edelweiss) in a through. I cultivate these plants for 50 years, where it will spread by self-sown seedlings, but only in a single trough.

[ranunculus]

Superb, Franz.  Very impressive.

[Maggi Young]

We have never found these plants to live very long here. Wo thinkit may be the rain in summer that kills them. Would you think that is likely, Franz?
 Is the mix in that trough acid,  neutral or alkaline?

[astragalus]

The garden is finally starting to break out with color.  These were photographed early morning after a good rain.  Now we have sun and the weather has warmed up a bit.  The Genista depressa is finally starting in the crevice garden.

[astragalus]

Sorry, I think the last post really belongs in crevice gardening but don't know how to move it. -I've moved it for you, Anne (maggi)


Forgot to post the most exciting bloom in the garden.  Glaucidium palmatum album has come through three winters now including a bad one this past year.  I know it's still small but I'm thrilled by a flower!

Glaucidium palmatum album

[Leena]

Forgot to post the most exciting bloom in the garden.  Glaucidium palmatum album has come through three winters now including a bad one this past year.  I know it's still small but I'm thrilled by a flower!
Glaucidium palmatum album

It is very nice and in a few years it will be bigger with many flowers. It is very hardy plant, here it grows even if we have a long winter with lots of snow or a short winter without much snow cover and ground frozen deep, it always comes up in the spring. The only time I have lost it is when the voles ate it. It doesn't flower here yet, but it is just coming up.

[meanie]

Stunning pictures of the Salvias

Thanks! Hopefully there will be many more this year.
Here's Salvia forskaehlei - the leaves are huge!

here is a very u usual plant flowering just now tine flowers but I think it is super, Heteropolygonatum ogisui  (Heteropolygonatum ogisui M. N. Tamura & J. M. Xu, Curtis' Bot. Mag. 18: 92. 2001)

I agree - it's super!
I personally like small flowers as you have to look at them properly. I can't make up my nmind about my Isoplexis issabelliana though..........


I was expecting smaller flowers than I.canariensis, but not that small. Could be because it's young or still in a smallish pot? I have a few others in bud and some look a bit more promising colour wise.

[ChrisB]

Paeonia mlokosewitschii
Dodecatheon sorry lost label that gives me sp name
Androsace sarmentosa Chumbyi
Olearia phlogopappa Combers Blue

[hadacekf]

We have never found these plants to live very long here. Wo think it may be the rain in summer that kills them. Would you think that is likely, Franz?
 Is the mix in that trough acid,  neutral or alkaline?


Maggi,
I do not know why the Edelweiss in this one trough is growing so well. In no other place in my garden it grows. I'm losing it forever after one years. Probably it is the right place. The trough is 15 cm high and the mix is neutral.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Wonderful viola, Kris.  Did you start with planting a seedling in the tufa or did you press seed into the tufa?

Hello Anne , thanks for your comment. I did put a young plant in the tufahole .It is growing in this tufarock for 5 years now.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Leontopodium alpinum subsp. nivale (Edelweiss) in a through. I cultivate these plants for 50 years, where it will spread by self-sown seedlings, but only in a single trough.

Most impressive Franz !    Even better as the way they grow in the mountains .
I agree with the others , here it is also short lived .

 

[alanelliott]

Oxytropis campestris



Arisaema amurense



Easily the most floriferous thing at home is a hybrid alpine Poa.

[astragalus]

Very nice Oxytropis campestris, looks very happy.

[alanelliott]

Very nice Oxytropis campestris, looks very happy.

Inevitably means its about to "snuff it" when it flowers that hard but I should get seed to start again.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi,
I do not know why the Edelweiss in this one trough is growing so well. In no other place in my garden it grows. I'm losing it forever after one years. Probably it is the right place. The trough is 15 cm high and the mix is neutral.

Thank you, Franz.  So much about these plants that are beyond our understanding - but as usual you have some wonderful success for us to enjoy.