May 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[astragalus]

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

Alan, I hope you're wrong and it will stay.  I find the most difficult thing with the Astragalus and Oxytropis is to get them to form seed or pods in captivity.  Some years they do it but I can never count on it.

[Tim Ingram]

A few contrasting plants flowering now - Phyteuma nigrum, Polygonatum x hybridum 'Betberg' and Corydalis mucronipetala. The last came from Keith Wiley (Wildside), and originally from Gothenberg Botanic Garden, and was earlier described as a form of C. flexuosa but it certainly looks rather different and has been given specific status by Magnus Lidén and Su Zhi-Yun (see www.researchgate.net). We have it in a trough in one of the coolest spots in the garden along with autumn gentians and Saxifraga fortunei and it will be good to see how it does.

[Brian Ellis]

Just a couple from the garden today Armeria euscadiensis syn. Armeria cantabrica var. Maritima just opening and also just beginning is Scilla peruviana.

[ichristie]

Thanks for all the pictures plants in the garden get better by the day. We have had a monsoon storm so much rain then red hot well hot for Scotland a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind

    Clematis in rhodo
    Daphne rollsdorfii gdn
    Dysosma Spotty Dotty or podophyllum_

[ichristie]

A few more. Ian

    Hepatica leaves
    Sanguinaria pink Don Armstrong
    Trillium luteum group

[Leena]

I planted Dicentra cuccularia 'Pink Punk' two years ago and it has flowered now very nicely almost for three weeks, but the white form of D.cuccularia doesn't flower well. What do you think, would dividing help or what is the problem with the white one (the second picture)?

[ChrisB]

I've got a similar problem with it Leena, have bought it a number of times but no matter where I place it it doesn't thrive or flower for me.  Have lots of other dicentras and they all romp away but this one struggles to survive.

[David Nicholson]

... and I've tried 'Pink Punk' twice and lost it both times!

[Gerdk]

Growing in a tufarock and flowering wel this year : Viola cazorlensis .

Hi Kris,
Found this marvellous growing plant just today - indeed very well cultivated. My new bed with tufa was
built  in April - the violets for it (V. kosaninii) were propagated.

Gerd

[ichristie]

A better day here with at least some sunshine a few plants flowering, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[krisderaeymaeker]

Hi Kris,
Found this marvellous growing plant just today - indeed very well cultivated. My new bed with tufa was
built  in April - the violets for it (V. kosaninii) were propagated.
Gerd

Hi Gerd , good to hear about your tufa project ! I am sure the new tufa bed create a lot of solutions .....
Wish you good luck with the further development . Please let us know how things going in the future.
Humm , V. kosaninii , also a real treasure. Never try that one in a the tufa rock or other part of the garden.
Cheers ,
Kris

 

[ChrisB]

My Acer palmatum is flowering, or at least the first time I've noticed... Was it the warm winter or last years warm summer?

[johnralphcarpenter]

My Acer palmatum cultivars flower every year.

[ChrisB]

Must be the warm weather then, I can't recall it flowering up here before, mind, it is a youngish specimen.

[ashley]

I'm sure you're right Chris.  Here too various shrubs and trees are doing noticeably better this year.