June 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Mike Ireland]

This lovely dark blue iris ? in flower today.
Label is possibly in the middle of the clump.  Help with a name would be appreciated.

[Roma]

Two pleasant surprises this weekend
Iris setosa alba  -  first flowering from seed
Roscoea 'Harvington Evening Star'  flowering outside and in the greenhouse

[meanie]

Mike - no idea s to the Iris id, but it is a gem!

Bit's and pieces getting going here.
Brimeura amethystina.......................


These "tender" plants were outdoors all winter, the first two permanently planted out;
Iochroma australis (white form)..............


Solanum rantonnetii................


The white form of Sollya heterophylla................

[Leena]

Centaurea montana 'Alba'.  Also the blue ones are flowering, I like these, but I must remember to cut the flower stems down early so that they don't seed around so much.

[Excelsior]

Onosma simplicissimum flowering for the first time. Wild collected seeds from Chelyabinsk, Russia that I got through the NARGS- seed exchange. According to E-floras it should have light yellow flowers, so I wonder if it's perhaps Onosma volgensis/Onosma simplicissimum ssp. volgensis? Any thoughts?

[Excelsior]

The Geum x intermedium is a natural occurring hybrid between G. rivale and G. urbanum that thrive in the border bed or the woodland garden. 

[Gene Mirro]

Rose 'Eddie's Jewel' and Rosa brunonii taking over my six-foot-tall fence:



Lilium maritimum:



Lilium dauricum:



Physoplexis comosa in the garden; the white stuff is spent blossoms from a huge locust tree:

[Leena]

The Geum x intermedium is a natural occurring hybrid between G. rivale and G. urbanum that thrive in the border bed or the woodland garden.

This is interesting! I Have Geum coccineum 'Borisii' and many years ago I took seeds from it and the plants which grew from those seeds are mostly just like the ones in your picture (I got some reds too, but they have died and the yellow ones are left).
Perhaps 'Borisii' was pollinated by G.rivale or G.urbanum? I have both of those growing also in the wild here. I don't know what the parentage of 'Borisii' is.

[Tim Ingram]

Some  tremendous plants Gene - the lilies especially. And what a plantation of Physoplexis! Your conditions must be just right for this plant because its normally only seen growing so well in tufa or crevices, or in an alpine house.

[Gene Mirro]

Some  tremendous plants Gene - the lilies especially. And what a plantation of Physoplexis! Your conditions must be just right for this plant because its normally only seen growing so well in tufa or crevices, or in an alpine house.

They keep getting a little bigger each year.  They live through hard freezes and dark, wet Washington winters.  They might be tougher than we think.  But you do need to kill your slugs and snails.

[Excelsior]

This is interesting! I Have Geum coccineum 'Borisii' and many years ago I took seeds from it and the plants which grew from those seeds are mostly just like the ones in your picture (I got some reds too, but they have died and the yellow ones are left).
Perhaps 'Borisii' was pollinated by G.rivale or G.urbanum? I have both of those growing also in the wild here. I don't know what the parentage of 'Borisii' is.

I don't think the "Borisii" is hybrid, but rather a strain of G. coccineum. Since you got different offspring, I think there have been some hybridization with a wild species. Did it have nodding flowers or did the flowers face upwards? What's great is that the intermedium hybrid come true from seed. Perhaps I should try the intermedium x borisii this year, hopefully with orange nodding flowers 

[Mike Ireland]

Daphne oleoides
Pimelia prostrata
Prostanthera cuneata

[David Nicholson]

From the garden today Tulbahgia 'Purple Eye'. This a T. cominsii x violacea cross I bought last Spring at the Cornwall Spring Flower Show from Julian Sutton of Desireable Plants. It flowered from putting it in the garden until late November and has been in full flower for the nearly a month. I can thoroughly recommend it.

[Maggi Young]

From the garden today Tulbahgia 'Purple Eye'. This a T. cominsii x violacea cross I bought last Spring at the Cornwall Spring Flower Show from Julian Sutton of Desireable Plants. It flowered from putting it in the garden until late November and has been in full flower for the nearly a month. I can thoroughly recommend it.

Wow, that is a great record of flowering - and when outside being drowned on a regular basis too!I am impressed

[astragalus]

Growing in the rock garden, a nice asperula in bloom for weeks and now starting to go over.  Label lost  long ago, but it was not grown from seed.