June 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[David Nicholson]

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

 

[ichristie]

yes pouring rain here as well today great for the plants a few flowers taken this morning, cheers Ian the Christie kind

    Nomocharis aperta pale 2
    Lilium macklinae Naga pink 1
    Lilium oxypetalum insigne 1
    Nomocharis aperta red form

[ichristie]

Forgot to say the Nomocharis aperta pale is most likely a hybrid nice big flowers, a few more, cheers Ian

    Spotted dactylorhiza  - own
    Nomo saluenensis   Cox heads
    Nomocharis pale edit
    Nomocharis pardanthina pale

[Leena]

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 

The flowers of the yellow ones are nodding, but the flowers of the red /oranges (which died because I didn't take better care of them) were like the flowers of 'Borisii'.
Here is a picture of the yellow nodding one. This is very hardy, it has survived in weeds and growing in clay soil with even winter wet.

[David Nicholson]

Loved the Nomocharis Ian one of these days I'm going to succeed with one.

[Roma]

Roscoea humeana alba
First two pics from SRGC seed sown in January 2010 - a big surprise as I believe it does not often come true from seed
The other two are from a tuber I bought at the Early Bulb Display in February this year
Showing the difference in the colour of the leaf sheath
Why do I not see the aphid till the pic is on the computer screen

[Tim Ingram]

That is such a beautiful roscoea Roma - I remember Ron McBeath showing a picture (of the same species?) at the Edinburgh Joint SRGC/AGS Conference when hardly anyone was growing it; really stood out.

One of my favourite plants flowering at the moment - Teucrium aroanium. This has made a wide carpet over the last four of five years growing in very gritty sandy soil with no winter protection, and has probably the showiest flowers of any teucrium.

The second plant - Eryngium maritimum - is growing on the Saxon Shore Way just to the east of Faversham. Perfect in a mix of crushed sea shells, gravel and sand (never managed to grow it as well as this in the garden so far!).

[meanie]

This is a cracking little plant - Polemonium pauciflorum..................




One of my favourite Penstemons is P.smallii................

[Philip Walker]

Campanula betulifolia
Digitalis thapsi
Erigeron 'Four Winds'

[astragalus]

Tim, I remember growing the teucrium some years ago.  Thought the flower beautiful and very subtle, but it didn't show up well in the sand bed where it was planted.  It flourished for some years and then it was gone.

[Steve Garvie]

Flying the blue:


Meconopsis Crarae -I think it claims descent from L&S600.

[Maggi Young]

Your portrait captures everything that is so appealing about the big blue poppies, Steve. They are immensely photogenic are they not?

[Matt T]

I just back from a cycling trip through Argyll to Islay where en route I spotted Erinus alpinus beautifying this already appealing bridge.

[Matt T]

A second flush of flowers on Ranunuculus alpestris.

[Philip Walker]

Arisaema franchetianum
Arisaema sp.
Arisaema flavum