June 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Mike Ireland]

Marvelous color - what kind are they and how hardy are they?

Mixed candelabra primula, is as near a guess as I would make.
Very hardy, they are growing in an old pond which was filled with compost & is watered directly from rainwater off the roof.

[meanie]

For the first time ever I decided to overwinter Lotus berthelotii and it was actually worth the effort..................


Nigella orientalis is a fun plant that now self seeds readily here..................

[Zdenek]

As I am not able to be on internet often, I send some more pictures from last weeks:
Asperula boissieri
This Campanula is wandering in our garden but I do not know its name
Edraianthus horvatii
Edraianthus vezovicii
Erigeron nematophyllus ?

[Zdenek]

Gentiana depressa in my peat bed
Haplopappus glutinosus
Heterotheca pumila
Hypericum kazdaghense (syn. H. aucheri)
A  lizzard in our rock garden

[Zdenek]

... and the last two:
Polygala calcarea is a real weed in our garden
Pulsatilla alpina subsp. apiifolia flowering for the first time in our garden

[Graham Catlow]

Asteranthera ovata flowering for the first time in its vertical position.

I can only dream it will flower like this one day -
http://www.chileflora.com/Florachilena/FloraEnglish/HighResPages/EH0177A.htm

scroll down the page.

[meanie]

That Asteranthera ovata is stunning! According to Chileflora it's hardy down to -15°c?

[Leena]

Here Geranium sylvaticum is in flower now. I have two white flowering plants, the other is bought plant G.sylvaticum 'Album', and it is all white, but the other I got from a friend who has a meadow where wild cranesbills flower, and there were also white ones. The anthers in stamens are not white. I think this plant would be called G.sylvaticum f albiflora. It is very vigorous and nice, but hasn't produced seedlings (neither has 'Album', and next to these G.phaeum produces lots of seedlings so I can't bee weeding them all out).

Then I have one cranesbill which I had grown from seeds called 'Snowflake', it was said to be G.sylvaticum, and it flowers the same time but the leaves are very different, so it must be a hybrid with something else (but what?). It is tall and always flowers very well.

Last the picture is Finnish white rose, Rosa pimpinellifolia 'Plena'.

[astragalus]

... and the last two:
Polygala calcarea is a real weed in our garden
Pulsatilla alpina subsp. apiifolia flowering for the first time in our garden

What I wouldn't give to have Polygala calcarea be a weed in my garden!

[meanie]

Blue form of Iochroma australis......................


If you look closely you'll see that it's loaded...................


First blooms on my seed grown Salvia forsskaolii..................


Branching like this it has great potential...................


Despite the recent warm weather Brugmansia sanguinea continues to bloom well....................

[Thorkild Godsk]

From my garden now.
Billede: 1 Lilium navn?
Billede: 2 Dactylorhiza maculata
Billede: 3 Lilium martagon
Billede: 4 Clematis Princess Diana
Billede: 5 Podophyllum delavayi
Thorkild – DK.

[meanie]

Aloe (rauhii?) has started blooming...................


It survived the winter unheated in a blowaway but has suffered some serious discolouration....................


This rose responded well to a real hatchet job last summer!


Fuchsia procumbens.................

[johnralphcarpenter]

That looks a lot like my Rosa sinowilsonii which I have growing on the back wall of the garage.

[Tim Ingram]

A few good June plants! Lilium candidum (self-seeds with us - originally grown from JJA seed); Phlox carolina 'Bill Baker'; Corydalis flexuosa x elata (one of several hybrids that arose in the garden quite a few years ago and which have proved better garden plants than either parents in our rather dry summer garden); and the relatively tender Geranium incanum (a great success this year due to the virtual absence of frost over winter).

[Maggi Young]

Lovely plants Tim . The Lilium candidum, which I am told is often a martyr to virus, looks super.

Is you good blue Corydalis  actually a flexuosa x elata cross or is it a cross of what we "used to know as elata"  ?   That is, the plant now known to be C. omeiana?