June 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Roma]

Some lovely plants there, Shelagh

Tritelea ixioides splendens

[shelagh]

That's a nice yellow Roma.  I think there is a paler straw coloured one we had some years ago.

[Lori S.]

Marrubium lutescens; Arenaria hookeri ssp. desertorum; Ajuga lupulina; Silene falcata:

[Lori S.]

Aethionema glaucescens; Saxifraga x longifolia; Hypericum aviculariifolium ssp. uniflorum; Asyneuma limonifolium; Salvia tchihatcheffii:

[Lori S.]

Lychnis alpina 'Kugelblitz'; Potentilla divina; Telesonix jamesii v. heucheriformis (with more Hypericum aviculariifolium ssp. uniflorum); Androsace limprichtii:

[Maggi Young]

Lots going on there, Lori - how's your weather ?

[Robert]

With the 40c heat the garden is not devoid of flowers.

Cardoon and Vitex do not mind the heat.

[shelagh]

Nice little Silene Lori.

[krisderaeymaeker]

 Some nice plants Lori .....And some are unknown to me too .....

Here what I have as Viola bubanii. I don't think this is an accepted name ?

Maybe Gerd knows more about it ?
Lovely anyway .....

[Maggi Young]

With the 40c heat the garden is not devoid of flowers.

Cardoon and Vitex do not mind the heat.

Never mind the plants, this gardener would have wilted in 40 C heat! Hard for us here in NE Scotland to imagine that temperature - we're getting around 15 c at the moment.

[Tim Ingram]

Probably about the best of the smaller sedums in the garden, S. obtusifolium (my thanks to Lori for the ident. of this last year).

[krisderaeymaeker]

Nice colours Tim.

Pelargonium endlicherianum growing in sand ......... 

[ruweiss]

Dear friends, thanks for showing us your treasures, it is always
amazing to see photos of rare and unknown plants.

[Lori S.]

Lots going on there, Lori - how's your weather ?

A bit of a late spring but finally turning to summer!  The river is high with the snowmelt but we did not get a repeat of the extraordinary weather events of last year that led to disastrous flooding in this area (the 8" of rain in the mountains on top of snowpack and frozen soil of last June).  There has been some heavy rain and flooding in southeast Alberta - I imagine with all the streamside vegetation and soil torn out by last year's floods, there will continue to be some flooding whenever there's a heavy rain, until it's re-established.  Flooding in Manitoba, and SE Saskatchewan, due to heavy rains.  Pretty normal here though.
We will be out hiking this week to catch the early bloom.

Lovely to visit this site and see such wonderful plants grown so well!

[Gerdk]

Some nice plants Lori .....And some are unknown to me too .....

Here what I have as Viola bubanii. I don't think this is an accepted name ?

Maybe Gerd knows more about it ?
Lovely anyway .....

Hi Chris,
Viola bubanii Timbal-Lagrave is an accepted species. It came from Northern Spain and is related
to Viola lutea.
According photos in the net you cultivate the real species although I once had a plant which was more
hairy than yours. It seems there is some variation within its populations.
Nice plant though.

Gerd