May in the Northern Hemisphere

[shelagh]

Look what I spotted growing amongst Cyclamen in the front garden.  I think it must be Gladiolus tristis or one of its hybrids but we haven't grown it for years.  A lovely surprise none the less.

[Maggi Young]

I love that kind of surprise .

[astragalus]

Spent most of the morning planting.  Cloudy and in the 50s, absolutely wonderful.  Such a change from the dreadful heat we've had.

The pictures are from Michigan of a fabulous Viola pedata site in a state park.  It is sandy, acidic woods, although in my garden it grow in the open with vacciniums and a lot of sun.  Many differences in color and petal shape.  The last picture shows the same plant in my garden.

[astragalus]

And another Viola pedata from the site in Michigan which shows some of the variation in color.

[fredg]

A group of Sarracenia flava, rather unluckily you can't detect the delightful aroma of Tom cat.



Pinguicula grandiflora which just gets on with it every year and throws up groups of flowers.



Beware of this next one it's not a flower.



















IT'S A TRAP!

[Yann]

Geum x 'mai tai'
Geranium phaeum seedlings of unknown parents
Baptisia australis

[David Nicholson]

David - we have plants of Veronica oltensis if you are coming to the 'Rocky Plants Show' at Wimbourne at the end of the month..........

I won't be able to manage that one Tim. An outside possibility of a visit to Kent at some stage of the Summer though!

[astragalus]

Some more plants from Michigan gardens.
We are having what one newspaper referred to as a "pollen tsunami".  Leave your car out more than 5 minutes and it will be yellow.  The heat forced things so everything is opening at once.

There were some of the dbl white anemonellas at the plant sale but I wasn't quick enough nor agressive enough.  Michigan seem to have a lot od doubled flowers, all lovely - think trilliums (many), anemonellas etc.

[ichristie]

Hello all great pictures love the trap, we have a few more Oxalis laciniata forms flowering now hope to take at least on to Aberdeen show tomorrow, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Yann]

In the greenhouse Crocus are now in dormancy, it's time for Sarracenia

Sarracenia flava var ornata
Sarracenia flava var. rubricorpora cv 'Burgundy'
Sarracenia flava var. ornata x S. flava 'all red tube' - FL60
Sarracenia flava var. cuprea - Pender Co. NC ,W
Sarracenia leucophylla cv schnell's ghost

[Yann]

in the garden i spotted some flowers, if someone can help to identity this perennial fuchsia?

Allium stipitatum 'Mount Everest'
Edraianthus graminifolius ssp apenninus.
Geum 'Pineapple Crush'
Iris 'Broadleigh Sybil'

[Yann]

a few more

Dicentra spectabilis 'Valentine'
Geum 'Cream Crackers'

[Maggi Young]

A very summery selection, Yann. 

[Philip Walker]

Lewisia 'George Henley'
Lewisia columbiana x pygmaea
Lewisia 'Little Peach'

[Philip Walker]

1st 2 growing in tufa
Gypsophila cerastioides
Phlox douglasii variety
Oxalis lacniata