May in the Northern Hemisphere

[François Lambert]

Mine will not flower until later -  I will TRY to remember to note when - and photograph the flowers in due course.

Done some Google search on Daylilies.  Mine could be Hemerocallis Minor.  As far as I see in the descriptions I found, flowering time, size, colour & fragrance pretty much match what I have in the Garden.  I have sown some Hemerocallis Citrina from last year's seed exchange, so in the next years I will be able to make comparisons.  Although snails have been feasting on my seedlings recently 

but identifying Hemerocallis is a hell of a job with more than 50.000 cultivars & hybrids existing and many of them really look the same.

[Hoy]

The biggest shock this spring was the survival of this legendary local palm!  A bit battered mind you but alive nonetheless.

johnw

Interesting John.

I assume it is outside all winter?

I have not tried any of my palms outside all the winter but am tempted to do so now! Halifax (it's Halifax, isn't it?) seems to have colder winters than we have here but slightly warmer summers.

[Hoy]

Two woodlanders which are in flower now. Oxalis oregana smalliana and Oxalis acetosella rosea. The last one is much bigger than the common Oxalis acetosella, so I am not quite sure it is correct.

[Hoy]

These are also in flower now - need more light (and a little feeding maybe)  than the Oxalis.
Corydalis buschii and an unknown Corydalis. The latter is a favorite of the slugs also!

[johnw]

Interesting John.

I assume it is outside all winter?

I have not tried any of my palms outside all the winter but am tempted to do so now! Halifax (it's Halifax, isn't it?) seems to have colder winters than we have here but slightly warmer summers.

Indeed Trond, outdoors all winter but with a wind screen erected.  Friend puts a strand of Xmas light (8-10 bulbs) around the trunk for the winter but I feel little heat from those tiny non- LED bulbs.  Halifax it is likely a bit warmer than you in summer but not as balmy in summer as say London, especially at night. Locals speak of London as foggy, damp  and chilly - too many 1950's movies I guess; they'd be laughing if we had that climate.  On the other hand Londoners would not be amused if they had our fog!

john

john

[Gerdk]

This is Silene uniflora from seeds collected at Tintagel - a lasting memory to a nice place.

Gerd

[astragalus]

Early morning after a brief shower of rain during the night.
I included the Dianthus arpadianus because of the funny way it starts to bloom, with literally hundreds of buds to follow.  Looking down on it, it's like a tonsured monk.  Saponaria x olivana does the same thing and probably a host of other plants.

[astragalus]

And a few more.
I've discovered when the computer tell me a picture is 200KB, it's actually a tiny bit more and gets rejected.  Dianthus arpadianus to follow.   The flowers of P. debilis are lovely but the foliage is really amazing.  It looks so delicate and is found in such an inhospitable place.  My thanks to Alplains for the seed some years ago.

[astragalus]

Dianthus arpadianus, which will be smothered in tiny pink flowers, and keeps a low, tight mound.  Growing in a natural crevice on the back of the cliff.

[karel_t]

Since 15 years this plant is growing and florishing at the Northside of the house, not in a steep wall nor in a crevice but in sandy soil close to a tufa stone.

Ramonda nathaliae

Hi Luit, Sorry to disappoint you, but your Ramonda is not R. nathaliae. True R. nathaliae has only four petals. See the picture.
K.

[Lvandelft]

Hi Luit, Sorry to disappoint you, but your Ramonda is not R. nathaliae. True R. nathaliae has only four petals. See the picture.
K.

Karel, I'm not disappointed at all, it is a beautiful plant, whatever the name is.
I show a pic of the same plant in 2003. At that time it had 4 petals, so there must be a difference with young plants and mature plants?
Looking at your plant I think the habitus and flowering looks more like a R. serbica. Just the filaments and pistil are different.
I show a pic. of my R. serbica, also from 2003.( When my R. serbica is rightly named?    )
R. serbica is still alive but has only a few flowers every year and does not really like the place which is only 50 cms away from my R. nathaliae.

Is it possible that the plant you showed, is a natural cross with R. serbica??

Ramonda nathalia
Ramonda serbica

[ichristie]

We have quite a few Dactylorhiza seedling in the garden probably hybrids two are flowering now only 1 few inches high have no idea what or where they came from,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

[François Lambert]

Although the weather has cooled down these last weeks two new flowers in my collection growing in pots

Roscoea Cautleyoides & Zantedeschia Aethiopica.

[hadacekf]

Erinus alpinus is a usually short-lived perennial. He likes my rock garden and it is without a control almost a weed.

[Ian Y]

But what a beauty Franz, as always your garden looks fantastic.