Meconopsis 2015

[ichristie]

Meconopsis have had a difficult time here this year with several flowers frosted however we have a few flowering pictures that I post show one flower bud that is quite distorted probably the frost and miserable weather, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Hello, I have taken more pictures today of the strange flower on the Meconopsis which has two flower spikes both very different in all my years I have never seen anything like this still convinced it is weather related in one picture you can see flower buds inside the other flower, any ideas, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Hello again sorry posted the same picture twice here is the other spike, Ian

[Karaba]

Meconopsis racemosa, sown last year from arisaema's seeds (Trillium.no) is blooming now. I have lost a lot last year and even one just before blooming (it has totally rotten in a few days !). Nevertheless, I'm very happy of these as they are the first himalayan poppy that I grow ! These have white anthers.

[Karaba]

Meconopsis cambrica : maybe very easy and common but such a light in shadow 

[ichristie]

Hello again we are now getting ready for gardening Scotland quite a few Meconopsis are in flower so will post 2 pictures of Meconopsis Mop Head one showing 6 petals also Meconopsis Ascreavie white  rare hybrid from History one Meconopsis Marit a fairly recent white form Meconopsis sheldonii the back of the flower to show it has no purple then pictures of Meconopsis punicea Sichuan Sil the perennial form, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

next M. sheldonii, M. New White seedling M. punicea Sichuan Silk 2 pictures

[ichristie]

I went down the garden to take pictures this morning to find that the wind had blown the flower spike of M. Ascreavie White over broken in two a bit  mad should have staked this however it has allowed me to photograph both flowers together M. Marit is on the left both pictures and I also post another picture of the Mec with distorted head, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Maggi Young]

The blue of Meconopsis and the blue of Gentiana must be the two best blues in the plant world for my money.  Stunning.

And as for that huge white seedling flower - what a stunning whopper! Love that one.

[François Lambert]

I really like all the Meconopsis.  Thanks so much to the SRGC who made me discover this genus.  I'm definitely planning to plant Meconopsis somewhere in my garden

[Maggi Young]

Ian  posted these in the Flowering now pages but I thought they bear repeating here.

"We used to have lots of the beautiful small Meconopsis delavayi growing in our troughs and raised beds but the slight increase in our average summer temperatures have pushed it to the edge of its tolerance and now we struggle to keep it going.
Now we have to pin our hopes of building our stocks back up on this pot of seedlings now flowering live in the cool seed area."







Just to add that the Meconopsis delavayi flower pictured in Ian's post above  is  a darker purple in real life - and it is just a little one - about 5cms tip to tip across the flower - what a diminutive charmer!

This is how our Mec. delavayi used to grow

[Roma]

A lot of my Meconopsis were damaged or broken with the wind earlier this week and a couple of weeks ago.
Looking good Meconopsis 'Glacier Blue', a seed raised strain of amazing colour
I still think of this one as Meconopsis x sheldonii 'Cruickshank' but believe it is identical to Meconopsis Sterile Blue Group 'Bobby Masterton'

[Leena]

Meconopsis are such wonderful looking plants. 
I sowed seeds of Meconopsis 'Glacier Blue' from seed exchange seeds and they germinated very well in May after keeping the pots outside in snow and freezing temperature all winter. The year before I kept the seed pots in the cellar where the temperature was above zero and there was no germination in the spring.

[ichristie]

Love the Meconopsis delavayi only have a few non flowering seedlings all the big blue Meconopsis are around 2 weeks late some not starting to flower yet a few recent pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Steve Garvie]

I only have a single plant of Meconopsis delavayi. Hopefully it will survive having flowered!