June 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Ian Y]

Stunning photographs as always Steve and the plants are pretty good as well

[Brian Ellis]

Stunning photographs as always Steve and the plants are pretty good as well

My goodness, I couldn't agree more.  I am blown away...only wish I could grow them!

[Hoy]

Beautiful plants Ian and Steve!

I also wish I could grow them! I have tried and it is not the climate but slugs. All that is left in two days is actually only a hole in the soil

François, what kind of birds do you have down there that eat slugs? The trushes take snails but not slugs   And no place is safe - the slugs even climb the tables.

[johnralphcarpenter]

OK, I'm going to have to try Paris now!

[Lewis Potter]

The garden has rocketed suddenly. Its been rainy but warm. Some of my favorites have stared to flower.

Gernanium himalayense
Silene uniflora ‘Druett’s Variegated’
Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii
Bergeranthus glenensis (Or Delosperma??)
Pelargonium 'Lord Bute'

[Maggi Young]

Super pix, Lewis.  I know what you mean about "rocketing" - while a lot of our weather has been too cold and windy for the time of year, we have had  some sun up here and obviously it's been enough  even with the cold rain ( and hail) to start a burst of growth  -place is like a jungle!

[Lewis Potter]

Super pix, Lewis.  I know what you mean about "rocketing" - while a lot of our weather has been too cold and windy for the time of year, we have had  some sun up here and obviously it's been enough  even with the cold rain ( and hail) to start a burst of growth  -place is like a jungle!

You mention a jungle, Thats what the far side of our garden looks like. Green. Lush and Flowerless. You people up north have had a terrible winter from what the weather says, So every bit of sunshine counts I guess. 

[Maggi Young]

Winter might have been a lot worse really,  in the way of frost and snow, Lewis - but it was wet and miserable, that's for sure - and it' doesn't seem to have finished yet! 

[Leena]

Wonderful pictures of Paris in the previous page! I never knew those kinds even exist, having only the native Paris in the garden (which increases little too much), but now I must keep my eyes open for the seeds of other members of the Paris family.

[Carolyn]

Wonderful pictures of Paris in the previous page! I never knew those kinds even exist, having only the native Paris in the garden (which increases little too much), but now I must keep my eyes open for the seeds of other members of the Paris family.

Steve, WHERE did you manage to get those wonderful Paris? Did you grow them from seed? Super photos!

[Steve Garvie]

Steve, WHERE did you manage to get those wonderful Paris? Did you grow them from seed? Super photos!

Jan Moors of Albiflora/Crustacare sells small numbers of Paris luquanensis as companion plants for Cypripedium. He does not usually have many and I get the impression he prefers to sell them to those buying Cypripedium. See this link: http://www.albiflora.be/plantdetail.php?id=389

I had a few seeds of luquanensis which were sown last year. As with Trillium there is often no above ground growth in the first season after sowing (or they may simply not have germinated). I have cross-pollinated so hopefully will get some seed.

Paris marmorata was a lucky find -I believe I bought the last two; one of which has not surfaced (it is in the same pot as the other, so I dare not poke). Paris often sulk for a year after transplanting so hopefully there will be two next year with the prospect of seed (I have tried "selfing" the plant -too soon to tell if it has worked).

I'm on the lookout for the purple-leaved Paris delavayi now.

[ebbie]

In my rock garden bloom today

Sedum pilosum (and others)


Edraianthus dinaricus

[ebbie]

The first time flower with me

Lilium carniolicum ssp. jankae (I think so)


Ostrowskia magnifica

[Ian Y]

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.

Edit  by maggi : I have resized Ian's pix to forum size. 

[Maggi Young]

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!

Edit - I aplogise for Ian's pix being oversized!