June 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Giles]

John,
I don't think 'Swede Made' is available in the UK.
I got it via Michael Gottschalk in Germany...  ..and I've no idea where he got it from...
Giles

[ichristie]

Weather still cold here always glad to see my special plants in flower I post Paris polyphylla yunanensis Alba  cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Chris Johnson]

Weather still cold here always glad to see my special plants in flower I post Paris polyphylla yunanensis Alba  cheers Ian the Christie kind

Lovely plant, well photographed.

Is the number of leaves in a rosette usually variable in this species?

[Zdenek]

Several pictures from the last (excuse me it) month:
Phyllodoce coerulea
Ranunculus crenatus
Papaver rhaeticum
Calyptridium umbellatum
Aethionema subulatum

[ichristie]

Hello yes we are all very busy gardening a really fierce wind today plants are getting smashed, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Hello Chris the Paris flowers and amount of leaves will vary the best most established rosettes will have a full set of leaves while the younger ones will vary I am very happy that I have  a few plants at different ages, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Steve Garvie]

Some lovely plants being posted!!!
It is an indoors day here due to wild wind and perpetual rain.

Despite posting the odd reasonable plant I have a really crappy garden which is in dire need of a universal overhaul. A fairly recent catastrophe involving a collapsed retaining wall did however create a new opportunity in that the building of a new wall allowed me to construct a modest sized raised "peat" bed in which I have planted an assortment of lilies, meconopsis, rhododendron, etc. The new plantings have done well over the last 2 years -perhaps I should knock down some more walls!
Here are some images from that raised bed:

Meconopsis "Crarae" -from the Argyll garden of the same name and said to have originated from L&S600 seed. It is an early flowering form with an attractive colour & large rounded petals. I always think of the Saltire when I see these flowers.


Ourisia coccinea -a Chilean plant which likes cool moist conditions -in Scotland it's sorted! 


Lilium mackliniae -an early flowering species which has done spectacularly well in this raised bed. Here's tae bonny Jean!


Corydalis flexuosa "Balang Mist" -it glows in the Fife Haar!


Roscoea cautleyoides -just the plain species.


Incarvillea grandiflora (A Polygonatum hookeri flower in the background) This produces a massive flower for such a compact plant. It has extra grit around the rootstock to prevent winter rot.


Primula cockburniana An easy small candelabra species which has started self-seeding in this bed.

[Tim Ingram]

Really fine pictures Steve - the plants obviously take no notice of the garden and thrive anyway . I had wondered if 'Balang Mist' was still being grown, it is such a delicately coloured form of flexuosa which we had and lost years ago. Down in the Kent Riviera most of those plants have rather dream-like quality: instead here is Grevillea rosmarinifolia - a really good form of the species called 'Wiliamsi' which apparantly arose in Nea Zealand - this flowers for six or seven months of the year

[johnw]

Giles  - We'll you've got a treasure there in "Swede Made'.  As long as it's not a Volvo!

john

[Chris Johnson]

Hello Chris the Paris flowers and amount of leaves will vary the best most established rosettes will have a full set of leaves while the younger ones will vary I am very happy that I have  a few plants at different ages, cheers Ian the Christie kind

Thanks, Ian.

[astragalus]

Beautiful plants shown by everyone, and such a variety.  Loved the Papaver rhaeticum.

[meanie]

Beautiful plants shown by everyone, and such a variety

I have to agree with that statement!

[Maggi Young]

Sadly the great magnolia hybridizer Dennis Ledvina died last week.  He probably had done more for magnolias than anyone on the planet.  His new insignis crosses have produced some sensational pink hybrids that look like sieboldii and tripetala.

johnw   

Obituary notice for Dennis Ledvina :    http://proko-wall.i-lived.com/obituary/2015-05-26/Dennis-Ledvina/

[Maggi Young]

I had wondered if 'Balang Mist' was still being grown, it is such a delicately coloured form of flexuosa which we had and lost years ago.

Corydalis 'Balang Mist ' was one of the plants used in the SRGC display at Gardening Scotland - perhaps someone may know who may be offering it?

[johnralphcarpenter]

A couple of shrubs in flower now: Acradenia frankliniae, and the Wire Netting Bush, Corokia cotonaeaster.