June 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Jupiter]

Ian thanks for posting photos of your beautiful Nomocharis. Absolutely amazing plants. Your primulas are sensational too.

[meanie]

It's taken about five months for this seed grown Solanum lancifolium to open its first flower..............

[johnw]

Cornus canadensis in nearby Point Pleasant Park.  Today was the first time I have been in the park since 2003's Hurricane Juan flattened 3/4's of the majestic old trees in the 190 acre park.  It still is a heart-wrenching sight, gone are the stately old hemlocks, white pines and spruce; all the purple European beeches still stand though their narrowness tell they once grew in a forest setting. Many old European beeches around the city and not in a forest setting fell in that storm. A comparison shot looking toward The Prince of Wales Martello Tower, one of many fortresses within the park.

johnw

[Philip Walker]

An Allium,an Erigeron and two small pinks

[Philip Walker]

Am Arisaema,Celmisia 1st flower,Campanula and Onosma

[ichristie]

Hello again, a few more pictures taken this morning, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Maggi Young]

Glad to see there is sunshine somewhere in the country, Philip - so grey here in NE Scotland that I need the lights on in the house.  Rain will begin any minute, I think. Yeuch!
Your flowers look lovely - especially that nice Onosma.

[Philip Walker]

I like the Onosma,Maggi.Simple but full of flower.There's not been much sun,here in the past week,either.Although today is much better.Still a lot of cloud,though.

[Zdenek]

This time I send pictures really from June:
Dicentra nevadensis x peregrina
Jankaemonda 'Jaromir Stibic'
Campanula ledebouriana

[Robert]

Looking good in the garden, Cypella coelestis, and not at all bothered by the 36 C heat.

[Zdenek]

Another five plants:
Aquilegia scopulorum
Androsace limprichtii
Calyptridium umbellatum
Linum suffruticosum, a compact form
Phyteuma sieberi

[Zdenek]

And the last five:
Minuartia stellata, 29 years old
A close-up to it
Primula flaccida
Campanula, my own hybrid
Asperula daphneola

[johnw]

What an odd lot these Adeniums are.  You grow them like cacti in the winter and as a tropical in the summer.   Last autumn I watered four of them sparingly one evening and that night the temp dropped to around 6-8c and two of thebest ones died from rot a few months later, lesson learned.  Four years old from seed.  They really respond to potting on in late spring, this one - the baby - had slowed to a snail's pace until I potted it up a month ago.  It exploded as will its very big brother.

johnw  - +12c & partially cloudy

[Maggi Young]

When I saw this photo from Beryl McNaughton of these flowers on a sales  bench at Macplants Nursery, I couldn't resist sharing  it here:


 
What temptation there is there for a a happy shopper!

[Lori S.]

When I saw this photo from Beryl McNaughton of these flowers on a sales  bench at Macplants Nursery, I couldn't resist sharing  it here:

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Ha ha, delightful!

Some pics from the garden:

Lilium philadelphicum; Hieracium villosum; various columbines, from a long ago planting of 'McKana Giants' and others; Lindelofia longiflora: