May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere

[shelagh]

I'll just finish with a few Tulips.

[Maggi Young]

Oh, Shelagh- what a great selection of photos showing so many happy plants. Your wee tulips are certainly making super clumps - and they look so nice that way.
Too many goodies there for me to mention  - the Ramberlea plant is a boskers... and others too...

[ian mcdonald]

May lily, Maianthemum bifolium. Heavy rain here just now. img. 1010413.

[shelagh]

That's a real thug Ian, took Brian a season to rid a border of it and it looks so sweet.

[David Nicholson]

Beautiful stuff Shelagh.

[johnw]

That's a real thug Ian, took Brian a season to rid a border of it and it looks so sweet.

So is our native one M. canadensis Shelagh.  It's run through my rhodo beds - never planted it - and is a horror to pull, spray, hack.  Runs 2m in a season and especially bad when under prostrate plants.  Worse I think it's seeding. 

However not nearly as bad as in southern Nova Scotia. It becomes so dense it actually starbves rhodos.  Have a look, this is at a neighbour's and this is likely some weeks after the first annual spray.  To my horror he'd have the gardener spray it with paraquat 4 times a year, defoliated it but nothing would stop it.  The paraquat stopped him though.

john - +26c today, not ready for it.

[Gabriela]

Great plant collection Shelagh. I particularly like the x Ramberlea

[Leena]

Glaucidium palmatum are now flowering here, they are my favourites and although the white one is great, I also like the blue ones very much. They are now flowering for the first time, and I hope they make as big clump in time as the white one.
The third picture is one very nice Helleborus, flowering for the first time.
The fourth is Corydalis buschii.
And the last picture is Dodecatheon pulchellum which I received in swap from a kind forumist last autumn. Last winter was very hard here on many plants, but these survived well even they were newly planted.

[shelagh]

The Tulips caught my eye Leena are they Clusiana?

[Hoy]

So is our native one M. canadensis Shelagh.  It's run through my rhodo beds - never planted it - and is a horror to pull, spray, hack.  Runs 2m in a season and especially bad when under prostrate plants.  Worse I think it's seeding. 

However not nearly as bad as in southern Nova Scotia. It becomes so dense it actually starbves rhodos.  Have a look, this is at a neighbour's and this is likely some weeks after the first annual spray.  To my horror he'd have the gardener spray it with paraquat 4 times a year, defoliated it but nothing would stop it.  The paraquat stopped him though.

john - +26c today, not ready for it.

Want to import some brown slugs (Arion vulgaris)? My patch of Maianthemum canadense was almost eradicated last year by the slugs. Managed to stop the slugs though - maybe I shouldn't? 

The may-lily has bounced back this year as I have better control of the slugs (so far).

[Hoy]

Summerly almost warm rain today - no wind!

A few plants in the 'wild' (that is untended) garden.

Geranium renardii:




Discussed elsewhere in the forum. I was very proud when I managed to germinate 2 seeds of this one 25 years ago. Now I have it everywhere in the garden, but I still like it - in the spring. Not so much when it seeds around
Meconopsis cambrica/Papaver cambricum:




Ichtyoselmis macrantha spreads slowly in the woodland.




Cardamine bulbifera spreads a lot in the woodland!




Euphorbia griffithii? also spread around a little.

[Hoy]

This peony I rescued from an abandoned small garden in Oslo in 1973. It was only a little piece of root with one leaf left. I planted it in my parent's garden where it made a considerable clump in the following years. I brought one little piece with me when I moved. It has not increased that much here! I think it is Paeonia anomala but I am not sure. Any suggestions?




Podophyllum aurantiocaule.

[Regelian]

A few Clematis for your enjoyment.
Dr. Ruppel-father of many loved picotees
Kacper- very large purple.
Cl. montana wilsoni- wonderfully scented and floriferous
Ooh La La - a new to me cultivar I added this Spring.  Flowers are even softer than in fotos.

and Incarvillea delavayi poping up beteween the rocks.  I love a volunteer!

[Regelian]

Trond,

your possibly correct with the Peonia ID.  P. veitchii and P. anomola are very similar (for me indistinguishable) except the P. anomola has but one flower per stem, while P. veitchii tends to two to three per stem.  Also, P. veitchii is considered chinese, while P. anomola is found across nothern Europe to Siberia.

Hope this helps.

j.

[Leena]

The Tulips caught my eye Leena are they Clusiana?

Yes, they are T.clusiana var chrysantha, or that is the name they were sold at the garden center last autumn. They are really nice.
I noticed that you have also different cultivars of T.clusiana, they are lovely.