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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #45 on: May 08, 2016, 12:22:49 PM »
Prunus glandulosa.
Most un-prunus like. Small, about 2' tall. Very slender twigs. I don't think I've ever seen one in anyone else's garden.
Tends to lose branches over the winter.
Easily grown in a pot, but probably (unjustly) unwelcome on the show bench.
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #46 on: May 08, 2016, 12:24:52 PM »
Magnolia laevifolia, and the last M.campbellii of the season.
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #47 on: May 08, 2016, 12:26:15 PM »
Chaenomeles. The double green one is 'Kinshiden'.
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #48 on: May 08, 2016, 12:28:15 PM »
The end of Spring: the last daffodils, and Lathyrus vernus 'Cyaneus'
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #49 on: May 08, 2016, 08:17:12 PM »
Pictures taken at 19:00 this evening.

Asperula suberosa.
Haberlea ferdinandi-coburgii
Polygala calcarea 'Lillet'
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #50 on: May 08, 2016, 08:36:49 PM »
Hardly any buds visible on Haberlea up here,  John - and as for that FAT  Asperula - it's a monster!  Fabulous!

They are all plants which have appeared to great effect at previous Aberdeen SRGC shows, mind you  (which have varied from 14 -21st May in other years) so the timing isn't so far out.
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #51 on: May 08, 2016, 09:28:41 PM »
No showy garden plants but common wild spring flowers ;) Been at our summerhouse a few days.

A small dandelion - one of the several hundred species described.

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Armeria maritima

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Cochlearia officinalis. Once an important source for vitamin-C.

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Saxifraga granulata

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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #52 on: May 08, 2016, 09:45:38 PM »
Wild gooseberry Ribes uva-crispa

The berries are very tasty when ripe.

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One of the more showy buttercups and one of the earliest in flower Ranunculus auricomus (one of the 500 apomictic species in the auricomus complex!)

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Cowslip Primula veris is very abundant here.

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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #53 on: May 08, 2016, 09:48:47 PM »
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Cowslip Primula veris is very abundant here.
So it seems!
Good to see lots of fine Spring blooms, Trond.
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #54 on: May 08, 2016, 09:55:44 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on May 08, 2016, 09:48:47 PM
So it seems!
Good to see lots of fine Spring blooms, Trond.

It is a lot of them - where the sheep can't reach them. On the other side of the fence is nothing - not even grass, just moss :'(

We can almost compete with Robert these days. Temperatures above 20C!

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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #55 on: May 08, 2016, 10:02:18 PM »
Just a few meters behind the forest edge you'll find the wind-flowers Anemone nemorosa in millions. They are chanting the last verse now.

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A few Adoxa moschatellina grow among the windflower.

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Ranunculus ficaria - also common ;D

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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #56 on: May 08, 2016, 10:05:55 PM »
20 degrees C - mercy- that's SUMMER!  ;)
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #57 on: May 08, 2016, 10:07:38 PM »
Quote from: Cruickshank Friend on May 08, 2016, 10:05:55 PM
20 degrees C - mercy- that's SUMMER!  ;)
Couldn't agree more!
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #58 on: May 08, 2016, 10:11:26 PM »
Quote from: Cruickshank Friend on May 08, 2016, 10:05:55 PM
20 degrees C - mercy- that's SUMMER!  ;)

Back home they had 26C today  - here we had only 21C :-\
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Re: May 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #59 on: May 08, 2016, 10:19:12 PM »
A few violets -

Viola riviniana - I think. Very variable, both the flower colour and shape of the leaves.

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Viola tricolor - the annual form ssp tricolor.

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Viola tricolor - the perennial form ssp curtisii ,I believe as it is perennial.

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