June 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Lesley Cox]

Probably a thread called "Seedheads" would be a good idea. They are often easier to identify than the actual seeds, and always interesting anyway, sometimes very beautiful like your clematis Fred.

[karel_t]

Amazing to have such a difficult plant (at least for me) that long.  That seems to be tufa in your picture.  Is it planted in the tufa itself? Is it ever fertlized in any way that it keeps flowering so magnificently?

The upper plant is self-seedling directly to tufa, however the mother plant (lower one) is growing in crevice between tufa and trough edge. I have many self-seedlings on tufa around, so I have a lot of material to spread this plant in rockery  . I never fertilize them.
K.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some eye catchers in the garden at te moment :

Convolvulus sundermanii

Verbascum x laetitia contrasts well with Oxalis triangularis purpureum

Good old Dianthus 'Eileen Lever' flowering it's heart out.

Iris goniocarpa from seed sown 5 years ago.

Minuartia stellata struggling with it's neighbours

[astragalus]

Still colorful here, but extremely dry with no rain in sight.

1. Potentilla davurica v mandschurica with Dracocephalum argunense

[johnw]

The first of the Nomocharis is out today, Nomocharis aperta or a hybrid of it.

johnw

[Lampwick]

Talinum ‘Zoe’

[Hoy]

Hoy-your Arisaema looks a lot like A. erubescens that I grew from NARGS seedEx several years ago.

I admit it does look a bit like your plant but not quite.

I have two almost similar plants. They look like this now: (A. consanguineum?)

Always great to see our native Hudsonia ericoides in the wild and especially rare to see it in a garden.  Yesterday at Jamie's in the Annapolis Valley.

johnw - overcast & 12c

Hudsonia was new to me. Seems it is hardy enough for my area!

[Hoy]

Boring to most but to have a Paulownia tomentosa that flowers in the interior of Nova Scotia is quite a coup.   Here is one in Kentville showing the progress made to date.  Maddeningly difficult to photopragh against a blue or grey sky.

john

I have tried it in my garden but it freezes down after a year ot two. Probably not the winter temperature but the lack of summer

[Hoy]

A sample from my garden now:

The label says Ranunculus crenatus but the flower are a bit small?




This Delosperma (?- label lost!) has survived for many years now. Its worst enemy is not the weather but the slugs.






Not that attractive but a curiosity - an almost white dandelion from Mongolia. No label lost - it came with the name Taraxacum Mongolia!




A rare native in one small area in the east part of Norway but not uncommon as a garden plant, Campanula barbata.

[Hoy]

and a few nameless Saxifraga:

My shed roof-









My humble rockery-

[Lesley Cox]

Hoy I think your arisaema (above) is A. ciliatum, not consanguineum. Although it can be quite vigorous (some would say rampant or weedy) it is still my most favourite of all for its beautiful pin striped spathe, such an elegant thing. Usually it is seen or listed as A. ciliatum var. liubiense but what separates ciliatum from the variety and if they are all the variety, which some people seem to imply, what is the straight species like?. All I've seen (a lot) are exactly the same, so I call them all A. ciliatum.

[Hoy]

Thanks Lesley

[Yann]

Hot it looks fantastics, you can see the roof from your house?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

and a few nameless Saxifraga:

My shed roof-

Fabulous Hoy !!

Here's some more flowers from my garden :

Globularia incanescens feeling at home on its tufa rock.

Rhodohypoxis baurii 'Picta'

Saponaria oleivana

Viola delphinanta x cazorlenzis flowering for months.

[Maggi Young]

Not only do SRGC members have wonderful gardens - their sheds are more interesting and beautiful than everyone else's too