June 2016 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Gabriela]

Just to join in the admiration of Trond's roof shed 

[Lampwick]

My shed roof-

Thats a great roof Trond!
Have you tried growing Dionysia on the roof . . . . on the inside? 

[Hoy]

Thats a great roof Trond!
Have you tried growing Dionysia on the roof . . . . on the inside? 

Too dark for Dionysia inside - and hard to come by in Norway anyway

As you can see, too dark!

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

Oh yes, Yann. This is from a 1st floor window:

 


The northern part of the shed roof is covered by Actinidia kolomikta. I have a stepladder to reach the upper parts of the roof. I have several Saxifragas. They seem to like it here.




Saxifraga longifolia and cotyledon




Not very tidy

[Hoy]

I grow several ferns. This is a native, Asplenium adianthum-nigrum.




Not native but naturalized in my garden Luzula luzuloides.




Nice under the trees in the woodland garden: Cardaria draba. It has a nice scent of honey.




Aruncus aethusifolius




The rhododendron gets new flowers in summer, an Epiphyllum on vacation.

[Hoy]

Another pot plant, Tulbaghia violacea from seed. Colour variation.




Garden orchids have been very rarely offered in nurseries here. The few available are very expensive also. Last year I bought 3 plants on fall sale to reduced prices. One of them blooms soon. Looks like a Cypripedium reginae:




I can't remember this one! Now it is 55cm tall and very floriferous. Looks a bit like Dachtylorhiza fuchsii.

[Carolyn]

18th June and I have found my first cyclamen hederifolium in flower. Has autumn arrived?
We have had very dry, sunny weather since the start of May, then a thundery downpour this week, which seems to have confused the poor cyclamen. It's certainly the earliest I've seen it flower.
Sorry about this, Maggi, I know you are still waiting for summer up in Aberdeen....

[Roma]

Rhodohypoxis 'Tetra Pink'
Verbascum 'Letitia'

[Lesley Cox]

I love it when one plant grows inside another, like in one of your sax pictures Trond. Our raoulias and helichrysums do it too, on the high outcrops and screes and they look wonderful.

[Rick R.]

Not my shed roof, but a fellow Minnesota Rock Garden Society member's.
  They have one rule: no sedums or sempervivums!

[Lesley Cox]

That's really beautiful Rick.Could your friend (or you) talk about the construction and planting please. does an "ordinary" roof have an extra strengthening and is there a waterproof course between the roof and the soil? How deep is the growing medium to start with. I imagine that as it matures, the older roots/dead leaves and blown in matter would help to provide an extra layer of compost deep enough for roots of the aquilegias etc. Does it need watering often and what other plants are in there. It llos like a natural environment, nothing contrived at all.

[Michael J Campbell]

Cosmos atrosanguineus.

[meanie]

Canna paniculata is hardy enough to be planted out without any worries but reliably blooms before all the pampered species and cultivars.............


Salvia "Amistad" on the other hand has certainly benefited from its winter and spring pampering under glass.............


Zantedeschia elliottiana will be split next spring and I'll finally try some outdoors...............

[Steve Garvie]

The South American Scarlet Season is here:

Philesia magellanica


Asteranthera ovata


Ourisia coccinea


Tropaeolum speciosum



I just wish I had some Hummingbirds to pollinate them!


(A Tufted Coquette photographed in the gardens of the Asa Wright Centre, Trinidad.)

[meanie]

The South American Scarlet Season is here:

Philesia magellanica


Asteranthera ovata


Ourisia coccinea


Tropaeolum speciosum



I just wish I had some Hummingbirds to pollinate them!


(A Tufted Coquette photographed in the gardens of the Asa Wright Centre, Trinidad.)

Cracking photos and even better plants!

[Maggi Young]

Get out there with a paint brush, Steve!