July in the Northern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

That's an interesting one - I was puzzled by it's resemblance to a Bomarea and went a-searching! 
Found this 
Alstromeria isabellana    -  Alstroemeria x bomarea 'Fred Meyer'      http://plantlust.com/plants/alstroemeria-isabellana/

Far Reaches Farm say of the plant : " We got this from Maggie at Western Hills some years ago and finally can offer this goody. She said this was a hybrid by noted California breeder Fred Meyer between the vining Bomarea and the non-vining Alstroemeria and we have sold it in the past as Alstroemeria x Bomarea 'Fred Meyer' and more recently as Bomarea "Fred Meyer".  The great thing about putting a plant on the internet is that all sorts of smart people read about it and very nicely suggest the correct name.  This is a surprisingly hardy Brazilian species and Fred Meyer collected in Brazil quite extensively."

[Tristan_He]

I’ve been out to check on a few species and Lilium philadelphicum was in full flowering - one of the best I’ve seen in quite a few years!

Beautiful Gabriela, you are so fortunate to have lilies growing wild.

[meanie]

That's an interesting one - I was puzzled by it's resemblance to a Bomarea and went a-searching! 
Found this 
Alstromeria isabellana    -  Alstroemeria x bomarea 'Fred Meyer'      http://plantlust.com/plants/alstroemeria-isabellana/

Far Reaches Farm say of the plant : " We got this from Maggie at Western Hills some years ago and finally can offer this goody. She said this was a hybrid by noted California breeder Fred Meyer between the vining Bomarea and the non-vining Alstroemeria and we have sold it in the past as Alstroemeria x Bomarea 'Fred Meyer' and more recently as Bomarea "Fred Meyer".  The great thing about putting a plant on the internet is that all sorts of smart people read about it and very nicely suggest the correct name.  This is a surprisingly hardy Brazilian species and Fred Meyer collected in Brazil quite extensively."

I'm not sure that I'll be testing the hardiness this year but I am surprised by how rapidly it grows and has set about filling a much larger pot.
In contrast my Bomarea are painfully slow this season.

[Rick R.]

Beautiful aren't they. Have you noticed very poor flowering in the last couple of years as well?

Actually, I haven't visited those particular areas in the past two years!  I've been concentrating more on new adventure areas in Minnesota.
But several years back....
https://www.nargs.org/forum/western-minnesota-scientific-and-natural-areas?page=2

[Gabriela]

Beautiful Gabriela, you are so fortunate to have lilies growing wild.

Not too many species Tristan and in the same colour, but I guess is better than none  

[Gabriela]

Actually, I haven't visited those particular areas in the past two years!  I've been concentrating more on new adventure areas in Minnesota.
But several years back....
https://www.nargs.org/forum/western-minnesota-scientific-and-natural-areas?page=2

Nice region, and quite a few species that don't grow here although is the same habitat.
Castilleja coccinea was also looking good, some plants already with seeds; and now I know who eat them all last year!

[ian mcdonald]

Due to the wet June many of my plants are looking good. Campanula latifolia img. 1010786. A self sown Linaria purpurea img. 1010787, it will have to come out before it seeds all over the scree. Lychnis flos-jovis img. 1010788. The original plant had a pink flower, over the years this has evolved with a white flower with a pink centre. Orchids doing well in a trough, img.1010789. Too tall but they are happy here.

[johnstephen29]

Eucalyptus gunnii, the cider gum in flower for the first time.

[johnw]

First buds are showing already on Magnolia grandiflora 'Bracken's Brown Beauty', the Southern Bull Bay Magnolia.  Soon be time for mint juleps in the fog.


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[johnw]

A friend in BC gave us divisions of this smart little groundcover Lonicera crassifolia.  It looks too good to be winter hardy yet we find little information on it.  Anyone tried it?


johnw

[Maggi Young]

A friend in BC gave us divisions of this smart little groundcover Lonicera crassifolia.  It looks too good to be winter hardy yet we find little information on it.  Anyone tried it?


johnw

Sweet thing, isn't it?  Seems quite a few UK nurseries stock it- which bodes reasonably well. A French nursery says it's very  hardy to below minus 12 degrees C.    A Belgian nursery says it's "moderately hardy" ..... you'll have to take a chance I think!

[meanie]

Salvia radula.............




Salvia oxyphora...........


A look inside Alstroemeria isabella "Fred Meyer".............


Penstemon barbatus coccineus............




Desfontainia spinosa.............

[karel_t]

Corallodiscus lanuginosus

[Hoy]

A friend in BC gave us divisions of this smart little groundcover Lonicera crassifolia.  It looks too good to be winter hardy yet we find little information on it.  Anyone tried it?


johnw

Are ou sure it isn't a Peperomia?

Just kidding   Interesting little thing. Never seen it before.

[Hoy]

Went for a little botanizing trip the other day. A lot to see but mostly the common ones.

Denmark next:




Detail of the bedrock:




Silene uniflora. Common everywhere on the beach.




Eryngium maritimum. Very rare.




Fumaria officinalis. Common on rocky beaches.