Flowers and foliage March 2008

[Viola]

Pulsatillas in my garden-Austria

[Martin Baxendale]

Pulsatillas in my garden-Austria

Fantastic, Karl! I just want to reach out and stroke them - especially that gorgeous pink one.

[David Nicholson]

Michael, I nearly missed your Primulas, you have some beautiful plants there.

[Michael J Campbell]

Thanks David, you must pay attention in future.

[art600]

I am not sure that your Cyclamen creticum is correct - a lovely plant, but the flower looks to be the wrong shape.  Could be a hybrid.  What is the origin of the plant?

Arthur, it Probably is a hybrid as that particular group of plants are very promiscuous,and it is difficult to get the true plant.
That one was grown from my own seed so could have crossed with anything in the group. It is a very good one whatever it is and flowers like this every year. I have some seedlings from it so will be watching to see if  they come true . Meiklei has darker foliage and flowers about a week later, while this one is closer to the Repandum group.

Michael

Some of the hybrids are very colourful and very lovely, and your plant shows this very well.  I just wanted to make sure that the Galanthophile - Martin - did not think it was a coloured Creticum.

[John Forrest]

Wonderful Pusatillas Karl and if Martin has the pink one I will take the P. slavica, the light coming through the hairs is beautiful.
Here are a few thing in flower now.
1  Ipheion Alberto Castillo
2  Ipheion Alberto Castillo detail
4 Hepatica Good Red grown from seed given to me by John Saxton from his Farrer medal plant. It had a very distracting backgroun so I removed it in Photoshop.
5 Erythronium albidum ssp mesochorum I grew from my own seed (fortunate since I lost the parent) I really love this Erythronium for its delicate markings and its diminutive stature of aabout 8-9cm
6 Erythronium albidum ssp mesochorum detail
7 Fritillaria hermonis amana (yellow) grwn from exchange seed. I must say I was surprised when it opened with such flaring petals.
8  Fritillaria hermonis amana (yellow) detail
9 Scilla reverchonii again, grown from exchange seed. I'm very fond of the Scillas generally band was not disappointed by this one.
10 Scilla reverchonii detail

[art600]

Karl

Your Pulsatillas are wonderful - hope there are more

[Martin Baxendale]

Michael
Some of the hybrids are very colourful and very lovely, and your plant shows this very well.  I just wanted to make sure that the Galanthophile - Martin - did not think it was a coloured Creticum.

I'm afraid to say I did think it was a (fantastic) pink creticum. Although I still get the Cyclamen Society journal I'm afraid I don't pay as much attention to the latest ins and outs of the cyclamen world as I used to, and I'm easily taken by surprise by new developments and discoveries. I haven't grown creticum for many years, having lost all my seed-raised ones in a hard winter (remember those?) so I just assumed that there must be some pink creticum around now, thanks to new collections, new colour breaks or whatever.

I should concentrate more instead of just swooning over amazing forum pics!  

[art600]

John

An excellent selection of some of my favourite flowers.  Particularly like the Erythronium - not one I have grown.

[art600]

Michael
Some of the hybrids are very colourful and very lovely, and your plant shows this very well.  I just wanted to make sure that the Galanthophile - Martin - did not think it was a coloured Creticum.

I'm afraid to say I did think it was a (fantastic) pink creticum. Although I still get the Cyclamen Society journal I'm afraid I don't pay as much attention to the latest ins and outs of the cyclamen world as I used to, and I'm easily taken by surprise by new developments and discoveries. I haven't grown creticum for many years, having lost all my seed-raised ones in a hard winter (remember those?) so I just assumed that there must be some pink creticum around now, thanks to new collections, new colour breaks or whatever.

I should concentrate more instead of just swooning over amazing forum pics!  

Martin

I would not know so much about Snowdrops without the assistance of you and other knowledgeable Forumists.  As Membership Secretary for the Cyclamen Society I should expect to know a little about the genus.

[Michael J Campbell]

Arthur,you have just let the cat out of the bag.

[Rafa]

beautiful plants!

another one

[Paddy Tobin]

Rafa,

Do tell  more. Is this in the wild?

Beautiful blue, fabulous.

Paddy

[Rafa]

hello Paddy,

no, this is in the bulb frame. This species don't grow in Spain, here there are just Gladiolus communis (G. communis subsp.
byzantinus, G. communis subsp. communis, G. communis subsp. illyricus), G. italicus, G. illyricus, G. dubius, G. reuteri and  G. tristis, but this escaped from the gardens.

Note: JAJAJJAJAJAJAJJAJA (translation: HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA) Sorry, I hadn't notice that funny title that you have granted me! I feel honoured!

[Paul T]

Rafa,

Great Gladiolus!!  Love those species!!

John F,

Fantastic pics as always.  The Erythronium albidum in particular is just beautiful.  Haven't seen that variety before as I recall, nor that Fritillaria which is amazing!!

Karl,

Those Pulsatillas are glorious!!  The deep coloured one is striking, and that lovely clear pink.  Not seen either of those before.  Beautiful!! 

Thanks all for posting!!