Flowers and foliage March 2008

[Paul T]

Gerd,

I love that colour combination on the viola.  Sometimes contrasts DO work well together!! 

[Kenneth K]

Ulla
I have Moraea spathulata in my garden, south of Gothenburg, without problem. It's just young plants and has not flowered yet. In the botanic garden of Gothenburg they have had M spathulata for a long time. I have sent seeds to a friend outside Skellefteå to try it there. I have had no report of the result but I think it might be possible that it could survive in welldrained, raised bed, thanks to the snow in winter.

[Kenneth K]

Last night we had the coldest night here for the whole winter, -10 C in the middle of the city. A little worried about what could have happened in our garden at the summerhouse about 30 km south of Gothenburg, I went there this morning. I thought for example of all the new seedlings in the cold house and of the flowers in the bulb bed. No problem as far as I could see and I was a little surprised that the flowers looked as if nothing had happened. Take this Chionodoxa lochiae that is endemic of Cyprus. I don’t know so much about the climate in the mountains of Cyprus but it’s hard to believe that the temperature in spring gets as low as -10 C. I think it must have got the chock of it’s life but it shows no signs of any injuries.

[hadacekf]

Here are a few pics of my present flowering plants.

Draba aizoides in a boulder.
Primula marginata in Rock Garden.
Scilla rosenii in bulb bed.

[Maggi Young]

Franz, when it seems winter has come again to many of us, it is even more pleasant to see your quality flowers in sunshine. Again, I must compliment you on the good forms that you grow.

[Gerdk]

Franz,
What a beautiful marginata - so much flowers!

Gerd

[Lesley Cox]

Beautiful pictures Franz. All your plants are so healthy and set off beautifully against wonderfully knobbly rock

[hadacekf]

Thank you all together for the kind comments, but plants grow well if they like the garden.

[ruweiss]

Lieber Franz,
I love Pr.marginata and also have many forms of them,but never managed to get so many flowers.
What is the trick,beside your life-long experience?
Many thanks for showing us the pictures!

[David Nicholson]

Now, thats how to grow a P. marginata. What a beautiful plant Franz.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Franz !
G O R G E O U S plants again... I also grow P. Marginata ... but it seems to be another plant compared to yours... 

[Viola]

Franz beautiful Pr.marginata.


The flowers is something delay at my garden, but lovely.

Primula marginata
Primula marginata
Draba aizoides
Saxifraga dinnikii
Rannunculus calandrinoides

[hadacekf]

I cultivated and collected 50 years primulas. There are primulas those badly grow, but some grows well and flower richly. This is a perfect flowering P. marginata for my garden. The ID is P. marginata var. crenata.

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you all together for the kind comments, but plants grow well if they like the garden.

Plants like the garden if they like the gardener.

[Viola]

My garden today at morning.