March 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Gabriela]

First time a flower on a seedling of Shortia galacifolia
and Shortia uniflora 'Princeps' is flowering too.

Wonderful pictures Wim of these beautiful and rare plants - especially S. galacifolia. Glad to see it at least in a picture
Besides being so beautiful it is very rare in its native habitat and with an interesting story - renown botanist Asa Gray who name it after only a herbarium specimen, became obsessed with relocating it in the wild... anyway long story - for those who like to read long articles:
http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1942-2--asa-gray-and-his-quest-for-shortia-galacifolia.pdf

[WimB]

they're beautiful

 

Wonderful pictures Wim of these beautiful and rare plants - especially S. galacifolia. Glad to see it at least in a picture
Besides being so beautiful it is very rare in its native habitat and with an interesting story - renown botanist Asa Gray who name it after only a herbarium specimen, became obsessed with relocating it in the wild... anyway long story - for those who like to read long articles:
http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1942-2--asa-gray-and-his-quest-for-shortia-galacifolia.pdf

Yes, the S. galacifolia are doing well, with special thanks to the seed-donor 

[WimB]

Wim,

the Ficarias are nice! Do they set bulbils or seed?

Trond,

neither have bulbils in the leaf axils but both can set seed (not a lot, but they can selfseed).

[Philip Walker]

2 Acacia pravissima-from seed,1st one in my garden,2nd 40 feet away in nxt doors,but planted a year earlier.
Pulsatilla violaceae

[Giles]

Omphalodes (can't remember which)
Daffodil 'WP Milner' (fave daff)
Poets (garden forms) (2nd fave daff)
Primrose slightly enhanced from wild

[Giles]

Prunus incisa hybrid 'The Bride'
Prunus x subhirtella 'Fukubana'
Chaenomeles 'Kinshiden'

[Maggi Young]

Different climate down with you for sure , Giles - it'll be weeks before  any "poets" in bloom here.

[Giles]

They're early, even for here. I think they usually flower 1st week in May.

[David Nicholson]

Omphalodes (can't remember which)

Probably O. cappadocica 'Cherry Ingram', they always are? 

Nice selection of stuff Giles.

[Maggi Young]

They're early, even for here. I think they usually flower 1st week in May.

Yes, that seems more like it.

[WimB]

Anemone nemerosa 'Jummers Fienrood'
Pteridophytum racemosum
and Shortia uniflora var. kantoensis

[Yann]

ficara are nice but they can become weeds, i've an hybrids who's spreading all round the garden...and street
the most common Eythronium, x Pagoda, Corydalis cava 'albiflora'

[Leena]

Very nice Ficarias in the previous page!  Here single Ficaria verna is a weed, but double forms hardly spread at all, they are the same small  plants as when I first planted them many years ago, and I wish they would multiply more.

[astragalus]

Leena, in my dry garden Ranunculus ficaria is very well behaved. It spreads very modestly and then goes dormant. I'm going to bring some down to the stream garden and plant it in an isolated spot. It's fine with me if it takes over that area. I wonder if it still goes dormant when moist all the time?

[Leena]

I have it growing in sticky clay soil under apple trees, but they have spread from there to all over. They go dormant in early summer, so you are right that they are not very bad weeds:) And very pretty when they flower early with Scilla sibirica and native Corydalis solida.