March 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[kris]

Spring is slowly advancing.
Weather is gloomy and overcast for the last two days.
Our family friend took some pictures of my garden .
Finding new shoots and buds -so refreshing after the long winter

[kris]

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[kris]

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[kris]

last year I got Anemone blanda charmer from Augis bulbs.
Since October is too late plant outside I kept them in the fridge in winter.
Now it is flowering nicely.
This year I will plant them outside.

[Lesley Cox]

Fermi, do you not grow the Hacquetia? I guess you'd need to find a cool spot for t, it you have such a thing. Is it otherwise available in Australia? I ask because in my much cooler garden than the last one, I have a lot of self-sown seedlings doing well from what fell off the plant in 2015. I collected and sowed at lot of 2016 seed and expect those to germinate approximately when the plant is coming out of winter so a while away but I'll collect seed from this year too and could send some if you'd like it. It needs to be sown very fresh for good germination - or any at all.

Every time I see the variegated form 'Thor,' or rather see a photo of it, I yearn to have it but have recently come to the position that it and many other things are among those I'll never be able to have so it's time I stopped pining for them. I guess it's an age thing, coupled with the fact that our MPI and conservation lobby will never look at importing plant material as a reasonable and rewarding thing to do and so never relax their rules on the subject. Railing at them achieves nothing and only increases one's stress levels.

[fermi de Sousa]

Fermi, do you not grow the Hacquetia? I guess you'd need to find a cool spot for t, it you have such a thing. Is it otherwise available in Australia?

Hi Lesley,
I've tried it but, no, it's not for my garden
I think the Erigenia would also be out of the question for Redesdale, sadly, but at least I can enjoy seeing the pics here on the Forum!
So thanks for posting pics, everyone
As for the hassles with importing plants, the stupidity of making things too difficult is that it will people resort to smuggling and that's how diseases and pathogens get introduced into the country! [About to say something controversial but thought better of it! I'll play nice!]
cheers
fermi

[Robert]

Robert, you've a nice nursery  This afternoon i'd enough of repotting helloborus seedlings, i decided to see how the Anemona will look in a forest 30mn far from home.

edit: not viola palustris but Viola reichenbachiana

Yann,

What a beautiful woodland setting!    I can see how the forest could draw you away from repotting plants!

Robert,

as Yann says you have a nursery! When are you starting to sell plants? 

Primula veris is common in the warmest parts of Norway and take a lot of drought after flowering as it goes dormant.

Trond,

Believe it or not a long time ago I did have nursery. Now I just like to experiment with things in the backyard. Sometimes I take a few extras plants to the farmers' market and try to sell them. Back in the 1990's it was easy to sell plants at our farmers' markets, but things have changed now and there is not much interest in plants ( ....anywhere in our part of California - or gardening, or anything like that).

Primula veris is tough but does not take California drought! 

Your spring blooming season seems like it progresses very slowly. The bulbs look great! It looks like they are growing in a semi-lawn-turf type setting? Things are moving quickly here in California. Everyday when I go out in the garden there is something different coming into bloom.

[WimB]

A few Ranunculaceae in flower:

Ficaria verna 'Graham Joseph'
Ficaria verna 'Nathalie'
and a Ranunculus (species unknown, from the Tien Shan)

[Maggi Young]

Wim's article on double  Ficaria forms will be published in the IRG next month  (April 2017)
 

[Lesley Cox]

The Ranunculus looks very like R. montanus. Is that likely so far east? An attractive species anyway, whatever it is.

[WimB]

The Ranunculus looks very like R. montanus. Is that likely so far east? An attractive species anyway, whatever it is.

I must say it is very similar indeed but I've got no idea if it grows that far east either...

[WimB]

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

[Yann]

they're beautiful

[Hoy]

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Trond,

Believe it or not a long time ago I did have nursery. Now I just like to experiment with things in the backyard. Sometimes I take a few extras plants to the farmers' market and try to sell them. Back in the 1990's it was easy to sell plants at our farmers' markets, but things have changed now and there is not much interest in plants ( ....anywhere in our part of California - or gardening, or anything like that).

Primula veris is tough but does not take California drought! 

Your spring blooming season seems like it progresses very slowly. The bulbs look great! It looks like they are growing in a semi-lawn-turf type setting? Things are moving quickly here in California. Everyday when I go out in the garden there is something different coming into bloom.

Robert, no problem believing you! I am sure you had an excellent nursery 

The bulbs are in my lawn. I don't cut the grass before mid June to let the bulbs ripen. The lawn consist of a lot more than grass! I will show a picture later.

[Hoy]

Wim,

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