April 2017 in the northern hemisphere

[Catwheazle]

Soldanella montana

[Catwheazle]

bougt as Pulsatilla albana, grown from wild collectes seed.
Possibly violacea. The region the seed is collected could match.

[Gabriela]

Beautiful Soldanella!
The Pulsatilla could be P. armena (the once called P. albana ssp. armena) - there are Pulsatilla specialists here on the forum maybe someone can tell better.

[Catwheazle]

Hi ....and thx for your answer.
Pulsatilla specialists told me its albana.

[Gabriela]

My first Hepatica americana seedling to flower


Iris 'White Caucasus' opened today and it is perfect with the bluish shimmer of the mountain snow.


Corydalis flowering one after another now - this is what I have as 'Beth Evans'

[Gabriela]

Hepaticas are also starting to flower in the woodlands
Hepatica acutiloba - a new form for this year


Hepatica americana

[Leucogenes]

 Bernd...I am not a specialist of Pulsatilla ... but it can be P. albana var. georgica. Great color.

[Lesley Cox]

I would take "moist but mot too wet" to mean moist or wet but well-draining." So the Helonias would probably be OK here but of course we don't have the freeze factor you have in Europe and Scandinavia.

Gabriela that is an amazingly beautiful photo of your hepatica american. The blue on blue is stunning.

[WimB]

I would take "moist but mot too wet" to mean moist or wet but well-draining." So the Helonias would probably be OK here but of course we don't have the freeze factor you have in Europe and Scandinavia.

I guess it doesn't need the frost in winter. Do you want to try some seed, Lesley?

[Leena]

Beautiful spring flowers, Gabriela. Your spring is about two weeks ahead of spring here.
I especially like your Hepaticas, and I'm so happy that the seeds you sent last year have germinated a while ago.

[olegKon]

Beautiful pictures, everybody. This year Bulbocodium vernum shows a nice clump

[Philip Walker]

Clematis alpina with Narcissus bulbocodium
Dicentra 'Aurora'
Trillium erectum

[Gabriela]

Thank you Lesley, it is actually a violet flower form, maybe the picture doesn't show the real colour. Deep blue forms are very rare; many populations of H. americana are of a pale blue in the wild.

Beautiful spring flowers, Gabriela. Your spring is about two weeks ahead of spring here.
I especially like your Hepaticas, and I'm so happy that the seeds you sent last year have germinated a while ago.

Thank you Leena, I also admire yours Glad the Hepatica seeds germinated (it can happen for some to germinate in the second year, even if kept moist).
All Corydalis also are germinating
This is my favourite from the H. acutiloba I found.

[Leena]

Glad the Hepatica seeds germinated (it can happen for some to germinate in the second year, even if kept moist).

Actually also the Hepatica seeds you sent me last winter (moist packed) have now germinated, in their second year  ,
so I'm going to have lots of H.americana now.

Also here Bulbocodium vernum is flowering, in spite of cold nights.

[Catwheazle]

I do not like anymore :-(