April 2017 in the northern hemisphere

[ArnoldT]

  flowering today.

Psuedocydonia sinensis

[Cfred72]

Very pretty plant Arnold. I do not know.

[ArnoldT]

Fred:

It's a mid sized tree native to Korea and China. Scented blooms with large football ( American kind) sized  fruit.

Exfoliating bark with a  twist somewhat like a Wisteria.

[GordonT]

Arnold, how tall/old is your Pseudocydonia? I have several 2 year old seedlings that are now just over a meter in height. Wondering how many more years I'll be waiting for bloom.

[Leena]

Adonis amurensis from Olga-region was planted last autumn and is growing in half shade. It has now flowered for three weeks, longer than plants in full sun.
Hepatica nobilis started to flower last week, these are growing in my woodland beds, in the wild they don't form such big clumps.
Last night it started to snow, and the last two pictures were taken an hour ago. Now it is getting a bit warmer and snow is starting to melt.

[ArnoldT]

Gordon:

Mine is 25-30 feet.

Got it as a full grown tree.  Was attacked by Oriental fruit moth and lost about 25 % of it.


Popular fruit with Koreans who make a medicinal  tea from the fruit.

[Robert]

Leena,

Your plants look so beautiful with the snow.

The forecast is for 30 C + by Wednesday here in California.

A few nice plants from our Sacramento garden.



A pot full of a California native, Allium falcifolium. I saw plenty of them in the wild the other day.



A California native annual, Mimulus bicolor. I am extremely pleased to get this species established in our garden. They bloom profusely!



It is that time of year - Collinsia heterophylla coming into bloom.



The first Codonopsis flower to open this season.

[Leena]

Thank you Robert.
You have so many nice native plants over there!

Snow is now gone, I'm glad to say, and tomorrow it is going to be nicer weather.

[Leucogenes]

A hybrid of O.laciniata and O.ennephylla ... made by Gerd Stopp ... Oxalis "Tina"

[johnralphcarpenter]

  flowering today.

Psuedocydonia sinensis

Chinese Quince, and similar flowers to Quince (Cydonia sp.).

[fermi de Sousa]

Chinese Quince, and similar flowers to Quince (Cydonia sp.).

I was told that it had been lumped back into Cydonia recently, but checking on The Plantlist I see it has been changed now to Chaenomeles sinenesis!!!
Fruit is apparently edible when stewed like quinces but the parrots never leave us any to try!
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Fermi:

Three very different plants.

Chaenomeles sinensis is the Japanese Quince
Cydonia is the traditional Quince found in the Mediterranean

Psuedocydonia sinensis is the Korean quince

The Korean and Mediterranean Quince are median to full size trees and the Japanese grows more as a 5 foot shrub.

[fermi de Sousa]

Arnold,
As David N knows, I'm not impressed when taxonomists change names of plants but this is what The Plantlist now calls it. I'm not saying I agree!
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Hi Fermi:

If that is indeed what they are saying it's  very odd.

Where is this plant list found.

[GordonT]

You'll find it here, Arnold

http://www.theplantlist.org/