May 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[shelagh]

This was given to us 4 years ago by Dave Mountfort. It has grown well but it has never flowered well, this is the best it has been. Unfortunately no Show to take it to this week.

[Maggi Young]

Unfortunately no Show to take it to this week.

Unless you fancy taking it to its ancestral home in Aberdeen, Shelagh - we'd love to see you and Brian this far north!(No promise of black pudding for breakfast though!)

[WimB]

Pinguicula grandiflora
Rhododendron 'Fridoline'
and Weldenia candida

[K-D Keller]

Asperula nitida between tuffa
Iris elegantissima
Nomocharis farreri
Potentilla pulvinata in a  trough
Ranunculus parnassifolius

[meanie]

This was given to us 4 years ago by Dave Mountfort. It has grown well but it has never flowered well, this is the best it has been. Unfortunately no Show to take it to this week.

That is lovely! More and more I find myself smitten by plants that "are not my thing" and that has gone pretty much to the top of my wish list. Is a cold greenhouse suitable?

[meanie]

Echeveria pulidonis spent the winter outdoors on some staging to protect it from the winter wet. As a result it is not the prettiest Echeveria that I have this year but it has just come into bloom and it is going to bloom better than ever before...........




I bought Camassia leichtlinii ssp. suksdorfii a few months ago and I would thoroughly recommend it. The biggest problem with Camassia is the messy foliage but this one has very neat, well behaved and upright foliage.............


I think that a couple of my Pleione are pregnant!


This Digitalis has some interesting appendages on the blooms............




Salvia microphylla "Pink Blush"...........


Gymnocalycium stenopleurum.............


I bought the following cactus at the village plant sale a couple of years ago and this is the first time that it has bloomed. If anyone has any idea as to an id I would be grateful...........

[shelagh]

Yes Meanie it is. The Ramberlea spends most of the year in a very shady cold frame behind the shed. Brian only brings it into the greenhouse when the buds appear. At the moment we are trying to bring a Briggsia out ready for Bakewell Show.

[jomowi]

In theory, Shelagh and Meannie, there is no reason why X Ramberlea 'Inchgarth' shouldn't survive planted out of doors as both parents are perfectly hardy even in Aberdeen.  We never got as far as having enough material to try it outside though, and now having moved to a 'postage stamp' garden, I no longer have it.  I do have H. ferdinandi-coburgii 'Connie Davidson' the male parent of the hybrid, flowering beautifully right now.

[ashley]

... I am so pleased, Ashley and Michael that your blandfordias are doing so well. Mine, I have to admit it, died, rotting in hot summer weather in early 2016. So one day I'll beg seeds, but no hurry. To see it in flower at last is just wonderful.

Thanks Lesley.  Michael's is doing the business already but whenever mine gets around to flowering & setting seed, of course you'll be first in line

[shelagh]

Maureen I don't think I have  ever seen H. f c Connie Davidson is it readily available?

[Leucogenes]

Lewisia cotyledon var. howellii

Penstemon spatulatus

Edraianthus niveus

[Leucogenes]

Sedum valens

Globularia valentina

Ramonda nathaliae "Alba"

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks Lesley.  Michael's is doing the business already but whenever mine gets around to flowering & setting seed, of course you'll be first in line

I'll look forward to the day Ashley.

[Michael J Campbell]

Cantua buxifolia 'Dancing Oaks'

[Roma]

Maureen I don't think I have  ever seen H. f c Connie Davidson is it readily available?

Shelagh, I don't think Haberlea  f c  'Connie Davidson' is readily available.  My rather old (2009-2010) edition of the Plantfinder says it is available from Edrom and Mendle Nursery.  I got my plant off the club sales table many years ago at an SRGC show.  I think Maureen was the donor.  I find it gets a bit scruffy with brown tips to the leaves and the flower trusses droop a bit.  I have found Haberlea rhodopense 'Virginalis' easier to keep looking respectable.

Haberlea ferdinandi-coburgii 'Connie Davidson'
Haberlea rhodopensis 'Virginale'