May 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[shelagh]

Mike a few years ago we visited Copenhagen Botanic they said Tulip sprengeri was their biggest weed.

[Gabriela]

I wouldn't mind such a 'weed' in my garden It would look nice with T. sylvestris


Corydalis nobilis was damaged a bit by the heavy rains, but still standing


Change of colours - Magnolia 'Ann' and Phlox douglasii 'Crackerjack'




Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila, one  of my favourite, besides the long spurred NA Aquilegias

[Mike Ireland]

Mike a few years ago we visited Copenhagen Botanic they said Tulip sprengeri was their biggest weed.

Shelagh,
It certainly gets about but it is so beautiful.

[Mike Ireland]

Plants flowering at the moment.
Androsace seedling with large flower self sown on tufa wall,
Androsace seedling in tufa ex A. cylindrica x hirtella,
Anemone obtusiloba Pradesh finding its way out from the crocus foliage &
Pinguicula grandiflora also in tufa.

[Maggi Young]

Ian's  Pinguicula are in bud on his  moss-covered stone in the pond. A wee while yet before they open, I reckon.

[Lesley Cox]

I love pinguiculas. My previous hot and dry garden did for the first ones I had of grandiflora but the kindly Wim B in Belgium sent me some seed and also of vulgaris. These are enjoying the cooler clime of south Otago. I think Ian's, planted on the mossy stone in the little pond, were the best thing I've seen on the Forum or Facebook all year. I have no pond and I guess the nearby lake of several hundred hectares is a bit big, but somehow I'm determined to duplicate Ian's planting.

[kindredspiritkevin]

Aquilegia in trough.

[Maggi Young]

Good  pic to show the complicated structure of those wee gems, Kevin.

[kris]

more flowers from the garden
Sangunaria canadensis
Callianthemum coriandifolium

[kris]

Douglasia  montana in the rock garden

[Leena]

Wonderful T.sprengeri in previous page, I hope my seedlings sometime grow as well, they are still only two years old.

Some pictures from my garden yesterday. It has still been quite cold spring, nights below freezing and during daytime 10C at the most but this may change next week, I hope.
Some late snowdrops are still flowering and corydalis are at their best. Hellebores are also now flowering.

[shelagh]

What lovely pictures Leena it took me back a couple of months to snowdrops in our garden. When you look at the Forum and it's members pictures you can almost have all four seasons in one visit.

[johnw]

I chased this plant for years having seen one specimen at a North Vancouver friend's in the late 80's, Ranzania japonica.  No one else seemed to grow it.  No seeds were ever set as I recall but Philip McD landed a small plant around 2000 and gave us one shortly there after.  While it's actually self-sown a few times, the seeds are reluctant to sprout for us.  Very elegant.

johnw

[ian mcdonald]

Rain at last, the garden looks fresher. Sticky catchfly (lychnis viscaria) img. 1020533. Another ladies slipper in flower img. 1020534. Perennial cornflower img. 1020540. Star of Bethlehem img. 1020541. Poached egg plant img. 1020542. There is a swarm of small white tailed bees in the tit box in the ivy. I see the tories are going to re-introduce the barbaric pastime of fox hunting. I wonder what they would say if Guy Faulkes pastime was re-introduced. Forwards for civilisation, backwards for what.
"The Countryside and Wildlife are not ours to dispose of as we please. We must account for them to those who come after." KING GEORGE VI.

[Leena]

Thank you Shelagh.

Ranzania japonica looks lovely. I once got seeds to germinate, but the seedlings died after pricking out, so it is not an easy plant.