May 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Michael J Campbell]

 

[Graham Catlow]

Some views and portraits from today.

[Graham Catlow]

More

[Graham Catlow]

And.

[Graham Catlow]

And these.

[Graham Catlow]

And finally.

[ikizzeki]

In my opinion, she has escaped from nature to my garden. Neither I have sown nor seen around.  This is the second year. First year not flowered . I have kept on watering..So marvellous, isnt ishe?
13,05,2017/ Antalya, Turkey

[Maggi Young]

In my opinion, she has escaped from nature to my garden. Neither I have sown nor seen around.  This is the second year. First year not flowered . I have kept on watering..So marvellous, isnt ishe?
13,05,2017/ Antalya, Turkey

How lovely. There are many Verbascum sp. [/b] in Turkey - perhaps this is  Verbascum bombyciferum?  These are usually biennial so you should save seed  from this one.

[Maggi Young]

Some views and portraits from today

 Graham's  super new garden  has been described  in this thread http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13525.0
 You can see from these photos that his plants are doing well after their move from central Edinburgh.

[meanie]

Robert - Salvia apiana continues to frustrate me. It grows well enough but has yet to bloom in the four years since the seed germinated  One day I will bloom a Californian Salvia here!

Michael  - another big thumbs up from me for your Blandfordia.

There's a bit of a tale to this Abutilon hybrid bloom. It started to form way back in November of last year. The plant is tucked up against the house wall and the bud just sat there until a few weeks ago when it started growing again..............


Libertia ixioides..........


Scilla peruviana.............


And finally, Vestia foetida..........

[Robert]

Robert - Salvia apiana continues to frustrate me. It grows well enough but has yet to bloom in the four years since the seed germinated  One day I will bloom a Californian Salvia here!

Meanie,

Not surprisingly, Salvia apiana is widely sold in California. I am sure it enjoys heat, as it is native to Southern California (almost a different world from Northern California). Chia, Salvia columbariae is available everywhere!    Plants growing in the wild are very beautiful and as far as I am concerned it is well worth growing (at least in the parts of California where it gets hot).

Nice Abutilon! 

[Leucogenes]

Aquilegia laramiensis from Wyoming
Matthiola montana from Turkey

[Philip Walker]

Aster likiangensis
Convolvulus cneorum
Ranunculus parnassifolius-small seedling
Erinus alpinus

[Graham Catlow]

Pinguicula grandiflora f. chionopetra

Not a great photo but delighted its flowered.

[Lesley Cox]

A WHITE pinguicula! How amazing. A truly beautiful plant Graham.

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.