May 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[ian mcdonald]

I don,t usually go for the large flowered clematis but when I saw this one at Taylors I had to have one. C. Silver Moon img. 1020588. The flowers are 7" across.

[K-D Keller]

Thank you for your kind comment David. May is a very colorful month.

[shelagh]

A lovely little Briggsia  but unfortunately a week too soon for the Bakewell Show.  Also a Rose not an alpine I know but a lovely one bred and raised by our friend Tony Bracegirdle it's called Holcombe Honey 'cos it has the scent of honey and his allotment has a fine view of Holcombe Tower.

[Leucogenes]

for comparison...

Leontopodiun nivale from Abruzzo

Leontopodium nivale from Gran Sasso / Abruzzo (selected by Gerd Stopp ... strongly hairy ... the plant  )

[Leucogenes]

This old photo shows the strong hairiness somewhat better.

[gerrit]

Some oncocyclus irisses in flower.

1,2. Iris paradoxa subsp. choschab
3,4. Iris sari

[Leucogenes]

Today ... Helichrysum frigidum ...

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for your note Graham. I looked on ebay (first time as we have an excellent version here called Trademe) but no sign of it that I could see at present. I'll keep an eye out though. Plants of one species were offered for about GBP15 each but we can't buy those anyway and I think the price was excessive.

Leucogenes, everything here is frigidum at present, with good frosts each night now until the next dose of snow or rain. I'm pretending that the sooner it comes, the sooner it will be over. Iris reticulata forms are starting to emerge but only from the imported ones from our garden centres.

The northern hemisphere plants and their pictures are keeping me hopeful and interested for the next couple of months.

[Leucogenes]

Lesley ... Up here we wants wants try to form the winters with you thus pleasantly ace possible... promised. 

[François Lambert]

a nice rhododendron growing under a spruce tree.  Fisrt time in many years that all the flowers open at the same time.

[Mike Ireland]

Sarmienta repens & self sown seedlings of Physoplexis comosa in flower at the moment.

[Leucogenes]

What a magnificent plant of Physoplexis comosa. My congratulations Mike.

[Leucogenes]

Erigeron scopulorum
Trichophorum alpinum
Iris schachtii
Edraianthus pumilio

[Roma]

Roscoeas are coming into flower.  I had forgotten I planted the pink one in the garden.  It was a seedling which should have been white.

Roscoea humeana
Roscoea humeana alba  (from seed)
Roscoea 'Harvington Evening Star'
Rhodohypoxis 'Tetra Pink'

[Roma]

Silene hookeri ssp bolanderi is flowering well now.  This is their second year.
Silene serpentinicola is just starting
I lost a few of both when they got a bit too wet in late summer but had plenty seedlings to start with.