June 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

With so many great plants and colour you'd never know you had a rabbit problem, Roma!

[Gabriela]

So many species, I didn't know what to admire first!
The gigantic but unfortunately not hardy Echiums are fantastic!

Roma - I really have to start growing Tulipa sprengerii, it puts such a show! Same goes for Roscoea humeana 'Alba' - I asked for seeds last seedex but didn't get any 

[WimB]

Erodium cazorlanum in flower.

[Philip Walker]

Edrianthus pumilio
Erigeron sp
Lewisia 'George Henley'
Sedum spathufolium 'Cape Blanco'

[Robert]

Gordon,

Yes, thank you the information. I will look into it. I have to admit that I have my hands full growing native California species. I do not have much attachment to Impatiens, so it is easy to just let them go. 



Lilium parryi has just started to open in our Sacramento garden. It has been too many years since I last grew this species and I am very pleased to have it in our garden again. Pitkin Marsh Lily, Lilium pardalinum ssp. pitkinense, also bloomed in our Sacramento garden. Years ago I was able to obtain some nice plants of this Taxon from the Nature Conservancy. I definitely want to keep a breeding population going of this Taxon. Like most of the Lilium pardalinum taxon it is very easy-to-grow.

[K-D Keller]

Androsace bulleyana
Arisaema fargesii
Biarum tenuifolium flowers every year in June.  Maybe it is not B. tenuifolium.
Campanula oreadum
Dactylorhiza x elata

[K-D Keller]

Hypericum kazdaghensis
Primulina liboensis Not so a great plant than your P. liboensis, Rudi. 
Roscoea humeana
Salvia cyanescens
Verbascum „Letitia“

[ruweiss]

Klaus- Dieter, many thanks for showing us your beautiful plants.
You probably gave me the wrong plant of Primulina liboensis.

[meanie]

Thanks to everyone for sharing your photos!
Penstemon barbatus var coccineus..........


Oenothera versicolor............


Roscoea scillifolia.............


Echeveria pulidonis was outdoors on some staging all winter which protected it from winter wet. It has never bloomed this well...........




This is the first year that S.patens has beaten "Black and Blue" into bloom.............

[Philip Walker]

1st flower after about 3 years
Clematis columbiana var tenuiloba 'Ylva'
 

[gerrit]

Scutellaria sieberi, a "forgotton" species, endemic to Crete. It grows on vertical cliffs in the gorges of Crete. I took a cutting some years ago and it got roots, when I was at home. The plant is easy to propagate, as the many seeds germinate quickly. I do not know about hardiness, but will keep the seedlings outside to cope withe our wet and sometimes cold winter. I keep the mother in a pot, standing on an embankment in order to see the flowers, hanging under the stems.

[meanie]

Dracunculus vulgaris.............


It's magical scent is attracting the pollinators..........


Now, I've been nurturing this Beschorneria yuccoides along from seed for six or seven years. Frustratingly it has not produced any pups..........


A couple of months ago the flower spike started to emerge and it is now in bloom..............






So the reason for the lack of pups becomes clear - it's not a Beschorneria, it's an unknown Furcraea species! If anyone has any idea as to which species I would be grateful. My best guess is F.foetida.

[Hannelore]

Now the Aqulilegia season is gone the next beauties show:

Amsonia tabernamontana 'Blue Ice'

A mini-rose I got once for moher's day in complete shadow

The first Martagon lilly

BW
Hannelore

[Yann]

Scutellaria sieberi should be hardy as it can be found above 1200m, but i don't think they'll survive our wet and mild winter.

[illingworth]

Diminutive  Cypripedium tibeticum blooming now for the first time.