June 2017 in the Northern Hemisphere

[ashley]

A very mixed bunch from the garden this morning

Alstroemeria aurea
Cistus x purpureus
Disa uniflora 'Red River' (x2)
Disa x kewensis 'Ann'

[ashley]

Some calmer colours:

Echium pininana   This plant's main growing point died last winter, so it produced side shoots that stayed short rather than heading for the sky.  Very popular with bumblebees but the honeybees ignore it.
Geranium pratense 'Mrs Kendall Clark' (x2)
Orthrosanthus multiflorus (x2)

[ashley]

Papaver orientale 'Harlem' (x2)
Paris thibetica   Several clones flowered this year for the first time, so fingers crossed for seed.
Stewartia pseudocamellia   This was slow to start performing but is regular now.
Tritelia laxa ex 'Dexter'   originally from the seed exchange

[ashley]

A last few:

Tritelia laxa ex 'Dexter'
Veratrum album var. flavum (x3)
Viola 'Irish Molly'  a bit chewed unfortunately

[fermi de Sousa]

Viola 'Irish Molly'  a bit chewed unfortunately

Hi Ashley,
one of my favourite violas!
I presume it is greener in real life than in the pic?
I don't think I've ever been able to get the correct colour when I've taken a pic,
cheers
fermi

[ashley]

Perhaps a touch greener alright Fermi.  Besides being difficult to photograph accurately I fancy that it varies a bit from year to year and even place to place.  This year the upper petals show purple edgings (not really evident in the pic either ) that I never really noticed before.  Maybe something to do with the growing conditions.

[Philip Walker]

Campanula x wockei 'Puck'
Campanula pulla-I think

[johnw]

Not keen on hybrid Paeonia but these two wow me to death though have ever quite captured the colours.

Paeonia 'Cytherea'

Paeonia 'Coral Charm'

Both at friends' gardens.

john

[David Nicholson]

Campanula pulla-I think

I'm not going to be terribly helpful Philip but I don't think it is. As far as I know, apart from a white form, the flowers of C. pulla are all of a very dark blue/purple. In his book "Dwarf Campanulas" Graham Nicholls says ".......It is considered to have the darkest blue flowers in the genus........"

[Philip Walker]

I think you're right,David.After I posted,I found one of my old pictures of C.pulla and it is much darker. 

[Robert]

A last few:

Tritelia laxa ex 'Dexter'

Ashley,

A nice set of Triteleia laxa.  Here in California populations can be quite variable. On our farm in El Dorado County (elevation 1,450 feet, 442 meters) they blooming in April. The flowers are very large and a soft light lavender-blue. Recently
(2 weeks ago), I found a population on the southern flank of Snow Mountain in Colusa County, California at an altitude of 4,470 feet (1,362 meters). Here the flowers are much smaller and a deeper shade of lavender-blue such as the ones in your photographs.

I am curious how dry you keep them while dormant? Some of the Themidaceae can be very tolerant of summer moisture while dormant. Triteleia peduncularis and T. hyaciathina are two examples. My wife and I were up at the farm the other day and found Brodiaea elegans ssp. elegans growing and blooming just fine where there was some irrigation.

[ashley]

Thanks for your comments Robert.  I grow only Tritelia laxa, in two forms received as 'ex Koningin Fabiola' (below left, more blue) & 'ex Dexter' (right, more purple) from the SRGC seed exchange a few years ago.  The first is much taller (12 ins/30 cm) than the second (4 ins/10 cm) and has a stronger green stripe down the back of each petal.  Both remain outdoors all year so tolerate summer moisture, which in Ireland can be considerable

[Robert]

Ashley,

Thank you for the information. It is very helpful.     

[David Nicholson]

Same with me in wet Devon. I have Koningin Fabiola and one which was labeled as a White Form  and isn't. As does Ashley mine remain in my front garden all year round.

[ArnoldT]

This could go in the South Africa section or here.

Been living outside for 15 years

Crinum bulbispermum