Flowers and foliage April 2008

[ChrisB]

Oh my, a yello muscari - and its scented.  Must put it on my wish list....

[Carlo]

Franz,

Sure looks like Iris bucharica.

Muscari macrocarpum is blooming here too.

[Tony Willis]

This is one of a number of dysosma seedlings I have raised.I am pleased they survived the winter in the garden and they are turning into nice plants for foliage effect

[Lesley Cox]

Are these seedlings raised from your own seed Tony? I've not had seed on any - or flowers - except Podophyllum (is it now Dysosma as well?) hexandrum. Which species are involved and did you hand polinate them?

[Tony Willis]

Lesley, yes they are from my own seed.I got the plants from Chen yi and they are the usual ones including Chinese ones including delavayi,but I think the names are mixed up. They flowered whilst I was away in Turkey three years ago and I left the pollination in the hands of my Lesley and she dabbled with a paintbrush whilst I was away.A couple of nice fat seed pods developed and I managed to raise a couple of dozen plants from the seeds. They are no good in pots and so I planted them out and they appear to be doing well.They are not self fertile.

[Kenneth K]

My best red Corydalis, C transsylvanica 'Lahovice Strain'.

[ruweiss]

Some pictures from my garden:
Frit. pallidiflora
Larix decidua 'Kreijczi',a crested witches broom from Czech Republic and Pinus mugo 'Fischleinboden',
also a W.B.;both are very slow growing.
Androsace sempervivoides,barbulata glabrata and Kosopolyanski enjoy the good growing conditions
of a crevice garden,created by ZZ.
Viola somchetica from Caucasus.

[Maggi Young]

Rudi, lovely photos from your garden.
The slow forum connection has prevented me from seeing your post for the last few hours!  How pleased I am now to be able to enjoy them.
 Your plants are ahead of ours,  our F. pallidiflora buds are still more green than yellow!
The conifers from withes' brooms are most intriguing... I think they are very popular in Czech gardens?
So you are another Forumist with a ZZ garden!?! Lucky you! 

[David Nicholson]

My best red Corydalis, C transsylvanica 'Lahovice Strain'.

That is a lovely Corydalis Kenneth.

[HClase]

Here's what emerged from the melting snow here today - they were actually flowering up through the snow earlier, but we had a sunny day and all of 7C.  Very ordinary plants I'm afraid, but it shows how far behind we are.  Maybe I should start a "Flowering now Newfoundland" thread?  Is there anywhere else at the same stage?

[gote]

I grow a small collection of named cultivars of Corydalis solida in the open ground and this means that I get new plants all the time - some of them are impossible to distinguish from the named ones and some are new. This is a new light pink one that is just starting into flowering for the season. (Photo from yesterday)
Göte
PS
The inference is of course that I am not a very efficient weeder 

[Maggi Young]

Howard, great that Spring is coming to you and how good to share it with you. I hope that your Spring proves more persistent than ours!



Göte, I'm sorry, this phrase you use, " not a very efficient weeder"..... I don't seem to understand it at all.... could you explain/ 

[Paul T]

Göte,

No, you're an efficient weeder.... its just that you don't feel the Corydalis are weeds, thats all.    If you didn't want them you'd pull them out, but you want to see what colours they end up.  Its all in the perspective.... you don't necessarily need to admit to not weeding when you can just say that you're trying to find new and interesting colour combinations that you might otherwise miss? 

And that's a very nice pale pink version that you especially didn't weed out because you KNEW it was going to be special!! 

[Lvandelft]

I think that Göte is like many gardeners and not pull all seedlings out when weeding.
We are always curious what is coming new maybe. You never know.....

After warning someone was posting    , read what Paul writes.
We seem to have the same meaning, only he writes it much better than I do.

[Oakwood]

Hi there! I'm on line again, was in my garden, made some pics of wild collected and most beautiful forms of Iris pumila from out steppes. It blooms now at me.

to Ashley - Cyclamen kuznetzovii differs from other coum complex by smooth corm surface and not velvety as in coum species.

to Oleg - Gymnospermium odessanum is a different unique species and has no cognation with G. altaicum.

to Susan - Adonis wolgensis is a quite separate species that differs very well from A. vernalis by leaves (not so narrow and divided as at vernalis), flowers (more large and wide petals) and wolgensis flowers 2 weeks earlier. And these species have no common intersecting natural habitats.