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Armin

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #210 on: April 18, 2008, 09:41:49 PM »
Yuri,
beautiful Iris display and a happy birthday 8)
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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #211 on: April 18, 2008, 10:09:02 PM »
totally amazing!
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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #212 on: April 19, 2008, 03:48:15 PM »
Two pictures from the woodland today
1. Shortia uniflora
2. Primula denticulata
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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #213 on: April 19, 2008, 05:50:00 PM »
Beautiful pics - extraordinary plants. It seems Anemone will come soon.

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #214 on: April 19, 2008, 05:59:44 PM »
You have sharp eyes! Well, Anemone nemorosa is a very nice spring flower. It has a tendency to take over though and I don't want it right there. At least not to many!
Kenneth Karlsson, Göteborg, Sweden

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #215 on: April 19, 2008, 10:04:35 PM »
great pics all - great to see the shortia!
Here some miles in the south I took some pics today in the garden.

1. Iris kirkwoodii ssp calcarea  (a pale form)
2. Iris paradoxa f. paradoxa
3. Iris acutiloba ssp. lineolata
4. ???? - Unknown Regeliocyclus
5. Gladiolus italicus f. alba (?)

Edit : to show kirkwoodii  is  listed as   Iris kirkwoodiae Chaudhary
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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #216 on: April 19, 2008, 10:35:05 PM »
Hans,

Beautiful Iris and Glad.  My favourite is definitely the acutiloba ssp lineolata.  Such a striking flower.  :D
Cheers.

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #217 on: April 19, 2008, 11:08:09 PM »
On the other side of the pond, we are about equal to a UK February!  My crocus, galanthus and eranthis are just starting.  The first crocus pic is C. etruscus, followed by C. chrysanthus 'Romance' and C. tommassinianus then C. biflorus var. taurii.  The Galanthus is nivalis 'Flore-pleno'.
Todd Boland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, zone 5b

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #218 on: April 20, 2008, 03:36:11 AM »
Ola - A belated thanks for the picture of Cyclamen kusnetzovii.

I read about it recently in Ruksans' Buried Treasures - a great read by the way and he says it may be the hardiest cyclamen. This one is of great interest as other coums can be wiped out in cold snowless winters here especially when entombed in ice. So we need hardy coums.  Do you believe it to be super hardy? What sort of winter temperatures would it see in the wild? Wisely Janus keeps his kusnetzoviis isolated so he gets true seed. Do any nurseries list it with similar treatment to assure the true species?

To date purpurascens is our hardiest cyclamen but it would be nice to have a long-lived reliable spring bloomer.

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #219 on: April 20, 2008, 04:11:27 AM »
Another collection of amazing plants and pictures. Warmest thanks to their posters.
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #220 on: April 20, 2008, 09:27:01 AM »
Galleries of fine plant-pictures. Thank you all. My garden is too small. But there are some little places (between the galanthus). Her are two different types of trillium cuneatum (military look). ;)
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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #221 on: April 20, 2008, 09:36:18 AM »
And here is avery great clone of trillium sessile.
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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #222 on: April 20, 2008, 11:39:25 AM »
The petals and sepals look almost the same colour on that trillium sessile clone, making it a very striking plant.

Attached is a photo of one of my trilliums with just a few streaks of maroon in the sepals

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #223 on: April 20, 2008, 12:38:22 PM »
Here are some new pics from today

1. Caltha polysepala
2. Fritillaria meleagris - a Herbert Sterz (Magdeburg) selection
3. Narcillus jonquilla - the late flowering ' pure ' species
4. Oxalis acetosella - rose coloured form
5. + 6. Viola albanica - my favourite of the pansy wild forms
7. Viola anagae - from the Anaga mountains, Tenerife
8. Viola orientalis
9. Viola spathulata
10. Hibbertia cuneifolia

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Re: Flowers and foliage April 2008
« Reply #224 on: April 20, 2008, 12:46:35 PM »
Rob, very fine spotted/mottled or speckled blooms. Much better then my green typ. Here you can see the big standard of the greens
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