Flowers and foliage April 2008

[Viola]

Two pics from Townsendia condensata "Cristata"

Karl

[Paddy Tobin]

Oh Karl,

The poor plant!

It has the appearance of being subjected to some dreadful form of radiation.

Not to my taste at all but then the world would be quite a boring place if everything was to my taste. Vive la difference!

Paddy

[Viola]

Paddy, I have shi when regular plant acquire, she it this grow.

Karl

[Maggi Young]

Karl, do you mean that you have seen a regular plant begin to make this type of  cristate growth?

[Diane Clement]

Is this a cristate form (genetic malformation therefore like this every year), or is it a form of fasciation that is just present this year?  Gerberas and primulas are very prone to fasciation but it does not necessarily recur each year.

[Lesley Cox]

Nothofagus gunnii. That's the name I'd forgotten. Thanks Rob. See if I can find a pic.





I should say that although on my camera, these two were taken by my friend Don Schofield. I bottled out of the last km of the tramp, terribly tired and already having fallen a couple of times. But it was a wonderful day which I wouldn't have missed for anything.

[rob krejzl]

Now that  sounds like a more manageable species for my wee garden Rob. Do you have any pics?

Anthony,

Don't grow the nothofagus myself, only Diselma archeri and Microcachrys tetragona (even smaller, but not southern beeches) so can't give you one of my pictures, but the link has a pretty good picture of the Tarn Shelf up at Mt Field. People go there in autumn especially to see the colour display.


http://www.sgaonline.org.au/plant_nothofagus.html

[Lesley Cox]

The above two pics were taken on the Tarn Shelf but last year at least it was all gold, no orange or red at all, mid April. The colours in the link Rob gave are glorious.

[Armin]

Armin,

It looks like Tillandsia ionantha--a beautiful little thing. I have over sixty tillandsia taxa here and grow several different forms of T. ionantha which is easy to find, inexpensive and easy to grow. Beautiful, isn't it?

Hi Carlo,
thank you very much for the identification of my Tillandsia
It is indeed very easy to grow and it is very beautiful.
"Man" can easily infected by Tillandsia fewer

[Michael J Campbell]

Sanguinaria canadensis plena ,buds.
sanguinaria canadensis plena just opening.
sanguinaria canadensis plena, got it.

[Michael J Campbell]

Arisaema sikokianum My first to flower this year.
Trillium rivale. At the risk of boring you to tears here is another pink Trillium. Not as dark as the last one I posted.

[Paul T]

Michael,

Yeah, right, as if you're going to bore us with good pink Trillium rivale.    Not likely!! 

Another lovely flower!

And the Sanguinaria canadensis plena is pretty special too.

[Michael J Campbell]

 

[Martin Baxendale]

At the risk of boring you to tears here is another pink Trillium. Not as dark as the last one I posted.

Too modest, Michael. It's lovely. 

[Paddy Tobin]

Michael,

To be modest with your plants would be to lie.

They are always beautiful. Forum members will not have had the pleasure of viewing your displays at the Dublin AGS show but these photographs certainly give them plenty of beauty to see. Missed this year's show myself. Thinking of becoming a recluse.

Paddy