Flowers and foliage April 2008

[Lesley Cox]

And it seems an easy seeder too, because there were many plants several meters around this place.
It is from Mexico. I've seen it some weeks ago at Zürich Bot Garden for the first time.

Are we talking about the Lysichiton or the Lopezia here? My little lysichitons are too small to flower yet, never mind seed

That's a stunning little willow Luit. What a beautiful plant in flower and such a nice habit as well.

Don't think Lysichiton comes from Mexico, Lesley.

Of course you're right Luit, and I didn't really think the Lysochiton did come from Mexico, I was just being my usual pedantic self - forgive me - and thinking your first sentence was a comment about Tom's last line immediately above, and your next line was about the Lopezia. In other words, I should get a life, as someone will surely tell me.  

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you for more wonderful pictures, Franz and Henk and John.

Franz, the little town in the backgound is obviously not Vienna, can you tell me what it is please? or perhaps it's an outer suburb?

[Lesley Cox]

I went as L.van Delft to the Utrecht Botanical garden.

May I have just a very small laugh (a kindly one) at Henk's expense? I'm sure Henk you mean you went, as Luit did, to the Utrecht Botanical Garden but I'm choosing to read your post as meaning that you went there impersonating Luit. You both took beautiful pictures.

[Martin Baxendale]

Thank you for more wonderful pictures, Franz and Henk and John.

Franz, the little town in the backgound is obviously not Vienna, can you tell me what it is please? or perhaps it's an outer suburb?

My wife (Ivi) thinks it might be Berg, a small town (and hill) we regularly pass on the main road from Vienna to Bratislava. I think so too but suspect there may be quite a few small towns and hills like that around Vienna (Ivi says no, there's not that many hills around Vienna - but there must be more than one!!!)

[Paul T]

The Lysichiton are amazing.  I have small plants of both but have never yet flowered them. Seeing them en masse like that is stunning.

[henkw]

Dear Lesley,

Sorry about my English

Henk

[Olga Bondareva]

Saxifraga burseriana "Mangart"

http://cs1353.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_fe7054b6.jpg

Saxifgara "Laka"

http://cs1353.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_73310cb3.jpg

Saxifraga x akinfievii

http://cs1353.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_1acd7aa0.jpg

Gentiana grandiflora

http://cs1353.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_386bc4ce.jpg

Corydalis ambigua f. linearifolia

http://cs1353.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_95271059.jpg

Corydalis magadanensis

http://cs1353.vkontakte.ru/u6450879/20107304/x_306671a3.jpg

[Viola]

Yesterday in the austrian mountens(Totes Gebirge)

Primula auricula
Helleborus niger


Karl

[mark smyth]

Just been catching up with the Flowering Now forum. What an unbelievable collection of plants in the wild and the garden

[Brian Ellis]

Just a few ordinary things from the garden.  I wanted to grow Caulophyllum thalictroides for it's dusky purple new shoots in the spring and thought it would look good with Trilliums...but I'm not sure I was successful so need to think again.  Here it is, and behind it Trillium chlorphytum giganteum.  Nearby are Primula Elizabeth Killelay and Erythronium Joanna.

[Paul T]

Brian,

That first one is rather interesting.  Not seen the name before, but I'm assuming it has leaves reminiscent of a Thalictrum?  That double gold-laced Primula is a showstopper!!  WOW!!!!    I am very impressed. 

Viola,

I have some slightly confused Helleborus niger coming into flower here at the moment, in Autumn.  They're a variety I only purchased late last year called 'Jakob' (I think that is the spelling) which has lovely dark stems to offset the leaves and the white flowers.  It is I am assuming not flowering at it's normal time, but the two plants I have are both sending up flowers now.  nice to be reminded of how nice they are when seeing your pictures.

[henkw]

Brian I agree total with Tyerman what a nice Primula.

My picture Primula Gold Lace

Henk

[johnw]

I believe the flower is left behind the yellowish plant.

Luit - The flower in 1016 is at the base of the plant in the front. The dark reddish brown sinister looking item.

johnw

[henkw]

These plants are now flowering in my garden

The first picture is of a Paeonia, bought as P. mlokosewischii. But no Yellow flower as you see, so I do not know which Paeonia it is.

2e S. sempervivum
3e Tulipa batalini ' Bright Gem'
4e Tulipa batalini 'Bronze Charm'  
5e Tulipa 'Little Princess'  
6e Arisama only 10cm high in flower
7e Dicentra cucullaria
8e Gentinana acaulis 'Frei" (correct me Luit if necessary)
9e close-up

Henk

[Lvandelft]

Luit - The flower in 1016 is at the base of the plant in the front. The dark reddish brown sinister looking item.
johnw

Thanks, now I see it. I didn't know the flower is so dark.
In the other plant is also something like a flower, but greenish.