Flowers and foliage April 2008

[Lvandelft]

Nice collection, Henk.

8e Gentinana acaulis 'Frei" (correct me Luit if necessary)

The name of Gentiana is Gentiana angustifolia Frei  (or 'Type Frei')

[johnw]

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.

Luit - I am looking but don't see anything flower-like. Puzzled. Can you quote the slide number and where exactly?

johnw

[Maggi Young]

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.

Luit - I am looking but don't see anything flower-like. Puzzled. Can you quote the slide number and where exactly?

johnw

I still cannot see the flower! But I think I know what Luit is meaning... in the smaller clump of leaves, to the left of center, behind the main yellowish group in the forground, there is a green "arrangement" in the middle of the leaves which looks very like a small green zantedeschia flower!  It's in the same pic, John.

[Lvandelft]

I still cannot see the flower! But I think I know what Luit is meaning... in the smaller clump of leaves, to the left of center, behind the main yellowish group in the forground, there is a green "arrangement" in the middle of the leaves which looks very like a small green zantedeschia flower!  It's in the same pic, John.

Yes, that's what I saw first. Here is the pict. again and I marked both "flowers"

[Michael J Campbell]

Primula Hyb foundling
\Primula marginata Hyb
Primula Hyb
Primula Hyb
Gentiana verna angulosa
Paraquilegia anemonoides.sorry for the bad pic
Dianthus Conway star
Lewisia nevadensis Hyb

[hadacekf]

Thank you all together for the kind comments on my pictures of Muscari and Adonis.
Martin, you are right. The small town is ‘Hundsheim ‘ near Hainburg. Not far away on the main road from Vienna to Bratislava. Its location is particularly attractive; south of the Danube and partly surrounded by rolling hills, natural landmarks of the region. 

[Martin Baxendale]

Thank you all together for the kind comments on my pictures of Muscari and Adonis.
Martin, you are right. The small town is ‘Hundsheim ‘ near Hainburg. Not far away on the main road from Vienna to Bratislava. Its location is particularly attractive; south of the Danube and partly surrounded by rolling hills, natural landmarks of the region. 

We thought it must be. For those forumists who don't know, Berg is the Slovak name for Hainburg. It is very pretty around there.

[Martin Baxendale]

Michael, as always, lovely European primula hybrids. That foundling one is a really yummy almost edible sort of colouring - I'm getting hungry just loooking at it; looks like it's made out of cream and custard and meringue...a real confection. I like it. Seems very free-flowering too. I think I can see the influence of Linda Pope in quite a few of your seedlings.

[Paddy Tobin]

Beautiful flowers, Michael.

No doubt, we all have our particular way of describing flowers but Martin's method shows very clearly where his heart lies - a little lower than most and firmly in the centre of his tummy, "a really yummy almost edible sort of colouring...cream and custard and meringue - a real confection"

Oh, Martin, the sight of these beauties already make me so envious besides now making me feel hungry as well!!!

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

I have to admit the colouring of Michael's Primula foundling hybrid  did make me think of apricot pudding.....but to look at the flower more objectively, the reason I like it is that the flower head, while nice and full, seems to be on a fairly short, sturdy stem.... held close to the foliage.  So many full- headed primulas have floppy stems which spoil their looks.

[johnw]

I still cannot see the flower! But I think I know what Luit is meaning... in the smaller clump of leaves, to the left of center, behind the main yellowish group in the forground, there is a green "arrangement" in the middle of the leaves which looks very like a small green zantedeschia flower!  It's in the same pic, John.

Yes, that's what I saw first. Here is the pict. again and I marked both "flowers"

Ok Maggo and Luit - those are unfurling leaves, The flower of Symplocarpus is quite unlike Lysichiton and more resembles an Arisaema! It is the brown sinister item at the very base of the crown of the plant in the foreground (DSCN1016). It has a curved hood pointing to the right and the flower is almost touching the edge of the water. See Luit's lowest set of arrows, go to the arrow on the extreme right and drop down about 2 arrow heights.  The tip of the hood is touching a very small green basal leaf which in turn is touching an unopened brown flower.

Got you on this one!

johnw 

[Paul T]

Superb photos as always Michael.  A joy to behold.  That Dianthus looks so tiny and compact.  And that paraquilegia. 

[Lvandelft]

See Luit's lowest set of arrows, go to the arrow on the extreme right and drop down about 2 arrow heights.

I know what you mean Johnw, but I learned from my grandson to use some Magix Design Programme, but it is for me not so magical, because after I put the arrows in I could not move them down and I gave up.
I'll stay a PC dummy then...........

[Kenneth K]

The spring is coming very fast now. Everything seems to flower at the same time. Here are two example from yesterday. One from the bulb bed, Hyacinthella dalmatica 'Grandiflora' and one from the woodland, Soldanella montana.

[Susan Band]

No problem there with your Soldanella not flowering, Kenneth