June in the Northern Hemisphere 2018

[Maggi Young]

Start of June signals unseasonably warm and dry  weather  in Aberdeen - as we have had for some time now - most unusual and  means lots of watering to be done. However, the most wonderful thing SRGC -wise for the start of June is  the winning of the Premier Gold Medal  from the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society at the Gardening Scotland Show ! 
Yay!!  Well done that  gallant band of  volunteers for their  tremendous hard work and phenomenal success!





 More  pix and news from the GS show  here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=15871.0

[Parsla]

Bravo to all involved. A great honour well deserved.

[Leena]

June has started in hot and dry weather here but in my woodland bed in shade Meconopsis have started to flower. Pictures are from yesterday. This blue one flowers for the first time, it is grown from seed ex seeds Blue Fertile Group, and it is very blue and has big flowers (measured it was 11cm wide).
Yellow Meconopsis was grown from Trillium.no seeds from 2016 as M.integrifolia but I'm wondering if it is M.pseudointegrifolia?
Last picture is our native Trientalis europaea, which has planted itself next to seed grown small Rhododendron.

[kris]

Leena,that is a beautiful blue shade of Meconopsis. What kind of soil and type of environment it likes?. I heard that only acid soil is good for them.

[arisaema]

Yellow Meconopsis was grown from Trillium.no seeds from 2016 as M.integrifolia but I'm wondering if it is M.pseudointegrifolia?

Nice to see it in flower! All the M. integrifolia from 2016 are ssp. souliei, that's the only species growing in that part of N Sichuan. 16-081 would be the exception, but it was listed as a species - I still don't know exactly what it is 

[Leena]

Leena,that is a beautiful blue shade of Meconopsis. What kind of soil and type of environment it likes?. I heard that only acid soil is good for them.

Thank you Kirs. They grow in here in acid bed, pH about 5,5-6 I think, the same as I grow rhododendrons. It is moist shady place with plenty of leaf mold and rotted horse manure composted in peat added to the soil. I'm so happy that I have found a place where to grow Meconopsis!

Nice to see it in flower! All the M. integrifolia from 2016 are ssp. souliei, that's the only species growing in that part of N Sichuan. 16-081 would be the exception, but it was listed as a species - I still don't know exactly what it is 

Thank you! I'm new to Meconopsis, and in the internet I saw different shape of flowers in M.integrifolia, so that is why I was confused. My plants were seeds BO-15-127.
It is a beautiful plant, and the flower is very big, you can't see it in the picture, but it is maybe 10cm across. I'm so happy to have it growing here, and I must try to collect seeds from it in case it dies after flowering. Some seedlings don't flower yet this year. I has gone through two very cold and bad winters here so it is also quite hardy.
Here is another picture from last night, the flower shines in late night sun. This morning there were two open flowers in it.

[arisaema]

My plants were seeds BO-15-127.

That's from the Zhegushan pass. M. integrifolia ssp. souliei is a much better plant than what grows further west, it does look a lot like M. pseudointegrifolia with the big, open flowers. They are monocarpic but usually sets tons of seeds, so I hope you'll get it established permanently.

[Leucogenes]

Hello Kris

Since I know how much you like this plant, I took two photos of Campanula zoysii (Favratia zoysii) for you today. The flowering has only just begun and many more flowers will follow. I hope for good pollination and enough seeds for you. 😊

Thomas

[ashley]

Dursey Island, reached by cable car from the tip of the Beara peninsula, SW Ireland

Cerastium arvense
Armeria maritima

Pity I can't share the armeria's wonderful honey scent wafting in the warm breeze.

 

[Leucogenes]

Absolutely brilliant pictures...Ashley. What a gorgeous backdrop.👍

[ashley]

Thanks Thomas, but the reality is far better - plants, butterflies & other insects like iridescent green tiger beetles, sea-birds, cetaceans

[David Nicholson]

Lovely pictures Ashley, thanks for posting.

[Michael J Campbell]

Blandfordia punicea.

[Mike Ireland]

Incarvillea zhongdianensis doing very well in large trough, think the cool damp weather this year suits this plant.

[ian mcdonald]

Some of the flowers in bloom in the garden now.



A dwarf rhododendron.



Dactylorhizas.



Olearia macrodonta.



Corydalis.



Globularia repens.