June in the Northern Hemisphere 2018

[Leucogenes]

Two representatives from the Sierra Nevada...recorded last weekend.

Digitalis obscura
Eryngium glaciale

[Lampwick]

Two representatives from the Sierra Nevada...recorded last weekend.

Digitalis obscura

Digitalis obscura. . What a wonderful colour! It looks as if they have absorbed the colour from the surrounding rocks.

[Lesley Cox]

I ADORE the blue caltha. I thought first it was a superior Anemone obtusiloba patula until I noticed the foliage. I didn't know there WAS a blue caltha. C. barthei is wonderful too.

Leptospermum 'Red Damask' must be one of the very oldest cultivated forms of the "manuka, " (of honey fame) and native to New Zealand of course. Certainly I've known it all my 75 yr life and my mother had a plant when I was a small child in Invercargill. I have it now but as with all the manukas, it tends to get a black rust after a while, while is ugly and many people won't grow it because of that. It can be controlled with a systemic fungicide and I think the wonderfully coloured double flowers  (compared with the smaller, white wild forms) are worth the effort. Very nice to see it thriving in the UK.

I had some packets of Barnhaven seed arrive this week, just 3 days from France, yet others from other northern hemisphere sources have take up to a month! I believe all the world's postal systems have gone mad recently. Our own post offices are delivering only 3 days a week now, the excuse being that emails have so depleted the quantities of regular letters.  But we don't know WHICH 3 days so the mail tends to arrive on random occasions, i suspect on those days when there is advertising or "junk" mail as well.

[ian mcdonald]

Scottish primrose is flowering for the second time.

[David Nicholson]

David, your campanula photos have me wishing I could grow them better. Never mind names, they are all gorgeous.  My garden is blue at the moment but unfortunately not campanulas, they won't put  up with the lack
of water and either limp along or don't bloom. The blue here is supplied by Moltkia petraea. One exception here is
Campanula betulifolia, which seems to handle drought better than the rest of them. Loved all your pictures.

Thanks Anne. We haven't seen any pictures from your garden for what seems ages?

[Leucogenes]

Prometheum sempevivoides starts flowering...

[Leucogenes]

Since this spring I have a small group of Douglasia nivalis in the Alpinum. To my surprise I discovered a flower today. 😀

[Leena]

In my garden it is now peony-time.
In more shady bed Primula sieboldii (from Barnhaven seeds) is wonderful and my favourite. it also flowers for quite a long time, longer than many peonies.

[Maggi Young]

Since this spring I have a small group of Douglasia nivalis in the Alpinum. To my surprise I discovered a flower today. 😀

Happy birthday, Thomas!!

[Leucogenes]

Happy birthday, Thomas!!

Thank you for the congratulations...dear Maggi. What a great honor for me..😊

Thomas

[David Nicholson]

Just a mere boy Thomas A very Happy Birthday.

[David Nicholson]

Very pretty, but I don't think about 38cm high is really 'Compactum'

Linum flavum 'Compactum'  (lots of 'ums' there!)

[ashley]

In eastern Finland last week:

Maianthemum bifolium
Silene dioica
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Viola canina (?)
close to midnight, Pyhäjärvi

[ashley]

At Helsinki Botanic Gardens

Helenium hoopesii
Allium ochotense

[ashley]

Paeonies were at their best.