March 2019 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Hoy]

Trond, what is the flowering plant in the middle in your second post? Cardamine?

Yes, it is a Cardamine. I bought it as Cardamine pentaphyllos white form. It is a bit similar to C. kitaibelii as Maggi suggests and I wonder if it can be a hybrid. In my garden C. kitaibelii has been in flower for several weeks, and the ordinary C. pentaphyllos has not started yet. This plant has just started blooming.

[Maggi Young]

Something starts flowering here. I do not know what it is, no label so far. May be a poor hyacinth or an unknown Fritillaria . . .
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A hyacinth I think - nice  greeny-yellow colour.

[Gabriela]

Yes, it is a Cardamine. I bought it as Cardamine pentaphyllos white form. It is a bit similar to C. kitaibelii as Maggi suggests and I wonder if it can be a hybrid. In my garden C. kitaibelii has been in flower for several weeks, and the ordinary C. pentaphyllos has not started yet. This plant has just started blooming.

Cardamine are very nice for spring, I wonder why they are not cultivated more extensive.

Arnold and Leena - indeed this is a time when one is happy for every green leaf, or even brown and every little flower. The warm up here is very slow and the ice layer is still thick in the shaded locations.  But in full sun areas the snow has retreated, and various species can now finally breath fresh air!

Anything looks beautiful right now







even the brownish leaves of Dryas 'Tundra Pygmy'

[Leena]

Yes, it is a Cardamine. I bought it as Cardamine pentaphyllos white form. It is a bit similar to C. kitaibelii as Maggi suggests and I wonder if it can be a hybrid. In my garden C. kitaibelii has been in flower for several weeks, and the ordinary C. pentaphyllos has not started yet. This plant has just started blooming.

Thank you Maggi, for posting the picture of C.kitaibelii.
I'm not familiar with it, and it looks like a very pretty spring plant.
Trond, I have C.glanduligera, which is very early here, it flowers the same time as late snowdrops and early crocuses. C.kitaibelii or your hybrid seems to be an early one as well. Have you ever noticed seeds in it?

[Leena]

indeed this is a time when one is happy for every green leaf, or even brown and every little flower.
Anything looks beautiful right now

I so agree with you. Every day snow melts a bit more and more plants become visible. It is so nice to say hello to them after the long winter.

[Hoy]

Cardamine are very nice for spring, I wonder why they are not cultivated more extensive.

Arnold and Leena - indeed this is a time when one is happy for every green leaf, or even brown and every little flower. The warm up here is very slow and the ice layer is still thick in the shaded locations.  But in full sun areas the snow has retreated, and various species can now finally breath fresh air!

Anything looks beautiful right now


even the brownish leaves of Dryas 'Tundra Pygmy'

Gabriela,

I miss the part of the spring when the snow slowly melts and recedes. When I lived in Oslo that was the nicest time of the year!

[Hoy]

Thank you Maggi, for posting the picture of C.kitaibelii.
I'm not familiar with it, and it looks like a very pretty spring plant.
Trond, I have C.glanduligera, which is very early here, it flowers the same time as late snowdrops and early crocuses. C.kitaibelii or your hybrid seems to be an early one as well. Have you ever noticed seeds in it?

Glandulifera is early but not the earliest. The one I pictured and one I obtained as kitaibelii are earlier. I will keep my eyes open and look for seeds. The problem is that they ripen in summer when I am away!

[Gabriela]

Talking Cardamine, here's the equally beautiful eastern NA C. concatenata. As Trond says the seeds are ready somewhere in June and the fruits are splitting open - not easy to collect.

[Leena]

There seems to be a lot of beautiful Cardamine around the world! I don't think any of them are available (or known) here.

[Roma]

Two good blue pulmonarias

Pulmonaria angustifolia
Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign'
Another good one is Pulmonaria 'Blue Crown' with spotted leaves but it is not in flower yet.

[David Nicholson]

Both nice ones Roma. I have ‘Blue Ensign’ but don’t seem to find anywhere in the garden where it will grow away. This year it’s produced a small handful of of leaves and one flower. Do you find it ‘miffy’?

[David Nicholson]

Dicentra cucullaria.

[Rick R.]

For me, Blue Ensign is not the most vigorous pulmonaria, but it does very well.  My problem child is Blaus Meer.

Blue Ensign

[Gail]

Dicentra cucullaria.

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Was that a buy-a-dicentra-get-an-anemone free offer David or did you already have the Anemone nemorosa growing there? My dicentra cucullaria isn't showing yet and I was wondering whether to give it a poke...

[Maggi Young]

Dicentra cucullaria has leaves just emerging here in Aberdeen.