April 2019 in the Northern Hemisphere

[ebbie]

Iris bucharica

[ebbie]

Asphodelus acaulis

[Gerdk]

Incredible! Is the plant growing outside? with shelter of a piece of glass?

Anyway - congratulations for growing this tricky plant so successful!

[ebbie]

Thanks Gerd. Asphodelus acaulis is in my small alpine house. It really blooms very abundant this year.

[fermi de Sousa]

Asphodelus acaulis

What a brilliant plant!
Thanks for sharing,
cheers
fermi

[Gerdk]

Anemone pavonina from Northern Macedonia

Gerd

[Gabriela]

Asphodelus acaulis

Very beautiful indeed!

Anemone pavonina from Northern Macedonia
Gerd

And so is this Anemone Gerd.

[Gerdk]

Thank you Gabriela!

Gerd

[Leena]

Spring is advancing steady but slowly. Every night it's been below freezing but days have been sunny and almost +10C. Snow is melting, and more snowdrops are coming, and also early crocuses. Adonis amurensis is flowering as soon as snow melted. Hellebores are mostly still in bud just above ground, but some H.niger is already flowering, besides early H.multifidus. I don't mind the cold nights (as long as they are not too cold), it prolongs spring for me.

[Hoy]

Real spring today, +15C this evening.


Caltha palustris


Skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanus


Sanguinaria canadensis - bad photo!


Erythronium dens-canis cv.


Shortia uniflora

[David Nicholson]

Real spring today, +15C this evening.

Yup, touch of moisture about too?   Nice plants Trond.

[Hoy]

Yup, touch of moisture about too?   Nice plants Trond.

No, not in the air. For once it is dry and the forecast says dry weather the next week! But the soil is saturated!

[Robert]

Hi Trond,

Your plants look great. 

I have seen Lysichiton americanus growing in the wild in Western Washington State, U.S.A. - Always in extremely moist, bog-like sites. It is defiantly not a plant for our summer hot, xeric California garden, but I get to enjoy your plant here on the forum. Shortia is another great plant. Beautiful, but not for us. Too hot and dry.

Right now it seems hard to believe it will be hot (>38 C) in a month or two at our Sacramento, California garden. Currently we are getting much rain. It will not be a drought year!  If the rain stops I hope that I will have an opportunity to photograph some of the blooming plants. California native Alliums, Themidaceae, Frillaria, annuals (Layias looking especially nice and are reseeding around). I am especially pleased with our native Lathyrus sulphureus, but there is so much! Some of our native Ranunculus species are blooming, native Salvias. Our xeric (for the most part) garden is starting to take shape! 

Thanks for sharing the plants from your garden.

[Leucogenes]

Unfortunately only one flower...  but for the production of seeds it should be enough...  Townsendia alpigena (T. montana)

[Philip Walker]

Also,only one flower
Townsendia hookeri