Author Topic: May 2019 in the Northern Hemisphere (Read 15464 times)

kris · « **Reply #30 on:** May 05, 2019, 05:34:09 AM »

Quote from: illingworth on May 05, 2019, 03:28:12 AM

Lots happening in the Northern Hemisphere ! Our winter in northwestern Ontario has been too long and the last snow ( 8 inches plus ) was on Monday April 29th. Most of that has now gone and a few things are starting to move in the garden. For us our best show so far is Erythronium caucasicum (photo) The seed originally came from a forumist in Moscow. Following closely is Erythronium sibiricum which is about a week behind E. caucasicum.

-Rob

You have some fantastic plants. I have Erythronium sibericum but every year they fight with Mother Nature to survive.

Rob I looked at your garden pictures for the first time. Breath taking!!!

I have some plants coming up slowly in the garden
The pulsatilla seedling -the colour is really lovely and I can't able to capture it with my camera.
1.Pulsatilla sp
2.Douglasia montana
3.Drabe dedeana

kris · « **Reply #31 on:** May 05, 2019, 05:35:57 AM »

4.Phlox pulvinata
5. Two Townsendias

Yann · « **Reply #32 on:** May 05, 2019, 03:34:19 PM »

An Achillea, i collected seeds at 2530m just below the Skala summit in Olympos mountains. I guess it's Achillea erba-rotta subsp. olympica .

Leucogenes · « **Reply #33 on:** May 05, 2019, 03:46:00 PM »

Quote from: Yann on May 05, 2019, 03:34:19 PM

An Achillea, i collected seeds at 2530m just below the Skala summit in Olympos mountains. I guess it's Achillea erba-rotta subsp. olympica .

An absolute dream... Yann. A beautiful subspecies, which I do not know yet. The flowers look very untypical for Achillea.
Many thanks for showing...also wonderfully set in scene.

Yann · « **Reply #34 on:** May 05, 2019, 04:11:37 PM »

The scene was really better in the "mountains of Gods", the summit is one of the most difficult i experienced.
The normal way from Prinia need 2 days but i took the shortest road....
I had to secure my position and take photos with one hand. No need to say autofocus was on, no manual setting

Not far away the house the orchids are in buds, too cold now to open.

jomowi · « **Reply #35 on:** May 05, 2019, 07:12:05 PM »

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Exquisite saturation of color, Maureen! The clematis is pretty, too.

Thank you Rick. The Clematis is C. tenuiloba columbiana 'Ylva'. I bought it in 2014 and while it has become a mini-thug (I'm not complaining) it has never had more than a couple of flowers until this year. I put this improvement down to last summer's unseasonably (for us) hot weather. I tried to post a pic. of it with the gentians, but the file size was too big, so I left it off. I then tried to post it separately and it said the file size was too big. This puzzled me because the combined file size of the unreduced gentian pics was 6.4MB and the Clematis unreduced is 3 MB, yet the system let me post the reduced pair of gentians, but not the single reduced Clematis. Am about to try again, and if it rejects it this time, I will post it as a thumb nail.
Maureen

Gabriela · « **Reply #36 on:** May 06, 2019, 01:55:58 AM »

Quote from: jomowi on May 04, 2019, 08:42:47 PM

Gentiana angustifolia 'Pirin'
Maureen

Fantastic colour, nothing beats a blue gentian.

illingworth · « **Reply #37 on:** May 06, 2019, 02:02:07 AM »

Thank you Kris. If you saw anything in our garden you would like to try let me know. I should you seed of our Erythronium sibericum as it seems to flourish here in all the places we have planted it.

-Rob

Gabriela · « **Reply #38 on:** May 06, 2019, 02:03:04 AM »

Quote from: Rick R. on May 05, 2019, 02:30:40 AM

Exquisite saturation of color, Maureen! The clematis is pretty, too.

Gabriela, yes, the link about Claytonia virginica said: tubers half inch to 2 inches in diameter!
When I was a kid, I gathered Amphicarpaea bracteata "nuts", and it took forever to get a half cupful. (I spent a lot of time in the woods around my house.) But as I grew older and explored other areas, I did find the species grew more robustly elsewhere. But "nuts" were hardly any bigger, just more plentiful. Tastes very sweet with just a hint of nuttiness.

I can verify that Claytonia virginica seed is difficult to harvest. I've been putzing with methods, and the last thing I tried is to just gather some ripe podded stems, put them in a bowl and wait a day or so for the seed to eject. They do explode, so you need a loose cover so the seeds don't fly all over the table. LOL I am guessing that any seed that ejects after three days likely won't be viable. What do you think, Gabriela?

Perhaps my garden is too dry for sibirica's liking. But sometime, I will try again. My original seed came from Todd Boland in New Foundland, Canada. He says the seed isn't recalcitrant. I "winter sowed" dry seed at the end of February, and it came up fine.

Re collecting Claytonia seeds Rick: because the capsules mature gradually and are really small, I try to compromise and take the whole stems just when they are about to go dormant. I place them in a paper lunch bag where indeed they will 'explode' but it's fine. They are not that recalcitrant, can stay dry for even a couple of weeks.

If I would have them in the garden and for small seeds quantity then of course I could collect few capsules one by one. Unfortunately I cannot keep up with the squirrels appetite.

Gabriela · « **Reply #39 on:** May 06, 2019, 02:04:56 AM »

Very nice Erythronium Rob and Kris - your Douglasia looks wonderful. I should give it try sometimes.

François Lambert · « **Reply #40 on:** May 06, 2019, 12:22:27 PM »

Flowering in the lawn now is the Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis). The English name for the flower is confusing for us, because we call Silene Dioica (red campion) day-cuckoo flower over here. And these last ones are also in full bloom now. To make it even more complicated, we also have the night-cuckoo flower (silene noctiflora). I need to check, but I think there are also loads of these flowering in the area. The only thing that I haven't seen or heard yet this year is a real cuckoo - the bird.

Robert · « **Reply #41 on:** May 06, 2019, 03:12:05 PM »

A few more flowers from our garden.

Dichelostemma multiflorum

These are from seed I gathered on Peavine Ridge, El Dorado County, California.

Dichelostemma multiflrorum CU

Triteleia bridgesii

Triteleia bridgesii 2

Penstemon purpusii from seed I gathered on Snow Mountain. This species is a real gem. I have many more seedlings coming on. For me it is preferable to grow a breeding population of a species, rather than a single specimen.