May 2019 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Leucogenes]

Campanula alpestris and Eriogonum umbellatum var.(?) are the only colour accents today.

[shelagh]

Brian and I have had this plant for about 5 years and it has never flowered. Brian spotted what he thought might be buds and a couple of days later these appeared. They are very very small but beautiful. Junellia thymeifolia.

[Leucogenes]

Brian and I have had this plant for about 5 years and it has never flowered. Brian spotted what he thought might be buds and a couple of days later these appeared. They are very very small but beautiful. Junellia thymeifolia.

Wow... what a beauty. Like most South Americans, the leaves are a feast for the eyes. My admiration and congratulations to the successful flowering. 👍

Cheers
Thomas

[Leucogenes]

I got this Townsendia last spring. Townsendia scabigera. Since I can't find any helpful information and pictures about this species on the internet, I'm at a loss whether it really is this species.

The foliage is slightly wider than with T. hookeri...but not as wide and floured as with my T. spatulata.
The flower has a conspicuous red coloration on the underside and a little pink in the visible area. Also the size of the flower differs somewhat from my other Townsendias. It is slightly thicker in the base.

If someone can give an exact ID here, I would be very grateful.

Cheers
Thomas

[Yann]

Orchis militaris at its best this year, these ones are from Belgium not far away the garden of mister Luc Gilgemyn :+)

[ian mcdonald]

Interesting beast there, Yann.

[Leena]

First peony has started to flower here, P.mairei. P.obovata just opening it's buds this morning, in the picture, together with Anemone x lipsiensis, Tulipa sylvestris and Brunnera macrophylla.

[Leena]

Sanguinaria canadensis 'Late Snow' is flowering right now, well after ordinary form of Sanguinaria. Last year when the beginning of May was hotter, the difference in flowering time was not so big, and even 'Late Snow' flowered almost the same time as others. This year there have been more cold nights.

[Gail]

Nice Sanguinaria Leena.
Here we are onto Convallaria and I like one of my new ones - Fernwood Golden Slippers. When the flowers first open they are a definite primrose yellow.

[Yann]

a few ones from this evening

Iris sambucina
Saxifraga vayredana
Globularia bellidifolia
an unknow Silene from China that set seeds everywhere 

[Leena]

Primulas are flowering well.
Tulipa norwegica has multiplied also well, and the third picture is of an old very scented Narcissus poeticus I got from an old farmhouse nearby. It's origin is unknown, it has "always" grown there.

[Lampwick]

Flowering now 

Aethionema armenum ‘Warley Rose’
Anthyllis montana rubra
Globularia bellidifolia
Phlox adsurgens 'Wagon Wheel'
Phlox-caespitosa 'Zigenuerblut'

[Yann]

those Phlox are great! how old is your G. bellidifolia?

[Leucogenes]

Chamaecytisus hirsutus-agg. from southwestern Macedonia (1850 m) is only a few centimetres high and is flowering for the first time.

Androsace studiosorum from northern India has a loose growth with long foothills.

[Lampwick]

those Phlox are great! how old is your G. bellidifolia?

Hello Yann, The many Phlox varieties do put on a good show don’t they?

The G. bellidifolia is/was a small cutting I took about 3+ years ago from a much older plant which
succumbed to a black blight to its leaves, but the cuttings don’t appear to have inherited this defect . . . yet!

Two more pictures.

Rhododendron 'Blue Peter'
Veronica prostrata 'Spode Blue.'