We hope you have enjoyed the SRGC Forum. You can make a Paypal donation to the SRGC by clicking the above button

« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 10 11 [12] 13 14 ... 22   Go Down

Author Topic: Flowers and foliage May 2008  (Read 72501 times)

ranunculus

  • utterly butterly
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5069
  • Country: england
  • ALL BUTTER AND LARD
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #165 on: May 15, 2008, 01:22:19 PM »
You would grow it to perfection Luc....

Managed to find a couple of shots of my plant that gained the Farrer Medal at Southport AGS Show a few years ago (and, as a smaller plant, at East Cheshire AGS Show prior to that).

It is still very much alive (as are some of it's equally good progeny), but it has yet to produce a flower bud this season and Southport Show is just two days away!!   :(
Logged
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

ranunculus

  • utterly butterly
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5069
  • Country: england
  • ALL BUTTER AND LARD
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #166 on: May 15, 2008, 01:24:44 PM »
I must also mention that these images were captured a couple of days after the show...the plant DID look better on the day!   :D
Logged
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

Luc Gilgemyn

  • VRV President & Channel Hopper
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5528
  • Country: be
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #167 on: May 15, 2008, 05:00:56 PM »
Marvelous plant Cliff - a real stunner !
Thank you for taking it out of the closet for me  ;)
Logged
Luc Gilgemyn
Harelbeke - Belgium

hadacekf

  • Alpine Meadow Specialist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 953
  • Country: at
    • Franz Hadacek's Alpines And Bulbs
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #168 on: May 15, 2008, 06:30:12 PM »
Cliff,
Wonderful plants and photos. My congratulation!
R. seguieri is a difficult plant.
Logged
Franz Hadacek  Vienna  Austria

Franz Hadacek's Alpines And Bulbs
http://www.franz-alpines.org

Lesley Cox

  • way down south !
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16348
  • Country: nz
  • Gardening forever, house work.....whenever!
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #169 on: May 15, 2008, 08:35:19 PM »
Truly superb!!! I first saw this species at Mike and Polly Stone's garden at Askival, 27 years ago. I've hankered after it ever since. :'(
Logged
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

Armin

  • Prized above rubies
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2531
  • Country: de
  • Confessing Croconut
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #170 on: May 15, 2008, 09:09:10 PM »
Quote from: johanneshoeller on May 13, 2008, 02:57:36 PM
Part 2 (Rhod. cham., Gentiana verna, Cyp. calceolus, ?)

Hans,
super meadow flowers around your area 8) It opens my heart and I'm very pleased to see it.
On the other hand, I'm getting annoyed - people cut their meadows already now :'(
No flowers can set seeds with the result of gras monoculture / desert...

BTW -The small river smells of fresh fish. Brown trouts there?
Logged
Best wishes
Armin

ranunculus

  • utterly butterly
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5069
  • Country: england
  • ALL BUTTER AND LARD
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #171 on: May 15, 2008, 10:15:09 PM »
Just as a matter of interest I will post an image of the best R. seguieri that we have seen in the wild...the photo was taken on the Sella Pass in the Dolomites.
Logged
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

WimB

  • always digs deeper...
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2631
  • Country: be
    • Vlaamse Rotsplanten Vereniging
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #172 on: May 16, 2008, 05:57:02 PM »
flowering in my garden this week:

1 Clematis ?
2 Iris "Andalou"
3 Iris "Patina"
4 Iris ?
5 Iris ?
6 Phyteuma scheuzeri
Logged
Wim Boens - Secretary VRV (Flemish Rock Garden Society) - Seed exchange manager Crocus Group
Wingene Belgium zone 8a

Flemish Rock Garden society (VRV): http://www.vrvforum.be/
Facebook page VRV: http://www.facebook.com/pages/VRV-Vlaamse-Rotsplanten-Vereniging/351755598192270

Hans J

  • Gardener and Gourmet
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4165
  • Country: de
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #173 on: May 16, 2008, 07:24:39 PM »
Hi  :)

Today has flowered here :

Cistus purpureus
Cistus X 'Grayswood Pink'
Helianthemum yellow
Linum narbonense
Logged
"The bigger the roof damage, the better the view"(Alexandra Potter)

Luc Gilgemyn

  • VRV President & Channel Hopper
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5528
  • Country: be
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #174 on: May 16, 2008, 08:45:31 PM »
From my garden this week :

1) Aethonema schistosum
2) Dianthus 'Inschriah Dazzler'
3) Auilegia x bertolonii
4) Asperula suberosa
5) Same A. suberosa - showing how it's struggling to stay from under an ever expanding conifer...
6) Delosperma congesta flowering it's heart out
7) Dianthus 'Nyewood Cream'
8) Phlox diffusa
9) Schiverecki podolica
10) Veronica 'Blue sheen'

Logged
Luc Gilgemyn
Harelbeke - Belgium

Lvandelft

  • Spy out IN the cold
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3785
  • Country: nl
  • Dutch Master
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #175 on: May 16, 2008, 09:23:14 PM »
Your alpines are doing very well, Luc. Are you not afraid the Asperula gets overgrown
by the conifer woods?
Hmm, I'm thinking about the Phlox, isn't that P. nivalis Nivea?  8)
Logged
Luit van Delft, right in the heart of the beautiful flowerbulb district, Noordwijkerhout, Holland.

Sadly Luit died on 14th October 2016 - happily we can still enjoy his posts to the Forum

Luc Gilgemyn

  • VRV President & Channel Hopper
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5528
  • Country: be
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #176 on: May 16, 2008, 09:28:18 PM »
Hi Luit !
You're right about the conifer, I'm afraid that in a not too distant future it will have to go...  :'(

As to the Phlox, I bought it from Graham Nicholls as P. diffusa...  ???
Logged
Luc Gilgemyn
Harelbeke - Belgium

Lvandelft

  • Spy out IN the cold
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3785
  • Country: nl
  • Dutch Master
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #177 on: May 16, 2008, 09:43:30 PM »
When you see this picture Luc, you'll understand why I asked.
Here is a typical flower of P. diffusa
Logged
Luit van Delft, right in the heart of the beautiful flowerbulb district, Noordwijkerhout, Holland.

Sadly Luit died on 14th October 2016 - happily we can still enjoy his posts to the Forum

Hans J

  • Gardener and Gourmet
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4165
  • Country: de
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #178 on: May 17, 2008, 06:36:46 PM »
News from today :

Nectaroscordum bulgaricum
Helianthemum 'Red Orient'
Logged
"The bigger the roof damage, the better the view"(Alexandra Potter)

hadacekf

  • Alpine Meadow Specialist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 953
  • Country: at
    • Franz Hadacek's Alpines And Bulbs
Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #179 on: May 17, 2008, 07:14:45 PM »
Luc,
Many interesting and beautiful plants.  :)
Logged
Franz Hadacek  Vienna  Austria

Franz Hadacek's Alpines And Bulbs
http://www.franz-alpines.org
Pages: 1 ... 10 11 [12] 13 14 ... 22   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Scottish Rock Garden Club is a Charity registered with Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): SC000942
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal