Flowers and foliage May 2008

[Lesley Cox]

I'm very pleased to see Iris `Patina' which I no longer have. It was a gift to me many years ago from a very elderly lady, long dead now and she had had it from an even more elderly American lady, even longer dead. Apart from my own, I've never seen a plant of it in any garden. In reality, the colour is a greyish, smokey cinnamon shade and so beautifully named.

[WimB]

Hello Lesley,

I bought Iris 'Patina' from a french company called "Cayeux". It sells hundreds of different Irisses, the one even more beautiful than the other but you probably know it 

Here are 2 more Close-ups of 'Patina' for your enjoyment!

[Hagen Engelmann]

FEU DU CIEL, another very fine iris from Cayeux.

[Magnar]

Some pics from my garden this morning:

Pulsatilla tatewaki


Ranunculus crenatus


Trollius laxus albiflorus

[Viola]

Pics from my garden from yesterday.

Karl

[Viola]

Edreianthus pumilio of duffstone.

Karl

[johanneshoeller]

A visit in one of the most beautiful gardens.
Who knows the correct names?

[art600]

Hans

I believe the first picture and sixth picture show Iris acutiloba, and the last one Iris paradoxa choschab

[Kenneth K]

Some pictures from the weekend, two from the shadow and one from the sun.
1 Disporum flavens (I believe the name in english is Fairy Bells)
2. Anemone udensis
3. Aethionema armenum 'Warley Rose'

[Lvandelft]

A visit in one of the most beautiful gardens.
Who knows the correct names?

Which garden, Hans?

Pict. nr. 3 ? Campanula aucheri?
Pict. nr. 5: Iris elegantissima (also shown in Iris Onco's in Flower by Zhirair (Boyed)
in the wild habitat.

[Lvandelft]

Karl, your rockgarden is very good looking with some very interesting and
beautiful plants in it. Thanks for showing.

[annew]

At last I have some time to post some photos, so I apologise if I am repeating anyone else's posts. Here are some plants I'm enjoying in my garden just now: Paeonia mlokosewitschii ( hope the right spelling!), one of the few flowers she gave me, and P. kavachensis at her first flowering. Alchemilla erythropoda in the dew, and Paris quadrifilia flowering exceptionally well this year. A Dodecatheon self-sown seedling, and Tulipa 'Blue Heron'.

[annew]

Look away now if you don't like ferns - I love them!
Dryopteris x complexa 'Crispum Stableri', Polystichum setiferum 'Pulcherrimum Bevis' bending over backwards at it unfurls. Polystichum setiferum (plumosum Divisilobum Group) 'Othello' group of three plants, and Polystichum setiferum 'Plumosomultilobum' with its very scaly croziers.

[annew]

And finally, a magnificent Paeonia rockii  in a friend's garden  .

[Lesley Cox]

I never have been much of a fern fan but your post here Anne, and others previously have converted me to the extent that I'm actually buying a few. They do turn up in odd cool places in the garden as well. They look very nice with the Bowles' Golden Grass (above, Millium effusum 'Aureum').