Flowers and foliage May 2008

[hadacekf]

Luit,
You have an interesting garden with beautiful plants.
Grow the plants in pure sand?

[hadacekf]

Kristl.
Super pics and plants.
For the first time I see a true A. akaka in a garden!

[Kristl Walek]

Luit, I was thinking the same thing as Franz about your garden---really wonderful to see the troughs and fascinating, low raised beds and your sand area...beautifully done!!!! It's amazing how well so many things will grow in pure sand, isn't it?

[ranunculus]

Beautiful postings everyone!

[Anthony Darby]

Wandered down to the High Street in Dunblane today and took the camera. First pic is of a lovely rhododendron and viburnum in St Margaret's drive. Then Erinus alpinus the Fairy Foxglove, which grows on many walls. These were in St Mary's Drive, as was Cymbalaria muralis (Ivy-leaved toadflax). Coming back, I found this Arenaria balearicum growing an a wall. I look for it every year as it grows nowhere else that I can see - on the moss of a 6' front garden wall of a huge house in The Crescent. The nearest rockery must be 50 yards across a lawn. Oh, and a pig in a shop window for Maggi. Only 63 notes Maggi! mmm - never rains but it pours, (except we haven't had any for over a week). Just noticed the 'v' on my computer only works if I wallop it and I've only just replaced the monitor and destroyed a gremlin in my hard drive!

[Lvandelft]

Kristl and Franz, sand is the only soil here.
The place where I am is so called "first class bulb sand", this means that it is course sand,
with enough humidity and good drainage. The plants are never standing to wet.
On my new raised bed I'm now trying to grow some bulbous plants which need a warm
period while resting. The sand in this bed is getting real dry and hot, when not raining for
some weeks in summer.
But the sand does have limits in choosing plants that will grow here, so no Rhododendron etc.,
but for instance orchids like Dactylorhiza or Cypripedium are thriving here very good.
So no reason being unhappy here.
My troughs is a different story. I collected more han 40 in different sizes.
When running our nursery I had no time to plant them and now I don't plant them,
because I would have to stay at home watering them, instead of making trips around
or make longer journeys.

[hadacekf]

Very  interesting plants in the High Street in Dunblane!

[Viola]

Narzissus poeticus maedow.

Karl

[Anthony Darby]

Goodness gracious me!

[Paddy Tobin]

Karl,

What extraordinary beauty!

Many thanks for your photographs. Paddy

[Kristl Walek]

Karl,
I have no words...

Thank you.

[Ian Minty]

What a beautiful sight.
Oh to have something like that at the bottom of your garden!
Do you know if there are any bulbs flowering before that?

[Viola]

Another pics from the Narissusmaedow from yesterday.

Karl

Narzissus poeticus
Lunaria rediviva
Thalictrum aquilegifolia

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Out of this world !!! 
Thank you very much Karl !

[Ian Minty]

Never mind the Mediteranean - I want to go there for my summer holidays!