Flowers and foliage May 2008

[johanneshoeller]

Some ordinary plants in and around my garden

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I love your "ordinary" plants Hans ! 

[Joakim B]

Hans lovely to have such "ordinary" plants around You.

It looks like the second picture and the fourth from the top are orchids are they growing in Your garden or outside?
It looks like Epipactis palustris? (is it not early?) for the first and orchis  ?? for the second. Nice plants.
Sorry that I try to guess Your plants but I am trying to learn to identify them so I use this as an exercise. (Maybe not needed in public but others may correct me if I am wrong.)

Kind regards
Joakim

[johanneshoeller]

Joakim,
the orchids are Corallorhiza trifida and - I think so - Orchis mascula signifera.
The Androsace is x marpensis, the last pic shows Dianthus alpinus.
The orchids grow in the meadow out of my garden.

[Joakim B]

Thanks Hans
I thought I knew something, and I did, not the one I thought I knew though.
It looked quite like an epipactis so I did not think of others. The foliage and lack there of would have given a totally different picture. Now I realized that the foliage also is important when identifying plants.
Kind regards
Joakim

[Viola]

Pics from today - Austrian Mt.

Karl

Viola biflora
Clematis alpina
Gentiana clusii
Cortusa mathioli
Ranunculus alpestris
Lunaria rediviva

[Armin]

     
Iris unknown  ex E. Pagels 1                 
Iris unknown  ex E. Pagels 2           

Hi Luit,
your Iris resembles a very pale form of I.sibirica I grow in my garden too.
You have a wonderful garden.

[Paddy Tobin]

Viola,

Beautiful photographs. I particularly like Cortusa mathiola

[Tony Willis]

back from Greece to find some arum's in flower

[Anthony Darby]

I like Arum balansanum. Is it growing outside?

[Magnar]

Thanks to all of you for beautiful and interesting plant pics.
A few from North Norway today:

Adonis pyrenaica.


Anemone parviflora


Trollius asiaticus

[Tony Willis]

I like Arum balansanum. Is it growing outside?

No  that one is not but I threw some old potting compost on the garden and it must have had some off sets in it and they have now established themselves.

[Kristl Walek]

Most Dodecatheon are easy plants in the garden---but I do have some difficulty getting D. dentatum to thrive (perhaps a wetter spot?). My clones are tiny---3" at most.

And, can anyone help identify this Viola? The foliage is the unique feature. I seem to recall an Asian species name?

[Afloden]

 Kristl,
 I think the violet looks like Viola palmata from the Southeastern US. I once grew a cultivar called "Donkey Head" that had leaves very similar to that, but with pinkish flowers.

 You can see almost all the Viola of Japan here; http://www.plantsindex.com/
 
 If that doesn't work search for Viola in the search box on that site. You should get 95 species to choose from, but none with leaves like that. Chaerophylla, eizanensis, and a few others are palmate also but very dissected.

 Speaking of Viola from Japan, does anyone know where to get some of the species? There are many I would like to try.

 Aaron Floden
 Knoxville, TN

[johanneshoeller]

Androsace bulleyana, Dianthus spec. and Nigritella im my garden