Flowers and foliage May 2008

[Kristl Walek]

Aaron....you are brilliant!!! The Viola certainly looks like a match with V. palmata (and perhaps even var. dilatata)...I will look at my plants more carefully today.

This is a PS to my note this morning---following up on Arisaema's note in a subsequent post, I have been doing a bit of research.

Found this link quite interesting:
http://www.woodlotalt.com/publications/BotNotesv1n8.pdf

[Joakim B]

Nice plants Hans
You have great plants in Your garden
Is Nigritella rubra or is it an other one?
Kind regards
Joakim

[johanneshoeller]

Yes, I think it is ruba.
2 Leontopodium, Corydalis spec.? (a seedling from my garden) and 3 Arisaema (candidissimum and ?). The other plants are grown from my friend, my Arisaema have just started to grow!

[Kenneth K]

My favourite Magnolia is M wilsonii. Very nice flowers and the best of it is, that they are showing them downwards so we can enjoy them from the ground. I sowed it in 1997 and the little tree showed its first flower this week. I feel a little proud and want to show a picture taken this afternoon.

[WimB]

Hello Hans,

I think all three Arisaema's are Arisaema candidissimum; the first one is the white form.

Wim

[johanneshoeller]

Hello Wim,
thank you for the informations. I was not sure.

[David Nicholson]

My favourite Magnolia is M wilsonii. Very nice flowers and the best of it is, that they are showing them downwards so we can enjoy them from the ground. I sowed it in 1997 and the little tree showed its first flower this week. I feel a little proud and want to show a picture taken this afternoon.

One to be very proud of Kenneth.

[Tony Willis]

Kenneth absolutely lovely and one to be proud of.We  think it is the most beautiful of the magnolias

[arisaema]

Kristl;

Compare your violet with V. x bernardii (syn. V. subsinuata) as well, your plant looks identical to what I received from Jelitto under that name. The American Violet Society has them both in their key.


Some pics from the last couple of weeks below:

Polygonatum stewartianum (received as P. prattii CLD325)
Anemonella 'Oscar Shoaf'
Penstemon venustus
Primula 'Garryarde Guinevere'
Paris sp. - ID anyone?
Cypripedium flavum
Arisaema elephas (?)
Podophyllum aurantiocaule ssp. furfuraceum (in bud)

[Paddy Tobin]

Kenneth,

This is simply a fabulous magnolia. Well done on flowering it from seed. You have a plant to treasure.


Arisaema,

P. stewartianum is an amazing plant, fabulous.

Paddy

[Kristl Walek]

Kenneth....I feel your well-deserved pride all the way across the ocean.....and from another happy grower of trees, I know the feeling well. What I want to know now is what minimum temperatures your seedling has survived until now, because I want to grow one instantly!!!

[Kristl Walek]

Arisaema sikokianum, which I forgot to post (much) earlier...

A good way to actually *see* Phyteuma nigra...

The Paeonia anomala types are in full swing. This is a large drift of var. veitchii.

[Kenneth K]

Kristl!
My temperature notes are from our flat in town but normally the temperature is about the same in the garden by the summer house. The lowest temperature during this time is from januari and februari 2003 when we had -16 C. No winter injuries so far.

In the botanical garden of Gothenburg they have a couple of trees that are much older than mine and I am quite sure that they have experienced temperatures down to -20 and maybe below that.

[WimB]

Kristl,

your garden is simply extraordinary 
I especially like the Phyteuma nigra. It's very nice in contrast with the Hosta leafs.

[Kristl Walek]

Kenneth,
Hmmm, that's pretty far out of range for me---even with global warming--I am average -35C (sometimes it has been -40 or colder), although last winter was *very* mild (-25 to -30C for only brief periods).