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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #75 on: May 09, 2008, 07:15:34 PM »

Michael your the expert any idea on these 2 they suddenly appeard about 3 years ago from my own seed
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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #76 on: May 09, 2008, 07:35:58 PM »
They look like Longipetala  x cotyledon hybs and good ones at that. Do you grow Longipetala?   

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #77 on: May 09, 2008, 07:47:34 PM »
Michael, those are cracking Lewisia rediviva hybrids, absolutely beautiful.

I've just bought Lewisia longipetala x rediviva 'Michael Campbell' from Susan Tindall and will try and post a picture of it in the next few days.

Kata, if your L. cotyledon seedlings are in a peat/sand/perlite mix then in my view a liquid feed with a dilute (about half strength) balanced feed would't do them any harm. Dont water it on but give your seed pot a soak from below. When they are big enough to handle conveniently get them into a well drained soil based potting mix.
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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #78 on: May 09, 2008, 07:57:05 PM »
Kata,I agree with David,feed them ,they are gross feeders.

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #79 on: May 09, 2008, 08:05:58 PM »
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I'd love some of these wonderful hybrids. 
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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #80 on: May 09, 2008, 09:20:53 PM »
Primula Janet watts.
Primula viscosa.
Tulbagia violaica alba.

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #81 on: May 09, 2008, 10:19:32 PM »
Very nice pictures everyone,

here are some of the plants that are flowering in my garden this week.

1 Calceolaria 'Walter Shrimpton'
2 Cypripedium 'Emil' (Frosch hybrid)
3 Houstonia caerulea
4 Iris 'Snugglebug'
5 Lewisia (hybrid)
6 Papaver
7 Polygale calcarea 'Lillet'
8 Primula japonica 'Miller's crimson'
9 Sarracenia leucophylla

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #82 on: May 09, 2008, 10:57:42 PM »
Michael,

Stunning pictures, but Oh those Lewisia!!!  :o  Amazing!!

Wim,

I love that Calceolaria in particular.  Such a cutie!!  Not something we see here in Aus, or at least not in my experience.  Always nice to see them here. 8)
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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #83 on: May 10, 2008, 06:59:49 AM »
Fine pics, Wim.

Your Papaver might be Meconopsis cambrica - which is able to occupy a whole garden quickly.

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #84 on: May 10, 2008, 08:56:11 AM »
Yes Gerd,

the papaver is Meconopsis cambrica indeed, thanks for the name, I had forgotten it completely.
It selfseeds very easily but it is removed very easily also, so I like it.

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #85 on: May 10, 2008, 10:31:01 AM »
Just a few from my garden this week.
First a Rhododendron that has followed me around 3 different gardens. It must be over 15 years old now, I remember it as 'Scarlet wonder'.
Second and third anybody got a name for this Rhodo?
Primula 'Victoria De Wemys'
Pleione tolima planted out in the garden.
Finally Romulea tortuosa first flowers from SRGC seed.
Hemsworth, West Yorkshire

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #86 on: May 10, 2008, 11:21:52 AM »
Does the name 'Cunningham's Blush'  or 'Cunningham's White' ring any bells for your rhodo, Mick?
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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #87 on: May 10, 2008, 12:49:31 PM »
Wonderful flower pics all of you  :)

Here's a few from my North Norwegian garden today. Even with a little snow blowing in the air they keep flowering :

Helleborus niger ssp macranthus


Saxifraga x landaueri Leonora


Corydalis solida White Knight


Fritillaria latifolia

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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #88 on: May 10, 2008, 12:59:48 PM »
Magnar, we enjoy your plant photos, but please keep your snow to yourself up there in Norway  ;)
We have had better weather here and are hoping to keep it a bit longer!!

The Saxifraga x landaueri Leonora is a fine little plant... love the colour in the stems and flowers :)
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Re: Flowers and foliage May 2008
« Reply #89 on: May 10, 2008, 03:34:52 PM »
there are so many beauties flowering at this moment, that my eye keeps getting pulled to superb foliage....
so many species....so little time

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