Flowers and foliage May 2008

[Lvandelft]

Some plants of my garden in sunny and warm Holland (25 C.)
First near the drive a shrub which made itself comfortable in an old railway-sleeper

Aronia melanocarpa     
Aronia melanocarpa 2                   
     
In the backyard there is a rich flowering           

Choisya Aztec Pearl 1
Choisya Aztec Pearl 2
Laserpitium siler     with huge flowerheads   

a special form of Geranium sang.

Geranium sanguineum Elke     

and  double Paeonia where the 2nd. pict. is made one day after the first

Paeonia tenuifolia Plena 1         
Paeonia tenuifolia Plena 2

[David Nicholson]

A couple of pics of two of my Auricula 'failures'. Grown from my own collected open pollinated seed, and failures only in that neither of them conformed to Alpine and Show Auricula standards. It was either the compost heap for them or try them in the garden as Border Auriculas and the latter won the day.

[Paul T]

David,

Stuff the standards, they're beautiful!!!!!  Would be heart-breaking to throw them out, but I understand space constraints and only having to grow the useful things.  I find it very heard to throw out plants! 

Luit,

I love that double Paeonia tenuifolia.  Never seen that before.

Mick,

The Primula 'Victoria De Wemys' is stunning.  Such great colour and contrast.

Great pics everyone.

[Lvandelft]

Along  my raised bed I planted last year one of my Cyps.:

Cypripedium calceolus      first flower after replanting

and there is a nice little buttercup

Ranunculus bulbosus F.M. Burton 1           
Ranunculus bulbosus F.M. Burton 2

In front of the bed is an old Veratrum which hopefully will flower again.

Veratrum nigrum plant 

On the bed flowers

Erodium Spanish Eye       
and one of its seedlings

Erodium seedling   

Lewisia columbiana   
Geranium cinereum sdl         

[Lvandelft]

and a hardy (?) Osteospermum in its second year.
Osteospermum 1         
Osteospermum 2                     
   
Tradescantia longipes [Chr] 1           
Tradescantia longipes [Chr] 2       

[Lesley Cox]

I like that Tradescantia longipes Luit. Such a nice low plant, compared with the leggy ones in my garden.

Many thanks to everyone for their super pics. A day away from the Forum and there's a positive FEAST to come back to.

[gmoen]

Hi folks

Here are a few pictures from the garden. It's almost like every thing is "exploding" in the garden because of the heat the last few days. 24C in beginning of May is not normal for this part of the world, and some flowers are already done when I enter the garden with my camera.....

1 Primula sonchifolia ( a bit smashed by rain)
2 Primula maximowiczii
3 Primula maximowiczii (close)
4 Primula crassifolia, a wonderful species from the Caucasus
5 Primula crassifolia (close)
6 Soldanella carpatica

[Maggi Young]

yes, it's a big photo, Geir, but I'm enjoying studying the detail... a lovely primula.
 
a super clump of the Soldanella.......have you seen the discussion on the Forum about how we all seem to have trouble getting it to flower outside? No trouble to you, I see!

[gmoen]

No problem with flowering Soldanellas here in my garden (by the way, you only see a part of the clump  )

Geir

[Maggi Young]

No problem with flowering Soldanellas here in my garden (by the way, you only see a part of the clump  )

Geir

Aha! Yes, looking closely I do see the flowers spreading in all ways! Very nice!

[Lesley Cox]

Geir, nice that you're back with us. That Soldanella should be called Soldanella carpetica.

[WimB]

Some other plants that are in flower now

1 a young Rhododendron yakushimanum 'Porzellan' in Galium odorata
2 Ramonda myconi
3 Iris 'Victoria Falls'
4 Clematis patens 'Miss Bateman'

And one for the leaves:
5 Athyrium nipponicum 'Ursula's red'

Greetings

Wim

[Gerdk]

Hi folks

Here are a few pictures from the garden. It's almost like every thing is "exploding" in the garden because of the heat the last few days. 24C in beginning of May is not normal for this part of the world, and some flowers are already done when I enter the garden with my camera.....

1 Primula sonchifolia ( a bit smashed by rain)
2 Primula maximowiczii
3 Primula maximowiczii (close)
4 Primula crassifolia, a wonderful species from the Caucasus
5 Primula crassifolia (close)
6 Soldanella carpatica

Geir,
Stunning pictures, especially the P. maximowiczii image.

When I googled for this species a came along a very fine website - this is
http.//www.primulaword.com   - here is a BLACK Primula euprepes - very near to P. maximowiczii (or a subspecies) - I heared about it when I had a telephone call with Dieter Zschummel, who saw this extraordinary plant in the wild last year.

Gerd

[gmoen]

Hi Gerd

I do not know of the species you mention, but I grow another almost black member of the Maximowiczii group named Primula tangutica. It's not yet in flower so I just post the same picture as last year so you can have a look. I also add a picture of Gentiana oschtenica taken to day.

Geir

[Gerdk]

Thank you Geir,
There are always surprises in the world of plants - such unusual colours in the genus Primula!
Your G. oschtenica looks fine. I tried this species several times - leaves are always too pale and never flowers. It seems it needs some kind of Norwegian conditions.

Gerd