Flowers and foliage May 2008

[Michael J Campbell]

Lewisia rediviva hybs.
A few more just to show the flower power of these hybs

[Lesley Cox]

Flower power indeed Michael. If not for the foliage, I'd have thought these to be super cotyledon hybrids. Is there something of L. cotyledon in their make up? If so, the colour range available could produce some amazing rediviva-like plants, more reliably perennial than straight L. cotyledon. What am I talking about? You're already doing that! Thanks for showing them to us.

[Michael J Campbell]

Tritonia 1
Tritonia 2
Tritonia 3
Weldenia candida

[Michael J Campbell]

Anemone baldensis.
Anemone Seemanii.
Anemone vestal.
Romulea.
Romulea 2.
Romulea 3 Probably atarinda
Phlox Ralph Haywood
Sanguinaria canadensis plena
Lewisia cotyledon in scree bed

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely to see a Weldenia again, just as mine are dying down.

[fermi de Sousa]

Tritonia 2

Hi Mr AMazing (the lewisias alone account for that title!),
is your Tritonia #2 a pure Tritonia crocata or a hybrid? It's a beauty!
cheers
fermi

[Katherine J]

So many beauties! A really joy even to see them on pictures only.

Michael and David,
I have some L. cotyledon seedlings from your seeds, which have been germinated about a month ago, but they haven't grown at all since then. Is this normal? They are in peat-sand-perlite mix. I don't want to prick them yet, because they are very very little. Should I give them some fertilizer?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

"Amazing" stuff Michael - maybe we should add "magic" to "amazing".... 

I'll have to travel to Ireland one day !
I'd love some of these wonderful hybrids. 

[Anthony Darby]

Good gracious Michael. That is a fantastic array of plants. I didn't realise Lewisia rediviva could be so prolific!

[Lvandelft]

What a beautiful series of plants you showed us Michael.
Mostly impressed by the Tritonia and Romulea!
Great colours.

maybe we should add "magic"

Luc, it is not "magic"
Michael is a  GARDENER

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I wouldn't qualify Michael as a "normal" gardener Luit... 
I consider myself also as a gardener, but that's not the same thing...

[Michael J Campbell]

I didn't realise Lewisia rediviva could be so prolific!

Anthony, the rediviva hybs flower like that all summer,repeat flowering every three or four weeks. That is why I got so P----d off trying to convince the public that these plants were worth giving a chance. I failed and gave up.These plants that I have now are from seed that I forgot to sow a few years ago, I found them in a box in the fridge last year.

[Anthony Darby]

I think you have 'the knack" Michael? They certainly look beautiful when en-masse. I tried one outside in a trough and it did well, in my mind, for two years, but a combination of drought followed by winter wet did for it.

[Viola]

Is this a cristate form (genetic malformation therefore like this every year), or is it a form of fasciation that is just present this year?  Gerberas and primulas are very prone to fasciation but it does not necessarily recur each year

Maggy,
I have first in Februar noticeable that she different grow.

Diane,
I not know, have she first won year.

Karl

Maggi replies: Thank you, Karl 

[Michael J Campbell]

is your Tritonia #2 a pure Tritonia crocata or a hybrid

Fermi, it appeared in a batch of seedlings which I had cross polinated.