Flowers and foliage May 2008

[mark smyth]

I wish I still had my Osteospermum collection. I gave them away to a better home but their flowers live on http://www.marksgardenplants.com/osteospermums.htm

[gmoen]

Some more pictures.

1 Viola hidakana, a nice and different species from Japan
2 An old pipe of concrete (sorry I do not have any name for the white flowered plant)
3 Veronica bombycina var. bolkardaghensis (in the pipe)
4 Phlox kelsyi (in the pipe)
5 Phlox pulvinaris (sorry Mark, non of the cuttings made it thru the winter)
6 Draba mollissima. Not the best in flower, but a nice and compact grower. Here in a vertical position.
7 Clematis columbiana var tenuiloba. Not the best form, but still....
8 Iris sp. coll Altai and Daphne sericea. I think it is Iris bloudowii. Any comments on that ?

Geir

[Lvandelft]

What a marvellous collection, Geir. These Phlox and the Veronica are  real beauties.
You made curious about this white flower which seems to like it in the concrete Pipe.
You don't have some close-up(s) of it by accident?

[gmoen]

Hi Luit

Thanks for your compliments

Here are some pics of the white. It's a Brassicaceae, and maybe some Arabis species?

Geir

[Kenneth K]

Some pictures from yesterday and today.
1. Corydalis buschii
2. Shortia soldanelloides var ilicifolia (Hope it is the correct name. The chenges between Schizocodon and Shortia seems to be frequent!)
3. Gentiana verna ssp pontica (Very strange with the sudden white flower in the middle of the blue)
4. Gentiana verna ssp pontica 'Alba' ( This is supposed to be white and is all over)

[Paddy Tobin]

Great plants. Geir and Kenneth.

Geir's beautiful Clematis columbiana var tenuiloba and Kenneth's Shortia soldanelloides var ilicifolia are, for me, two absolutely beautiful and highly desirable plants. Both being grown excellently.

Great shows. Paddy

[David Nicholson]

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! 

Paul, it is a little hard to explain 'Auricula standards' in a few words but I am (very slowly!) putting information together for a short series of articles which I hope to write and  submit to Maggi and Ian for their consideration for using them on the Articles section of the main Site. These will go into more detail on the history of growing and showing Auriculas and the standards used. I hope they will be of interest in general terms as well as to Primula aficionados.

[David Nicholson]

Some beautiful plants shown over the past few days folks, it looks as though the current hot spell in Europe has brought everything forward.

[Maggi Young]

Paul, it is a little hard to explain 'Auricula standards' in a few words but I am (very slowly!) putting information together for a short series of articles which I hope to write and  submit to Maggi and Ian for their consideration for using them on the Articles section of the main Site. These will go into more detail on the history of growing and showing Auriculas and the standards used. I hope they will be of interest in general terms as well as to Primula aficionados.

 YIPPEE!! Go for it, David!

[Lampwick]

I do think the houseleeks are indispensable plants for the alpine gardener. They can fill an unsightly gap between rocks, they are always ready to fill a corner of a trough and replace a departed plant, and they also have individual character and attraction.

Here are 6 I photographed earlier….but one is a Jovibarba!    

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… Epimedium grandiflorum ‘White Beauty’ (Foliage)

… Phlox ‘Kelly’s Eye’

 

[ChrisB]

I shall be most interested in reading that David, if you have time to do it.  It will be much appreciated.

[Lvandelft]

Hi Luit
Thanks for your compliments
Here are some pics of the white. It's a Brassicaceae, and maybe some Arabis species?
Geir

It's indeed a beautiful plant Geir, but I've never seen something like that.
It has the flowers of Arabis but the leaves seem more Gypsophila or Silene like.
This will not be of much help, but I like it though.
You don't know from where you got it?

[Lesley Cox]

Super pics from everyone, especially that Shortia. Out in the open too. I shouldn't be surprised at this. Years ago in the UK I saw Shortia uniflora growing on a cool, shaded bank in the Saville Gardens at Windsor. It was covering square metres.

[Lvandelft]

This time of year it's always a great joy for me to see how fast plants
in the shady parts of the garden are developing themselves.
Here some examples from our backyard:


Claytonia siberica       
Polygonatum commutatum  1             
Polygonatum commutatum 2         
Symphytum Goldsmith 
Rodgersia + Anthriscus                     
Symphytum Wisley Blue       
Polygonatum hybridum             
Rodgersia podophylla Braunlaub               

[Lvandelft]

and some more:

Saruma henryi 1                 
Saruma henryi 2                         
Symphytum officinale + Aquilegia           
Lathyrus vernus Roseus
Smilacina racemosa 1
Smilacina racemosa  2
Astilboides tabularis