Flowers and foliage May 2008

[Paddy Tobin]

Two paeonias from the garden.

The first was purchased and planted by my wife and while I commend her choice I wish she had held  onto the label as it has been  mislain and now the identity of the paeonia is unknown to us - suggestions welcome.

The second is the first flower to appear on a tree paeonia grown from seed. I believe it may have been labelled as P. delavayi but am not sure. I do like the colour however. Any comments and suggestions of identity.

Photographs three to five are just something a little different. The first shows the partially constructed support for a new bridge which is being constructed very close to my home. It is presently at 61 metres and will reach 110m. The photograph was taken from my garden, house on the right of the photograph.

The second photograph is an opposite view to the first as it shows the view of my garden from the top of the bridge support. This was taken yesterday.

The third shows my son, second from left, on Wednesday night last when concrete was being poured for the main onland support on our side of the river. This concrete pour took over 16 hours and was of 760 cubic metres. This took over 100 concrete lorry loads - a lot.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

Not so much a garden Paddy - more an estate!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

.... and with a lot of place left to build extra rock garden features 

Very impressive Paddy - the garden as well as the bridge !

[Darren]

Popping in to prove I still exist.

A picture of an oddity:

This was from seed from my own plant of Calochortus tolmei, which has just a few hairy, ope, upward facing grey/lilac flowers. It has evidently been pollinated by the pendulous yellow flowered C.amabilis and is intermediate between them. I almost composted it when it first flowered last year but this year I kind of like it...

[Kristl Walek]

I am a bit behind in posting; too hard to keep up with the garden..

The Glaucidiums are now finished, reliably beautiful each year.

This is what I got from my last batch of seed-grown Paeonia mlok.

Daphne arbuscula and D. domini at its early non-opening stage.

Primula frondosa still going strong.

Globularia and Degenia velebitica having a super year...

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful stuff Kristl !
The Globularia is really flowering it's heart out.
The Degenia also looks fabulous - are there several plants there ??
I've been lead to believe it's rather short lived and I never get a big plant like that ? 

[mark smyth]

Paddy do you have a nursery? The garden looks great. Lots of scope for island beds and man made rocky outcrops

[mark smyth]

here is something ZZ did for the Greenmount Walled Garden that would suit your lawn - in my opinion.

[Kristl Walek]

Luc,

Brrr. It's +6 this morning with +3C predicted overnight...raining and miserable. A good day to clean the Dicentra cucullaria and Corydalis seed collected this week.

There has been something in the heavy, heavy snow this winter with the relatively mild temperatures that has produced very, very happy plants this year. The woody species are particularly happy (I suppose with so much available moisture this spring from the melt).

The lovely Degenia--yes, I have never been able to keep it for more than a year or two---BUT now I wonder about something. The last time I replenished my stock (3 years ago), a few seedlings were planted in my normal, level spots as usual. These are all gone now. Two plants were planted in this high crevice, between the large pieces of limestone as shown and they have flourished and stayed and increased in size.

[Lvandelft]

Ooooh, such Glaucidium... and a white one too. Beautiful.
Again some plants added to my wishlist.

[Kristl Walek]

Luit,
I now have a total of 4 white Glaucidiums versus DRIFTS of the species in various parts of the garden. The drifts happened because of years (18) of growing out seed from white-flowered clones (hundreds and hundreds of seeds) and ending up with the four I now have.

Yes, it would have been easy enough to purchase them---but what you may not know about me is that EVERYTHING on my property (except the sugar maples, the natives in the woods and my sempervivum hybrid collection) were grown by me from seed. When the gardens were open to the public until recently--a flyer that visitors could take stated that "the gardens were intended as a testament to growing plants from seed". This includes all the woody species.

[Viola]

Pics from my garden.

Karl

Inula acaulis 1+2
Erigeron scopulinum
Ipomopsis globularis
Ptilotrichum spinosum

[gmoen]

Some pictures from the garden to day

1 Hepatica 'Efter Hjalm'. Curly and marmorated leaves.....
2 Daphne circassica
3 Meconopsis quintuplinervia
4 meconopsis quintuplinervia (close)

[David Nicholson]

Is it just me, but Magnar's pictures in reply 183 of May 18 are'nt seen but each is replaced by a little red cross. Normally when this happens I click the cross, choose 'Show Picture' and all is well. Not this time though.

Similar thing happens in Darren Sleep's reply 198 of today.

[Lvandelft]

Luit,
I now have a total of 4 white Glaucidiums versus DRIFTS of the species in various parts of the garden. The drifts happened because of years (18) of growing out seed from white-flowered clones (hundreds and hundreds of seeds) and ending up with the four I now have.

Yes, it would have been easy enough to purchase them---but what you may not know about me is that EVERYTHING on my property (except the sugar maples, the natives in the woods and my sempervivum hybrid collection) were grown by me from seed. When the gardens were open to the public until recently--a flyer that visitors could take stated that "the gardens were intended as a testament to growing plants from seed". This includes all the woody species.

I'm very impressed Kristl!!
But sometime ago you told, that you would have to leave the place.
What happens to the garden and the plants?
Can you take at least some of them with you to whereever you go?