Author Topic: April 2020 in the Northern Hemisphere (Read 12221 times)

shelagh · « **Reply #60 on:** April 18, 2020, 10:28:22 AM »

This is really Brian's post.

Flowers gone ofcourse, but I think the foliage is worth looking at.

In times like these our spirits could do with lifting. Plants can help; so

"If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole,
Buy Hyacinths to feed thy Soul."

Saadi 13th Century Persian Poet.

shelagh · « **Reply #61 on:** April 18, 2020, 10:33:04 AM »

A few more pictures from the garden and greenhouse..

The Anemone Vestal Virgin was a surprise as we haven't bought it. It came up right next to a Campanula from John and Clare Dower so I thought it was a little extra.

The Cytissus often made the trip to the Glasgow Show. I wouldn't like to have find a pot for it now.

shelagh · « **Reply #62 on:** April 18, 2020, 10:34:50 AM »

Just a few more.

Leena · « **Reply #63 on:** April 19, 2020, 07:20:05 AM »

Shelagh, how wonderfully growing Hepaticas, and all rock garden plants!

This white Dapne mezereum started to flower in the end of February, and it is still flowering! Almost two months now.

johnw · « **Reply #64 on:** April 19, 2020, 08:04:28 PM »

A Chrysoplenium we got from plantswoman Margaret Charlton in N. Vancouver, BC. We passed along a piece to a friend and it has spead nicely, it's been out for a few weeks. No scent that I can detect. I can't recall the species name for the life of me.

Iris 'Happiness' to date the only McMurty that diesn't shrink away to nothingness.

Lastly the first elepidote rhodo to flower, R. tsariense with delicious indumentum.

johnw

Carolyn · « **Reply #65 on:** April 19, 2020, 08:18:36 PM »

Quote from: johnw on April 19, 2020, 08:04:28 PM

A Chrysoplenium we got from plantswoman Margaret Charlton in N. Vancouver, BC. We passed along a piece to a friend and it has spead nicely, it's been out for a few weeks. No scent that I can detect. I can't recall the species name for the life of m

johnw

Chrysosplenium macrophyllum.

johnw · « **Reply #66 on:** April 19, 2020, 08:24:47 PM »

Thanks Carolyn! That's the one.

john

Gerdk · « **Reply #67 on:** April 20, 2020, 05:40:28 PM »

just in flower in the rockery

Oresitrophe rupifraga

Gerd

majallison · « **Reply #68 on:** April 20, 2020, 10:18:15 PM »

Ranunculus 'Rococo Orange', one of John Fielding's new hybrids derived from Ranunculus asiaticus, I haven't grown it in the ground but it has been fantastically vigorous in a large pot
Geranium x lindavicum 'Gipsy': an old Eric Smith hybrid, very showy but sooo slow to propagate...
Paeonia 'Late Windflower': this seems rather early to me... but I guess these things are relative.