June in the Northern Hemisphere 2020

[Maggi Young]

Four images from the last days:
Linum suffruticosum, the low clone which Zdenek Zvolanek called ´Spanish Sun´
Arenaria montana
Chrysanthemum tomentosum from higher elevations of Corsica
Silene hookeri, the real thing, not that usual Lychnis flos-jovis

Lots of  good  plant photos  from you today, Zdenek! thank you!

[kris]

Four days of constant wind sucked all the moisture from the atmosphere and made the atmosphere dry..
Here are some plants from the garden.
1. Daphne cneorum
2. Androsace villosa
3. Gentiana verna bruised by the strong wind.

[shelagh]

Wonderful pictures everyone. I haven't visited for a couple of days and look what I've missed.

[Yann]

Something i was looking for several years after seeing it in Georgia: Dianthus caucasicus.

I was able to swap seeds of this rare species.

[cohan]

As Shelagh and Maggie said-- look at all the great plants I'm getting lots of photos taken, here, time to edit and post is another issue! A new lawn mower was necessary yesterday, as the old one was not starting, and the mowed areas were getting well out of control in places, leaving far too much shelter for the vast numbers of mosquitoes! They've been greatly encouraged by a later than recent years snow melt, and early onset of our summer rainy season!
Anemone time here-- Anemone blanda-- the bulbs planted a number of years ago were were mixed colours, the white have always been earlier, not sure if the blues are even coming up this year.. May 18
Anemone ranunculus is spreading nicely where originally planted, and in a few new spots I've tucked bits.. I like the red accents on new leaves, probably helped by chilly spring nights... May 27
Androsace carnea ssp halleri ex Vosges Mtns, Fr is looking good-- it blends well with the 3 self sown Draba seedlings, but those will have to be moved as they'll grow faster than the Andro! May 26

[Knud]

The Tulipa sprengeri are still spreading.  I struggle more each year with the dead heading.

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Lovely picture with the Tulipa sprengeri, Roma. I envisaged something like that when I bought the first bulbs 7-8 years ago, but my group is now down to two. With self-seeding clearly not going on I must collect seeds and sow in a pot.

Knud

[Knud]

Flowering now are two Rowans, both seedlings from friends' trees. They bougth the seeds from Gothenburg botanical gardens in the early 1990's, and we got the seedlings around 2000. One we got as Sorbus cashmiriana, but it looks more like S. rosea as described in H. McAllisters book on Sorbus, with pinker flowers and especially fruit. The first picture below is in fact of a seedling from our original tree. The second picture is of an S. filipes, now in its twentieth year and still only about 1 meter (3 feet) tall and as wide. It flowered for the first time in our garden in 2017. Its fruit start off the same dark colour as the flower in the picture, and ligthens with age to a whitish pink with darker pink spots, as shown in the third picture (from 2017). The fruit of both species are somewhat larger than that of our regular rowan (S. aucuparia).

Knud

[kris]

Dodecatheon pulchellum flowering now

[Roma]

Exciting flowers in the greenhouse.

Silene hookeri ssp. bolanderi grown from wild collected seed from Alplains.  I have 4 survivors.  I can't remember how many I started off with.





Silene hookeri, also from Alplains.  Only 3 germinated.  I still have 3.



Spectacular! slightly later flowering Silene serpentinicola.  4 Survivors all slightly different.



A compact form originally from Cyril Lafong

[Sally]

Pretty clump of Dodecatheon pulchellum, Kris. It is blooming in the mountains here:


Also blooming is Calypso bulbosa


Sally
South of Lewiston, Idaho

[Maggi Young]

Sorry, Maggi! I hope you are able to turn the photos....

Sally

No problem, Sally!

[cohan]

Flowering now are two Rowans, both seedlings from friends' trees.
Knud

Nice Sorbus! I have a few seedlings of different things, but have not yet had any flowers, other than the aucuparia which has been here for decades-- much pruned by moose, and seeds spread everywhere by birds... Non-orange fruits are my wish...

[cohan]

Kris--Dodecatheon pulchellum is flowering in the wild here-- there's a farm I pass that gets  a definite pink blush in the pasture by the road..

Roma-- lovely set of Silenes!

Sally-- nice dode--- and the Calypso in the second photo!

[ruweiss]

Now flowering:
Arisaema candidissimum
Scilla peruviana
Calylophus lavandulifolius
Campanula betulifolia x troegerae

[Gabriela]

If someone doesn't open this thread for a couple of days, then it is - WOW! All beautiful and even few garden masterpieces!
Despite the heat, we are still behind; Arisaema candidissimum is only having its 'nose' up here Rudi.

Clematis 'Miss Bateman'