June in the Northern Hemisphere 2020

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful plants Pauli, Mike and the others !!! Brilliant.

Minuartia stellata in a fierce battle with its neighbours.
M. stellata flowering nicely this year.

Moltkia intermedia performing very well.

Penstemon procerus var. tolmiei

Rhodanthemum hosmariense 'Casablanca'

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Rhododendron lowndessii in prime shape this year.

Scutellaria pontica

Tarasa humilis from South America

[johnw]

An absolutely stunning Rhododendron lowndesii there Luc!  So rare and difficult to cultivate you're a Grand Master.  Is it in a peat bed or what's the mix and siting?

johnw

[Maggi Young]

A tour  de  force  of  well-grown plants  in your  garden, Luc- many  hanks  for  sharing  here!

[Steve Garvie]

Luc, your lowndesii is superb and grown to perfection!!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks for the kind words Maggi, John and Steve.  The R. lowndesii has been doing very well in it's spot.  It's in fact in the peat bed in a mix of peat, my sandy/loam garden soil and volcanic bits and pieces.  It's in the shade of the house and only gets an hour sun in late afternoon in mid-summer.  As soon as temperatures rise above 22-23°, I water it every evening. 

[Steve Garvie]

Thanks for this advice Luc.
If I can track down a plant I will put this information to good use!   

[François Lambert]

Callistemon Viridiflorus flowering for the first time.  Sown about 4 year ago from Tasmanian seed.  They have spend all their winters outside in a pot.  I guess the roots have escaped through the drainage holes into the open soil.

[Maggi Young]

Some  little  photos  from the garden of  Galanthus specialists  Wol and  Sue  Staimes  at  Glen Chantry
 (see  their  latest  snowdrop list  here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=17887.0  )

   
   


 
 

[cohan]

Some 'weeds' in my garden.
Verbascum epixanthinum x phoeniceum
I have left far too many of them in the paths but they are such magnificent plants I can't bear to compost them.
V. epixanthinum is in the picture to the left of the yellow lupin and is coming into flower.  Supposed Dad is the little purple V. phoeniceum in the distance near the rhubarb.
The Tulipa sprengeri are still spreading.  I struggle more each year with the dead heading.

Great Verbascum!
I had seeds, then seedlings of sprengeri, years back, but I think I lost them waiting for a place to plant them out..

[cohan]

Some  little  photos  from the garden of  Galanthus specialists  Wol and  Sue  Staimes  at  Glen Chantry
 (see  their  latest  snowdrop list  here: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=17887.0  )

not sure if it's a temporary glitch, but don't seem to be able to enlarge those photos..

[Maggi Young]

not sure if it's a temporary glitch, but don't seem to be able to enlarge those photos..

That's because they're  "little" photos ! Wol's internet is  playing  up and  he  just  managed to send these  little  images.

[cohan]

Rhododendron lowndessii in prime shape this year.

Scutellaria pontica

Tarrassa humilis from South America

Tarassa!

[cohan]

That's because they're  "little" photos !

Well, that would explain it!...lol teasers!

[Zdenek]

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