May 2021 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Gabriela]

Nice Cohan, seems that you are fast catching up with the world

Tristan  - I wonder if this one has made it to North America?  It should be here.

We like one called 'Roguchi'. I'll see if I can locate a photo.
johnw
was 19c, now 13c, thunderstorm pending

It made it here John but for some unknown reason hasn't been too much propagated.
Tristan has a wonderful specimen. Over the internet there are pictures with purple or rather blue flowers, although it depends on the camera and the time of the day. It is a young plant flowering from the first time and it took me by surprise (I didn't have a trellis ready so I offered as support a dead spruce branch





It was grown from seeds and I didn't see the mother-plant but it seems there are specimens with extra tepals. It is possible that I was wrong about the name - could it be 'Frances Rivis?

[shelagh]

Marriette how tall does your Thalictrum grow? The ones we've seen are all too tall for our raised bed but that one looks to be only as tall as the Aquilegia.

[Mariette]

I´d say 1 m or so. It´s considered to be a subspecies of Thalictrum aquilegifolium, I think.

[Carolyn]

Shelagh,
If you are looking for lower-growing thalictrums, I can recommend tuberosum, which I grow in the rock garden in pure sand in full sun, where it thrives. Mine is about to flower now. For later on, July - August here, I have ramosum, which I grow in semi-shade. I might have seeds of both later on, if you remind me!

[shelagh]

Thank you Carolyn. Our raised bed gets pretty well full sun so they would be great.

[kris]

Nice Cohan, seems that you are fast catching up with the world

It made it here John but for some unknown reason hasn't been too much propagated.
Tristan has a wonderful specimen. Over the internet there are pictures with purple or rather blue flowers, although it depends on the camera and the time of the day. It is a young plant flowering from the first time and it took me by surprise (I didn't have a trellis ready so I offered as support a dead spruce branch

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It was grown from seeds and I didn't see the mother-plant but it seems there are specimens with extra tepals.
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Clematis alpina

[kris]

Clematis alpina is very common here. Blue is the most common flower and they are lovely. The yellow leaf one is very attractive and less robust. These are readily available Maybe because in our harsh zone we can't grow the big flowered ones. But I like the subtle beauty of these Clematis. They germinate freely and we get lots of hybrids . The season is just starting for this Clematis.
I have attached few pictures of the ones flowering now.

[Gabriela]

Clematis alpina is very common here. Blue is the most common flower and they are lovely. The yellow leaf one is very attractive and less robust. These are readily available Maybe because in our harsh zone we can't grow the big flowered ones. But I like the subtle beauty of these Clematis. They germinate freely and we get lots of hybrids . The season is just starting for this Clematis.
I have attached few pictures of the ones flowering now.

They are all so lovely Kris. I like C. alpina a lot, actually some cv. have big enough flowers (of course not gigantic).
Do you know the name of the red one?

I had the yellow leaf cv. at my former garden and lost it. It is very easy to make cuttings from it

I kept looking at pictures over the internet and is possible that the plant I showed as 'Helsingborg' is actually 'Frances Rivis' which I also grew from seeds. Maybe I switched the tags. I still have 2 non-flowering young plants.
Maybe someone can clarify this?

[kris]

Hi Gabriela  It is Clematis alpina "Constance".
They hybridize freely and I have few other colour seedlings just started flowering.

[shelagh]

Have had a quick trip around the garden. The wind is bitter today and it can't make it's mind up if it going to rain or not.
1. Tulip batalanii Bright Gem definitely brightens up the bottom of the garden.

2. A surprise! it must be nearly 10 years since we grew this in a pot. Brian however likes to spread old compost about and Gladiolus tristus has just popped up.

3. Arenaria grandiflora.

4.Anemone nemerosa Vestal.

5. Potentilla lost label.

[shelagh]

6. A trio running down the border. Trollius, Solomans Seal and Aquilegia.

7. Erodium Spanish Eyes which Brian has grown from a cutting.

8. Geranium Apple Blossom pale but pretty.

9. Last but not least a little Tiarella which suffered over our bad winter but looks pretty in the sunlight.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Amsonia hubrichtii


Erinus alpinus


First blooms on an erigeron that gets fairly tall (no species name)

[Claire Cockcroft]

Aquilegias cross and produce a nice mix of shapes and colors.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Gypsophila cerastioides

[Claire Cockcroft]

Calceolaria andina.  It seeds around -- this bunch is growing in the gravel beneath a trough.