Flowers and foliage June 2008

[Katherine J]

Kristl,
Your Lonicera hirsuta is so nice. Do aphids like it?
And the Tradescantia ohioensis is just fantastic. How tall is it?

[Lvandelft]

Kristl, does this Tradescantia seed around like most hybrids do?
I love the combination of blue with the greyish foliage.

The only Centaurea relative I grow--Aethiopappus pulcherrimum --a beautiful, too well-behaved plant; no good seed ever, has not spread, and I cross my fingers each year that it will be back. I grow it in the sand bed.

I think Aetheopappus pulcherrimus is a rather old name , which is since long called Centaurea pulcherrima.
Is there much difference with Centarea hypoleuca John Coutts?
Here are the undersides of the leaves silvery.

[Thomas Huber]

Can anybody identify these please.  The foxglove seeds around (fortunately), it is approx 75cm tall.

Arthur the foxglove looks like a plant in my garden, that I received as Digitalis trojonae.

[Maggi Young]

Thomas, I think that Digitalis trojana has flowers closer together on the stem and they are fatter, more open at the mouth and with a little "tongue" on the lip.......

[art600]

Thomas
Having googled Digitalis trojana (Helen of Troy Foxglove), it is not.  I think that is very beautiful, and has different coloured flowers.
I am very happy with mine and think it is lutea ssp australis

[Lvandelft]

Some Geranium in our garden:

Geranium psilostemon                   
Geranium Jolly Bee               
Geranium Patricia         
Geranium dalmaticum Bressingham 

[David Nicholson]

Today's flowers. (I have more but...)
I didn't cut this Aster! (An artiste ?)


Aster alpinus Dark Beauty
 Aster alpinus Dark Beauty
 Haberlea rhodopensis
 Veronica fruticans

A very pretty selection Bernard.

[Kristl Walek]

Kristl,
Your Lonicera hirsuta is so nice. Do aphids like it?
And the Tradescantia ohioensis is just fantastic. How tall is it?

Kathrine,
No aphid problems...some years it gets powdery mildew--something all Lonicera are susceptible to.

The Tradescantia is about 60cm and Luit, I have never had a single seedling in the garden.

[Kristl Walek]

I think Aetheopappus pulcherrimus is a rather old name , which is since long called Centaurea pulcherrima. Is there much difference with Centarea hypoleuca John Coutts?
Here are the undersides of the leaves silvery.


Luit....I thought it was the other way around--thanks for the correction--guess I am showing my age----

I had to look up C. John Coutts---and can say aside from the flowers, it is not very similar--C. pulcherrima foliage is intensely silver all over and quite beautiful--and the plants are small--30-45cm at most. I'll photograph the foliage sometime.

[Lvandelft]

Kristl, I never grew C. pulcherrima. There was no demand in the trade.
Though it seems a very nice plant.


Some more flowers from our garden:

Oenothera fruticosa Fyrverkeri             
Potentilla thurberi     
Centaurea pulchra Major 1       
Centaurea pulchra Major 2               
Heliopsis helianthoïdes Karat           

[WimB]

Here are some things that are flowering in my garden now:

1 & 2 Arisaema candidissimum (31 in a trough (9 flowering now))
3 Origanum rotundifolia 'Kent Beauty'
4 Zantedeschia
5 Zantedeschia

And here are some of which I don't know the full name:

6 Hebe ?
7 Hypericum ?
8 Sanguisorba ?

[Renate Brinkers]

WimB,

great pictures, I am green with envy when I see your Arisaemas *smile*

[WimB]

Renate,

if you want one; in the beginning of next year (when they are dormant) I'm going to give some away (of the flowering tubers) and the rest I'll sell .

[Renate Brinkers]

Wim,
I would enjoy it. Maybe I have an other  species for you.

[Paul T]

Great pics Luit and Wim.

Wim, I notice that your Arisaema tend to be a bit shy too..... I find that the flowers always face away from where you want them to, like they're shy and turning their faces for protection.    I've heard it mentioned many times on the Arisaema list as well.  I figure it is extra warmth from the wall that does it in that case, but I find that often if they're next to a path they still end up facing away from the path.  Mayve they're just mischievious!!