Gothenburg botanics - late April - early May

[Magnar]

Breathtaking pics. I would have loved to have Lilium furiei and Viola rosulata in my garden 

[arisaema]

Amazing pictures, thanks for posting!

[Gerdk]

Thanks for the kind words everyone !
Here's the last few from inside the wonderful alpine houses, they were really a treat :

19) Viola rosulata ?

Luc,
Super pics - most interesting place!
The question mark seems to be quite rightly. Viola rosulata forms a much laxer rosette of a different colour (brownish). This is perhaps a white flowering Viola cotyledon. Wasn't there a label? 

Gerd

[ranunculus]

Wonderful images Luc ... please keep them coming!

[Hans A.]

Luc , great pics again, hope you still have many pictures left to show.

@Gerd- i have some doubts if it could be Viola cotyledon - the shape of the flowers is different of V. cotyledon I have seen. I post a picture taken 2007 in near Laguna de Maule in Chile.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I would have loved to have Lilium furiei and Viola rosulata in my garden 

I was also very impressed by the Lilium Magnar - amazing how "Fritillaria-like" it looks isn't it.

Gerd and Hans - I won't interfere in the discussion about the Viola, I'm no specialist at all and I'm afraid I missed the label if there was one 

The viola you posted is an absolute stunner Hans, what a beauty !

Thanks for the comments all - glad you like the pix - there will be more when I find the time to resize and post them...  the football championship doesn't help here...

[Gerdk]

@Gerd- i have some doubts if it could be Viola cotyledon - the shape of the flowers is different of V. cotyledon I have seen. I post a picture taken 2007 in near Laguna de Maule in Chile.

Hans,
The rosulate violas are  a complicated matter. So I don't  insist on ' cotyledon ', although it is known a variable species. Anyhow, your and Luc's pics show most beautiful plants.

Gerd

[Hans A.]

Gerd -I agree, the nomenclature of this type of violas is very complicate - and I am far away of being a specialist in Violas...  
It is fantastic to find them in nature and it is great to see they can be grown in Cultivation as Lucs photo shows.

[Lvandelft]

Thank you for these nice pictures Luc! I really should travel to Gothenburg once, to see
it myself.

Thanks for the comments all - glad you like the pix - there will be more when I find the time to resize and post them...  the football championship doesn't help here...

I'll forgive you this time, but only if you will be supporting the Dutch team.

[David Nicholson]

Luit, as far as the European Championship is concerned I'm a Dutchman

[Paddy Tobin]

I'm Irish - when our team isn't in it we support "anybody except England". Just an old historic prejudice that we continue for the fun we get out of it.

And, just for those not familiar with such matters: in the Irish mind Scotland and Wales are  most certainly not English - as I'm sure they would very quicky tell you themselves.

Yes, David, the Dutch team certainly are providing the best entertainment at present. The German team might improve and provide some challenge but at the moment they are not very well organised.

Paddy

[David Nicholson]

Paddy, at least you got a vote in the 'other European thing' 

[Michael J Campbell]

at least you got a vote in the 'other European thing'

We did David ,and some people would appear not to understand the word NO.   

[Lvandelft]

oooooh, reading the last few replies 

I was only referring to the Dutch-Belgian rivalrytrying to tease Luc a bit.
And now the match is starting, so I'm off.

[Lesley Cox]

Thank God no-one's discussing cricket at the moment>