Flowers and Foliage July 2008

[Kristl Walek]

Put your sunglasses on for the first species....Ipomopsis rubra (Standing Cypress) a stunningly beautiful biennial, native to the USA. It has become a permanent addition here in ordinary garden conditions (heavy clay) although it grows in dry, sandy or rocky soils in the wild. The common name refers to the foliage on the flowering stalk, the top half of which becomes smothered in these vivid red tubular flowers-a magnet for you know what.

My favorite of the forever-blooming Gaillardia is G. aristata, from the Canadian prairies.

I like Digitalis---and here is D. ferruginea and a second species whose name totally eludes me at the moment.

The beautiful Indigofera kirilowii grows here in half sun, and is the only species I have been able to overwinter.

[Paul T]

Kristl,

More and more beauties I've never seen before..... that Isomopis is stunning!  Love the Gallardia, and those Digitalis are great.  Now I want all of THEM as well!! 

[mark smyth]

I really like Gaillardia but find them difficult to keep alive or looking good

[Kenneth K]

In the summer we are living in our country house, where we don’t have any internet connection. So it is long between my visits on this forum. Today we are in the city and I have collected some pictures from the last days.
1. Alcea rugosa. A perenn hollyhock with simple light yellow flowers. As far as I know not susceptible to hollyhock rost.
2. Alcea rugosa. Close up.
3. Anemone rivularis. White flowers with tepals that often are blue on the reverse side. The blue anthers make a fine contrast to the white tepals.
4. Colchicum parnassicum. Spring or autumn flowering? This species is summer flowering, normally late june into july.
5. Dicentra ‘King of Hearts’. A very nice hybrid from Terra Nova.
6. Dicentra peregrina. This small Dicentra from Japan is not easy. At least I have managed to get it over one rainy winter.
7.  Lilium canadense. This is a red form of this variable lily. Seed sown with seeds from Got bot garden.
8. Lilium superbum. This is on the other hand a yellow form of this american lily. Normally the color is orange. Also this comes from seeds from Got bot garden.
9. Lilium superbum. Closer look.
10. Primula vialii. Either you love it or hate it!

[Rafa]

very beautiful plants, thanks for sharing your pictures.

This is Paris quadrifolia this evening in the woods.

[Pete Clarke]

Can anyone identify this lily - grown from AGS seed, sent as L. majoense!

Some other lilies also flowering now.

lilium lijiangense
 lilium ?
 Lilium pardalinum

[Pete Clarke]

I havn't got the hang of posting & attaching pics in the right order have I. The middle pic is the one in question.
A few more of my recent garden flowerings.
It is difficult to capture the rich, velvety colour of Roscoea schneideriana.

 lilium lankongense
 nicotiana noctiflora F&W11528
 Roscoea purpurea poss. Wisley Amethyst
 Roscoea schneideriana
 Saxifraga stolonifera

[johnw]

Can anyone identify this lily - grown from AGS seed, sent as L. majoense!

Some other lilies also flowering now.

Peter - I middle one looks like L. michiganense.

johnw

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great plants and pictures everyone ! Glorious.

I've been a bit lazy posting pix lately - here's some from my garden, not really flowering now, but a few weeks ago... 

1) Campanula 'Maie Blyth' - for Lesley  - I hope it survives next Winter outside... 
2) C. raineri
3) C. hybrid - quite dark and compact - I like it
4) Platycodon grandiflorum var. apoyama

5) Geranium cinereum 'Carol'
6) Geranium cinereum 'Alice'
7) Gypsofila repens 'Dorothy teacher' - always reliable for a pink cloud

[HClase]

I meant to post this Geum picture earlier - it's a cv. of G. rivale that we obtained years ago, we believe it came from Nova Scotia.  We call it the "apple blossom" geum.  It flowers for a long time in early summer and makes a good cut flower.  Anyone recognise it as a named cv?

We are in the middle of the Allium season here and one of my favorites is A. siculum (syn Nectaroscordum siculum).

A few years ago a large population (at least 1000) of a Dactylorhiza was discovered on the outskirts of the city.  With the help of specimens sent to Richard Bateman, then at Edinbugh BG, it was identified as the Leopard Marsh Orchid, D. praetermissa var junialis.  Our own BG is building up a stock "for the trade", but it's also spreading.  One recently appeared on my neighbour's lawn (the close up).  They show a very strong "founder effect" i.e. they are all the same!

[Slug Killer]

Tricyrtis macropoda taken today in garden.



Dave

[Kristl Walek]

I meant to post this Geum picture earlier - it's a cv. of G. rivale that we obtained years ago, we believe it came from Nova Scotia.  We call it the "apple blossom" geum.  It flowers for a long time in early summer and makes a good cut flower.  Anyone recognise it as a named cv?

I would not have recognized this as G. rivale at all, had you not told me--it's very pretty. I grow G. rivale var. icelandicum, but it's nothing like this.

[Kristl Walek]

Tricyrtis macropoda taken today in garden.

Dave, I don't think the plant you showed is T. macropoda---here is what I know as the species---which blooms very late in the season (October?)

By the way, is anyone ever able to ripen seed of this?
If so, I would love to beg some.
It barely flowers here in the north---and that is only in a good long warm fall.

I've posted a correction below...although I do not mind being wrong, even publicly, I do very much mind public misinformation, especially when I am the culprit 

[Maggi Young]

Kristl, I see your  T. macropoda as t. macrantha ssp macanthropsis!   http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/18522.html
Here is Göte's T.  macropdoda from the old Forum.....http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/17560.html

confused, yes, I am !!

[arisaema]

I agree with Maggi on T. macrantha ssp. macranthopsis, both Göte's and Dave's plants however look like T. latifolia...