Flowers and Foliage July 2008

[Mick McLoughlin]

David,
I bought my Lilium formosanum pricei as a growing plant last year. This is just my second year growing from the seed exchanges.

[Kristl Walek]

David,
I seem to recall it took 3-4  years for my L. formosanum pricei to bloom from seed. My clones are the cutest tiny plants (maybe 4" tall at most)...they are sitting poised right now....will post a picture once they open fully. 

[Lesley Cox]

Three years usually for me David. The stems should about 20 cms, elongating to maybe 30-35 as the seed pods mature. They are pure white, not the lemon colour of Mick's, and with some flushing of reddish on the backs.

Talking of lilies, you will find something exciting at this link, posted today on Trillium-L

http://farreachesfarm.squarespace.com/

[olegKon]

Maggy, Zigadenus is now 60 sm but will elongate a bit up to 70-75. It must be the result of potassium feeding. You see I follow Ian's advise. Does he? Kristl wrote it can stand -45C and it survives nicely winters in Moscow. Funny enough but RHS encyclopedia claims it's not fully hardy (nice thing for an Alaskan native

[Kristl Walek]

Too hot to photograph much today, although the poor garden has been aching for sun after 3 months of almost solid rain....

The gorgeous and very tall Lilium canadense- grown from seed originally collected from 12 foot tall plants growing along the St. John River in New Brunswick. There are also yellow forms.

The last few blooms of Argemone polyanthemos, which grows in the sand bed.

Clematis ianthina (often mistaken for C. fusca or C. fusca violaceae).

Thalictrum lucidum.

Tricyrtis latifolia---I have grown various early-blooming species under a half-dozen names---and they all bloom now, and vary only in the spots (some are redder), the height, and the pubescent or glaucous foliage.

Clematis mandchurica is unbelievably fragrant and blooms for a full 6 weeks or more.

[Paul T]

Kristl,

Lovely!!  The Lilium is glorious, and you have so many wonderful Clematis I've never grown.  So very nice!!

[johnw]

The gorgeous and very tall Lilium canadensis- grown from seed originally collected from 12 foot tall plants growing along the St. John River in New Brunswick. There are also yellow forms.

Kristl - There are red flowered L. canadensis north of Fredericton on the St. John River.  Hal Hinds, who wrote the Flora of new Brunswick collected some bulbs for me about 12 years ago.  I had a friend in Newton Abbot, Devon who was desperate for them and I sent them off. I should have kept a scale.  Have you seen or collected any of these in N.B. or in Ontario?

So you're the one with our rain... we are parched here.

johnw

[Kristl Walek]

John,
There are some reports of L. candense in southern Ontario ---but most thinking is that it is probably rare, if indeed it is in Ontario at all. I do believe L. michiganense is in Ontario somewhere, although I have not seen it in the wild. 

I think L. canadense is pretty rare across its range.

I did actually mean to say there are red forms (L. canadense editorum). My specimens are the typical yellow/orange and the picture makes them look more orange than they actually are.

No, I have not seen the red variant---the population I collected from were all yellow/orange. I wish I could find the original of the picture I took of the plants---but all I have is the small version that I reduced for my web site....but it gives you the idea of the site and the plants. Can't remember where on the St. John River I took this picture.

[Lvandelft]

Another few flowering here.
The Dianthus is since more than 30 years growing in our old rockgarden
and always seeding around, but never becomes a nuisance.
The Gypsophila I just planted to soften the hard corners of the raised bed.

Dianthus petraeus ssp. noeanus
Gypsophila Rosenschleier
Thymus praecox Purple Beauty 
Berkheya purpurea     

[Magnar]

Kristl..

Lilium canadense is simply breathtaking. I saw one in bloom in North Sweden a few years ago. I ordered seeds the same year. But my plants are still not ready to flower. How long does that usually take from seeds?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Three years usually for me David. The stems should about 20 cms, elongating to maybe 30-35 as the seed pods mature. They are pure white, not the lemon colour of Mick's, and with some flushing of reddish on the backs.

I bought 3 bulbs last year that flowered beautifully exactly how you describe Lesley - I think I posted a picture last year - however only one of them shows this year and it's not going to flower 
I think I remember I read somewhere they're not very long lived - can anyone comment on that ?? 

[Maggi Young]

Friends, the array of plants shown in these pages is breathtaking! Thank you all.

Arthur,Derek, how have you time for all those displays?  Such a lot of work but so colourful.

Lesley, thanks for the link to the pink Cardiocrinum... what a stunner!!

Oleg

You see I follow Ian's advise. Does he?

Ha, Ha!  No, he does not feed some of the bulbs outside!! I will complain to him!

[art600]

Arthur, how have you time for allthose displays?  Such a lot of work but so colourful.

Lesley, thanks for the link to the pink Cardiocrinum... what a stunner!!

Maggi - I am mystified.  Did you mean Derek?  Agree with you the Cardocrinum link was excellent.

[Maggi Young]

Sorry, Arthur, yes, I did mean Derek!

[art600]

Maggi

I wish.....