Flowers and Foliage September 2008

[Tony Willis]

Hans they are as easy as possible.Put them in a pot in the spring ,water and wait for then to flower! They also multiply with lots of offsets.

[Hans J]

Tony ,

thank you for your informations 

[Lvandelft]

Tony ,
wow 
very nice Bessera - are they difficould ?

Hans, I showed Bessera in Weekly Lisse Flowershow on Sept. 16 (reply 197) and some weeks before too.
On Sept. 17, I showed a (bad) picture of a bed (Reply 215-217) where they are cultivated near my place.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1315.210

[Hans J]

Luit ,

thank you - sorry I have not seen ( again ) your pic ...

You are lucky people in Netherland ....you go cycling and see Bessera ....

[Lvandelft]

Luit ,
You are lucky people in Netherland ....you go cycling and see Bessera ....

I cycled yesterday again and saw the man had cut off almost all the flowers.
He told me that he hoped for better growing bulbs that way.
I was just able to pick some nice flowers he missed when cutting.
Rough people, those bulbgrowers 

[WimB]

Here are some flowers from my garden this week:

1) Armeria trojana
2) Cyclamen intaminatum
3) Draba polytricha
4) Echinacea purpurea 'After Midnight'
5) Oxalis perdicaria (flowers not open because they were just in the shade)
6) Primula auricula 'Dusky Yellow'
7) Scilla lingulata

[WimB]

And some plants that have beautiful leaves this time of the year:

1) Heuchera 'Caramel'
2) Heuchera 'Citronelle'
3) Heuchera 'Obsidian'
4) Heuchera 'Tiramisu'

And a girl with a lot of family in my garden:

5)Araneus diadematus

[Anthony Darby]

Wim, that is a lovely Scilla (Scilla lingulata). The rosette of leaves makes it very pretty. Do you ever have spare seed?

[WimB]

It's my first year I have this Scilla. So I'll see if it sets seed. If it does I'll let you know and send you some.

[Lesley Cox]

Has Oxalis lobata had a name change?

[HClase]

Here area few Fall/Autumn pictures from Newfoundland.  The first Colchicum to flower is always C. agrippinum, and the first crocus, Crocus nudiflorum, is just appearing.  For me one of the most exciting things in the garden is seeing the tips of the bulb flowers appearing after a period of dormancy - in some cases re-assurance that they have survived!  Clematis integrifolia is in seed, and Erigeron karvinskianum has filled the beds with its cloud of flowers.  I know this is considered a weed in the UK, but it rarely overwinters here and is a very useful gap filler as it flowers all summer.  I think we grow Sedum spectabile as much for its visitors as for its flowers!

[Paul T]

Wim,

The leaves on that Scilla are rather nice, as Anthony mentioned.  Quite unusual for the smaller Scilla, at least those that I've seen anyway.

Lesley,

Oxalis lobata and Oxalis perdicaria are very, very similar apparently.  Some say that one is a horticultural variant of the other (I can't remember which was around so am not stating it! ).  The two that I have under the respective names are very marginally different, mainly size of leaves and flowers etc, but I wouldn't have thought there was enough for species differentiation, at least not with the two I have anyway!? 

[WimB]

Lesley,

I didn't realise those two oxalis where so similar. I bought it as O. perdicaria but it can just as well be O. lobata.

Paul,

I didn't know there existed a Scilla like that untill I saw it at the alpine nursery of Kathy Portier in Bruges where I bought. I thought it was very nice also   

[Lvandelft]

Wim, here is a picture, which shows the Scilla in 1 l. pot.

Scilla lingulata

[WimB]

WOW,

That's very impressive