Flowering now in the garden March 2009

[Oron Peri]

Gerd if that is the case  my love for these two ones even increase...
Might sound a bit snobbish...i know

Thanks for the information

[WimB]

It's been a while since I posted some pictures so here are some plants that are flowering in my garden now:

1) Bulbocodium vernum
2) Colchicum hungaricum 'Velebit Star'
3) Hamaemelis intermedia 'Arnold Promise'
4) Helleborus 'Wilgenbroek selection Apricot'
5) Helleborus 'Wilgenbroek selection Double White'
6) Ypsilandra ca-valerei

While I was walking in Ghent I noticed that some weeping willows were having a very nice green shine about them in the city lights.

7) weeping willow
8) weeping willow (close-up)

[Paddy Tobin]

Wim,

Underlighting the willow was a good idea but the choice of colour is a little peculiar.

You have lovely flowers at the moment.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

You mean the colour is artifice and not radioactivity??

[WimB]

I haven't changed the colour, it's very peculiar. I guess it's because of the yellow city lights that are placed under the trees. The trees just look very green at night, also with the naked eye. (Maggi, it's like a radioactive spring indeed)

[annew]

Last weekend we went to Harlow Carr. The alpine house is looking good but due to be finished in May. They had a temporary display of alpines in another glasshouse which were very good.

[annew]

Meanwhile back at home, it was feeling very spring-like today in the warm sunshine. I took a break from preparing for the Loughborough Show tomorrow to take a few photos. Firstly  cyclamen and primroses along a shady border.
Then Tecophilea cyanocrocus and its variety leichtlinii. I am so pleased to finally succeed with these beautiful bulbs.

[WimB]

Anne, those are very nice Tecophilaea.

[ashley]

Yes wonderful Tecophilaea Anne.  I'm pleased too with my single violacea in flower but for now it looks lonely by comparison with yours

Your primroses are early compared to those here.

[annew]

I've only just bought violacea, and it's not in flower yet.

[Anthony Darby]

Last weekend we went to Harlow Carr. The alpine house is looking good but due to be finished in May. They had a temporary display of alpines in another glasshouse which were very good.

Sad to hear of the death of Geoffrey Smith, who used to be head gardener at Harlow Carr.

[Maggi Young]

Last weekend we went to Harlow Carr. The alpine house is looking good but due to be finished in May. They had a temporary display of alpines in another glasshouse which were very good.

Sad to hear of the death of Geoffrey Smith, who used to be head gardener at Harlow Carr.

Yes, a sad loss of a passionate gardener, who was so good at communicating his enthusiasm.  His television programmes, I think entitled 'Travels with Mr Smith' were delightful, I know lots of folk who fondly remember his joyful guides to the Alps and the flowers.

[Gerdk]

Just opening

Ipheion uniforum tandiliense ( I am not sure if this is a valdid name)
and Ranunculus cadmicus ssp. cyprius - unfortunately not
the superb double one which Oron showed - but this species seems to
be easy - inside the greenhouse and outside also

Gerd

[Hristo]

Hey, Gerd, your Ranunculcus still looks great, double or not!
In the garden here today amongst others ( listed elsewhere on the forum )
Just opening its first flower, Thlaspi crassum from Turkey and the plant I've always grown as Viola bertolonii.

[Gerdk]

Thank you, Hristo.
The pansy is just the same as what we grow for V. bertolonii.
Sorry for the violet from the Big River Gorge - can't identify it without
more details - it seems to be related to the V. suavis shown.
Quite interesting that there is a ' Vratnik '. A mountain and a pass in Croatia
(near Senj) share the same name.

Gerd