Flowering now in the garden March 2009

[tonyg]

Three from the Pyrenees all flowering now.  Having seen two of them in-situ they are extra-special for me.
Narcissus alpestris - from seed sown in 1994.  One clone flowered and has slowwwly increased.
Primula elatior - from seed a few years ago. 
Erythronium dens canis - Sown 1996.  I collected the seed on the first day of my first alpine flower holiday

[annew]

Superb pot of Narcissus, Tony.

[Tony Willis]

Lovely narcissus Tony,slow is the word.My N moschatus from Mike salmon had only made two off sets in over 10years.

The erythronium is a wonderful plant.I remember getting to the ski resort above Benasque and the turf was full of them in flower just as the snow had melted.My pictures are not as organised as my plants but I have a couple showing them in the wild in flower.No seed for me.

[Michael]

Nice Erythronium!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I've really fallen in love with that N. alpestris Tony G. !  Very good looking pot.

Magnificent view of the wild Erythronium Tony W. - they look great !

[Lesley Cox]

Some amazing plants over the last few days, especially the fabulous junos, the Mt Baldo callianthemum and your fabulous magnolia Jo. It's what this thread is all about - the huge DIVERSITY of things in our gardens, not just alpines.

Not having had my computer on since Friday afternoon (out drinking Friday night, work from 6am Saturday, dead Sunday), I found 539 emails from the forum this morning. Surely one of the busiest times of recent weeks. But that's what spring in the north does I suppose. All those wonderful plants opening so fast.

[Paul T]

The Narcissus alpestris is spectacular, and that wonderful dark leaf to the wild Erythroniums.  Wow!!! 

[Brian Ellis]

Having a general clear up in the mess that is our garden I discovered, to my great joy, a pot of Trillium rivale sown in August 2003.  Five of which are in flower.

[David Nicholson]

What a lovely find Brian.

[tonyg]

Lovely narcissus Tony,slow is the word.My N moschatus from Mike salmon had only made two off sets in over 10years.

The erythronium is a wonderful plant.I remember getting to the ski resort above Benasque and the turf was full of them in flower just as the snow had melted.My pictures are not as organised as my plants but I have a couple showing them in the wild in flower.No seed for me.

My N alpestris also came from Mike Salmon (as seed).
When I collected the seed of Erythronium dens canis there were plants in flower where the snow had lain deeper and later, not far away from the seed pods.  When at Bensaque a couple of years later we saw only leaves   I long to go back, Benasque and Andorra where the seed came from were very special.

[ranunculus]

A few close-ups from the garden this morning - not sunny here but certainly not a bad day.

Adonis vernalis bud
Hepatica close
Muscari
Primula clarkei
Hepatica close 2
Pulsatilla vernalis
Pulsatilla vernalis buds
Thlaspi close
Pulsatilla vernalis stems
Pulsatilla vernalis 2

[Robert G]

Cliff,

I love those pictures, especially the Pulsatilla vernalis shots.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

You don't need to go to the Algarve to shoot great shots Cliff !
Witworth seems to be just as good ! 

[Gunilla]

Marvellous pictures all of them. The furry Pulsatilla vernalis is lovely.

[Lvandelft]

Cliff, I've never seen such a spectacular picture of Adonis vernalis.
Nothing like that up here though, so cannot even try to make such picture now.
I showed the P. vernalis hairy stems to my grandson and he asked why these
stems have so many hairs.
I tried to explain him that plants in nature need such, to protect themselves against
sudden heat in the mountains on sunny days, when temps. may rise very high on the
slopes where they grow.
I hope he will remember some of it later.