Flowering now in the garden March 2009

[Lvandelft]

Luit, an onion (Alliaceae) Solaria is also named Gethyum
- please save one of the superb T. neustruvae for me - if possible !

I will ask, but there were only a few of this special one Gerd.

[ranunculus]

A few more images from yesterday morning ...

Pulsatilla vernalis juvenile plant
Pulsatilla vernalis duo
Primula notethedatei from the Caucasus
Saxifraga oppositifolia close-up
Hepatica close-up

[ichristie]

Hi all, firstly the pictures of the Tecophilea lined out are just mouthwatering. The Corydalis is C. solida Blue Spire one I selected out some time ago and it is very upright, later flowering. Martin, I got the Galanthus Mighty Atom from Rod Leeds along with the write up in The Plantsman and yes it is late flowering maybe back to discussion about the Mighty Atom complex. I will ask Rod about this,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, I got the Galanthus Mighty Atom from Rod Leeds along with the write up in The Plantsman and yes it is late flowering maybe back to discussion about the Mighty Atom complex. I will ask Rod about this,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

Ian, it could just be the camera angle foreshortening the mark and making it look thinner than it should be. A side-shot would help a lot. The 'Mighty Atom' which emerged from the ID debate as the 'official' clone has a thick mark. How long ago did you get it from Rod Leeds? Was it before the naming debate was settled?

[ranunculus]

Well, it has got to 12 noon on 1st April (in this part of the world anyway) and, even though seven people viewed the image of Primula notethedatei on this page, nobody raised an eyebrow or was it simply too low-brow or too obvious?   
Apologies to those of you in further climes who haven't even got out of bed yet!

[ChrisB]

Cliff, we look at all your pictures and drool..... I'm envious of your camera shots always!  The primula is gorgeous.

[ranunculus]

Aw shucks, Chris ... now you've made me blush ... many thanks! 

[Gerdk]

Cliff,
Being a serious person the ' i ' at the end of ' notethedate ' puzzled me - now I got it (at last  ) - you wrote the correct Latin ending! Good joke!

Gerd

[maggiepie]

Cliff, your P. Vernalis is an absolute stunner, I have several tiny babies at the moment, I hope they grow up to look like yours.

Gerd, your V. Trinervata is beautiful.

[Tony Willis]

Spring seems here for a couple of days,probably will not last, and the first epimediums are flowering.

Epimedium grandiflorum
Epimedium dolichostemon

(both may be wrong but they seem correct)

[gote]

(both may be wrong but they seem correct)

You are inviting a second opinion Tony. 
The yellow one seems not quite right for grandiflorum. Most grandiflorums seem to have the spurs a little more widespread. If had not had a name on it I would have guessed on one of the yellow Chinese. However, if it has only one leaf on the stem, it is certainly grandiflorum.
The other one I have not seen but it looks like the illustration in Stearn's book.
You are a liitle over a month earlier than I am. My Epimediums do not flower until May in normal years.
Cheers
Göte
 

[gote]

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

Cliff,
I have never seen an Adonis bud like that. Really a new angle. I have to look more carefully at mine when the time comes.
The Thlaspi, what is it. Alpestre??
Göte

[ichristie]

Hi all, Martin I post another picture taken today of Galanthus Mighty Atom also fritillaria walajewii which has been under glass and the flower stem got damaged hence the strange angle,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Tony Willis]

(both may be wrong but they seem correct)

You are inviting a second opinion Tony. 
The yellow one seems not quite right for grandiflorum. Most grandiflorums seem to have the spurs a little more widespread. If had not had a name on it I would have guessed on one of the yellow Chinese. However, if it has only one leaf on the stem, it is certainly grandiflorum.
The other one I have not seen but it looks like the illustration in Stearn's book.
You are a liitle over a month earlier than I am. My Epimediums do not flower until May in normal years.
Cheers
Göte
 

After my pathetic attemps at identifying my muscari I was just hedging my bets.I am reasonably certain they are correct. I think they are early this year although I photographed grandiflorum in mid April last year but dolichostemon not until mid May.

[Carlo]

Ian,
Great to see Haquetia 'Thor' which is unreasonably scarce here...must locate a plant...

AND how about those Tecophilaea...there's just something soooo wrong about that!