Flowering Now - April 2009

[mark smyth]

I'll kick off April with a recap from the last week or two in my garden and some from today. In alphabetical order ....
Anemone obtusifolia yellow form
Geranium x oxonianum Katherine Adele
Geranium x oxonianum Spring Thing - in fine detail
Pulsatilla bohemica
Ranunculus ficaria Bantam's Egg - small enough for a trough. Opens orange and fades to white within 36 hours
Ranunculus ficaria seedling
Ranunculus ficaria Yaffle
Ranunculus acris Hedgehog
Salix reticulata
Sanguinaria canadensis

[Lesley Cox]

Very nice Mark. "Oh to be in England..." or even in Northern Ireland.

[mark smyth]

but your spring comes first. Is your favourite season spring? The Muscari you sent me is back up and and flowering after taking a year out. It didnt flower last year nor has it grown any in size

[mark smyth]

A few more from me before bed
Puschkinia - a lovely long petalled seedling in the garden. Only a few blues are still growing while whites are doing extremely well
Scoliopus hallii

[Maggi Young]

Isn't Scoliopus hallii just a wee cracker? I love it to bits!

[Diane Clement]

Isn't Scoliopus hallii just a wee cracker? I love it to bits!   

Just a shame about the pong   

[mark smyth]

Mine dont smell of anything. Do you see the seedlings? I ruined some seedlings last year trying to get them out for a visitor

[Maggi Young]

Isn't Scoliopus hallii just a wee cracker? I love it to bits!   

Just a shame about the pong   

Diane, you are such a hard woman.... it's only a little pong! 

[Lesley Cox]

Mark I'm pleased you have it still. I think mine has gone for good, just a tiny, single leaf last spring and I couldn't find anything when I dug in the summer. Seems it is M. pallens.

[tonyg]

Away in the Cotswolds to talk about crocuses I am lucky to be staying with Eric Jarrett.  A chance to get up close with his medal winning Chionohebe pulvinaris and a few others.  More pice later now its time for bed.
Chionohebe pulvinaris
Phlox bryoides
Dionysia oreodoxa

[Viola]

Pulsatilla grandis from Wachau - Austria

[ichristie]

Hi, great pictures again, I would be very happy to pay the £3.50 for that Chionohebe the cost of delivery would be a bit more I expect. Those pulsatillas are wow,  cheers ian the Christie kind.

[Lvandelft]

A_lot_of_plant_for_the_money

How many did you buy Tony? 

That's a nice blue form of the Pulsatilla Karl!

[Gerdk]

That's a nice blue form of the Pulsatilla Karl!

- I second this + a superb shot!

Gerd

[ashley]

Mark I'm pleased you have it still. I think mine has gone for good, just a tiny, single leaf last spring and I couldn't find anything when I dug in the summer. Seems it is M. pallens.

Lesley, I can send you some seed later in the season if you want to try again.

What beautiful pulsatillas Karl, especially in the wild.
Fine plants Mark; I haven't seen Anemone obtusifolia in yellow before, and your sanguinaria is obviously enjoying life