Flowering Now - April 2009

[Lvandelft]

Some plants flowering here in the garden:

Iris attica      
Prunus Kojo-no-mai
Magnolia stellata
Anemone pavonina                  
Cardamine trifolia              
Corydalis cava                          
Prunus Hally Jolivette
Magnolia loebneri Merrill 1                
Magnolia loebneri Merrill 2

[Sinchets]

Erysimum amoenum and a Townsendia in the rock garden. Asphodelus acaulis in the xeric garden- please humour my second posting of this plant -but today it looked even better.

[mark smyth]

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=376.msg9866#msg9866

In 2006 I tried to remove my Pulsatilla pratensis bohemica from my crevive bed because it was too big. I broke off all the big tap roots. What was in my hand I replanted in my rockery. In 2007 it only had two or three flowers. The broken roots in the crevice bed have now produced a small forest of this Pulsatilla

[ranunculus]

Last four images of Pulsatilla vernalis ... I promise!!   

[Diane Clement]

When I see Pulsatillas at shows have these been lifted from the owners garden? Everytime I look at my plant I see a best in show card sitting beside it.  

I'm sure that Pulsatillas at shows have not been lifted, they are grown in pots.  As you say yourself, the roots go deep and are almost impossible to lift without damage.  Quite often the pulsatillas at shows are in (very) long toms to accommodate the roots.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show everyone !!!
I have some of mine flowering right now - why not start with a Pulsatille - it's been long since we've seen one... 

1) Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra - just unfolding
2) Jeffersonia dubia
3) close up
4) Ranunculus ficaria 'Brazen hussy' - seeding around (a bit too) happilly  - but I love the contrasting colours - I try to     
    dead head it after flowering...
5) Muscari azureum
6) Fritillaria michailovsky

[ichristie]

I am very pleased to see so many wonderful plant picture, we are back to winter and the temperature is baltic tonight but here are two odd daffodils which grow in thousands in a woodland near me, cheers ian the christie kind.

[Anthony Darby]

Erysimum amoenum and a Townsendia in the rock garden. Asphodelus acaulis in the xeric garden- please humour my second posting of this plant -but today it looked even better.

Asphodelus acaulis looks very attractive. I suspect it would need the alpine house in Scotland. Do you get seed?

[Gerdk]

Luc,
Fine collection of springflowers!
As usual Belgium is a little bit ahead of my region (with the Jeffersonia for instance).

Gerd

[Sinchets]

Anthony, the Asphodelus is actually old enough to have been grown in Scotland. It was never very happy in a pot, and didn't like my alpine house in England much better when I moved south. By the time I moved here, it was down to a few roots like sticks of liquorice- with nothing to lose I planted it out and it bulked back up to how it is now. This is the first flowering since its recovery- I'm hoping for seeds. I had the same response here from Ranunculus calandrinioides- but a couple of really pretty little beetles ate the flowers while we weren't here. 

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for the many Pulsatilla vernalis Cliff. I struggle to keep them healthy through my hot dry summers but always have a few babies coming on. They are so cuddly, with all that soft fur. Like my little dog but without the teeth.

The Asphodelus acaulis is a very attractive plant. I find it needs really hard growing, the poorer the soil the better which doesn't discourage flowers but keeps the foliage under control.

I've had a few seeds and they are large and black, like those of a hemerocallis, on short, curled up stems.

[Lampwick]

All three are lovely, are those little jooii babies I see around the plant?

I believe they must be little jooii babies. I can’t ever recall the parent plant producing offspring’s before, although it does produce seedpods each year. The pointed leaves to the top right of picture are those of Iris lacustris, which now covers quite a large area. I hope it doesn’t encroach on the little Viola too much!

 

[Maggi Young]

Re the "jooi" versus "jooi"  question..... I think it is correctly jooi ....because of the preceding vowels....

[Lampwick]

Re the "jooi" versus "jooi"  question..... I think it is correctly jooi ....because of the preceding vowels....

Thanks for that info Maggi.......

Just took this picture:

Narcissus bulbocodium ‘Connie No 2’. I bought this from Hythe Alpines several years ago, but the nursery closed down about a year ago when Mike Smith, the proprietor, retired. I did have a number of choice plants from there over the years. This is small enough for a trough, growing not much over 7 cm high, and blooming in the second or third week in April with me.

[John Aipassa]

Erythronium dens-canis 'Charmer' flowering at this moment. Each year the flowers are multiplying more and more.

Cheers,
John