Flowering Now - April 2009

[tonyg]

What a difference a year makes! 
Dryas octopetala - a seedling 3 or 4 years old.
2008 pic first
2009 is a wonderful display taking me back to the Eiger Trail last June.
This is why I try and grow alpines

[Ragged Robin]

  Lovely display of Dryas clinging to your path Tony, they obviously think they're on the Eiger Trail - would love to add them to my new beginnings when I become more expert 

[Gerdk]

Did you find hybrids with H. hispanica escaped from gardens?

Armin, perhaps there are a few because there are some Hyacinthoides hispanica in blue and white at the edge of the forest near some houses. This might become a problem for the pure H. non-scriptus population in future.
I didn't try to identify hybrids. It was stated that the non-scriptus were occuring naturally there.

Gerd

[Gunilla]

Gunilla,
Great pictures, A couple of questions: Where did you get the seed for the dark Glaucidium? There was a similar one on the Trillium list some time ago and that was a chamse seedling from Seed from NARGS.  Is the pink nemorosa reliably pink? I mean is it the same year from year? My pinks (single) always go white most of the years.

Gote,
The seed came from a swap with a STA member. Only one plant had this dark colour. 
A. nemorosa 'Pink Delight' is the same pink every year but it is a VERY pale pink. From a distance it looks like a greyish version of 'Vestal'. 

[Brian Ellis]

Visiting a wonderful garden today with lots of new plants to me I was shown this Disporum maculatum which was a real little treasure. I also saw some bracteate bluebells, does anyone know where they can be obtained?

[ChrisB]

Just a few pics I took in the garden today:

Aquilegia flabellata Mt Horohoro form
Nice double white arabis
Camassias - they don't usually bloom until Chelsea, early this year
Clematis 'Freda'
Coronation cowslips - got these from the seedling swap at HPS one year.  Had to dig up most of them, they were taking over.... but saved this particularly good red one
Dodecatheon pulchellum col. Alaska (or so it said on the label)
Gypsophila cerastioides
Sax. cebbanensis
Soldanella sp.

[Lesley Cox]

A simply gorgeous selection of new things out today. Especially the glaucidiums, the hylomecon, the asperula....... and the delightful uvularia. My grateful and envious thnaks to those who posted and shared with us all.

[Viola]

Some pictures from my garden of the last two days.
Karl
Androsace villosa ssp.taurica
Aquilegia scopulorum
Daphne alpina 3+4
Gentiana kochiana "Alba"
Globularia cordifolia

[Viola]

Additional photos from my garden.
Haberlea rhodopensis
Ramondia nathaliae
Wulfeniana carinthiaca 3+4
Rhodos+Azalee
Linum spec.

[Paul T]

Fantastic pics everyone.  Lighting up a flu-ridden day for me (got a bug unfortunately... no I haven't been near Mexico so no pig jokes please!  ).  Sunny outside but feeling too icky to enjoy it.  Thoroughly enjoying the pics here though.  Thanks you for brightening my day!!

Special mention has to go to Gunilla for her wonderful pink double Anemone nemorosa (never seen anything like it!  ) and the Glaucidium palmatum.  Fantastic!!  And that last Ramondia posted by Karl is pretty speccy too!! 

OK, back to my aching and snuffling now.    Thanks everyone.

[Viola]

I wish you a speedy recovery with that Paul simmered fun with yours again you could have.
Karl

[gote]

Karl,
That is the most fantastic Ramondia I have seen It beats the one I saw in Catalonia.
Göte

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful display everyone !  Great plants from all around !
Thanks for sharing !!!

Get better soon Paul !!

[ashley]

In the garden now, though hardly alpines

Abies koreana
Anthemis punctata
Arum hygrophilum
Embothrium coccineum
Euphorbia griffithii 'Fireglow'
E. mellifera
Myosotidium hortensia
Myrrhis odorata
Rheum palmatum 'Atrosanguineum'
Uvularia perfoliata (a magnet for slugs here)

[Paul T]

Ashley,

Love that Embothrium.  Great colour, isn't it?  Well it looks like that in the pics I've seen.

Thanks for the best wishes everyone.