Flowering Now - April 2009

[Brian Ellis]

and more...

 Euphorbia
 Fritillaria-imperialis
 Geum-rivale
 Ipheion
 Iris
 Iris-2
 Narcissus
 pink-chionodoxa
 primrose-pulsatilla
 Ribes-'White-Icicle'

[Brian Ellis]

and finally!
Saruma-henryi

 Veratrum

[Jo]

Lovely pics Brian. Is that Erythronium hendersonii ?  I've had it for a number of years and love it but it hasn't appeared this year so I 'm wondering if the frosts had it.

 I was away at the weekend collecting offspring from uni's and got the chance to drag them up Snowdon. I was planning on posting all sorts of pics of upland treasures but the sheep got there first I think.  So I include what had survived  and a Daisy at the top.

[Brian Ellis]

Cheers Jo, I think it is - but it was a present and the label has whited out!

[Gerry Webster]

Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex’.

I find this easy. It flowers regularly & increases in my garden where conditions are about as far removed from its native N American woods as can be imagined

[Jo]

Cheers Jo, I think it is - but it was a present and the label has whited out!

Like the misty ' white out ' on Snowdon 

[Brian Ellis]

Like the misty ' white out ' on Snowdon

more like the white out in my upper storey

[Hristo]

Brian - Is that Iris unguicularis? Very clean plant, super!

From the garden here today, not exotic but pretty;
Tulipa praestans
Erythronium dens-canis cult.
Gagea praetermissa ( Bought under this name )

[Gerdk]

Hoping I'll not bore a lot of people I want to show a violet concentrated post
- all pics are from today -

I start with the 'usual' violet colour

1. Viola alba ssp. dehnhardtii originally from Segovia (thanks to Rafa)
2. Viola alba x chelmea - a naturally occuring hybrid from Greece
3. + 4.  Viola jaubertiana originally from Mallorca - one of my favorites
     with shining glabrous ivy-leaves
5. Viola uliginosa - originally from Sweden - a plant for the bog garden

The next one usually is also violet - here a white form

6. Viola chelmea ssp. vratnicensis - originally from Mt. Orjen, Montenegro

Now the yellow ones - all in a special section (Chamaemelanium) - in Europe represented only by a single species (Viola biflora)
7. Viola xanthopetala from the Vladyvostok region
8. Viola brevistipulata from Japan

The last one is a very strange shrubby species from Chile (height more than 1m)

9. + 10. Viola rubella

Gerd

[ichristie]

Wow, what a great lot of pictures and Gerd I like the violets. I have a few new flowers today from the garden,  cheers Ian the Christie kind

 Arcterica nana
 Erythronium hendersonii
 Erythronium oregonum
 Erythronium purpurascens

[Michael]

Nice plants Mike.  The last one is a Babiana, maybe angustifolia.

@ Ashley: i think it could be a Brodiaea too, but still not sure. None the less, the plant looks nothing like a Brodiaea...

@ Paul: Many thanks, it is Ixia paniculata indeed, the species with the longest tube in that genus (after PBS).

@ Arne: Nice Narcissus "Mount Hood". It must be my favourite Narcissus hybrid.

@ Gerd: Such a lovely collection of Viola! I have some seedlings of Viola paradoxa growing at the moment (5 months old but still small). Could you please PM me your adress?

And, Gerd, is Viola cryana really extinct (any possibilities of still be found in the wild?). And what about the high altitude Andean Violas, do you grow them? Are they easy?

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[Luc Gilgemyn]

What an avalanche of colour here tonight !!
Thanks for the show everyone !

[maggiepie]

Wonderful pics everyone, so many treasures to be seen.

Gerry, your Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex’ is beautiful, in what sort of conditions are they growing?

Gerd, I particulary enjoyed your violas, are many of them scented?
I hope you keep posting them as you get them.
I found my first V. Cuneata seed germinating today

[Maggi Young]

I do adore violets.... as does my very good friend who has no computer, or camera but she grows lots of the cultivars..... I will be showing her these photos from you Gerd when she next visits... ...so lovely to see them.

[Lvandelft]

What an avalanche of colour here tonight !!
Thanks for the show everyone !

What else could I add to Luc's words?
So many plants, clicking from Edinburgh Show to Flowering Now. where else would you find such?
Fabulous!