Flowering Now - April 2009

[ranunculus]

Especially for Lesley ...

Eh up, Lesley ... two more pulsatillas ... soon be in seed!


Pulsatilla vernalis - rain sodden

[Paul T]

Glorious, Cliff!! 

[Lori S.]

Btw, your Bulbocodium vernum... did you grow them from seed?

No, I got a couple of bulbs many years ago that have very slowly spread a little.  They are strangely hard to come by here.

[Anthony Darby]

Here's the patch of ground where my Daphne cneorum isn't, plus a Hyacynthus sp. whose label has been eaten by the dog!

[maggiepie]

Veronica sp ... "the one John Watson collected"  looking fantastic in tufa

I'll say!!
It's gorgeous

Especially for Lesley ...
Eh up, Lesley ... two more pulsatillas ... soon be in seed!
Pulsatilla vernalis - rain sodden

Cliff, they are absolutely wonderful, surely this isn't the same plant you've been showing?
How many do you have?

[Diane Clement]

A couple of saxes looking nice in the tufa

Saxifraga x eudoxiana
Saxifraga federici-augusti ssp grisebachii

[Lvandelft]

As Cliff with his Pulsatilla pictures is challenging me and maybe other Forumists,
here a few pictures of "normal" Pulsatilla.
P. vernalis does not like Hyacinth soil, so I'll have to do it with P. vulgaris

[Lampwick]

Nothing spectacular here, but plants that I have had for many years, (these three pictures were taken today). All are grow outside.

Cassiope ‘Beatrice’Lilley’. –  Not as good a show as some years when none of the foliage can be seen.

Anemonella thalictroides. –  This is growing in the corner of a large shady trough. Its also grown in the garden amongst Ericaceae subjects where it has seeded about in a pleasing manner.

Viola jooii. –  I have had this a number of years and this is the best it has ever flowered with me; still a few more buds to open yet! In some catalogues and publications the specific name is spelt with just one “i”. I know it’s commemorative; but has it something to do with masculine or feminine regarding the person to whom a particular plan is named after? 
 

[ranunculus]

Beautiful, Luit ... just beautiful ...

[ranunculus]

Pulsatilla vernalis - rain sodden

Cliff, they are absolutely wonderful, surely this isn't the same plant you've been showing?
How many do you have?

Hi Helen,
I have eight or nine plants dotted about the garden - some in pots and a couple in troughs - nothing too big, but all flowering nicely this spring. Would you like some seed if they produce? 

[maggiepie]

Luit,  it's beautiful, what kind of soil does it like?

Cliff, I have a few tiny babies at the moment, but would love some of your seed if you end up with some spares.

[Hristo]

Cliff, Luit, super Pulsatillas. Going perhaps from beauty to the beast, Asarum europaeum and Asarum heterotropoides are flowering in the garden today!

[maggiepie]

Nothing spectacular here, but plants that I have had for many years, (these three pictures were taken today). All are grow outside.

[Viola jooii. –  I have had this a number of years and this is the best it has ever flowered with me; still a few more buds to open yet! In some catalogues and publications the specific name is spelt with just one “i”. I know it’s commemorative; but has it something to do with masculine or feminine regarding the person to whom a particular plan is named after? 

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

[Lvandelft]

Asarum heterotropoides are flowering in the garden today!

Never heard of that one Chris, but a nice color!

[mark smyth]

I see today that one of my long suffering Pulsatilla vernalis has sprouted a new leaf. I thought it was dead. What do I do now to keep it alive and hopefully produce flowers one day

Here's my Pulsatilla bohemica again with 17 flowers.

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.