Flowering Now - April 2009

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Stunning picture John !

[Hristo]

I'll second Luc on that, super group of Erythroniums John.
Mixed bag from the garden today;
Iris reichenbachii
Muscari muscarimi
Viola tricolor nigra
Nothoscordum sellowianum ( formerly Ipheon ) -One of my first purchases from Potterton's via mail order when I lived in Aberdeen, back to flowering size after three years of sulking!

[Sinchets]

Just a little white (albino) Viola in the garden.

[John Aipassa]

Thanks Luc and Hristo,

I will post some more pictures of plants flowering this year and stop lurking.

Here is a hybrid Helleborus.

Cheers,

 

[annew]

And a very nice hellebore it is too!
Ian C, your daffodils are very interesting. The second one is Van Sion, I think, but I don't know the first one. It looks like one someone was asking about elsewhere that had been seen in a garden abroad I think.

[ruweiss]

Here is  Pulsatilla halleri slavica from wild seed, the amount of flowers is rather poor
against last year. It is the first Pulsatilla flower in every year and the flowers are really showy.

[Armin]

Rudi,
what a delight!
Very beautiful!

[Lesley Cox]

As well as having a most beautiful dog, Lampwick has a superb website. Please do have a good look at it. I just have and will visit weekly at least. Heaps of excellent imformation and wonderful pictures. If we had a prize for best website......?

[Lvandelft]

Here is  Pulsatilla halleri slavica from wild seed, the amount of flowers is rather poor
against last year. It is the first Pulsatilla flower in every year and the flowers are really showy.

Rudi, that is rather an understatement. They are beautiful!

[Lvandelft]

Very special in spring when unfolding the leaves:

Salix moupinensis 1               
Salix moupinensis 2       

[Lesley Cox]

Those are lovely Luit.

[Brian Ellis]

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

Thanks Chris, you have caused much mayhem here!  It was an Iris from Rod Leeds, which is unusual in some way, the label has long since disappeared by the blackbirds and a computer change caused a blip in the acquisitions list!  I have been searching but cannot find exactly what it is much to my annoyance.  We are going to visit Rod and Jane at the end of the month and I will see if he can elucidate me, it is the first time that it has flowered so I am very pleased!

Thanks for the wonderful postings, it is great to see the habitats as well as the plants and some really unusual things too - Evax?

best wishes
Brian

[Luc Gilgemyn]

As well as having a most beautiful dog, Lampwick has a superb website. Please do have a good look at it. I just have and will visit weekly at least. Heaps of excellent imformation and wonderful pictures. If we had a prize for best website......?

I second that Lesley - lovely website !  Congrats to Lampwick 

[ranunculus]

Should this be on the 'Puzzles' page?  Who is Lampwick?  We know they are male and from Staffordshire, an excellent photographer, a terrific gardener and a web site guru.  Answers please - Diane, surely you know?

[Sinchets]

Flowering on the rock garden: Aethionema saxatile (AGS SeedEx) and a Fibigia species (the pollen beetle attack has begun).