Flowering Now - April 2009

[Ragged Robin]

A real delight, Gunilla, to see such unusual and elegant flowers from your garden. Your Glaucidium palmatums look truly amazing - no wonder you guessed the answer to the puzzle Cliff set!  Hope you get some rain, it's very cold and wet here in the clouds - I'll try wishing some to stay North...

[Gunilla]

Thanks Robin.  Please keep on wishing, we need those clouds now 

[ranunculus]

Lovely images, Gunilla ... more please when you can spare the time?

[Gerdk]

Lovely images, Gunilla ... more please when you can spare the time?

There is nothing to add - so we enjoy some flowers which are over here a second time.

From me only 1 pic - Thalictrum orientale (outside)

[gote]

Gerd,
That is indeed a nice Thalictrum. It looks superficially as a red Isopyron thalictroides.

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.

Everything is happening at the same time here now but My Glaucidius are just starting to show above ground.

Göte
 

[Lampwick]

Pictures taken today........

 Penstemon paysoniorum
 Eriogonum caespitosum
 Delospermum nubiganum
 Asperula suberosa
 Primula 'Garryarde Guinevere'
 Phlox 'Kelly's Eye'
 Oxalis ‘Ione Hecker’

[ranunculus]

Your asperula looks extremely happy in the corner of that trough, John ... a beautiful plant.

[Lvandelft]

John, I long ago heard a little story about the naming of Phlox 'Kelly's Eye', but don't remember
how it really was. I just know that it was something to laugh.
Can you tell me more?

[Lampwick]

Thanks Cliff,
There are many plants I can’t succeed with, but for some uncanny reason this has always done well in my garden. I bought it in 1971 from C. G. Hollett, Greenbank Nursery, Sedbergh, Cumbria. The first few years I covered it with glass during the winter months, but for many years now it’s left to look after itself with no cosseting from me.

Luit,
Perhaps you are referring to John Kelly’s description in the Stanton Alpine Nursery (1976) catalogue shown below. 

[Paddy Tobin]

Gunilla,

The anemone nemerosa looks so beautiful but the glaucidium is fabulous - we always envy the plants which have proved difficult to grow in our own garden.

Paddy

[wolfgang vorig]

some pictures

 the last Hepatica nobilis alba
 Petrocallis pyrenaica
 Anemone ranunculoides semiplena
 Anemone hortensis var stellata
 Anemone eranthoides

[Ragged Robin]

Wonderful photos Wolfgang...something to dream about!

[Paddy Tobin]

Wolfgang, the last three are simply outstanding, new variations to me and looking great.

Paddy

[Lvandelft]

Luit,
Perhaps you are referring to John Kelly’s description in the Stanton Alpine Nursery (1976) catalogue shown below. 

Thank you John!
In the story I heard then was something about red eyes after
a long drinking night, but my remembering is a bit vague   

[Armin]

Bluebell time in the western part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Inspired by the show of Tony G. from April 26th I made my first visit to an occurence of Hyacinthoides non-scripta near Baal, close to Hueckelhoven and Erkelenz.
I was attended by Erich Pasche. Thanks to the advice and good guidance of two friends we visited two places with masses of flowering bluebells.
In German this plant is called 'Hasenglöckchen' - which means little bell of a hare.
Here are some impressions

Gerd

Gerd,
must be a lovely place and nice trip.
Did you find hybrids with H. hispanica escaped from gardens?