Flowering in my garden today

[Maggi Young]

Here are flowers from every Rhododendron that I have in flower in the garden today, Saturday 25th April 2009..... including the first of the  Ledum!
....I think I counted  66 different flowers represented here. 





The largest bloom with the smallest..... a williamsianum hybrid, with flowers +10 cm across. be  with a R. omienese truss of 1cm total!



Just opening his flowers is R. rex fictolacteum, so nowhere near the full size of bloom,  seen here with a  R. anthopogon truss, each of the wee flowers c 1cm

[WimB]

WOW,

So much variation... I like the R. omeiense especially. Someone (who visits this forum too  ) pointed out today that I have something for small plants and flowers, so that's probably the reason.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Verrrrrry impressive Maggi ! 

I guess this is the best time of the year for you in the Garden ! 

Alas - I'm a little disapointed - I would have expected the 66 names in your post... 

[Maggi Young]

Verrrrrry impressive Maggi ! 

I guess this is the best time of the year for you in the Garden ! 

Alas - I'm a little disapointed - I would have expected the 66 names in your post... 

Oh, Luc, most days I am glad just to remember my own name 
Later in the garden I found another three with flowers  which I missed .....and I thought I had been so thorough in my flower collecting 

[Maggi Young]

Oh dear, I  felt guilty.....so I have made an effort..... WHAT an effort!!  About 56 names here....

Curlew

 Wren

Crane

 Pintail

 Ptarmigan

Egret

Merganser

Ginny Gee

microleucum

nitidulum

 omiense

 schweliense

 glaucophyllum ( forms)

thomsonii Mcbeath

 pachysanthum

  yak x tsariense

 Yak vars

faberi

 taliense x lacteum

 impeditum

 russatum

 intermedium

 hippophaioides

 rex fictolacteum

Yellowhammer

 dendrocharis

 cephalanthum crebreflorum

 keiskei Yaku Fairy

 keiskei cordifolia

hanceanum nanum

 fastigiatum

 racemosum

saluenense chameunum

saluenense

Blue Tit

Silberwolke

Phalarope

 Snipe

anthopogon

primuloides

recurvoides

 recurvoides RV select

selense jucundum

Bow Bells

Osmar

charitopes 

tatsienense

Rose Elf

calostrotum Gigha

 lapponicum hybrid

Ciliatum

 Cowslip

davidsonianum

 Dora Amateis

  cephalanthum

 oh, and pseudchrysanthum

...and a couple of williamsianum hybrids
 .....Chink and Chikor....... Wee Bee.......

 that makes 61, I think... the others will be assorted impeditum types and little blue/lilac hybrids !

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Maggi - I was only pulling your leg.. 
Great effort again - thanks very much anyway ! 

[johnw]

In bloom today in the south:


Blaney's Blue
Schneeflocken
augustinii Chasmanthum
rex Berkley x rex Quartz (how did I miss that rotten slug posing as a blotch???)
ambiguum RSF 90/058 (2)
Goldstrike

johnw - possibility of snow in the Cape Breton Highlands tonight.

[johnw]

Not quite in the garden but Rhododendron christinae x jasminflorum in flower.

johnw

[Ragged Robin]

Is it the shape or the smell that relates to its name, John, it's very petite and pretty?

[johnw]

Is it the shape or the smell that relates to its name, John, it's very petite and pretty?

Robin - It must be the shape as the scent is a bit like carnation.  The tubes are close to 7.5cm long (3").

johnw

[Maggi Young]

The tubes are close to 7.5cm long (3").

Wow!  I LOVE it! What a colour! I wish Fred would hurry up with the scent button!!

[Lesley Cox]

One of the Vireyas.  As largely tropical plants, they have the interesting habit of flowering when conditions are right - warmth, moisture - rather than by season. They can be made to flower all year round. A friend had a number in pots in a sunny porch and watered through the year to have flowers through the year.

[johnw]

Our chapter had a tour of this garden near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia on the weekend. Lots of lepidote species to drool over.  As it is on the headlands it gets the full brunt of Atlantic gales.  I spied this peony with great foliage, no tag - I will have to torment the gardener.

johnw

[Ragged Robin]

Lots of lepidote species to drool over

On Googling leant the meaning of a new word, thanks John, I've ben doing it for years but didn't know what I was doing - if you see what I mean 

Gorgeous views and wild and wonderful setting for a garden - you mention an intriguing peony but was there a special Rhododendron that caught your eye?

[johnw]

Robin - The R. vaseyi 'White Find' which figures in many of the shots is one of my favourites.  Also I love the Pogonanthums of which the following is but one there. Apologies for the poor pictures and I'm afraid I haven't identified this one yet and it's not going to be easy.  The foliage smells of strawberries when rubbed and can never pass without a test.

johnw