Flowering Now - May 2009

[David Nicholson]

Beautiful pictures Olga.

[Hans A.]

Gote and Olga - a pitty most if not all the shown plants will not be growable here - so I enjoy them in your fantastic pictures. 

Here are two bulbous plants of the southern hemisphere are in flower:

Conanthera parvula (Chile) and Drosera menziesii ssp. menziesii (Australia)

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Hans. I do like Conanthera parvula (I'm trying C. campanulata from seed) if ever you have any spare seeds I would welcome a few please

[WimB]

Göte,

thanks for correcting me on the name of the Trillium. I got it a while back and I'm really no expert on Trilliums.
How do you grow your undulatum? Soil: peat??

Olga, very nice pictures, I like the crocusses especially.

Hans,  I like the flower on that Drosera.
I've never tried to grow a tuberous Drosera, are they hard to grow?

[mark smyth]

Do native Drosera have flowers like the one above? I would never have thought they would flower like that

[WimB]

Mark,

The native (in Belgium) Drosera's (intermedia, rotundifolia and anglica) have much smaller white flowers.

[Melvyn Jope]

Hello Olga,
Thanks for your really good photographs, I especially liked the Hepatica.

[mark smyth]

THanks, Wim

Two bluebells from me. The white and blue bracteate forms. The white form doesnt open and is more of a creamy green colour. The blue form cause a bit of a stir at our show. Mostly good but one bad.

[Lesley Cox]

Wonderful to see T. undulatum on the Forum, and in cultivation. Well done Gote, as it seems to be the most difficult of all the species.

[Lori S.]

And now, dragging everyone back in time again ( ), a few things in bloom here...
Self-sown Pulsatilla vulgaris (with our native Geum triflorum, in bud, in the background).
And same, in darker shades.
Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra Plena'
Narcissus 'Baby Moon' .... oops, 'Tete-a-tete'?
Corydalis solida
The first of the pulmonaria to bloom, Pulmonaria altaica - it has wonderfully hairy, silky leaves, that feel like a black labrador's ears!
Puschkinia
Scilla mischtshenkoana

Crocus are nearly done...
Hacquetia epipactus just starting to emerge and bloom - so cute!

[Otto Fauser]

Olga , superb photos  of lovely plants,
      thank you from
         
          Otto.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks for beaming us back in time every now and then Lori !  Keeps us young ! 
Great pix !

[Hans A.]

Lori nice to bring us back in time - here many plants started to go dormant.

David - Conanthera parvula is flowering the second year for me - last year I did not get seed  - hope this year will be different - if so you will ge some.
C. parvula is a much smaller species than C. campanulata - the plants are only about 5 cm in height - it has more importance because of my memories of chile than because of its beauty

Wim  - i just received this Drosera last year and do not have long experience in growing this species. They go completly dormant and need a dry summerrest - wet while growing. I have been told specially  transition period from dormant to growing can be complicate.

[gote]

thanks for correcting me on the name of the Trillium. I got it a while back and I'm really no expert on Trilliums.
How do you grow your undulatum? Soil: peat??

You are welcome. Trillium names is a djungle with some that can be separated out and some swarms that probably do not deserve a generic name. Furthermore many are masquerading under the wrong name. Yours is one that can be recognized with some certainity.
I grow undulatum in sandy soil with high humus content. Old leaf mould and sphagnum peat added. The pH is low and will grow Ericaceae with no difficulty. However there is some indication that undulatum requires chilly nights and will not grow in a warm climate. Mid-Sweden is OK but West Sweden seems to be difficult. (Acc to Karl Zita) Belgium should be difficult if you are not on the top of the Ardennes.
Göte

[ashley]

And now, dragging everyone back in time again ( ), a few things in bloom here... 

Isn't that one of the joys of the Forum Lori? 
Not only can we can spread out each season but we can enjoy it twice per year!
Lovely plants and pictures; thank you.