Flowering Now - May 2009

[Sinchets]

That's an interesting Pulmonaria, Lori. Did you grow it from seed?

[ichristie]

Well, the season seems to get better every day with so many new pictures here on the forum. We are still very cold here in Northern Scotland and I never know how some plants can cope, I post a few pictures taken today,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Regelian]

Ian, the Mecanopsis are truly elegant looking.  That royal colour aloft on such delecate stems.  I've never managed to grow any, other than cambria, much to my dismay.

[Lvandelft]

A few days not looking this thread and so many beautiful plants shown here.
Thank you all!

Ian, looking at your so beautiful pictured Glaucidium, I hope I will sleep tonight.
Can only dream of such a beauty. 

[gote]

Superb Ian,
I am glad my snow bunting looks the same (except only 4 flowers  ) It means that my name is right.
While I remember.
You sent me two Pteridiophyllum clones one that flowers and one that doesnot. The one that does not flower, now has buds after three years of leaves only.
Göte
 

[gote]

I do grow some plants which do not have green flowers.
Jeffersonia dubia (I refuse the P-word I cannot even remember it)
Isopyron thalictroides
Ranzania japonica. The Ranzanias did not like the strange weather we have had the flowers are smaller than normal.
And a photo from the town garden.
Göte
 

[Lori S.]

What beautiful plants are being shown here by everyone!
Olga, your plants are lovely and your photographic skills are truly enviable!

Simon, no, I didn't grow Pulmonaria altaica from seed; I got it from Wrightman's Alpines last year, where the write-up says that it is an introducion by Josef Halda from Siberia... (or to be more grammatically correct, "an introduction from Siberia by Josef Halda"!)

[Sinchets]

What beautiful plants are being shown here by everyone!
Olga, your plants are lovely and your photographic skills are truly enviable!

Simon, no, I didn't grow Pulmonaria altaica from seed; I got it from Wrightman's Alpines last year, where the write-up says that it is an introducion by Josef Halda from Siberia.

That's what I was wondering Lori- I had never heard of it, so I googled and found it as Josef Halda seed. I guess you couls rely on it being tough if it's Siberian 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show again !!!
Ian, these Meconopsis are to die for !!   Wonderful... wish I could grow them...  

Here's some colour from my garden today :

1 & 2 : Lewisia cotyledon hybrids - the second one almost overgrown...  
3) Haberlea rhodopensis
4) Oxalis adenophylla
5) Oxalis patagonica  - lots more buds hiding in the foliage ready to open !  
6) Phlox seedling
7) Gladiolus carneus - flowering for the first time here at 40 cm high !
A colourfull little patch starring Anemone pavonina - Campanula chamissonis major and Hymenoxa acaulis ?? not sure about this last one.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Luc, your rock garden must look absolutely beautiful at the moment.

[olegKon]

It was a nice weekend here though not without night frosts. Some of the many in flower now:
1. Pulsatilla montana
2. Jeffersonia dubia
3. Pulsatilla rosea (or vulgaris rosea?)

[ichristie]

Hi again, the super pictures just keep on being posted, Luc, I am interested in the picture of the second Lewisia looks like it is almost under a conifer yet flowering very well, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Lvandelft]

A colourfull little patch starring Anemone pavonina - Campanula chamissonis major and Hymenoxa acaulis ?? not sure about this last one.

Hymonoxis scaposa, Luc. 

[Lori S.]

I guess you couls rely on it being tough if it's Siberian 

I sometimes wonder if gardeners in Siberia are growing all of our native plants, as we seem to be growing a lot of theirs!
Yes, it should help, though I haven't found come upon a pulmonaria yet that was not hardy here - obviously, I'm not trying hard enough!

[Lampwick]

Pictures taken at 06:15 this morning.