Flowering Now - May 2009

[Lvandelft]

Olga, thank you for the wonderful pictures!

[Lampwick]

WOW!....What wonderful pictures from all you dedicated plant growers, I keep jotting down names to my “must have” list – this forum is addictive! Weather I will ever get or succeed with any of them is another matter.
Just think; several years ago this forum as it is now would not have been possible without the birth of the digital camera!
The information and images here must certainly surpass any other similar forum or website, and there isn’t a publication which can rival the vast library of alpine pictures found here. Thanks to all of you!

[Maggi Young]

John, the SRGC takes its remit to spread the word about alpine and rock garden plants pretty seriously, so the success of the forum is most satisfyling in that regard. Thanks for your kind words.

[Ragged Robin]

Do you think you are well and truly hooked on this site now, Robin?   

I'd say: 'hook, line and sinker' Cliff 

Is there such a thing as an Alpinerockophile 

Lots to learn but I would like to make the grade one day   

[johnw]

Ian  - Wonderful shots and superb plants. Can you tell me more about the Liliohyacintha and the species? I have never heard of it and it is a beauty we should be growing here.

johnw - rain and probably as cold as northern Scotland. +6c and the furnace is on.

[Sinchets]

Just opening today in the garden Ornithogalum reverchonii. The leaves have been up all winter- including under snow- and are now looking a bit tatty.

[ichristie]

Hi, everyone, firstly like all forumists the pictures Olga posted are superb but so many plants poste here it is better than any Botanical Garden.  The Liliohyacintha is very easy here and we have many bulbs plus a few white flowered as well. cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Lesley Cox]

Wonderful pictures from Olga but I really admire John's Penstemons as well. I used to grow a lot then gave up on almost all as they kept dying off, branch at a time and I couldn't see what was wrong or how to stop it but I'm trying a few again. I thought they were too dry but maybe they were too damp. They seem to do very well in the SW USA and in fact are native to those arid areas.

[Sinchets]

You are right Lesley, Penstemon is a huge and attractive genus with representatives suitable for many different soil types and conditions as well as climates. I have quite a few on trial in the xeric garden and rock garden, as well as some in damper areas of the woodland garden.

[Roma]

Ian, isn't your Liliohyacintha -  Scilla liliohyacinthus?

[johnw]

Ian, isn't your Liliohyacintha -  Scilla liliohyacinthus?

Roma  - I was baffled but found it under the Scilla you mentioned. The Pyrenean Squill.

johnw

[Kristl Walek]

I was very happy to see a first bloom on my 3-year old seedlings of Iris zenaidae (having already been put in pots for my garden move).

[Paul T]

Superb pics from so many people in this topic, too many to mention all of them.  Special mention MUST go to Olga's glorious pictures though, and that Glaucidium clump from Ian C.    And some of Luc's treasures, and ........ 

Thanks for such delightful pictures everyone.

[ichristie]

Hi Roma, all,  yes indeed that is what it is I forgot to post the proper name another senior moment perhaps. The bulb is a nice showy flower for the garden,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

Hi again, I have just been out in the garden and it is very wet and cold just like a November day. I post a few pictures showing colour with meconopsis which are very purple due to this cold. The Meconopsis punicea perennial I have had since 2003 and it set good seed which Cyril has raised watch this space, cheers Ian the Christie kind