Flowering Now - May 2009

[olegKon]

Sorry. Pics 2,3 are Pulsatilla flavescens

[Lesley Cox]

Robin, Podophyllum emodi is now called P. hexandrum. It is very beautiful both in flower, foliage and fruit, a big, pendant squashy thing, tomato red. It germinates best from fresh seed but is generally easy in a cool, leafy soil but takes a few years to flower, in my experience. The seedlists usually have it.

The Arnebia has spots on some flowers and not on others because they appear as the flower ages (have I got that right? or do they start spotted and the spots disappear as the flowers age?) There is some Christian legend about them I think, something to do with fingerprints or ? Someone will know.

[ruweiss]

Lesley,thanks for giving the comment to Robin and I agree with it. When the Arnebia
flowers open they are nicely dotted and after some days the dots vanish and the flowers are simply
yellow. I asked a chemist about this and she told me, that the dots are probably from anilin colours
which react with the oxygen in the air. In nature these plants grow in Eastern Turkey and the
Caucasus and are very garden worthy plants for full sun or light shade and flower reliable and profusely
(sometimes 2-3 times in the year). Seed raising is simple, but caution- plants are tap-rooted.

[Armin]

Oleg,
Pulsatilla flavescens is a real beauty
My Pulsatillas show already attractive seed heads.

Now it is Aquilegia time...

[olegKon]

Thank you, Armin. Fantastic Aquilegias. We have to wait for a couple of weeks for them to flower. Pulsatillas are as beautiful with seedheads as with flowers, aren't they. Only one is now with seeds - P. slavica. some just open their buds

[Armin]

Oleg,
yes, Pulsatillas with seed heads are still attractive in a flower bed.
And, I like the Aquilegias, so many kinds, different colors and forms...
Both species are a real enrichment for every garden.

[Paul T]

Great pics everyone.  That yellow Pulsatilla is glorious, but I just adore that teeny tiny Ausie Viola that I've never heard of before.  Thanks Gerd!!

[Gerdk]

Finally, after I saw Armin's Aquilegia chrysantha I got it!
This is the species, which seeds I received year after year when I ordered Aquilegia aurea - a famous columbine of Bulgarian origin.

I hope the unknown sender will take a look at this Forum!

Gerd

[cohan]

Pulsatillas are still flowering
1.Pulsatilla vulgaris gotlandica

nice--i esp like the yellow..
who is carrying pulsatilla seed? i dont remember any on the lists i have looked at, but then, maybe i wasnt paying attention to the genus yet...

[Ragged Robin]

Robin, Podophyllum emodi is now called P. hexandrum. It is very beautiful both in flower, foliage and fruit, a big, pendant squashy thing, tomato red. It germinates best from fresh seed but is generally easy in a cool, leafy soil but takes a few years to flower, in my experience. The seedlists usually have it.

The Arnebia has spots on some flowers and not on others because they appear as the flower ages (have I got that right? or do they start spotted and the spots disappear as the flowers age?) There is some Christian legend about them I think, something to do with fingerprints or ? Someone will know.

Thanks, Lesley, for your reply and all the information - it's great to have the beautiful and interesting, flower, foliage and fruit in a plant. I often look at how to prolong a plants interest in the garden with these qualities - stems can be wonderful too and how a plant displays itself viewed from different angles.

[Ragged Robin]

Lesley,thanks for giving the comment to Robin and I agree with it. When the Arnebia
flowers open they are nicely dotted and after some days the dots vanish and the flowers are simply
yellow. I asked a chemist about this and she told me, that the dots are probably from anilin colours
which react with the oxygen in the air. In nature these plants grow in Eastern Turkey and the
Caucasus and are very garden worthy plants for full sun or light shade and flower reliable and profusely
(sometimes 2-3 times in the year). Seed raising is simple, but caution- plants are tap-rooted.

Rudi, thanks to you and Lesley for answering this interesting reaction of this pretty flower to losing it's spots!  (No leopard then  )

[Sinchets]

Flowering today a group of Allium hollandicum.

[Lampwick]

Today’s pictures

Anthyllis montana ‘Rubra’.

Globularia nana.
 

[Paul T]

Wow Lampwick, that Anthyllis looks pretty special.  Not come across it before.  Very nice.

[Lvandelft]

Wow Lampwick, that Anthyllis looks pretty special.  Not come across it before.  Very nice.

Paul, I can assure that this is a very easy, always flowering plant. I have it many years in a raised bed near the house,
very sunny and hot in summer.

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