Flowering Now - May 2009

[Paul T]

It does look like rather cool foliage on the Crambe, doesn't it?  Is it one of the kale family?  I think I've seen Lesley's pics of it before.... blue-grey crinkly foliage?

Lori,

I just adore that Pulsatilla campanella.  So elegant!!    Such a different form to the usual Pulsatillas (and I love the form of the others, this one is just different!  ).

[Lori S.]

You are absolutely right, Aruby - it is Primula elatior!  (My mistake, and corrected above.  Thank you!)
Gentiana verna, again.

[Lori S.]

Paul, yes, Crambe maritima is a Brassicaceae and, apparently, "seakale", is a common name (and the leaves are edible)... native to the UK seacoast and elsewhere, I understand?  It reminds me very much of broccoli, up until the blooming stage - I like it a lot (nonetheless... in case that wasn't clear  )  The flowers smell deliciously like honey. 
Here's another Crambe, this one looking more rhubarb-like, at this stage - the flowers are also honey-scented and borne in meter-wide spheres on 2m stalks... Crambe cordifolia - love it! 
(As amazing at it must seem to many of you, many perennials are just emerging now, here!)

[Sinchets]

Flowering today in the woodland garden:
Phyteuma spicatum
Polemonium pauciflorum

[Lampwick]

As good as the Milky Way on a perfectly clear night.

Hi Lesley,
Here in the UK it is very difficult to see the Milky Way stretching across the night sky, even on the clearest nights; due to the intrusive glow of thousands of streetlights in town and cities. Perhaps up in Scottish Highlands it is more visible……..but from NZ it must be a wonderful sight! 

  

[Regelian]

Simon,

that Polemonium is really sweet!  I take it, it is quite a small plant.

[Sinchets]

Jamie, it is maybe 30cm tall and more laxly flowered than P.caeruleum. Tough though and able to seed around gently.

[gmoen]

Just a few more pic's taken to day in the garden.

1 Arnebia pulchra
2 Arisaema triphyllum
3 Anemonella thalicroides (Some named selection.....label fade)
4 Saxifraga purpurascens
5 Saxifraga hypostoma
6 Gentiana oschtenica
7 Ranunculus seguieri
8 Ranunculus glacialis
9 Anemone rupicola
10 Eritrichium nanum (Tiny plant, but still..... )

[Lori S.]

Polemonium pauciflorum is one of my favorite plants - a subtle beauty.

Terrific plants, gmoen!

[Gerdk]

Some flowers from today

1.+2. Edraianthus pumilio - very persistent
3. Paeonia veitchii (var. woodwardii?)
4. - 6. Paris - not always quadrifolius but sometimes with 5 leaves, petals and sepals

Gerd

[gmoen]

...and a few more

1 Pyrethrum leontopodium
2 Primula maximowiczii
3 Primula maximowiczii (close)
4 Hymenoxis grandiflora
5 Clematis coulmbiana var tenuiloba
6 Iris sp. (another of the Armenia collection)
7 Lewisia longipetala

[WimB]

Geir,

very beautiful plants. I like the P. maximowiczii and the Iris from Armenia especially, their colours are spectacular.

[WimB]

Some plants in flower here today:

1) Androsace lactea
2) Maianthenum canadense
3) Phyteuma scheuzeri
4) Ranunculus alpestris
5) Ranunculus crenatus

[Giles]

Lots of photographs from everyone today 
A few Deutzias (Dootsia or Doytsia ?)
Deutzia 'Iris Alford'
Deutzia 'Magicien'
Deutzia 'Mont Rose'
Deutzia gracilis 'Nikko'

[Giles]

A few jasmines:
Jasminum parkeri
Jasminum humile
Jasminum beesianum