Flowering Now - May 2009

[Lvandelft]

A brilliant combination in the campanula and the hieracium, Luit!  Your dicentra looks a great deal happier than mine too... (Imagine soft, west coast-grown foliage subjected to frosts and low humidity...     Oh well, it lives or dies.)

Lori, I was lucky to be at a nursery last week, where the Dicentra was grown in quantity, so I could take the best.
Have to leave it for a while in the pot because rooting was not optimal until now.
Afterwards I will plant it in a semi-shaded spot.
I believe that these Dicentra's are bred in Japan and that D. eximea and D. peregrina are involved.

[Lori S.]

Gote, I haven't found Cornus canadensis to be invasive either.... quite hard to get established, actually.

[Brian Ellis]

Göte

Another non-invasive is Diphylleia sinensis - a plant for space in the woodland. Blue berries follow.

I now grow Diphylleia cymosa having seen it in another garden and wonder how easy the berries are to germinate?  I hope I will get some as it is a small plant.

[Ragged Robin]

It's very difficult to photograph even in the morning light because of the contrast in the sunlight on the bell, as seen in the group shot, but here are my efforts to show you how much it means to me 

- you managed it perfectly - even the light makes the photo so attractive!

Is there anyone who is able to name the species?

Gerd

Thanks for your encouragment, Gerd       I think the species in my garden is Campanula rotundiflora 

[Carlo]

Brian,

I grow both Diphylleia here and they are wonderful...just now coming near to the end of their bloom period (with berries to follow). I grow them mainly for the foliage and can't speak to the germination question---YET...

[Maggi Young]

It's very difficult to photograph even in the morning light because of the contrast in the sunlight on the bell, as seen in the group shot, but here are my efforts to show you how much it means to me 

- you managed it perfectly - even the light makes the photo so attractive!

Is there anyone who is able to name the species?

Gerd

Thanks for your encouragment, Gerd       I think the species in my garden is Campanula rotundiflora 

I think you may have meant C. rotundifolia, Robin.... but I'm not so sure.....
Only the basal leaves of C. rotundifolia are round, the stem leaves are rather narrow and spikey looking... those on  your Harebell look to be more... well, leafshaped!!     A contintental variant?

[Lvandelft]

Campanula rhomboidalis would possibly fit more??

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks for your comments Maggi and ID Luit - yes I looked at the leaves again and they are as Maggi says more 'leafshaped!!' (long, oval, pointed) they are now looking a bit bedraggled after a thunderstorm so I'm glad I photographed them in prime condition 

[annew]

Some larger plants in flower today - Hemerocallis 'Brunette' with Geum 'Marmalade'. Silene fimbriata with Allium 'Purple Sensation', and more of the Allium along with the paler A. aflatunense and aquilegias. A new aquilegia to me which I am very pleased with - I like the faint whit picotee edge - A. rockii. Maianthemum bifolium (yes it can be invasive, but doesn't seem to be as bad as M. dilatatum or M. canadense ).
Nectaroscordum siculum at its best when just open, it can look tatty later even allowing for its 'fairy castle' seed heads. Lastly some self sown Dactylorrhizas amongst Limnanthes under my apple tree.

[akoen]

Some pictures from me to.

Anemone patula
Bellevila romana
Paeonia obovata var. willmottiae x 2
Geranium farreri

[Ragged Robin]

Some larger plants in flower today - Hemerocallis 'Brunette' with Geum 'Marmalade'. Silene fimbriata with Allium 'Purple Sensation', and more of the Allium along with the paler A. aflatunense and aquilegias. A new aquilegia to me which I am very pleased with - I like the faint whit picotee edge - A. rockii. Maianthemum bifolium (yes it can be invasive, but doesn't seem to be as bad as M. dilatatum or M. canadense ).
Nectaroscordum siculum at its best when just open, it can look tatty later even allowing for its 'fairy castle' seed heads. Lastly some self sown Dactylorrhizas amongst Limnanthes under my apple tree.

Anne your colour schemes and plantings are really lovely - the allium with the aquilegias is my favourite and could have been from Chelsea !

[Ragged Robin]

Some pictures from me to.

Anemone patula
Bellevila romana
Paeonia obovata var. willmottiae x 2
Geranium farreri

Anne Karin, first of all your view from your garden looks like paradise!  Secondly your Paeonia obovata photo is pure heaven 

[Maggi Young]

The standard of photos and the plants shown in them in ALL the threads of the Forum are just getting better and better.  There are so many super pix in so many different threads at the minute that I cannot cope with commenting on them all but I am really enjoying each and every one!

[ichristie]

Hi Brian, I find it easy to lift and split Diphyllea when dormant never germinated fruits,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Lesley Cox]

 I think the species in my garden is Campanula rotundiflora 

Or rotundifolia?

Sorry, I see Maggi has already commented on that. I still think rotundifolia which has a distribution almost circumpolar, so variation is to be expected. I find that it has round(ish) leaves on the non-flowering plant but as it developes and the flower stems begin to emerge, the foliage along the stems and emerging from the clump, is finer, narrower, more "leaf-shaped" as mentioned above. Then after flowering it is again a round-leaved pad. Many running campanulas do the same. Think of 'Mist Maiden' for instance and even C. arvatica.