Flowering Now - June 2009

[Lori S.]

Hmmm... I also have Erigeron glaucus (or so it was labelled!) and it's under 10cm...

[Sinchets]

Lol, I guess I won't be relabelling that in a hurry then 

[Paul T]

Simon,

My glaucus (I bought it glauca, so didn't realise the ending was wrong) is nowhere near 30cm tall either.  Definitely closer to the 10cm of Lori's.  Depends of course on how much competition it has too though.... if growing through something it will always be taller, whereas mine is out in the open.  Is that a factor with yours Simon?

[Brian Ellis]

Thank you Robin, the poppy was bought years ago as Papaver somniferum 'Black Peony' and has crossed with others so there are single, double and fringed versions.  There are always plenty of seeds

[Lvandelft]

Some plants in flower here this week.
Interestingly that Simon showed the double form of Papaver somniferum.
I have the single form since I raised a bed with some darker soil for several perennials.
I let it seed every year and pull most of them out when small, but the colors improved
from dirty pink to some red ones this year..
This week I suddenly saw a double form in nice red color.
       
Papaver somniferum               
Papaver somniferum dubbel 1         
Papaver somniferum dubbel 2       
Centaurea Pulchra Major 1             
Centaurea Pulchra Major 2                 
Centaurea Pulchra Major 3                 
Erigeron Sommerneuschnee             
Geranium Patricia                       
Hemerocallis Daily Bread     

[Lori S.]

Wonderful plants, all!  So many things that are completely unknown to me!

1)  One of our native geraniums, Geranium viscosissimum.
2)  Penstemon fruticosus
3)  Primula x auricula 'Gordon Douglas'
4)  Silene maritima, starting to bloom, with phlox
5)  Tiarella cordifolia - finally, some life in our very cold, slow-to-revive deep shade area!
6)  Geranium phaeum 'Springtime'
7)  Allium
 Geranium cinereum 'Memories' with Alyssum wulfenianum
9)  Rheum palmatum 'Tanguticum'

[Ragged Robin]

Some plants in flower here this week.
Interestingly that Simon showed the double form of Papaver somniferum.
I have the single form since I raised a bed with some darker soil for several perennials.
I let it seed every year and pull most of them out when small, but the colors improved
from dirty pink to some red ones this year..
This week I suddenly saw a double form in nice red color.    
Centaurea Pulchra Major 1             
 

Lovely photos of Papaver and Centaurea in bud and opening, Luit - when I saw the Centaurea in bud I thought 'what an arty shot' 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful shots Lori, Luit and everyone else ! 

Luit,
How tall is the Erigeron 'Sommerneuschnee' ??
It looks very attractive.

[Lvandelft]

Lovely photos of Papaver and Centaurea in bud and opening, Luit - when I saw the Centaurea in bud I thought 'what an arty shot' 

That is what I thought too, Robin. It's in the Arty thread as well

[Lvandelft]

Wonderful shots Lori, Luit and everyone else ! 

Luit,
How tall is the Erigeron 'Sommerneuschnee' ??
It looks very attractive.

Luc, it's about 40 cm. and covers the place with flowers for a long time year after year.
You may find under different names in trade:
Sommerneuschnee (original name by Karl Foerster!)
Schneewittchen, different name for same plant.
Snowwhite, name translated by a British trader, who doesn't want to use original names, if not in English

[Brian Ellis]

Isn't that centaurea a stunner, but slow to increase much to my impatience!  It also has such lovely foliage.  Really super flowers Luit.

[David Nicholson]

LSnowwhite, name translated by a British trader, who doesn't want to use original names, if not in English
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Luit, you know that we Islanders are sooooo good at languages!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thank you Luit !
Definitely one to look out for !

[Lvandelft]

LSnowwhite, name translated by a British trader, who doesn't want to use original names, if not in English

Luit, you know that we Islanders are sooooo good at languages!
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David, please don't apologize...
The bad thing is that Erigeron Sommerneuschnee was called Snowwhite in England and then came back to the continent again
under this name (Snowwhite) and was called Schneewittchen in Germany, because some clever plantsman there
thought he had a new plant   

[Rodger Whitlock]

Some photos from a garden walkabout this morning. They're not all rock garden plants, alas!

Allium accuminatum, a form selected for having more-robust-than-usual flower stems and slightly deeper-than-normal flower color.

Bellis rotundifolia caerulescens, a pale blue version of the common lawn daisy.

A mix of Homeria collina (yellow form), Scilla peruviana, and Convolvulus sabaticus. That blue grass head is from Elymus magellanica.

Hemerocallis 'Mongold', a double evergreen daylily introduced by Monrovia Gardens, the well-known California nursery. The evergreen daylilies have a reputation for being tender, but though Mongold doesn't like cold winters, it comes back faithfully. The picture really doesn't do it justice.

Iris latifolia 'Mont Blanc', one of the English irises. Iris latifolia has something of a reputation for being a little tricky to grow, but by sheer dumb luck I sited it in a spot it likes.

Lilium, martagon-type, possibly Mrs. R. O. Backhouse or Lilium × dalhansoni. These were seed grown.

Mandragora officinarum in full fruit. We had a hard winter and a long cold spring, but evidently it agreed with this mandrake.

Penstemon × mexicali 'Pikes Peak Purple', one of a series of hybrid penstemons bred in Colorado.

Rubus parviflorus, a double-flowered form found many years ago near Squamish, BC by Phyllis Munday, an avid mountaineer and alpine grower in Vancouver now deceased. This picture was taken when the flowers had largely faded, so don't give a good impression of the plant as a whole, but it's spectacular in full flower. Big beast, too. Mine is a good 2m or 3m across and about 2m high, thanks to constant ground moisture from a neighbor's leaky swimming pool on the other side of the fence. Edit: This plant should be referred to by the cultivar name 'Phyllis Munday'. There is another double thimbleberry found in California called 'Dr. Stasek'.

Finally, a "dwarf" form of Styrax japonica. Dwarf in that it tops out at about 4m or less height when mature, whereas the normal form of S. japonica gets considerably taller. This form has sweetly scented flowers, a property of S. japonica not often remarked on.


Edited to correct "Mandragora officinalis" to "Mandragora officinarum". Photo file name remains unchanged.
Edited to correct spelling of name from Mundy to Munday.