Flowering Now - June 2009

[Paddy Tobin]

Lori,

Lovely selection of plants. I particularly like the anemone canadensis.

Paddy

[Ragged Robin]

Lovely selection of natural looking flowering plants, Lori, the Verbascum atroviolaceum is the most gorgeous colour - they are extraordinary plants that are well worth looking at the florets close up and very statuesque - here they grow wild in the meadow reaching up making a real statement!

[Sinchets]

Love the Dracocephalum, Lori. I have had it in England but it never set seed so i don't have it here. The Hedysarum is a gem too.
Flowering here on 2 roadside cuttings in the Stara Planina are:
On mudstone- Campanula lingulata- in the first pics looking like an Edraianthus from a distance, but growing taller and more in character on a woodland edge.
Limestone- Also Stachys recta and Salvia ringens

[johnw]

Philip MacDougall was by last night and showed us two sensational plants. The first his Paris luquanensis and the second a spectacular Trillium at the Rhododendron Species Foundation in Federal Way, Wa.  A pair of crackers.

He brought us some nice plants Podophyllum pleianthum x delavayi with chocolate (calm Maggi) new leaves, a dwarf blue-leafed Dicentra peregrina hybrid with red flowers, Hanabusaya asiatica from cw seeds Korea and Abies koreana Silver Show.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Sounds like a vist to gladden MY heart, John! 
Off now to find out what Hanabayusa asiatica might be 

[Paddy Tobin]

Great plants, indeed, John


Paddy

[ranunculus]

 
Off now to find out what Hanabayusa asiatica might be 

I have reserved you a tiny seedling, Maggi ... if you want it?

[arisaema]

Philip MacDougall was by last night and showed us two sensational plants.

Oh my... 

[Maggi Young]

 
Off now to find out what Hanabayusa asiatica might be  

I have reserved you a tiny seedling, Maggi ... if you want it?

Cliff, I have no idea what it is.......for all I know,  a tiny seedling could grow into a forest tree in six years!  

[arisaema]

I'm still recovering from those pics above, but try googling Hanabusaya, it's a cute little woodland Campanulaceae.

[Maggi Young]

AHA! Now I'm with you! A sushi -eating harebell..... why didn't someone say in the first place 

Does the offer of a seedling still stand, Cliff? 

[ranunculus]

Naturally ... I will attempt to keep it alive until I can get it to you ... hopefully not sayonara! 

[johnw]

Thanks Arisaema for Hanabusaya, I had it correct in my inventory but copied it incorrectly, as Maggi would say I have confused myself yet again - I warned her.

johnw

[Sinchets]

Forgot to add on the pics of Salvia ringens and Stachys recta 

[Maggi Young]

Naturally ... I will attempt to keep it alive until I can get it to you ... hopefully not sayonara!  

Many thanks  

Thanks Arisaema for Hanabusaya, I had it correct in my inventory but copied it incorrectly, as Maggi would say I have confused myself yet again - I warned her.

johnw

If only I were not so easily confused along with you, John!  It must be catching!