Flowering Now - June 2009

[arisaema]

Fantastic pictures, I'm also taken by both the Nesocodon and the Calceolaria. The rose actually one I was planning to buy, do wish we had that scent button Maggi mentioned...

Below:

Anemone obtusiloba(?)
Anemone pratti
Nomocharis aperta, yellow form
Phlox divaricata from Scottsville, Kentucky - compact, but not very fragrant.
Phyteuma hybrid, P. nigra x something
Swertia alpestris
...and the flower of the Polygonatum sp. posted earlier, it didn't read the key (as usual), but I think it's a pale P. kingianum.

[Otto Fauser]

Arisaema ,
 what an exciting and beautyful colour brake in your Nomocharis aperta - did not know there was a yellow form of it . Nomocharis grow very well here in my garden , so I would be
 grateful for a few seeds should your plants ripen any and there are a few to spare ,
       Otto.

[Paul T]

Arisaema,

I love the Phyteuma hybrid, but that Swertia alpestris is fascinating.  Any chance of a close up picture of the flowers?

[Gerdk]

Magical flowers Gerd, I agree with Luit that

Nesocodon mauritianus is something very delicate

and the trumpet is so generous
I do adore scented flowers and so honeysuckles are high on my 'needs-must' list and the Lonicera tragophyllum is again very delicate and simple, is it high scented and what tree is it growing through?

Thank you alltogether for the kind remarks!

RR, The Lonicera is surprisingly scentless - so the colour has to act as a substitute. In my mind honeysuckles and scent is also always combined.
The tree is Kalopanax pictus (Araliaceae) from Japan. This species can reach about 20 m in its homeland and it seems mine tries to beat this - much too large for my small garden!

Gerd

[WimB]

Bjørnar,

very beautiful plants.
I had never seen the yellow Nomocharis either or the white A. obtusiloba (I've seen the yellow and the blue one but never the white one).
Is Swertia alpestris the same as Swertia perennis ssp. alpestris?

Wim

[Rafa]

some recent pictures from the wild

gentiana-angustifolia.jpg
 iris-pseudacorus.jpg
 p1010015.jpg
 p5090115. Viola cazorlensis

[hadacekf]

Rafa,
Your last pictures shows the wonderful Viola cazorlensis. Thank you!
Where you it photograph?

[Gerdk]

Rafa,
Your last pictures shows the wonderful Viola cazorlensis. Thank you!
Where you it photograph?

- and also just as well interesting: where did you discover the gentian?

Gerd

[ruweiss]

Some pictures from my gardens :
This small form is a valuable plant, very floriferus and compact from the Kosovo.
Epipactis x Sabine is a hybrid of E.palustris and E.gigantea.
Haplocarpha nervosa is a new introduction from the Drakensberge of Lesotho,
H. ruepelli is more known in cultivation and origins from the Kilimandscharo region.
As in previous years this Iris lineolata from Aserbajdsan grows without any protection
in the open garden.

Allium insubricum.jpg
 Daphne alpina small fom.jpg
 Dragonfly.jpg
 Epipactis x Sabine 1.jpg
 Epipactis x Sabine 2.jpg
 Haplocarpha nervosa.jpg
 Haplocarpha rueppelii.jpg
 Iris lineolata.jpg
 Iris pseudacorus fl.pl..jpg
 Jamesia americana.jpg

[Paul T]

Rafa,

The Viola cazorlensis is amazing.  Never seen a Viola anything like that before!

[Rafa]

beautiful plants ruwesiss, specially to me Iris acutiloba lineolata.

I pictured that Viola cazorlensis precisely in Cazorla Natural Park, although there ar many other locations. Precisely, a Guard from the park arrived when I was taking pictures and talking about this botanic jewell, he told me there is also distributed in Italy and that surprised me.

About gentiana, I pictured it in Alava, when I was collecting seeds of Narcissus jacetanus subsp. jacetanus. The real colour was even more deep blue, a real gift to my sight!

[Paul T]

Stunning, Rafa.  Simply stunning plant.

[arisaema]

Some wonderful plants pictured above, the Iris lineolata and Viola in particular!

Otto; sure, but you will have to remind me, possibly (probably) more than once as I'm half senile and a terrible procrastinator 

Paul; close up below

Wim; thanks! It is S. perennis ssp. alpestris, basically a shorter version with longer petals.

[Paul T]

That is just SO nice.  Love the petal and stamen arrangement etc.  Very, very nice plant.

[Gerdk]

Thank you for the Gentiana information and of course for the superb violet pics!

Viola cazorlensis grows only in Spain. There are two related species in the Balkan area which are Viola kosaninii from Albania and Macedonia and Viola delphinantha from Greece with one station in Bulgaria (Ali-Botusch - near the Greece border).

An occurence of a fourth violet from this relationship in Italy would be a botanical sensation!

Gerd