Flowering Now - June 2009

[ruweiss]

Rafa, thanks for showing us these gems, the Viola cazorlensis is incredibly
floriferous.(I was proud about the 3 flowers at my cultivated plant). Viola
kosaninii is extremely rare in cultivation, I only know one person who
has this plant. A friend says, that he heard of a population of Viola delphinantha
in Bulgaria with flowers of the double size as the usual clones in the gardens.
Maybe we can see them in some time.
I agree with Gerd,that the existence of a 4 th.species of these beauties would
be a sensation.
Now some more pictures:
Prostanthera cuneata is a low shrub from Tasmania with fragrant flowers.
Trollius vaginatus is a gift from a friend,it origins from Tibet at 5000 m.
 
 Nymphaea.jpg
 Prostanthera cuneata.jpg
 Saponaria x olivana.jpg
 Saxifraga cochlearis minor.jpg
 Sempervivum.jpg
 Trollius vaginatus.jpg
 Verbascum Letitia.jpg
 Weldenia candida.jpg

[ranunculus]

Tiny, but beautiful little linaria species in flower today ...

[Paul T]

Lovely, everyone.  Thanks for sharing.  Rafe, that Antirrhinum pertegasii is rather interesting, isn't it.  Love the leaf and flower combination.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

The thread keeps going strong !!!
Each time I can't visit for a day or so the harvest of new pix is sumptuous !

Rafa,
The Violas from the wild are just stunning !!!! 

[Magnar]

Days are passing fast and new flowers opening every day:

Anemone polyanthes from a Chadwell expedition
Primula reidii
Trollius hestoeyensis..

[Ragged Robin]

Tiny, but beautiful little linaria species in flower today ...

A wonderful Macro (Supermacro) of your little linaria Cliff - I love the stripes - each flower is like a little purse 

[ranunculus]

Many thanks Robin ... the flower stem was about four inches tall (from N.A.R.G.S. seed) and for some strange reason all the colours are quite accurate apart from that gruesome fluorescent green.

[Brian Ellis]

One of two things taken whilst the sun was shining ie before terrential thunderstorms!  The papaver are in the front garden with the Collomia, if only they were rising through it!  Also in the front is the kniphofia hirsuta, beginning to settle in nicely.  Whilst in the back are these lovely bupleurum and a little section of the border which I am pleased with.

[Lori S.]

1. Linum capitatum
2. Nymphaea 'Colorado'
3. Clematis alpina 'Willy'
4. Cortusa turkestanica
5. Geum x borisii
6. Aquilegia canadensis
7, 8, 9. Last of the tulips and daffodils for another year...

[Paul T]

Lori,

Beautiful, particularly that apricot Nymphaea and the Clematis. 

[Brian Ellis]

Beautiful, particularly that apricot Nymphaea and the Clematis.

seconded!  That apricot is just lovely

[Sinchets]

Flowering now and appearing from nowhere Papaver somniferum. This part of the garden of the garden has not been cultivated in at least 15 years, so it was a surprise when these started to grow.
Also Coreopsis lanceolata and an Erigeron, whose identity is lost in the mists of time.

[Paul T]

Simon,

How flat is the Erigeron?  The flowers look identical to what I grow here as Erigeron glauca, but it is quite low growing an slowly spreading.  Assuming of course that I have it under the correct name here. 

[Sinchets]

Thanks, Paul. Erigeron glauca sounds good- it does make  a thick, slowly spreading plant- from memory. At the moment it is about 30cm tall.

[Ragged Robin]

One of two things taken whilst the sun was shining ie before terrential thunderstorms!  The papaver are in the front garden with the Collomia, if only they were rising through it!  Also in the front is the kniphofia hirsuta, beginning to settle in nicely.  Whilst in the back are these lovely bupleurum and a little section of the border which I am pleased with.

Brian, your borders look wonderful and I just love the dark papaver - which is it by the way?  Bupleurum is a plant I always wanted to grow and had the seed but never quite made it to see it in full splendour like yours, fabulous