Flowering Now - June 2009

[hadacekf]

Rafa
The second pictures is a saxifraga.

[Rafa]

oh thank you Franz, I will try to identified the species.

[Lvandelft]

Here some more flowers from this week :

Rosa Westerland 1                  
Rosa Westerland 2            
Salvia microphylla Hot Lips
Surfinia                                  
Tanacetum corymbosum Festtafel        
Tanacetum corymbosum Zauberstern      
Trog                                  

Tulipa tarda seed  (from neigbour's field)
        
Rosa Carcassonne 1      
Rosa Carcassonne 2  

[Paul T]

Luit,

So does your neighbour collect the seed from the Tulip?  That is a LOT of seed.    And it would hybridise with all the otehr tulips around as well, wouldn't it?

[Lvandelft]

No Paul they will not for sure!
But if they are still in the soil when ripe, I will try to collect some and look what comes out.
The growers here started already to harvest the first tulips and hyacinths.

[Paul T]

So they are left there just because they didn't trim them after flowering, no other reason?  I'm assuming that they are just in the garden, rather than being grown for the flower trade?

[Lvandelft]

Paul, as said before, these are just grown for the bulbs.
Most species tulips are never trimmed. It seems to have no effect on growing bigger or smaller bulbs.

[Paul T]

Ah, so the "keeping of seedpods results in smaller bulbs and less flowers" is just a fallacy then?  So many "facts" we here just don't bear out once you investigate..... or else don't bear out in certain climates anyway.   Thanks for the info.

[WimB]

Some plants that are flowering here now:

Allium cyaneum


Allium olympicum (just got it this year): can someone tell me the difference with the second picture which is Allium sibthorpianum?




Dianthus arpadianus (looks exactly like the wrongly named Dianthus erinaceaus I have and like Dianthus anatolicus,...  )


Gladiolus imbricatus


Primula capitata ssp. mooreana

[arisaema]

Lovely pics, the Gladiolus is a favourite, but for some reason it always looks ratty here

Some pics from the last week below:

Corydalis aff. shihmienensis - very fragrant, short lived but reliably self-seeding.
Geranium maculatum 'Elizabeth Ann'
Paeonia rockii hybrid
Paeonia delavayi
Aconitum septentrionale
Nomocharis saluenensis
Nomocharis species
Paeonia 'Buckeye Belle'
Lilium lophophorum
Stellera chamaejasme

[Sinchets]

Dianthus arpadianus (looks exactly like the wrongly named Dianthus erinaceaus I have and like Dianthus anatolicus,...  )
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Wim- your Dianthus arpadianus looks like the one I have growing here- if that means anything. I have seen D.anatolicus in the wild in Turkey and it is quite different, as is D.erinaceus.

[WimB]

Dianthus arpadianus (looks exactly like the wrongly named Dianthus erinaceaus I have and like Dianthus anatolicus,...  )
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Wim- your Dianthus arpadianus looks like the one I have growing here- if that means anything. I have seen D.anatolicus in the wild in Turkey and it is quite different, as is D.erinaceus.

Thanks Simon, I probably just have D. arpadianus twice...

[Maggi Young]

Ah, so the "keeping of seedpods results in smaller bulbs and less flowers" is just a fallacy then?  So many "facts" we here just don't bear out once you investigate..... or else don't bear out in certain climates anyway.   Thanks for the info.

Think about it, Paul: a bulb setting seed will grow on longer, by about four to six weeks in some cases, than a bulb which is not doing so. Therefore the bulb gets that extra time to put goodness into next year's bulb as well as ripening the seed.....good result all round!

[Paul T]

Maggi,

I've always thought that myself, but that isn't how the books so often talk about it.

[Lesley Cox]

Just re-found this thread which went off my radar three weeks ago!

Luit, if you can, try D. 'Inchriach Dazzler' again but take some cuttings each year after it has flowered. None of the D. neglectus (pavonius)forms is very long lived but they can be kept going with regular propagation.