Flowering Now - June 2009

[Luc Gilgemyn]

And it's Rhodohypoxis time !! 

1) Rh. baurii 'Dawn'
2) Rh. baurii 'Douglas'
3) Rh. b. 'Harlequin'
4) Rh. b. 'Tetra red'
5) Rh. b. 'Great Scot'
6) Rh. hebron farm 'Red Eye'
7) Rh. b. 'Margaret Rose'

[Brian Ellis]

Nice plants Luc!  I love the cleanness of the Campanula incurva flower.

[Sinchets]

Nice plants, Luc. Can you tell me more about the Onosma please, mainly it's height?
Flowering here now:
Allium species - I have always grown this as A.lenkoranicum- but it doesn't look like some of the googled pics. maybe it could be Allium ledebourianum. Any ideas?
Allium cernuum (?)- I have never knowingly bought this species, but now have what lookslike a pale form of A.cernuum
Asclepias rubra

[ranunculus]

Wow, Luc ... I haven't seen 'Mary Maslin' for a number of years.  I'd forgotten how glorious it is.  I wonder if any nurseries stock it in the U.K.?  Lovely images sir!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thank you gents !
The onosma is abt 15 cm high Simon.

Cliff, I had been hoping to find one of these Mexican Phloxes for years but never did.
This season it was on Keith Lever's list !!
I wonder how and if I'm going to get it through our Winter 
It's planted in the garden in a South facing raised bed against a Wall ... so here's hoping.. 

[Lvandelft]

Oooh Luc, Phlox Mary Maslin. Must go back 25 ?  years at least I've seen it here. It flowered 2 years but then I lost it
I remember it so good because I was visited by a famous German plants woman: Countess Helen von Zeppelin.
She made an appointment and told that she just had one hour for my nursery...
After three !!! hours with a short interval for a cup of tea she was still on her knees near a bed with many rarities. One of those was
Phlox Mary Maslin....
At that day she told me too that she was the importer (from USA) of the still grown and good Dianthus Pink Jewel.

Your Onosma could be O. nanum which is higher than O. stell. Alboroseum.

I remember having a discussion about Great Scott  (Scot) with Maggi years ago. That was the time most of us called her Margaret...
It was interesting reading after so many years:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/139/852.html

Just reading your post Luc. I would cover the Phlox in winter with a pane of glass. It dislikes wet, which we have enough in autumn/winter 

[Sinchets]

Luc, Luit beat me to it- I would suggest O.nana also from the height and flower colour.

[Tony Willis]

Luit

great to see the Mary Maslin,I did not know Keith Lever did it and I was there just a few weeks ago. Many years ago when the mexican phlox were popular I raised a lot of mixed colours from my own seed.

Last year I got seed from Alplains in the USA and they all have germinated and flowered in four months.They are all pink in various shades

[Paul T]

Luc,

I love those wonderful Rhodohypoxis.  Glorious display.  Never seen a Phlox like that orangey one.    So striking.  What sort of habit does it have?  Just love the colour!!!!!!  

[Lesley Cox]

Well Paul, it comes from Mexico. Think desert!

[Paul T]

Lesley,

Some of the Salvias come from down that region don't they, and love it here (the lobelia blue one with the silver foliage for example?).  And Dahlias and Lobelia laxiflora thrives here too.  Maybe the Phlox would like it here?

[Lesley Cox]

Oh yes, but can you get it?

[Paul T]

Well, there is that small hurdle!    I can still dream though. 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wow - I hadn't realised that Phlox Mary Maslin would stir such commotion on the Forum 
Glad it brings back some good memories to some (Luit  ) -  and thanks for the link to the R. Great Scott discussion..
I hope I can keep it over Winter - Desert isn't exactly a correct way to describe Belgian Climate...    I think you would stand a better chance than me Paul..   Maybe it sets seed ?? 
I'll post another picture of the whole plant when it's somewhat more in flower (I hope it's only starting..  )


Tony,
Are the ones you've sown last year still doing well ??  Do you keep them in the Alpine house ?

[Paul T]

Luc,

So what sort of habit DOES it have?  Phlox is so variable from little groundcover things to things like stolonifera that can be absolute thugs, from a few inches to 3 feet tall etc.  If it does set seed I would love to try it, and Yes the species is on the allowed list for Australia.