Flowering now April 2007

[Maggi Young]

Early for these, from an Aberdeen point of view... I seem to be saying that a lot lately!

Can't believe that Glaucidium palmatum is fully out... it isn't here....


Derek, your Gisela looks well, I wish you continued success.

[John Forrest]

For the first time after aborting its flowers in the previous 2 years, Cypripedium formosanum has bloomed. I asked Barry Tattersall the reason earlier in the year and he said the likely cause for aborting was too much water at the emerging stage. I tried to modify this year and success at last.

[Anthony Darby]

"The likely cause for aborting was too much water at the emerging stage" - too little water has the same effect John.

[Maggi Young]

Looking  good, John!

[Joakim B]

John and Derek nice cyps
With the orchids starting to come it is almost so that it is time for an orchid tread is it not?
Do You grow the cyps under glass or in doors since atleaast Gisela seems to be a bit early for outdoor cultivation but then I do not know the UK flowering times.

Susan
It is really a delight to see "real" plant sellers that actually grow what they sell and not only sell the pre grown stuff from Dutch mega suppliers. My hat goes off for You. They are getting rarer in Sweden and hobby growers are taking the nisch by selling of their extras. It is nice to have access to pofesionals aswell since they might be more available in what thy sell. I still love plant markets since there are always something interesting there.
I would love to come visiting (even without the offer of cake) but we can not ( (this time who knows about the future)

Kind regards
Joakim

[Paul T]

Great pics everyone. 

Susan,
your fields look stunning.  I echo that it is nice to see sellers actually growing their plants (even if I can't access them.... being all the way over here in Aus! .  Great Stuff.

I have heard of Glaucidium palmatum many times but never actually seen a pic of it (never looked it up obviously).  Now I think I can see why people want it.  It certainly does look lovely.  I think it will have to be added to my seed wants, although from what I have heard it is very hard to get seed of this plant.  Do they just not set seed much, or is it just that very few people grow them?

Great to see these different things, particularly now when we're just coming through autumn.  The maples are colouring here etc, plus Crocus just starting and the first of the autumn Galanthus.  So different to see things like Erythronium and Fritillarias in flower in other peoples gardens. LOL

[Susan Band]

Thanks for the nice comments about my field. It is massive - I surprise myself everyday when I go over
Watch the green hill behind, I have my sights set on turning that into bulb fields as well! Look out the Dutch
The Glaucidium in mum's garden is early, but I find that if you have a few plants of it they all flower at slightly different times. Usually the last to flower is the lovely white one, normally flowering at the end of May .
I have some spare seed (of the purple) which I never got round to sowing if anyone wants it.
If it doesn't come up this spring it will do next year, again unusually they all germinate at different times over the spring. The seed is big so you can easily leave behind those not germinated.
For anyone wanting the seed can you use the personnal message facility(the little speech bubble under my picture) rather than the email as this will keep the requests seperate from my other emails and easier to find.

[Kirsten]

Here are some of the plants flowering in my garden right now:
 Sanguinaria canadensis fl pl.
 Sanguinaria canadensis fl pl 1
 Jeffersonia diphylla
 Jeffersonia dubia
 Adonis-vernalis
 Callianthemum anemonoides

[Kirsten]

I grow quite a lot of plants in tufa. At the moment it is mostly the Saxifragas and Drabas that are flowering:
Sax dinnikii 
 Sax-georgei
 Sax-iranica-'Cumulus'
 Sax-wendelboi
 Sax opposit v speciosa
 Sax-'Lismore Carmine'
 Draba acaulis
 Draba dedeana

[derekb]

 
 Luc it was grown outside I did get a bit worried as it was just coming through so took it in the Alpine house if frost was forcast but as it was the first time I had grown a Cyp I was being carefull.
Has any one grown Alkanna Aucheriana? I have had this one 18 months and I seem to be losing as much as it grows.
 Alkanna Aucheriana.

[Susan Band]

Lovely saxifragas Kirsten, not a bite out of any of the flowers, how do you manage.
Can we see the whole tufa construction please? look interesting

[Maggi Young]

Derek, we've only had the Alkanna once and it died outside, so i have no useful tips, sorry.

Kirsten, how do you keep the tufa from being covered with liverwort and weeds? That is our problem!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

My word - it's finger licking time again !  What a show.

Great plants Kirsten - beautifully grown Saxes on the tufa - !!!

Have never grown Alkanna Derek - but your specimen doesn't look bad at all - quite on the contrary !

And Susan...  I was in Holland for business yesterday - word is spreading rapidly about fields in Scotland full of glorious bulbous plants... they are considering counter action...

[David Nicholson]

Kirsten, what a beautiful show.

[Maggi Young]

With the orchids starting to come it is almost so that it is time for an orchid thread is it not?

said Joakim......

.........
there is a Cypripedium thread already, here:       http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=422.0

and a thread(s)  for other orchids may be opened any time.