Plants flowering in the open rock garden- July 09

[Ragged Robin]

Gentiana algida flowering after 4 years.

do you mean it did not flower for 4 years? or its 4 years from seed? either way, it looks like its worth the wait

I mean it took four years from the seeds germinated and till I have the first flower.

What an exquisite flower, Magnar, the spotting on the white trumpet is so delicate

[Otto Fauser]

The yellow Scutellaria is superb Lori. It takes me right back to Greece where it bloomed in gravel drifts at the side of the mountain roards. I used to grow it well too in a warmer garden but here, I can't even get the seed to germinate. Thomas H has sent me two lots and not a sausage.

Hi Lesley ,the yellow Scutellaria orientalis ssp. alpina grows and flowers with the greatest ease
 here in my rockgarden , almost too vigorous . Pity I'm not allowed to send you a piece to NZ.

[Lesley Cox]

Seeds Otto?

The Gentiana algida is a lovely form of it. I don't have it now but when I did, the spotting was much heavier and less attractive though I gues any form is well worthwhile. Yours Magnar, has a real delicacy about it. If I remember rightly, mine was a plant sent from Kazuo Mori in Japan, way back in the 1960s.

[Lori S.]

1, 2) Penstemon secundiflorus
2) Gentiana parryi

[Ragged Robin]

What a lovely colour and shape your Penstemon secundiflorus is, Lori, and it looks beautiful with the silver leaf

[Paul T]

Lori,

That Penstemon is special!!  Interesting form and leaves to it.  Quite unlike me experiences of the genus.  Lovely!

[Paul T]

While we're discussing Scutellaria, could people take a look at these and confirm names or suggest possibilities?  These were photographed just after I purchased them last November.  Would like to find out what they were/if they were correctly labeled.  As we're already thinking about the genus i thought it might be worth asking.  I hope no-one minds, as they aren't "flowering in the open rock garden" here, that is for sure.  

Please click on the pic for a larger version


Scutellaria - purple and white


Scutellaria - white with mauve lip


Scutellaria alpina albocorvalena

The first two are my own names for identification, the last one is what I bought it as.  I'm hoping they'll survive my winter and come on back next year.  These are the only ones I grow, except for a beautiful deep lobelia-blue one (Scutellaria formosa from memory?), which I have been told won't survive winter here but I couldn't help myself and I had to try it anyway.    None of these are as fancy as that gorgeous golden one that Lori posted a pic of a couple of pages back.  I'm hoping mine will end up developing a good clump, because I have rather liked Scutellaria when I have seen them, but never grown them before this summer.

Thanks for any info.

[Paddy Tobin]

Paul, the Scutellaria alpina albocorvalena is a beautiful colour, so subtle.

Paddy

[Magnar]

I enjoy all the great pics in this thread.

Here are some from more from the north:

Centaurea bagadensis just opening it's decorative brown buds.
Potentilla nitida being more floriferous this year than ever before
Dicentra peregrina alba flowering for me for the first time
Gentiana atuntsienses
Calceolaria uniflora
Corydalis panda

[Lori S.]

Paul, bearing in mind that I know little about scutellaria (  ), I suggest that the first two may be different cultivars/selections of S. alpina, based on what can be seen of the leaf shape.

Magnar, absolutely fabulous plants, as always!  Potentilla nitida is especially exquisite!  The blue corydalis don't seem to do well here (I have killed many... slowly, as they dwindle away after a year or two)... too dry, I believe.

[Zdenek]

I am sorry that I am rather late with my several early June pictures. I am living about 50 kms from my garden and my computer is so far, too. I send today following:
Androsace globifera
Arenaria hookeri
Aster coloradoensis
Dianthus alpinus 'Red Strain'
Eriogonum umbellatum var. porteri (finishing its flowering)
Helichrysum milfordiae in buds
Primula alpicola var. violacea

[Ragged Robin]

I enjoy all the great pics in this thread.

Here are some from more from the north:

Centaurea bagadensis just opening it's decorative brown buds.
Potentilla nitida being more floriferous this year than ever before
Dicentra peregrina alba flowering for me for the first time
Gentiana atuntsienses
Calceolaria uniflora
Corydalis panda

Me too Magnar, and yours are always so interesting and beautifully photographed 

[Ragged Robin]

I am sorry that I am rather late with my several early June pictures. I am living about 50 kms from my garden and my computer is so far, too. I send today following:
Androsace globifera
Arenaria hookeri
Aster coloradoensis
Dianthus alpinus 'Red Strain'
Eriogonum umbellatum var. porteri (finishing its flowering)
Helichrysum milfordiae in buds
Primula alpicola var. violacea

Well worth waiting for, Zdenek, I love your Dianthus alpinus 'Red Strain' and your Helichrysum milfordiae in buds, stunning - thanks for all the effort it letting us see them 

[Paul T]

Thanks for the Scutellaria responses.  I had wondered if they were all alpina forms myself.

Magnar,

Glorious pics, particularly the little happy faces of the Calceolaria.  Wonderful.

Zdenek,

Some wonderful plants from you as well.  That Dianthus is just amazing!!

Thanks all.

[cohan]

some incredilbe things!
magnar-
Potentilla nitida
Dicentra peregrina alba
Calceolaria uniflora
Corydalis panda

all wonderul!

zdenek--better late than never, i'm probably even later!
Eriogonum umbellatum var. porteri
Helichrysum milfordiae
are especially nice!