Flowering now- July 2009

[johnw]

Rudi -  Your semps are magnificent.  Can you tell us about the long term care you give them?  I have some semp troughs and they look good for the first 3-5 years but then lose steam and thin out.  I wonder if there is a long term solution.  I am not so good (as in almost never) about fertilizing them.

johnw

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show Rudi !
Love the Lilium with it's turned up flowers !!

[Lori S.]

1) Crambe maritima, looking very broccoli-ish, starting to bloom.
2) Yellow buttons of Tanacetum huronense terrae-novae with Salvia nemorosa 'Marcus'
3) Dragging you all back in time once again... a frowsy, blowsy peony.
4) And a frowsy, blowsy poppy... Papaver orientale 'Dwarf Allegro'
5) Another tactile geranium, G. 'Philippe Vapelle' (obvious hybrid of G. renardii).
6) This one is very cuddly too, with long hairs on the backsides of the leaves and on the buds... G. x magnificum, drooping after today's lovely rain.
7) G. ibericum
Wonderful colour (but such a brief bloom)... Lindelofia anchusoides.
9) Mimulus guttatus in the spot that it likes, alongside the greenhouse where it gets ample water from the gravel floor.
10) Silene ssp.... I like it very much but I'm not sure what it is - with Linneas borealis in the foreground, carpeting the  top of the acid bed.

[Ragged Robin]

From the opulent to the petite - what a wonderful show, Lori -  Lindelofia anchusoides is a fabulous blue 

[Sinchets]

From the opulent to the petite - what a wonderful show, Lori -  Lindelofia anchusoides is a fabulous blue 

Oh no, has it changed? I'm still growing it as Paracaryum anchusoides 

[Tony Willis]

a couple of things on my raised bed
Dierama igneum
Potentilla uniflora
Geranium argenteum

and a nice shrub new to us a couple of years ago flowering for the first time
 Styrax japonica pink chimes

[Rodger Whitlock]

Styrax japonica pink chimes

I have 'Pink Chimes' too, but I've come to the conclusion that the ordinary white-flowered form is the better plant. It's a good white and just somehow works better visually.

Purely an esthetic judgement.

[Tony Willis]

Rodger

you are probably right. Mine looks almost white anyway so naming it was a bit pointless.

[Lori S.]

Simon,
And I had Lindelofia anchusoides recorded as Adelocaryum anchusoides, until I was correctly fairly recently on a different forum.  I can't keep up!

[Sinchets]

Thanks Lori. I've seen it in seed catalogues as Adelocaryum- but that was a while ago.

[Paddy Tobin]

Tony,

Just a follow up to your pink flowers above. Here are two eucryphias in flower here at present. Both are very young trees, barely a metre high but are flowering very well, especially 'Ballerina' and this is also the stronger pink.

Paddy

[Onion]

Paddy,

another dream for my area 

[Ragged Robin]

How tall does the tree grow Paddy? Great to have such lovely flowers dangling dreamily in July 

[Tony Willis]

Paddy you must have more of the Gulf Stream than me,that is wonderful. How hardy is it,I showed it to Mrs W and I am already being pestered to get one.

[Regelian]

From what I have read, Eucryphia can handle frost without a problem.  They need moisture and a wind protected situation.  Apparently easy from cuttings.  I've never seen one offered, but would certainly try it in my climate, 8a, dropping to -15°C on occaision.  I have an Araucaria angustifolia since 3 years.  No damage.  Actually, I have three from seed, so I can afford a mistake!