Flowering Now - August 2009

[Gerdk]

Great - I am just overwhelmed! These pics tell more than a lot of words - Thank you Chris!

What a plant! Also glad to know that good old ' Wocke ' didn't tell nonsense !

Gerd

[Lori S.]

Brian, the milkweed is fabulous!  I wish they liked my conditions more, but they soon seem to fade away.

1)  A double hybrid campanula, Campanula x carpatica 'Thor Pedo';
2)  Achillea millefolium 'Walter Funke';
3)  Campanula x tymsonii;
4)  The start of bloom on Hemerocallis 'Nerfertiti';
5)  Oops, I'll delete this photo in favor of the better one of the same plant that I unthinkingly posted later!
5) Clematis viticella cultivar (which was rather questionably labelled...  ), starting to bloom;
6) Cyclamen purpurascens.

[Paul T]

Derek,

I'm intrigued by Eucomis octopus.  Never heard of it before.  Looks like it is predominantly vandermerwei, so is it a named variant?  Broader leaves by the look of it, with good markings.  Very nice, whatever it is, and not something I think I've ever seen before?

[Brian Ellis]

Yes Paul it is a named variety of E.vandermerwei, and very nice it is too!  Quite commonly available over here.

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks Lori, nothing to do with me   It seems to be perennial with me unlike many of the others, I just love the garish splash of colour

[Ragged Robin]

Aquilegia aurea looks a lovely creamy yellow against the landscape - thanks for the great photos of your expeditions Hristo

[Hristo]

Thanks RR it's a pleasure to share.
Derek, I must 2nd PaulT in the appreciation of the Eurcomis octopus, a Eucomis with a very pleasing form indeed.
I had vandermerwei from Beeches but had to leave it in the UK! 

[Sinchets]

Some more pics from the Rila mountains last week.
The semi-parasitic Bartsia alpina on Maliovitsa
Campanula alpina- here rarely forming a flowering spike and more often seen as a flat mat with flowers coming from the centre like spokes on a bicycle wheel.
Cerastium alpinum on Maliovitsa
Cerastium cerastoides near the peak of Musala

[derekb]

Two extremes of Eucomis,
Ecomis bicolor, 24 inches from top of pot to top of bloom.
Eucomis octopus 5 inches from top of pot to top of bloom.

nice! i hadn't heard of such small ones before.... are these all tender/subtropical species?

They are quite hardy with me I just put them under the bench in the Alpine House.

[Lori S.]

I like the bracts on eryngium x zabellii Lori, is the foliage fine or coarse?

Sorry for the delay in answering your question, Brian.  The lower foliage on what I believe is Eryngium x zabelii is coarse, with white veins:

[cohan]

Some more pics from the Rila mountains last week.
The semi-parasitic Bartsia alpina on Maliovitsa
Campanula alpina- here rarely forming a flowering spike and more often seen as a flat mat with flowers coming from the centre like spokes on a bicycle wheel.
Cerastium alpinum on Maliovitsa
Cerastium cerastoides near the peak of Musala

these are all very choice! the Bartsia is especially interesting..

[Brian Ellis]

Sorry for the delay in answering your question, Brian.  The lower foliage on what I believe is Eryngium x zabelii is coarse, with white veins:

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Not a problem Lori, I'd hoped that the foliage was more like this Eryngium amethystinum the combination of the two would be wonderful!

[Ragged Robin]

Still resisting cutting our meadow slope although we will have to do it soon - so many butterflies and bees attracted to it looking for something good to taste!

Here the old and the new united - a wonderful sight in the morning light  

[Sinchets]

Some more pics from the Rila mountains last week.
The semi-parasitic Bartsia alpina on Maliovitsa
Campanula alpina- here rarely forming a flowering spike and more often seen as a flat mat with flowers coming from the centre like spokes on a bicycle wheel.
Cerastium alpinum on Maliovitsa
Cerastium cerastoides near the peak of Musala

these are all very choice! the Bartsia is especially interesting..

The first time I have seen it in real life, Cohan- much better than pictures I had seen previously in books. 
Robin- I think your 'thistle' may be a Centaurea- we are late cutting our meadows here too- and have a few flowers making the most of the delay. 

[Ragged Robin]

You're quite right, Simon, I was looking at the wrong description in my book it looks like Centaurea jacea L ?  I'll correct the photo name....thanks