Flowering Now - August 2009

[Sinchets]

Funny you should say that, Robin, as soon as I reopened the pic, I saw what you meant.

[Paddy Tobin]

it is a significant weed here, though i have not seen many fields this extreme..

Yup, that's more silenes than I've ever seen in one spot!  

I think the proper term is "locally plentiful"  ..... there are rather a lot of them!

"Blasted weed" would be the term more commonly applied.

Paddy

[Paul T]

Both very nice Salvias, Simon.  Both are interesting colour or marking combinations by the look of them.  Love the colours in the first one.  Never seen either of them here in Aus, although possibly available from specialists here.  Looks like they're growing happily for you.  

[Sinchets]

Paul, the first is mine, from seed I brought over. I think it might be happier in a slightly less sunny position. You are welcome to seeds- to add to the others  . The second I did have in the UK, but seed I brought over hasn't yet germinated. I shall try to collect seed from the ones shown in the wild- as I think the lip markings are much better than the form I had in the UK.
By the way- I do hope you or the bees have been running around those Narcissus pollinating them. 

[Anthony Darby]

Lori,

I sure do!  Let me know when they are ripe.

H. Bela Lugosi is much darker and fatter in my garden.  The sort of greying effect in dark purples/blacks is typical of cooler nights.  I have a few that are not as good as Bela.  Your plant may improve.  Is it relatively new?

Now there's another one I like.

[cohan]

hmm--simon, you think the name refers to a need for clouds?
i can see the hippo as well..both really nice salvias...

paddy-the silenes are a bit bothersome, but i reserve my most colourful descriptions for tall buttercup-Ranunculus acris (the descriptive word i use before buttercup is not 'tall'!)  another invasive european, it is more likely to displace natives as it grows farther from cultivated areas, spreading through moist meadows in particular, and into woods etc, blooming from spring til after frost..the worst part for me is that it is most abundant in wet areas, which otherwise had mostly been free all the weeds that came with agriculture..
the pic shows a pasture with wetter area to the left, and this is by no means the densest infestation..

[Sinchets]

hmm--simon, you think the name refers to a need for clouds?
i can see the hippo as well..both really nice salvias...

Well I know if refers to something misty, foggy or cloudy- but can't see how that can be a description of the plant itself- another example of a drunken botanist?

[cohan]

Well I know if refers to something misty, foggy or cloudy- but can't see how that can be a description of the plant itself- another example of a drunken botanist?

i can go for that.....
maybe the only thing nebulous was their understanding of the species?? lol..i remember a haworthia species like that--i forget which--maybe paradoxa? the name didnt refer directly to the plant, but rather to the understanding of the species, its range or relationships...

[Gunilla]

The naming of S. nebulosa seems a bit vague    but Salvia glutinosa has indeed a very appropriate name.  It's the stickiest plant I have ever grown in my garden.  My dogs ended up looking like walking salvias.

[Sinchets]

Oh no- 39 and having a 'senior moment'!!!!
I just checked and my Salvia nebulosa is in fact properly called Salvia nubicola. So not 'cloudy'- but 'living in the clouds'- sorry for the mistake- or slight memory lapse.

[Maggi Young]

Oh no- 39 and having a 'senior moment'!!!!
I just checked and my Salvia nebulosa is in fact properly called Salvia nubicola. So not 'cloudy'- but 'living in the clouds'- sorry for the mistake- or slight memory lapse.

 Serves you right for not having a birthday cake! 

[Ragged Robin]

Not often your judgement is clouded Simon  

[Paul T]

By the way- I do hope you or the bees have been running around those Narcissus pollinating them. 

Simon,

Actually, I haven't been.  I'd imagine that a lot will set seed form all the bees buzzing around, but I haven't deliberately crossed anything.  I've sort of been assuming that bulbs can be sent to your country, rather than just seed?  I guess I had best confirm that now, or else get out there with the paintbrush in a hurry. 

[Gunilla]

Oh no- 39 and having a 'senior moment'!!!!
I just checked and my Salvia nebulosa is in fact properly called Salvia nubicola. So not 'cloudy'- but 'living in the clouds'- sorry for the mistake- or slight memory lapse.

Simon, I like your hippo-salvia whatever you call it  

Salvia bulleyana or should it be S. flava    flowered with me for the first time this year.  

[Paul T]

Gunilla,

Another fascinating colour combination for a Salvia.  I don't think I've ever seen the purple and yellow/red and yellow combinations except here on the forums.  Very striking!