Flowering Now - September 2009

[Ragged Robin]

Wolfgang,

The garden looks wonderful, great plant, well-laid out etc.

Paddy

I agree with Paddy, Wolfgang, your garden landscaping is lovely and full of wonderful plants you and your wife grow - I love visiting on the Forum 

[wolfgang vorig]

thank you all for the interesting in my garden

Wolfgang

[Lesley Cox]

Lori, how are you managing to grow tropical waterlilies in Alberta?

[Lori S.]

Thanks for your comments, all. 
Cohan, I managed to take a goodly amount of time off this summer, so I feel I really experienced and enjoyed it, and so am much more content going into fall this year than usual.   

Lori, how are you managing to grow tropical waterlilies in Alberta?

Only realistically possible in a greenhouse (confirming your suspicions, I'm sure)!!     Stuart will soon be making the final decision on whether he considers the new tropicals truly worth the trouble of keeping through the winter under lights.  (I regret to admit that we treat some of them as annuals, for that reason.)

I am sure you will surprise us with winter flowering beauties 

How I wish that was true, Robin, but I'm afraid it will soon be only "frost flowers", at best.   

Wolfgang, your garden is wonderful!  It's great to see pitcher plants, and so well grown.

[cohan]

Thanks for your comments, all. 
Cohan, I managed to take a goodly amount of time off this summer, so I feel I really experienced and enjoyed it, and so am much more content going into fall this year than usual.   

that's good to hear-- i have had my days of climate gloom, and its pointless and no fun...lol --not that i never wish i lived -oh say on a frost free mid-altitude slope in the sub-tropics--but since that's not imminent, when i moved back to alberta, it wasn't for the length of the growing season, and i determined not to fuss whatever the weather does...
mostly successful in that aim...lol

[olegKon]

Back to the forum again after a long and wonderful holiday in Britain and tidying up the garden. Nice to find you all here. Something flowering at the moment
1. Harvest time
2.Gladiolus dalenii
3.A Euonimus sp.?
4.Anemonopsis macrophilla

[Sinchets]

Flowering here now, bought as Sedum orbiculatum and originally from Crug, this was brought over bare rooted and despite being forgotten in a paperbag over winter settled back down when planted the following spring.

[fleurbleue]

A nice Sedum I didn't know !

[cohan]

Flowering here now, bought as Sedum orbiculatum and originally from Crug, this was brought over bare rooted and despite being forgotten in a paperbag over winter settled back down when planted the following spring.

nice one! is this in the Hylotelephium sub-genus? is it deciduous?

[Hristo]

Flowering now on a windowsill, Triglochin bulbosa in Juncaginaceae.
Most entries for this species relate to its status as a weed!
Sort of plant only its mother would love I guess!

[Sinchets]

Thanks, Fleur.
Cohan, as I recall it came from limestone cliffs in China and it dies back to resting buds in winter.

[cohan]

Flowering now on a windowsill, Triglochin bulbosa in Juncaginaceae.
Most entries for this species relate to its status as a weed!
Sort of plant only its mother would love I guess!

interesting windowsill plant! i knew those flowers looked familiar, and juncaginaceae sounded about right--we have a species--not positive of which, but maybe T maritima---'seaside arrow grass' ironically here, several days and several mountain ranges from the ocean! ours is quite tall, book says 10-100cm, though i think those i have seen are probably in the range of 60cm...i really like it, though its supposed to be terribly poisonous (cattle would be the ones at risk)-releasing cyanide gas when eaten....

how large is yours, does the bulb show? nice leaves? i've photographed ours a few times, but very hard to get good shots of tall skinny plants like that!


simon--tks, that sounds about what i'd have thought

[Alberto]

Here is my first time flowering of Scilla maderensis, thanks to the offer of a friend. One flower looks to be pollinated (?) by a tiger mosquito, or blood flow in that species? maybe blue blood! 

Alberto

[Hans J]

  Alberto 

blue wax

[cohan]

Here is my first time flowering of Scilla maderensis, thanks to the offer of a friend. One flower looks to be pollinated (?) by a tiger mosquito, or blood flow in that species? maybe blue blood! 
Alberto

nice subtle colours! i have seen mosquitoes on flowers, but usually thought they were following me when i went for a close-up! i have a  photo of one on a Calypso..