Flowering now May 2007

[Lvandelft]

Here some more pictures of my garden.
Phlox Chattahoochee
Chrysogonum virginianum/Dactylorhiza
Speirantha convallarioides
Gentiana angustifolia typ Frei
   (This plant flowers yearly since more than
   30 years in our sandy soil (sea level 0 m.!)
Rhaphiolepis umbellata
Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’
Brunnera macr. ‘Dawson’s White’
Choisia arizonica ‘Aztec Pearl’
   ( sorry, cannot give you the fragrance!)
Aurinia saxatilis ‘Flore Pleno’
Amsonia tabernaemontana
Iris, 50 cm. ?? (selected by the late Ernst Pagels)

[Lvandelft]

and here the last one.

[ranunculus]

Sorry Franz but I am very late to this thread. Your rock garden is magnificent and I'm sure your wonderful photos actually do not begin to do it justice!  Oh for the chance to emulate such a garden.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great plants Luit !!
I'm particularly jealous of that good looking Phlox chattahoochee, for some reason I never succeed to grow it more than two years...  Tell me your secret !

[Maggi Young]

Luit,  I am distressed that we are not getting any fragrance! The choisya is lovely and I think the Rhaphiolepis umbellata has a good scent, too?  This Rhaphiolepis umbellata is a good plant for near the sea, is it not?  Evergreen and quite slow-growing? Makes me wonder why we do not see it more in this country.....perhaps we should start a fashion?!
Mr Pagels' Iris selection is very beautiful, a man of taste, it seems!

[David Nicholson]

Lovely plants Luit, some of which are completely new to me and I shall be doing some research.

[johanneshoeller]

Edraianthus pumilio
Edraianthus ?
Dianthus alpinus
Leontopodium nivale
Aquilegia ?
Aquilegia ?

Hans

[Lvandelft]

Luc, the Phlox Chattahoochee has been waiting in a 9 cm
pot for more than 3 years, more dead than alive, before I
was able to plant it on the place where it is now, on the
north side of my raised bed. So I think it likes the poorer
circumstances and maybe needs clipping after flowering?

Maggi, I saw this Rhaphiolepis in a friends garden on the
island Texel, exposed to the NW winds from the sea.
Last year I found it as a bargain with –40% ( typical dutch maybe?) in a gardencenter.
I think nobody would buy it.
Mr Pagels was inded a man of taste, he was the man behind
most Salvia nemorosa cultivars, like Ostfriesland or Blauhügel
and most new Miscanthus.
You can read more about him on pp. 217 of The Garden, April ’07.

[johngennard]

Sorry I am late coming back Maggie but I have been exceptionally busy preparing for a garden visit today.To answer your question about the clematis montana,it is supported by a sycamore tree mistakenly planted when we first came here.Obviously I know more now than I did then.However I decided that I would  either kill it  or make it useful and they have been trying to outdo each other ever since.I think montana has the slight edge.

Here are a few current performers in the garden.

           Acer glade and woodland
           Acer palmatum 'Pink Filigree'
              ,,       ,,         ,,     ,,    (close-up)
           Clematis 'Pixie' with lithospermum 'Heavenly Blue' on rock garden
           Dwarf rodos.pn rock garden
           Phlox 'Chatahoochee' on rock garden(strangely enough in full sun)
           

[johngennard]

and two fabulous japanese tree paeonies.At least I think so.

      'Renkaku' (Flight of Cranes)   
      'Shimane Hakagen (no translation I'm afraid)

[Maggi Young]

I am enjoying all the garden pix form John and others... all looking good.... but I just ADORE tree paeonies! SO glamorous in their flowers! The whites are so clean and clear, I love them!

Hope your garden visit went well, John... I cannot imagine that your visitors were anything other than enchanted but these occasions can be wearing for the busy gardener!

[Maggi Young]

Luit, thank you for this information about Herr Pagels... I usually am several months behind in reading "the Garden" !he had a long life.
 I cannot rejoice in Pagels work with Miscanthus, since it was a plant of Miscanthus that has damaged our little dog's eye and maybe cost her sight in that eye. Not that I am much of a fan of grasses, as a whole, anyway... but since Lily's accident, I am against them all! There was a miscanthus which had seeded at the foot of a tree down the street and it had been roughly cut back leaving many sharp stems poking out and the poor little dog walked into it in the dark and her eye was badly hurt. We are furious that we did not guess the danger and keep her away, but when one is walking on a fine evening, one does not expect such dangers. How we regret our lack now. It will be this Wednesday that the stitiches that have been keeping the dog's eye closed for the last three weeks will be removed and we will find if this has been successful in helping her eye to mend  we can only hope for the best
Poor Herr Pagel, it is not that he made this happen.

[Anthony Darby]

John, I think if your garden had been in Dunblane (inter alia) it would be sold off by the greedy owner and a dozen closely packed houses built on it, passed by the half wits that run councils.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks for the info on P. Chattahoochee Luit - I will keep it in mind when I give it another try !
Lovely plants and photos John, including the P. Chattahoochee - it makes me green with envy 

[Hans J]

     
      'Shimane Hakagen (no translation I'm afraid)

Shimane - Hakugan : it means after my books:"White goose from Shimane"

Greetings
Hans