Flowering now May 2007

[Ewelina Wajgert]

Derek, do you recognize?

[Lvandelft]

Maggi, we really do hope Wednesday will be very positive
for Lily ! Please let us know!
On Wednesday I’ll be of to a Plantfair near Munich, with a
Belgian friend who has a plant-stall there. Expect to meet some
former businessrelations there and a former employee as well,
who has his own nursery now in Austria.
And  I hope to find some new plants, of course!
With fondest regards
Luit

Hereby a picture of Salvia nem. Viola Klose, which is slightly earlier than S. Mainacht (syn. Maynight)

[Maggi Young]

Lily thanks you for your good wishes, Luit!
We hope you will have a most successful trip to the plant fair. It will be pleasant to see old friends and, as you say, there may always be new plants to meet, too!!

This Salvia has a very rich, dark blue, does it keep this colour well until the flowers are over?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Luit !
I think I can guess who you are accompanying down to Munich !
Give my regards to Noel and have lots of fun together.

[derekb]

Ewelina, Glad they are doing well.
 Derek.

[David Nicholson]

A few pictures taken this morning before the rain came (it started about 1130 and hasn't stopped yet!). This is from a newly constructed little rock bed and the plants are quite small but should bulk up nicely in the future.

The first is Dianthus alpinus.

The second Dianthus 'Whatfield Joy' , Potentilla crantzii, and a couple of Saxifraga that have already flowered.

The third Gentiana verna balcanica, and Campanula pilosa yet to flower

The last is Gypsophila repens 'Dorothy Teacher' which is a lot pinker than it looks in the picture.

[hadacekf]

David,
Your Dianthus alpinus is not true. It is a beautiful cultivar of D. alpinus.

[David Nicholson]

Franz, thanks for the correction. It is a nice plant though.

[gmoen]

Hi

Here are some pics from my garden today.

1. A view of the scree part of my rock garden
2. A planted pipe (old style made from concrete), including Phlox kelseyi and Veronica bombycina var.
    bolkardaghensis       
3. Rhodiola integrifolia var atropurpurea. A nice small Rhodiola
4. Papaver suaveolens
5. Primula daonensis
6. Primula daonensis 'Alba'
7. Daphne circassica
8. Phlox pulvinata
9. Clematis columbiana var. tenuiloba
10. Paraquilegia anemonoides

[Lvandelft]

Maggi, the Salvia keeps untill the end of flowering the good color.
The good thing with these type of Salvia is , when you cut the
stems of when the flowering is almost over, the plants will in September flower again!

Luc I’m sure we will have fun this week!
That’s no problem with Noel !!
 

[Lesley Cox]

I especially like the rock garden in a pipe, made to slope down like a real scree. It may be concrete but is so beautifully weathered. Very attractive.

[Staale]

Great pictures, Geir.  Guess I must wisit you again soon and see how you are doing. It would be only fair if you showed us forumers some glimpse from your little water fall as well, don't you think?

[Paddy Tobin]

David,

Glad to see your raised bed/rockery work come to such a successful result. Nicely done and lovely plants.


Geir,

Great photographs, many thanks. Love the rockery.

Paddy

[David Nicholson]

David,

Glad to see your raised bed/rockery work come to such a successful result. Nicely done and lovely plants.


Geir,

Great photographs, many thanks. Love the rockery.

Paddy

Thank you Paddy, but when I saw Geir's rock garden I thought it was time I packed up

[Paddy Tobin]

Don't be foolish, David. I really did think it looked very well. I have been renovating a similar patch in my own garden, a rockery/raised bed which I had neglected for the past few years. Some photographs:

Paddy