Flowering now May 2007

[David Nicholson]

Martin, what took you so long to register to the new Forum? We missed you!

And has anyone heard from or of Laurence Moon who posted such lovely pictures on the old Forum? I miss him too. He sent me seed of a stunning dwarf Salvia and the little plants are truly gorgeous and woolly.

Lesley, he posted a few pictures on 11 April on the Flowering now in April 2007 thread.

[David Nicholson]

A couple of plants taken yesterday.
First Anacyclus pyrethrum depressus.
Allium karataviense 'Ivory Queen'
Allium guttatum
and one from the greenhouse Sprekelia formisissima.

Mick, nice plants. I especially liked your Sprekelia-one I have not heard of before so I shall do some research.

[Mick McLoughlin]

Just checking David I may have the spelling wrong. It should be Sprekelia formosissima.
sorry

[David Nicholson]

Just checking David I may have the spelling wrong. It should be Sprekelia formosissima.
sorry

Mick, not a problem, I had never heard of Sprekelia as a whole!

[Anthony Darby]

Here is Serapias orientalis opening now.

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for that David, I was living it up with Otto and friends by that time. When I came home there were over 600 emails, most from the Forum so I didn't catch up with everything. I'll have a look now.

Mick, your Anacyclus looks exactly like what I have as A. depressus. Are they the same thing do you think?

[Paddy Tobin]

Anthony, Those are amazing flowers. You seem to have an endless display of RUEs - Rare Unusual Expensive.

Something more ordinary from the garden, some dodecatheon in flower at the moment, Incarvillea delavayi and Incarvillea delavayi 'Alba'

Finally, for my wife has insisted I post, as she says ,'a decent plant to this forum.' As you may have guessed it is one of her plants, one she grew herself and of which she is very proud. Working near it in the garden puts one in a certain danger for if as much as a leaf is marked the consequences could be dire.

Here is Mary's Myostidium hortense.

Paddy

Dodecatheon dentatum
 Dodecatheon jeffreyi
 Dodecatheon meadia
 Myosotidium hortense
 Myosotidium hortense
 Incarvillia delavayi
 Incarvillia delavayi 'Alba'

[Anthony Darby]

Paddy, the Serapias is not particularly rare, or expensive if bought as small enough tubers. These grow quite quickly. S. lingua multiplies quite well, but these have yet to. Here is Anacamptis pyramidalis in the greenhouse.

[Paddy Tobin]

Just no end to these treasures Anthony.

Paddy

[Lesley Cox]

Mmmmmm I seem to have missed that thread altogether after about April 8th. And 23 pages!! I'll have to go back there.

Luc, it occurred to me that your Ranunculus might be either Trollius acaulis or T. pumilus? Does it have little bulby things, not unlike those of R. ficaria? If not, it isn't R. millefoliatus which can spread about in an alarming way, if happy.

[Lesley Cox]

The orchids are really super. I wish.....
Paddy, tell Mary her Myosotidium is great, just as we like to see it (and a lot better then mine!). Oh for the nice soft moist Irish climate

[mark smyth]

no Orchids flowering here but spikes are just visiable

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Lesley,
the plant identified earlier on as R. millefoliatus was bought 3 or 4 years ago - I've not checked if it had anything bulblike - I'll have a look when it's in rest - shouldn't be long as it's dying down right now. 
Thanks for helping out !

[Mick McLoughlin]

Lesley - Mick, your Anacyclus looks exactly like what I have as A. depressus. Are they the same thing do you think?

It looks like it could be a synonym found this:
Anacyclus depressus Ball

SYNONYM(S) : Anacyclus depressus Maire, Anacyclus pyrethrum (L.) Link. var. depressus (Ball.) Maire

ENGLISH : Mount Atlas daisy.

at this link http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Anacyclus.html#depressus

Name was checked in the text, picture name saved wrong.

[David Nicholson]

Paddy, you obviously have the Dodecatheon 'knack' What kind of conditions do you grow them under? I have D meadia and D hendersonii both of which I used to grow in pots under glass (not very successfully) until I ran out of space and planted them out. I now have 2 pretty poor specimens in the garden. Any tips would be useful.