April 2010 - Northern Hemisphere- Flowering now.

[johnw]

Visiting the Helleiner's garden here in the city today I was shocked to see Cyclamen coum just at the end of its flowering. Shocked as I have never been able to get it to winter yet here it was seeding about just 6 blocks from us.  

For Maggi Pieris japonica Valley Rose at its peak, not quite Valley Valentine but a good pink.

Also several Corydalis a bit lop-sided from the heavy rain and wind last night.  Is this George Baker as it is not very red?

A Podophyllum shooting up, it was bought as P. versipelle but looks like my P. pleianthum. Thoughts?

johnw

[Hans J]

Thank you Armin + Robin 

[ashley]

A nice series John.  I think you're right to be sceptical about the corydalis though.  'Beth Evans' is a soft mid-pink rather than purple, and 'George Baker' is more orange-red rather than the pure pink here.  As was discussed elsewhere, colour intensity may be affected by weather but I don't think the shade varies much.

[johnw]

A nice series John.  I think you're right to be sceptical about the corydalis though.  'Beth Evans' is a soft mid-pink rather than purple, and 'George Baker' is more orange-red rather than the pure pink here.  As was discussed elsewhere, colour intensity may be affected by weather but I don't think the shade varies much.

Thanks Ashley. The Corydalis must be seed grown and exs. Maddening that they attach these names to them, they came from Thimble Farms.

johnw.

[gote]

A nice series John.  I think you're right to be sceptical about the corydalis though.  'Beth Evans' is a soft mid-pink rather than purple, and 'George Baker' is more orange-red rather than the pure pink here.  As was discussed elsewhere, colour intensity may be affected by weather but I don't think the shade varies much.

I agree, Beth Evans it is definitely not. As to "George Baker" The one I grow (from two different sources) is much darker and has a tone that I would not call orange red but it certainly has more orange in it than the one in the picture. It also has moe finely dissected leaves than most solidas and the greenery is darker. It is also later than most. I am afraid that I have no good picture of Beth Evans.
In my place Corydalis are still in bud
Cheers
Göte  

[ranunculus]

CALLIANTHEMUM KERNERIANUM MONTE BALDO FORM

In flower this week.

[Armin]

Thank you Lesley & Robin
'Rote Glocke' is a wunderful pulsatilla.

[Graham Catlow]

Red Bells and now Blue Bells - Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Blaue Glocke' looking good in todays sunshine.
I redesigned this part of the rock garden last spring so its not yet mature.

The Blaue Glocke start with this very deep colour but it fades a little over a couple of days. There are numerous seedlings coming through the gravel.
There are also hundreds if Allium karataviense seedlings coming through. You may just be able to see the mature leaves coming through between the Pulsatilla.

The seed heads of the Pulsatilla and the flower heads of the Allium look good together.

Pulsatilla vulgaris Blaue Glocke in-situ
Close up 1
Close up 2

[Lesley Cox]

A garden I visited a couple of years ago (Trillium weekend in NZ) had several pulsatilla plants growing well in the garden, but in the little shallow "ditch" where the soil met the lawn, there were hundreds of young plants where the seed had dropped off the plamts and washed or blown down the slight incline and found the moister conditions to their liking and perfect for germination. As Graham says, they like the gravel too. What an easy and accomodating plant is Pulsatilla vulgaris in all its forms.

[cohan]

Visiting the Helleiner's garden here in the city today I was shocked to see Cyclamen coum just at the end of its flowering. Shocked as I have never been able to get it to winter yet here it was seeding about just 6 blocks from us.  

For Maggi Pieris japonica Valley Rose at its peak, not quite Valley Valentine but a good pink.

Also several Corydalis a bit lop-sided from the heavy rain and wind last night.  Is this George Baker as it is not very red?

A Podophyllum shooting up, it was bought as P. versipelle but looks like my P. pleianthum. Thoughts?

johnw

nice garden to visit!
interesting about the coum--do you think maybe they got a hardier form, or some difference in their site?

[PDJ]

A few of the hellebores in flower today.

[olegKon]

We are enjoying a wonderful sunny spell here. Plants are in a hurry to open their flowers
1. Pulsatilla slavica always starts the pulsatilla season
2. Bulbocodium vernum
3. Leucoum vernum

[Maggi Young]

We are enjoying a wonderful sunny spell here. Plants are in a hurry to open their flowers

And the gardeners will be in a hurry to enjoy them in the sunshine, Oleg!
Good that Spring is really getting started.

[Ragged Robin]

Happy Spring, Oleg, with your lovely first flowers 

[olegKon]

Thank you, Maggi and Robin. It is really a pleasure after 6 months of seeing only snow to have early flowers rapidly progressing