April 2010 - Northern Hemisphere- Flowering now.

[gote]

A very pretty light blue corydalis Olga. Does it have a name?
Cheers
Göte

[gote]

Earliness seems to be different from year to year. This year Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, was not as early as last year.
A corner of my woodland. The Anemone is probably altaica - nemorosa have not yet started.
I need to separate my pink Scilla bifolia they are more vigouros than the blue strain I have.
The pink Chionodoxa is probably a form of lucilie.
Cheers
Göte

[wolfgang vorig]

some Anemone ranunculoides today

Regards,    Wolfgang

[wolfgang vorig]

Anemone ranunculoides, this form was created in the garden

[ChrisB]

A few shots in the greenhouse and garden today:

Gentiana acaulis 'Coelestina'
Pulsatilla albana
Erythronium revolutum

[Lesley Cox]

Katrin, in your first picture, what is the blue-flowered plant with the white-variegated foliage please?

[cohan]

Earliness seems to be different from year to year. This year Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, was not as early as last year.
A corner of my woodland.
Cheers
Göte

nice to see this corner of your garden!
i thought i had not heard of chrysosplenium, until i looked at this site,
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/listimages.asp
and then actually paid attention to the name-- we have some here, but the very different alternifolium or similar (i will need to look at them closely this year to try to key) macrophyllum is an interesting plant, for sure.. is it a native for you, göte?
here we

[Katrin Lugerbauer]

Maggi, sometimes its really dry here, because of the soil conditions (gravel from river and glacier) and this plants would never survive in the sun.

Lesley, it is Brunnera macrophylla 'Dawson's White' (I think in English it's called false or perennial forget-me-not).

[Maggi Young]

Earliness seems to be different from year to year. This year Chrysosplenium macrophyllum, was not as early as last year.
A corner of my woodland.
Cheers
Göte

nice to see this corner of your garden!
i thought i had not heard of chrysosplenium, until i looked at this site,
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/listimages.asp
and then actually paid attention to the name-- we have some here, but the very different alternifolium or similar (i will need to look at them closely this year to try to key) macrophyllum is an interesting plant, for sure.. is it a native for you, göte?

I like this plant, though I can never remember its name... it is establishing nicely and spreading gently here now. I pictured it last year.
www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3141.msg81323topicseen#msg81323    
                                      
It is from China, cohan. www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010085



Katrin... is is hardly ever too dry here! 

[cohan]

Chrysosplenium macrophyllum

I like this plant, though I can never remember its name... it is establishing nicely and spreading gently here now. I pictured it last year.
www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3141.msg81323topicseen#msg81323    
It is from China, cohan. www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200010085

thanks, maggi--i did see that last year, too, i guess it just didn't stick in my mind amongst all the other spring glories you were showing us then..
another among the million to watch for   meanwhile i will focus on establishing a nice patch of the local species, which looks nothing like this, but is still a very cool little plant; i remember large patches when i was young, but couldnt find similar on the farm the last couple of years, but did find some modest colonies, and have/had a piece or two, will see if they have survived the winter in sunken pots...
speaking of spring, our much needed first serious rain of the year has now turned to snow aearlier in the day than expected.. we may be all white by tomorrow.....5-10cm today, and 10-15cm tonight, then rain changing to snow again tomorrow! at least our dry spell is over  

[Lesley Cox]

i thought i had not heard of chrysosplenium, until i looked at this site,
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/listimages.asp

That's a nice - and useful - website Cohan.

Thanks Katrin. I probably should have known that but mine is little and hasn't flowered yet. It looks a lovely colour.

[Lvandelft]

On our former nursery grounds, where we grew mostly visual attractive
rock garden plants this little neglected moss Phlox surprises us since
several years.
After winter totally grayish-brown with no sign of life, but in April
full in flower.
It was just a root which found a little hole in the Mypex Ground Cover,
and measures now almost a square meter!     
Phlox Janous                 
Phlox Janous cl               

Also flowering on the raised bed a little Salix       

[Lesley Cox]

Thay are bath fine plants Luit. Looks as if the Phlox just grows and flowers with not much attention from anyone? The Salix is a beauty.

[ian mcenery]

Lovely pics everyone. Here is my Gentiana acaulis doing well this year

[Gail]

Lovely pics everyone. Here is my Gentiana acaulis doing well this year

That is gorgeous!