April 2010 - Northern Hemisphere- Flowering now.

[Gerry Webster]

We think we've seen it all, with some plants then Olga shows it to us from a new angle or in such a different way that it's like having our eyes opened for the first time. Thanks so much Olga for your delicious photos. They give such pleasure.

Yes indeed! Olga should get some sort of prize.

[shelagh]

What lovely pictures Zdenek, I especially like the Aethionema rotundifolia the last I saw this was by the road side in Crete.

[ichristie]

Nearly snow today just like the picture from Zdenek a few plants have managed to flower. cheers for all the recent super pictures Ian the Christie kind.

[Maggi Young]

Glad to see some plants making it through this weather, Ian! I haven't seen a forecast but my mother-in-law tells me that there is snow forecast for inland Aberdeenshire over the weekend..... which means, I hope , that we will miss it here, but who knows?! It's cold enough.

[Peter Maguire]

I thought I'd add a few pictures of what I've found in flower this week in the garden.
- Firstly, 3 Hellebore hybrids from Ashwood nurseries. Always worth making a diversion to the nursery if you happen to be in the area to select these in flower. I bought these three about two years ago after going to a work conference in Stratford. Just made it to the nursery, under the speed limit, about 20 minutes before they closed.  #
- Bergenia ciliata 'Patricia Furness', a selection of B. ciliata that Alan Furness named after his wife. The plant does not have the coarse leaves of many Bergenias, and the flower colour is excellent, with the generally white petals being set off by the red filaments and petal bases.
- Daffodil 'Changing Colours'. Not an alpine, but looks good in the border and has a most unusual flower

[Lori S.]

Lovely plants and photos, all!

- Daffodil 'Changing Colours'. Not an alpine, but looks good in the border and has a most unusual flower

Peter, it's a beaut - how does it change colours?  I'm not familiar with this one. 

Here are some photos of our earliest-blooming native plants from along the Bow River uplands the other day.
1 - 6) Pulsatilla patens (or is it Anemone patens now?  )
7 - 10) Phlox hoodii, clinging to eroded clay banks along the bike path.

[Olga Bondareva]

Lesley, Gerry, Mike
Thank you for compliments!

Lori
Is it your native Pulsatilla (it is pulsatilla) patens? It looks the same to ours.

Ian
I’ve never seen such Sanguinaria. Adonis, Shortia and Trillium are garden brilliants! Do you grow Paraquilegia at alpinehouse?

[Olga Bondareva]

Erica carnea Isabel



Cheilanthes argentea seedlings

[Ragged Robin]

Ian, it's lovely to see your plants having survived a snowy winter in to a tentative Spring in Scotland but I'm sure warmer weather is on its way.

Pulsatilla halleri x budapest is the most glorious colour amongst the soft foliage

I find Scoliopus bigelowii fascinating, almost like a pen and ink sepia drawing.



 

[ichristie]

Hi to all, thanks for your kind words. Yes the paraquilegia is in a glasshouse but we also have it outside. I psot another weird and wonderfull Trillidium govanianum,  A few other taken last week cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[johnw]

Two shots Shortia uniflora, I can't help posting them again.

Hacquetia epipactis Thor

Salix x boydii - 3 flowers this year

The varigated dayliliy, the one with the atrocious flowers which have to be removed before they open. Looks like some green shoots need to be removed.

Can't id the snake in the second last photo.  

Saruma henryi - a civilized plant.

johnw

[WimB]

Very nice plants everyone.

John, I love your Shortia's.

Ian, that group of Trillium rivale is wonderful, as is the Trillidium govanianum.

Flowering here now is:

Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink'
Primula cortusioides
Taraxacum pseudorosum
and Allium akaka

[TheOnionMan]

Flowering here now is:

Erythronium 'Kinfauns Pink'
Primula cortusioides
Taraxacum pseudorosum
and Allium akaka

Oohhh, I have seedlings coming up of that Taraxacum, cool looking flower! I find off-color dandelions fascinating.  And Allium akaka - I've always wanted a-ka-ka, finally have some of those seedlings coming along too.  Wim, how long did your Allium akaka to flower (assuming you grew it from seed)?

John, love the Shortia plants.

[johnw]

First shot the double Sanguinaria canadensis.

Second shot the single form.

Last shots the pink form after fading to white - it's significantly larger than the single.  Did you find that Brian?

Lastly a Syneilesis masquerading as an old man cactus.

johnw

[johnw]

Lesley - That "caged" Paeonia has advanced but still has some charm.

johnw