April 2010 - Northern Hemisphere- Flowering now.

[Lesley Cox]

Lovely things, all and yes, the Paeonia is still very good. Re the snake - not Hosus plasticus?

[Lori S.]

I'm watching to see my Syneilesis emerge like little hairy trolls!  (Assuming they have made it through another winter...)
 
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Lori
Is it your native Pulsatilla (it is pulsatilla) patens? It looks the same to ours.
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Yes, Olga, it is our native Pulsatilla patens.

[johnw]

I'm watching to see my Syneilesis emerge like little hairy trolls!  (Assuming they have made it through another winter...)

Lori - Aren't they fantastic things.   Hope your plant fares well. 

johnw

[Lori S.]

A few things in bloom here... although now covered in snow this evening.  (Oh well, we are so inured to the wretched climate that, believe it or not, we tell ourselves that we're "grateful for the moisture".   )
1) Anemone x lipsiensis
2) Anemone ranunculoides
3) Shivereckia podolica
4) Townsendia leptotes, starting to bloom
5) If Jim Henson was into plants, rather than puppetry, would more of them look like this?  Paeonia tenuiflora 'Plena'
6) Androsace carnea 'Alba'
7) Primula marginata 'Sheila Denby'
8 ) Saxifraga sancta var. macedonica
9) Narcissus 'Ice Follies'
10) A bit of bloom on Petrocallis pyrenaica, planted last year.

[cohan]

nice things, all!
wim-- i also like that taraxacum--i fantasise having this breed with the local swarms and turning the countryside pink instead of yellow in late spring!
john--i have saruma sown(fall), time will tell if i get anything....
lori-- i still haven't managed to find any pulsatilla in the wild--i got a couple of suggestions: somewhere near penhold, but that was a guided walk probably on private property, not my thing, and anyway, i was working, and the other a nature area near morningside, haven't had time to get up there, but sounds interesting-grown over dunes etc ... oh well, hopefully in a few years i will have some flowering here...lol
we had some rain earlier in the day, and it started snowing not too long ago (almost 11pm here now); forecast for rocky mtn house is 5 cm; and it has been such a dry spring that we really are grateful for the moisture! now the grass can green, its been too dry..
 this is still very early in the year to be snow free here--i expect it well into may...

[WimB]

Mark,

I love that kind of dandelions too. I also have T. albidum. Not yet flowering but it won't take long. I didn't grow the A. akaka from seed so i wouldn't know how long it takes from seeding to flowering.

Cohan,

turning the countryside pink instead of yellow would be nice indeed, I might be tempted to try it  (although my neighbours might not agree with another "weed" sowing freely about  )

[cohan]

Cohan,

turning the countryside pink instead of yellow would be nice indeed, I might be tempted to try it   (although my neighbours might not agree with another "weed" sowing freely about  )

i agree, another weed might not be welcome, but i was thinking more of replacing the existing one  --and really we have whole fields and roadsides turn yellow in season from regular dandelions! i dont even want any yellow flowers in my garden at that time (late may./early june, i think)
i don't think farmers care that much--they arent tall enough to interfere with grain crops, and no problem if they are in hay--more nutritious than grass anyway!
i think i need to start eating them too, easier to grow than  a lot of vegetables! and very nutritious..

[ichristie]

So many wondeful flowers just great to share them with you all thanks. A few more pictures taken yesterday trillium corner is inside what is left of my tunnel a corner, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[WimB]

Ian,

wonderful Trilliums. I see raindrops hanging from your plants...I wish it would rain here too... it's been dry since Easter.

[Lori S.]

The chionodoxas are, however our own. The Eranthises are already over so we cannot claim to have the swedish colours 
These are also commercial Dutch stock from perhaps thirtyfive years ago. Obviously they are a hybrid swarm but the usually conform to two different types. Wide petals few flowers slightly lilac. Smaller flowers but several on reddish stalks with more true blue.
 "lucilie" and "forbesii" perhaps??
Göte

I would love to know the answer to this also.  We have a lot of variation in chionodoxa too - large-flowered, solid-coloured blue and mauve, and also those with red or tan stems, white centers, blue tips (sometimes quite dark blue which is attractive).  Rather different habits too - the solid-coloured ones are often single-flowered or few-flowered, while the red-stemmed ones have flower spikes.  Off to google...

1-3) Various chionodoxa

[Peter Maguire]

- 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.

Lori,
As far as I know it's just a name for the flower. The colour is a creamy-yellow, and perhaps after a few days it is more creamy then yellow, but that's it. The central corolla tube is, however very unusual.

[Lori S.]

Yes, that makes sense.  Thanks, Peter.

[TheOnionMan]

Mark,

I love that kind of dandelions too. I also have T. albidum. Not yet flowering but it won't take long. I didn't grow the A. akaka from seed so i wouldn't know how long it takes from seeding to flowering.

My single plant of Taraxacum albidum died out last year... for 7-8 years it reliably produced just 1 or 2 pure white flowers, but it did not have any inclination to spread or increase.  I too fantasized about the white one invading the lawn, so at least I'd have two colors of dendelion, but it was not to be. I do have a pot full of T. pamiricum coming along, described as 10-15 cm white.  The other one I used to grow, keep an eye out for this one, is T. carneocoloratum from Alaska, a tiny high alpine species with semi-nodding flowers of an odd pinkish-orange color; an adorable little item.

[TheOnionMan]

A few things in bloom here... although now covered in snow this evening.  (Oh well, we are so inured to the wretched climate that, believe it or not, we tell ourselves that we're "grateful for the moisture".   )

5) If Jim Henson was into plants, rather than puppetry, would more of them look like this?  Paeonia tenuiflora 'Plena'

Lori, fantastic whimsical look to that Paeonia in bud; I think more like Dr. Seuss star belly sneetch characters 

[WimB]

Here now in flower:

Androsace hirtella
Anemone nemerosa 'Blue Eyes'
Primula auricula 'Lintz'
Primula chionantha ssp. sinopurpurea