April 2010 - Northern Hemisphere- Flowering now.

[Ragged Robin]

Wim, you grow such really     plants - Primula chionantha ssp. sinopurpurea is just 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Good show Wim !
Lori, nice to see you finally have Spring around !!  

Here's some from my garden flowering now :


1) Allium karataviense 'Ivory Queen' - pushing through
2) and 3) Arnebia pulchra with the distinctive brown spots that disappear after the flowers have been open for a few days
4) and 5) Anemone nemorosa robinsoniana
6) Corydalis flexuosa - seedling from red leaved form
7) Degenia velibitica - has quietly seeded itself into a small colony
8. Dianthus 'Eleonor Parker' - newly acquired hybrid from D. freynii x D. strictus - looking very promising !!  
9) Phylliopsis 'Sugar Plum

[Ragged Robin]

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.

Your leaves are as wonderful as your flowers Ian and they look so lush with all that rain - and a little protection  

[johanneshoeller]

A very interesting very tiny plant from South Africa (?) flowering since April 1st.

[Ragged Robin]

Great show from your garden too Luc    Aren't the leaves Allium karataviense 'Ivory Queen' gorgeous, so beautifully curved and furrowed.    The sugar-almond pink of the Dianthus 'Eleonor Parker' is so sweet - I'm amazed it's out so early 

[WimB]

Wim, you grow such really     plants - Primula chionantha ssp. sinopurpurea is just 

Thanks Robin,

it's flowering for the first time here. It was sown last year.

[WimB]

A very interesting very tiny plant from South Africa (?) flowering since April 1st.

It's a very nice plant indeed, I had it outside in the garden since three years and it got a bit bigger every year until this spring when it was attacked during flowering by a blackbird. Now it's completely gone. I hope it will resprout next spring.

[johnw]

Ian  - I 've just been comparing the foliage on the single pink Sanguinaria (photo 751 posted in reply #253) here and yours. They look different; the one here has quite blue foliage.  I wonder how many "pink" selections there are.

By the way, a lovely Trillidium there.

johnw

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show from your garden too Luc    Aren't the leaves Allium karataviense 'Ivory Queen' gorgeous, so beautifully curved and furrowed.    The sugar-almond pink of the Dianthus 'Eleonor Parker' is so sweet - I'm amazed it's out so early 

Thanks Robin, I'm also very fond of the Allium leaves - and they're barely starting... 
The Dianthus is very early, but is still in it's pot and spent a lot of time inside - I'll have to wait next season before I know what it's normal flowering time is 

[Olga Bondareva]

Callianthemum farreri



Saxifraga unnamed cultivar



Callianthemum alatavicum



Pulsatilla vernalis



Snow 



Snow. 



Snow and cold. 

[cohan]

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.

i will be watching for seed of various sp; are the leaves very different on any of them?

[ichristie]

 Wow what a fantastic picture of the Calianthemum flower buds.  Theping sanguinaria here has beetroot coloured leaves when it first comes up will try and get another picture tomorrow, I guess several forms are around. Well done everyone again for all the super pictures, a few more taken today, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ranunculus]

Oh Olga ... are you trying to make a grown man cry?     That Callianthemum alatavicum is just out of this world!   May we enquire where you got it?  C. farreri is glorious enough, but C. alatavicum is a DREAM.  Beautiful photos as always.

[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.

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.

i will be watching for seed of various sp; are the leaves very different on any of them?

Cohan,

the leaves of T. pseudoroseum and T. albidum are exactly the same as T. officinalis. I don't know about the other species.

[Robin Callens]

Hi all,

some pictures from my woodland garden: