May 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere

[ArnoldT]

Welsh poppy

[Olga Bondareva]

Primula x intermedia (? minima x clusiana hybrid)

[gote]

Olga,
Your blue solida is the most clear blue I have seen in a solida. Do you have any particular info about it??

Gote,
I found it in the forest near Moscow. That's all.  It is still alone.

OK thanks. I hope it will not remain alone too long 
Göte

[cohan]

Pinguicula grandiflora

A good flower show and will help dispose of whitefly 

nice one, fred--i really like pings!

[wolfgang vorig]

Anemone blanda different

[cohan]

a few images from the forest by my house-on my acreage, or just beyond on the farm.... still very little flowering on the edge of the boreal forest, so i make myself happy with signs of green, even if most of those are evergreens!
oops! i just realised these are still april shots-but i suppose its not worth the trouble to move the whole thing....

[Graham Catlow]

Cohan,
Wonderful photos of the moss. I think they are amazing plants.
I spent some time admiring a wall full of moss this morning whilst out walking.
I have passed it many times before and not noticed it.

Graham

[Michael J Campbell]

Androsace villosa taurica.
Rhodoendron impeditum.
Allium zebdanense.
Anemone nemerosa ‘Blue Eyes’
Exochorda the bride.
Alyssoides utriculata.
Hebe raouli.
Oxalis enneaphylla 'Sheffield Swan'.
Chrysanthemum mariesii.
Linum Gemmells Hybrid.

[cohan]

Cohan,
Wonderful photos of the moss. I think they are amazing plants.
I spent some time admiring a wall full of moss this morning whilst out walking.
I have passed it many times before and not noticed it.

Graham

thanks, graham--great favourites of mine as well--whole landscapes unto themselves (including various other of those wee things!)

[cohan]

Androsace villosa taurica.
Rhodoendron impeditum.
Allium zebdanense.
Anemone nemerosa ‘Blue Eyes’
Exochorda the bride.
Alyssoides utriculata.
Hebe raouli.
Oxalis enneaphylla 'Sheffield Swan'.
Chrysanthemum mariesii.
Linum Gemmells Hybrid.

michael--you are awash in bloom! so now, at this distance--how extensive were your losses this past winter?

[Michael J Campbell]

Cohan, I lost all my Australasian shrubs and a lot of herbaceous plants, but no alpines or bulbs. For some reason all my South African bulbs survived,(they are in a south facing bed close to the house) the foliage of the Watsonias was killed back to ground level, but I see some green shoots peeping just last week so I think they are ok.

[Olga Bondareva]

Beggar with a child. 

[Maggi Young]

There I was, having a quiet lurk on the pages of the VRV (FlemishRock Garden Club)  forum, and what do you suppose I saw pictured there, flowering happily in the garden of Jozef (Jef) Lemmens?
It was a hybrid gesneriad raised Aberdeen local members Maureen and Brian Wilson, a Ramonda x Haberlea cross called Ramberlea 'Inchgarth'......I expect they will be pleased to see their "baby" doing well across the Channel! See the photo here:
http://www.vrvforum.be/forum/index.php?topic=82.msg2257#msg2257    

In a later post on that page Jef shows Primula forrestii and says he thinks it is probably only suitable for culture in an alpine house but I know various Scots have found it to live for several years out in the rock garden.

[cohan]

Cohan, I lost all my Australasian shrubs and a lot of herbaceous plants, but no alpines or bulbs. For some reason all my South African bulbs survived,(they are in a south facing bed close to the house) the foliage of the Watsonias was killed back to ground level, but I see some green shoots peeping just last week so I think they are ok.

sounds like a lot of losses still---but at least you have lots of other things flowering!

[cohan]

Beggar with a child. 

very fancy beggar to use such a parasol