May 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Diane Whitehead]

I removed three sheets of plywood left by some carpenters
and found these wan beauties.  The leaves had already gained
a bit of colour by the time I came back with the camera.

[fredg]

Darlingtonia californica is now pushing up this year's crop of flowers.

Don't ask me to post a group shot please, I'd get a hernia moving the trays to a photo position.

[Olga Bondareva]

Darlingtonia californica

Wow!  Great!

Corydalis solida selection


And another one

[Olga Bondareva]

Jeffersonia dubia


Bulbocodium vernum


Erythronium sibiricum


Gymnospermium sp.

[Gail]

Wonderful pictures Olga, love the Jeffersonia.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It's a real challenge to post just after Olga's superb images...   ...
Here we go anyway

1-2-3- Arenaria tetraquetra var. granatensis is not exactly grown for its abundant flowering (see pic 3) 
4) Aethonema 'Warley ruber' had frost damage - no sign of it anymore... 
5) Alyssum ?? (lost the label on this one - any ideas somebody ?? 
6) Anemone pavonina in full glory
7) Berberis 'Mistery fire'
8. Potentilla porphyranta
9) Ramonda nathaliae
10) Ranunculus millefoliatus

[johnw]

Luc - Is that berberis a B. darwinii hybrid and hardy to what temperature?

johnw

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Sorry John, I have no idea of the origin.
I've had it for 10 years or so and it must have survived temperatures to -12 or -15°C

[Onion]

John,
here are some information about the Berberis. It is hardy in Zone 6 (Europe). I know it with a more orange-yellow flower colour.
http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Berberis+x+lologensis

[Diane Whitehead]

I'm excited by this afternoon's purchase of Boronia heterophylla.
I have never seen a boronia for sale before.  I hope this is just
the beginning of a surfeit of Australian plants offered for sale here.
My car was perfumed by the flowers all the way home, and I am
sure my hummingbirds are going to be delighted with them too.

[Maggi Young]

A great colour, Diane... the scent is a real bonus.... I've never seen one in "the flesh" so to speak

[Lori S.]

Wow, what a terrific arenaria, Luc!

[Gerdk]

Luc,
A fine selection of 'flowers' - especially the Arenaria, which is a favorite for me too.
It seems to me your Ranunculus millefoliatus is something different because my plants were more lax than yours (and an awful weed too - more spreading than Ranunculus ficaria for instance).

Gerd

[Ragged Robin]

Wow, what a terrific arenaria, Luc!

I agree with Lori, it looks like a mountain range 

[arisaema]

It's been a rediculously cold spring here, so few things have started flowering, I can't remember Paeonia mairei ever being so late

Below;
Hepatica nobilis 'Rubra Plena' still in flower.
Oxygraphis glacialis, which sprouted as a weed among some seedlings of Mec lancifolia from Shaluli Shan.
Trollius dzhungaricus, which has been very slow to reach flowering size. Ex Holubec, Ala Archa, Tien Shan.
Corydalis ornata going over.
Erythronium sibiricum
...and Corydalis turtschaninovii ssp. vernyi from North-Korea.