May 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere

[wolfgang vorig]

new Anemone nemerosa this year
....A. nemerosa Lehna 1
A. nemerosa Lehna
A. nem. Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Miss Eucine

[wolfgang vorig]

Anemone nemerosa


.....Anemonen and Helleborus
various.
a. nem. Tilo
A. nem. Robinsoniana
A. nem. Pleugers Plena.

[David Nicholson]

You have a lovely garden Shelagh (and Brian). I take it the "dig" about 'temporary frame' was aimed at poor old Brian

[Paddy Tobin]

Wolfgang,

A wonderful selection - and some very strong colours in your anemone nemerosas.

Paddy

[David Nicholson]

Beautiful show Wolfgang.

[wolfgang vorig]

Thank you Paddy and David


Anemone trifolia
A. trifolia bright blue.
A. trifolia bright blue
Anemone narcissiflora 1
Anemone narcissiflora

[WimB]

Wim,

 This looks correct for P. roseum. I have some from Chen Yi, but I am beginning to think that mine are not P. roseum. They have yet to flower though.

 See here; <http://books.google.com/books?id=tg0XAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA5049&dq=POlygonatum+roseum&cd=1#v=onepage&q=POlygonatum%20roseum&f=false>

 

Aaron,

Thanks for the determination

[Lesley Cox]

The grubby Poppy almost bears a resemblance to a small Highland cow! with that shaggy fur and grumpy face. Actually I'm deeply shocked to see her in this state as Lily is always so pristine. I hope Poppy isn't a bad influence and leading Lily into naughty ways.

Shelagh, you must be having a lot of pleasure from your garden at present. It looks great and if there's a small "dig" at Brian he can only take it as an appreciation of other digging done, I hope, by him.

Wonderful plants as always Wolfgang. Those are really super forms of Anemone nemorosa. The first, the double soft pink is especially beautiful and what a great deep blue.

Thanks everyone for sharing your spring pictures. Winter has started here, not so terribly cold yet but the whole country is being deluged with very heavy rain and flooding in areas from the top of the North Is to the bottom of the South. My daughter's rain guage registerd 186mm from 6pm yesterday to 8am this morning. Nearly more than 7 inches of rain, for those still using old money. Not so much here and we are on a hill so won't flood but litle plants are being drowned. I've covered all my seed pots and trays with thick layers of newspaper to keep more rain off but will have to remove it soon for light and air.

[angie]

Shelagh that's some lovely plants you have show us - your garden looks so lovely.

Maggi Lily and Poppy look as if they were enjoying the sun , hope they had on there sun cream.

Lesley the weather has been great in Aberdeen the last week but today the t. shirt was back in the wardrobe. Hope the rain doesn't do to much damage.

Angie

[Gerdk]

new Anemone nemerosa this year
....A. nemerosa Lehna 1
A. nemerosa Lehna
A. nem. Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Ice and Fire
A. nemerosa Miss Eucine

Wolfgang,
It seems 'Miss Eucine' is the most blue A. nemorosa - if you don't mind me asking - where did you get it?

Gerd

[Gail]

Thank you Gail; they don't always look so white......
Here is Poppy  last week, after she swam through the pond (which is covered in duckweed) and then rolled to clean off said duckweed....... ( well, it workded to get rid of the duckweed!    )

Yep, she looks much more recognisably Westie like that to me!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A very impressive series of Anemone Wolfgang !! 

[Regelian]

I am quite happy with this plant combination; Wisteria 'longissima alba' on a wild birch (seeded itself).  I planted the Wisteria 10 years ago and it has put on an amazing diplay for the last 3 years.  The fragrance is incredible.  Wish the picture was better, but you get the idea.

[Paddy Tobin]

Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.

Paddy

[shelagh]

Jamie it's a pity that we don't have smelly-vision on lots of the contributions on the Forum.  I love Wisteria.  We had one in a container against the back of the house.  It stayed nice and neat but didn't flower until one year it shot up like a rocket.  When Brian checked it had come through the bottom of the container and had worked its way between the flags and down down and away.  It was sad but it had to go.