May 2010 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Gail]

Beautiful Jamie.  We once visited a garden that had a massive weeping willow tree with a purple wisteria cascading through it - it was just stunning; one of those images that stays in your mind.

[Regelian]

Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.

Paddy

It all in how you dress it up!  I would have cut it down, but we are not allowed to remove trees without a permit in Cologne.  This was my best solution, although I may have been wiser to use a violet coloured cultivar.

Shelagh,
I have three other wisterias in containers which do flower every other year.  The best cultivar I've found for containers is 'Issai', a lovely blue.  Rosea is not good at all.  They are always better in the ground.  I have 4 others grwoing about that all flower earlier.  'Shiro Capitain' is very fragrant and early.

[Maggi Young]

Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.

Paddy

It all in how you dress it up!  I would have cut it down, but we are not allowed to remove trees without a permit in Cologne.  This was my best solution, although I may have been wiser to use a violet coloured cultivar.

No, not at all... the white is perfect in the scene you show us.... I was just thinking that no other colour would be as good there  

[Regelian]

Brilliant use of an ordinary tree, Jamie.

Paddy

It all in how you dress it up!  I would have cut it down, but we are not allowed to remove trees without a permit in Cologne.  This was my best solution, although I may have been wiser to use a violet coloured cultivar.

No, not at all... the white is perfect in the scene you show us.... I was just thinking that no other colour would be aso good there 

Thanks, Maggie,  you know how afterthoughts are.....what if?  At the time, white was the right choice for a background plant.  I guess I DID know what I was doing.

[gote]

Wolfgang,
You have some fantastic Anemones. I have never seen any quite as blue or red or any double pink.
My experience is that "pink" Anemone nemorosa are only pink certain years This year being one.
Also I would be interested in knowing from where you got them - Or are they your own cultivars?
Your pictures show the stage of development I have here in mid Sweden now. Where in Sachsen are you?
Grüße
Göte

[Gerdk]

Anemone nemorosa 'Miss Eucine'

I googled for this extraordinary plant without success - so I would be glad if there is someone who can tell me more about it, for instance where is it obtainable.

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

Anemone nemorosa 'Miss Eucine'

I googled for this extraordinary plant without success - so I would be glad if there is someone who can tell me more about it, for instance where is it obtainable.

Gerd

 Gerd, I believe this plant might more correctly be 'Miss Eunice' and I found a listing in the RHS plantfinder  for a stockist in the UK, but a search of their website is not showing the plant listed now. 

www.plantsforshade.co.uk

Nigel & Michelle Rowland

Address
South Marsh, Charlton Musgrove
Nr Wincanton
Somerset
BA9 8EX
United Kingdom

Telephone
(01963) 32802
Fax
(01963) 32802
Email
info@plantsforshade.co.uk

[David Nicholson]

Anemone nemorosa 'Miss Eucine'

I googled for this extraordinary plant without success - so I would be glad if there is someone who can tell me more about it, for instance where is it obtainable.

Gerd

 Gerd, I believe this plant might more correctly be 'Miss Eunice' and I found a listing in the RHS plantfinder  for a stockist in the UK, but a search of their website is not showing the plant listed now.  

www.plantsforshade.co.uk

Nigel & Michelle Rowland

Address
South Marsh, Charlton Musgrove
Nr Wincanton
Somerset
BA9 8EX
United Kingdom

Telephone
(01963) 32802
Fax
(01963) 32802
Email
info@plantsforshade.co.uk

More widely known as Long Acre Plants.

[Gerdk]

Maggi + David,
Thank you both for your kind help!

Gerd

[wolfgang vorig]

Hallo Maggy, David and Gerd,
Sorry, the name confusion is my fault. The correct name is Anemone Nemerosa "Miss Eunice"
Regards,    Wolfgang

[Afloden]

 Here is a Monarda species in flower now. This is the third species to flower for me just after bradburiana and russeliana. This one is undescribed! It has been called clinopodia, but flowers earlier, has larger flowers, is pure white, and is a small plant of shale banks along two river systems in the southern Appalachians.

 And a mystery plant that I want to see if anyone can put a name on. It is not yet in flower. I know what it is and one or two other people on here know what this is also. Up close and one of the habitat - a highly calcareous alkaline seep, pH ca. 8 with ca. 180-200 ppm total alkalinity.

 Aaron

[Lesley Cox]

Dunno, but I don't think I'd want to let it loose in the garden.

[Lori S.]

And a mystery plant that I want to see if anyone can put a name on.

Is it DiphyllieaDiphylleia cymosa?

...a highly calcareous alkaline seep, pH ca. 8...

You know, that's actually our normal soil pH here...  

[Zdenek]

Some pictures from this month:
Several selfseedlings of Androsace alpina in a rockery
Two years old Andosace hausmannii in a trough
First flowers of Androsace robusta in another trough
Draba rigida, about 20 years old
Petrocallis pyrenaica 'Alba'
First flowering of Physaria chambersii

[Giles]

(More) Nomocharis aperta
Lilium pyrenaicum