Flowering now June 2007

[Armin]

Dact. fuchsii and Rotes Waldvöglein (Ceph. rubra).
Hans

Hi Hans, the orchids grow in your garden our in the forrest nearby?
brgds

[johanneshoeller]

The Orchids grow just behind my house in the forrest and around the hiking trail or the main road. So I have sometimes seedlings in my garden (between the Cyps). My cottage house with garden is in the paradise.
Hans

[Armin]

Hans, you lucky guy!
I agree - Paradise...

[hadacekf]

Here are some pictures of presently flowering Saxifraga longifolia  in my troughs. The flowering stems are 40 and 60 cm long.

[gmoen]

Franz

Lovely saxifraga. I have to wait until next year to see mine in flower. I was a bit lazy a couple of years and did not keep them going on by sowing.

I have a Caltha palustris. flowering in my garden now. Are there anyone that could support me with some more information about this plant (picture below). All I know is that I got it from China (Chenyi) seven years ago or so, under the name Caltha palustris var.

[fermi de Sousa]

Geir
that's a very attractive flower for a Caltha!
Do let us know if it sets seed!
I'll check with soem of our local group members who's also imported plants from China to see if they got it as well.
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Those are magnificent saxifrages Franz. I hope my young ones grow to flower so well.

[Gerdk]

Hi Geir,
Stunning picture! I once had Caltha palustris var. barthei from Chenyi, which is described to have red flowers. Maybe this is your variety. A poor grower here in Germany. I never saw the flowers.
Gerd Knoche
Solingen, Germany

[Susan Band]

Geir,
I got a Caltha from chenyi, it has red flowers but is not nearly as good as yours. The flowers are small and so dark red they are hardly seen. Yours is a particular good one, I remember hearing a talk by Kenneth Cox and he showed a plant like yours in the wild, I don't think he had a name for it either. On Magnar Aspakers website he shows Caltha palustris var. barthei but it is more like the one I got than yours. Mybe I should move mine to a damper site it might do better but it won't change the colour

[gmoen]

Hi again

Gerd
I also have the Caltha palustris barthei, but that plant is quite different in the flowers (I'll try to look up a picture later). Caltha palustris barthei are as you said red all over the flower, but the color is more rusty red. I know of several other peoples that ordered the same plant as the one I showed in my picture, but they all turned out to be regular yellow. According to the description in her list, it was supposed to be yellow with red center just like mine.

Fermi
It normally sets seeds, but it is growing among other Caltha species so there might be a cross. But maybe someone find it interesting to give them chance. I propagate this plant by division.

[gmoen]

Susan
I agree with you, I do not find the Caltha palustris barthei a very ornamental plant, I think "interresting" is a more corrct description....

[Anthony Darby]

Should you have any spare divisions, in due course, of that delicious caltha I'd be very interested in trying it Geir. It is really quite sumptuous. 

[Mick McLoughlin]

Raining all day again today. So postings some flowers from earlier in the week.
Papaver burseri first to flower from this years seed exchanges.
Erodium in new rock bed.
Helianthemum any ideas of the name?
Candelabra primula
Primula vialli flower
Rhodoypoxis
Rose 'Graham Thomas'

[Maggi Young]

Hello, Mick, not raining here.... yet!
I am interested to see those rock "cores" you are using as edging material in your gravel bed....we are familiar with those in granite up here... they are cores cut from granite plinths for gravestones to allow a flower container.... are yours of a similar origin?

[Ian Minty]

Hi Maggie, Mick's cores are exaxtly that.
They are a by product from construction projects when concrete floors are drilled to accomodate pipework.
Diamond Drilling does a lot of this work in the north east and if you asked them nicely they could probably provide you with loads of these.
They are usually left lying about the site for people to trip over.