Flowering now June 2007

[Mick McLoughlin]

They are 'cores' but from the concrete floor in the factory where I work.
They were drilled out of the floor to put foundation bolts in for some new machinery we had installed. I thought they would make an interesting and different edging for the beds, so I rescued them from the skip.
Exactly where they are from Ian, but an engineering factory in Sheffield.

[Maggi Young]

The aggregate in Mick's cores makes them almost as pretty as granite ones! Here is what Ian has done with a red granite core in our garden...
Core carved into ball


Core used as "thinking stone"


Shown with another smaller " thought" in background


The Orientals have these "thinking stones" as meditation focus points in their gardens, as I understand it... in Aberdeen, while we may contemplate a good deal, we also have a very practical bent, so this particular thinking stone lifts up to reveal the socket for a rotary clothes dryer!

[BuddyM]

Nice pictures, everyone.
These photos were all taken during the past few days in my garden and cold greenhouse.
THe Epiphyllum survived there all winter.
The Dianthus is from a an RGS seed distribution about twenty years ago.

Bergeranthus glenensis
 Delosperma album
 Dianthus Seedling
 Epiphyllum hybrid
 Epiphyllum hybrid 2
 Iris chrysographes
 Ourisia x bitternensis 'Cliftonville Roset'
 Ranunculus lingua
 Sisyrinchium macrocarpon

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

A lot of flowers in the garden.
abronia fragrans
 adlumia asiatica
 adlumia asiatica
 arisaema taiwanense
 cistus albanicus
 convolvulus boissieri
 cypripedium_mikael
 gladiolus longicollis
 gladiolus longicollis
 lupinus lepidus v. lobbii

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

Some more.
polygonatum prattii
 plantago patagonica
 ramonda myconii
 scorsonera superosa
 stachys corsica
 smilacina_sp_
 smilacina_sp_2
 smilacina_sp_3

[Anthony Darby]

Here is Physoplexis comosa in a trough with tufa and a seedling Dactylorhiza purpurella that turned up in another trough a couple of years ago.

[johanneshoeller]

An Austrian Lilium martagon and Arisaema

Hans

[mark smyth]

lovely plants everyone. You have been very busy in my absence.

Very exciting in my garden today are the first flowers of Dianthus 'Elizabethan' - Maggi I hope your cuttings are flowering too. The colour is true in the photo

[Ian Minty]

Cracking pics of the arisaema Hans.
I planted some new arisaemas on thursday.
I checked them today and the birds had been pulling some up by the nose and slugs had been at a couple of them.
I had been planting them shallow as advised.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Gorgeous little dianthus Mark ! Love it !

[Lesley Cox]

Not TOO shallow though Ian. I'd put the top of the nose about 4cms under the surface.

[Hans J]

Here some pics from my garden today :

Aeonium black ( I have this plant since long time in cultivation)
Lilium regale
Lantana camara ( or a hybrid )
Pelargonium tetragonum
Scadoxus multiflorus

Greetings
Hans

[Maggi Young]

Hans, is the Lanatana growing outside in the garden all year?

[Hans J]

Hi Maggi ,

No - it is in a pot - here is it told cold for this plant .
In this time many butterflies visit this plants - beautiful !

[Gerdk]

2 pics of Impations namchabarwensis - unfortunately it seems to be an annual but easily growing from seeds (if you are able to catch the grains).



Hans, nice pictures from your garden!



Gerd Knoche
Solingen, Germany