Flowering now June 2007

[hadacekf]

Lesley,
In the European high mountains we find two leontopodium species.
Leontopodium alpinum) in the Karpaten, parts of the Balkan Peninsula, Alps and the Pyrenees’s. This variable species can be found on limestone rocks, screes and rocky lawns at 2000 - 2900 m altitude. The flowers can grow to a size of 3 - 20 cm
Leontopodium nivale  syn. L. alpinum var crassence grows in the Abruzzi and on the Balkan Peninsula. This variable species can be found on limestone rock. The flowers can grow to a size of 3 - 10 cm

Look at the picture of  Leontopodium on my web page.

[VIEIRA]

Hello!

some flowers that I have now.

Everything of good

Jorge

[Lesley Cox]

Geir, I should have been more specific. I assumed by post, but how do you pack it, ready to post? In a small plastic bag or some kind of container? I imagine the little hard cases one buys with a new SD card would be suitable, but are they available empty? And do you enclose it in something such as foil or clingfilm?

How do you train your bees Anthony? Do you have to take them on a visit to a suitable garden then train them to "home." like pigeons?

[Lesley Cox]

Thank you Franz for the information and the lovely pictures on your website. As you say, the edelweiss varies quite a lot, doesn't it. The Lonza form is especially nice. I was also pleased to see Conandron ramondioides again. I used to have it but summer drought killed it.

Geir, your irises are beautiful but may I question the I. lacustris please. I doubt if it has any gracilipes blood in it. It looks exactly like straight lacustris, a super plant and yours is particularly fine.

I ordered I. taurica from the AGS seedlist in the summer and expected a juno (I. persica v. taurica or tauri) but the seedlings are obviously of a beared iris. I'll be very happy if they turn out to be like yours.

[gmoen]

Hi Lesley

The pollen are sent in small plastic containers, and we use this small water tubes you can get to stick on a single flower (often a rose) to support it with water. It has a tiny hole in it as well.

I agree that my Iris lacustris x gracilis looks like a pure Iris lacustris. But I got it from a nursery that said they had made this cross between this two species. The Iris taurica is synonym with Iris pumila ssp. taurica. Even if it is not a Juno it's still a great plant.

One more picture this morning; Paris incompleta

Geir

[Rob]

Another nomocharis seedling has opened today.

It is not as pretty as the one I showed yesterday, but I thought I'd post a picture just to show the variation.

Rob

[Maggi Young]

All Nomocharis are beautiful! They can't help it, it's a  talent!

[Anthony Darby]

Here's Saxifraga longifolia 'Tumbling Waters' today.

[David Nicholson]

Here's Saxifraga longifolia 'Tumbling Waters' today.

NICE!  I must have a crack at that.

[David Nicholson]

All Nomocharis are beautiful! They can't help it, it's a  talent!

Are they safe to leave in the ground all winter, or best dried out??

[Rob]

I leave my nomocharis in a raised bed outside all year.

Rob

[David Nicholson]

Rob, if you can I can

[Maggi Young]

Our Nomocharis live outside all the time, planted  in the garden or, the babies, growing on in fishbox troughs.

[David Nicholson]

Our Nomocharis live outside all the time, planted  in the garden or, the babies, growing on in fishbox troughs.

Ah! but you bask in an enviable climate

[Paul T]

Fantastic pics everyone, in all the various threads.  Geir that Lilium at the start is stunning, but the story about it is horrendous.  I just don't understand some people!!  Anthony that Sax is just amazing, to put it mildly.

I have no hope of catching up with all that I have missed in the last couple of months so if there are any in particular that I should catch up with please email me to let me know.  Hopefully now with the recent change in medication I might be able to come back up here and visit regularly again.  I've been missing you all.

Thanks again for all the wonderful pics everyone.