Northern hemisphere June 2010

[WimB]

Flowering here today:

- Asphodeline lutea
- Cypripedium (reginae?): a local gardening centre was selling nameless Cyp's for 8 euro a piece (some of them with more than 6 noses) and this is one of them
- Lilium oxypetalum
- Primula bulleyana

[Maggi Young]

- Cypripedium (reginae?): a local gardening centre was selling nameles Cyp's for 8 euro a piece (some of them with more than 6 noses) and this is one of them

Good grief! What an amazing price 

[Ragged Robin]

A few pictures from the garden today (still under 10C today, but we can now garden 24 hours in the light.

Stephen, your garden must look amazing with all these flowerings, especially lovely is Mertensia ciliata - would love to see a general shot at some stage if possible.  How does the 24 hours light effect the behavior of insects and animals and birds?

[Mick McLoughlin]

A few flowering this week
Campanula persicfolia
Helichrysum orientale
Nomocharis pardanthina
Physoplexis comosa
Saxifrage cotyledon
Trolliius chinensis first flowers from seed ex
An unknown Iris

[WimB]

- Cypripedium (reginae?): a local gardening centre was selling nameles Cyp's for 8 euro a piece (some of them with more than 6 noses) and this is one of them

Good grief! What an amazing price 

Indeed, thought so too...so I bought a couple of them 

[Giles]

'Ulla Silkens' might be an option, Wim.

[WimB]

'Ulla Silkens' might be an option, Wim.

Thanks Giles, the sign in the gardening centre said it could be hybrids so 'Ulla Silkens' is a possibility.

[johnw]

My neighbor's Wisteria has been pruned as a tree.  Every shoot that emerges is pinched back to 1 set of leaves and now it flowers every year after one very long wait.  Might anyone hazard a guess to the variety?

johnw

[TheOnionMan]

Warm to hot weather just keeps on coming, bringing so much into bloom... a miscellaneous smattering of flowers:

1.   Campanula persicifolia - I like vertical accents in the garden, love this Campanula in blue, lavender and white.
2.   Campanula persicifolia - lavender
3.   Philadelphus lewisii - Wonderful native American species, intense fragrance.  This is a variegated one, but the variegation (tiny yellow flecks) is inconspicuous.
4.   Porteranthus trifoliatus (previously Gillenia trifoliata) - a fabulous northeastern USA native for a long season of bright white butterfly flowers, red stems, and trim dark green foliage.  It is one of those woodland plants that seems to grows 10 times as big and lush under garden conditions.  This photo shows my old plant, maybe 15 years, that grows 4-1/2' tall x 5' wide (135 x 150 cm) smothered with flowers.
5.   Porteranthus trifoliatus - flower closeup
6.   Onosma species - Turkey
7.   Roscoea cautleyoides
8.   Cypripedium reginae
9.   Triteleia hyacinthina - one of the lovely "trits", seeds around modestly.  The foliage in the background is an allium.
10.  Allium geyeri - modest yet pretty heads of link pink urceolate flowers.

[Maggi Young]

No Roscoeas through the ground here yet .....they may appear before July, but perhaps not!
Mick , I ould call your first Campanula C. nitida......McMark shows C. persicifolia... if you save seed from yours then the vast majority of the seedlings will be like McMark's.....only a tiny percentage are the dwarf variety.... 

[fredg]

- Cypripedium (reginae?): a local gardening centre was selling nameless Cyp's for 8 euro a piece (some of them with more than 6 noses) and this is one of them

I'll give you 10 euro, that's 25% profit 

[Lori S.]

Stephen, it seems even your high-latitude area is ahead of us here!
A few in bloom:
1) Patrinia sibirica, now open.  Curious that it is a spring-bloomer, as the other patrinias I've grown are late bloomers.
2) Lesquerella arizonica
3) Alyssum wulfenianum
4) Paeonia tenuifolium, somewhat splayed out by the recent snow.
5, 6) Pulsatilla albana var. lutea... with the skeleton of Vella spinosa behind it, which I've been hoping will resurrect itself... time to give up, I guess!  
7) Lamium orvala
8 ) Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal'
9) Paeonia mlokosewitschii, starting its first bloom.
10) Physaria didymocarpa

[Mick McLoughlin]

Maggi,
Just been out and checked the label(in the rain).
Its labelled as C. persicfolia v.planiflora. Just googled this and it is a synonym with C. nitida
thanks for the tip on seed.
Cheers
Mick

[Onion]

My neighbor's Wisteria has been pruned as a tree.  Every shoot that emerges is pinched back to 1 set of leaves and now it flowers every year after one very long wait.  Might anyone hazard a guess to the variety?

johnw

John,

looks like a Wisteria floribunda.

http://biodiversity.georgetown.edu/images/Wisteria-floribunda-Macrobotrys-030505-5s.jpg

[Stephenb]

Stephen, it seems even your high-latitude area is ahead of us here!

If we are (I was going to say the opposite), you seem to be very rapidly catching up..