Northern hemisphere June 2010

[Lesley Cox]

gote and karel--love the gesneriads..will have to test a few here..

Haberlea and Ramonda are very cold hardy in my place never protected never damaged.
Göte

I find Haberleas super-easy, Ramondas easy and Jankaeas..... (The tears are mine.)

[Lvandelft]

Some yellows in the garden this week. 
The first one is wandering by seed through the garden.
But never a nuisance.

Hieracium villosum 1                                         
Hieracium villosum 2
Chrysogonum virginianum 
Catananche caespitosa 1                                 
Catananche caespitosa 2 

[Lvandelft]

and some more good doing plants         
                                 
Stachys lavandulaefolia                             
Amsonia tabernaemontana                                   
Salvia officinalis Grete Stolze                             
Helianthemum                                     
and we let every year some of these poppies seed around for its color in unexpected spots 
Poppy               

[Lvandelft]

Some more:

Dianthus plum. Pink Jewel                               
Still one of my favorite Geranium, have it already since the early sixties in culture:

Geranium cinereum Splendens                               

and a very strong, good flowering hybrid between the one shown first
and G. Ballerina

Geranium hybr.         

[Lvandelft]

Some plant combinations:

Aethionema - Helianthemum (self seeded)
Saxifraga canaliculata - Geranium sang                       
Sedum Weihenst. Gold - Geranium Phil. Vapelle 
Phlox Bill Baker - Salvia   

[Lvandelft]

Some plants in the shade:

Stylophorum diphyllum                                       
Impatiens omeiana                                             
Astilboides tabularis                                         
Cypripedium reginae                                   

[Lvandelft]

And one which I keep in a pot

Hermannia stricta

[cohan]

gote and karel--love the gesneriads..will have to test a few here..

Haberlea and Ramonda are very cold hardy in my place never protected never damaged.
Göte

i forget your exact winter lows, but i suspect we'd consider your winter very mild
worthy of a try anyway--i don't remember if lori is growing any--she's my only 'near' (2.5hrs driving and a somewhat different climate!) example to compare to....lol

[David Nicholson]

Lots of good planting ideas there Luit, thank you.

[gote]

gote and karel--love the gesneriads..will have to test a few here..

Haberlea and Ramonda are very cold hardy in my place never protected never damaged.
Göte

i forget your exact winter lows, but i suspect we'd consider your winter very mild
worthy of a try anyway--i don't remember if lori is growing any--she's my only 'near' (2.5hrs driving and a somewhat different climate!) example to compare to....lol

This winter i had -24°C. I think both survived close to -30° many years ago.
Göte

[Ragged Robin]

Luit, it's really wonderful to see so many interesting plants and your 'old friends' in your garden.  I love the swathes of Helianthemum and the views to the countryside beyond.  The combinations of plantings are interesting too and what a feeling of relaxed timelessness there is in the Saxifraga canaliculata - Geranium sang spilling out on the earth from the container. Great scenes and ideas, thank you    

[Zdenek]

I love the exotic dandelions too!

Wonderful and interesting plants, Zdenek.
Is your Dianthus myrtinervius really the caespitosus form?  It doesn't resemble much the one in the photo below, below, with the very distinctive stacked leaves.  (The photo is mine from last year; it suffered a bit through this last winter.)

Lori, I am sorry I received it as caespitosus. I have no other idea.

[arisaema]

Hermannia stricta

Fantastic plant!

[Lori S.]

i forget your exact winter lows, but i suspect we'd consider your winter very mild
worthy of a try anyway--i don't remember if lori is growing any--she's my only 'near' (2.5hrs driving and a somewhat different climate!) example to compare to....lol

Yes, Haberlea and Ramonda both survive here and do well if sited properly (which mine have not been, and hence, tend to burn badly).  I also know of a local alpine expert who is growing Jankaea successfully.

[Lori S.]

Is your Dianthus myrtinervius really the caespitosus form?  

Lori, I am sorry I received it as caespitosus. I have no other idea.
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Never mind, sorry, my mistake... it's been ruled to be "a rather fine and venerable plant of that type grown woody with age".