Northern hemisphere June 2010

[angie]

Some lovely plants there that I wouldn't mind having in my garden, really liked Aster farreri Berggarten

Angie

[Ragged Robin]

Is that Rodgersia Die Stolze flowering Luit or something growing through it?  I love the dramatic leaf and the change of colour through emergence through the seasons but I have never seen it flowering - yours is a lovely patch - the Veronica too and so many others carpeting your garden                      

[Regelian]

Robin,

I can answer for Luit, as i grow the plant, as well.  Those are the flowers!  I have one near the pond, where it has gotten a bit out of hand, as they are rampant growers once established.  The flower heads are good for dried arrangements, too.

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks for your help Jamie, I do love the leaves but have a different form - the flowers on Luit's one look great for arrangements 

[Regelian]

OK, this is not exactly flowers or foliage, rather plumage and pomp, but somehow seems to works its magic on us all.  Yesterday in the Forst Botanishen Garten, Köln-Rodenkirchen.  If you do not know this bird...I really can't help you!

[fredg]

Do they taste like chicken?

I can see no other use for them

[Lesley Cox]

You don't like to be tickled Fred?

[Giles]

Here: Lilium parryi

[christian pfalz]

hi, some pics of an limestone dry area, with orchids, here in southwestern germany, rheinland pfalz...












cheers
chris

[Giles]

Lilium lijiangense
Magnolia x foggii 'Jack Fogg'

[Lesley Cox]

It would be Magnolia frostii 'Jack Frost' here, this morning.

[cohan]

hi, some pics of an limestone dry area, with orchids, here in southwestern germany, rheinland pfalz...

cheers
chris

nice range of flowers there!

[christian pfalz]

cohan, nice area here, but for orchids two weeks too late...next year more...at july and august, a lot of wildflowers too, centaurea, knautia, genista, rosa and many campanulas...an eldorado for butterflys and lizzards....in march many pulsatilla vulgaris...and, and, and...
cheers
chris

[cohan]

cohan, nice area here, but for orchids two weeks too late...next year more...at july and august, a lot of wildflowers too, centaurea, knautia, genista, rosa and many campanulas...an eldorado for butterflys and lizzards....in march many pulsatilla vulgaris...and, and, and...
cheers
chris

its hard to be in the right place at the right time for all the flowers!  i am getting out as often as i can now--i managed to find dodecatheon this year-a whole field even! and today just one menyanthes.....

[johnw]

Cornus kousa Satomi is in flower a good 2-3 weeks earlier than normal.  A beautiful thing it is but a friend astounded me today by saying he would never plant one - a problem with the colour.  I suppose he's quite correct, mercifully it does not flower when the orange azaleas are out.  I count us lucky in that it flowers now, it really is an unusual shade of pink, is there a tad of orange in that colour?



johnw