Northern hemisphere June 2010

[TheOnionMan]

Beautiful, I wonder what's not to like about the color?

[cohan]

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 when it does, it really is an unusual shade of pink, is there a tad of orange in that colour?



johnw

really stunning! hard to see what's wrong with it, but our dislikes are crucial for shaping the distinctiveness of our gardens

[johnw]

Beautiful, I wonder what's not to like about the color?

Not a thing Mark. But I would be hard-pressed to come up with an under-planting other than white or a very soft blue. Can you imagine a nice bed of orange oriental poppies beneath?

johnw

[cohan]

Can you imagine a nice bed of orange oriental poppies beneath?

johnw

absolutely! and beside should be  a strong blue! lets hear it for tropical colour theme gardens on the east coast

[TheOnionMan]

Beautiful, I wonder what's not to like about the color?

Not a thing Mark. But I would be hard-pressed to come up with an under-planting other than white or a very soft blue. Can you imagine a nice bed of orange oriental poppies beneath?

johnw

Well, I have this pink-flowered Kousa dogwood, still in a pot, overdue for planting out.  Elsewhere in the garden, I have C. kousa 'Milky Way' (nice, easy-to-work-with-colorwise white flowers), which I underplant with hybrid Epimedium seedlings, which I imagine would look great if grown under a bold pink cultivar of C. kousa.  I think the generally soft tones of Epimedium flowers in white, rose, and even a few yellows, would look nice under the dogwood.  Also, since the Cornus flowers well after the Epimedium plants are in flower, the underplanting would just be harmonious epimedium foliage.  Besides, I don't think that sun-loving oriental poppies would last long under the dense shade of C. kousa

[Lesley Cox]

One of my most successful colour combos was Clematis x Venosa 'Violacea' draped across a brilliant scarlet to crimson rhododendron. Pure drama. I can't remember the rhoso's name now. Grace Someone.

[Stephenb]

Well, I have this pink-flowered Kousa dogwood, still in a pot, overdue for planting out.  Elsewhere in the garden, I have C. kousa 'Milky Way' (nice, easy-to-work-with-colorwise white flowers), which I underplant with hybrid Epimedium seedlings, which I imagine would look great if grown under a bold pink cultivar of C. kousa. 

I also have Milky Way, "underplanted" with Ground Elder (Aegopodium) and that works too 

[Maggi Young]

One of my most successful colour combos was Clematis x Venosa 'Violacea' draped across a brilliant scarlet to crimson rhododendron. Pure drama. I can't remember the rhoso's name now. Grace Someone.

 R. 'Grace Seabrook' 
one quarter griffithianum, one quarter unknown,one half striggillosum.... flowers "currant red at margins, shading at centre to blood red, funnel-shaped (3inches) 7.6cms across, in tight trusses".....

[PaulM]

I'm very happy to have overwintered my collection of Campanula argaea ( ? ) from Turkey in 2004. It was started from seed in 2008, and at the end of May this year it looked like this:




I have two plants and the unharmed one is about 40cm tall. The other plant has several shorter stems. I think its crown was damaged during the winter. It is now flowering and I am pretty sure it is C. argaea. What do you think ?

[PaulM]

Some other stuff flowering at the moment

[ArnoldT]

Lace Cap Hydrangea

[fleurbleue]

Happy to look at your pics again PaulM 

[Zdenek]

Several pictures of my plants flowering in this June:

Asperula sintenisii (we called it A. gussonii before)
Dianthus brevicaulis
Globularia incanescens
Linum uninerve
Mertensia primuloides
Scutellaria alpina
Silene petersonii
Silene pygmaea
Townsendia incana

[Onion]

Zdenek,

every time a inspiration to see this excellent plants you show. Asperula sintenisii is superb. And a Globularia a genus I like very much.

[johnw]

A few things are starting a good 3 weeks ahead this year, lovely blue ovaries. First flowering of a seed grown Scilla peruviana.  Already three flowering stems on Beschorneria sp. unknown from high altitude Mexico.  Apparently a piece of this species has survived and is about to flower after the bad winter in Dublin.

johnw