Northern Hemisphere July 2010

[krisderaeymaeker]

Silene elisabethae is still in flower here .In tufa rocks the flowering stems remain much lower then the plants that planted out in a usual crevice !

[Michael J Campbell]

My Campanula zoysii,the slugs have not got to it yet.

[krisderaeymaeker]

My Campanula zoysii,the slugs have not got to it yet.

Great result Michael .Where did you hide it ?

[Maggi Young]

My Campanula zoysii,the slugs have not got to it yet.

Well that's a bit of luck because that is a five course slug dinner if ever I saw one.

[Michael J Campbell]

It is outside on a bench 120cm high and quite difficult for the slugs to negotiate, and with the usual supply of slug pellets.

[krisderaeymaeker]

It is outside on a bench 120cm high and quite difficult for the slugs to negotiate, and with the usual supply of slug pellets.

Maggi ,Michael ,they have acrophobia ? Mine are 100cm abouve ground level...,so....

[Maggi Young]

My slugs and snails are too hungry to fear anything
Also, I think they can fly........

[Roma]

Tw campanulas grown from AGS seed sown in December 2008.
Campanula thessala is a biennial and was wild collected seed.  It has been flowering for about six weeks now, starting on long trailing, rather brittle branches and now on side branches nearer the centre of the plant.  My plants are not so compact as the one pictured at a recent AGS show.  The secret according to Graham Nichols book is to pinch back the early shoots, but there are no summer shows here and I wanted to see the flowers.
I managed to rear three Campanula troegerae.  One has not flowered this year and one has flowers that I think are not flat enough. A hybrid?

[Roma]

Nearly forgot this one.  Still looking good
Scutellaria laeteviolacea

[krisderaeymaeker]

I managed to rear three Campanula troegerae.  One has not flowered this year and one has flowers that I think are not flat enough. A hybrid?

Hello Roma,
We have been in the Coruh-region this year .We have seen hundreds of Campanula of the troegerae/betulifolia/coruhensis -group. Now after visiting this area I am more confused then ever because I think they often hybridise in nature.In this region it was very difficult to say wich one we have seen.
So much diversity and forms that looks like each other...
But anyway you show us some fine plants.

[PaulM]

I love your photos of Silene elisabethae Kris. I have a rosette which is one years old, and three more going which I started from seed this year. I hope the one year rosette will produce some flowers next year. I have them in a limestone crack though, no tufa here.
The Campanulas were very nice too. I have Campanula versicolor flowering now, which I like very much:

Also two pictures of Ptilostemon afer, which I got thru a Swedish seed exchange as Notobasis syriaca, which I don't think it is. Which is the correct name for Ptilstemon afer nowadays as it is sometimes referred to as Cirsium diacanthus ( diacanthum ) as well. Anybody knows ?

[TheOnionMan]

Nearly forgot this one.  Still looking good
Scutellaria laeteviolacea

Roma, refreshing to see a plant *after* flowering, as in the case of Scuellaria laeteviolacea, those little pillbox seed heads are neat, colorful and pretty in their own right.  What's also interesting, is that different species have similarly interesting seed pods displays after flowering, here is the American Scutellaria incana seed pods on October 2008 & 2009.

[olegKon]

Thanks, Maggi and Aaron. There is a challenge now to find real Z. nuttallii.

[ArnoldT]

Chaenomeles-- Japanese quince

[ArnoldT]

Chinese quince  Fruit grows to10 to 12 inches long.

Pseudocydonia sinensis