Northern Hemisphere July 2010

[Maggi Young]

1.Not at all an alpine - Oenothera glazioviana
2.Zigadenus elegans (to the right) with Zigadenus nuttalii (to the left). Have measured it for Maggi this year - 105 cm (Z.elegans)

1) lovely phot
2) OOH! Big plant looking VERY nice, Oleg!

[angie]

Hans

I think most of us on this forum must be a LITTLE crazy  , I bet most of us don't have the room for anymore plants but if like me its hard to leave a plant behind, they seem to look at you and say please, please don't leave me here, I need a new home and as I am a bit of a softy ,Well you can guess the rest 
Thanks for the kind offer of the seeds of Littonia.

Angie 

[zephirine]

I feel exactly the same, Angie!
A few flowers blooming these days...

[cohan]

1.Not at all an alpine - Oenothera glazioviana
2.Zigadenus elegans (to the right) with Zigadenus nuttalii (to the left). Have measured it for Maggi this year - 105 cm (Z.elegans)

very nice zigadenus, oleg! i have a nice old plant, but i'm sure yours has me beat, i don't think it gets as tall here, either, but i should measure when its in full bloom--just starting..the wild ones in the roadsides are not blooming yet, but i did see a couple of small ones in the mountains last week..
nutallii looks nice--smaller with bigger greener flowers?

[Mark Griffiths]

Trachelium asperuloides (even better when it was Diosphaera!), one of my favourite alpines and one of the first proper ones I bought. Roy Elliott thought it was a great plant. I lost my plants from the 70s so these are divisions and props from my plant bought in 1990 (it had an ant's nest in the pan forcing a major divsion exercise).

[David Nicholson]

That's a cracker.

[Graham Catlow]

Mark,
They are really impressive. WOW 

Graham

[ruweiss]

Some flowers from the last days:
The Saussurea is from V.Holubec's seeds, collected in China. The label has gone lost, maybe a forumist
knows the exact name.
The Alliums are also from seed from the same source.
Campanula seraglio is a seedling from seed which was collected by J.Jurasek on Mt. Sarigol in Turkey.
It is related with C. troegerae, C.choruhensis and C.betulifolia.
Convolvulus holosericeus flowered for the first time with me, it seems to enjoy more cooler conditions
than its cousins from the dry steppe regions.

[TheOnionMan]

Rudi, regarding the beautiful blue Allium, there is no Allium farreri, although there is the combination Allium cyathophorum var. farreri.  That species has pointed purple flowers, it can be seen here in the Allium 2010 thread:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4757.msg156836#msg156836

You photo looks like Allium sikkimense, which is an excellent species.  It is close to Allium beesianum, most easily separated by the larger flowers (petals 6-10 mm long in sikkimense, 11-14(17) mm in beesianum).  I believe your plant is A. sikkimense.

[johnw]

Rudi,
You photo looks like Allium sikkimense, which is an excellent species.  It is close to Allium beesianum, most easily separated by the larger flowers (petals 6-10 mm long in sikkimense, 11-14(17) mm in beesianum).  I believe your plant is A. sikkimense.

Boy it's a good one!  I must post a shot of ours when it flowers, I can tell you it's not nearly as good as Rudi's if the one here is indeed sikkimense.

johnw

[Afloden]

Oleg,

 Your Z. nuttallii is not that species -- Z. nuttallii should have a dense inflorescence of nearly pure white flowers with a hint of butter-yellow near the nectaries. I should have seed of this next spring. I have two collections growing.

 
Zepherine,

 Your Phlox amplifolia is not that species. Phlox amplifolia has very broad leaves with strong venation and usually pale lavender flowers. The leaves also narrow quickly near the base. It also blooms before P. paniculata which is what your species looks like. I see both frequently in the field and can collect seed of the true amplifolia. One has glandular hairs in the inflorescence (P. ampl. I think), but the selected forms of  P. paniculata in cultivation may have P. amplifolia in its genetics.

 Aaron

[zephirine]

Thank you for your comment, Afloden! It was sold to me as P. amplifolia. The nursery had a whole bench of them, with various colours, since they were grown from seed, from what I remember. They would probably have been open-pollinated by P. paniculata, from what I understand...
These plants, whatever they are, are doing very well here. They bloom way in advance of other paniculata (not a bloom in sight on them at the moment), and I never saw any oïdium on them (which is alas not so rare for paniculatas, in my garden).
That makes it an interesting cross, as far as I'm concerned! Lol

[Stephenb]

Boy it's a good one!  I must post a shot of ours when it flowers, I can tell you it's not nearly as good as Rudi's if the one here is indeed sikkimense.

johnw

Yes, it looks much more vigorous than the A. sikkimense I have! How tall is it, Rudi?

[Rogan]

I love your Campanula seraglio Rudi, never seen the likes of it before!

[Gunilla]

Very hot and dry here now and my Salvias and Geraniums like it more than I do.

Salvia jurisicii - with its funny hairy upside down flowers
Geranium 'Johnson's Blue'
Epipactis
Arisaema triphyllum