Northern Hemisphere July 2010

[Onion]

And some more:

2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)

Wim,

the Lonicera looks like L. periclymenum. A standard honeysuckle species. Sometimes mislabeled as L. serotina.

[Onion]

Nothing really special flowering here now, but a good colour show (even in the hot and VERY DRY summer we've been having)


Three Clematis (Again, I forgot the cv-name, I'm really bad at remembering the names of shrubs and climbers  )

The first Clematis I think is 'Jackmannii'or 'Etoile de Violette'
The second Clematis is 'Ville de Lyon'.

[WimB]

And some more:

2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)

Wim,

the Lonicera looks like L. periclymenum. A standard honeysuckle species. Sometimes mislabeled as L. serotina.

Thanks Uli,

I think it's from a cutting I took from a plant in the wild. So you're probably right.

[WimB]

Nothing really special flowering here now, but a good colour show (even in the hot and VERY DRY summer we've been having)


Three Clematis (Again, I forgot the cv-name, I'm really bad at remembering the names of shrubs and climbers  )

The first Clematis I think is 'Jackmannii'or 'Etoile de Violette'
The second Clematis is 'Ville de Lyon'.

Ulli,

As soon as you say those names, I remember them, it's 'Jackmanii' and 'Ville de Lyon' indeed. You really know your climbers. Thanks you very much.

[TheOnionMan]

I have seen Saponaria growing near roadsides or along railway tracks here in the Netherlands but never in high numbers, just some small patches. Actually it is quite rare nowadays whereas my mum used to remember using it during the war for what it was: natural soap. Crushing the leaves & stems and using the resulting water to wash themselves. According to my mum (now almost 80) it is much rarer than it used to be, at least in the Amsterdam area where I live.

Maybe most of Saponaria officinalis packed up and moved away to North America ... it showed no particular preference, it is now found as an invasive in all 48 contiguous states and most Canadian provinces.  Just pointing it out, useful to know when any particular plant is considered an invasive that makes it onto most US State lists of invasives.  Pascal, if you mum needs a replenishment of this plant, I have many hundreds upon hundreds that seed into my lawn each year, I can send a bushel or two.

[Gerdk]

And some more:
Echinacea 'Virgin'
Glycirrhiza glabra
Lippia citriodora
2 x Lonicera ... (you see, I'm really bad at remembering their names)
Saponaria officinalis
Viola tricolor

Wim, What a nice pattern on Viola tricolor - is it a cultivar or did it appear spontaneously in your garden?

Gerd

Thanks Gerd,

it's a spontaneous seedling. Do you want some seeds from it?

Wim

Thank you for the reply and for this kind offer. I'll 'pm' you!

Gerd

[JPB]

Centaurium erytraea. This one spontaneously grows on the car drive, from seed washed out from the garden. I had some trouble sowing them, but they pop up on the most unexpected spots
Veronica spicata, a clone collected just near the Dutch border in Germany, where is reaches its most NW distribution.
Teucrium marum ssp. marum. From seed collected in Sardinia, Italy
Sedum cf. ochroleuca, collected from the Olot area, NE Spain. I'm not sure if it really is S. ochroleuca.... Any Sedum specialists around???

[Zdenek]

I beg your pardon as I am late again due the fact that my garden is 50 km far from my flat and computer. I enclose here several pictures from the second half of June:

Campanula dolomitica
Campanula garganica
Erigeron elegantulus
Gentiana newberryi
Salvia caespitosa
Silene elisabethae

[Zdenek]

Another batch of my plants flowering in the late June:

Campanula planiflora (in Czechia we call it C. nitida)
Dianthus oschtenicus
Dianthus repens
Felicia uliginosa
Gentiana boissieri

[Zdenek]

Finally two small curiosities:

On the first picture there is the commonly known Campanula 'Joe Elliott'. I collected some seed from it three years ago and sowed it. I maybe expected something between C. morettiana and C. raineri. I was immensely surprised however when the resulting seedling flowered. It is on the second picture.
On the third picture is Campanula cenisia flowering in my trough on 25th June. On the fourth picture there is the same plant flowering almost a month later, on 21st July. It is already out of its compact character but it still flowers and flowers.

[TheOnionMan]

Hans, I really like the Centaurium erytraea growing in your car drive ("driveway" to us in the USA).

Zdenek, beautiful photographs and plants, all of them.  I'm always delighted to see American native plants so far from their home and grown so well, Erigeron elegantulus and Gentiana newberryi are two beauties that would be hard to find even in American gardens.  Best of all though, love the photo of Silene elisabethae, yet another of those plants hopelessly confused in the seed exchanges, yet when seen in a portrait such as yours, is such a distinct species and easily distinguishable.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Very nice Zdenek .June brings you still a lot of colour !
Here today in flower : Teucrium aroanium from Greece.This one is adapted to the dry and hot conditions of july .

[Maggi Young]

Nice photo of those well marked flowers and grey leaves, Kris.... makes me feel guilty that I tend not to grow Lamiaceae

[krisderaeymaeker]

Nice photo of those well marked flowers and grey leaves, Kris.... makes me feel guilty that I tend not to grow Lamiaceae

Maybe you change your mind Maggi ? This is the habitat of this fine plant on Mount Chelmos  .

[Maggi Young]

Maybe you change your mind Maggi ? This is the habitat of this fine plant on Mount Chelmos  .

Maybe I would change my mind, Kris..... if you had a little seed, maybe?!!