May 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[alpinelover]

Some shoots of flowering now.

My selection of Epimedium colchicum 'Toplenoe moloko' (Baked Milk)

Phlox kelseyi with unknown phlox
Townsendia leptotes
Pulsatilla vulgaris Perlen Glocke
Spring flowering beds

Very nice garden, Olga.
Some plants in flower this week in the garden.

Corydalis 'Kingfischer'. (photo 1)
Phyteuma hemisphaericum (photo 2 and 3)
Aquilegia pyrenaica (photo 4 and 5)
Campanula nitida (photo 6)
Penstemon hirsutus pygmaeus (photo 7)
Gypsophylla tenuifolia (photo
Scutellaria scordifolia (photo 9)

[Lesley Cox]

Patience my dear Lesley, patience!!!  So worth the wait!   

That's easy for you to say.

[Lesley Cox]

A vendor at my market had some medlar fruit for sale a while back. She's finished selling for the winter now. I wish I had bought a few, as there was probably seed in them and I'd really like a medlar tree, but I've been given 3 fruit of Chaenomeles cathayensis, the Chinese quince and will sow some of their seeds. Paddy, you won't need to remember later, after all. Many thanks though.

[Roma]

A lost label Phlox flowering at the beginning of May
Azaleas last week

[Roma]

More pics from last week
Aquilegia flabellata nana alba
Geranium cinereum 'Lawrence Flatman' or a seedling
Aquilegias and Alliums
I would like some more variety in my garden but it is difficult to establish new plants among the prolific self seeders

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful display everybody !!  

I also have some flowers left..  

1) Aquilegia bertolonii
2 - 3) Campanula barbata
4) Campanula nitida (don't the flowers look as if they were made of wax ??  )
5) Campanula portenschlagiana does need some space...  
6) Dianthus alpinus "Joan's Blood"
7) Edraianthus pumilio seeding about.
8 ) Edraianthus serbicus in a tufa hole
9) Penstemon pinifolius "Wisley Flame"
10) Silene hookeri ssp bolanderi - flowering for the first time  

[ChrisB]

Love your phlox Roma....

And your sweet little silene Luc

[ian mcenery]

Fantastic plants everyone. This one building up slowly

Stellera chamaejasme

[cohan]

A wet walk in the woods today..
one of our least common wildflowers.. Calypso bulbosa



A much more common, but favourite one.. Viola renifolia a plant of moist places, flowering this year throughout the woods, due to our late and heavy snow...

 

[Olga Bondareva]

Calypso bulbosa

It's impossible for me to grow it at the garden. It is very attractive to slugs.  I wonder how them survive in nature. 

[Olga Bondareva]

Yesterdays sunset at the end of my garden

[cohan]

Calypso bulbosa

It's impossible for me to grow it at the garden. It is very attractive to slugs.  I wonder how them survive in nature. 

I could be wrong, but I don't think we have slugs in the wild here, as far as I know they are garden animals.. and even in my garden, although I know there are some, they are not really bothering any plants (so far..knock on wood!).. I assume we have enough predators ( a lot of Robins and other birds, maybe rodents?) so the slugs aren't doing much damage...

[cohan]

Yesterdays sunset at the end of my garden

Lovely atmospheric shot What is the little yellow flower?

[Olga Bondareva]

I could be wrong, but I don't think we have slugs in the wild here, as far as I know they are garden animals..

Pur slugs are wild.  They are small but very hungry.

Lovely atmospheric shot What is the little yellow flower?

Thank you! Its Trollius europaeus naturalized at the mowing off meadow.

[cohan]

I could be wrong, but I don't think we have slugs in the wild here, as far as I know they are garden animals..

Pur slugs are wild.  They are small but very hungry.

Lovely atmospheric shot What is the little yellow flower?

Thank you! Its Trollius europaeus naturalized at the mowing off meadow.

Its possible I am wrong and there are slugs in the wild here, but I do not remember ever seeing any--they could be hiding in the day, but when I am photographing I am often close to the ground in damp places...lol..in any case, I don't see much damage--of course many wild plants are eaten-esp deer, moose, rabbits and many insects..
The Calypso is in a wooded area that sometimes has cattle grazing, too.. it was growing beside a small fallen log when I found it several years ago-- I added another log on the other side to protect it from animals stepping on it..

Ah, Trollius, so it is not so small then