Flowering now September 2007

[Anthony Darby]

Mark, that pic of "replete" is actually better (to my mind) that the doctored version in my scanned ad. I do actually have a pot full, but they didnae flower last year .

[Gerdk]

1. Here is  the first of my autumn-flowering snowdrops
    Galanthus (nivalis) reginae-olgae
2. Narcissus cavanillesia (humilis) - very small and more interesting than
    beautiful
3. Cotula turbinata from the Table Mountain, South Africa (not hardy
    here)
4. Viola anagae from Tenerife, Canary Islands (flowering in spring
    normally)
5. Cardiandra formosana (Hydrangeacea) - acquired yesterday

Gerd
   

[Anthony Darby]

Ah, Gerd has restored the sanity (maybe, like Groucho. we should have a sanity clause. Naaa.)


I've done a bit of editing, to restore a little more sanity! Maggi

[derekb]

Has anyone grown Dicentra macrocapnos this was from seed sown in May it has grown so quick and come into flower that I am worried it will be a pest.
 Derek.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Looks like a very attractive pest Derek - don't know it's behaviour though 

[Martin Baxendale]

Derek, I grew Dicentra macrocapnos for a few years and it was never a pest, never grew too big or got out of hand. It dies down in winter, and each year makes a few long thin clambering shoots up into nearby shrubs, The shoots are brittle and easy to pull out at the end of the year, only held by brittle twining tendrils, not a thug at all for me. And lovely flowers.

[Maggi Young]

We used to grow a climbing Dicentra, which may have been  D. macrocapnos ( not sure, Ian thought "macrantha") .....it had red tips to the flowers. Very pretty but it grew like a vine all over rhodos and was doing a grand job of strangling them. We pulled it out after a few years, and that wasn't an easy task.  So, more research needed, I think, Derek, before you know how yours is likely to turn out.

Ian thinks it certainly was macrocpanos but I have a sneaking suspicion about Dicentra scandens forma thalictrifolia ... because the foliage was very feathery.... but when I look up that plant is seems to suggest an altogether smaller growth habit... ours was rampant! So. I'm no further forward! Sorry.

[Lesley Cox]

Dicentra scandens is another climer. I've found they're there for a few years then are gone unless one grows on the seed.

Gerd, I think your little narcissus is a delight. The original split cup perhaps?

[ChrisB]

I've got this dicentra too.  Doesn't seem to be too pesky on the whole and its flowers are a delight.  But we went to Branklyn earlier this year on Sue's bus trip and saw this one.  No idea what it is but its flowers were huge, probably an inch and a half long.  Any ideas what it might have been.  It was certainly a climber/scrambler.

[Paul T]

Gerd,

Is that really a Narcisssus?  It seems so unusual in form for a Narc.  Rather nice though (I love the smaller species).  Obviously enough I've never come across it before.

The climbing Dicentra I have here I got as Dicentra macrocarpa, with the pendulous yellow flowers to it.  Fantiastic flowerer for months on end, and for me has grown really well.  Grows from cuttings easily, and for me at least has never set a seed.  I would hazard if given good enough conditions it could get rather large!!  I do like that creamy white one that was posted by Chris.  Other than D. scandens I didn't know that there WERE other climbing dicentras.  I must look out for them as I would love to grow other species in different colours.  Now if we could get a nice deep blue climber, THAT would be a corker!!

[Lesley Cox]

Paul, the only climbing Dicentras I've heard of are all yellow or creamy coloured. No other colours so far as I know.

[Brian Ellis]

Paul Crug Farm Plants

http://www.crug-farm.co.uk/plantlist.asp?code=Dicentra

list
Dicentra   lichiangensis
Dicentra   macrantha
Dicentra   macrocapnos
Dicentra   scandens
Dicentra   scandens f. thalictrifolia
and the one I grew
Dicentra   torulosa

so there must be more!

[Brian Ellis]

Having racked what remains of my braincells Chris I think you may have Adlumia fungosa (Google it for pictures), a climber often called the climbing bleeding heart.  It seems to come in white as well as the form I used to grow which was a lovely raspberry milkshake pink.  I shall have to try to source some seed again.

[Thomas Huber]

A lonely late Lewisia in my garden:

[mark smyth]

I have Lewisia flowering also