March 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Lina Hesseling]

Thank you Cliff.
Is this hardy in my garden? I have to find this then. I love it.

Lina.

[angie]

Cliff thats brillant. I am lucky if I get one flower. They mind me on little petticoats 

Angie 

[YT]

Her is another picture of the Eranthis sibirica "Pink Form" taken in the garden to day. The colour in this picture is more correct (the previous picture was taken i full sun   )

Geir

 

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Syneilesis palmata are emerging their leaves just now. Its standard Japanese name is 'Yabure-gasa', means 'broken umbrellas'

[WimB]

Syneilesis palmata are emerging their leaves just now. Its standard Japanese name is 'Yabure-gasa', means 'broken umbrellas'

Always very nice, Tatsuo! Not showing here yet!

Some flowers which were flowering here today:

Corydalis malkensis
Corydalis solida 'Elrond'
Crocus chrysanthus 'Milea'
Draba polytricha
Pulsatilla vulgaris subsp. grandis
Ranunculus kochii
Saxifraga oppositifolia subsp. oppositifolia var. latina
Scilla armena
and Soldanella 'Spring Symphony'

[ranunculus]

Lovely selection, Wim.

[LucS]

An emerging Pulsatilla slavica and Hacquetia epipactis in the cold this morning

[Lina Hesseling]

Wim, another lovely Soldanella. When I told my friend about the two Soldanella in this topic, she gave me a Soldanella from her garden. I am very happy with it. She was not sure wether it is montana or villosa. I'll see. No flowers yet.

Lina.

[EmmaCampanula]

Thank you for your friendly comments and thank you Cliff for showing the pic of Soldanella minima in nature!

@Lina
Yes, this Soldanella ist hardy.  

@Wim
As expected, I love the Soldanella 'Spring Symphony' most.  

[WimB]

Thanks folks, I love Soldanella's too! My favorite is still Soldanella montana, which has to start flowering yet this year but here below some pictures of my plant flowering in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

[Hoy]

Syneilesis palmata are emerging their leaves just now. Its standard Japanese name is 'Yabure-gasa', means 'broken umbrellas'

Always very nice, Tatsuo! Not showing here yet!

They're never showing here anymore I had several large plants last spring - grown in pots to get a quick start - but when I planted them out the slugs devoured them in no time! One day they were there- the next all gone

Think I will try Coptis and Soldanella in stead!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

1 and 2) Daphne jezoensis in flower at the moment !

3) Draba sphaeroïdes seeded itself into a little colony.

4) Jeffersonia dubia - pushing !

5) Ranunculus calandrioïdes still going strong despite slug (?) damage...  

6) Saxifraga burseriana major and Sax. x boydilacina "Penelope" , friendly neighbours...  

[WimB]

Syneilesis palmata are emerging their leaves just now. Its standard Japanese name is 'Yabure-gasa', means 'broken umbrellas'

Always very nice, Tatsuo! Not showing here yet!

They're never showing here anymore I had several large plants last spring - grown in pots to get a quick start - but when I planted them out the slugs devoured them in no time! One day they were there- the next all gone

Think I will try Coptis and Soldanella in stead!

So sorry to hear that, Trond!

But slugs love Coptis too, picture taken today...all the flowers devoured by slugs  

[gmoen]

So finally before closing down my Eranthis report for this year, here is a close up for the ones that wanted some more pics of the Eranthis sibirica 'Pink Form' - by the way, would it be more correct to name it; "a pink form of Eranthis sibirica"? I think the name I use just appeared in my head as a proper name.....shame on me    

Any suggestions?

[arisaema]

I really like that pink Eranthis!

Wim; are you sure that's a Coptis and not an Asteropyrum?

[WimB]

I really like that pink Eranthis!

So do I!!

Wim; are you sure that's a Coptis and not an Asteropyrum?

Bjørnar, you're probably right, I photographed this plant in the garden of a friend and she had it under the name of Coptis quinquefolia (which it most certainly is not now I look at the leaves). So A. cavaleriei or A. peltatum?