March 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Today in the garden :

1) Jeffersonia dubia looking quite promising !
2) Pulsatilla vernalis producing it's first flower
3) Saxifraga juniperifolia and Sax. "Gelber Findling"

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Luc, the Sax looks very happy.

[johnw]

Things are progressing quickly here but thankfully not everything as cold is on its way.  29c here today and last night slept with windows wide open, one sheet.  A new record set for the day, the previous record was in 1946 at 12.2c!  A thunder storm tonight and a low of 7.

Podophyllums are booming along in pots.  They will all have to be moved in by tomorrow night.

  Podophyllum delavayi x versipelle h.p.
  Podophyllum delavayi best x delavayi 2nd best h.p.
  Podophyllun delavayi 2nd best x delavayi best h.p.
  Podophyllum delavayi best x delavayi 2nd best h.p. (by far the darkest one to date)
  Crocus Cream Beauty
  Leucojum vernum v. carpaticum
  Puschkinia scilloides
  Aquilegia clematiflora ex Karmic
  

johnw    -  +27c at 19:06

[johnw]

And lastly:

  Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea' cw Romania ex Vera Peck
  Hepatica nobilis 'Alba' ex Vera Peck

johnw    -  +27c at 19:06

[johnw]

Very nice Luc, the Sax looks very happy.

Or in a state of ectasy.

johnw

[Tim Ingram]

Luc - I wish my Jeffersonia looked as good as that! I am beginning to learn how to grow more choice saxifrages rather better, but this S. apiculata 'Alba' has been long lived and reliable even in our dry garden. It is growing on a raised bed which has seen a number of replantings since originally made over 12 years ago, and this is the latest with a lot of new plants from the Harlow and Kent Shows. Two forms of Anemone coronaria (the second is an astonishing colour - I hope it will come true from seed) and a very choice borage Alkanna aucheriana, which would be very exciting to establish but is likely to prove difficult!

[Maggi Young]

Tim, you make me feel guilty that I pay so little heed to Boraginaceae 

[arisaema]

The Baoxing Corydalis is starting to look quite distinctive, which I guess makes my total number of new species discovered 2, at least until Aaron gets around to doing some molecular work on the Fuscum group... 

Also below a nice species of Dichocarpum from Qingcheng Houshan that's been in full flower since January, it should be fully hardy in the UK, although I've kept it frost free here.

Lastly, this rhizomatous Meconopsis x cookei is looking quite promising, fingers crossed it'll have a good colour!

[Tim Ingram]

Maggi - I've always liked borages and many of them suit our dry garden well. Next to umbellifers they are a group I would like to write about but I've been beaten to it by Masha Bennett (Pulmonarias and the Borage Family). There are all sorts of weird and wonderful species to keep gardeners busy.

[Maggi Young]

Maggi - I've always liked borages and many of them suit our dry garden well. Next to umbellifers they are a group I would like to write about but I've been beaten to it by Masha Bennett (Pulmonarias and the Borage Family). There are all sorts of weird and wonderful species to keep gardeners busy.

 Small world, of course.... Masha Bennett used to live in Aberdeen. The SRGC gave her some grant aid when she was researching .... heck, I've forgotten....wait, I've got it... Mertensias!

[jomowi]

 Small world, of course.... Masha Bennett used to live in Aberdeen. The SRGC gave her some grant aid when she was researching .... heck, I've forgotten....wait, I've got it... Mertensias!
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Masha worked at Ben Reid's with me for a time before she went on to greater things.

[johnw]

Dichocarpum nipponicum today.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

Dichocarpum nipponicum today.

johnw

Nice plant... another of those with more than one name.

 For example....Isopyrum nipponicum    http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2766195

[razvan chisu]

Went botanising today and found some nice plants among which diferent colour variants of Scilla bifolia

[Hoy]

Dichocarpum nipponicum today.

johnw

Nice plant! John, do you grow it in the garden?