April 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Peppa]

Semiaquilegia adoxoides; very small flowers...

[cohan]

This is really sweet, Peppa!

[cohan]

Wonderful plants, YT. The Asarum is stunning and that Anemone is even more stunning....I guess my knowledge of the English vocabulary is not adequate enough to find a superlative for stunning 

I think you mean more stunninger or the most stunningist 

[Paul T]

Peppa,

That is a cutey!!  Tiny little thing, isn't it?

[wolfgang vorig]

Anemonella thalictroides today in flower

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Flowering here over the last few days :


1) Aethionema capitatum
2) Dianthus "Eleonor Parker" hiding it's foliage 
3) a giant Androsace muscoidea - Schacht's Form - survived the winter under a pane of glass !
4-5) Linum flavum compactum - from seed
6) Phlox kelseyi getting started
7) Silene acaulis
8 ) Iris reichenbachii - yellow form
9) many more to follow... 

[Tim Ingram]

Luc - super plants! I am amazed you get such good flowering with Silene acaulis; I very rarely get more than a smattering of flowers, which I thought was fairly general in cultivation, even though it flowers wonderfully in Nature. The dianthus and aethionema are very nice - time to consider some troughs!

[Lori S.]

Wonderful flowers, Luc!  Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Luc - super plants! I am amazed you get such good flowering with Silene acaulis; I very rarely get more than a smattering of flowers, which I thought was fairly general in cultivation, even though it flowers wonderfully in Nature. The dianthus and aethionema are very nice - time to consider some troughs!

Thanks Tim - I must admit it is my first S. acaulis to be such a good flowerer and I have little or no merit as it was recently bought - I had actually given up in trying to grow a well flowering S. acaulis, but when I found this one in a nursery with a lot more buds than it's neighbours, I thought I'd give it another go.  Now wait till next year to find out what happens... 

Wonderful flowers, Luc!  Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?

Glad you like them Lori !  The Linum is from seed from an exchange....  and we all know that naming may be problematic - I looked for it in the AGS Encyclopedia and it looks entirely different from the picture in there...    It's not a bad looking plant though... but I would appreciate it if anyone could confirm or deny its identity.

[WimB]

Some plants flowering here now:

Bellevalia pycnantha
Epimedium epsteinii
Epimedium x sasakii
Epimedium x warleyense 'Orangekönigin'
Viola sororaria 'Blue Diamond'
Viola sororaria 'Freckles'

and some nice leaves:

Epimedium 'Spine Tingler'
Saxifraga cortusifolia 'Cherry Pie'
Some young leaves on Shortia soldanelloides
and Sempervivum 'Mondstein'

[Lori S.]

Wonderful flowers, Luc!  Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?

Glad you like them Lori !  The Linum is from seed from an exchange....  and we all know that naming may be problematic - I looked for it in the AGS Encyclopedia and it looks entirely different from the picture in there...    It's not a bad looking plant though... but I would appreciate it if anyone could confirm or deny its identity.

Well, I think I can confirm that it's not Linum flavum 'Compactum' but I couldn't say with certainty what it is, other than that it appears to be a Brassiceae (and I'd guess erysimum)... a very attractive plant nonetheless. 
Here's Linum flavum 'Compactum':

[wolfgang vorig]

Adonis in flower

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Wonderful flowers, Luc!  Your Linum flavum 'Compactum' looks most odd, though, with 4 petals and bunched flowers... might it be a yellow erysimum instead?

Glad you like them Lori !  The Linum is from seed from an exchange....  and we all know that naming may be problematic - I looked for it in the AGS Encyclopedia and it looks entirely different from the picture in there...    It's not a bad looking plant though... but I would appreciate it if anyone could confirm or deny its identity.

Well, I think I can confirm that it's not Linum flavum 'Compactum' but I couldn't say with certainty what it is, other than that it appears to be a Brassiceae (and I'd guess erysimum)... a very attractive plant nonetheless. 
Here's Linum flavum 'Compactum':
(Attachment Link)

Thanks Lori ! 

[ruweiss]

Flowering now in the open garden and the Alpine House.

[Lesley Cox]

Funny though, in Luc's picture of Linum/Erysimum, the foliage on the flower stems looks very like what a Linum stem would be like as do some of the other leaves, but right at the bottom of the image, there are what definitely seem to be wallflower (Erysimum) rosettes of foliage. Is it slightly possible Luc that there are two seedlings there, one a Linum and one the Erysimum? (although, the Linum leaves seem to be on the Erysimum flower stems. Better forget that suggestion. )