April 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Lesley Cox]

John has sent an email and included the pictures, one of the beautiful Kai, a lovely dog. Our Cain, the same breed is very old now and spends most of his time asleep, but he's also rather a tatty dog in comparison, not well trimmed. Brushing yes, but the more he is brushed the more he seems to shed.

As for Marley, I have a small medical problem at present and this morning after breakfast lay on my bed for half an hour. Marley being of a cuddly nature lay with me, his head on my chest but the black jersey I was wearing now has a pelt of little tan hairs which need careful hand plucking. A few days ago I had an appointment with a surgeon at the hospital and he was wearing a beautiful black suit and looked as if he's stepped out of a fashion magazine. I did try to listen carefully to what he was saying to me but all I could really think was "This man doesn't own a hairy dog." He saw me looking at his suit and laughed when I had to tell him what I'd been thinking and agreed that no, he didn't.

John, in the seed lists last year I ordered Anthyllis montana 'Rubra' from one and A. m. 'Carminea' from the other in hope of getting your beautiful plant. The SRGC plants (7) were all Anthyllis vulneraria but the AGS (1) is, I think, true. It has been doing nicely for about a year but hasn't flowered yet. I'll take a picture and post it when we can do that again. It is going into winter mode now and compacting its stems a bit but still looks true. So thank you so much for your offer in the email, but no thanks, it just isn't possible to send live material to NZ. Seeds are the only way.

[Mike Ireland]

This Androsace in a piece of tufa is flowering well at the moment, problem is the label is now under the cushion. 
Can anyone help with ID.

Thanks

[WimB]

Not an Androsace-specialist, Mike, but could it be Androsace sarmentosa?

[WimB]

Some plants in flower in my garden today:

Epimedium grandiflorum 'Queen Esta'
Iris lacustris
Bellevalia romana
Calanthe tricarinata
Glaucidium palmatum
Iris 'Sky Blue'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Akagi Zakura'
and Epimedium x  youngianum 'Hana Guruma'

[Michael J Campbell]

Daphne calcicola Gang Ho Ba.
Pimelea ferruginea.
Primula aricula. Sonia Nicholle  x Yellow.
Viola pedata pedatifida
Gentiana verna alba.

[Brian Ellis]

One or two things from the garden now the rain has finally stopped! Erythronium Joanna starting to bulk up.
E.Kinfaun's Pink
Rhodo Lady Alice Fitzwilliam, flowering for us for the first time (last year the buds caught the frost).and a Lathyrus vernus with much finer foliage.

Whoops, messed that up - must try harder! 

Well I tried harder and it didn't work.  I hope it's not incompatible

[Brian Ellis]

Trying again!  (Some people would say very trying ) One or two things from the garden now the rain has finally stopped! Erythronium Joanna starting to bulk up.

E.Kinfaun's Pink



Rhodo Lady Alice Fitzwilliam, flowering for us for the first time (last year the buds caught the frost).




and a Lathyrus vernus with much finer foliage.

[Brian Ellis]

This bear of little brain will have to put his thinking cap on.  Third time lucky -sort of

[Maggi Young]

Think you just needed a space put in between the attachments to move the pix apart a little, Brian.

I see that when one enlarges a picture that is placed in the body of a post that with the new system it opens as a new window and one must click the "back" button ( the arrow pointing to the left at the top left of the page) to return to the original thread.

Pictures added at the end of a post will enlarge in the same window, as before.
It'll keep us on our toes learning these new tricks!

[Lampwick]

I’m very happy to see the forum back……well done!

These trough pictures were taken on 26th April 2012.

The two together were taken from the open back bedroom window.

[Maggi Young]

I do like troughs...... gardens for everyone!
Do you find the Penstemon pinifolius lives for a decent length of time for you.... it seems to only manage about three years here and there is no seed set.

[hadacekf]

This Androsace in a piece of tufa is flowering well at the moment, problem is the label is now under the cushion. 
Can anyone help with ID.

Thanks

It is Androsace sempervivoides. Beautiful plant.

[Gerdk]

Daphne calcicola Gang Ho Ba.
Pimelea ferruginea.
Primula aricula. Sonia Nicholle  x Yellow.
Viloa pedata
Gentiana verna alba.

Beautiful pics, especially the violet - but, sorry this is pedatifida - pedata has glabrous lateral petals.

Gerd

[Michael J Campbell]

Thanks Gerd, I will change the label and modify the post.

[Lesley Cox]

I see that when one enlarges a picture that is placed in the body of a post that with the new system it opens as a new window and one must click the "back" button ( the arrow pointing to the left at the top left of the page) to return to the original thread.

Pictures added at the end of a post will enlarge in the same window, as before.
It'll keep us on our toes learning these new tricks!

This has always happened when I looked at the pictures. Often the pic when clicked on would open in another window/page and I had to go to the "back" button to get back to the right page. Really annoying because it all took so long and especially so when viewing images from a show, lots of them. I always found though, after a while, and if I sort of GENTLY clicked on the pic, it would then open in the thread page and from there, go on as it should. It happened with the pics already posted by others but not by pics posted by me, which always opened and still do, in the thread page - by opened I mean enlarged of course.