June 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[David Nicholson]

I certainly hope we'll have access to the forum there.

As I'm no doubt destined for somewhere warmer will the camera cope with the heat?

[Maggi Young]

As I'm no doubt destined for somewhere warmer will the camera cope with the heat?

Oh crikey, it seems the afterlife may be every bit as confusing and complicated as our present existence.  
I'm quite looking forward to the hothouse plants, myself...

[David Nicholson]

I'll help you water them Maggi

[David King]

As I'm no doubt destined for somewhere warmer will the camera cope with the heat?

Perhaps a camera case as for underwater water protection would have a heat equivalent and be available at the turnstile.

[David Nicholson]

Turnstile? And there was me thinking I'd have to jump down! 

[Maggi Young]

Typical David... you're wondering about turnstiles when there are Kniphofias to worry about.

[David King]

Don't know about Kniphofias but our poppy seemed to be going up in flames today.

[Maggi Young]

Rather a good combination with that rather spikey, dark-flowered Aquilegia.

[Tom Waters]

Viola corsica, and Penstemon pinifolius 'Compactum' blooming with Alyssum markgrafii.

[meanie]

Very lovely to see the Diplarrhena - a plant I saw in Tasmania some 30 years ago. (Now there is a heavenly place!). There used to be a dwarf form in cultivation that Elizabeth Strangman at Washfield Nursery sold. I wonder if anyone still grows it?

What would constitute dwarf? This starts blooming on 20cm stems and the last flower seems to be when the stem hits about 30cm. The foliage never tops 20cm. Could be as a result of being pot grown though..............

[Diane Whitehead]

No photo as I neglected to take my camera.

A glumicalyx almost a metre across in full bloom in my friend Bryce's
townhouse garden.  Somehow she managed to convince the seven
other tenants that she should do all the gardening, and is she ever
having fun.

I did not get down on hands and knees to see if it smells like chocolate.
Next visit - the one with camera.

[Tim Ingram]

The dwarf form of Diplarrhena that I remember was only some 5-10cm, maybe a little taller in flower. There are a couple of other beautiful Tasmanian endemics that I saw on the flanks of the Western Arthurs in SW Tassie - Blandfordia punicea and Isophysis tasmanica. I would imagine all these could do well in a similar situation in the west of Scotland which must have comparable climate and geology, but I've never heard of the last being successful in cultivation.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Lousy weather out here today - ideal to catch up with some posting :

1) Achillea brachyphylla
2) Alyssum oxycarpum and Oxalis "Ridgeway sapphire"
3) Aquilegia bertolonii
4) Aquilegia buergeriana
5) Dianthus "Eileen Lever"
6) Dianthus haematocalyx v. pindicola
7) Dianthus "La Bourboule" with Allium karataviense "Ivory Queen"
8. Dicentra "King of hearts" flowering it's heart out !
9) Edraianthus pumilio
10) Geranium cinereum "Lawrence Flatman"

[Michael J Campbell]

Gladiolus communis ?

[Magnar]

Three frits from today

F. sewersowii
F. eduardii
F. crassifolia curdica Talish