June 2012 in the Northern Hemisphere

[David King]

Here are a few more from the garden.

1.        Allium christophii
2.        Gladiolus byzantinus
3 & 4.  Camassia leichtlini  'Semiplena
5.        Clematis montana 'Primrose Star'

[Zdenek]

I hope you will excuse me that I send today my photos from the second half of the last month. We (my wife and me) have our garden more than 50 km far from the town where we live and where we also have our computer. I was not present at my computer for a fortnight now. That is why I have choosen today twenty most interesting pictures from the second half of May. To be more exact I added an exact date of shooting to each picture.
Here is the first ten:
Pleione limprichtii growing outdoors about 20 years
Penstemon tusharensis
Penstemon caespitosus
Erigeron aureus
Campanula biebersteiniana
Cypripedium calceolus growing on this place since 1987
Asperula arcadiensis
Campanula ciliata
Oxalis 'Ute'
Androsace x marpensis, a wild cross between A. globifera and A. robusta purperea

[Zdenek]

Here is the second ten:
Dianthus brevicaulis
Campanula sp.
Penstemon rupicola
Dianthus raddeanus
Talinum okanoganense
Ranunculus parnassifolius
Erigeron vagus (the real thing)
Erigeron uncialis
Saponaria pumila
Dianthus alpinus 'Albus'

As regards Campanula sp., it is an only seedling which germinated from something quite else and I don't know what species it could be. According its foliage it seems that it could be a bienial. If somebody could help me with its identification I would be very grateful.

[Michael J Campbell]

Paeonia 'Bowl of Beauty'

[WimB]

Some pics from today!

Allium fistulosum
2 different forms of Allium schoenoprasum
Ramonda myconi
Bletilla striata
Dodecatheon dentatum
Vancouveria chrysantha
Weldenia candida
Sauromatum venosum
Taraxacum pseudoroseum

[David Nicholson]

Some lovely stuff here today. Zdenek you are a master grower.

[Diane Whitehead]

Iris innominata and a Castilleja that seeded itself beside it. 

The compost that I bought to fill some raised beds for my seedlings
has started sprouting strange mushrooms.  Here are a couple.

[Diane Whitehead]

Roscoea takes so long to appear it's a wonder I don't plant something
else in its place.  This is a cream humeana from seed from the RHS
Lily Group 2007 exchange, flowering for the first time, I think.

Rhodohypoxis baurii is another one that spends most of its life
underground.

I'm always sure that anything orchidaceous is never going to live
but here's this one, blooming for the second year.  Is it super-easy,
or perhaps one that is weedy for everyone else?

[meanie]

As always, some lovely stuff here! I'm seriously "loved up" with Wims Sauromatum!

My measly offering (of interest anyway) are;

1] Aconitum anthora. Not sure about this id now though as it looks more like A.vulparia (been re-classified I think ). Suggestions appreciated.


2] Diplarrena moraea.


3] Oxalis triangularis.


4] Unknown Irises.




5] Iris japonica on the rare occasion that the slugs 'n snails don't get the blooms first!


6] Arisaema ringens.


7] Arisaema speciosum (slightly deformed).


8] Sutherlandia frutescens.


9] Finally, a Hymenocallis festallis in the front room. Seven weeks from setting the bulb to bloom.

[shelagh]

Must admit I got a bit of a shock when I saw this topic or rather who posted it.  I thought our old friend had obviously gone to Alpine Heaven and was able to post pictures and grow plants.

[Maggi Young]

Ah, yes, this the "other" David King, alive and well and taking super photos in Norfolk. 

[David King]

Ah, yes, this the "other" David King, alive and well and taking super photos in Norfolk. 

I can confirm I am alive and well and in Norfolk.

[annew]

Must admit I got a bit of a shock when I saw this topic or rather who posted it.  I thought our old friend had obviously gone to Alpine Heaven and was able to post pictures and grow plants.

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

[David King]

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

Better take my camera then.

[Tim Ingram]

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?