Lucky for you to get P. palmata, Lori.  I saw it in Sechuan in 2007 and wished I had it!  It grew in damp pine woods and lit up the ground.

Lori, your E. howardii is lovely.  If you got it from Beaver Creek you're halyway to success, because Roger's plants are always beautifully grown.
I promised Michael I'd take photos of my E. howardii self-sown seedlings.  I'm enormously pleased with them although I didn't do anything.  The first is three years old and was self sown into nearby tufa.  The next two I just noticed this year.  They're near the tufa but not in it.  The mother plants are in the tufa garden but not planted in the tufa itself.  Also self-sowing is Androsace villosa, just proving that if eventually you find a place where the plant is happy, it will do your work for you.

Tradescantia x andersoniana 'Purple Profusion'.  The emerging sprouts are purple.  Not sure if this is the reason for the moniker, but the plant is a division (not in vitro propagation)  directly from the originator, Wesley Williams.
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Hacquetia epipactis
May 3, May 13 and May 16
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Hepatica americana, native from the Minnesota/Canadian border.
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Fritillaria meleagris is such an easy frit, but really rewarding, nonetheless.
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Mertensia alpina
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Uvularia grandiflora (Helleborus purpurascens to the left)
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Krish, the Douglasia Montana is unbelieveable!

Lori, PLEASE post many photos of Astragalus loanus when it blooms.  Mine has yet to bloom and probably won't this year.

Astragalus chloodes doesn't really show up well in the picture but it'swonderful, almost like a flowering grass.  The grassy leaves are a pale blue-gray and the flowers are purple, small but numerous.  I really like this one.

Rick, Genista depressa is a fabulous plant.  When the flowers (which are large) go over they slowly turn to shades of rust and brown, most decorative.  The pods are narrow and almost black.  I'd add Genista carinalis to your list as well.  It's a bit more difficult for me - the central trunk gets woody quickly, but it has a wonderful shape.  Right now the garden has changed to purples. blues and yellows and whites.  The yellows are mostly genistas and cytisus and chamaecytisus, all good.

I remember the first time, I was in a nursery in order to buy some Epimediums. How I was disappointed by the sight of those poor 'weedy looking' plants. Nevertheless some specimens went over into my garden. From the moment they 'tasted' the new and fertile soil, they started to grow with new leaflets.
And now I am dedicated to this genus.

Another beautiful species is Epimedium wushanense. In this case it is cultivar with no name. Darell Probst gave it a temperarely working-name 'nova'. And as far I know, he's got no properly name. And I am not sad about that.

Epimedium wushanense nova.

Thanks for the link Ron and clarifying your address for me .
I had it figured that you lived on the West Coast of the USA somewhere.

Cheers Dave.

Evidently, it's found the conditions to its liking so far, at least (though I've only had it a short time).  To answer your question from the other thread, Krish, it's a plant I bought in 2012 from Beaver Creek at the CRAGS plant sale.

Hi Rick
very nice flowers.mine bioomed twodays ago only 3 flowers but even before taking the pictures the two  are gone.But i like the leaves also.

Hi Lori
great plant grown to such perfection,