What do you see on your garden walks? 2012

[Spiegel]

Wonderful primulas, Todd.
Bundraba - I have killed several Erinacea pungens while waiting for them to bloom.  This is my first success.  Patience pays!  Have several more in the garden still in the non-blooming stage.  They do seem to take a few years to settle in and do their thing.

[cohan]

Lots going on in all those pics
Trond- not too bad considering the conditions you mention!

[Bundraba!]

I don't know if this is east to west west to east or whatever. There is a bit more work and less doting as the fecund season approaches.

Photo1 is Sakurasoh grown from NARGS seed. Aubrieta is in the background.

Photo2 is Lewisia pygmaea I bought mail order years ago (probably SiskiyouRPN). It has seeded about joyfully. In fact there are other Lewisias seeding in here: my little Lewis Meadows -which I hope to  expand upon!

Photo3 is our native Anemone quinqufolia, a delicate thing that grows in the mountains near by.

Photo4 is Trillium cuneatum. I got it from Potterton and Martin years ago.

Photo5 is the very dainty Sand Myrtle.

Photo6 is R. 'Scintillation'. Never before has it bloomed! Global warming? Yes!

photo7 is Areneria (Minuartia) obtusiloba native to the Rockies. This is a top rate Sandwort.

Photo8: Great gobs of 'Blue Ridge' Phlox! Imagine this carpeting an acre of woodland? Its one of two plants I got from Logee's (1995?) before I knew there were dedicated sellers of alpine plants. The other was Muehelenbeckia axillaris, which I still have too.

Photo9 -just for fun.

photo10; It's just a wonderful magic carpet ride, a color cosmos, sublime admiration.

[Hoy]

Lots going on in all those pics
Trond- not too bad considering the conditions you mention!

Yes, fortunately I have always some spots that is not exposed so much to the elements 
Nice weather today but rain and cold the next 3-4 days

Bundraba, you have a impressive wide range of plants! I'm envying you the 'Blue Ridge'!
Does the Anemone quinquefolia set seed? I'm interested in swapping

And Todd, here are some more rhodos, not all orange though Labels lost long ago as usual.

               

[Bundraba!]

I just have to squeeze in a few more....

Photo1 is one of the treasures of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Unlike our puny little local Houstonia, this one is hefty and takes full hot sun well. I see the NARGS annual meeting is down there next year. This wondrous region is fully worthy; enjoy it.

Photo2: This blooms and sets a few seeds most years but never have I seen it like this (there's just gotta be a reason!). Seed goes on the exchange as Packera ex. Red Mountain Montana. I became intrigued by these on my first (plant) visit to the  Rockies; every mountain range seems to have its own one. I seek those that are stoloniferous rather than singular so that they may be made good and perennial. I'd also like a good orange! This is one of the finest small silver foliage plants in my garden -if not THE finest. It may be P. paupercula that is native here, so this is not entirely without precedent. There's also Pediocactus in the photo.

photo3 is a little Pussy Toe (Antenneria) that I found on Bald Ridge. It is a cushion former. The leaves have a distinct diamond shape. It grows among the likes of Eritrichium howardii and Astragalus kentrophyta so I don't expect easy and immediate success, but who knows? A. umbrinella is the only name I've seen that might be it.

Trond; yes variety is a good deal of the fun. It makes for an interesting garden and each plant is so interesting too in how it responds to various conditions etc. I sometimes think that after getting to know a plant well -I know its native environment too -even though I may have never been there. A small bed of Lewisias, for example, can nearly transport one to a High Cascade ridge, if one gets right down into it

[Krish]

I am attaching some pictures i have taken yesterday. The weather is extreme for the last 3 days.The daytime temperature is between 20C-26C.The plants are sulking  at this condition
Krish

[Bundraba!]

Krish, It looks like you are working with the peat stuff Saxifrage technique I've espoused for years! You are in New England? That vertical placement might get ya though. I find it hard to keep really slow growing things from anchoring in properly, at least without a ledge to sit on; or some batter to the wall. Good luck!

[Krish]

Hi Bundraba
the sax is there for two years.I got as rooted in tufa  from wrigtman.Two others  I got destroyed by birds.They picked the branches and left them on the ground. This spring that two are also coming up nicely .The cuttings I got from the destroyed pieces where rooted and kept in tufa.Two weeks ago I kept them near a small stream of water. They look very happy.
Krish

[RickR]

Iris typhifolia
        

Dracocephalum ruyschiana
        

Ptilostemon afer and Echium russicum
        

I noticed the developing seed pods of Saruma henryi today.  They are interesting, too.
        

Clematis ochroleuca
         

[RickR]

I had forgotten to post the open Clematis ochotensis.  It bloomed 20 April:

          

Notice the peculiar bent edges of the petals.  I really like that.  The flower color is actually a shade darker than the photos.

[Hoy]

Rick, the Draco is native of Norway although I have never seen it! I like the flower of both your Clematises. At home only the alpine types have started flowering. (I am at my summerhouse now - long weekend due to the "National Day"  May 17th.) I like the Echium too. Have seen pictures of it from the steppes. And Saruma - I've given up growing it due to slugs

[Lori S.]

Catching up again...
Pulsatilla turczaninovii:
   

Lathyrus vernus gracilis:


Fritillaria meleagris - they seed loosely throughout the back yard but this bunch made a nice arrangement:


Hacquetia epipactis:
 

Our native Androsace chamaejasme:
 

Bergenia 'Eroica':

[Lori S.]

Draba rigida:


Fritillaria pallidiflora:
   

Trollius laxus:


Progress on the flower stalk of Eremostachys speciosa:


A very mealy little Primula scotica... unfortunately the flower is somewhat damaged:


First blooms on Eritrichium pauciflorum ssp. sajanense:


Dracocephalum palmatum:


The usual heavy bloom on Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Papageno':


A number of young, self-seeded Pulsatilla vulgaris:

[Lori S.]

Potentilla uniflora and Phlox kelseyi:
 

[Bundraba!]

Echinocereus viridiflorus; Orostachys minuta and a Cryptantha from the Wildcat Hills in Nebraska. Two of four flowered this year and promptly both rotted! The two remaining are smaller and in somewhat different culture.

Lori; I'll have to remember to look for the Pulsatilla with the unpronounceable name!