What do you see on your garden walks? 2012

[RickR]

An advantage of heading up our Chapter plant sales committee: at the end of the sale, I decide what remaining plants are "worthy" of holding over to the next sale.  Often I will take the orphans home and grow them on through the summer or another year.  Like this Clematis integrifolia:
        

Any guesses as to what this is?
    

Bless its little heart, blooming in a little styrofoam cup!
Anemone multifida 'Annabella Deep Rose'
    

Penstemon hirsutus var. pygmaea
    

[cohan]

Nice orphans, Rick- the Clematis is especially elegant, and nice colour on the Anemone I think I got seed of  a similar, hope its still good 

[stephenb]

Attractive, to me, though a bit of a thug, is this Claytonia californica - Mine's Lettuce.  Not sure how it got into my garden.  Fran

Frances Howey
London, Ontario, Canada
Zone 5b

Is this a distinct species? It looks like Claytonia perfoliata.

[stephenb]

Don't see it in the USDA Plants Database, but I've learned that there are different subspecies of C. perfoliata:

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=CLPE

...and in FOA: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242415745

I grow a variegated form (picture).

But, why are there so few of the North American Claytonias which are in cultivation/ available as seed? The only ones I've managed to get are C. virginica and C. megarhiza.

[Spiegel]

It's a nice time in the gartden which is about to go blue with Moltkia petraea.  Some eriogonums in the crevice gardens are in bloom now.
I like the foliage as much as the flowers

[Bundraba!]

Now that's talk'n to me! Dianthus alpinus from SPARQ/QARGS seed (photo1). The other is Potentilla thurberi, a rather large
plant for the alpine garden but the flower color has heart.

Photo2 is the Blue Mist Penstemon (P. virens).

Photo3; looks like a Chocolate Lily (Fritillaria Camschatensis); but I've planted everything else.

Photo4: Mr. Toad has made himself a nice, cozy toad-hole in the rather prickly 'Pic-Carlit' Fescue: smart toad!

Photo5: Saxifraga; There is Heuchera sanguinea in here and once there was a daisy (one of the Townsendias) that really made
this scene magic.

Photo6 is Geranium richardsonii; a native to North America.

Photo7: This is cute. It doesn't bloom much but cute when it does.

Photo8: Claret Cup.

Photo9: Saponaria rubra.

Keep walk'n!

[Tim Ingram]

I like that garden scene in photo 5 very much - so nice to see plants growing together like this. The penstemon reminds me how striking some of these blue species are - 'Blue Mist Penstemon' has a real ring to it. We used to try a lot of these from seed but our warm and sometimes wet summers were not always to their liking. I really should try again.

My experience of loniceras is very vigorous climbers and huge shrubs! That little plant in Anne's garden looks a real delight by comparison.

[Hoy]

An advantage of heading up our Chapter plant sales committee: at the end of the sale, I decide what remaining plants are "worthy" of holding over to the next sale.  Often I will take the orphans home and grow them on through the summer or another year.  Like this Clematis integrifolia:
 
Any guesses as to what this is?

Rick, can't understand that nobody wants these?? They hadn't been leftovers at our arrangement!
The unknown one reminds me of something I've seen - a Campanula?

[Hoy]

...and alot of gems from Anne and Bundraba!

[RickR]

Rick, can't understand that nobody wants these?? They hadn't been leftovers at our arrangement!

Actually, it was only the clematis pictured here that was a leftover, not the others.  A couple people brought several each, so there was quite a few to choose from.

The unknown one reminds me of something I've seen - a Campanula?

You're the only brave guesser, Trond.
Its a fuzzy bunch of young Martagon lily buds!  (seed grown, of course. )

[Hoy]

Rick, how many people attend such Chapter plant sals?

A lily! You fooled me there, Rick!  But I have seen some campanula with similar leaves And actually I have martagon lilies in my garden but can't remember that they are so hairy! - or should I say hoary Do you know the flower colour?

[cohan]

Nice to see the Geranium richardsonii, Bundraba, a common and beloved (by me) native here.. yours doesn't look quite typical of local forms, though I can't quite put my finger on it, and  it could be just lighting and angles...most here, though, are not pure white like yours (I am watching one little colony though, and will try to propagate it), usually have subtle or not subtle pink/purple veining on the petals

[Weiser]

So I was took a walk in the garden and caught a flash of color out of the corner of my eye. 

[RickR]

Oh My, John!  There is a whole LOT going on there!
A "spot" of color is way too modest.  You could start a new thread on just that garden scene alone!  So the striking red-orange is... what?

Rick, how many people attend such Chapter plant sals?

Ya know, I know we have kept count (or tried to) in the past, but I can't put my finger on it.  For the spring sale, I am thinking about 50 from the Chapter members plus whatever we can pull in from the public.  We hold it in a public park, but the shelter can't be seen from the connecting road or parking lot.

A lily! You fooled me there, Rick!  But I have seen some campanula with similar leaves And actually I have martagon lilies in my garden but can't remember that they are so hairy! - or should I say hoary Do you know the flower colour?

Most martagon buds are not that fuzzy, although some are even more so.  Flower color on that one is a darker mauve-pink.  Here is the same one, four days later:
               

It will be first bloom for this martagon seedling this year:
               

[Weiser]

Rick I assume you are asking about the orange in the bottom, center  of the first picture. The two orange spots of color.
If so, that is an orange red Echinocereus triglochidiatus. Here is a close up from a couple of years ago.