Alpines in May

[Hoy]

PS. And one Pulsatilla - you all have shown yours!

[Lori S.]

Nice violet! I like the wild Viola sp better than the maximized pansies although some of them can be very attractive too. Our native V. canina and other species is in full flower here now.

I would love to see your V. canina too.  There is still no sign of the ones I grew last year, so your photo may be all I get to see of this species!

But I choose to show a picture of a Dryas, D. x suendermannii. Last winter it was hit by a car and almost exterminated.

Yeah, that's what can happen if they choose to roam... 

[Hoy]

Nice violet! I like the wild Viola sp better than the maximized pansies although some of them can be very attractive too. Our native V. canina and other species is in full flower here now.

I would love to see your V. canina too.  There is still no sign of the ones I grew last year, so your photo may be all I get to see of this species!

Here you are! I am 99% sure it is canina but we have about 10 blue flowered violet species, some are very similar.
These grow wild in my woodland, I never sow them.

[RickR]

. . . Dryas, D. x suendermannii. Last winter it was hit by a car and almost exterminated.

My avatar is strictly forbidden to cross roads for the same reason.

Still a nice Dryas, Trond.  I am sorry to say my D. integrifolia from Baffin Island has melted away.

[Lori S.]

PS. And one Pulsatilla - you all have shown yours!

Trond, those of us up in the northern hinterlands have ones that have not even started to bloom yet... you too?

Thank you for posting your Viola canina - looks nice.  I'm continuing the watch for mine.

[Hoy]

Trond, those of us up in the northern hinterlands have ones that have not even started to bloom yet... you too?

Lori, my first have finished and I have some more flowering now but they too will finish soon!

[Todd Boland]

I have several Viola open at the moment; V. conspersa, V. corsica, V. jooi and V. labradorica 'Purpurea'.  I am most pumped with my first-blooming Pulsatilla flavescens!

[Lori S.]

Nice violas!  That's something I must work on, as I have almost none to speak of. 
I love the Pulsatilla flavescens - absolutely beautiful!  (Warning, I will be hitting you up for seeds, as it is so attractive!)

[Hoy]

Pulsatilla flavescens is something to work for to get! V. conspersa is new to me, I like that.

[Todd Boland]

I'll endeavor to save seeds from both!

[RickR]

it would be nice to have a real P. flavescens.  (another fresh seed hint)

[Hatchett]

Well May is almost over, you would not know it by looking at all the snow in the hills(it snowed on the valley floor on Saturday) and the freezing temps at night... such is life in Idaho. I am so glad to be back from my trip to Asia with only a case of stomach crud. Of course things in the gardens have changed a bit though I think the continuing cold temps are slowing things down. I did manage to take some pictures this afternoon and that will be it for May pictures. Here is a link:
http://ImageEvent.com/teita/rockgardenmay252010
I would like to comment that this is a great forum, i can not image the work that must have gone into it.
jim

[Todd Boland]

Lovely images Jim.....despite snow in the hills, yours plants are still way ahead of mine.  Our nights are only the upper 30's but our days are struggling to reach the 50's.  Your days must be warmer I guess.  Suffice to say, things may be late in Idaho, but they are even later in Newfoundland!

[McDonough]

I did manage to take some pictures this afternoon and that will be it for May pictures. Here is a link:
http://ImageEvent.com/teita/rockgardenmay252010
jim

Jim, I viewed this gallery from your Alpine-L link, some great plants there... really liked Aster scopulorum, and that form of Penstemon davidsonii, while paler flowered than some I've seen, certainly makes up for it with huge flowers compared to the tiny leaves.  Had me thinking of Penstemons... here's one from my past, one of the few that I still have with me, flowering better than in many years, Penstemon 'Grape Tart', a Dasanthera hybrid; the flowers look two-toned as they are deep purplish color in bud, opening a shde or two lighter.  The plant growing through it is Marshallia grandiflora.

[Todd Boland]

My dasyanthera penstemon are just starting to bud.

Valeriana arizonica is at its peak...tiny blooms but great fragrance.  My Cortusa sacchalinensis is just opening...at least that what the seeds were labeled as...looks like C. matthioli to me!