What do you see on your garden walks?

[Hoy]

Any plants surviving the 25 years you didn't tend them, Cohan?

[WimB]

Some plants which caught my eyes in the garden during the last week:

Haberlea rhodopensis 'Virginalis'
Taraxacum pseudoroseum
Viola cucullaria 'Red Giant'

[cohan]

Any plants surviving the 25 years you didn't tend them, Cohan?

not much--the whole thing became part of the natural environment here with native plants and shrubs...lol, plus some Irises and daylilies from a neighbouring bed spread over a large area...
One willow- a mid sized, about metre, metre and a half tall.. just a couple of stems; a Zigadenus elegans, which was not flowering over the years (that my mother noticed, anyway), but has since I have weeded around it; a couple of tiny plants of what I think are a Heuchera sp from B.C., and a couple of things from presumably dormant seed popped up in a cleared area-- a pale flowered Potentilla (also from B.C.--arguta?) and Androsace septentrionale... no traces of semps, opuntias etc...lol

[RickR]

Wim, I didn't realize Taraxacum pseudoroseum was so "bicolored". A very nice feature.  I have Taraxacum pamiricum seed that I will be sowing shortly, but now I'd rather have pseudoroseum.

[Lori S.]

Some plants which caught my eyes in the garden during the last week:
Haberlea rhodopensis 'Virginalis'
Taraxacum pseudoroseum
Viola cucullaria 'Red Giant'

Beauties, Wim!  

Wim, I didn't realize Taraxacum pseudoroseum was so "bicolored". A very nice feature.  I have Taraxacum pamiricum seed that I will be sowing shortly, but now I'd rather have pseudoroseum.

Rick, I grew T. pseudoroseum from seed last year and the plants bloomed by the end of June, but I never got to see the darn things fully open!    From my photos of half-closed flowers, it looks like they are bicolored... I hope they will be as showy as Wim's this year!  
T. pamiricum looks nice, and with that foliage, you won't have to defend it from any visiting gardeners who might forget themselves and start weeding:
http://www.google.ca/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=Taraxacum%20pamiricum&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1281&bih=636
(Hmmm, this sudden - at least on my part -reverence for dandelions is a bit odd and ironic!  )

[cohan]

I also wanted to comment on your pretty weeds, Wim 

Lori, I doubt anyone's appreciation of dandelions could be odder than mine-- every photo of yard and garden I edit has at least one dandelion leaf showing, and much of the time photos taken in the bush show them as well.... I wouldn't even consider eliminating T officinale as being possible!

I also sowed T pseudoroseum last year, from Wim's seed!, but later in the summer. Nice little plants by summer's end, hope they made it through the winter.. also sowed sowed albidum with no results think I have a few seeds left...
Rick, pamiricum is one I remember coming across pics of--white flowers and entire leaves, I believe? haven't looked at Lori's link yet--the entire leaves and non-yellow flowers are the best features for making them non-weedy looking!

[stephenb]

As self-declared Taraxaphile and member of the secret Defenders of the Dandelion sect, I'd just like to point you to a thread I started over at SRGC last year with various pictures of my Taraxaca (saves me reposting ):
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5916.0

My pamiricum doesn't do much and has produced one flower for the last 3 years...

[WimB]

While were busy talking weeds; here's a picture of Taraxacum albidum.

[cohan]

Love this one!
Speaking of T pamiricum, I think I remember it being from a warmer place? Will be interesting to see how it does for Rick...

[stephenb]

While were busy talking weeds; here's a picture of Taraxacum albidum.

Nice, Wim! Hoping mine will flower for the first time this year!

I tell visitors to my garden to watch out for the roadside verges gradually changing colour from yellow to a mix of yellows, whites and pinks in 10 years from now  Nice with a bit of diversity...

[cohan]

While were busy talking weeds; here's a picture of Taraxacum albidum.

Nice, Wim! Hoping mine will flower for the first time this year!

I tell visitors to my garden to watch out for the roadside verges gradually changing colour from yellow to a mix of yellows, whites and pinks in 10 years from now  Nice with a bit of diversity...

That's what I think would be nice, too! I wonder though, if the new weeds would just squeeze out more natives and not the existing weeds...lol

[Hoy]

I had Taraxacum pseudoroseum for two years but it flowered itself to death last year - would never stop producing flowers and died

[Hoy]

Btw, here is what I saw today on my "garden walk". We had a heavy job finding snow patches with rotten snow  to get a 12km skiing! Even the highest point in this area (1250m/4100ft) is almost bereft of snow.

[Kelaidis]

Spring is galloping away in Colorado: lots in bloom!

Anemone blanda
Daphne x hendersonii 'Aymon Correvon' etc.
Ebracteola wilmanniae
Iris attica
Iris humilis
Iris scariosa
Lesquerella ex Penrose
Narcissus scaberulus
Pediocactus simpsonii ex Irish Canyon

[Kelaidis]

And MORE!

Phlox albomarginata
Quince
Ribes x gordonianum
Scilla hohenakeri
Thlaspi lilacina
Tulipa linifolia
Tulipa sp. chrysantha dwf.
Veronica bombycina v. bolgardaghensis
Veronica pseudocinerea