Miscellaneous Woodlanders

[WimB]

The first flower on Shortia soldanelloides var illicifolia 

[cohan]

Very nice Wim!
Where did you get seed from? I have looked for seeds of Shortia for a long time! I had some seedlings a few years ago but they died in a dry spell in the summer.

Shortia uniflora from the botanical garden in Oslo in April, one grows in sun (to much maybe) and the other in shade:

Thanks Trond,

I got the seeds from the botanical garden of Göteborg. If you become a member of their "Connoisseur's Club' (for free) http://gotbot.se/kulturvast_templates/Kultur_XForm.aspx?id=51524, you get their seed-catalogue each year!

Did someone say seed-catalogue? 

[WimB]

Thanks Trond,

I got the seeds from the botanical garden of Göteborg. If you become a member of their "Connoisseur's Club' (for free) http://gotbot.se/kulturvast_templates/Kultur_XForm.aspx?id=51524, you get their seed-catalogue each year!

Did someone say seed-catalogue? 

 

[ErnieC123]

Seed-hunter have entered the stage :-) Good luck with it!

Here are some impressions of my garden
 
Clematis recta 'Purpurea' with lovely foliage


Gillenia stipulata in the third year after sowing


My favorite grass Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'


Kirengeshoma palmata


Paris quadrifolia


Phlomis tuberosa 'Amazone'


Polygonatum x 'Weihenstephan' ( a real nice and vital one)


Some other Polygonatum pictures will follow maybe next week! Or should i create a new Polygonatum topic?

[Hoy]

Thanks Trond,

I got the seeds from the botanical garden of Göteborg. If you become a member of their "Connoisseur's Club' (for free) http://gotbot.se/kulturvast_templates/Kultur_XForm.aspx?id=51524, you get their seed-catalogue each year!

Did someone say seed-catalogue? 

 

Don't laugh

I have looked in several catalogues but not found seeds of Shortia, at least not last year - I know some catalogues have from time to time but not every year

[WimB]

Thanks Trond,

I got the seeds from the botanical garden of Göteborg. If you become a member of their "Connoisseur's Club' (for free) http://gotbot.se/kulturvast_templates/Kultur_XForm.aspx?id=51524, you get their seed-catalogue each year!

Did someone say seed-catalogue?  

 

Don't laugh

I have looked in several catalogues but not found seeds of Shortia, at least not last year - I know some catalogues have from time to time but not every year

Trond, I'm not laughing with you....only with Cohan's comment....just say the word "seeds" and there he is!  

You really should try Göteborg....in the five years I receive their catalogue, there's only been one year in which they didn't sell any Shortia seed!

[Hoy]

Wim, thank you for the information. I have to join that Göteborgian club!

[cohan]

Trond, I'm not laughing with you....only with Cohan's comment....just say the word "seeds" and there he is!  

Because my chances to buy interesting plants are very few!...lol Besides, going through catalogues- and trying to find out what the uncommon plants are, is a great pleasure

[WimB]

Trond, I'm not laughing with you....only with Cohan's comment....just say the word "seeds" and there he is!  

Because my chances to buy interesting plants are very few!...lol Besides, going through catalogues- and trying to find out what the uncommon plants are, is a great pleasure

Just pulling your leg, Cohan 

[cohan]

Trond, I'm not laughing with you....only with Cohan's comment....just say the word "seeds" and there he is!  

Because my chances to buy interesting plants are very few!...lol Besides, going through catalogues- and trying to find out what the uncommon plants are, is a great pleasure

Just pulling your leg, Cohan 

No, really, your characterisation was very accurate...lol.. have to remember to check that Goteberg site

[McDonough]

It is Kirengeshoma season again!  This year, the spring rainfall was plentiful, and this moisture-loving woodlander grew robust, the clumps taller than me so topping 6' (2 meters) in height, and once laden with waxy yellow bells and the stems declining somewhat under their weight, spreading to 8' across.  This is a GIANT PLANT that needs room.  And, after many many years, and never a self-sown seedling, in the last couple of exceptionally mild autumns and early winters, seed was plentiful and a handful of self-sown seedlings have appeared... I must get these moved to where they have room to mature.

A number of views of Kirensheshoma palmata in bloom, a show that'll go on for about 2 months, unless drought sets in.  The flowers essentially take two day to open, at first the spiral unfolding buds are intriguing, and at full bloom, the open ulily-like shape of the waxy yellow blooms is appreciated so late in the season.  The flowers appear in the upper leaf axils, up to 3 levels of bloom.

 




Part of an enormous Sugar Maple that fell recently and squashed parts of my garden, I worried more about having a tree-cutting crew in, with inevitable damage from human trampling being much worse than the fallen tree damage; part of the tree cut-up work has been done by an arborist that also happens to be a plant person who took care to stay on garden paths and not trample plants to any extent possible, the lone shoot of Kirengeshoma koreana stands proud, among considerable first-hand plant devestation from a 4' wide tree trunk falling on the area. I'm happy with the outcome.
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=807.msg18351#msg18351




Last, a view of Thalictrum rochebrunianum as a normal 5'-9" tall human might see it; sort of ridiculous, the plant must be 8-9' tall (3 m) this year.  It would have to be planted in a low ravine, and observed from a up-slope path 1 meter higher to even begin to appreciate the flowers.

[cohan]

Wow, those are some giants! I don't have anything like that here- the tallest thing is the native Heracleum, and its usually not much more than 90cm..

[McDonough]

Three views of Deinanthe bifida, blooming now in the woodland garden.  Not sure why I grow this oddity, not that I mind an oddity, I like such things, but because I can't find a place moist enough for it.  This plant is like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, sulking dramatically at the first whiff of dryness.  After a month of relentless hot sunny days, finally with some rain relief this past week, the flopping collapsing mass of foliage stood up, the weird waxy white blooms with pinkish pedicel tips, opening from brownish drought-tinged buds. Is it worth growing this leafy thing, dumping what seems like hundreds of gallons of water on it (mild exaggeration) just to keep it alive during a month without rain, ultimately with modest, ephemeral, curious blooms decidely small in proportion to the leafiness; I'm not sure.

 

[cohan]

It does seem pretty, and nice to have later woodlanders.. though whether its worthwhile in your recent dry summers is another question...

[deesen]

.......... Is it worth growing this leafy thing, dumping what seems like hundreds of gallons of water on it (mild exaggeration) just to keep it alive during a month without rain, ultimately with modest, ephemeral, curious blooms decidely small in proportion to the leafiness; I'm not sure.

Depends Mark. If you are a man with infinite patience and time, press on. If not the compost heap beckons although it's a pretty little thing.