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« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2010, 06:50:30 PM »
Rick, you are having a much earlier spring than last year...the most we saw was snowdrops!  My Pulsatilla are all under snow still.  I seem to be so far behind everyone.
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« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2010, 09:40:12 PM »
That's right, Todd.  I recall how you have always started your springs before me, but then I always catch up, since my spring is much abbreviated.
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« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2010, 01:14:03 AM »
Don't be sad, Todd! Where I am now it is still 2-3 feet of snow and we had 5" more yesterday. All my plants here are covered and they will not surface before late April! On our way here we drove through Oslo and my mums garden is still covered by one foot of snow. Although the spring starts early at home where I live it is not like that in all Norway!
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« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2010, 11:40:30 PM »
Here are more Pulsatilla patens, from my bike ride home through the uplands along the Bow River the other day.  I was rather surprised to see so many still in bloom, as when I'd gone out to look at them on April 4th, it looked as though they were almost done blooming in this area.

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« Reply #19 on: April 25, 2010, 05:16:15 PM »
Ah Lori, I miss that scene...most years when I've been in Calgary, I arrive in late April just in time to see this display.
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« Reply #20 on: February 13, 2011, 09:28:10 PM »
It's a bit early to expect Pulsatilla patens to be out many places in its range: we have found this wonderful plant to be challenging in our gardens thus far: I believe it is very sensitive to overwatering. Strange that we can grow hundreds of cacti, calochorti, no end of agaves and other xerophytes, and it's our native pulsatilla I invariably kill first...I think it will have to grow in a shady, unwatered garden for us.

But it has an almost identical cousin that I have enjoyed for years: it came to me as Pulsatilla "taurica var. halleri" and may or may not be true halleri. But it looks remarkably like our native Pulsatilla but grows with ease in our rock garden and goes from strength to strength...

I especially enjoy the new buds emerging in the spring...

Aaaah! Spring! Will it ever come? (My friends in San Francisco taunt me with all their talk of Magnolias and mumes and what not.....grrrrr)

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« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2011, 06:50:41 AM »
How beautiful!!
My pulsatillas ( if alive) are under 4 ft of snow  Cry
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« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2011, 02:34:22 PM »
Quote from: maggiepie on February 14, 2011, 06:50:41 AM
How beautiful!!
My pulsatillas ( if alive) are under 4 ft of snow  Cry
Helen, isn't that better than not covered by snow at this time of the year?
Here the weather forecast says biting cold weather and strong wind the next week -  and I have no snow cover Cry Cry
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« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2011, 08:08:19 PM »
Quote from: Hoy on February 14, 2011, 02:34:22 PM

Helen, isn't that better than not covered by snow at this time of the year?
Here the weather forecast says biting cold weather and strong wind the next week -  and I have no snow cover Cry Cry

Trond, am mostly concerned because we had an extremely wet autumn and early winter with quite a few freeze/thaws before we finally got snow cover.
I wish I could send you some snow!
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« Reply #24 on: February 16, 2011, 06:55:39 PM »
Gorgeous Pulsatilla pics everyone.

Panayoti,

That P. halleri pic is a stunner.  They're so perfect!!!

The Pulsatilla do OK in my garden, or at least used to.  I lost a lot due to our drought the last few years and the low levels of soil moisture even with watering.  With our decent rain this year it might be time to invest in a few again to try to establish them once more.  The flowers are so beautiful.
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« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2011, 12:53:09 PM »
Helen, sounds like you have the same amount of snow as I do...oh well, we'll have Pulsatilla months after some of the others...they will be distant memories for them but fresh ones for us!
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« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2011, 07:38:54 PM »
I don`t think I`ve seen a Pulsatilla I didn`t like  Grin
So far I have a couple of vulgaris (in my only `spring`bed so far--poorly sited I realised in a spot that stays cold long, so I`ll probably be able to show flowers even after Todd and Helen melt out  Grin ) plus some seedlings and seeds...
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« Reply #27 on: April 30, 2011, 10:40:26 AM »
The harbinger of spring on the Canadian prairies - Pulsatilla patens - is in glorious bloom!  Here are a few shots from my bike ride home Thursday along the Bow River through NW Calgary.
     
   
     
                             

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« Reply #28 on: April 30, 2011, 10:46:37 AM »
It's wonderful to have this bit of unbroken prairie, in the middle of the city, surrounded by residential streets!
   
     
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« Reply #29 on: April 30, 2011, 12:05:49 PM »
What stunning pictures - absolutely fabulous. Thank you Lori.
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