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RickR
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April 08, 2012, 10:26:38 PM »
Nice plant, Tiim. Adonis 'Fukujukai' just finished here.
Those townsendias really are splendid, Jim. Isn't it just like lewisias to always want to seed in almost right under a rock.
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Easter flower! Still flowering only indoors here
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Nice! Any scent? Do cacti flower have scent?
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Quote from: Todd Boland on April 08, 2012, 01:20:12 PM
Lovely Erythronium...that species is very much a challenge in my area. dave, i can't think about the garden 'winding down'...I'm desperate for a 'wind up'!
Hepatica nobilis is just about there and the first Pulmonaria montana are just opening.
You are catching up with me Todd! Here (I'm home again) the weather is as it was in December, January and February: Cool and wet. It is almost standstill except for some plants that got a kick in the March warmth which has frozen in the cold nights last week.
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Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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Quote from: Tim Ingram on April 08, 2012, 02:49:04 PM
Perhaps the most beautiful plant in the garden when the flowers open like this -
Adonis vernalis
. This is slowly forming stronger clumps after sowing seed (from Jelitto) probably seven or eight years ago, and there is slight variation in colour between plants. Although it seems to set seed I have only ever had a few germinate.
Quote from: Merlin on April 08, 2012, 07:14:46 PM
It is delightful to be able to see how spring evolves in other people's garden all over the world. I really enjoy seeing the fine plants that people are able to grow. Spring came with a vengeance here today with temps in high 70's. I see that quite a number seedlings are coming on this year, some from seed sown years ago. I took a few pictures of some plants that are in bloom today(Easter Sunday).
Lewisia tweedyi, this a seedling that volunteered from a group that i had since moved(to their death, as it turned out)
Nice plants Tim and Jim! None of those are easy here - that is they are always short-lived. Haven't tried Townsendia yet though.
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Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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Jim, loved your photo of Townsendia mensana. It's one of my favorite townsendias but it was never successful in the garden. Once saw it in bloom on a trip to Duchesne County, Utah. It was all over one area, an area that was unfortunately slated for a housing development. There was also an unknown astragalus growing there. Wonder if any of the plants are still growing there?
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I have several Townsendia coming along, including mensana. Good hints as to cultivation! I expect only those used in our alpine house at work will survive our excess wet.
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Todd, I sure could use some of your excess water right now. It's gray today and I thought perfect for planting, but gave it up. Everything is dry as a bone and it's very windy. No real rain in sight and all the plants are almost a month ahead. I have phlox blooming. Prime phlox time usually is May 7th to May 10th, but not lately. Many things are budiing despite deep frosts at night still.
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Quote from: Todd Boland on April 05, 2012, 04:56:15 PM
Two days above freezing and Aethionema oppositifolia has managed to open a couple of flowers.
Isn't that just exactly the sort of brave and exciting plant behaviour that so captivates us about alpine and rock gardren plants?
The magic of these little, frail-seeming plants to cope and thrive in harsh conditions...
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be so darn cute as they do it! Who could resist?
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The latest to open ...Iris 'Kathleen Hodgkin"
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Quote from: Hoy on April 09, 2012, 02:46:24 AM
Nice! Any scent? Do cacti flower have scent?
Some do- especially white ones for night pollinators! If this has a scent though, I haven't noticed it- I haven't checked, but I'm pretty close when shooting...
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Quote from: cohan on April 10, 2012, 01:20:09 AM
Quote from: Hoy on April 09, 2012, 02:46:24 AM
Nice! Any scent? Do cacti flower have scent?
Some do- especially white ones for night pollinators! If this has a scent though, I haven't noticed it- I haven't checked, but I'm pretty close when shooting...
I had one night flowering species once, I can't remember scent though, but that makes sense! I have more than once looked for the lesser butterfly orchid (Platanthera bifolia) in the evening following my nose
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Moths seem to have a similar taste in fragrance to humans...lol
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Well it was the hottest day so far this year...hit 16 C. The plants are responding to say the least!
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Todd, all i can say is WOW! Those plants are superb. I look forward to seeing more.
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