Image of the day - 2012

[RickR]

Along the bottom edge of the photo are the reminants of Erigeron compositus...

Those old seed heads are very ornamental compared to mine (pictured below), and big, too.

               

(Also pictured is Echinocereus coccineus.)

[cohan]

Your coccineus is looking great If I ever manage to keep any Echinos alive here, I'll be happy!

[Krish]

Here are some plants from the rock garden taken today

[Krish]

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[Krish]

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[deesen]

All looking very well grown Krish.

[Merlin]

Wow, been away for quite sometime and am just now catching up on the list. Some very nice pictures to drool over. I managed to be gone while many of my favorite plants flowered and went to seed, and even the seed set was not so great on some do to a wet cool spring here. i did go out and snap a few quick pics of what is playing in the garden today.
Dianthus rupicola, enjoying its it's last year infesting my garden(i hope)

DYC, the local form of E. linearis

C. reginae just coming into flower

Sphaeralcea coccinea just getting going

talinum spinescens


there are a bunch of penstemons going too but they are just variations on a theme.
Jim Hatchett, Eagle Idaho

[Lori S.]

Beautiful, Jim!  So that's what Talinum spinescens is supposed to look like?  Boy, would you ever laugh to see mine. I think it's time I finally give up on it!

[Lori S.]

Very nice, Krish!  I've never been able to grow Armeria worth a darn (despite soem people in wet climates seeming to be able to grow the same ones even in regular soil - I don't get that at all.)  Yours look great!

[RickR]

Okay, I broke out laughing when I googled what DYC meant - "damn yellow composite".

  Where have I been?  I had no idea horticulturists had their own twitter lingo!
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Anyway, I really wish I could visit everyone's gardens.  All these photos are so enticing!

[Lori S.]

Looking delightfully hairy, here is Eremostachys speciosa, today...   


Even the flowers are hairy!

[Hoy]

Okay, I broke out laughing when I googled what DYC meant - "damn yellow composite".

  Where have I been?  I had no idea horticulturists had their own twitter lingo!
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Anyway, I really wish I could visit everyone's gardens.  All these photos are so enticing!

You are welcome anytime, Rick!

Looking delightfully hairy, here is Eremostachys speciosa, today...   
Even the flowers are hairy!

It really is speciosus, Lori! (And I don't mean the name )


I usually like the normal forms of a flower more than the double ones. But once, many, many years ago, I got some seed of Aquilegia 'Nora Barlow' descendants of which still is "weed" in the garden.  This one is one of the nicest in my opinion:

[Todd Boland]

For those in dry climates , let me show off Primula chionantha subsp. chionantha and P. chionantha subsp. sinopurpurea.  Both grown from seed and now flowering for their 4th year.

[AmyO]

For those in dry climates , let me show off Primula chionantha subsp. chionantha and P. chionantha subsp. sinopurpurea.  Both grown from seed and now flowering for their 4th year.

Those are truly lovely Primulas Todd!! And I think I have seed for them from the APS exchange....I see one more pot to sow this week-end! Are they easy growers? And I'm assuming very hardy at least to zone 4?

[Tim Ingram]

That Eremostachys is just great Lori. I've sown seed but nothing has come up - I must persist with it. Every year seems to bring different excitements and this year I have a lot of Asclepias species germinating. I'm not sure how easy they will be to grow on but will have to work on finding places likely to suit them.

This Triteleia is flowering on a raised bed at the moment. The flowers, especially those blue anthers, are really appealing and I must remember to collect seed.