Collomia debilis still flowering in a trough. It's been flowering for five months.
Bob
Pictures of some very tiny phloxes, grown from Alplains seed. The first two were planted last year; the third, this year.
I stupidly planted all three seedlings of Phlox griseola directly from the seed pot into the garden, thinking that at least two, if not three, would die, and now I can't transplant them.
Bob
This is Phlox pungens. Picture taken today.
It is not a particularly pleasant thing to weed around, or even to touch. Not a cushion phlox. More of a wanderer. Flowers white.
"Perennial forming loose mats, 5cm or less high .....leaves very stiff and pungent, mostly lanceolate or lance-linear. 4-8mm long, 1-1.5 (2mm) wide, pubescent. often glandular, ciliate, punctate, the margins and dorsal midrib strongly thickened, gradually tapering into a sharp terminal bristle..."). (From Dorn's Vascular Plants of Wyoming, 1988.)
Bob
Grown from seed obtained from the SRGC Seed Ex and sown in January last here's ex Polemonium pauciflorum 'Sulphur Trumpets'. I planted out a group of five seedlings that have made a fine, if a little overlarge, clump. I was a little disappointed by the paucity(!) of flowers to the proportion of leaves but I have to say that up close the flowers are beautiful.
I posted these on the SRGC Forum and Trond Hoy advised me that I should plant them in a much leaner soil in order to get more flowers and less leaves.
One of the smaller representatives of the genus is Ipomopsis congesta with up to eight subspecies found across western North America.
Within this article on Phlox douglasii is a key to the cushion-forming Phlox spp. of Oregon:
http://www.npsoregon.org/kalmiopsis/kalmiopsis17/locklear.pdf
Are we prejudiced against hardy annuals? This is one of my favorites:
It does best for me when sown in Fall. It likes a lot of sun and a sandy soil. It blooms for many weeks, and reseeds. Very easy to grow; just sow in place.
I bought a plant as P. pilosa but I suspect it may be amoena.How do you differentiate them?
Sorry no picture.
A great Western North American Phlox not often seen in cultivation. Locally this clumping dryland phlox can be found across the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada Range. I see it most often on dry slopes with an eastern exposure, were it gets light shade in the late afternoon. Colors range from pure white through rich, bright shades of pink. In full bloom the blossoms can literally conseal the foliage.