Campanula zangezura is somewhat similar to the C. armena that I grow. What an odd and interesting flower bud! I just went out and looked at my sad plants gasping in the 96F temp, their buds are similar too, but not as nice. I never noticed them before, until your most excellent photo, Todd.
With all this heat, I have many species blooming near white when they had previously flowered blue/purple. All eight of my Allium sikkimense from seed that Mark had preliminarily verified for me (http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=177.0;attach=7910;i...) have almost no color, a dozen Anemone rivularis from three sources are all white (front and back) and Petrohagia saxifraga that normally has a purply tint is the purist white. Campanula armena seems to teeter back and forth with color, and Phemeranthus calycinus, if anything is deeper colored.
P.S. Mark: does this still look like A. sikkimense? i don't recall the stalks twisting so much before they straighten and flower...
28 June 11
Anemone rivularis (28 June 11) in a pot, and in the garden. :'(
With all this heat, I have many species blooming near white when they had previously flowered blue/purple. All eight of my Allium sikkimense from seed that Mark had preliminarily verified for me (http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=177.0;attach=7910;i...) have almost no color, a dozen Anemone rivularis from three sources are all white (front and back) and Petrohagia saxifraga that normally has a purply tint is the purist white. Campanula armena seems to teeter back and forth with color, and Phemeranthus calycinus, if anything is deeper colored.
P.S. Mark: does this still look like A. sikkimense? i don't recall the stalks twisting so much before they straighten and flower...
Rick, it could be A. sikkimense... the foliage doesn't look as flat as it should, but nodding buds that become erect eventually is typical, and yes, the high heat can "whiten" lots of plants and flowers; we're in the heat too, with the rest of this week predicted for same high heat that the midwest has been experiencing. Show me this Allium in a week or two when the flowers open... mine are coming into bud now too, so the timing of your plant is right.
Todd, the form Symphyandra, now Campanula zangezuri is really lovely!
The campanula/symphyandra is lovely, whatever the name. Certainly the other symphyandra keep themselves going by self-sowing, but never obnoxiously. The weather here is dreadful, blistering hot and humid, yet there are a few things that are looking as is they are enjoying themselves: physarias, astragalus, eriogonums. Also, all the daphnes are starting to rebloom. Just a few pictures taken this morning.......
The campanula/symphyandra is lovely, whatever the name. Certainly the other symphyandra keep themselves going by self-sowing, but never obnoxiously. The weather here is dreadful, blistering hot and humid, yet there are a few things that are looking as is they are enjoying themselves: physarias, astragalus, eriogonums. Also, all the daphnes are starting to rebloom. Just a few pictures taken this morning.......
Looking great, Anne, love the Erio... no heatwave here--we got as high as mid-high 20'sC (maybe 80F for a few hours) for just a few days, now back to 16C as highs (11C as a high, Friday!) with lows down to 3C..... 20 again by the weekend.... wildflowers seem happy with the non-stop rain this year, and I've only watered seed pots once or twice after late May!
Wow, Cliff! That gigantic boulder with the trees perched on top is amazing! And I'm sure the picturesque rock is securely "staked" down by all the tree roots finding there way from the top down into terra firma!
Just back from the beautiful Dolomites ... just one of the zillion stunning views.
beautiful, Cliff! Is this area grazed?
Hi Cohan, No, this particular area is too boggy for grazing ... the marshes are full of orchids, Parnassia palustris, Allium schoenoprasum (by the thousands), Pyrola rotundifolia, etc, etc. Looking left, right or behind gives equally beautiful, but completely different views.
I have a lot of stuff to catch up with! The Dolomites seems to be a wonderful place, Cliff!
Here are a taste of another wonderful place - and very different from anything I have experienced previously ;D The tepuy Roraima on the border of Venezuela - Guyana - Brazil; fog and clouds often appeared quite suddenly!
I'm glad you asked that, Rick. I was confused by the scale in that photo, and couldn't decide if they were small plants or huge trees... are those trees??
I'll show more rocks and plants later when I get time and a better internet connection. The trees are small trees or large shrubs - here's a photo to show the scale: (This is one of the larger specimens) - and we are about 2700m above sea level.
Well, speaking of otherworldly! :o :o What an amazing place, Trond!
Edit: Oh, and as I mentioned this and showed the photos to Stuart, I was reminded that the area you are visiting was the site of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World... do let us know if you come upon any dinosaurs. 8) 8) Stuart had a comic book, apparently, that featured American GIs fighting Allosaurus in this area... (I only had wimpy comic books... Richie Rich, Little Lottie, Casper, Archie... none of them ever fought dinosaurs... sigh.)
I studied that umbrella rock photo and concluded that those must be trees since the leaves were so tiny in the pic. I guess I was sort of right, but not what I had envisioned. Still, an awesome place, and with several sizings that seem out of place according to my norms. Weird! (but cool)
Love the tepuis, Trond! I've seen a couple programs on tv, and did some searching after, but there is not much on the plants (they mention the vegetation of course, but not much detail on what's there), so I'm looking forward to your pics.. how did you get up there--hike/climb? helicopter?
Love the tepuis, Trond! I've seen a couple programs on tv, and did some searching after, but there is not much on the plants (they mention the vegetation of course, but not much detail on what's there), so I'm looking forward to your pics.. how did you get up there--hike/climb? helicopter?
I'll come back with a report when I get home and get access to my broadband. Now I only have a phone as modem and it is hopeless to load pictures properly. Besides I have not resized the pics yet and neither named the plant species - hopefully I manage to name some of the plants.
It is several tepuis and most are inaccessible without real mountain climbing or helicopter. Roraima is one of the easier - you hike two days through a undulating savannah, cross a couple of rivers without bridges; the third day you climb 1000m up in a very steep scree mostly covered with a kind of rainforest and enter a plateau at about 2700m. Here you spend 2 nights and one day exploring the nature before climbing down and hike back to civilisation in two days. It is a limited number of people up there at the time but some come for a half day trip by helicopter.
It is a strange world up there and even the colours are different. I could easily have spent weeks there exploring the place (it is 31km2).
Love the tepuis, Trond! I've seen a couple programs on tv, and did some searching after, but there is not much on the plants (they mention the vegetation of course, but not much detail on what's there), so I'm looking forward to your pics.. how did you get up there--hike/climb? helicopter?
I'll come back with a report when I get home and get access to my broadband. Now I only have a phone as modem and it is hopeless to load pictures properly. Besides I have not resized the pics yet and neither named the plant species - hopefully I manage to name some of the plants.
It is several tepuis and most are inaccessible without real mountain climbing or helicopter. Roraima is one of the easier - you hike two days through a undulating savannah, cross a couple of rivers without bridges; the third day you climb 1000m up in a very steep scree mostly covered with a kind of rainforest and enter a plateau at about 2700m. Here you spend 2 nights and one day exploring the nature before climbing down and hike back to civilisation in two days. It is a limited number of people up there at the time but some come for a half day trip by helicopter.
It is a strange world up there and even the colours are different. I could easily have spent weeks there exploring the place (it is 31km2).
They showed the hike and climb in a show I saw, but the last part seemed pretty hairy-- I remember people hanging from ropes, but maybe they were doing some extra exploring of the cliffs, I can't remember now... I can imagine one full day would not be enough in such a place...
Trond - what a stunning and weird place! It puts the garden into context; there is so much more to see than you can ever imagine! I wish we could see more of the wild places of the world on TV. We get plenty of programmes on the wildlife but very few really good ones on plants. A massive opportunity for film-makers. And a learning experience for many of us.
Very sweet, Cliff! Who cares for your garden while you are gallivanting in the mountains?
Hi Cohan, My dear son-in-law pops in twice a week and literally drowns everything (whatever the weather), but I can't, daren't and won't complain as most plants survive the deluge and I couldn't be more grateful! We do return the favour, of course, by drowning, feeding their cats every day when they go travelling. ;D
I will have to travel to Norway to see some more Trond! ;D
The best display of R. glacialis I have ever seen were on the Hintertux .... utterly spellbinding to see my favourite plant in such floristic profusion.
Not sure if it is considered an alpine but here is a picture of Berkheya purpurea I started from seed last March. It is native toi the Drakensburg at 3000m, so it is alpine in my opinion. The plant is extremely spiny. The flower stem is about 40 cm. The challenge will be to overwinter it.
I will have to travel to Norway to see some more Trond! ;D
The best display of R. glacialis I have ever seen were on the Hintertux .... utterly spellbinding to see my favourite plant in such floristic profusion.
Not sure if it is considered an alpine but here is a picture of Berkheya purpurea I started from seed last March. It is native toi the Drakensburg at 3000m, so it is alpine in my opinion. The plant is extremely spiny. The flower stem is about 40 cm. The challenge will be to overwinter it.
Where's the purpur? Hope you manage to overwinter this gem!
We grow three Berkheya species but on the whole I suppose our climate is pretty mild. Berkheya purpurea seeds around a little, but can also spread underground and is likely to come back from the roots unless the ground is deeply frozen. B.multijuga is probably the hardiest, a massive compact clump of pretty nasty leaves(!) and, sadly, bright yellow flowers that attract hundreds of small beetles - but never sets any seed! The other species came from a remarkable garden on the East Norfolk coast, The Old Vicarage, East Ruston, growing in their 'desert' garden - pretty stunning there in deep gravel but less dramatic in our richer soil. There are many other interesting species, including some that are shrubby, but almost all must be fairly tender. (see The Cape Floral Kingdom, by Colin Paterson Jones for a striking picture of B. francisci in the Swartberg).
Wow Tim, I didn't realzie there were others. That yellow one is certainly nasty but really, I think the foliage is funky! Morina has nasty foliage too and it's another I love.
I once grew a Berkheya species, seems I have to try more of the genus!
These can't compete but the first one (Rumex acetosa) is at least edible! I don't know about the second one and I can't understand how I managed to place my left foot in the frame either! Erigeron acre is a biennial.
This has certainly been the summer that never was in my area. May was 2 degrees below normal...June was 6 degrees and only averaged one degree better than May. July was 2 degrees below and the first week of August has not gotten better than 15 C. We had 21 consecutive days of rain in June AND July. So far, only a weeks worth of sun for both months...rot, rot, rot. Drylanders..forget it. I need alpines from foggy, misty mountains. Testiment to the cold summer...Primula vialii is just starting to bloom, along with 5 other species.
Beautiful, Todd. What kind of longevity does this have for you? Opposite waether here - hot, humid, hot, humid, hot, hot hot. Finally some rain and a few things are already starting to perk up. Others may have become permanently dormant. It's been a difficult summer.
This has certainly been the summer that never was in my area. May was 2 degrees below normal...June was 6 degrees and only averaged one degree better than May. July was 2 degrees below and the first week of August has not gotten better than 15 C. We had 21 consecutive days of rain in June AND July. So far, only a weeks worth of sun for both months...rot, rot, rot. Drylanders..forget it. I need alpines from foggy, misty mountains. Testiment to the cold summer...Primula vialii is just starting to bloom, along with 5 other species.
I know a place to look for those alpines, Todd ;) However they dislike freezing . . . Primula vialii seems to enjoy the weather ;D
Much rain here too but I can't complain. The temperature has been above average and July mean was about 2 degrees C above normal where I garden (both at home and at our summerhouses).
I like your bee Dave (But actually it is a fly?) Silene acaulis is always a pleasure and with such big boulders ;D What's more interesting, the Anemone or the fossil? Difficult to decide.
Here's my contribution: Cacile maritima at the north shore of Andøya (69oNorth latitude. Free sight to the North Pole! (Almost ;))
Do you have an image of lava for the heat deprived? I have officially given up on summer and am preparing for winter...had to have the heat on in the house this past week...still rain, drizzle and only 10 C. Officially the worse summer since 1942 and if this continues, the worse summer in recorded history! Since June 1 we have only had 10 days when it DIDN'T rain! Essentially our summer has been a Vancouver winter...my Helleborus niger is actually blooming again! Amazing that the weather can be so hot across the rest of North America and one little pimple called St. John's, can be so cold. Mind you, central and western Newfoundland are having typical summer weather, so only the extreme east is a write-off.
Heading to our northern limestone barrens on Monday..hope to collect some native arctic-alpines for the NARGS seed exchange.
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Richard T. Rodich
Re: Image of the day
Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:49pmCampanula zangezura is somewhat similar to the C. armena that I grow. What an odd and interesting flower bud! I just went out and looked at my sad plants gasping in the 96F temp, their buds are similar too, but not as nice. I never noticed them before, until your most excellent photo, Todd.
With all this heat, I have many species blooming near white when they had previously flowered blue/purple. All eight of my Allium sikkimense from seed that Mark had preliminarily verified for me (http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=177.0;attach=7910;i...) have almost no color, a dozen Anemone rivularis from three sources are all white (front and back) and Petrohagia saxifraga that normally has a purply tint is the purist white. Campanula armena seems to teeter back and forth with color, and Phemeranthus calycinus, if anything is deeper colored.
P.S. Mark: does this still look like A. sikkimense? i don't recall the stalks twisting so much before they straighten and flower...
28 June 11
Anemone rivularis (28 June 11) in a pot, and in the garden. :'(
Mark McDonough
Re: Image of the day
Tue, 07/19/2011 - 7:03pmRick, it could be A. sikkimense... the foliage doesn't look as flat as it should, but nodding buds that become erect eventually is typical, and yes, the high heat can "whiten" lots of plants and flowers; we're in the heat too, with the rest of this week predicted for same high heat that the midwest has been experiencing. Show me this Allium in a week or two when the flowers open... mine are coming into bud now too, so the timing of your plant is right.
Todd, the form Symphyandra, now Campanula zangezuri is really lovely!
Lori S. (not verified)
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Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:57pmCampanula zangezura:
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-366728
Anne Spiegel
Re: Image of the day
Wed, 07/20/2011 - 6:57amThe campanula/symphyandra is lovely, whatever the name. Certainly the other symphyandra keep themselves going by self-sowing, but never obnoxiously.
The weather here is dreadful, blistering hot and humid, yet there are a few things that are looking as is they are enjoying themselves: physarias, astragalus, eriogonums. Also, all the daphnes are starting to rebloom. Just a few pictures taken this morning.......
cohan (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Wed, 07/20/2011 - 11:54amLooking great, Anne, love the Erio...
no heatwave here--we got as high as mid-high 20'sC (maybe 80F for a few hours) for just a few days, now back to 16C as highs (11C as a high, Friday!) with lows down to 3C..... 20 again by the weekend.... wildflowers seem happy with the non-stop rain this year, and I've only watered seed pots once or twice after late May!
Cliff Booker
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Fri, 07/22/2011 - 12:00pmJust back from the beautiful Dolomites ... just one of the zillion stunning views.
Cliff Booker
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Fri, 07/22/2011 - 12:23pmLichen ridge in the same area.
Richard T. Rodich
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Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:09pmWow, Cliff! That gigantic boulder with the trees perched on top is amazing! And I'm sure the picturesque rock is securely "staked" down by all the tree roots finding there way from the top down into terra firma!
Lori S. (not verified)
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Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:51pmBeautiful scenes, Cliff! Thanks for posting them. The first photo, in particular, looks otherworldly!
cohan (not verified)
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Fri, 07/22/2011 - 11:35pmbeautiful, Cliff! Is this area grazed?
Cliff Booker
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Sat, 07/23/2011 - 12:15amHi Cohan,
No, this particular area is too boggy for grazing ... the marshes are full of orchids, Parnassia palustris, Allium schoenoprasum (by the thousands), Pyrola rotundifolia, etc, etc. Looking left, right or behind gives equally beautiful, but completely different views.
Trond Hoy
Re: Image of the day
Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:17amI have a lot of stuff to catch up with!
The Dolomites seems to be a wonderful place, Cliff!
Here are a taste of another wonderful place - and very different from anything I have experienced previously ;D
The tepuy Roraima on the border of Venezuela - Guyana - Brazil; fog and clouds often appeared quite suddenly!
Richard T. Rodich
Re: Image of the day
Sat, 07/23/2011 - 9:01amHoly Moly, Trond! Those rock formations are MASSIVE !!!
Those are really trees under that "umbrella rock"?
Lori S. (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Sat, 07/23/2011 - 10:58amI'm glad you asked that, Rick. I was confused by the scale in that photo, and couldn't decide if they were small plants or huge trees... are those trees??
Trond Hoy
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Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:41pmI'll show more rocks and plants later when I get time and a better internet connection. The trees are small trees or large shrubs - here's a photo to show the scale: (This is one of the larger specimens)
- and we are about 2700m above sea level.
Lori S. (not verified)
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Sat, 07/23/2011 - 8:31pmWell, speaking of otherworldly! :o :o What an amazing place, Trond!
Edit: Oh, and as I mentioned this and showed the photos to Stuart, I was reminded that the area you are visiting was the site of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World... do let us know if you come upon any dinosaurs. 8) 8) Stuart had a comic book, apparently, that featured American GIs fighting Allosaurus in this area... (I only had wimpy comic books... Richie Rich, Little Lottie, Casper, Archie... none of them ever fought dinosaurs... sigh.)
Richard T. Rodich
Re: Image of the day
Sat, 07/23/2011 - 10:44pmI studied that umbrella rock photo and concluded that those must be trees since the leaves were so tiny in the pic. I guess I was sort of right, but not what I had envisioned. Still, an awesome place, and with several sizings that seem out of place according to my norms. Weird! (but cool)
cohan (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Sun, 07/24/2011 - 2:07pmLove the tepuis, Trond! I've seen a couple programs on tv, and did some searching after, but there is not much on the plants (they mention the vegetation of course, but not much detail on what's there), so I'm looking forward to your pics.. how did you get up there--hike/climb? helicopter?
Trond Hoy
Re: Image of the day
Sun, 07/24/2011 - 3:30pmI'll come back with a report when I get home and get access to my broadband. Now I only have a phone as modem and it is hopeless to load pictures properly. Besides I have not resized the pics yet and neither named the plant species - hopefully I manage to name some of the plants.
It is several tepuis and most are inaccessible without real mountain climbing or helicopter. Roraima is one of the easier - you hike two days through a undulating savannah, cross a couple of rivers without bridges; the third day you climb 1000m up in a very steep scree mostly covered with a kind of rainforest and enter a plateau at about 2700m. Here you spend 2 nights and one day exploring the nature before climbing down and hike back to civilisation in two days. It is a limited number of people up there at the time but some come for a half day trip by helicopter.
It is a strange world up there and even the colours are different. I could easily have spent weeks there exploring the place (it is 31km2).
cohan (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Sun, 07/24/2011 - 4:41pmThey showed the hike and climb in a show I saw, but the last part seemed pretty hairy-- I remember people hanging from ropes, but maybe they were doing some extra exploring of the cliffs, I can't remember now... I can imagine one full day would not be enough in such a place...
Tim Ingram (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Mon, 07/25/2011 - 12:16amTrond - what a stunning and weird place! It puts the garden into context; there is so much more to see than you can ever imagine! I wish we could see more of the wild places of the world on TV. We get plenty of programmes on the wildlife but very few really good ones on plants. A massive opportunity for film-makers. And a learning experience for many of us.
Cliff Booker
Re: Image of the day
Mon, 07/25/2011 - 8:30amRanunculus glacialis growing in the crumbling conglomerate detritus at Portovescova, near Arabba in the Dolomites.
cohan (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Mon, 07/25/2011 - 10:58amVery sweet, Cliff! Who cares for your garden while you are gallivanting in the mountains?
Cliff Booker
Re: Image of the day
Mon, 07/25/2011 - 11:55pmHi Cohan,
My dear son-in-law pops in twice a week and literally drowns everything (whatever the weather), but I can't, daren't and won't complain as most plants survive the deluge and I couldn't be more grateful! We do return the favour, of course, by
drowning, feeding their cats every day when they go travelling. ;DTrond Hoy
Re: Image of the day
Wed, 07/27/2011 - 11:24amHappily I don't need to travel that far to find this species!
Cliff Booker
Re: Image of the day
Wed, 07/27/2011 - 11:55amI will have to travel to Norway to see some more Trond! ;D
The best display of R. glacialis I have ever seen were on the Hintertux .... utterly spellbinding to see my favourite plant in such floristic profusion.
Todd Boland
Re: Image of the day
Thu, 07/28/2011 - 2:31pmNot sure if it is considered an alpine but here is a picture of Berkheya purpurea I started from seed last March. It is native toi the Drakensburg at 3000m, so it is alpine in my opinion. The plant is extremely spiny. The flower stem is about 40 cm. The challenge will be to overwinter it.
Trond Hoy
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Thu, 07/28/2011 - 2:35pmYou are welcome any time, Cliff ;)
Trond Hoy
Re: Image of the day
Thu, 07/28/2011 - 2:36pmWhere's the purpur?
Hope you manage to overwinter this gem!
Lori S. (not verified)
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Thu, 07/28/2011 - 7:52pmHey, I imagine 3000m would be pretty alpine in most areas! Looks interesting - I'm looking forward to hearing about overwintering success.
Todd Boland
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Fri, 07/29/2011 - 2:58amIt survives in Denver...but doesn't everything South African? I'll collect seed and send them your way Lori...it does prefer dry winters!
As to the 'purpur'...well there is a hint of purple!
Tim Ingram (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Fri, 07/29/2011 - 3:48amWe grow three Berkheya species but on the whole I suppose our climate is pretty mild. Berkheya purpurea seeds around a little, but can also spread underground and is likely to come back from the roots unless the ground is deeply frozen. B.multijuga is probably the hardiest, a massive compact clump of pretty nasty leaves(!) and, sadly, bright yellow flowers that attract hundreds of small beetles - but never sets any seed! The other species came from a remarkable garden on the East Norfolk coast, The Old Vicarage, East Ruston, growing in their 'desert' garden - pretty stunning there in deep gravel but less dramatic in our richer soil. There are many other interesting species, including some that are shrubby, but almost all must be fairly tender. (see The Cape Floral Kingdom, by Colin Paterson Jones for a striking picture of B. francisci in the Swartberg).
Todd Boland
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Sat, 07/30/2011 - 1:00pmWow Tim, I didn't realzie there were others. That yellow one is certainly nasty but really, I think the foliage is funky! Morina has nasty foliage too and it's another I love.
Trond Hoy
Re: Image of the day
Wed, 08/03/2011 - 6:29amI once grew a Berkheya species, seems I have to try more of the genus!
These can't compete but the first one (Rumex acetosa) is at least edible! I don't know about the second one and I can't understand how I managed to place my left foot in the frame either! Erigeron acre is a biennial.
Lori S. (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Wed, 08/03/2011 - 8:41amThat's an attractive Erigeron. How tall does it get?
Panorama Meadows, Banff N.P., yesterday:
(See Plant Travels and Excursions for more photos of this area.)
Trond Hoy
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Wed, 08/03/2011 - 12:33pm15 - 30cm. Want some seed? ;)
Lori S. (not verified)
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Thu, 08/04/2011 - 11:19amSure, if it's no trouble to collect. Thanks!
Todd Boland
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Fri, 08/05/2011 - 2:55amThis has certainly been the summer that never was in my area. May was 2 degrees below normal...June was 6 degrees and only averaged one degree better than May. July was 2 degrees below and the first week of August has not gotten better than 15 C. We had 21 consecutive days of rain in June AND July. So far, only a weeks worth of sun for both months...rot, rot, rot. Drylanders..forget it. I need alpines from foggy, misty mountains. Testiment to the cold summer...Primula vialii is just starting to bloom, along with 5 other species.
Anne Spiegel
Re: Image of the day
Fri, 08/05/2011 - 3:45amBeautiful, Todd. What kind of longevity does this have for you?
Opposite waether here - hot, humid, hot, humid, hot, hot hot. Finally some rain and a few things are
already starting to perk up. Others may have become permanently dormant. It's been a difficult summer.
Trond Hoy
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Fri, 08/05/2011 - 1:19pmI know a place to look for those alpines, Todd ;) However they dislike freezing . . . Primula vialii seems to enjoy the weather ;D
Much rain here too but I can't complain. The temperature has been above average and July mean was about 2 degrees C above normal where I garden (both at home and at our summerhouses).
Todd Boland
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Sat, 08/06/2011 - 5:23pmP. vialii is short lived here Anne...might get 3 years from it.
Rain all day today...along with 65 km winds and only 10 C....feels like late October. This is getting depressing.
Toole (not verified)
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Wed, 08/10/2011 - 2:48amAbout the same here Todd.
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Beeing' busy. Edit Fly.It's a messy job..... ;D
Cheers Dave.
Cliff Booker
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Wed, 08/10/2011 - 1:24pmLovely images everyone.
Two images of Silene acaulis from the Dolomites ... I loved the beautiful boulder.
Lori S. (not verified)
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Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:19pmGreat photos!
Here's Anemone parviflora with fossilized coral in the background, from yesterday:
Trond Hoy
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Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:02pmI like your bee Dave (But actually it is a fly?)
Silene acaulis is always a pleasure and with such big boulders ;D
What's more interesting, the Anemone or the fossil? Difficult to decide.
Here's my contribution: Cacile maritima at the north shore of Andøya (69oNorth latitude. Free sight to the North Pole! (Almost ;))
Toole (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Thu, 08/11/2011 - 1:50amWell Trond you learn something new each day ;D .Well spotted.
I thought it was a honey bee --landing on a flower--pollen on it's body.....
However having a look on the web i see Bees have 4 wings , larger antenna and smaller eyes.
Cheers Dave.
Lori S. (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Thu, 08/11/2011 - 11:31amAnother cooling image for those of you experiencing heat waves!
Todd Boland
Re: Image of the day
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 7:55amDo you have an image of lava for the heat deprived? I have officially given up on summer and am preparing for winter...had to have the heat on in the house this past week...still rain, drizzle and only 10 C. Officially the worse summer since 1942 and if this continues, the worse summer in recorded history! Since June 1 we have only had 10 days when it DIDN'T rain! Essentially our summer has been a Vancouver winter...my Helleborus niger is actually blooming again! Amazing that the weather can be so hot across the rest of North America and one little pimple called St. John's, can be so cold. Mind you, central and western Newfoundland are having typical summer weather, so only the extreme east is a write-off.
Heading to our northern limestone barrens on Monday..hope to collect some native arctic-alpines for the NARGS seed exchange.
Lori S. (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 8:21amErr, no... but if it helps, try to imagine sweating on the climb up there. ;D ;D
Sorry for your dreadful weather! Summer is so short and precious that it's awful to be "short-changed" that way!
Lori S. (not verified)
Re: Image of the day
Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:57pmOne might say that there are not many plants there, perhaps... but what's there is choice!! ;D
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