When I get time I have to construct a sand bed, that's for sure!
Here are some pics from one of my "wild beds"! This tulip (Tulipa sylvestris) is a very old (several 100 years) garden plant in Norway and it has escaped gardens since day one. It has also come as a ballast plant - as seeds or bulbs together with the sand and soil the tall ship used as ballast when returning from Europe after delivering its cargo - timber, ice etc. You'll find it many places at the coast. It spreads by seed and runners making a bulb at the apex.
Trond, mine has produced flowers once or twice over the past 7-8 years... lots of foliage, but rarely flowers. The foliage is starting to run, so I may try digging it out in a couple spots where I have it, not sure what it needs that I'm not supplying, possibly my garden is too dry for it? The problem might be that I have it planted in shade (it was suggested to me that it grows in shady woodland areas) but might actually need sunnier spots to flower. I have a strong feeling of deja vu discussing this plant ;)
Mark, I too have grown this plant for many years with hardly a flower. A visitor once told me they had a much more free-flowering form, and it is lovely to see the Norwegian colonies and to hear how they arrived. Mine started off in the shade of a willow until that was blown down and are now in full sun. Are there any other tulips that run in the same way? It's a little like a few of the crocus even though a very different bulb.
Seen in the garden which is enjoying a lovely spring now - days with sun and cloud and not too warm - cool nights but no killing frosts. Just a couple of pictures of what's happening. Because of the weather the Onosma albo-rosea is lasting a long time. Aquilegia scopoulorum is quite variable in nature, from quite small to a bit too tall for a trough. This one is a nice size for a trough, although not the smallest.
Anne, the Onosma is GORGEOUS, love the low plant habit as well as the flower color. Aquilegia scopulorum is half bad too ;)... looking mighty fine in your trough.
Mark, I've grown this onosma for many years and this is the first plant I've had where the flowers turned a deep coral instead of the usual purply pink. I really think the color is marvelous. And, I have two self-sown seedlings, also a first. It's been blooming for several weeks now.
The onosma is actually growing at the edge of the tufa crevice garden so it is also getting more lime than the others I have. They have a tendency to get very woody and that's when a winter without much snow seems to carry it away. They can last up to ten years or more, though.
It's great fun looking at all of your gardens. Ann Spiegel: you are beyond amazing! I can't believe how wonderful your astragalus and phlox look: much better than they do here. And all the classic Maritime Alpines to boot! That pink Magnolia stellata is to die for, Mark. And thrilled to see Tim Ingram's sand beds and gems.
A few things from my garden: it's raining buckets as I type this (first rain in weeks) so I am heaving big sighs of relief. I've planted hundreds of plants in the last week and was tired of running around and trying to keep them watered. Artificial watering can never replace natural rain. We had an enormous plant sale at Denver Botanic Gardens last weekend: over 15,000 people and nearly a quarter million dollars gross! Lots of great alpines sold (and everything else as well, for that matter). We had almost no plants by Saturday morning (the sale started Friday). If we'd restocked we could have easily done of $300,000 I believe.
A few pix from my garden: the first is an overview with Draba rigida in the foreground near the stream. The second shows Daphne juliae and Aubrieta gracilis (the tiniest Aubrieta--and the best!). The Iris bloudowii was a first for me (although I saw it in the Altai blooming two years ago). The purple iris came from Beaver Creek where they claim it was from the Altai: looks far more like Iris pumila to me, however (which is far more westerly in distribution: any ideas?)... There are a few pix from Denver Botanic Gardens I couldn't resist (the Erythronium albidum for one, and the troughs with Physaria bellii and Townsendia parryi spilling over the sides...)--I should do a whole series just from there..but most are from my garden which has never looked better!
All the best to you all at the height of North Tmperate Spring!
Well spring has finally settled in. Cistanthe tweedyi ( syn. Lewisia tweedyi) Fritillaria atropurpurea this is a small dry-land lily from western North America. Delphinium andersonii Camissonia tanacetifolia ssp. tanacetifolia Eriogonum douglasii var. meridionale Gilia tricolor Grusonia clavata and Lewisia rediviva var. minor General views
Panayoti--love the Physaria and Townsendia together! Hoy, in this partial view, your unknown woodlander reminds a lot of Galeopsis tetrahit and Stachys palustris- the former a not very bothersome introduced weed here, and the latter a potentially aggressive but pretty native ;)
Wow, spring is bustin' out all over in your areas!! :o Fabulous scenes and plants! Trond, I think your unknown woodland plant is Lamium orvala.
I know it is a bit heretical, but I actually prefer the more modest, smaller flowered lewisia species such as L. brachycalyx to the big, blowsy-flowered cultivars.
I think you are right, Lori. I remember that name and the pictures I found seem to confirm it. Thanks both of you, Cohan and Lori! (I am getting lazy - it is easier to ask somebody here than to look it up yourself!)
Seeing John, Anne and Panayoti's gardens is extremely exciting for me because I have a yen for the mountain plants from dry habitats and the traditions in Britain have always been much more the plants of the Alps and Himalayas and China - the interest in summer dry habitats has centred more on bulbs. It would be great to see more AGS members making such gardens, if only to capitalise more on our dry climate in the south-east. The rest of our front lawn is due for the chop!
We need to get you out to the States, Tim! Any plans for 2012? Maybe we can organize a lecture tour?
John: your Lewisia tweedyi puts our's to shame! I so regret not seeing your garden in the growing season (although it was pretty stunning in March). You are amazing! Your garden and the Stiremans' in Utah are the finest dryland gardens I know (including dozens of pretty good ones in Colorado...).
I am so enjoying seeing all these wonderful gardens. Our slow spring here is continuing. Last year I went to a Connecticut Chapter meeting and the temperature hit 95!!! When that happens the rock garden is finished in a matter of days, not many weks because evrything is forced and then over. 1. Corner of trough with Hymenoxys lapidicola and Lewisia brachycalyx with many seedlings of same popping up. 2. Trifolium owyheense protected from deer this winter and it is repaying the effort. From Alplains seed.
Anne, the clover is really cute.. I've been looking at some of the Trifolium species--pretty flowers, but some of the foliage would be traumatic for me, I think...lol.. clovers are some of my most difficult weeds (being surrounded by farmland where its encouraged as forage...lol)
Wonderful images (and plants) everybody ... your strong sunlight accentuates the colour and enables some stunning photography. We are more used to mists and mellow fruitfulness - even in early summer. :D I am amazed that I can even contemplate building a sand bed in this northern English climate! No, perhaps I can't! :D
Cohan, you don't have to worry about Trifolium owyheense ramping about. It's definitely not a weed. The foliage is nicely mottled (not really descriptive but don't know how else to say it) and the flowers are huge and gorgeous. The last time I grew this I seem to remember the flowers being a lighter pink. Cliff, yes you CAN try a sand bed, why ever not? You might be really surprised at what you could grow there.
You are amazing! Your garden and the Stiremans' in Utah are the finest dryland gardens I know (including dozens of pretty good ones in Colorado...).
Oh shucks! Your way to kind. :-[ Your garden is nothing to sneeze at either by the way. :D
Anne I like the combination of Hymenoxys lapidicola and your lovely Lewisia brachycalyx. Your Trifolium owyheense is a rare treasure indeed. Wish seed were available for it. I've talked to Idaho gardeners who have visited it's limited habitat. It grows on crusty ash and tuff substrates. It's nice to see it thriving in your garden. Here is a little article about it.
While the other eight willow species I grow are long done blooming, the catkins of Salix schraderiana are still looking good...
Rick, I really like this one!
Anne, that trefoil is stunning! I have sowed some Trifolium seed this spring and many are germinating now. However owyheense was unknown to me! Now it is on my list!
No garden walk today - or this weekend. We are heading north to Ålesund to pick up our youngest daughter. Have to stay the night here in Jølster. It is raining however and the view isn't the best. This is not a fjord but a fjordlike lake 205m above sea level. The lake is 20km long, 233 m deep and usually don't freeze over in winter. Trout is a common fish here.
The seed for the Trifolium owyheense came from Alan Bradshaw of Aplains. I always have good luck with Alan's seeds and I think he had it listed this year too. I know it grows in a limited area with very different "soil". Here it's growing in a limey scree (roughly ph 8 ) that is sloped west-southwest and has very sharp drainage. It's very open and has sun most of the day including the hot afternoon sun. No water is added and there are a lot of astragalus and oxytropis growing on this slope.
Cohan, you don't have to worry about Trifolium owyheense ramping about. It's definitely not a weed. The foliage is nicely mottled (not really descriptive but don't know how else to say it) and the flowers are huge and gorgeous. The last time I grew this I seem to remember the flowers being a lighter pink. Cliff, yes you CAN try a sand bed, why ever not? You might be really surprised at what you could grow there.
Thanks, Anne-- I know some of these little ones are not dangerous, but if the leaves look like regular clover I might be a bit unsettled...lol.. this from someone trying fancy Taraxacums, when officinale germinates in every available centimetre of soil! But, clovers are just as common as dandelions, and they spread by creeping stems...lol.. pretty flowers though... sound like interesting colours on some..
Still no garden view but from the window of the hotel. Today we picked up our daughter, tomorrow we are heading home - plan to use two days. The shortest way includes 5 fjord crossings with ferry.
The ferries on the last stretch:
Tomorrow we are driving along the fjord further inland.
Still no garden view but from the window of the hotel. Today we picked up our daughter, tomorrow we are heading home - plan to use two days. The shortest way includes 5 fjord crossings with ferry. The ferries on the last stretch: Tomorrow we are driving along the fjord further inland.
5 crossings! Wow, I can't imagine, I have been on ferries not many more times that that in my life--we used to visit relatives on Vancouver island, and of course had to cross by ferry, those are very large ones, of course..oh, and Italy to Greece-- a long night ill dozing on the floor outside the bathroom...lol
All you guys' mountainous terrain puts me in awe. I wouldn't say I live in real flat land, but interesting looking hills (and gullies) always make me want to explore them. If I lived over there, Trond, I would want to climb every mountain! (Kinda puts a new twist on the movie "The Sound of Music", doesn't it?)
Todd, looking only at the flower, that doesn't even look like a bloodroot! And ten petals, too...
Primula rusbyi - one old plant has decided to bloom a bit again this year, after taking a couple of years off; I still need to propagate them to rejuvenate them, I think.
Spectacular display Lori! You have such choice plants. I finally got a Paraquilegia microphyllus and I'm afraid to plant it out, yet yours seems OK in calgary. I wonder if they can take winter wet. You are inching ahead of me....we have had mostly rain, drizzle and fog this past 2 week and cold temps...only 4 C yesterday. Plants are once more in suspended animation around here. On the plus side, the spring bulbs will be open for weeks!
Wonderful plants, Lori, especially that Petrocallis pyrenaica. Great shot of the Paeonia tenuifolia foliage. I just learned via the Scottish Forum that what I've been growing as P. tenuifolia is actually P. intermedia. Quite a surprise! You have such a wide range of beautiful plants in your garden.
A few more plants growing in our front garden and looking good at the moment. Dianthus 'Eileen Lever' is a fantastically free-flowering selection from Aberconwy Nursery; on the sand bed I also have a really deep red 'pink' of which I have lost the name (but it must be a well known form); Lithodora x intermedia, one of my all time favourites from a favourite family; Teucrium aroanum, a little plant but with disproportionate sized flowers a lot more showy than many of its relatives; Penstemon ovatus. I had a spell trying to grow lots of different species but this one has persisted very well, self-sowing gently and such a glorious colour; Potentilla fruticosa 'Beesii', I think the finest form with a neat habit and silvery-silky leaves. Finally one of the oddest and rarest plants in the garden, the Turkish Pelargonium quercetorum. This hasn't really flowered well and must be benefiting from our long dry and warm spring. I tried P. endlicherianum on the sand bed thinking it would do well, and it hasn't!
It's astonishing how many plants you can grow in your garden after more than 30 years, and there is a lot of useful seed and cutting material!
Spectacular display Lori! You have such choice plants. I finally got a Paraquilegia microphyllus and I'm afraid to plant it out, yet yours seems OK in calgary. I wonder if they can take winter wet. You are inching ahead of me....we have had mostly rain, drizzle and fog this past 2 week and cold temps...only 4 C yesterday. Plants are once more in suspended animation around here. On the plus side, the spring bulbs will be open for weeks!
Todd, I planted Paraquilegia last spring and it survived the last winter here but no flowers yet.
You all have so many interesting plants! Interesting to see which plants all have and which only few have!
Today we have steered southward again but to avoid some ferries and to see new terrain we took one of the more inland road. That implies longer drive and more ups and downs!
Along the fjords it is all green - except huge fields with dandelions!
In the valleys you can still see the last remnants of the avalanches through the woods. The woods consist mostly of birch and alder but also aspen, rowan and in the lower parts of linden and elm. In the understory of the woods you can find a lot of plants but we had no time to look for that now!
Some of the valleys end abruptly and the road has to climb steeply up to the pass before descending again.
Trond, it looks like the snow plow has quite a job keeping that road open! :o The switchbacks are amazing too... I only see ones like that on hiking trails. It seems odd to have avalanches running down into deciduous trees, whereas here, it is spruce and firs at those elevations. Very interesting to see your part of the world, Trond.
Todd, Paraquilegia are grown to exquisite perfection here by Stephanie Ferguson... too bad that it was too late to see them in bloom when you were here in July. I believe the plant I showed is a seedling she gave me. :) By the way, terrific plants and photos - your photography skills are incredible!
Anne, I went and read the peony discussion at SRGC and found it very helpful. I also have slightly broader-leaved plants I received as P. tenuifolia that I've always wondered about... I believe they are likely P. intermedia too! Here's one below (from later in the season):
Lori, your peony looks just like mine. I always thought the foliage to be very dissected until I saw the pictures of the "real" Paeonia tenuifolia. P. tenuifolia supposedly has pure red flowers but in the pictures you can see some pink like mine or perhaps that's just the camera.
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Trond Hoy
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:30amWhen I get time I have to construct a sand bed, that's for sure!
Here are some pics from one of my "wild beds"! This tulip (Tulipa sylvestris) is a very old (several 100 years) garden plant in Norway and it has escaped gardens since day one. It has also come as a ballast plant - as seeds or bulbs together with the sand and soil the tall ship used as ballast when returning from Europe after delivering its cargo - timber, ice etc. You'll find it many places at the coast. It spreads by seed and runners making a bulb at the apex.
Mark McDonough
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Mon, 05/09/2011 - 4:58pmTrond, mine has produced flowers once or twice over the past 7-8 years... lots of foliage, but rarely flowers. The foliage is starting to run, so I may try digging it out in a couple spots where I have it, not sure what it needs that I'm not supplying, possibly my garden is too dry for it? The problem might be that I have it planted in shade (it was suggested to me that it grows in shady woodland areas) but might actually need sunnier spots to flower. I have a strong feeling of deja vu discussing this plant ;)
Tim Ingram (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Mon, 05/09/2011 - 11:32pmMark, I too have grown this plant for many years with hardly a flower. A visitor once told me they had a much more free-flowering form, and it is lovely to see the Norwegian colonies and to hear how they arrived. Mine started off in the shade of a willow until that was blown down and are now in full sun. Are there any other tulips that run in the same way? It's a little like a few of the crocus even though a very different bulb.
Anne Spiegel
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 3:17amSeen in the garden which is enjoying a lovely spring now - days with sun and cloud and not too warm - cool nights but no killing frosts. Just a couple of pictures of what's happening. Because of the weather the Onosma albo-rosea is lasting a long time. Aquilegia scopoulorum is quite variable in nature, from quite small to a bit too tall for a trough. This one is a nice size for a trough, although not the smallest.
Mark McDonough
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 3:54amAnne, the Onosma is GORGEOUS, love the low plant habit as well as the flower color. Aquilegia scopulorum is half bad too ;)... looking mighty fine in your trough.
Anne Spiegel
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Tue, 05/10/2011 - 3:27pmMark, I've grown this onosma for many years and this is the first plant I've had where the flowers turned a deep coral instead of the usual purply pink. I really think the color is marvelous. And, I have two self-sown seedlings, also a first. It's been blooming for several weeks now.
Trond Hoy
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 12:25amThat Onosma in the gravel bed is gorgeous!
Anne Spiegel
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 4:01amThe onosma is actually growing at the edge of the tufa crevice garden so it is also getting more lime than the others I have. They have a tendency to get very woody and that's when a winter without much snow seems to carry it away. They can last up to ten years or more, though.
Panayoti Kelaidis
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 10:49amIt's great fun looking at all of your gardens. Ann Spiegel: you are beyond amazing! I can't believe how wonderful your astragalus and phlox look: much better than they do here. And all the classic Maritime Alpines to boot! That pink Magnolia stellata is to die for, Mark. And thrilled to see Tim Ingram's sand beds and gems.
A few things from my garden: it's raining buckets as I type this (first rain in weeks) so I am heaving big sighs of relief. I've planted hundreds of plants in the last week and was tired of running around and trying to keep them watered. Artificial watering can never replace natural rain. We had an enormous plant sale at Denver Botanic Gardens last weekend: over 15,000 people and nearly a quarter million dollars gross! Lots of great alpines sold (and everything else as well, for that matter). We had almost no plants by Saturday morning (the sale started Friday). If we'd restocked we could have easily done of $300,000 I believe.
A few pix from my garden: the first is an overview with Draba rigida in the foreground near the stream. The second shows Daphne juliae and Aubrieta gracilis (the tiniest Aubrieta--and the best!). The Iris bloudowii was a first for me (although I saw it in the Altai blooming two years ago). The purple iris came from Beaver Creek where they claim it was from the Altai: looks far more like Iris pumila to me, however (which is far more westerly in distribution: any ideas?)... There are a few pix from Denver Botanic Gardens I couldn't resist (the Erythronium albidum for one, and the troughs with Physaria bellii and Townsendia parryi spilling over the sides...)--I should do a whole series just from there..but most are from my garden which has never looked better!
All the best to you all at the height of North Tmperate Spring!
cohan (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 11:17amGreat stuff! Trond, love that Tulip :) I have T sprengeri seedlings, which is also supposed to be a bit of a woodland sp..
Anne--great Onosma!
John P. Weiser
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:08pmWell spring has finally settled in.
Cistanthe tweedyi ( syn. Lewisia tweedyi)
Fritillaria atropurpurea this is a small dry-land lily from western North America.
Delphinium andersonii
Camissonia tanacetifolia ssp. tanacetifolia
Eriogonum douglasii var. meridionale
Gilia tricolor
Grusonia clavata and Lewisia rediviva var. minor
General views
cohan (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:12pmGreat stuff, John, love the Frit..
What is Camissonia-- Onagraceae?
John P. Weiser
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:39pmYes Onagraceae is correct! :)
cohan (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:42pmThanks, cool plant :)
Peter George
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 1:44pmFirst blooming Lewisia of the season for me, L. brachycalyx. I've had it for 4 years, and each year it gets a bit larger and adds a few more blooms.
John P. Weiser
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:01pmPeter a fine specimen of L. brachycalyx.
It will be a few years till my seedlings can catch up.
Trond Hoy
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 2:02pmVery nice plants all of you have! Remarkable how many different plants that exists - and which I would like to grow :D
A few from my garden this evening.
An unknown woodland thing - started from seed a couple of years ago. Lamium orvala
This is the Potentilla with the biggest flowers I know of - and the the leaves are like strawberry leaves: Potentilla megalantha.
A seedling of some peony. Don't know the parents.
cohan (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 4:18pmPanayoti--love the Physaria and Townsendia together!
Hoy, in this partial view, your unknown woodlander reminds a lot of Galeopsis tetrahit and Stachys palustris- the former a not very bothersome introduced weed here, and the latter a potentially aggressive but pretty native ;)
Lori S. (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Wed, 05/11/2011 - 4:25pmWow, spring is bustin' out all over in your areas!! :o Fabulous scenes and plants!
Trond, I think your unknown woodland plant is Lamium orvala.
I know it is a bit heretical, but I actually prefer the more modest, smaller flowered lewisia species such as L. brachycalyx to the big, blowsy-flowered cultivars.
Trond Hoy
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 4:03amI think you are right, Lori. I remember that name and the pictures I found seem to confirm it. Thanks both of you, Cohan and Lori!
(I am getting lazy - it is easier to ask somebody here than to look it up yourself!)
Richard T. Rodich
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 8:26amWhile the other eight willow species I grow are long done blooming, the catkins of Salix schraderiana are still looking good...
Tim Ingram (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 9:00amSeeing John, Anne and Panayoti's gardens is extremely exciting for me because I have a yen for the mountain plants from dry habitats and the traditions in Britain have always been much more the plants of the Alps and Himalayas and China - the interest in summer dry habitats has centred more on bulbs. It would be great to see more AGS members making such gardens, if only to capitalise more on our dry climate in the south-east. The rest of our front lawn is due for the chop!
Panayoti Kelaidis
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 9:13amWe need to get you out to the States, Tim! Any plans for 2012? Maybe we can organize a lecture tour?
John: your Lewisia tweedyi puts our's to shame! I so regret not seeing your garden in the growing season (although it was pretty stunning in March). You are amazing! Your garden and the Stiremans' in Utah are the finest dryland gardens I know (including dozens of pretty good ones in Colorado...).
Anne Spiegel
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 3:40pmI am so enjoying seeing all these wonderful gardens. Our slow spring here is continuing. Last year I went to a Connecticut Chapter meeting and the temperature hit 95!!! When that happens the rock garden is finished in a matter of days, not many weks because evrything is forced and then over.
1. Corner of trough with Hymenoxys lapidicola and Lewisia brachycalyx with many seedlings of same popping up.
2. Trifolium owyheense protected from deer this winter and it is repaying the effort. From Alplains seed.
cohan (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 11:53pmAnne, the clover is really cute.. I've been looking at some of the Trifolium species--pretty flowers, but some of the foliage would be traumatic for me, I think...lol.. clovers are some of my most difficult weeds (being surrounded by farmland where its encouraged as forage...lol)
Cliff Booker
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 2:14amWonderful images (and plants) everybody ... your strong sunlight accentuates the colour and enables some stunning photography.
We are more used to mists and mellow fruitfulness - even in early summer. :D
I am amazed that I can even contemplate building a sand bed in this northern English climate! No, perhaps I can't! :D
Anne Spiegel
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 4:04amCohan, you don't have to worry about Trifolium owyheense ramping about. It's definitely not a weed. The foliage is nicely mottled (not really descriptive but don't know how else to say it) and the flowers are huge and gorgeous. The last time I grew this I seem to remember the flowers being a lighter pink. Cliff, yes you CAN try a sand bed, why ever not? You might be really surprised at what you could grow there.
John P. Weiser
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:00pmOh shucks! Your way to kind. :-[
Your garden is nothing to sneeze at either by the way. :D
Anne I like the combination of Hymenoxys lapidicola and your lovely Lewisia brachycalyx.
Your Trifolium owyheense is a rare treasure indeed. Wish seed were available for it. I've talked to Idaho gardeners who have visited it's limited habitat. It grows on crusty ash and tuff substrates. It's nice to see it thriving in your garden. Here is a little article about it.
http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/cdc/cdc_pdf/u01man08.pdf
Trond Hoy
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:11pmRick, I really like this one!
Anne, that trefoil is stunning! I have sowed some Trifolium seed this spring and many are germinating now. However owyheense was unknown to me! Now it is on my list!
Trond Hoy
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 12:33pmNo garden walk today - or this weekend. We are heading north to Ålesund to pick up our youngest daughter. Have to stay the night here in Jølster. It is raining however and the view isn't the best.
This is not a fjord but a fjordlike lake 205m above sea level. The lake is 20km long, 233 m deep and usually don't freeze over in winter. Trout is a common fish here.
Anne Spiegel
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 8:02pmThe seed for the Trifolium owyheense came from Alan Bradshaw of Aplains. I always have good luck with Alan's seeds and I think he had it listed this year too. I know it grows in a limited area with very different "soil". Here it's growing in a limey scree (roughly ph 8 ) that is sloped west-southwest and has very sharp drainage. It's very open and has sun most of the day including the hot afternoon sun. No water is added and there are a lot of astragalus and oxytropis growing on this slope.
Anne Spiegel
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 8:04pmSorry, that's Alplains. Thanks for the T. owyheense article.
cohan (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Fri, 05/13/2011 - 10:00pmThanks, Anne-- I know some of these little ones are not dangerous, but if the leaves look like regular clover I might be a bit unsettled...lol.. this from someone trying fancy Taraxacums, when officinale germinates in every available centimetre of soil! But, clovers are just as common as dandelions, and they spread by creeping stems...lol.. pretty flowers though... sound like interesting colours on some..
Trond Hoy
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Sat, 05/14/2011 - 1:35pmStill no garden view but from the window of the hotel.
Today we picked up our daughter, tomorrow we are heading home - plan to use two days. The shortest way includes 5 fjord crossings with ferry.
The ferries on the last stretch:
Tomorrow we are driving along the fjord further inland.
cohan (not verified)
Re: What do you see on your garden walks?
Sat, 05/14/2011 - 4:08pm5 crossings! Wow, I can't imagine, I have been on ferries not many more times that that in my life--we used to visit relatives on Vancouver island, and of course had to cross by ferry, those are very large ones, of course..oh, and Italy to Greece-- a long night ill dozing on the floor outside the bathroom...lol
Todd Boland
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 5:57pmBeautiful scenery Trond!
Here are some flowers from my garden today....Corydalis solida, Ficara 'Flore-pleno' and Sanginaria canadensis 'Rosea'
Richard T. Rodich
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 8:00pmAll you guys' mountainous terrain puts me in awe. I wouldn't say I live in real flat land, but interesting looking hills (and gullies) always make me want to explore them. If I lived over there, Trond, I would want to climb every mountain! (Kinda puts a new twist on the movie "The Sound of Music", doesn't it?)
Todd, looking only at the flower, that doesn't even look like a bloodroot! And ten petals, too...
Lori S. (not verified)
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 8:44pmI have not had much time at home in the garden lately so I will try to catch up a bit now...
Adonis vernalis and A. xamurensis 'Fukujukai':
Arabis androsacea, now in bloom - I told you it wouldn't stop traffic! ;)
Draba sp. and Jovibarba hirta; another Draba:
Hepatica nobilis 'Rosea Plena'
Paraquilegia microphylla - this year's one flower now open!
Primula marginata - the ratty-looking old plant from earlier, all filled in now!
Vitaliana primuliflora v. cinerea:
Lori S. (not verified)
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 9:01pmTrollius laxus starting to bloom:
Primula rusbyi - one old plant has decided to bloom a bit again this year, after taking a couple of years off; I still need to propagate them to rejuvenate them, I think.
Anemone blanda:
Paeonia tenuifolia 'Plena':
Pulmonaria altaica:
Caltha palustris:
Corydalis solida:
Pulsatilla vulgaris 'Papageno'... and that's the neighbor's lawn, not ours - we rid ourselves of that plant long ago! ;D
Lori S. (not verified)
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 10:05pmHacquetia epipactis:
Corydalis nobilis:
Lilium martagon... some others in later parts of the yard are just emerging.
Petrocallis pyrenaica:
Sanguinaria canadensis:
cohan (not verified)
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 10:44pmLori, once you get going, you don't mess around ;)
Cliff Booker
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 10:50pmWONDERFUL DISPLAY, Lori!!! Many thanks for posting.
WimB (not verified)
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Sat, 05/14/2011 - 11:00pmTodd, I love that form of Sanguinaria canadensis, it's very nice.
Lori, wonderful plants, all of them.
Todd Boland
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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 3:46amSpectacular display Lori! You have such choice plants. I finally got a Paraquilegia microphyllus and I'm afraid to plant it out, yet yours seems OK in calgary. I wonder if they can take winter wet. You are inching ahead of me....we have had mostly rain, drizzle and fog this past 2 week and cold temps...only 4 C yesterday. Plants are once more in suspended animation around here. On the plus side, the spring bulbs will be open for weeks!
Anne Spiegel
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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 3:58amWonderful plants, Lori, especially that Petrocallis pyrenaica. Great shot of the Paeonia tenuifolia foliage. I just learned via the Scottish Forum that what I've been growing as P. tenuifolia is actually P. intermedia. Quite a surprise! You have such a wide range of beautiful plants in your garden.
Tim Ingram (not verified)
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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 9:45amA few more plants growing in our front garden and looking good at the moment. Dianthus 'Eileen Lever' is a fantastically free-flowering selection from Aberconwy Nursery; on the sand bed I also have a really deep red 'pink' of which I have lost the name (but it must be a well known form); Lithodora x intermedia, one of my all time favourites from a favourite family; Teucrium aroanum, a little plant but with disproportionate sized flowers a lot more showy than many of its relatives; Penstemon ovatus. I had a spell trying to grow lots of different species but this one has persisted very well, self-sowing gently and such a glorious colour; Potentilla fruticosa 'Beesii', I think the finest form with a neat habit and silvery-silky leaves. Finally one of the oddest and rarest plants in the garden, the Turkish Pelargonium quercetorum. This hasn't really flowered well and must be benefiting from our long dry and warm spring. I tried P. endlicherianum on the sand bed thinking it would do well, and it hasn't!
It's astonishing how many plants you can grow in your garden after more than 30 years, and there is a lot of useful seed and cutting material!
Trond Hoy
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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 1:32pmTodd, I planted Paraquilegia last spring and it survived the last winter here but no flowers yet.
You all have so many interesting plants! Interesting to see which plants all have and which only few have!
Today we have steered southward again but to avoid some ferries and to see new terrain we took one of the more inland road. That implies longer drive and more ups and downs!
Along the fjords it is all green - except huge fields with dandelions!
In the valleys you can still see the last remnants of the avalanches through the woods. The woods consist mostly of birch and alder but also aspen, rowan and in the lower parts of linden and elm. In the understory of the woods you can find a lot of plants but we had no time to look for that now!
Some of the valleys end abruptly and the road has to climb steeply up to the pass before descending again.
The higher grounds are still snowcovered.
Down to the next fjord -Geirangerfjorden.
cohan (not verified)
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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 2:20pmGreat views, Trond, really interesting landscapes.. but best of all for me is to see places that have snow longer than me ;D
Lori S. (not verified)
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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 3:13pmThanks, all!
Trond, it looks like the snow plow has quite a job keeping that road open! :o The switchbacks are amazing too... I only see ones like that on hiking trails. It seems odd to have avalanches running down into deciduous trees, whereas here, it is spruce and firs at those elevations. Very interesting to see your part of the world, Trond.
Todd, Paraquilegia are grown to exquisite perfection here by Stephanie Ferguson... too bad that it was too late to see them in bloom when you were here in July. I believe the plant I showed is a seedling she gave me. :) By the way, terrific plants and photos - your photography skills are incredible!
Anne, I went and read the peony discussion at SRGC and found it very helpful. I also have slightly broader-leaved plants I received as P. tenuifolia that I've always wondered about... I believe they are likely P. intermedia too! Here's one below (from later in the season):
Fabulous garden shots, Tim!
Anne Spiegel
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Sun, 05/15/2011 - 7:40pmLori, your peony looks just like mine. I always thought the foliage to be very dissected until I saw the pictures of the "real" Paeonia tenuifolia. P. tenuifolia supposedly has pure red flowers but in the pictures you can see some pink like mine or perhaps that's just the camera.
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