Lets honour all our other spring treasures...Part II

We came from here;
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/829102/

Corydalis buschii is opening its first pink flowers; it is very hard to get a good picture from, but here it is..

Thanks bonitin it is actualy more of a bright orange but I cannot capture the color with my camera. I like that Corydalis buschii. Need to go and look that one up.

Tammy what kind of growing requirements do Erythronium need?

Jmorth love anythign native!!

Marie,

The erythronium like woodland conditions - light shade and woodsy soil.
Those in the picture are in a fairly dry spot so you might be able to grow
them in well amended soil in some shade. I suspect they would like acidic
soil since its an east coast native so maybe add peat moss too.

Tam

Yeah those will not be growing here. Please keep posting pictures Tammy so I can enjoy from afar!!

Summer Snowflake - Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant'

I love the Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant', jmorth! It is one of my favourites too, but I wonder why the popular name is Summer Snowflake???

Probably because there's a Spring Snowflake (L. vernum) that blooms eariler (Feb/Mar) and an Autumn Snowflake (L. autumnale) that blooms afterward (Sept). L. Aestivum's bloom is listed between them for Apr/June.

Freesia (i think)

tracie

dutch iris

Lovely freezia, aggie! I like its smell...

Camassia leichtlinii (I think) started to bloom in my brother's garden;

detail;

Just wanted to let ya'll know I'm lurking here and really appreciate my vicarious Corydalis species "fix"---remember me asking in Jan? After reading Janis Ruksans book for a book review--I'm a real closet lover of them. Of all the bulb species I can't grow here, that's the one I wish the most that I could grow down here....

I guess the old adage "you always want what you can't have" applies here--lol

Beautiful photographs all!
=)

Jack in the Pulpit

Lovely jmorth, mysterious flower!

Mine started late this year; Hyacinthoides hispanica

The camassia make a lovely companion to primula by the spring-fed
pond on my property

a little allium.

tracie

Very nice Tammy! Their beauty is so well set-off with the ferns and the reddish-purple round leaves of the Ligularia.

I love that little Allium, aggie!

Trillium lutea;

Trillium Grandiflora

Trillium Erectum

Tammy that picture above of "The camassia make a lovely companion to primula by the spring-fed pond on my property" almost amkes me want to ove back home to PA!!

here is another freesia, nice color!

tracie

Lovely Trilliums, Tammy!
That's a warm coloured Freezia Aggie.

The two Annemonella thalictroides I bought a month ago still don't show any sign of life, except a tiny poor looking shoot in one of them. I checked the bulbs and they have no roots!

I was so lucky to find them in another nursery in full bloom.

And I got a well appreciated gift from the nursery owner, a very sympathetic sweet man; a real plant-lover; Paris quadrifolia, he was proud to have raised them himself from seed and wanted to share one with me. Funny though that mine has 5 instead of 4 leafs..

another one I bought is not a bulb but wanted to show anyway;
Epimedium x youngianum 'Niveum'. I had it in the past long time ago but lost it probably because being planted in a too humid place..

I also bought a Polygonatum hybridium (x) weichenstephan.
When mature it can be as tall as 1.50 m. Mine is still young..

An unidentified type of Oxalis articulata, I love very much! It's very generous and blooms from April into November and is even winter green ! This year it started a bit later probably because of the very chilly April month. The weather here is weird and changes so suddenly. It not only feels like summer but like in the tropics the last days with t° of 27° C in the shadow!

Closer-by;

Bonitin you have some amazing blooms!! Love that oxalis.

Thanks Marie!
I got this Oxalis as a present from a gentle lady owner of a large nursery in the South of France, many years ago. All trials to find out its ID have failed until now, even Oxalis specialists don't know. It had no tag and I was too excited with the gift that I forgot to ask at the time!

It sure is a pretty one!!

My Iris germanica, I don't know what type, has opened its first flower. I bought it some 17 years ago unlabelled, tried it in many places in my garden, but finally found out that my sunny terrace was the right place for it.
It's the only type I have in the germanica group.
I think it's flower is from a devine beauty. I always stand in awe when it opens its first flower. Its foliage is also very handsome.

another pic;

My polygonatums are in their full glory! They are performing exceptionally well this year.

And this is another type with more rounded and firmer leaves.
I wish I knew the right name

And then, finally Fritillaria pontica decided it was time to bloom..

It is very difficult to take a reasonable pict. of this one; Aconitum vulpare. It has invited itself in my garden. I think it has charm.

Nice stuff Bonitin!

I really like the Oxalis, I'm a big closet Oxalis lover.

Habranthus martinezii on steroids or something here today.
Debbie

Your Polygonatum is ahead on mine bonitin, I checked today and it's got flower buds but seems to have appeared from nowhere with all this warmth! The Fritillaria was a nice late surprise too!

The thermometer in my garden has been reaching around 26C or more (in semi-shade), or 80F the last few days, expecting more of the same. I can't believe it, lol.

I have two Arisaemas in flower, there is an aroid forum but they are bulbs too.

A. nepenthoides, it has some leaves now, this was 8 days ago.