May blooms

Hmm, seems I've killed this thread very effectively, LOL!

Oh well, (blithely carrying on)...la la la... enjoying the May blooms...dee dee dee...
Here's Androsace sempervivoides getting ready to roll. Hope it blooms before the chocolate brownie trough it's in totally self-destructs...


And... Galanthophile, you were absolutely right about the primrose I posted being P. marginata (see my correction a few posts back)! Thanks for the ID!



This message was edited May 19, 2008 9:35 PM

Okay, scanned some photos:

This is one of the supposed Leibnitzia nepalense. It's in a 3.5inch/9cm wide, but deeper pot.

Draba athoa volunteering in a conifer pot (Chamaecyparis pisifera cv):

I thought I had dug this one out this spring, but still had some remnants.
Arabis caucasica 'Roseum' (spelling?)

Iris suaveolens var. rubromarginata. See the tiny, tiny red edge on the leaves? From ground to flower top is 4 inches/10.6cm.

Allium 'Ozawas'. No really !!!

In a protected box for the winter, this is what the dried flowers looked like when I took them out.

Ah ha, there is life out there! Interesting pic of Leibnitzia nepalense.... I have a young L. anandria in bloom - I'll post the pic for comparison, unless you have one to post? Love the iris and very cute little draba!

A single bloom on Iris taurica:

An Androsace studiosorum 'Chumbyi', planted last fall... these furry androsaces are great plants; even I can't kill them!

One that blooms in the first year from seed - a nice trait, given that I have no idea whether it will be hardy... Petrocoptis pyrenaica var. glaucifolia, a rather attractive member of the Caryophyllacaea:

After the rain... seedheads on Pulsatilla vulgaris:

Mystery primrose... almost a true red; supposed to be P. auriculata, but...?

Six petals on that red "primrose" has got to make you wonder . . . . and awefully glabrous.

This message was edited May 22, 2008 7:05 AM

Ya know, people on this forum come up with the most interesting species.

Yeah, I agree... it would peculiar for a primrose to have 6 petals! Any guesses as to what it might be if not a primrose? I am at a loss.
A genetic fluke, perhaps? For example, a couple of rhizomes on one of my bearded iris consistently produce flowers with 4 falls and 4 uprights. I'll have to check if all the flowers have 6 petals, and, later on, if the second flower stalk is the same as well.

The "in fours" syndrome with iris is not common, but not unheard of. For primula, I wouldn't know. Just about all of you know more about that genus than me. Someday when all my different little baby plants are blooming, I'll post them for ID. Then you'll really know how dumb I am. Don't have a clue what that red flower might be.

I thought I did take a pic of Leibnitzia anandria in flower, but I guess not.

Your Petrocoptis pyrenaica var. glaucifolia is blooming already from seed this year ??? Holy buckets!

Iris taurica seems to be quite a color variable species. On the Species Iris Yahoo group, a member from Russia (or one the the countries over that way) posted some nice pics of them in the wild. Alta, how tall would you say that nice flower is, and will the foliage get taller?

Okay, here's another unknown... maybe this one makes more sense than the 6-petalled "primula", LOL! (Sheesh, given the time I spend on plant record-keeping, how can I have any unknowns? Err, it couldn't be that I'm horribly disorganized... it's just that I'm making sure you guys are on your toes.. yeah, that's it...)
Slightly fuzzy pic... and plant... but, with hope, identifiable...

Oh, and I meant to add...
The Iris taurica pictured has 4" tall leaves, and the flower stalk is 6". I don't know if the leaves will elongate further after the bloom - I'll have to remember to keep an eye on it.

Epimedium pallidum, starting to bloom. I'm a little disappointed not to find this species mentioned in the Stearn book on the genus epimedium... does it go, more correctly, by some other name, perhaps?

There is an Epimedium grandiflorum 'Pallidum'. Nice foliage on yours too.

It's surprising how hardy Epimedium spp. can be. I have these:
Epimedium davidii
Epimedium diphyllum 'Roseum'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Lilafee'
Epimedium grandiflorum 'Saxton Purple'
Epimedium lishischenii
Epimedium myrianthum CC.940037
Epimedium platypetalum
Epimedium pubigerum 'Orangekönigan'
Epimedium stellatum 'Wudang Star'
Epimedium x rubrum
Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum'
Epimedium x youngianum 'Beni-kujaki'
Epimedium youngianum 'Niveum'

Epimedium sutchuense is the only one that has not made it through the winters, although this spring E. x versicolor 'Sulphureum' is very slow to start.

Just got home from Spain..saw lots of great alpines! I'll start a thread once I organize 600 pictures!

That mystery small white pruimula is an androsace from what I can tell.

Welcome back, Todd! Looking forward to the pix of Spanish alpines!

Re. the little white flowering thingie, that's good to know... I will focus my search on androsaces! The unknown "primrose" is the red, 6-petalled one... waiting for elucidation on that one!

A rain-soaked little Pulsatilla aurea... 3 inches of rain so far, which was good... but enough already.

The real Primula auricula 'Paradise Valley' (though just a baby)...

Cortusa matthioli:

Potentilla rupestris pygmaea:

Primula allionii 'Pink Ice':

Now in bloom, Androsace sempervivoides... a very little tough plant:

Hmmm, I think my red primrose is Primula maximowiczii... that doesn't explain the bizarre 6 petal flowers (rather than the usual 5) but, otherwise, the form, leaf and flower shape and flower color all seem to fit (within the not inconsiderable variations of the photos shown, anyway):


http://www.primulaworld.com/PWweb/photogallery.htm

Great show! I haven't gotten around to taking any pics lately...maybe for the June thread!

I finally got some pictures and I see I have a smudge on my lens!

your photos and plants are quite beautiful. I have to look up the names
on a few but here's a start. Rock garden w/a geranium nana & alpina
asters in bloom

This message was edited May 28, 2008 7:15 AM

And a close-up of Daphne Jasminea

Primula maximowiczii looks like a ringer to me.

Scanned some more pics today:

Hesperis kotchyi

Maybe not blooms, but it is a May pic:

Orostachys spinosa and Semp. arachnoides 'Minus'

Pulsatilla vulgaris Red Bells (if there really is such a strain)

And still ranking tops on my list:

Pulsatilla turczaninovii

Further along:

And . . .

Hmmm. I didn't touch up those photos at all. I think the difference in color is just due to the light (and time of day). They were all taken on the same roll of film. I swear, there are times when I say to myself: "I thought it was more blue yesterday." Or just the opposite.

That is a glorious plant Rick. And I have four seedlings looking fat and
healthy in the greenhouse. Is that moma?

Achillea tomentosa (I started this guy from seed a number of years ago.
I had it labelled "achillea tortuosa" and that's what it will always be to me.)

I got this guy from a Rock Garden plant sale but don't recall what it is.
I'll have to look it up unless one of you knows it by sight.