Blooms of the 2011 growing season thread

[Jennyfleur]

Hi All As requested, here are some pics of the Hepatica (there is a third one over towards the left, but it's only got one bud at the moment) and the Corydalis in situ. Like I said, it looks a bit sparse under there at the moment but it's good soil so I'm hoping it'll look quite nice in a few years with some more bulbs added.

Also, Rosie, it sounds like something I've got in the garden (also a picture attached). That has the same growth colours you mentioned and the same the type of flowers. It's been there ages and, like you, I can't remember what was on the label... though it'll probably be under the plant somewhere!!

[Tindomul]

Originally Posted by camille1585

I looked up the Anemone, but it can't be that one, it's a US native plant. But wikipedia tells me that the European species is Anemone nemorosa, which is exactly what Triffid posted. I wonder how long the colony is going to survive. These are woodland plants, and the patch growing along the ditch used to surrounded by tall trees. Unfortunately they were cut down last fall, leaving the plants in full sun.

Thanks for that Camille, I didn't know there was a European species.

[Tindomul]

Rosie, that last pic of yours looks like a Pieris to me, maybe some sort of cultivar that has upright flower stems. Either way, its a gorgeous member of the blueberry family!

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by camille1585

Looks like a Pieris japonica, but the spikes are a bit too upright it seems. Normally they're more pendant. In any case it's either a species of Pieris, or something very similar.

I think you are exactly right. Now you say it I remember the japonica bit because I thought of the orchids with that name as I bought it.

Last year the flowers were more pendent, like in pictures I've just looked up of Pieris japonica. Not sure what's going on this year

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by Jennyfleur

Also, Rosie, it sounds like something I've got in the garden (also a picture attached). That has the same growth colours you mentioned and the same the type of flowers. It's been there ages and, like you, I can't remember what was on the label... though it'll probably be under the plant somewhere!!

Yeah, looks the same (yours is much bigger, mine's a very young plant).

Yours is definately a Pieris of some sort as well then. As I've just said I'm certain mine is the Pieris japonica.

[Tindomul]

OK Guys, here is a doozy!! I went to the New York Botanical Gardens to see what they had in bloom outdoors. Well, they had a lot. Hence forth, I shall never think of March as a flowerless month.
Viburnum x bodnantense



Stachyurus sp.



Scilla mischtschenkpana



Rhododenron sp. or hybrids



Prunus mume



Primula woronowii


Potentilla alba


Populus tremuloides



Willow tree


NOID Spring flowering tree



Another


Cornus mas



Narcissus sp.


Narcissus asturiensis


Narcissus cyclamineus


Mahonia japonica



Lysichiton camtshatensis -- I don't know why I couldn't get a proper photo of this one


Jasminum nudiflorum



Iris reticulata and some hybrids/cultivars



this one is called Frank Elder


Helleborushybrids. They had thousands of these in bloom all over





Hamamelis x intermedia



Hamamelis vernalis



Hamamelis hyrbid



Erica x darleyensis



Erica carnea, man this one smelled good!



Edgeworthia chrysantha



No clue what this is, but it was everywhere!



Scilla of some kind??

Maybe a grape hyacinth?


Draba rigida


Cyclamen


Corylopsis spicata



Corylopsis pauciflora


Chionodoxa sardensis



Camelia japonica



Adonis amurensis

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[camille1585]

Wow, Tindo, that's just an explosion of color!! Isn't the Viburnum x bodnantense blooming a bit late? Ours always bloom in December-January.

[Jennyfleur]

So much to comment on so I'll just go with the very unimaginative 'Wow Wow Wow' Looked like a lovely day to go a-walkin' as well

[RosieC]

Wow, great pictures Tindo. What a great place!

[camille1585]

I meant to post these pics earlier, but didn't have time to upload from the camera.

Sunday was such a gorgeous warm day that I went for a long walk which took me through a neighboring village where I saw beautiful cherry blossom trees. It doesn't even begin to compare to the show they put on in DC but it's still very nice to look at.





I also this cute plant carpeting the ground in a soggy ditch near the Anemones.