Some interesting species bulbs (part 2)

Yours has such lovely large, pink anthers wicker, I love those! Gorgeous!

I tend to agree with you on the second duchartrei Lefty, but they both have merits. I didn't save pollen from the first one, no matter they should increase underground.

very pretty, wickerparker. Wonderful coloured stamen!

Love the surprise through the bleeding heart, wickerparker.

lilum martagon # two and # three have opened their first flower.

# two looks similar to # one but is slightly less spotted; with # one the spots in the centre really merge together completely.

It's still a well-spotted beauty bonitin, and those anthers are laaaaaarge!

# 3; this one is less spotted and a little smaller in size and a lighter shade of pink.
I noticed that if the flower is newly born, the anthers have a deep pink colour like wickerparkers. pistil and stamen hang straight downwards and gradually in a few hours the anthers are widening up and change colour into a sienna orange-brown

Wallaby, when I clicked 'send' then the message appeared that there was another sending before me and to please read it before I send. But I am afraid to lose what I have typed and the picture I had uploaded, so I press the button 'send' anyway.

#4: opened today its first flower; its also heavily spotted.

other view

The whole plant (it has a baby plant growing at its foot with something in the centre like a bud, or perhaps a new set of leaves)

Which cultivar(s) of brunnera are those? And is that a Metasequoia with the ferny foliage?

And nice martagon too.

It seems bonitin and I have similar tastes, first mart. var. album, now this..
martagon var. rubrum.

Lilium candidum otherwise known as the Madonna Lily, what a wonderful fragrance.

Hah, finally! Someone else that fences critters out.

It's the only sure way, I tell ya.

Wow! I really LOVE that L.candidum Magnolialover. I've tried to grow it 2 times, but alas, lost it both times, probably because of lack of sun, I have no places with full sun in my garden. But it could also have been bad drainage, it was still in my beginning years of gardening and that's a long time ago. Does yours has full sun ?

Leftwood, the ferny foliage belongs to a young Albizia julibrissin;
here's a picture of the whole tree

and the Brunnera's are 'Jack Frost' and 'Looking Glass';
The one on the left is 'Looking Glass'.

bonotin, I adore Brunnera 'Jack Frost'. Last year I split my candidum up and I placed them in all sorts of situations, challenging its very existence. I like to push the shade limits with my plants. I have one blooming in part shade, one in part sun, but the one in the picture is full sun, and I will reluctantly admit, it likes full sun best. That's where I got the most divisions.
If only my fence were a bit taller, Lefty. I still need that Plantskydd stuff. Everytime I try to take a picture with that fence involved, my camera always focuses on the fence, like that's the exciting part. The fencing does come in handy for lilies that need to rest on it and sometimes they like to bloom on my neighbors side of the fence too. I'm glad to beautify their view even more ;)

Everytime I try to take a picture with that fence involved, my camera always focuses on the fence, like that's the exciting part.

Well, the cat's already out of the bag: it was obviously exciting to me!
(I remember several examples on DG where I let my weird side out. I must work on suppressing such idiosyncrasies, but I don't think it will ever happen.)

Boniton, I had guessed those were Jack Frost and Looking Glass. I prefer Jack Frost best. Brunnera are great competitors with tree roots, too. And Albizia, of course. Very nice.

Lefty, you crack me up.

Far Side reruns . . . . . chicken soup for the brain.

Truly.

Since we're on the subject of ME, I was over at Mom's yesterday and brought her the usual bouquet of flowers from my gardens. I took a pic of it with her digital camera. That's right: the first photo I have ever taken with a digi camera. She is 86 years old and uses a digital camera, and I still don't have one!

So anyway, hop over the the Perennial Forum, and see what you think:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/737735/

Hurrah for you!

Hurrah for your mother Lefty! It looks like you may follow in her footsteps.....

Someone told me that every intelligent person has to show their silly side at least once a day........

Again, lovely pics bonitin and magnolia. I have Brunenra Looking glass but it's still in a pot waiting, big enough to plant out when I find a spot. The two look surprisingly good together. I also had an Albizzia julibrissin, grew it for a while in a pot from a small seedling then a conker fell on the 'V' splitting it. It did grow again for a while, then gave up. They are susceptible to a wilt, that seems to be what happened to it, maybe got infected from the split.

I had something similar happening to a previous Albizzia I had in a pot for a couple of years. Only the damage didn't happen through a conker but by a visitor. It also regrew and then finally gave up.
So far, I'm more lucky with the second one I planted out in my garden. When I bought it, it was in a miserable state; undernurished and in too small a pot, but I couldn't resist buying it anyway because it's not easy to find one for sale over here.

Conker?

Conker= wild chestnut.

If I see another I should try again with the Albizzia, I got it from some people who were selling very cheap plug plants several years ago.

Conker, that is the fruit or inedible nut of the Horse Chestnut tree, like a large chestnut, shame it's not the real one!

Are those the spiney things? Conkers, that is, not the lily. :)

Yep, the cases are spiny but the nut looks like an ordinary chestnut, perhaps a deeper colour and a little bigger. Some cases have 2 or 3 in, or one large one.

I have a question -- many of the pedicels on my speciosum rubrums have two flower buds. In fact, at this point, and the plants are still growing, I'd say 75% of the pedicels have two buds. Is this common? How does it work? Will they both open? If so, it must get crowded out there.

By the way, my husband's English and whenever we're over there he gets very excited when we find conkers. A favorite childhood toy, apparently, or munition, more like it.

I think I've asked a dumb question. Just took a look at my Black Beauties, and they've got some double budded pedicels too. Almost all of the pedicels on the speciosum rubrums are doubles, while none on the albums are, so it struck me as odd, but now I have a feeling it isn't. I'm showing how new I am to all of this. Thanks!

You may be new, but you're also a quick learner!

What you have are primary buds (farthest from the main stem, and first to open), and secondary buds. There are commonly tertiary buds too, that would open in later succession.

Thank you, Leftwood. This is an excellent place to learn. These speciosums sure are loaded with buds, compared to my other fall planted lilies. In my tiny garden, they are going to make quite a statement. I can't wait.

I have blooming a couple of lovely dainty Lilium hansonii that I planted last fall from the nice Bulbmeister coop run by bloomaholic (2 LILIUM henryi $ 2.67 = 5.34) so I am thrilled. I could have placed them better position as they are not as visible as they should be, but I am going leave them alone for this year anyway. Patti

To keep on subject. Have a batch of my first martagon seedlings flowering. Nothing exciting but most satisfying. Mainly pink and spotted, a couple of deeper pinks and some yellows. Not species but I'm a proud Mama.

Off subject. Conker WARS. As kids, we would take a strong needle and thread a string through the chosen conker. Then would bash each others conker. Winner was the unbroken one. Taught my grandson to do this. He plays this every fall with his buddies. Perhaps not this fall. Moving from elementary to middle school is a whole new grownup world, so I've been informed.

inanda, with no damage from horrendous thunderstorms this weekend.

bbrookrd, L hansonii is of course beautiful. Love the subtle pink flush.

inanda, .that's just how it's done here with conkers, but I fear Playstation is taking over.

That must be exciting to have your first flowers from seed, I have a long way to go with some but I do have many pots of promise.

L. majoense has opened. It is, how does one put it, not as in your face as L. nepalense but so alluring. The tube is long.

The throat is full of dark, dark spots, so many that they are joined around that green with envy eye.

Look at those long, clasping anthers and the plump many-segmented stigma. It was open more tonight with the petals more recurved. I forgot to see if it has a scent! I didn't detect one, but we are in the midst of freezing weather here. Floods everywhere, 12C on Monday with 2.75" of rain in a day and near to flooded here, the drain was only about 6" off going over the top. It was warm today, got to 15C! (59F).