Rhododendron with lost name, bought cheap at a local plant market(gorgeous giant flowers)

Azalea Moven(with an umlaut above o)

Azalea Klondyke, glows in the dark, slightly fragrant

Propagation bed for azalea seedlings, first flowers(the most exciting days of the year WHAT WILL THEY LOOK LIKE????)

Azalea seedling. Double , green at the opening for 2-3 days, breathtaking for me!! Nothing like it anywhere that I know of.

Azalea seedling first flower, the picture does not do it justice, absolutely gorgeous!!!

Azalea seedling first flower

I planted this orange azalea in order to shock a lady who often walks by (she is "no-yellow-no-orange-person")

Viewed from my kitchen

more pictures soon

The white NOID Rhododendron could be a Cunningham`s White, I once tried to ID one and remember them having this yellowish base in the flower, a reliable classic that can grow quite tall. And funny how often you come across those "no-yellow-persons". I think they miss out on something in spring.
The orange-violette Rhodo-combo is like spicy eye-candy, have a nice summer, bye, Lin

some perennials

Amsonia illustris from seed. The best amsonia in my opinion, better than the named varieties that I bought.

Here another clump after rain

Lilium pyrenaicum

That's how doubling on Polygonatum odoratum flore pleno looks like(I cannot detect any fragrance on this one, so not THAT "odoratum"!)

Smilacina racemosa amplexicaulis, from North West USA. This one is very "odoratum". In the top 3 for the best fragrant perennial. The tree under which it was growing is gone now, and it CANNOT TAKE full sun exposure, the leaves burn. It needs some shade.

Smilacina racemosa at the street. People stop to find out where the fragrance comes from.

Paeonia mlokosewitchii seedling,seed from Botanical Garden in Tbilisi, Georgia. Seven years of waiting just to find out that this one is not yellow.

The only yellow from this portion of seed. It is gorgeous for 3 days or so.

Podophyllum peltatum

Davidia involucrata, I planted 3nuts many years ago, two germinated. It took 17 years for the second tree to bloom.

North side of the house

Ballerina and Fireball

Ballerina. The name is fitting perfectly for this one

A view

Hosta White Feathers and Blue Mouse Ears combo

Actea pachypoda. A charming plant, attractive for the whole season - first flowers, then foliage and then the fruits

Eryngium Jos Eijking

Eryngium Forncett Ultra, from England. Long-lived , indestructable

Delphinium Ouverture. If you look closely, the shoot on the right is more blue than the rest. It mutated, got different leaves and started blooming much earlier

Delphinium seedling

Delphiniums

Iris sibirica Mabel Coday, always reliable,no matter what

Clematis macropetala

Eryngium alpinum

More pictures tomorrow, I'm going to bed.

Thanks again

I am amazed by your Podophyllum peltatum. I am only familiar with the form I grew up seeing in the woods, with nicely shaped, but plain green leaves, and short-stemmed, downward facing flowers that stayed hidden under the leaves. Does your form have a name? The coloration on the leaves and the visible flowers makes this a stunning plant.

The June blues are wonderful.

Thanks for taking the time to post. It's always a treat when you do.

wieslaw, are you familiar with Rare Finds nursery in the US? They specialize in Rhodies and Azaleas. I'm actually planning a visit there next spring.
As always, I'm blown away by the beauty and robustness of your plants. Also your patience. 17 years! That's a while to wait.

Here you can see, it has the same pattern

I also found one here locally with a very intense pink color on the outside of the petals(the nursery was not aware they had something rare, it was just a seedling)

Linaria , it is definitely not Cunninghams White, its flowers are three times bigger. The name was known but forgotten.

Mrs. No-yellow is the same person. She tortures me unknowingly (or ?). She invites my wife for coffee, and then suddenly goes out and dig up a plant she means "we absolutely need"(translation: I NEED). Of course it is something pastel pink or white and nothing I need or can use (firstly , I do not have room for it, and even if I had, I have enough pink). My wife thinks that when the plant is dug up then she cannot say "No, thank you". When the lady comes over for coffee to us, the first thing she does is to ask where the plant is. My wife's part is easy: " oh, ask my husband". To cut it short, it is always I who have to explain what happened to the plant. So now I'm the moron who can't keep anything alive from her.

Some martagon lilies:

Here is one going through the giant form of Podophyllum hexandrum.

This yellow is very prolific

An orange hybrid with another species from the same group, L. tsingtauense

My own seedling, yellow without spotting.

My own seedling, first time blooming. Shining dark cherry red, breathtaking!!!!

Don't remember the names:

Sambucus Thounderstorm with some clusters of flowers reverted to white

Azalea seedling, double with laced edges on petals

This one has also laced edges

More pictures tomorrow

For those interested, there is a double yellow azalea that's commercially available, Rhododendron narcissiflora. It blooms at the end of May for me, and is a brighter yellow than Wieslaw59's and without the unusual green tints. But it might be as close as one can get commercially.

nhbabs, this was precisely a seedling of Narcissiflora(I do not remember the father) . The other seedlings from this cross are more real yellow, without the green infusion.

This one is hose-in-hose, like the mother , a shade darker yellow

A sibling to the previous, semidouble

The green one(my camera does not see what my eyes are seeing)

That's how Jewelled Crown looks while opening. It is covered with velvet

This delphinium seedling is taller than I (I'm 182 cm tall), but it is still standing

Here is a better view on the mutant shoot on the left

Three delphiniums chosen for being storm proof, the dark one is bought, the two others are mine

I'm not much into pastels, but each delphinium that is storm proof stays permanently here

This one is kind of fluorescent

Delphinium Waldenburg, stormproof

Trollius stenopetalus. The saturation of color on this one is max

Astrantia close-up

Orange Lilium pyrenaicum. Saved in the nick of time from bulldozers

Azalea Nabucco, the darkest of the reds, but DOES NOT burn in the sun

Tulipa sprengeri, the latest and the best of all(really perennial)

Difference between Anemone sylvestris and A. sylvestris Macrantha(think twice before you plant it)

Iris sibirica Coronation Anthem

Love frilly edges on rhododendrons

Seedling from azalea Homebush

Trollius europaeus

Enjoy!!

so, do you lift and divide your clumps of Delphiniums or do they actually sit 10 years and longer in the same spot.
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Personally I have to confess my ignorance about Delphinium, just avoiding them because of their reputation so far. And we do have a bad slug problem, kind of as an excuse.

I have books of the Pflanzen-Papst Karl Foerster himself, even one with signature, so I will read and see whether I risk some new plants next spring.
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oh, and I don`t remember from your posts: do you have more sandy or heavy soil in your garden?

I could not find an email-contact on your member-page, so I hope you don`t mind me contacting you via this rout.
Ein schönes Wochenende, yours, Lin

Love, love your azaleas, both mature and seedlings. Your bright colors have me reconsidering my garden color scheme. Long ago my gardens were brightly colored but this garden has become one of pastels. When choosing a new plant I place the different colored blooms next to each other and find the pale pinks the most attractive. Still have a few small sections with bright colors which keep getting smaller. I would never foist my pastels on you or your wife. Have you tried saying something along the line, "it did not fit into my color scheme so I passed it along to a friend"? Perhaps that would stop her. Ha,ha has she noticed that mostly her plants are the ones that do not survive in your garden, weak stock, eh? (Wink)

Exceptional, as usual.
As per GP1, what a skilful connoisseur you are!

I live in a "cold pocket" in Denmark Zone 7, the coastal areas are zone 8. But the nature of our winters here makes it impossible for me to grow plants from USA which are hardy from Zone 6 and above.
This year was very dry, the first rain in July fell on the 31st(one day more and it would be the whole July without a drop of rain) with several heat waves. But only 1 plant got mildewed.
The reputation of Delphiniums is very unfair and was caused by Pacific strains, which deteriorated in the course of time, eventually becoming biennials. The clones available on the market in Germany are propagated by cuttings taken in the early spring. I can see you're from Switzerland . There is a nursery in Austria , Sarastro Stauden, near the Swiss border. They have rather good selection of plants at the moment.

You have also Staudengartnerei Gaissmayer in Germany

http://www.pflanzenversand-gaissmayer.de/shop.php?sid=910100cfa9fb6f9b8ba73be6d3fd316d&mode=botanik_index&letter=D

and Stauden Stade in Germany. You can also check von Zeppelin in Germany and Vasteplant in Belgium.

The named clones I personally grow and can recommend are:
Lanzentrager, Ouverture, Merlin, Sonnenwind, Jubelruf, Tempelgong, Waldenburg and Augenweide- all stormproof and long-lived. I also grew: Morgentau(died in winter), the flowers were too big on this one, too much resistance to wind. I disposed of Finsteraarhorn- big clumps are too floppy. Vierzehnheiligen is standing up nicely while young, old clumps are too tall and need staking. Elmfreude - beautiful but not standing well, I give it one more year to see if it improves.
Of Bellandonna Hybrids I have been growing Picollo (very good) for more than 5 years and Volkerfrieden. Volkerfrieden is a very old clone which is described as "losing its vigor" but it is still acceptable here with me.

Vasteplant in Belgium has a Delphi series, shorter and sturdy, the colours are matte on these ones.

http://www.vasteplant.be/catalog/index.cfm?fuseaction=cat

None of Magic Fountains and Pacific series plants heard the notion "longevity" here. Of Millenium double series: they all need staking no matter what the labels say. The florets are extremely heavy and flop even without rain and wind. I also tried Darwin's Blue Indulgence twice- died both times. All the red and coral ones died, never saw a single flower on them.

Prejudice!!!
What got into her?

And the peppiest colour of all.