What with the fast-paced spring and being away, I’ve got a backlog of pix on the hard drive from the past two or three weeks that I need to purge now or they’ll be lost forever. Click images for large view (in most cases).
Doronicum.
Drumstick and ‘regular’ primulas.
Close up of the drumsticks.
Two views of double-flowered bloodroot (Sanguisorba Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Flore Pleno’ from memory ssp flore plena best I can tell.)
Mertensia and dragonfly.
Muscari and bleeding heart. (Sorry don’t know the variety.)
I’ve decided to start coordinating animal and plant colors.
Uhhh, double-flowered bloodroot is Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex’ not Sanguisorba canadensis ‘Flore Pleno’ but the photos of it are wonderful. I have not seen one before. Thanks for posting it.
I think there are several different doubles and I don’t know what distinguishes one from the other. Here are pictures ID’d as Sanguinaria canadensis ssp. flore plena
http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?stat=BROWSE&query_src=photos_flora_sci&where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Sanguinaria+canadensis+ssp.+flore+plena
Google around a little and you’ll also see Sanguinaria canadensis multiplex ‘Plena’, and just mulitplex. No one ever accused me of being thorough in my taxonomy. I’ll just keep calling it a double bloodroot, I guess.
Wow, I’d never seen bloodroot before. Beautiful – it’s one to jot down for future reference.
That double bloodroot is the purest white! I did see some at Haskell’s Nursery in New Bedford and they were lovely…almost as lovely as yours! Thanks for sharing!
Great stuff, Craig. Almost all plants I never, ever see.
A dog as beautiful as Fred deserves to have part of the garden coordinated with him!!! 😉
That leopard’s bane is so cheerful–we have quart pots of it at the garden center right now, and I hadn’t ever seen it before it showed up there. And I do admire those fringed bleeding hearts… maybe even more so than the regular old d. spectabilis. The foliage reminds me of some of the newer varieties of purple corydalis. Could your dicentra exima be ‘Luxuriant’ or ‘Adrian Bloom’ by chance? Those are the only two cultivar names I know, so I thought I’d throw them out to see if one rang a bell…?
How did I get so behind?
Looking at your plants makes me rethink my intended garden… and I think I need some more dogs.
Hank
You can find canines that match Digitalis ferruginea, but for most of your foxgloves and lupines, it’ll be a touch match.
The double bloodroot is a stunner. You could crop the photo close and tell everybody it’s a water lily 🙂 Not that you would want to, of course.