Mother rang me this morning, asking me to bring the camera and visit because some of her trilliums were behaving strangely. So I went, and photographed a few other things besides. Rhododendron: The Glaucidium palmatum, white and purple: Erythronium "Snowflake": Green-and-white double Anemone nemorosa and Corydalis flexuosa: Dicentra cucullaria "Dutchman's Breeches": And the trilliums: This is the one she wanted me to see, a T. sessile extra that's decided to go double this year: I wonder if it will come back like this, or if it's just a one-year thing. Those plants sometimes do things we don't understand, and the following year they're pretending that nothing special ever happened. This Gentiana (I think it's acaulis) bloomed in her neighbour's garden so I photographed that as well:
Droopy those are beautiful pictures. I have Trillum, but it hasn't bloomed yet. The last picture...the bluish one is gorgeous. My favorite color family. Thanks for sharing.
Your Mother's garden is amazing, such beautiful flowers. And the photographer took great pictures too.
You're welcome and thank you! Toni, it's easy to photograph when the objects are as well behaved as these were. Wish I could show everything that bloomed in there. She's got great blooms all season.
I remember seeing the shots you took of her gardens last year, where her planting pattern made it look like they were on a slope. How long has she been creating the garden?
Let me think... About 35 years. Some of the big rhododendron and lots of spring bulbs have been there that long. She's added to and removed every year ever since.
Droopy your mother certainly has some wonderful plants in her garden. I like the lemon rhododendron - a really delicate and pretty shade. I've never seen a dicentra like the Dutchman's Breeches before - such an unusual shape of flower.
Fantastic photos Droopy. I just love that double Trillium! The color of that Gentiana is stunning too.
Thank you all. WTxDaddy, you're probably right, they like cool and wet. That Dicentra has the strangest bulbs too, they look like a collection of dull, spiny clumps of undefinable matter. They break easily too.
Well then... somebody's been busy with their camera! What a collection of beauties your mum has...and you did really good behind the camera as well. What nice rhododendrons. Mine will just not grow. They are blooming now, but are so short. I'm with Eileen--that lemony one is gorgeous. That double Trillium is quite something to see, isn't it? I've never seen that. Do Trilliums produce seeds that one can plant and get new plants from, or is the plant a tuber that calves? That greenish-looking one with purply-trimed edges looks interesting to me. Is it a mix, or one existing on it's own as an established sort? I didn't realize that the Corydalis Fluxuosa bloomed now. It is looking good isn't it. The two plants (Corydalis and Anemone)make a nice-looking clump, don't they? Does your mum also have the Corydalis elata? So...it was a good idea to share pics of the selected blooms from your mum's garden. I hope that you will do that a gain sometime. I like her selection. Do you guys share some of the same plants?
Love her garden and her trillium "mutation"...hopefully it will come back and bring more along with it. My trilliums have no signs of flower buds yet, but it won't be long. Our crabapples should be in full bloom in about a week. Yeah!
Thanks all. Sjoerd, those Trillium can be sown from seed but it takes forever before they bloom. They make clumps that can be divided, but that takes forever too. I can't quite remember, but I think the greenish-pink one is a cross of some sort. My C. elata came from my mother, and we frequently swap plants. Hers always seem to do better than mine, though.
What a lovely collection of flowers your mum has. I have a trillium which I thought I had lost, but it has shown itself again, but the flowers are still a little way off opening. That double is something special though. Fingers crossed it does that from now on.
