I love this plant, even though it was my husband who desperately wanted it: Arisarum proboscideum - mouse plant ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) It's blooms look like little mice busily digging in the ground: Arisarum proboscideum - mouse plant ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) We've got a few more things blooming too: Paeonia - don't know which ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) Leucogenes grandiceps ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) Aquilegia - Nora Barlow-cross ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) Lamprocapnos spectabilis (Dicentra spectabilis) ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) We're very proud of this little Meconopsis. It's no more than approx. 20 cm / 8 inches tall, and the blooms are very big for it's size: Meconopsis delavayi ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) Meconopsis delavayi ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) The orchids have started to bloom too: Cypripedium parviflorum ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) Cypripedium parviflorum ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) The big Meconopsises are slowly starting now. We've only got the white one out so far: Meconopsis betonicifolia alba ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) Due to the bad weather we've had recently, some of our blooms look rather awful, but I still want to show our early-blooming yellow peony: Paeonia mlokosewitschii ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) One of the plants who seem to love this wet, cold weather is this trillium: The monster-trillium whose name is unknown ( photo / image / picture from Droopy's Garden ) It's so big this year I'll have to move it or it will run over it's more timid neighbours.
I just love that Arisarum proboscideum - mouse plant,.. ,..that Aquilegia is unusual,..the cross between the Nora Barlow gives some strange but impressive blooms,..very bell like that Lamprocapnos spectabilis (Dicentra spectabilis),..something i could well picture in my garden,..beautiful blue blooms on your Meconopsis delavayi,..i like blue blooms,..that Cypripedium parviflorum ,..is certainly a beautiful combination of colours,..stunning,..also the unknown Trillium,..all lovely to see.
Droopy, Those are all wonderful. Spring must have finally caught up with you, huh? That mouse plant is very interesting! not that I want one, but it is interesting.
Hello there, Droopers--Great pics with that new camera. hahaha. I liked seeing all that you had to show today. I am especially fond of the meconopsis plants. Mine bloomed wildly this year, but the sky-blue blooms were paler than usual...and they were enormously tall. The Paeonias were stunning. I was wondering if that yellowish one was a "tree Paeonia". The clump of Cipripedium was stunning to see as well. Gad--who wouldn't lurve to have one of those! That New Zeeland edelweiss is looking cozy, all wrapped-up in it's fur--good for your present temps. The Arisarum looks familiar. I think that I have seen one on a vine before. I do not really know or grow this plant...so it is a real curosity. Great posting this time....did I mention how nice your fotos look? ;-)
Droopy, at first I thought you were teasing us with the mouse plant and there really were mice digging! I can just picture my dog sitting there staring, pawing at trying to catch them! And everything else looks fantastic. I think I've only seen orchids grown indoors. Your's are so beautiful!
All gorgeous! OF COURSE! Is that mouse plant hardy ??? Spending winter in your garden? I have a similar one (or from the same family) Typhonium divaricatum. Is it a stinky one? Like mine? With one bloom on the balcony, I feel someone's just used the WC LOL
Droppy, I love your posting of orchid. Every year I drool over yours and then longingly look at them in different sources that sell them. All of your plants are so healthy and gorgeous.
OK I'm going to have to admit it!! I'm jealous of the plants you have in your garden Droopy. I love the Arisarum proboscideum - mouse plant as it's so unusual and quirky. Your Leucogenes grandiceps is another one that has me drooling as are the Meconopsis delavayi and the Slipper plant. I'm off to dry out my keyboard now.
Thank you Philip. I'm certain you can grow the big Bleeding Heart in Ireland. Carolyn, yes, spring has arrived, sort of, but we ought to have summer by now. Haha, Sjoerd, trying to make amends now, eh? No, "Molly the Witch" is a perennial paeonia, not a tree one. They haven't quite started yet. I think you might be thinking of the Aristolochia plant. They've got flowers that look like pipes, so we call it "Pipe plant" in Norwegian. Thank you stratsmom! Cheryl, I can also picture your dog staring at those "mice". It's sort of cute in a weird way. Yes it is, Calin. It doesn't have a scent as far as I know, and from your description I'm glad it doesn't. Thank you Jewell, I hope you will find some orchids that will grow in your garden. Thaks oubee. eileen, you're too kind! We've struggled a bit with the mouse plant but it looks like we've found the spot for it now. (I have to confess the one in the photo's my mother's, since it's easier to photograph. )
Droopy I do not know what to admire :-D :-D all are very very very very beautiful :-D :-D Do you have plants many years trying to cultivate,very difficult for some plants grow on the island I live...as Meconopsis and Cypripedium.. congratulations :-D :-D :-D
Thank you Theodoros! Your climate is a lot different than mine. Am I allowed to ask which island you live on?
Wow Droops! Great plants & great photos! I particularly love your forest of yellow ladyslippers! I am guessing it is a long-lived patch. I am amazed that you can grow the blue poppy, very impressive, and the white is beautiful too. The Nora Barlow columbine cross is interesting too. Thanks so much for sharing your photos!
