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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 07:59 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

My first opened up yesterday, Rose Queen (which I think is synonymous with Yubaei?). They should be even better in few days, but I was excited enough to see anything after this dreary winter and spring:


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Posted on Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 08:52 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

A beautiful, rich colour, Mike.

Here's my first grandiflorum this year, Buckland Spider. The photos are a few days old. Since then most of the buds have opened and it is a tangle of spidery flowers. It is very floriferous.

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Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 - 05:13 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Wow, I like that one!

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Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 08:32 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Epimedium fargesii, to complete Marahime's superb collection:
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Posted on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 05:55 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Contributing a near relative of your fargesii. Epimedium 'Pink Constellation' (but I see the species itself is lovely and I'll need it as well...):

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Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 04:20 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous, I fear I am on the path to ruination.
I like them ALL!!
Heck, I want them all.
Have never seen these for sale locally until last week when a new nursery opened and had some Epimedium x youngianum 'Roseum', needless to say one came home with me.
I hope it is hardy to my zone 4b.

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Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 06:57 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Mara, your photos are outstanding! Isn't there any wind where you live? ;-) I now have about 80 or so different ones, but I'm sure I'll order more for autumn. They are a delight and have such variety.

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Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008 - 10:43 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

80 different epimediums??!!!! Incredible! Please post pictures of as many as possible.

I took the photos with a very wide aperture and hence very fast shutter speed, so wind is not a problem. At over 1/1000 of a second it stops all motion. The wide aperture ensures a nicely fuzzy background, which is what I wanted.

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Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 08:53 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I obviously need a major photo tutorial. Perhaps from Mara. But some recent rains followed by warmth has yielded blooms on Saxton's Purple:


Plus this unknown one that I've asked about before but can't remember. It's not E. y. 'Niveum', which I purchased it as (unless my smaller-flowered 'Niveum' is wrong). It's a vigorous spread (for an Epi) and has these beautiful purple buds:


I can imagine Mara taking a good photo of this shot, quite unlike this one:


Then Yubaei:


I've finally smartened up and put these all in one area where I can see them all at once up close. I can't quite capture that picture, but it's enchanting.

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Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 10:49 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Mike, I'd love to see an overview picture of your epimediums together, even though I know the picture won't do the scene any kind of justice. Still better than nothing, or rather better than my poor imagination.

Your white one definitely isn't youngianum niveum:

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The flowers resemble 'Creeping Yellow', except that CY doesn't have those attractive dark purple buds. Also Creeping Yellow's leaves are tiny! I don't know what possessed the person who named this variety, as neither the flowers nor the foliage is yellow.

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Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 01:20 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I had no idea this thread had already begun! I do believe epimediums are my favourite plants. Well, hepaticas too. This thread is GORGEOUS!

My plants have not all emerged yet. I just came indoors from hunting them down. It is pouring cats and dogs out there so I couldn't take pictures as I would have liked to. But here are a few. The "Black Prince is about to open..maybe I'll capture it tomorrow.

These plants have no names...only numbers, and even those are missing.

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The best conditions for growing these plants is unfortunately not near the house. :(

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Posted on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 08:32 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Well, Mara, some of the differences are subtle, but they all have different names. :-)

For example, 'Yubei', Tama no Genpei', and 'Yenomoto' all growing together:

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I'll try to get a good photographic record next spring; last year some were still smallish, and this year I was away. Although its flowers are not borne above the foliage, one of my favorites is 'Hagoromo'; it has beautiful coloration on the leaves and stems, as well as clear contrasting flower color patterns.

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Incidently, I saw lots of Epimedium dyphyllum yesterday. There were also loads of E. koreanum, but I was too late and they had already bloomed.


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Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 01:56 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Marie, the blue one deserves a name, not just a number! It's such a beautiful colour.

Jgwoodard wrote on Saturday, May 03, 2008 - 08:32 pm:

I saw lots of Epimedium dyphyllum yesterday.


Lots indeed! What a rare sight - and here we are creeping around with our macro lenses to photograph our single little plants. The last photo is magnificent. Is that a park, or nature? What kind of Corydalis is growing with them (if it is corydalis)?

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Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 06:10 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Jgwoodard, is this in Korea? Wherever it is, it is a sight of a lifetime.
'Yubei', Tama no Genpei', and 'Yenomoto' all growing together is gorgeous too.

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Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 06:35 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Gardenfiend wrote on Sunday, May 04, 2008 - 01:56 am:

What a rare sight - and here we are creeping around with our macro lenses to photograph our single little plants.


My thoughts exactly. I can't exactly get a picture of mine en masse like I was hoping given the angles and things in the way. Wouldn't a whole groundcover of them like that picture be a sight, though!

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Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 06:28 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Crept around yesterday with my lens....Happy that no one followed me with THEIR lens!

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Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 10:31 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I've recently bought my first epimedium which is Epimedium rhizomatosum.
It sounds like it could be invasive.

Does anyone else have this plant...and is it a thug? I would like to know before I put it in the garden.

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Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 12:18 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Gardenbug wrote on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 06:28 am:

Happy that no one followed me with THEIR lens!


... Please post another of this one when it is fully open (provided no one is following you, of course). The colour looks unusual.

Sorry, Denise, I don't know it.

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Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 12:42 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Yes, I grow E. rhizomatosum.
I don't think of it as a thug at all, it spreads gently so far (only 1,5 years in the garden). The clump is fairly dense, yes, but not "running away"!
Not sure I ever saw it bloom, though. I liked the foliage most, I must say!
... later....
I checked whether there was anything peeking up tonight, Dee...Three scapes are pointing out, and the buds look really tiny...it seems to be a late bloomer...unless this is due to our late frosts this year (several epimedium did have their flower stems burnt).
I'll post pictures for you later as it blooms , if you want!
...later again...
I checked the catalogue of the nursery where I bought it. It says "yellow flowers with long spurs. An excellent groundcover"

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Posted on Monday, May 05, 2008 - 01:01 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thanks for that Ann-Marie. If it only spreads a little, I can cope with that.

I bought it for it's lovely mottled leaves too. It's supposed to have a long flowering period, from May to September...and lovely yellow flowers.

I'll plant it in the garden tomorrow...hopefully, it will start flowering soon.

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