Hallson Gardens

Very nice! Doubles can be found on the market (under names like 'plenum', 'multiplex', 'snowbunting' etc etc.) but for a price. Most do seem to be grandiflorum.

Sorry, I'm not sure Doris. I always go on the radical side of caution with this stuff and am generally not a fan of any sign of chlorosis in leaves. But then there are others who would put it into TC. :-) We know very little about mosaic viruses etc. generally and how they affect specific plants, cr...

Chris, do you graft them yourself? About how much time can be saved by grafting? From seed some would probably be considered a success if bloomed in 3-10 years I suppose, and germination can be tricky of course. Does anyone know a source in the US that sells peony seedlings, whether herbaceous or wo...

Well I won't post all of them of course. Half are of single leaves which are probably beyond the care of most gardeners. :wink: But there is a great variety even within single colonies and breeders would kill for some of them I would think; growers who have great diversity in their gene pool always ...

Hi Karma, My plane leaves tonight, so once I'm back 'home' in Korea I'll post here. It was a very successful trip and I took perhaps 700 or so photos. Here's just a quick preview: http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL82/1561273/9933188/141835175.jpg http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL82/1561273/9933188/1420...

Rosemarie, When I was still in college I got hooked on them. Here it is 7 years later and I am currently on an airplane somewhere over Western Mongolia headed to Europe to photograph them in the wild. So be careful! :-) Luckily you have some great ones in your area. Near Eugene are some of the best ...

In flower it gets perhaps a foot tall but the leaves are considerably shorter, maybe more like 5-8", and the leaves are the main attraction through summer. Today I saw it growing in plantings below a wall along with rhododendron and forsythia on the way to the airport, and it looked very nice, mostl...

Nice Andi. 'Sweetheart' is a beauty!

I agree it is fabulous and a nice clear color.

Funny, I just mentioned this in another thread titled 'Adonis'... should have looked here first. These plants are very common here in Korea and are used as a ground cover, so they will certainly spread, sort of like Pachysandra or some Asarum species. I'm not sure how invasive they would be in a pla...

hmm... I thought they were quite common. Can't you buy them bulk from bulb companies? Here they are around $2-3. Maybe they are selling cultivars? I noticed recently that a few nurseries in North America also offer Aceriphyllum (Mukdenia), which is very common here even in commercial plantings etc. ...

Adonis amurensis is a fairly common garden plant and very useful as it blooms early, often even in the snow. Here in Korea spring is only just getting started. These are native and seen here in the wild: http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VOL82/1561273/9632124/138415817.jpg http://pic5.picturetrail.com/VO...

Very nice. What trillium is it? Our sessile ones aren't so mottled in the east.

'Old Man HellJohn' sure is nice! :wink: Mike, I don't know of a society that names hellebores in the same way you see it for other plants like irises, clematis etc. For plants growing in our gardens we can call them whatever we like, and there have been many named cultivars throughout the decades, b...

Char, your beautiful plants do have a name, they are all Helleborus x hybridus. Your spotted ones remind me very much of my very first hellebores. Thanks for sharing.

Renaldo, this is a tissue culture plant so it was selected partially for that reason. These interspecific hybrids involving H. niger are frequently sterile and so they usually bloom for a long time. I do see some swollen carpels on this one. Will be interesting to see if any seed mature. I'm not a f...

Amazing. Debbie, what on earth are you and the redpolls doing up there!??

I stood on my tip-toes holding the camera as high over my head as I could reach. So the bird could not see me and I could not see it except through the flip out LCD. The down side is having to use auto mode and no tripod. The upside is getting close. :-) I thought the simplicity was nice. http://pic...

See Renaldo, right beside your yellow crocuses.

Oops, a typo. I fixed the link.

Kellie, those sound like some cool ones. H. hercegovinus foliage is really unique. The only thing I can think of that's sort of like it is fern leaf peony (P. tenuifolia). There are also some Italian hellebores that are similar. Mature plants can be spectacular.