Adonis

insam · Post by **insam** » Apr 10, 2006 12:34 am

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:

doublemom2 · Post by **doublemom2** » Apr 10, 2006 12:49 am

Those photos are beautiful, thanks for sharing with us

Spring is just getting started here in the PNW, and every day I go outside and see more and more things in bloom, it's like opening a present every day

Andi

Nathalie23 · Post by **Nathalie23** » Apr 10, 2006 7:15 am

Wow! The pictures are awesome!!!

renaldo75 · Post by **renaldo75** » Apr 10, 2006 11:17 am

I'm not familiar with this plant at all - beautiful!!

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » Apr 10, 2006 3:26 pm

What a cool little plant!! Wish i could pick that up at the local nursery!

Kent · Post by **Kent** » Apr 10, 2006 4:29 pm

I love plants that know their station in life. This plant really is wonderful, especially since it blooms at a time when we hunger for beauty in the garden. If it was later flowering would we take much notice...I doubt it. But being so early it gets all our loving attention and deservedly so!

Nice pixs!

Kent

Garden_of_Mu · Post by **Garden_of_Mu** » Apr 10, 2006 4:42 pm

This is a gorgeous flower - and great photos of it! Is it available in the US?

Kent · Post by **Kent** » Apr 10, 2006 5:48 pm

Mike,

Asiatica sell it. 22.00 a pop!

Kent

Garden_of_Mu · Post by **Garden_of_Mu** » Apr 10, 2006 6:51 pm

Hmmm... for that price perhaps I'll just print out the photo, tape it to a stick and put that in my flowerbed.

insam · Post by **insam** » Apr 10, 2006 8:32 pm

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. It is native and is the ground cover of choice. A very nice plant but again very cheap here. I noticed Terra Nova has introduced one called 'Crimson fans'. Here is one growing outside the library. The buds will open into white panicles sort of like Saxifraga, and they form carpets of nice maple-like foliage in summer. The early foliage of many plants contain anthocyanins and can emerge very dark brown-red, very attractive.

Linda P · Post by **Linda P** » Apr 11, 2006 8:32 am

at Mike. What a beauty, insam. I wonder if the price will come down in time. Otherwise, I'll copy Mike's idea. Maybe with a little decoupage layering we could come up with a 3-D image that would fool the eye?
Linda P