I’ve been observing edimentals liked by the bees over the last week…and the winners are the following genera: Allium, Cirsium, Papaver, Trifolium, Dictamnus, Knautia, Campanula, Codonopsis and Aquilegia
I only need to find the time to get out Tor Bollingmo’s (Norwegian) book and attempt to identify the bee species!
Cirsium erisithales, yellow melancholy thistle
Allium
Allium
Allium cernuum
Allium cernuum
Cirsium erisithales, yellow melancholy thistle
Allium hymenorhizum
Cirsium erisithales, yellow melancholy thistle
Opium poppy
White clover
Dictamnus albus
Dictamnus albus
Cirsium eriophorum, woolly thistle
Field scabious, Knautia arvensis (rødknapp)
Field scabious, Knautia arvensis (rødknapp)
Allium cernuum
Campanula
Allium cernuum
Ligularia fischeri and white-lipped snail
Ligularia fischeri
Opium poppy
Opium poppy
Codonopsis
Aquilegia
200718: Not so good for us is that the good weather has lead to an explosion of the wasp population…on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
200718: Wasp on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
200718: Bee on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
200718: Bee on Hylotelephium (Sedum), Autumn stonecrop
Alliums in the botanical gardens in Gothenburg, Sweden on a visit on 16th June 2014. The first batch are from the under cover bulb garden, where watering regimes can be controlled. Not many species were flowering. This is one of the best bulb collections in the world with some 1,600 species!!
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The first batch are from the under cover bulb garden, where watering regimes can be controlled. This is one of the best collections in the world with some 1,600 species!!
Allium sp. : this yellow Allium had seeded around quite a bit…
Allium sp..
This one’s a mouthful: Allium macleanii x jesdianum subsp angustipetalum
Allium karataviense
Allium parvum
Allium akaka
Allium tschimganicum
Allium barsczewskii f. rosea
Allium nigrum
Allium candolleanum
Allium acuminatum
Allium caesium
Allium colchicifolium
Allium scilloides
The next batch were all growing in the open garden… This was labelled Allium nanodes from NW China. However, Mark McDonough has commented “Not nanodes which is vey dwarf, maybe a form of ovalifolium or prattii)
Allium unifolium (I think) had gone wild in a few beds…
Allium unifolium (I think) had gone wild in a few beds…
Allium scorodoprasum
Allium scorodoprasum
Allium “Globemaster”
Crambe maritima, Crambe cordifolia and Allium Globemaster
Probably the best display of Alliums I’ve seen, a special project this year at the Utrecht Botanical Garden, showing off the diversity in the onion family!
Quite a few of the plants were sourced from the Dutch Allium maestro, Wietse Mellema, without whom (and Gerard van Buiten) I doubt it would have been this special!
Enjoy!
An early Xmas present from Alexander Naumenko! Thanks!
Several new very interesting Alliums, Taraxacum lilacinum (lilac flowered dandelion…hope they will germinate!), Hyssopus tianschanicus, Tragopogon capitatus, Angelica brevicaulis and Serratula coronata (an important wild edible food plant in the Far East that I’ve been looking for for some time; this species has a very wide geographic distribution and is in the same family as saw-wort/jærtistel, Serratula tinctoria )! Also a nice little book in Russian on the Plants of Kyrgyzstan…
There are many great edimental forms of Allium cernuum / Nodding onion or Chicago onion. I call this one “Dark Scape” because of the dark flower shoot / scape. Bees love it too…
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
