In the garden1st of May 004

but they look so beautiful with the raindrops on!!

Molly the Witch?

Very early Brian, mine are only just recognisable and the foliage has not fully unfurled yet. Which variety is this one?

Andrew yes, forgot to add it

Poppy as Andrew says is what its know as, But that is not its correct name and I canot spell it, if you want to know will look it up or Andrew may spell better than me.

Paeonia mlokosewitschii

My off cut is looking good Brian, but I am not sure if I will get a flower this year. I love it. :o)

Beautiful Bjs...........
I have a deep pink one about to open, can't remember the name offhand,in its second year and first time flowering, only 3 buds so it'd better not rain tomorrow :-))

Thank you Andrew who would give a lovely flower like this a Name like that.lol
Probably the person who discovered it.

One of the 'rules' of plant naming is that you cannot name the plant after yourself. But someone else can name it for you. As you say, it was probably discovered, in its native Caucasus, by a Mr Mloksewitsch. In the same way, there are lots of plants called delavyi (after Mr Delavay), davidii (after Pere David), fortunei after Mr Fortune, etc.
Even Roy Lancaster has hypericum lancasteri (which he discovered)

Yes that makes sense, thanks Andrew for explaining that. Lets hope Mr Mloksewitsch didnt have too many other plants named after him. Mr Fortune is much easier to remember.

Poppy the list is endless of the plant hunter of the last 200 + years who have made our gardens as they are today

you never know maybe one day there could be a Poppylover poppy
Brian paeonia
Andrew alpinia???

No, the botanists have renamed it thingywotsit anonymosa :-(

as well as amnesia????

[not very kind of the botanists is it?]

so beautiful:-)))))))))))

They really look like crying kids, Brian, don´t they?

Katarina , you have an extra special imagination, you are right the way it look ,yes, i agree with you like crying kids!

It is not my imagination, Junna :). They do cry.

Ok, Kat, thats very well said:-))))