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The bright yellow Buttercup-like flowers with soft finely cut leaves tinged reddish, are a welcome sign of spring. Not surprising, this native of Manchuria and Japan is a member of the Ranunculaceae family.
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Adonis amurensis 'Orange Glow'
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Eranthis hyemalis
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Winter Aconites, another member of the Ranunculaceae family in the Woodland Garden. Leaf-like bracts under each yellow flower create a distinctive ruff. The genus is from "er" meaning spring and "anthos" meaning flower.
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In this view of the Alpine House we have Primulas on the right and Saxifragas on the left.
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The Alpine House
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Saxifraga apiculata 'Alba'
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Although called 'Alba' this variety has small pale yellow flowers with deeper yellow throats.
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Large pink flowers with a deeper colored throat on this Saxifraga, a cultivar of S. burseriana x S. lilacina.
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Saxifraga x irvingii 'Jenkinsiae'
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Corydalis paczoskii
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These Corydalis have self sown in the benches in a section of the Alpine House and are growing between the pots of the other plants. Like other species of Corydalis, they have finely cut fern-like leaves and are members of the Papaveraceae family.
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Large cream colored flowers with distinctive orange anthers.
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Saxifraga x megasaeflora 'Jupiter'
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C. solida f. transsylvanica 'George Baker'
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Short dense stalks of flowers--and a really long name--make this Corydalis solida f. transsylvanica 'George Baker' distinctive.
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It is Hepatica time at Stonecrop. This one really is as blue as it looks.
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Hepatica triloba
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Hepatica 'Ellison Spence'
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The fluff of shorter narrow petals in the center of this double Ellison Spenceš makes it hard to forget.
any idea who Ellison was?
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Looks noble to me! A brilliant pink Hepatica.
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Hepatica nobilis Pink
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Fritillaria assyriaca
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A member of the Liliaceae family, this is just one of over 80 species of the genus whose name is from "fritillus" meaning a dice-box--I assume because many of the species have flowers with a checkered pattern.
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This member of the Liliaceae family from the Mediterranean region, one of about 50 species in the genus, may have flowers that are subtle, but its wonderfully intense fragrance certainly is not.
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Muscari ambrosiacum
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Tecophilaea cynacrocus
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With flowers this striking, this plant needed its own family--Tecophiliaceae. The Chilean Blue Crocus, not surprisingly from Chile, is rare in cultivation and, unfortunately, extinct in the wild.
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