Trollius albiflorus (syn. Trollius laxus ssp. albiflorus) is a common plant of wet alpine meadows, blooming shortly after the snow recedes. I find that the white ticking at the leaf-section junctions makes the plant readily identifiable amongst the other meadow foliage, after the bloom season.
It looks like it's a good year for Clematis marmoraria this year . Some genera of NZ plants have erratic flowering years and Clematis is one . Copious flowers one year and sometimes none the next year . Not quite sure why but it maybe because it disrupts the life cycles of seed predators .
I have now realised that I should have turned the pots to keep the flowers even . Oh well . Never mind .
A video of more than 50 species and cultivars:
Last year I bought a couple plants of Anemone virginiana at a NARGS Chapter seedling sale, I wasn't familiar with what this plant was all about. I liked the spring foliage, but as the stems shot up to 2' (60 cm) with ugly whitish flowers, and remembering advice from at least one NARGS member to "watch" this plant as it can spread too far and wide, I dug it up and threw it out.
Adonis vernalis from the European mountains.
Grows in a sunny spot in the rockgarden in rather alkaline soil.
The first pulsatilla showing some colour : Pulsatilla chinensis vulgaris
Just coming into flower is Callianthemum kernerianum from the limestone hills of the Monte Baldo.
Some glorious pulsatillas are being displayed in this thread ... here is Pulsatilla alpina ssp. apiifolia from the Dolomites.
Delphinium andersonii has finally cracked through the soil. (Crook County, Oregon)
Carolyn Poff Strong
Zone 3 & 8
It's all under snow again, having received about 8" this morning, but last weekend I took a side trip into the Crooked River Gorge in Central Oregon and came upon the early blooms of the Sagebrush buttercups, Ranunculus glaberrimus. So waxy and shiny. It is my first indicator that the season is truly moving along...
Carolyn Poff Strong
Zone 3 & 8