"April Contest Entries" in What's Blooming in April

By LarryR
April 19, 2012

Like many other parts of the Midwest, our spring came early in Iowa this year, with temperatures approaching those of summer. Unfortunately, we are back to reality now, with three successive nights of temperatures in the upper 20s. Some plants suffered visible damage, but many that I expected to see damaged breezed through the cold spell with nary a blemish! Come on into the garden and see what our early spring has wrought.

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LarryR

Apr 18, 2012 6:49 PM CST

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Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

Enter the name of the plant pictured here, either one of its common names or its botanical name. (This is a hybrid, so you need only provide the genus name). It's important to also include its cultivar name or its common name.

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eclayne

Apr 18, 2012 7:29 PM CST

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Name: Evan
Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)

Green Dragon, Arisaema dracontium? Oops, didn't read your hint.

Evan

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LarryR

Apr 18, 2012 11:15 PM CST

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Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

You've almost got it, Evan. Try again.

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
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SongofJoy

Apr 19, 2012 4:46 AM CST

Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)

Whipcord Cobra Lily ... Arisaema tortuosum?

If that's correct, you can credit Evan. He's the Arisaema man.

I garden for the pollinators.

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LarryR

Apr 19, 2012 1:17 PM CST

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Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

Nope, not Arisaema, but a close relative. Below is the scientific classification. The genus and cultivar names is what I'm after.

Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Arisaemateae
Genus:
Cultivar:

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
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Sharon

Apr 19, 2012 1:38 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

Almost looks like Jack in the Pulpit.

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Sharon

Apr 19, 2012 1:41 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

Cobra lily gone a little haywire.

Can you tell I've been out in the sun too long today?

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SongofJoy

Apr 19, 2012 2:16 PM CST

Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)

Arum 'Whackydoodle'. I made up the cultivar name, of course.

I have been out in the sun a lot today myself.

Hybrid Voodoo Lily of some type?

That's one of the longest spadices/spathes I've ever seen. I never remember the difference in those two botanical terms.

I'm curious to know.

I garden for the pollinators.

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Sharon

Apr 19, 2012 2:21 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

By golly I think you're right, Song.
I shoulda known.

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SongofJoy

Apr 19, 2012 2:32 PM CST

Name: Carole
Clarksville, TN (Zone 6b)

Do you think so? I have Arums (don't look quite like that one though), but I thought they were saying it was an Arisaema hybrid. So much for reading comprehension today. But I did get a lot done outside.

I rather like 'Whackydoodle' as a cultivar name though. Maybe I'll hybridize something one of these days and use it.

I garden for the pollinators.

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Sharon

Apr 19, 2012 2:45 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

Does have a sort of rhythm to it.

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valleylynn

Apr 19, 2012 3:51 PM CST

Name: Lynn
Oregon City, OR (Zone 8b)

Arisaema heterophyllum?

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Sempervivum ~ Sedum ~ Containers

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eclayne

Apr 19, 2012 5:30 PM CST

Plants Admin Emeritus

Name: Evan
Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)

Pinellia cordata ‘Yamazaki’?

Evan

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Sharon

Apr 19, 2012 5:34 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

Sweet Arum.
I think you got it, Evan!

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LarryR

Apr 19, 2012 7:41 PM CST

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Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

Thanks for your guesses, all! Evan, you're ever so close. I'ts a Pinellia, but not 'Yamazaki.'

Tee, here is Arisaema 'Whackydoodle'--

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens: Come on in and take the tour! Check out the photos!

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LarryR

Apr 19, 2012 7:44 PM CST

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Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

What's all this talk about sun?! It been raining here for two days, not steadily but off and on. Just enough of a nuisance to keep me out of the garden. Plus an occasional thunderstorm. More rain tomorrow.

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens: Come on in and take the tour! Check out the photos!

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Sharon

Apr 19, 2012 7:45 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)

Heh. You are living in the wrong place, Larry.

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LarryR

Apr 19, 2012 8:02 PM CST

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Name: Larry Rettig
South Amana, IA (Zone 5a)

(An icon is about as close as I get to swearing about the weather or anything else for that matter.

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And you did have to rub it in, didn't you, Sharon.

Gardener was the label imprinted on me when the souls were handed out and so be it. --Margaret Roach (Thank you, Sharon!) Notes from the Garden: Articles of interest on all aspects of gardening
Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens: Come on in and take the tour! Check out the photos!

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Sharon

Apr 19, 2012 8:07 PM CST

Name: Sharon
Calvert City, KY (Zone 7a)