cheerpeople: I looked at the June Album example, some very nice pictures. I keep an album and a Garden Journal to keep track of plants. I noticed you have an unamed Bellflower I have that plant and I believe it is Adenophora confusa "Ladybells". My neighbor gave it to me over 30 years ago and it still is growing. Pat

I still have (at 1600 ft above the Willamette Valley) California poppies in bloom, some roses (Blaze, Mermaid, unknown hybrid red and one white, Gruss an Aachen), Sweet William, dead-headed Hypericon (St John's Wort).

It would seem that we have had the opposite experience. I grew 4 from clippings taken in February and 3 of them are already flowering, even though they are no more than 15cm high! I've even considered snipping the flowers off to give the plants more time to develop leaves. One possibility that springs to mind is that yours could be planted in high nitrogen soil, which would encourage leaf growth. Another, what about light availability? If they aren't in direct sun that could inhibit flowering.

As far as I know, hybrids between different species of Kennedia are unknown in the wild, nor are there any named garden hybrids. Come to think of it, interspecific hybrids hardly seem to be recorded among any of the pea-flowered legumes except perhaps in the broom tribe (e.g. Cytisus, Genista, Laburnum), suggesting that there are pretty strong barriers against effective pollination between species. Compare this with genera such as Callistemon and Grevillea, in which hybrids occur frequently when species are brought together in cultivation.