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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Hi, Folks, please make your flowering now, April , posts here from 15th April. Splitting the month will make it easier for downloading the page. Just hope everyone finds this |
Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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Good thinking Margaret. I'm blowed if I'm paying AOL £29 99 monthly when by exercising a bit of common sense and patience it costs £15 99 for what I need. I reckon they still make enough profit at that. |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Maggi,
Great idea! I was actually thinking the same thing when waiting for it to load yesterday (and I have broadband!). Must takes absolutely yonks for dialup, particularly any outlying places where connection speed for dialup are even slower.
So if we want to respond to pics that were already posted in the other half of the thread do we do it here or back in that thread?
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Luc Gilgemyn (Luc)
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Well - I shall have the honour of opening the new thread then with some beauties from the garden.
Sax. vlatava
in my humble opinion one of the best for outside
Draba imbricata
some 10 years old I believe - the size of a football but flowering a bit less profusely than in its younger days...
Clematis marmoraria petriei
I've got this one in a pot - not quite hardy out here I believe.
Joining in on the Erythroniums - a close up of E. Pagoda
Morisia monanthos in a little trough - surprised by some late snow last weekend.
A raised bed coming into life - the white cloud is the ground hugging Iberis candolleana
Close up of Iberis candolleana
And last but not least a close up of the Jeffersona dubia that I posted earlier in April
Have a nice weekend every body.
Luc |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 15, 2005 - 9:58 pm: | |
Paul, it may be confusing to some, but I would suggest posting here, even if referring to a post in the earlier thread. Make reference to the post no. if you like, but I think it'll be easier if we keep going here.
Luc, Thanks for these pix to get us going!
How many of us wish we were able to have been to the Dutch Alpine Conference? It is the Grand Sale at the Utrecht Botanic Gardens tomorrow... Oh to have the chance to see all these plants that will be for sale!! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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My Jeffersonia never looks that good.
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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I'm gonna have to control my activity on here or even stop. I honestly mean it. I'm 33 posts away from hitting 1000.
In the garden today
Phlox (creeping ex Czech Republic) cauloides (so the label say) white
Clematis 'Joe' a single flower and one of many
Erythronium in M. Glynn's garden
which is it cos I want it!!
a lovely tiny unknown plant max. 2cm high with grassy leaves and spreads in to a matt
Can you ID it for Margaret Glynn and I? |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Mark, if you stop posting I will have to hurt you! Do not go there!
I think the Erythronium is likely White Beauty.
I know I SHOULD know the name of the wee white flower, I recognise the grassy leaves... but.... I'm getting old, help me, someone! |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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Sorry I forgot to post the name.it is Lewisia Brachycalyx x cotyledon hyb |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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This is Moraea Aristata |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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Another Brachycalyx Hyb
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Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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I'd agree about the Erythronium Maggi, probably `White Beauty.' For the little bulb, Spiloxene rings a vague bell in my head. How does that sound? I can't really see the foliage enough to be sure.
Ian, or Fred or somebody, I have a new enmail address and password which I'd like to register for the Forum but without losing my past posts - if you see what I mean - and having to start all over again. What should I do about it please? |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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The leaves are too short for Spiloxene. They look like miniature iris leaves or some of the tiny grasses you might find when weeding. I'll go back next week and photograph the whole matt and leaves. They two I did take were out of focus |
Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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Mark , Is it one of the tiny Colchicums? |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Hello, Michael, welcome to the Forum. Thanks for joining us and giving us these fine photos.The Moraea is stunning, a favourite colour combination of ours. I guess your second Lewisia brachycalx hybrid used one of the brighter cotyledon to get that vivid colour? Are they your own hybrids? Lewisias are one ofthe most rewarding plants to make hybrids with, I think.
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Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Ian (Christie),
Wonderful pics you have been posting. That Primula is a lovely strong colour. The Erythronium japonicum in particular looks amazing. Is that purple the normal colour? I haven't come across that species before which is why I ask. If it is does anyone know a source for seed of this, as I dearly want an Erythronium of that colour (I love purple, in fact my wife and even got married in white and purple! We both love it! LOL).
Also Ian, was there successful seed set on your Eranthis pinnatifidum you posted a pic of previously and if os do you have enough to spare me a couple of seeds? I sent you an email via the email link to the left of your message a while back but I received no response so I do not know whether it arrived or not. I realise you mentioned you were away from the SRGC for a period so it may have just got lost in the mass of email when you got back to the computer.
If anyone else happens to have Eranthus pinnatidus (i.e the white Eranthis) seed that they can spare even a couple of then please let me know and I will arrange to trade or buy them from you if you'd prefer. I dearly want to grow this Eranthis and the only way I am ever going to get it here in Australia is likely by seed (besides which that will guarantee that it is acclimatised to my conditions and grows more successfully).
Thanks in anticipation.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
john forrest (Jof)
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Some good pics above to start off this new section.
Here are a few of mine.
A couple of shrubs for the rock garden.
Forsythia Bronxensis which never grows taller than 60cm.
Prunus tenella Firehill is an absolute favourite of mine, which I first saw in Duncan Lowe’s garden and has been passed around the N. Lancs group. It increases by suckers but I planted mine in a rock pocket to confine it. I cut it back each year, which encourages flowering and keeps it to about 50-60cm.
Next a couple of primulas
P.frondosa
P. Peter Klein
Finally a few odds and ends
Erythronium White Beauty
Dicentra cuccularia
For the rock garden a very compact Iberis pruitii which deserves close inspection.
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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John, you'd better not let Ian Y hear you including an erythronium as "odds and ends".... you'll give him a heart attack... these plants are the centre of the universe, do you not understand?? Wonderful close-up of the Iberis. I see it's been raining down there with you, too! |
Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Here are some pictures I made today during an excursion of the Dutch Rock Garden Conference.
Members visiting probably the biggest private collection of Tulips
(more than 2000 different cultivars)
The collector, Mr Cees Breed, explaining about
Cold enough to hurry to the busses?
Mr. Panayoti Kelaides from Denver seems to enjoy it anyhow.
Too cold to smell the Hyacinths on the other side of the canal!
Some wellknown people with Mr. Breed.
Goodbye tulips and off to the next field with almost 3000 different Narcissi.
It was so cold, that the photographer had to leave the company.
So there are no pictures of the next field!
But I could make one more picture:
A winterspecial for Margaret.
Greetings from Holland on April 16th. 2005.
(+ 6 C.!)
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi paul, I have noticed seed pods which are still green on Eranthus pinnatifida so hope all will ripen, we are back to winter again with snowfall this morning, will keep you posted. Lewisia double red flowers with some sexy bits for maggie but so far noseed.
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Thank you for these pictures, Luit! Especially to let me see that Ian is well! I appreciate this very much! What a pity the weather is so cold, it is just the same here in Scotland (and I think most of England, too)with rain and cold winds. Is this your bicycle I see in the foreground of one of the photos? If so, these fields must be your neighbours'? I believe the man near the cycle is Chris Brickell, another friend! How nice to see so many friends being cold together!!I hope that everyone has enjoyed the Conference. Ian is looking forward to some garden visits tomorrow, I know.I do hope you have not been too much out in the cold, Luit. Perhaps you are enjoying a warm drink at your fireside now! Good Health to you!
Margaret |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Ian C, you are thinking of me, too, I'm touched!
If you hadn't told us it is a Lewisia, I think I'd have been thinking Dianthus!
Thankfully no snow here, though it is cold enough.
M |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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I would love to see the collections especially if it included species Tulipa |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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teens yesterday and 0 this morning rising to 3 and sitting there all day. 5 by the end of work and doing it's best to snow all day |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Flipping freezing here today and no warmer inside as our boiler has packed in so when the sun came out I took the camera for a walk.Here is a view along our main ferny border which also holds many of my anemones and hellebore etc
and a view of my winter beds meant to be peered at from the safety of the living room window when the winds are howling in from the airfield out the back.
one of their inhabitants is this lovely Anemone ranunculoides 'Semiplena'
A couple of my favourite pulsatillas:
P. halleri
andP.rubra
and finally a not too good picture of an excellent plant, flowering now and continuing until November, with beautiful coppery young leaves: Epimedium 'Golden Eagle'
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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thank you, Anne. Are those the leaves of Primula sieboldii that I spy to the left of the Anemone?
Seems out and about very early! Especially given the weather! Sorry about your boiler!! |
Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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I'm glad you like the pictures.
Margaret it's not my bicycle. It was too windy and cold for me, but on pict. 04 you see my house and glasshouses behind the Hyacinths.
Actually the tulips are on neighbours land.
I'll have a good glass of red wine to get the coldness out of my body now!
Cheers..
P.S what did I do wrong, I wanted every picture after the text belonging to the picture?? |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Luit, actually, originally all your pictures came out in a long line across the page so I corrected that to make them one above another. But I don't know quite why they did not appear in with the text, I am not very clever about these things! I have made more changes to make them so, I hope! |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Yes, the P. sieboldiis have been up for some time. I'm very fond of them but they do tend to motor about into everything else. |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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A pot of Moraea Aristata
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Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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Anyone know what this is, it appeared in a pot of seedling Synnotia variegata.
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Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Mark, have you thought about Spiloxene alba? I think it used to be called something else though. Its foliage is very small and neat compared with other species and I still think your pic could be that. I doubt if it's a colchicum. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Lovely pictures Anne, thanks so much. After the above comments re weather, I feeel a bit of a wimp, ever complaining about ours, but the fact remains, this is a COLDautumn with only about 1 in 3 days being the bright and sunny that we're used to. Good colour starting at last, the star being Fothergilla major. Too small to take a decent picture though, maybe next year. |
Marjorie Smith (Grannysmith)
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Mark, does it have dark brownish red on the back of the leaves? If so, it could be spiloxene alba formerly called hypoxis stellata. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Thanks Marjorie, I couldn't think of the previous name. Memory failing fast! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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The plant is right down at ground level. The leaves are tiny and about .5 inch high. The flower is no bigger. Thanks for the input. |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Mark,
That fits Spiloxene alba (aka Hypoxis stellata) to a tee, but for me here they tend to flower in autumn, not spring. Are they spring flowering in other climates? Mine are just coming into bud here and will flower for the next few months, but I wouldn't have thought that they would extend all the way until spring though?
Michael,
That looks like some sort of Synnotia to me, but I couldn't tell you which. Certainly looks enough like a Synnotia to be one, or a hybrid involving them anyway.
Anne,
Love your pics!! Great to see your fernery area. Those Pulsatillas are lovely (that gorgeous Rubra again! Beautiful!) and the Anemones look so bright and cheerful.
Ian,
Thanks for the update on the Eranthis. I couldn't remember how long the seeds take to mature so I thought it was better to check. I too would have thought that your pics was a Dianthus rather than Lewisia. Wow!!
Wonderful pics as always everyone!! Thanks.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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I start with 3 bulbs (Fritillaria hermonis ssp. amana) 30 years ago. I have now countless flowers with an unpleasant smell. It is a pity that not all Frits. grows so well.
Fritillaria hermonis ssp.amana
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john forrest (Jof)
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Ian Have you tried crossing your double Lewisia? The stigma looks good but it doesn,t look to have functional anthers.
Anne I love your ferny border and other pics.
Seems like we've all caught the British disease (complaining about the weather)
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Anne Wright (Annsie)
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What a fantastic drift of fritillarias, Franz. I'd happily hold my nose if I had a display like that. Wonder if it would keep cats off? |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Update - frost last night took the current flowers from Epimedium Golden Eagle, and several early rising fern croziers. Wouldn't it be the only night I hadn't fleeced my potted Deinanthes? A glorious day today in recompense. |
john forrest (Jof)
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I had never heard of Epimediums until E. grndiflorum nanum appeared on the show bench. At that time I used to exchange plants with a guy in The Netherlands and he had just got a load of Epimediums from a Japanese grower. He sent me a good selection all nicely packed and labelled, So I potted them all up and stock alabel in each pot then put them in a tray on the wheelbarrow. I hit a rock and the whole lot ended as a heap of compost, plants and mixed labels. I still have all the labels and all the plants but have only managed to marry a few of them together.
Here are a few in flower at the moment
Epimedium grandiflorum nanum
Epimedium grandiflorum hyb 1
Epimedium grandiflorum hyb 2
Epimedium grandiflorum hyb 3
Epimedium perralderianum
Epimedium acuminatum One of my favourites looking like something from Star Wars or Arachnophobia
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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jst wait 'til the rain that battered us all today arrives in England! |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi John, firstle what fantastic epimediums I do like every picture you posted, I have become interested in Epimediums and have a few planted arond my favourite here is E. rubrum, as for the double Lewisia I have several colour forms and have pollinated but any seedlings so far are just singles but I have rooted several rosettes from main plants. |
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Hi Folks and it is not so cold in Holland today. Thanks to Luit for the pictures "hot ' from the bulb fields.
Watch this space for more pictures when I get back.
Ian |
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Some pictures of the Dutch Alpine plants show last Saturday
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A few more photo's of the show
A lovely Anemonella
the price winning Cyclamen persicum from Fam Breed
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Marjorie Smith (Grannysmith)
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Sorry Mark, I meant to say red - brown on the back of the petals. |
Ian McEnery (Ianmcenery)
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Here are a few pictures from the garden. The first showing Pleone Limpricti growing in a raised bed. I protect this with a horticultural fleece tent and the clump is getting larger. Unfortunately we had frost last night and the flowers, I have discovered aren't frost hardy, Here is the picture before the frost, Does anyone else have experience of growing this outside in the UK and have they any tips
Sorry the colour went a little wonky its probably the micky mouse camera or the operator
I find a lot of beauty in foliage, The following is meconopsis paniculata. It seems a shame that it will die shortly
As epimediums are getting an airing this is one of mine flowering now and is Fargesi
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Marjorie Smith (Grannysmith)
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John, lovely pics, I love epimediums but only have a couple, youngianum and neosulphureum. If you ever have any seed available I would love to buy, swap, whatever you, or anyone else, would prefer. Although you all sound much more experienced than I and seem to have very exotic plants that are unobtainable here. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Ian many |
Flowers and Foliage Now