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Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Post Number: 163
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 03, 2005 - 10:23 am: |    |
Sorry for the first message.
In summer we had a talk of Ranunculus calandrinioides. Today I have taken a picture to show that this species is a hardy plant. In the morning we have a temperature of -10 ° C. to noon -2 ° degrees Celsius. We have this temperature already 2 weeks.
Ranunculus calandrinioides
Franz Hadacek, Vienna, Austria |
Doreen Mear (Doreen)
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Post Number: 89
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 8:58 am: | |
I remember our comparing notes on this Ranunculus earlier in the year when mine was in flower. It's amazing to see your plant flowering so bravely in such prolonged low temperatures.
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 04, 2005 - 4:18 pm: | |
Franz
I have tried several times to grow this on the rock garden but have lost it during the winter. It is not the cold that kills it but the combination of wet, then freezing. We have mild wet winters which promotes soft growth and then when a frost comes they are killed. I can keep it without any heat at all only a few metre away in a cold frame where it does not get so wet. I must confess it does look better planted out like yours. I used to protect plants with panes of glass over susceptible plants on the rock garden but it was such a chore and was not very pleasing to the eye.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 05, 2005 - 10:25 am: | |
John, I agree with you, the combination of wet, and then freezing is deadly for many plants. I lost plants too during the winter, although we have dry winters.
With me dry up very often plants in winter, since the earth without snow is frozen for a long time. However, I think each gardener should try plants in different places in his garden because some plants are harder as we believe.
Franz Hadacek, Vienna, Austria |
dave toole (T00lie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 09, 2005 - 11:23 pm: | |
A few plants flowering here at the moment.
Firstly--Lilium szovitsianum grown from North American Rock Garden Society seed 3/01
Roscoea humeana--It produces plenty of seed each year but i find very few germinate--approx. half a dozen out of say 100 odd seeds.
Primula vialii--a bonus in taking close up photos. is that you become more aware of the subject matter.What I initially thought was a shaft of light falling on the Primula turned out to be a yellow crested line which i had never noticed previously.
Finally a first flowering of Dicentra peregrina ex.Otago Alpine Garden Group seed 2/03.A small plant needing a feed i think (it's grown in a lean scree mix).While i've found it easy enough to cultivate to this stage,I'm told the difficulty is in keeping it going the following season after flowering.Has anyone got any ideas please?.
My youngest daughter Bridgets cat 'Blossum' wondering what all the fuss is about!.
Cheers Dave}
Dave Toole.Invercargill.Southland.Bottom of the South Island.New Zealand .Zone 8. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 3:55 am: | |
Dave I've had a total of 8 flowers on one of my two plants. There seems to be a little seed forming. Fingers crossed. Ive been so busy with extra market stuff the last 2-3 weeks that I've just about missed some things including the dicentra and my physoplexis is going off before I got a picture (December in the south thread).
That "crest" on the head of Primula vialii is a little bit of fasciation and is often associated with a flattened stem. No harm I think, but it shouldn't be that way ideally.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
dave toole (T00lie)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 8:41 am: | |
Thanks for that Lesley --the fasciation appears on the two main flowering stems.I'll make sure i remember to check next season to see if it reappears.
I posted here as your December in the south thread is under the 'seeds wanted 'heading.
Cheers Dave
Dave Toole.Invercargill.Southland.Bottom of the South Island.New Zealand .Zone 8. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 11:16 am: | |
I found a lost R. calandrinioides in the mess that is my back garden which is in the process of a makeover. It has been outside for two years in a clay pot. It looks OK but it's small with no sign of flowers. Soon it will get a new home in my new green house
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+
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Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 6:25 pm: | |
Ah, so THAT'S why Anthony asked what seeds I wanted. I wasn't looking for seeds, just went to something that gave me the option of starting a new thread. Obviously wasn't sufficiently careful.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Brian Wilson (Bwilson)
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Briggsia longipes has been out for about a month and still has the odd flower to open. The shiny dark green leathery leaves look a bit tired at this time of year but it is still welcome with large flowers on lovely red upright stems. I am trying to get seed by hand pollination but keep breaking the flowers off as the pedicels are rather brittle. In the wild it grows on damp rocks in the forests of SE Yunnan at 1000-1800m.
Brian WIlson, Aberdeen, Scotland |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 8:46 pm: | |
Absolutely beautiful Brian. It's amazing how such delicate slender stems can hold the flower at that angle.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Carlo A. Balistrieri (Carlo)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 1:27 pm: | |
Brian,
As I'm sure you know, most Gesneriaceae are fairly easy to increase by vegetative means. While you're waiting for seed, start some leaf cuttings, etc. |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 12:20 pm: | |
I found this 'miniature type' Cyclamen at the garden centre. It was the only one amongst about a 100 that had the lovely, Christmassy combination of flower colour and nicely marked leaves.
and a proper alpine type plant, Narcissus Camoro.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 12:29 pm: | |
your camera does red very well. I have a Cyclamen coum with almost the same patteren
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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This is my Cyclamen coum
It's focus is perfect on my computer but not on here for some reason.
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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not flowering now but a lovely sunset swan
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+
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Martin Baxendale (Martinb)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 7:58 pm: | |
I saw someone on the pavement taking a photo of my Strawberry Tree which overhangs the street, so thought I'd do the same.
I've been growing it for about 20 years and moved it from my previous garden.
It's never looked so good as this year. Probably the hot summer that did it. The fruits are edible of course, and people help themselves (those who know what it is) as they walk past, but they're a bit bland and insipid (the fruits, not the people).
Anyway, very Christmassy!
Martin Baxendale, Gloucestershire, UK |
Brian Wilson (Bwilson)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 9:00 pm: | |
Carlo Yes I have often propagated Gessy plants from leaves or even tiny fragments of leaves. Seed is useful to keep as a reserve in the fridge, to have to give away to seed exchanges and friends and in my particular case as a step in attempting to produce hybrids
Brian WIlson, Aberdeen, Scotland |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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I've never seen such good fruit as that
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+
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John Forrest (Jof)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 9:33 pm: | |
Mark That's a lovely leaf on your C.coum. Pity mine isn't hardy enough to plant out.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Martin Baxendale (Martinb)
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It was incredibly mild here today. Snowdrops were not only open but lifting their outer petals up high and wide like they usually only do in very warm spells in spring:
Galanthus elwesii 'Remember, Remember' with widely uplifted outer petals:
Also, Crocus laevigatus out in the garden with their petals spread wide and reflexing in the warmth:
And Galanthus elwesii 'Faringdon Double', not so wide open because just starting to flower. A semi-double elwsesii cultivar with extra inner petals:
Martin Baxendale, Gloucestershire, UK |
Luc Gilgemyn (Luc)
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Hello every one !
This was flowering in my garden on Christmas day, as it has turned stone cold since then, the poor things might regret ever having opened.
Happy New Year everybody
Luc Gilgemyn - Harelbeke - Belgium |
Ewelina Wajgert (Waja)
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Unfortunately nothing is flowering by us, but the Winter is nice in Cracov
Ewelina
Ewelina Wajgert, Poland, http://waja.w.interia.pl |
Martin Baxendale (Martinb)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 3:55 pm: | |
Hi Ewelina. Lovely snow scenes. They made my wife feel homesick! Just like her parents' house and garden in Slovakia will be looking right now (we hear there's already a metre of snow in the Tatras this December - more than usual for this time of year and better than some recent years when there's been not much snow at all).
Martin Baxendale, Gloucestershire, UK |
Ewelina Wajgert (Waja)
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Hi Martin,
We have really a lot of snow for 3 days. I think, in the Tatras it is more. Earlier we had rainy, ugly days.
Ewelina Wajgert, Poland, http://waja.w.interia.pl |
Chris Vermeire (Chris_vermeire)
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here we have 5cm snow and a verry cold wind but it doesnt bother Hepatica transylvanica 'Winterfreude'
Chris, Belgium |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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We had a severe weather warning for yesterday but nothing happened
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+
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Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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We had the warning too and four inches of snow.
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
Wim Van Houtte (Vanhouttewim)
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now we have all the belgians together 
harelbeke, that's very close to me !
(Wim in Waregem) |
Ian McEnery (Ianmcenery)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 4:51 pm: | |
This to cheer you up an New Years Eve. It is Cyclamen Pseudoibericum in my scree. With only a pane of glass to keep of rain and it was -9c 2 nights ago. i am also growing a supposedly hardy form of Persicum next to it but it doesn't look quite so happy
another view showing some more buds
Ian McEnery Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 11:36 pm: | |
Lovely to see your C. pseudibericum,Ian, not that I need cheering up, more a hair of the dog after last night. Here, CC. intaminatum and cilicium/mirabile are just starting. The seeds on the former ripened a month ago but on the latter, are still crisp pods.
My AGS Bulletin arrived yesterday and I'm delighted to see there will be a show in which everyone everywhere can take part. While all the conditions are not yet published, I hope the photos can be taken during the WHOLE of 2006, not, say, just until August, or we in the SH won't be able to enter plants in flower during our spring and early summer when there is the greatest variety.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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