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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Paeonia 2024

« Last post by Leena on April 25, 2024, 06:36:40 PM »

I have another strange thing. My P. emodi grows every year and shows small flower buds, but they do not develop over 1cm in diameter. Sometimes I had issues with frost and tried to cover the plant, but this year there was no frost only temperatures a bit above zero degree. Has anybody any idea why this could be?

Another problem I have is with P. veitchii. I got 3 times plants from a colleague and every time they disappeared/died after 1-2 years. Maybe I should try it with seeds, but where can I get some seeds of P. veitchii; can anybody of you send me some if you have some?

I had the same problem with P.emodi, the buds shrivelled and didn't open, and after one winter I lost the entire plant.
With P.veitchii (and anomala) I have never had any problems or deaths ( daurica types and officinalis types are more difficult here), and I have thought P.veitchii to be the most reliable peony here in my garden.  It grows here mostly in semishade or some sun, but not in dry sunny sandy slope where P.officinalis does well. It grows also well in clay soil where many peonies get botrytis but not weitchii or anomala.
I can send you seeds of P.veitchii next autumn, unfortunately I don't have any left now.

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Crocus / Re: Seed to flower

« Last post by Leena on April 25, 2024, 06:30:14 PM »

I agree that C.tommasinianus is quite fast, 3-4 years here. C.veluchensis hasn't flowered yet and it was sown 2019.
C.abantensis was sown the same year, and the ones I planted outside two years ago, are flowering, another pot outside vanished, and two pots in the greenhouse haven't flowered yet.
Perhaps I don't fertilize them enough in pots, and in the ground they get more nutrients, though also it is riskier (because of winters).

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: April 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by Diane Whitehead on April 25, 2024, 05:30:16 PM »

Well, fortunately our deer won't touch narcissus, though they eat most things including garlic.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: April 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on April 25, 2024, 03:35:02 PM »

Do wallabies eat Rhodophiala or just jump on them?

Hi Diane,
The wallaby has eaten the flowers and seedpods of the Rhodophiala as well as flowers of crocus and Narcissus serotinus/obsoletus!
cheers
fermi

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The International Rock Gardener - Feedback Forum / Re: E-magazine feature on SRGC Website

« Last post by Maggi Young on April 25, 2024, 01:26:03 PM »

April IRG 171:  Featuring orchids of the “Low Countries”   by Gerrit Eijkelenboom and two plant portraits from Zdeněk Řeháček.


Cover photo: Liparis loeselii. By Gerrit Eijkelenboom.

Click here to download the issue - free- :
https://www.srgc.net/documents/irg/240425131536IRG171April%202024.pdf

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SRGC Shows Questions and Answers / Re: Perth SRGC Show 2024

« Last post by Maggi Young on April 25, 2024, 01:05:30 PM »

 The main prizewinning plants can be seen in other photos in this thread. Now, rounding off the major prize awards ...


Richard Green won the Bulb Trophy


Stan da Prato won the Alexander Caird Trophy and the L C Middleton Challenge Trophy


And Cyril Lafong won the Joyce Halley Award, the Henry & Margaret Taylor Award, a Certificate of Merit for Pleione x Shantung 'Ducat' and a Certificate of Botanical Interest along with his 65th George Forrest Memorial Medal.

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SRGC Shows Questions and Answers / Re: Perth SRGC Show 2024

« Last post by Maggi Young on April 25, 2024, 01:03:26 PM »

more prize winners ...



Alex Samokhin was awarded a Certificate of Merit  for Pleione 'Shantung'  (planted on bark of Pauwlonia tomentosa) first time showing for him and it was in Section IV.



Graham Catlow was awarded a Certificate of Merit  for Sempervivum altanticum


David Millward retained the E H M Cox Trophy

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SRGC Shows Questions and Answers / Re: Perth SRGC Show 2024

« Last post by Maggi Young on April 25, 2024, 01:00:03 PM »

More photos from Perth ... award winners gettinng their prizes from SRGC President, Colin Crosbie...


Richard Salvin won the Maj-Gen DM Murray-Lyon Trophy


Kathleen & Trevor Wenham jointly won the Perth Salver


Ian Christie won the Perth Trophy


Nicola Macnee won the John Duff Memorial Prize


Jim Low won the Special Prize awarded to new exhibitors

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: Paeonia 2024

« Last post by Jürg P on April 25, 2024, 12:36:43 PM »

Also this year my Shima Nishiki flowered only in red. It had 4 flowers this year (last year it was only one, but it had white stripes).

I have another strange thing. My P. emodi grows every year and shows small flower buds, but they do not develop over 1cm in diameter. Sometimes I had issues with frost and tried to cover the plant, but this year there was no frost only temperatures a bit above zero degree. Has anybody any idea why this could be?

Another problem I have is with P. veitchii. I got 3 times plants from a colleague and every time they disappeared/died after 1-2 years. Maybe I should try it with seeds, but where can I get some seeds of P. veitchii; can anybody of you send me some if you have some?

Here near Basel most of the tree peonies have finished with flowering except for the P. delavayi's which just started to flower.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: April 2024 in the Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Mike Ireland on April 25, 2024, 11:14:27 AM »

Lewisia tweedyi alba from seed & Pleione growing outside in moss covered tray.