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Re: Daphne
« Reply #60 on: December 21, 2014, 01:53:19 PM »
Maggi, David, Cyril et al:  I spoke with Harvey Wrightman yesterday and told him many people were interested in growing Daphne velenovskyi 'Balkan Rose'.  He does have it but he has just moved and is building a new nursery.  You might have to wait a bit to let him catch up on his propagating but it will become available to you in the next year or so.  I just checked mine yesterday during the usual garden tour and it had small flowers still.  Harvey says he has had the same experience with it blooming on and off even during the cold.  The ground has hardened with all the frost and it's amazing to see flowers.  Didn't have the camera with me because I wasn't expecting to see anything worth photographing - I just usually check for deer damage, they seem to regard daphnes as caviar.
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #61 on: December 21, 2014, 05:46:43 PM »
Good to hear there is hope for getting the plant from Wrightman's in time .  For some updates about their move, see here  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12091.msg319722#msg319722
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« Reply #62 on: December 21, 2014, 09:05:12 PM »
Many thanks for that Anne, I'll look forward to it.
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #63 on: December 21, 2014, 09:18:34 PM »
Quote from: astragalus on December 21, 2014, 01:53:19 PM
Maggi, David, Cyril et al:  I spoke with Harvey Wrightman yesterday and told him many people were interested in growing Daphne velenovskyi 'Balkan Rose'.  He does have it but he has just moved and is building a new nursery.  You might have to wait a bit to let him catch up on his propagating but it will become available to you in the next year or so.  I just checked mine yesterday during the usual garden tour and it had small flowers still.  Harvey says he has had the same experience with it blooming on and off even during the cold.  The ground has hardened with all the frost and it's amazing to see flowers.  Didn't have the camera with me because I wasn't expecting to see anything worth photographing - I just usually check for deer damage, they seem to regard daphnes as caviar.
Anne, thank you for this update.  Do you have any information on this plant?  I presume it originally came from Bulgaria or Macedonia, so it is surprising it appears not to be in cultivation in Europe.  Another problem will be shipping as Herman said Harvey Wrightman does not ship to Europe.
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #64 on: December 16, 2015, 02:10:56 PM »
Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' picured today in a very wet garden. I noticed her first flowers this year on 30 November and if she is true to her normal form there will still be some, as well as some scent in early April.

Readers of this thread will know that he I bought her as a very small plant in 2008 and she took her time before she first flowered. Someone in the household, and it's not me, thinks she has got pretty shabby now and needs a good haircut and intends to do it when she has finished flowering! So this could be her last flowering year...........? I've also pictured her as she was in 2012 so she's done a bit of growing since then.

 

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« Reply #65 on: December 16, 2015, 07:18:48 PM »
Winter is just around the corner will probably prune some bits as snow and ice soon, or is it Banana belt with you? cheers Ian the Christie kind
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #66 on: March 22, 2016, 07:16:09 PM »
Could anyone help with with an ID please (another lost label!)
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #67 on: March 23, 2016, 12:43:28 PM »
Hard to tell with Daphne's but judging by the habit of growth and the foliage I would hazard a  guess that it is Spring sonnet. Does that ring a bell with you. ?
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« Reply #68 on: March 23, 2016, 07:32:34 PM »
It doesn't ring any bells Michael. I have had the plant for a couple of years and I haven't a clue where I bought it from, just a possibility though that I got it from the South West AGS Show. If so then I might have bought it from Robin White.

Since your post I've looked it up and from what I've seen the leaves on mine are a dead ringer for 'Spring Sonnet'. Provided I don't kill it in the meantime I'll tip you off when I have a flower on it. Many thanks.
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« Reply #69 on: September 24, 2016, 07:13:19 PM »
Hi Michael, hope you see this and remember the topic.  Just noticed today that there are a smattering of flowers on the plant so will try to get a picture of them, although it will be Monday before I get a chance.
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« Reply #70 on: September 24, 2016, 07:58:04 PM »
Yep. I am watching. :) :) :)
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #71 on: September 26, 2016, 12:42:50 PM »
Michael, is this any good?
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #72 on: September 26, 2016, 05:47:35 PM »
Yes David, I am still sticking with Spring Sonnet
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« Reply #73 on: September 26, 2016, 08:37:15 PM »
OK Michael, that's good enough for me, many thanks.
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Re: Daphne
« Reply #74 on: September 26, 2016, 09:01:13 PM »
 :) :) :)
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