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Bulb Log online 2015
Maggi Young:
Latest Bulb Log - Bulb Log #34 26th August 2015 - loss of a Lily and decisions about new plantings
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Aug261440585855BULB_LOG_3415.pdf
tonyg:
So sorry at your loss, although we are cat people the companionship our furry friends bring has a special quality.
Lots of observations from a very interesting Log.
Codonposis Grey Wilsonii - you are lucky if the snails only get to nibble the flowers, I have lost every living part of the codonopsis I planted out this year to slugs and they waste no time in doing it :(
Corydalis Craigton Blue, in it's third summer in East Anglia has really suffered from the heat and drought we have had until the last few weeks ..... but it has survived with new growth now around the edge of the spreading patch - nothing like as vigorous as in your fertile garden though.
I also grow Eucomis bicolor which has begun to self sow however Maurice (Arduaine) shared this gem with me recently:
"This plant was the means of my making a horticultural breakthrough many years ago, probably as many as 30. I cut the top off a fading flower and put it in a propagator, as it reminded me of rooting a real pineapple top when I was a kid.
To my surprise, not only did it root, but produced a circle of bulblets all of which developed into bulbs and grew on fast. I then discovered that if I cut a leaf into horizontal sections and inserted them upright into the propagator then a row of bulblets formed across the cut too.
In a couple of years my single Eucomis bulb had become fifty!"
I shall be experimenting in due course.
It is a fine thing, I love colour combination.
Maggi Young:
Bulb Log from Ian Young #36 of 2015 Autumn storms and more
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep091441809177BULB_LOG_3615.pdf
Ian Y:
Bulb log 37 now online along with some more video diary supplements.
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep161442400879BULB_LOG_3715.pdf
Maggi Young:
Bulb Log 38 of 2015 from Ian Young - fungi and fruit
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2015Sep231443002261BULB_LOG_3815.pdf
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