Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: t00lie on October 01, 2015, 12:28:04 AM
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Lovely colourful postings folks ...I'll tone things down a little with a few whites ;)
Sanguinaria canadensis just opening late afternoon Tuesday then fully open in 18c sunshine yesterday .
Ornithogalum sintenisii .
A yummy unknown Narcissus ,the colour I think just about rivals Weldenia which are yet to come up.
Okay I couldn't help myself ---Pulsatilla 'Pink Denim'....... ;D
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Flowering now. A seedling from a batch of Trillium grandiflorum roseum seed sent to me by Anthony Darby in 2009 - while he was still residing in Scotland. Thank you Anthony for this lovely plant. There will be one with your name on it of course. Did you manage to bring your plant or seed of with you.
Edna
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Alas no brought nothing Edna. Plants prohibited and we moved in January 2011, so no seed. I am delighted to see it doing so well. Bill Dijk grows grandiflorum in Tauranga, so given shade and a cool site it could grow in Auckland.
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Edna your Trillium grandiflorum is wonderful... I'm in love with Trilliums. Beautifully photographed too.
t00lie, fabulous cool climate plants. I WILL get to New Zealand some day... the sooner the better, and then I'll be asking you all for travel advice.
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We're heading from spring straight into summer, the weekend is threatening temperatures around 30oC :(
We'll be spending most of our gardening time watering!
Here's one of the seedling PCIs flowering under a crabapple,
cheers
fermi
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I love it when the dwarf Watsonias finally come into bloom; I took a walk two days ago, before our latest downpour, and visited a nearby colony of W. laccata - sadly, confined only to the shoulders of a gravel road:
Three colour forms to feast your eyes on;
A putative hybrid with the common W. aletroides;
The road-side habitat.
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Nice way to kick off the season Fermi. I like the purples best of all I think...
Look at my new plant! I visited Dannie today and she gave me this Dodecatheon meadia. I love it. :)
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Rogan,
those watsonias look amazing - too bad they are given bad press over here due to some of the weedy species which have gone feral.
Jamus,
that's a nice gift! Will you plant it out or keep it potted?
Paeonia cambessedesii is now in flower in the Rock garden,
cheers
fermi
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Oh gosh, Edna, your trillium is SO beautiful.
Dave, you have a fabulous collection. How many years have you been gardening, if it is okay to ask.
Bravo all.
Jacqui.
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Fermi your paeonia is absolutely stunning! I love the deep pink with the striations... does it handle sun? My Dodecatheon will go into the woodland garden which I'm re-working for these types of plants. I just have to stay vigilant and keep weeding out the Geranium robertianum and canariense which threaten to take over the whole place. Not to mention violets... too many violets.
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It is, as Jacqui says, Bravo All. Such a feast of flowers one can hardly keep up. Very windy and hot today so it will put paid to a lot of beautiful things.
A couple of early snaps before the wind:
Narcissus "Solveig's Song" - from Rannweig Wallis. Has a touch of triandrus in there.
Iris lineata - has a convoluted history. I raised it from Archibald seed, gave a piece to Otto, I lost mine, and Otto kindly returned it. I think the last I heard Otto may have lost his. Moral here? Don't divide your plant??
Cyclamen rhodium ssp peloponnesiacum - not always with the spotty leaves.
Cheers, Marcus
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Hello Edna
Well done on the Trillium grandiflorum --If it's what Anthony was offering as T .G. 'light pink' then I received seed in 2010 ,(I think), however my seedlings are tiny ....
Thanks Jamus
Yip plenty of cool weather and regular year round moisture here for sure . ;D
You'll also be able to gain an idea of NZ from Fermi in a couple of weeks ........
Been gardening for a few years now thanks Jacqui ,(I'm at that age now I really don't want to count ...... :) about 30 years with my hands in the soil ) .I used to be an avid hunter , had pig dogs etc etc however once our children arrived my outlook on life changed in some respects. I'd always been interested in my surroundings while in the bush or up mountain slopes so it was just a small step to becoming keen on cultivating some of the plants I'd seen ,especially those at my feet .....
Nice plants Marcus
How do you cultivate your Cyclamen rhodo..... ? they rot off with me ...
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Iris lineata - has a convoluted history. I raised it from Archibald seed, gave a piece to Otto, I lost mine, and Otto kindly returned it. I think the last I heard Otto may have lost his. Moral here? Don't divide your plant??
The moral is propagate and share - the best way to keep a plant is to give it away! I learned this from my mentor, Ruth Tindale, and from very experienced gardeners in our group like Viv and Otto,
cheers
fermi
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That iris lineata is very lovely Marcus. All understated elegance.
And the narcissus and cyclamen are beautiful specimens.
Windy and hot here too. I wish the trees would hurry up and go into leaf to protect the understory plants.
t00lie, I can see why you are so successful with all that history behind you.
Jacqui x.
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Your Iris lineata is beautiful Marcus. It's very reassuring for me to see so many of you growing oncocyclus and regelia irises. Gives me more hope that I might succeed with them.
Came home early today and had time to wander around the garden with my camera... here are the results;
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I've been trying various West coast North American annuals and perennials. Nemophila maculata is very pretty and I think I'll grant it permanent residency.
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Speaking of North Americans, PC Irises just keep getting better.
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Linum grandiflorum 'bright eyes' is an excellent annual.
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Centaurea jacea. I've grown quite a few of this genus from seed and this one is a keeper.
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The first poppy of the season! These are like a tradition at our place, I sow them every autumn.
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Geum tangerine dream? totally tangerine? I don't know it was given to me without a name...
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Heracleum mantegazzianum bursting out of its papery sheaths... I love this plant.
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Heracleum again.
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Pelargonium x ardens.
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Lobelia tupa is beautiful whether in flower or not.
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Jamus,you are putting us all to shame with your photography. And the variety of plants you successfully grow. So pretty.
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Shouldn't these posts be in the October thread?
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Oh bugger... Maggi, help...
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I'm tickled pink that my Aquilegia saximontana is flowering in the rock garden. I'm assuming I have its identity correct... there is some confusion apparently and many impostors.
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Edit: Already Bob Nold piped up on facebook and expressed doubt that this is saximontana. In the absence of a name I've decided to call this Aquilegia notsaximontana.
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After some research I tend to agree with Bob that this is in fact A. flabellata var. pumila.
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Hi
A few photos from our garden.
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Hi
A couple more photos.
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We had a meeting of the Rock garden group at FCHS this afternoon and there was plenty to see on the Bench:
Left side of the Bench
Right side;
Otto's Trillium rivale forms x3
cheers
fermi
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More of the Bench:
my Anemone pavonina from seed collected in the Peloponnese;
Helene's Ledebouria galpinii
Helene's white Anemone nemorosa
Mary Anne's exhibits including Dendrobium kingianum forms
and her posy
cheers
fermi
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Our speaker Jill presented a talk on Epimedium and this was one of her exhibits:
Epimedium franchettii
And a few from Inge:
Gladiolus alatus
Trillium sulcatum
Trillium.....
Scadoxus
cheers
fermi
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Thank you for posting those pictures from the meeting Fermi. I enjoy seeing what people are bringing in for show and tell.
I dug this Scilla peruviana out of the paddock at my Dad's place last time we were down there. He has a paddock full of bulbs planted by some previous owner who had aspirations to sell flowers as an income.
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Some offerings from my patch today
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Salvia corrugata
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Tropaeolum pentaphyllum. A tuberous perennial species naturalised in the garden here
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Tropaeolum peltophorum, an annual species twining up among its larger cousin.
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Verbascum something-or-other.
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The poppies begin... I grow them every year and we look forward to them.
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A few more
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Poppy again
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Arum dioscoridis - I knew something was up as soon as I walked out the back door this morning... I smelt this little beauty before I saw it. Isabel took one whiff and ran, holding her nose.
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Another view of the stinking beauty. it was hard to get the flies off it for a clear photo.
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I dug this Scilla peruviana out of the paddock at my Dad's place last time we were down there. He has a paddock full of bulbs planted by some previous owner who had aspirations to sell flowers as an income.
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Still can't get my head round the use of the word paddock down under. I'm picturing a field where you keep horses, only it's full of bulbs.
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Ahhh actually Anthony in this case it really is a paddock. It's 10 acres. There are no horses thank god, only kangaroos and wallabies. :)
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Jamus,
I love the orange of that annual trop!
Paeonia cambessedesii comes from the Balearic Islands so I think its best in a frost free area (like Adelaide?) though it comes through our mild winters as long as we don't get a severe frost when they are in bud. Ours is in a raised rock garden bed with a couple of others but gets some summer shade from a nearby Catalpa (high shade).
The Puya continues to develop and the side branches are forming,
cheers
fermi
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Fermi here I am pining after Paeonia cambessedesii, and I forgot that I ordered seed from Marcus and one is even up!
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October's starting off here in NZ with hot nor'westers then an hour later, a southerly gale and savage rain! Predictable as always. It was good though, for the two day Show of Otago Alpine Garden Group, our first "stand alone" show and after weeks and months of not knowing what to expect, we had great entries, (about 250 for this first effort) of a really good quality and good crowds on each day. We had 9 plant seller stalls including one from Dunedin Botanic Garden (picked up the single plant of Camellia yunnanensis, a real beauty) and tea/coffee and home-made biscuits, muffins, slices. The local Camellia Soc put on a display too and they ran the kitchen. It went much better than we had dared to hope so will almost certainly do it again in 2016 but will need a bigger venue with more parking space.
Some pictures follow and I have to apologise because I didn't get a chance for photos until well on in the day when the best light was gone and my little camera doesn't handle flash too well.
But first - AT LAST! Diapensia lapponica in bloom. I think I've photographed just about every flower as it opened! I'm surprised how big the flowers are as I'd expected much smaller. A plant of a well-flowered plant must be really spectacular. Each flower is a good centimetre across.
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Congrats on the show Lesley --I had hoped to make it ,however ... maybe next year .....
As for Diapensia lapponica I'll say nothing .... ;). Your pictures say it all . :-*
Cheers Dave.
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Lesley, Diapensia lapponica is stunning. Can you tell us something about it? I haven't seen it before.
Pinellia tripartita has to be the hardest plant to photograph EVER!
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Now the Show. Some of the crowd to start with then one of a number of Stuart Murray's beautiful silver natives. This first class was for a native alpine, non-flowering, about 28 entries in this class alone and Stuart had a great collection, especially of Leucogenes, Raoulia and crosses between them and related plants. I had to elbow my way through to take the photos and was joggled around quite a bit.
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Dave you were missed but all the same, we had visitors from as far away as Invercargill and Nelson and many from Christchurch, then a group from north who had been to the South Canterbury Show on the 3rd, came to us on the 4th, making a weekend of it.
More, the auricula a really bad photo but was a superb plant. None of the local people were surprised that Louise Salmond won the Keith Kitchin Memorial prize for Most Points in the Show and very well deserved that was. She had some amazing potsful including Best in Show, a well flowered specimen of Gentiana clusii 'Alboviolacea.'
The third picture here is Androsace sempervivoides and the fourth, a yellow Cowichan primula.
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A Saxifraga species, maybe frederici-augustii? One of that group anyway.
In the Primula class for section Auricula, this magnificent double seedling, from Louise S. Beside it again her seedling, from the white 'Linda Pope' and called 'Hokonui White.'
Trilliums including a very nice lime-green T. angustipetalum.
Pterostylis curta in the orchid class
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A better picture of the double auricula and beside it, another auricula, a seedling from the white 'Linda Pope, named 'Hokonui White.' Actually, this one was mine and I have labelled it as a marginata form, though still in the Auricula section of course.
Draba longisiliqua in a class for Cushions, then in a class for mat plants, suitable for an alpine lawn, Stuart's very fine Nertera depressa. For some reason this plant appealed to a number of grown men (even farming types!) who enquired where they could get it. Certainly all those little red dots deserved the much larger red dot to the side. :)
And to end, our Group's logo in stained glass and framed, with just part of Louise's Best in Show gentian as well. My camera card was full and I didn't have another.
The Group had three wickedly exhausting days preparing then putting it up for view with just about everyone taking part to some degree. There were many more plants worth a picture but almost everything was very crowded together as we just didn't have enough room but we'll do better next time, lessons having been learned. We made many friends and had endless compliments about the Show and enrolled several new members. Needless to say, I bought many plants from other sellers and it was wonderful to welcome stall holders from North Canterbury to Southland, as well as our local nurseries. They and our Group committee had a communal dinner and wind-down and good chat on Saturday evening at one of the lovely seafront restaurants on St Clair beach, a beautiful, warm and balmy evening.
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I seem to have got myself mixed up with what pictures go where and can't find a couple anyway. The Pterostylis won the Orchid class. I'm still very tired so enough for now.
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Hope my seed from Marcus arrives soon. ???
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Beautifully-grown plants at the show Lesley. Thanks for bringing us along with you, despite such busy and probably tiring days.
And congratulations on your lovely Diapensia, looking every bit as happy as it does in the mountains.
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Great Diapensia, Lesley and so good to hear that the show has gone so very well. Terrific news.
I'm looking forward to having more time to study the show pix as I catch up after weekend away.
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Hope my seed from Marcus arrives soon. ???
Hi Lesley,
If you look on my home page and my ordering page you will see there that I began posting out orders on the 24th of Septembet. That's not that long ago.
And I get most of my orders in the first few days: so the time difference between say, order number 50 and order number 70 arriving at my site might only be a few hours. However the time difference between actually processing and posting these orders will be considerably more.
So please be patient ..... I am not a mega department store selling t-shirts.
Cheers, Marcus
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A couple from this morning.
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Verbascum phoeniceum 'violetta' is my favourite.
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Aquilegia formosa
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Sorry Marcus, I didn't mean to hassle you, just a comment and if anyone delays it will be MPI rather then you. Besides, it's not as if I have nothing else to do right now. :)
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Jamus, the Diapensia is to all intents and purposes an Arctic plant, from the tundra, maybe circum polar, though I'm not sure of its exact range. It needs very cold conditions to induce flowering and I suppose it was our much colder then usual winter that has produced these 16. John W in Nova Scotia flowers it well I think but then his winters are MUCH colder than mine. I doubt it would flower well in South Australia. ;D It's one of those plants that presents a challenge so to have it flower is a great thrill. I've pollinated some of the flowers in hope of a little seed - of course - and I see today that the Soldanella pusilla which also flowered better than usual, has some nice capsules on it.
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Thanks Lesley, I shan't bother with it, as you say my climate won't flower it. We can only succeed with those things that decide they enjoy the climate in which they find themselves. I'll concentrate on growing the things that do effortlessly well here, with nothing more meddling than the odd splash of water in summer.
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We had a cold, for Auckland, winter, but my Scilla verna, which produced flowers last year, has failed to produce nothing but a good crop of leaves this year. May split them in July and try half in the fridge to give them a winter to see if this is the problem.
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Podophyllum pleianthum with leaves yet to fully expand ,already in bud .
Caltha palustris 'Flore Pleno'.
A Fritillaria meleagris /Narcissus triandrus combo.
Narcissus 'Little Flik' ,(Bill Dijk NZ),in full flight.
Cheers Dave.
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So please be patient ..... I am not a mega department store selling t-shirts.
Cheers, Marcus
Ahhhh..... so that's why my t-shirts didn't arrive.......... ::) ;D
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John W in Nova Scotia flowers it well I think but then his winters are MUCH colder than mine.
re: Diapensia lapponica
I can't say my old plant (photo #1), which was about 30+ yo when it finally packed it in, flowered well. One Spring it did open a number of flowers simultaneously. Though it flowered every year it was one flower at a time, often over a long period; a few times it opened a single flower every month from about about April till December. I'm not certain if our winters were not protracted enough, our growing season too long, the dry vs wet periods confused it or life was simply too easy for it. Where I've seen it growing in Newfoundland the sites are all extremely windy, very chilly and moist with abundant snowfall, all with an extremely short growing season and not much if any spring to speak of.
Seedlings (photo #2 and not much smaller in photo #1, 5 years before) 2.5-4cm across have yet to flower and they are by no means youngsters.
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Lesley, Diapensia lapponica is stunning. Can you tell us something about it? I haven't seen it before.
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Jamus,
I can add that Diapensia lapponica is circumboreal and very common in Norway, especially on ridges and windswept summits where little snow accumulate during winter. Although it is common I have only seen it in flower only a few times as it grows farther north than I usually walk on my trips. You may try it in a pot and keep the pot in the freezer during winter ;D
Last time I found it it was out of flower:
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especially on ridges and windswept summits where little snow accumulate during winter.
Hoy - Great point and on second thought could apply to the ones I saw in Newfoundland, the winds were ferocious where they grew on high ridges on the eastern side of Nfld. and at sea level on the western side.
john
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Diapensia lapponica is found on the summit of one mountain in Scotland. It's entire UK distribution and the most southerly colony in Europe. http://www.thewildflowersociety.com/wfs_report_menus/wfs_diapensia_2006/diapensia_2006_page_1.htm (http://www.thewildflowersociety.com/wfs_report_menus/wfs_diapensia_2006/diapensia_2006_page_1.htm)
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All the above notes (John, Hoy, Anthony) tempt me to say "Well done little Me, then. ;D In fairness, I should say that my plant was bought some years ago, can't remember how many but probably 10 or so, from Christchurch and I believe she has had flowers too, years before mine and maybe this year too though I don't know that. I've pollinated each flower by hand in hope of a little seed but how the plant will cope with the current weather I don't know.
Our spring weather this week has been a bit of a trial. Our Show was on two beautiful days then Monday and today were savage, hot nor'west gales but at 3.30 today, just as 40 people from out of town arrived for an arranged nursery visit, the wind turned to the south, still very strong and the temperature dropped from 28C to about 9C in just 10 minutes. The rain bucketed down we we were all drenched. They only stayed for 20 minutes, long enough for their bus to offload, go away and turn around then return to gather them up again. Changed my clothes then sat down with a glass of something warming. :)
edit by maggi = if you are going to flower Diapensia as well as you do the Weldenia, Lesley - I will be forced to fine you lots of choclate to assuage my envy!
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It's common in northern Sweden (e.g. here (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=sckj213hgs4nqrn141a7vbrba0&topic=5903.msg163381#msg163381)) & NW Finland too, but flowers quite early in the short season.
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Aussie folks - what is this, please ?
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a Goodenia?
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Aussie folks - what is this, please ?
a Goodenia?
I,m not from Austrlia, but the plant looks like a Scaevola species. I will be very curious to find out.
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Yes Robert is right but there are loads of them and I don't know enough to tell them apart. Fermi will know I think... You got the family right Maggi. Perhaps Scaevola aemula?
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All the above notes (John, Hoy, Anthony) tempt me to say "Well done little Me, then. ;D In fairness, I should say that my plant was bought some years ago, can't remember how many but probably 10 or so, from Christchurch and I believe she has had flowers too, years before mine and maybe this year too though I don't know that. I've pollinated each flower by hand in hope of a little seed but how the plant will cope with the current weather I don't know.
Our spring weather this week has been a bit of a trial. Our Show was on two beautiful days then Monday and today were savage, hot nor'west gales but at 3.30 today, just as 40 people from out of town arrived for an arranged nursery visit, the wind turned to the south, still very strong and the temperature dropped from 28C to about 9C in just 10 minutes. The rain bucketed down we we were all drenched. They only stayed for 20 minutes, long enough for their bus to offload, go away and turn around then return to gather them up again. Changed my clothes then sat down with a glass of something warming. :)
edit by maggi = if you are going to flower Diapensia as well as you do the Weldenia, Lesley - I will be forced to fine you lots of choclate to assuag
e my envy!
That's fine Maggi. so long as YOU are eating them, not I! My 43-year-old son who should know better than to upset his mother, has decided to remarry this coming Christmas Day of all days. I like his lady very much and so am happy about that but I shall have to buy a DRESS and get out of my grubby jeans (or the black suit I wear to funerals and concerts) so need to lose some weight NOW! I wouldn't have thought it possible to marry on Christmas Day but apparently it is. It won't be a religious ceremony and will take place in Timaru, in Barbara's mother's garden. :)
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Your link about the Swedish Diapensia interests me Ashley because while I assumed it was a peat bog sort of plant and really needed to be quite damp, my own has been very dry through most summers only watered when I thought about it (occasionally). Perhaps it would grow well with Dicentra peregrina which in Japan lives in great screes with shale and rock for its surrounds, not the moist conditions that I expected. Probably both plants have good moisture under the rocky surface, as do our own scree plants.
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a few photos from the garden today. Cypripedium formosanum seems happy in a cool, semi shaded part of the rock garden.
Cypripedium formosanum
Daphne cneorum
Trillium grandiflorum roseum
Tulipa linifolia Batalinii Group
Tulipa linifolia
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A few from this afternoon after work.
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Heracleum mantegazzianum
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Argostemma githago white
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Lilium hansonii in bud
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Lysimachia atropurpurea buds
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Pinellia tripartita leaf.
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Some beautiful photos have appeared on these pages since I last logged in.
As for the plants, Otto's cypripedium takes one's breath away.
Love the podophyllum Dave.
A couple of perspective photos of a delicious complex oncocyclus iris grown by Marcus in Tassie.
The whole flower seems suffused with gold.
Could this be 'gilding the lily'?
Jacqui.
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That has to be one of the prettiest Iris I've seen in ages - and considering they are all lovely- that's quite something!
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That is a stunningly beautiful onco Jacqui; you're privileged to have seen it in person, not to mention all the other thousands of gems Marcus has growing there.
Otto, your Cypripedium is so happy there. The piece you gave to me is growing but hasn't flowered this year. Maybe next year.
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An absolutely stunning iris indeed. There must be some I. auranitica in there Marcus?
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Must try some oncos. Saw my first bulb fly of the season. It's now in one of my gecko cages. Put my choice narcissi (and my pot of Pancratium maritimum) into a net cage to keep them safe.
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I'm tickled pink that my Aquilegia saximontana is flowering in the rock garden. I'm assuming I have its identity correct... there is some confusion apparently and many impostors.
Edit: Already Bob Nold piped up on facebook and expressed doubt that this is saximontana. In the absence of a name I've decided to call this Aquilegia notsaximontana.
Jamus, I think that might be Aquilegia sibirica. I bought one that looked identical to your photo at a recent plant fair from Antique Perennials a few weeks ago. A Google image search shows the flowers on taller stems but mine were barely above the foliage.
Lesley, some beautiful plants at your show! I'm green with envy.
Otto, I'm surprised the 30+ heat earlier in the week didn't knock some of your plants around.
Marcus, 1 x t-shirt for me too. ;D
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Hmmm.. A. siberica is one I hadn't considered as a possibly ID for my plant... Bob Nold had me convinced it was A. flabellata var. pumila. I might have to be content not being sure. In the words of the immeasurably wise Richard Feynman — 'I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
Here are a few photos from the garden this afternoon.
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Centaurea montana
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Linum grandiflorum 'Bright Eyes'
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Pulsatilla 'Perlen Glocke'
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Achillea umbellata (uncertain)
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Our front gardening looking West from the Eastern boundary
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The garden is looking good, Jamus.
The excitement here is for the first flowering of Puya chilensis!
We got it as a seedling from Roy Pavelin about 12 years ago but couldn't remember the name and the label is irretrievable!
cheers
fermi
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Wow Fermi, what a stunner! I think my Dad has that species in a pot, which flowered for him but nothing like that size!
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Podophyllum pleianthum with leaves yet to fully expand ,already in bud .
Dave your Podophyllum is stunning... I stood looking at one longingly at a nursery the other day, considered buying it then talked myself out of it... I might have to go back.
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Dave your Podophyllum is stunning... I stood looking at one longingly at a nursery the other day, considered buying it then talked myself out of it... I might have to go back.
Thank you Jamus
Actually the plant I photographed may have been raised from Aussie seed sent from Otto's neighbour Tim ,years back......
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More Fritillaria
F. collina
F. taipaiensis and close up
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Those Frits look good, Dave.
Is it as wet there as the weather station is indicating?
We're stopping at the wool and possum shop in Timaru on the way down, so we'll have a chance to buy more jumpers!
cheers
fermi
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Those Frits look good, Dave.
Is it as wet there as the weather station is indicating?
We're stopping at on the way down, so we'll have a chance to buy more jumpers!
cheers
fermi
Thanks .I can't remember when you are arriving on these shores Fermi however rain is forecast early next week while you are down in our area .Suggest a good coat rather than jumpers .Hilda made a mention of extra blankets on your bed however I replied 'not to bother as they will just have to harden up '........ :o ;D
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Hi Dave,
I am very envious of your Fritillaria collina flower. Have a few plants but they have never flowered for me. Guess that extra couple of degrees latitude might make the difference.
I think your unknown frit is F. thessala.
Cheers, Marcus
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Oh dear, Fermi, looks like you might be in for a spartan NZ holiday.
I would make sure of buying those jumpers!
Jamus - your garden is a picture!
I have two photos for show and tell:
1. A Japanese woodland Calanthe orchid obtained from Lynn McGough.
Faster growing hydrangeas and maples have overtaken the bed and the orchid is now sited inconspicuously at the back.
A task for next year….
2. A dainty cardamine kindly gifted by Lynn. It doesn't seed itself around but clumps up rather nicely.
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Thank you Jacqui. :) I wish I could ask you over for a coffee or a glass of wine and show you around... the garden gives me a lot of joy (and plenty of pain).
Here are a couple of things of interest (to me anyway) from this afternoon after work.
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This little Achillea came from Otto as umbellata but I have since obtained another different species with the same name which has left me wondering which is umbellata and what Otto's plant may be if it isn't...?
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The other umbellata, which seems to match images online better than the one above.
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Androsace sempervivoides is doing very well and seems to love my rock garden.
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Jovellana violacea is a favourite shrub of mine, just beginning to flower here.
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Lobelia tupa, again.
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Phlox subullata 'Tamaongalei', just coming into flower.
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A nice purple Pacific Coast hybrid Iris.
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Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais'. I grew this from seed and am just loving it. English seed catalogues described it as half hardy and short lived but I get the impression it'll be much more permanent here in sunny Adelaide.
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And again... I'll post more pictures as the flowers expand.
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A view of my crevice garden, a bit over a year old and working quite well I think.
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Great garden and plant pix, jamus. The crevice garden is establishing rather well. The colour of the rock is most attractive in itself.
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Hi Dave,
I am very envious of your Fritillaria collina flower. Have a few plants but they have never flowered for me. Guess that extra couple of degrees latitude might make the difference.
Cheers, Marcus
Dave has no latitude at all! I'd be surprised if his garden were even 5 metres above sea level, just a very few kilometres from Bluff. I was at Dave's briefly on Friday afternoon and was stunned by the trilliums, frits, podophyllums and everything else. Everything looking superb and disgustingly healthy (even Dave himself ;D)
The Southland branch of NZAGS had a very good show in the evening and I was there to judge which I enjoyed very much. The Southlanders are great growers and always very hospitable too.
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Thanks Maggi, I'll try to take some more general overview images of the rock garden with plant labels, but every time I'm out there I convince myself to wait a week or two until this or that is in flower...
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Everything looking superb and disgustingly healthy (even Dave himself ;D)
The Southland branch of NZAGS had a very good show in the evening and I was there to judge which I enjoyed very much. The Southlanders are great growers and always very hospitable too.
Good to hear that Dave is in good order !
The Southlanders sound a nice bunch ( was there any cake?)
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Don't eat cake ladies.. it's poison didn't you know? ;)
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Jamus,
Your garden looks excellent. 8) This can be a difficult task in a hot and dry climate.
The whole composition seems tied together into a work of art.
Thank you so much for sharing the photographs.
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Thanks for your kind words Robert. I do consider the garden on different scales when I'm planning structure or planting. I stand back and look broadly at the vista and also create little nooks with minute interest. I view the garden as a whole with many parts; areas; microclimates at different levels. Some of it is planning, much is serendipity. It's only a small garden so not too overwhelming for someone as time poor as I am.
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Don't eat cake ladies.. it's poison didn't you know? ;)
Possibly poison, Jamus ---- but what a way to go!!
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I do love a good lemon cheesecake. I haven't eaten cheesecake for.... can't remember the last time, over a year easily! :-\
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I’m with you Maggie (sorry Jamus). Cake is one of the most important food groups. :D
Now for the garden..
1. Brimeura amethystina is a tiny wisp of a thing.
2. Claret orb-like flower buds of Sarracenia standing out against a green backdrop
3. A saxifrage grown from a cutting.
4. This pretty white forget-me-not forms tight cushiony clumps.
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Thanks for your kind words Robert. I do consider the garden on different scales when I'm planning structure or planting. I stand back and look broadly at the vista and also create little nooks with minute interest. I view the garden as a whole with many parts; areas; microclimates at different levels. Some of it is planning, much is serendipity. It's only a small garden so not too overwhelming for someone as time poor as I am.
Jamus,
I appreciate your wise admonition concerning gardening. Too many times I just go out and plant. Composition, design, and detail are so important. Maybe this is why I like smaller gardens as all these aspects can be considered, even with time constraints. I definitely appreciate your efforts, serendipitous or not. 8)
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Hi Dave,
I am very envious of your Fritillaria collina flower. Have a few plants but they have never flowered for me. Guess that extra couple of degrees latitude might make the difference.
I think your unknown frit is F. thessala.
Cheers, Marcus
Thanks Marcus
I've gone and written a label ..
Lovely to see the Calanthe in bloom Jacqui ...grows well enough for me however shy in flowering ..... :'(
Jamus I like the look of Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais .
Cheers Dave.
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Tall bearded irises are starting to open, I'll post more as they come out. Some of these we are seeing for the first time as they were bought as very small plants and have taken a couple of years to reach flowering size.
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Photos from our garden.
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A few more photos of what is flowering for us now.
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Oooo... Graham your paeonia are magnificent. I don't have any flowering age yet so I'm very envious...
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Lovely things in the Australian gardens just now. We are making do, Aussie-wise, with the well tanned faces of Fermi and Will. :)
Maggi there was definitely cake, several kinds including my favourite cinnamon oysters (little, light-as-a-feather chocolate sponges split most of the way through, filled with whipped cream and dusted on top (turned upsidedown) with icing sugar. I was restrained, having only one while two (not to be named) men almost came to blows over who should have the last one. ;D
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There are indeed lovely things on these pages right now - despite the unexpectedly hot and windy weather that hit the southern states this month. Flowers have seemed to come and go in a flash, burnt by the sun and wind.
The cake sounds delectable Lesley. I sincerely hope it wasn't any Australian men fighting over it.
Just a few tiny things.
1&2. Lavandula canariensis has silvery fernlike foliage and sparse, but brightly coloured, floral spires. A delight from Otto.
3. The maidenhair-like foliage of Vancouveria clothes the ground under a spreading oak
4. The frothy opalescent pale pink flowers of ceanothus pallidus have proved a revelation
5. I feel twinges of lazy gardener guilt showing this tree paeonia bloom after all the beautiful seed-grown ones shown by Graham. This beauty (cultivar Artemis) was purchased from Stephen Ryan only weeks ago.
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I can see why you bought Paeonia 'Artemis', Jacquie - I would have too - such a delicate colour - irresistible
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Lovely things in the Australian gardens just now. We are making do, Aussie-wise, with the well tanned faces of Fermi and Will. :)
Maggi there was definitely cake, several kinds including my favourite cinnamon oysters (little, light-as-a-feather chocolate sponges split most of the way through, filled with whipped cream and dusted on top (turned upsidedown) with icing sugar. I was restrained, having only one while two (not to be named) men almost came to blows over who should have the last one. ;D
Men fighting over cakes - how undignified ! We Gals would just grab quick and run!!
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I spent the whole day cleaning up in the garden as we have guests coming tomorrow. Now the wind is blowing so I expect to find leaves everywhere tomorrow morning.
Here are a few photos taken this morning...
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Bought this as Aquilegia alpina, but it could be anything... (I'm guessing Aquilegia flabellata)
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A. formosa
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Geranium cinereum 'ballerina'
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This is Rebecca's rose, I don't know what it's called but it's very nice!
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Lilium pumilum just starting.
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Men fighting over cakes - how undignified ! We Gals would just grab quick and run!!
Yes, but make that singular ...cake. The girls likely absconded with lion's share. The men were after all fighting over the very LAST cake.
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A few more photos of what is flowering here today. The tree peonies are flowering profusely this year. They are doing really well in our small front garden that is protected from the strong westerly winds. There are still several that have not commenced flowering yet.
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It is our best ever year for tree peonies. Our own seedlings are starting to come up in the shade house.
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Graham, thanks for showing us your peonies, they are absolutely stunning. I wish I could grow them... maybe I'll try again. I have a few herbaceous peonies but none have flowered for me yet.
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I’m very taken with Graham’s tree paeonies - especially considering the fiery blast passing for Spring this year.
And Jamus, your Lilium pumilum has wonderful form.
From Eltham today
1. The diminutive blue brimeura amethystina (thank you Marcus) is slowly increasing.
2. A dear little rock jasmine only inches across is now in flower
3. The attractive seedpod spike of a Bellevalia
4. The delicate frothy blooms of a miniature lilac photographed last week. Today the petals are like so much snow on the ground.
Jacqui
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Jacqui, isn't rock jasmine a common name used for Androsace? What genus is your yellow flowered plant. Jasminum?
Unfortunately my Lilium pumilum was battered down by strong winds we had here the night before last, and them something chewed and ate the flowers. There is a second spike which is smaller. I'm a bit gutted because it was 3 years to flowering from seed... people think gardening is relaxing and meditative. Huh! We gardeners know the truth; it's tortuous and stressful!
Lilac. Do you say SY-rin-ga, or SI-rin-ga?
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Lilac. Do you say SY-rin-ga, or SI-rin-ga?
I say SI, but then I say sick- lamen (Cyclamen), and then you come to Clivia. I've just learned it was named after Lady Clive, so should be Cl-eye-via.
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Pronunciation of plant names ... now there's a hoary old chestnut, and a private joke between Parsla and me!
Hi Guys, I have been a bit sick and snowed under and have not been able to respond to questions I can see have been referred to me over the period. Sorry!
Graham your paeonies are magnificent! What a sight to look forward to when they are just dead-looking sticks all winter.
I can offer a few herbaceous types:
P. mascula ssp mascula
P. anomala
P. daurica
It's a wonder I have anything left to photograph given the tremendous wind and heat over the past 2 weeks.
Cheers, Marcus
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Marcus, how much for those three peonies? Can you get them in the mail today? ;D
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Hi Jamus,
Wait a minute and I'll pop the instructions into my new 3d bioprinter ;D
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That's a nice little lilac, Jacqui.
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Oh dear, Jamus, sad about the lilium.
..and I myself say lilac with a short "i" as in syringe. No idea if that is correct though.
I don't know about the name rock jasmine - but one can get into trouble with common names as they often apply quite broadly.
This is a jasminum (J. parkeri), but a very tiny one that doesn't like wet feet.
Thank you Marcus - yes miss kim IS pretty. I had hoped it would be flowering when you visited, but sadly not.
Your paeonies are really the business. Gorgeous blooms.
Glad you are posting. Hope all okay.
jacqui.
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The jasmine is a honey and yours is maybe the same size as mine Jacqui, about 5 cms across and 2 cms high at present, at the corners of my two washtub troughs I have 2, one per trough. They're at the corners because I'm remembering one my ma had many years ago which reached about a metre across and grew over the edge of a stone wall toward the ground 60 or 70 cms below, a massive plant.
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3D printing plants now?! Amazing what they can do with technology innit? ;)
Jacqui, I'm no too disappointed about the little liliums as they have a lot of good leaf on them and will be making a good robust bulbs. I think there are three separate bulbs, two of them with flowering spikes. I'm just thrilled to have had this first success with species liliums from seed. I have several other species coming along.
Here are a few pictures of things happening here in my garden.
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Campanula bellidifolia in the rock garden, first ever bloom!
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I know I keep posting pictures of this Phlox, but it just keeps getting better!
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Lobeila tupa keeps on wowing me.
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A closer look at Lilium pumilum
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Common old solomon's seal, courtesy of Mr. Nottle.
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Louisiana Iris also a gift from Trevor.
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Verbascums looking good.
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Aquilegia uncertain sp. maybe flabellata
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More wonderful photos of the plants giving you folks pleasure in your Southern Hemisphere gardens and giving strength to us in the North to get us through autumn and winter. Bet some of us didn't know that we are all actually counsellors helping eachother survive the seasons!
Marcus - hope you are feeling better - sending all best wishes M xxxx
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Hi Lesley, I had no idea the jasmine could get so big. The prospect is quite thrilling once one gets used to it - its such a pretty thing.
Jamus - I adore solomom's seal, it mixes in so well with hydrangeas, hellebores and spring bulbs. The blue of your Louisiana iris is extraordinary. And you are right that the lilium will put on growth for next season. So not all bad.
Jacq.
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Gosh, so many lovely plants to dream over. I love that campanula but I'm a sucker for those open-faced buns.
Thanks Maggi and Jacqui for your best wishes!
A few more today:
Paeonia emodii - a stunner!
Paeonia macrophylla (or whatever!)
Cistus creticus or a subspecies of it collected as seed on Ikaria.
Cheers, Marcus
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What a heavenly combination of foliage and flower on the Paeonia emodi Marcus.
And the dark pink P. mascula flower is breathtaking!
I have two photos.
The first is of the irregulares section Saxifrage I nipped from a pot plant last year - now rocketing along.
The second is my first bloom of Roscoea cautleyoides - which I fell head-over-heels for in Kew gardens.
Mind, the clumps there had stems!
Jacqui.
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I managed to take a few more photos when not harvesting seed.
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The last of my photos.
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It'a a Knowltonia anemonoides (...quite a mouthful!) I have been noticing these interesting tri-foliate leaves in shady spots for some time - now they have finally revealed their true identity:
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What an intriguing plant, Rogan!
I'd not heard of it before; thanks for sharing the pic,
cheers
fermi
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Having a little difficulty here keeping my paeony envy under control. They really are gorgeous aren't they?
Diverting myself to try to learn more about Knowltonia anemonoides - quite new to me.
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Dianthus pinifolius
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Raoulia parkii, when Otto sent me a little piece of this alpine beauty I never expected it to survive, let alone thrive!
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Centaurea atropurpurea
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Iris graminea
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Corydalis cv. blue line
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Hi Maggie, I have to agree with you on the paeonies. I would love to grow more of them.
Jupiter - you have an eclectic and wonderful collection..
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Thanks Jacqui. I find it impossible to focus on one group/genus/family. I guess Iridaceae is a favourite, but I grow whatever takes my fancy which is eclectic as you say! Have you Easterners had any of this rain we're getting? We had a very welcome 9mm the night before last. Everything is looking very lush right now.
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Hi Guys,
This last month has been a feast of flowers!
I have a few of my rarest plants flowering. I know in most cases rare is rarely better but these, I think, break that mould.
Daphne cneorum album - crystalline beauty
Daphne giraldii - Archibald seed
Helichrysum milfordiae - gorgeous plant originally purchased from Ken Gillanders
Cheers, Marcus
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Absolutely beautiful Marcus, your Helichrysum is the standout for me. I've never seen that but I instantly want to grow it in my rock garden.
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Hi Jamus,
I bought it years ago. I did have a go at propagating it but lost all the cuttings when I ended up in hospital.
I don't know where you would get it in Australia. Email me.
Cheers, M
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Something a bit different... I'm having good success raising little seedlings for my garden and I thought I'd share part of my nursery. I am in the habit of pricking out very young seedlings into deep tubes and growing them on until they are strong enough to go into the garden. It works very well for me and I have a little method which I follow, the only difference being the potting media depending on the requirement of the species in question.
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from left to right: Penstemon whippleanus, mixed pacific coast irises, Erigeron compactus, Penstemon virens, Penstemon hallii,
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from left to right: Penstemon hallii, Monardella odoratissima, Canarina canariensis, Aquilegia scopulorum, Penstemon grandiflorus.
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Looking good . How deep are these "tubes", Jamus?
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I use long ones and short ones. The long as about 13-14cm I guess. The short ones are only 8ish cm. I can measure them properly tomorrow but I'm in bed and I don't feel like going outside. :)
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I for my part have daphne-envy Marcus.
Especially of the D. cneorum. I bet its hard to keep alive though.
Just a few photos from this morning.
1. The otherworldly blooms of the pitcher plant sarracenia leucophylla are just opening now
2. The lush foliage of sinocalycanthus chinensis
3. closeup of a flower of the above
4. Paris polyphylla was kindly gifted by Otto after I admired it in his garden. Such a pretty thing.
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Wow Parsla, Paris polyphylla! I'm so impressed, that's a dream of mine. I don't get envy in the actual sense, I feel that if you fellow Southern Hemisphere gardeners have these things in your gardens that's one step closer to mine! I would love to see Paris species flowering in person... only ever seen pictures.
I love Sarracenia flowers. They are so interesting in form, I must grow some.
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Hello Jamus,
I'm so pleased you like it :D.
I must confess, however, that Otto did all the work - unlike you with your amazing seed propagation system I am strictly on L plates. I am trying quite a few things from seed but now they are sprouting i am wondering how on earth i will save them from Godzilla El Nino - as it is being termed.
Oh, and a white Sarracenia flower is about to open. I've never had one before. All others claret.
Just for fun:
1. Corylus avellana purpurea (I adore purple foliage - the more the better)
2. The saruma has really lurched into its stride now. And seeding rather too freely, but fortunately all in the one small spot. Gorgeous ground cover.
3. An aroid lily - one prize from raiding a magical overgrown garden - sanctioned, naturally (thank you lost boy).. Not sure if it could be the wild English Arum maculatum - although the form is more fastigiate than I recall. Any ideas?
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I've been enjoying the wonderful pictures that have been posted here.
Here's a ,(temporarily),transplanted Aussie ;D ..... Pic taken last Tuesday at lunch time .......
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I envy fermi, not only is he meeting you wonderful plants people and getting tours of your gardens but look at the culinary delights he's been enjoying! I've had my dinner but I'm feeling hungry again after seeing this.
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Oh, and a white Sarracenia flower is about to open. I've never had one before. All others claret.
Wow, that will be something else to look forward to seeing. I quite agree with you about their "other worldly" look. Marvelous things.
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Hi Maggie,
yes I'm surprised and hopeful about the colour. The pitchers are very elegant too, when they sprout, but I never seem to get such large well-formed ones as the growers. Consequently, still experimenting with conditions.
It's a great photo of Fermi, tho' reminds me of an episode of midsomer murders where the perpetrator photographs his lunch each day.
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I envy fermi, not only is he meeting you wonderful plants people and getting tours of your gardens but look at the culinary delights he's been enjoying! I've had my dinner but I'm feeling hungry again after seeing this.
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It's a great photo of Fermi, tho' reminds me of an episode of midsomer murders where the perpetrator photographs his lunch each day.
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Yes it was terrific to meet Fermi again and show both of them around ....Will 'waxed lyrical' about their visit to Maple Glen ,a garden about 50 mins travel from here.
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Hope to have time to post some pics when we get back home.
We were also very impressed by Dave's garden, "Trillium Haven", though it really is "Trillium Heaven" at this time of year!
Hope the Trillium Weekend goes well and the other house guests were also impressed with your plants,
cheers
fermi
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A few modest offerings from my garden which is reaching its peak exuberance.
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Nectaroscordum bulgaricum (Allium siculum - what a boring name...)
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Aquilegia chrysantha
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Carpinus betulus planted this year as part of my wind break planting
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Corydalis 'Blue line', the blackbirds broke this flower spike today
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Dianthus pinifolius, minute flowers but such intense colour
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Epimedium pubescens
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Glaucium flavum
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Iris graminea - the buds are lovely
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Laburnum anagyroides in full swing
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Common old Nigella but I like this subtle colour
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Just a poppy but nice light
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Scabiosa stellata, the seed heads are more interesting than the flowers but the pink pollen is sweet.
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Silene gallica quinquevulnera - this is one of those that looked better in the seed catalogue than in person... never mind.
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I know I keep posting Lobelia tupa, but I'm in love with this plant.
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This little skipper sat still long enough to be captured by the camera.
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More Glaucium flavum... such a strange and wonderful creature.
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My God Jamus, your last batch of pictures are truly fabulous. They are spellbinding!
Cheers, Marcus
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Yes, they really are fantastic Jamus. I do feel embarrassed posting after you.
This is perhaps a little out of context for a rock garden club, but I am so pleased with how the Japanese snowbell has grown into a beautiful conical form.
1. Styrax japonica with a carpet of fallen blooms
2. Close-up of the flowers
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Golly, I'm doing other things for just a few days and pages more are added! Wonderful plants at this very productive time of year.
Just 5 to start with as it's bedtime.
I've had such pleasure from the Barnhaven seedlings from a Nov 2013 sowing. These two are both polyanthus, 'Spiced Shades' which look really good in a group with varying shades and 'Gilded Ginger,' which all have a fine gold edge round bright to dark red or almost black centres. Both are seeding gently about now. As you can see, I'm putting in parsley seedlings just about everywhere. I never have enough. :)
Anemone nemorosa 'Winterwood Pink' came from Marcus a few years ago but originated in the Mt Tomah garden of Don Schofield. It starts pure, pristine white so seems badly named but within a couple of days begins to age to pink then deepens to almost magenta by the time the petals are ready to drop. These shown are about half way there. I've had a lot of garden visitors these last two weeks and most have wanted this lovely plant.
Then two of a favourite from way back, seed in the first place from Jack Drake at Inshriach Alpine Plant Nursery near Inverness. The lovely white form of the marsh marigold, Caltha palustris. I've always loved this plant and happily, it is setting lots of nice seed. I'm enclosing the heads in clusters of 3 or 4, in the little netting bags recommended for Narcissus or other seed heads, so the birds won't get them and I'll get them before they fall.
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Thanks guys, it's a great time of year for us gardeners isn't it?
Jacqui I love your Styrax. What a gorgeous shrub that is... I was very impressed with your purple hazel. Where did you get it? I hope they mail order as I'd love one of those. Your garden is destined to be absolutely amazing with a backdrop of such wonderful trees and shrubs.
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More tomorrow. I'm getting plants ready for my last stall of the season, at Larnach Castle next Sunday. Will be glad when I can put away all the tables, cloths, photos, and other odds and ends one takes to these events and get on with what will have to be a huge propagating programme as I've run out of almost everything by now. Still NZ Iris Soc Convention on the weekend of Nov 20-23 but though it's coming here, I won't be selling though will have a list ready for anyone who wants it. Masses of dwarf bearded forms are in bloom now but they'll be almost over by then.
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Lesley, I've never seen Caltha palustris in person. Yours looks so lush and healthy. All your plants do... that Anemone nemorosa is pretty as a picture.
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Lesley,
You get me longing for spring! Although the weather today is quite nice and springlike (contrasting very much to the weekend which was very 'fallish') the blooming period is definitely over :-\
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Thank you both. :) Some more spring for you Hoy though last night we had a cold southerly come through with heavy rain and there is fresh snow on the local hills, the 9th snowfall this year - and we usually have 2 or maybe 3, so very cold today.
Daphne petraea 'Persabee.' Pesky thing just wouldn't open for the few shows we have here but has come up smiling this last week. It flowered well in the autumn too so I thought it wouldn't now but am very happy with this performance. I think this plant is about 10 years old now.
Armeria caespitosa, a seedling from my favourite nursery, and they have called it 'Sugar Baby.' I don't like the name but the little plant is very good, soft pink, less harsh than the commoner forms.
Our native Myosotis colensoi at the corner of a trough (with Gentiana depressa). This species is a lime lover coming from the limestone outcrops of Castle Hill in Canterbury. It is protected.
Saxifraga pubescens 'Snowcap.' It usually flowers more thickly so maybe needs a bit of refurbishment. Also in a trough. The green rosette foliage is slightly sticky so is inclined to get thistledown tangled in it later in the season.
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As mentioned above, I have lots of dwarf bearded irises in my garden and every year can't resist a few more. I have a very good source close by, a nursery which grows ONLY dwarf and intermediate bearded forms so I'm a good customer. :) These are -
Alamosa, bred locally at Mossburn by Noel Lapham
Wise
Cliche (with an acute, Clish-ay)
Little Timothy
Mahogany Snow
Some are miniature dwarf, some are standard dwarf. The netting is to keep off hens and rabbits and doesn't look good as the foliage gets crumpled but is better than the rhizomes eaten right down to the roots. >:( >:( >:(
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Some things now from what I unromantically call the Railway Bed. This is because as one crosses the rail line and comes into our place, this bed is closest to the gateway and just 15 metres from the railway. There are trees overhead giving a high canopy with good shade which makes meconopsis and such things possible. (They are in bud now.)
Hosta 'Kabitan,' a real dwarf form with almost golden foliage but greener in shade. I love this little form. So do rabbits!
Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty' which is spreading well now and Hosta 'Sun Power,' another gold foliaged plant but it burns if in sunshine, so again, shade is best. It takes on yellower colour as summer comes along.
Part of the bed. The white Glaucidium had 10 flowers this year, best ever and the lavender behind it had 8. It flowers earlier by about a fortnight. There are the Meconopsis, Beesia, the white and blue Anemonopsis, cardiocrinums, primulas, Dactylorhiza and all kinds of shade-loving plants in this bed, my favourite place in all the garden. (Smaller too,Trollius laxus v. albiflorus, epigaeas, Olsynium douglasii, the white Caltha, various crested irises and some others and, and, and...)
Glaucidium palmatum album
Podophyllum hexandrum. A good crop of the wonderful red pods is already developing.
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Lesley you've knocked me out with that last set... such interesting and rare plants looking incredible. You are a great gardener. Oh to live next door to you and be able to get up close and personal to those botanical marvels... Sometimes I check real estate prices in NZ.... maybe one day, when the kids leave home. :)
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Lesley you have such beautiful plants - I'm sure that same shade bed would be my favourite too. I can't believe the size of your glaucidium, I have tried it, and persevere, but it's only a leaf or two and then back underground. Do you have a secret?
Jamus, I have two types of purple hazel (Corylus avellana purpurea and C maxima purpurea). The difference is more in tree form than leaf shape or colour - to my eyes anyway. The latter seems more treelike. I think Don Teese of Yamina Collector's nursery posts Australia wide. His plants are always healthy and well grown.
And thank you for your nice comments. Not that it makes it any easier to post after you ;)
Jacqui.
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Jamus I thought for a moment there you wanted to get up close and personal with ME! Ah well, can't have everything I suppose. :D
This bed has been wonderful this spring because we've had so much rain and a really cool spring except for a very few days. But I still have to water it every few days because the tree roots take so much moisture.
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HAHA Lesley! My wife might have something to say about that! I sometimes joke that I should find a rich widow with a big garden and charm her into letting me be her gardener (and hopefully weasel my way into the will! that's terrible).
Yes I'm splashing water everywhere too...Warm dry weather ahead. I did a walk at Mt. Lofty today and almost wept at the beauty... I'll see if I can get up there on the weekend with my camera and share it with you all.
My Iris graminea is looking great at the moment. The perfume is intoxicating - to me it smells just like tinned apricots.
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Hi Lesley,
I bet Jamus says that to all the girls ;)
I am very envious of your Daphne. Well I am very envious of lots of things from your last set but sadly I couldn't grow most of them. I don't believe anyone grows Daphne petraea in Australia anymore. I could be wrong, maybe Don had one tucked away there in Mt Tomah. Now biosecurity costs are through the roof I doubt if anyone will be into the future and who'd trust a government quarantine facility to nurse it through its enforced captivity.
Did you import your plant?
Cheers, Marcus
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We've heard in the past about a number of Daphne which have been in NZ for many years now, it's good to hear some folks are keeping them going.
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Hello Marcus
No I didn't import it, it came from a Christchurch grower whom I won't name here (pm to you) as Chch people seem overly sensitive about their internet privacy - as if such a thing existed nowadays! He grows a number of forms and species and I understand is hybridizing among them, so maybe there will be some new ones available in time. My original plant, some 30 years ago I think, came from a Dunedin man , the late Jack Scott. He sold it to me for an exorbitant price, a tiny single rosette plant complete with its own slug which I found in the pot next day when I returned home to Timaru. I have a lot of odd things in my car but don't keep slugs there so it was definitely his slug which had nibbled the little soft branchlet off. A request to Jack that he consider replacing the plant was met with raucous laughter!
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Maggi, the Chch gentleman is doing his best and is a skilled propagator, especially with the grafting knife though I think is doing cuttings too. I find a few quite easy from cuttings if they have bottom heat, DD. arbuscula and collina especially. I believe Peter Erskine has sent seed of some to NZ in recent years.
Jacqui I have no secret for the Glaucidium. Mine is paltry compared with the amazing plant I saw in Maggi and Ian's garden in Aberdeen. :) I think the conditions need to be perpetually damp and as leafy as possible, shady too. Before I planted anything in that bed - I started less than 18 months ago, putting in the most precius of the potted plants I'd moved house with - I loaded it with compost and dug it in to about 40cms depth so everything had a really good start followed by a very wet winter last year. Already the compost needs topping up and I'll do this through the summer when the seeds I want have ripened and been harvested. (And when this darned Iris soc Convention is finished and I can do other things!)
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Marcus, your lovely parcel of seed has arrived today, so far as I can see, all present and correct, and not even sniffed at by MAF (now MPI) except the Paeonia of course, that for later. So I'll be busy - even busier - tomorrow at seed sowing including the first of my own and various others as well. It's a job that seems never to stop. I've decided to spend a few days away from home after NZIS Convention, for several reasons but especially because my sister (aged 79!) is to marry in November. She's been a widow for about 15 years and has had several men wanting to marry her - which says a lot about the lovely, gentle, sweet person she is - and I'd love to be there for her. Then home for my son's second marriage on Christmas Day. When will there be a quiet time? Never, I hope. ;D
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Some late Frits.
F. conica
F. lusitanica with a back drop of a white Draba.
Woodland setting of Pleiones ,Paris quadrifolia and Cypripedium formosanum and close up.
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Wonderful photos T00lie, especially F. lusitanica, which is my favourite. Although Cyp. formosanum is very well taken too. You have a lovely cool, wet garden.
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Leslie, thank you for your wisdom, much appreciated. You New Zealanders seem to have green fingers with woodland plants.
I think I need to shift things around a bit. A stash of oak leaf mold is rotting down for next season and should be very useful for the woodlanders.
1. Each petite, cupped, bloom of Mme Hardy is distinguished by a green eye. And, I now observe, is teeming with wee beasties (time to bring in the predators).
2. The same, scrambling over the compost enclosure
3. This delicate Iris sibirica hailing from Woodbridge nursery in Tasmania has slowly multiplied into several small clumps over a few years
4. The prickly foliage of Eryngium bourgatii is a favourite
5. A Japanese cultivar of hydrangea serrata
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Jacqui, I was just trying to get a good photo of Eryngium bougatii last night! You did better than I did! My plants are as big as yours yet. Did you grow yours from seed or buy them as seedlings? Well photographed :)
Your Iris sibirica is lovely. So pristine and pure. Is that an oriental poppy behind it? Which one? I'm looking for beauty of livermere (goliath group). I haven't found anyone selling it yet.
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Diggers?
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Diggers?
Rob,
we don't use the "D" word in this household :o ;D
We returned home to a garden sliding into summer with ixias in full flower,
cheers
fermi
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Oh god, I've angered the horticultural thought police :-[ :'( ;).
Still, gems can be found in the strangest places; our local op shop has been selling native orchids recently....
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Hi Jamus,
I can't resist making a quick post while I have a cup of tea.
The E. bourgatii came from David Glenn - at least I think so - about a year ago. Remember I'm still on L plates with seed…
And I know better than to believe for a minute that my photo is any better than yours, but you are an angel to say so.
It is indeed an oriental poppy, the first I have grown, but sadly not what you are looking for. Mine was listed as either drunken choir boy or royal wedding, but doesn't seem to have the characteristic dark splotches. It was seed (only because poppies are easy), so who knows.
Photo from a few days ago.
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Jacqui, I have that poppy (Royal Wedding) also but it doesn't flower for me. Mine are under a big unruly Echium candicans and don't get enough sun.
No really, your picture of the Eryngium is MUCH better than mine! I'm not kidding. I won't post it, I have a reputation to uphold. ;D
Fermi, I'm with you. I refuse to give d*****s my money. Arrogance. Snobbishness. Hypocrisy!
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We were happy to see that the Puya still had some flowers on it when we got home.
And Jasminum parkii in the rock garden is in full bloom, so you see, Jacqui, it can spread a bit!
cheers
fermi
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Fermi, I'm with you. I refuse to give d*****s my money. Arrogance. Snobbishness. Hypocrisy!
Really? Do tell.
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Oh, that is a fantastic jasminum specimen Fermi.
Very exciting prospect.
I was admiring your ixias as well
I have some of the greenish blue, slowly multiplying, but with much slenderer stems that won't stay upright. It makes for a very limited display.
Jacqui.
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I don't have room for that kind of plant in my little rock garden! :o
Lesley, you have to join their "club" to buy their "special" plants, and then they preach at you about plant breeders owning seeds which should be freely available ... huh?
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A couple from today.
1. Lewisia hybrid
2. Papaver 'Danish Flag'
3. Pelargonium sidoides (cv?)
4. Viola labradorica
5. Laburnum anagyroides
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"Dad, that is the most DISGUSTING flower EVER!"
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Hi Jupiter, you caused me to laugh out loud with that last post. Cute photo.
I want to show a few pictures of the AGS Vic garden visits yesterday. Viv Condon and Otto Fauser kindly invited us to visit and it was a truly glorious show. Unfortunately my camera work faltered and I had far too many out of focus shots. I'm still working on salvaging some of Viv's garden - so these next few are of Otto's.
Naturally, while it has been so hot dry and windy here of late, open gardens tempt an absolute downpour. Raincoats and umbrellas were THE de rigueur fashion items.
Otto's is a bulb rock garden wonderland, and we were just a little late in the season - but some absolute treasures to be found all the same.
1. AGS visitors. You can see from the scale that the garden is situated amidst a forest of tall trees in Olinda
2. More visitors
3. Just to give an idea of the rock garden layout - even when flowering bulbs have finished it has an ethereal quality
4. A beautiful mountain laurel in bloom (Kalmia I think)
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…and a few more of my.. favourites from Otto's garden
5. A miniature rhododendron - looks very like a daphne - only maybe 30 cm tall
6. Close up of the composite flowerhead
7. The steep incline in front of Otto's house would daunt many a gardener - it is absolutely full of buried treasures
8. A double green-tinged anemonella thalictroides to swoon over
I hope you enjoy,
Jacqui.
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Oh Wow Jacqui, thanks for posting those. Any more? Blurry or not, post them! I LOVE Kalmia. There's one at Mt. Lofty BG which I may try propagating from. Haven't seen seed capsules on it. Perhaps a tip cutting?
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Just a few photos of Viv's garden from yesterday's opening, a fleeting view of the landscape she has sculpted so beautifully.
She has THE most wonderful handcrafted hypertufa troughs - the nicest I have seen up close.
1 & 2. Garden bed views.
3, 4 and 5 - Just a few of the many planted troughs situated near the glasshouse.
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I'm in awe of those troughs, and the garden beds. I feel so isolated over here in SA sometimes, and this is one of those times.
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Lilium hansonii; first flower out today.
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Humulus scandens. I love this annual climber and its hempish looking leaves.
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Hi Jamus,
It's only 9 hours drive from your house ;D
You'll have to wrangle your next holiday to coincide with one of our meetings!
cheers
fermi
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Thanks for the encouragement Fermi, I would love that. However, nine hours is just impossible at the moment with a 3y/old and a 7y/old, and for a host of other reasons. Maybe next year...
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Worth doing a bit of mountaineering to see Otto's garden, eh? I spot Campanula nitida alba in Viv's garden - that would be flowering early over here - in our garden it flowers more in June. ( Assuming SH equivalent of now is April?)