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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on September 05, 2017, 08:04:53 AM
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Supposedly spring here but as usual for the first week winter has returned with a vengeance!
Wind, rain, sleet - snow down to 400m ASL!
Much nicer on the weekend where I took these pics at the FCHS Rock Garden Group meeting:
1) part of Bench display
2) more of the bench including Jon B's Tecophileas
3) in the garden: jade-green Iris tuberosa
4) Narcissus Douglas Bank
cheers
fermi
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Supposedly spring here but as usual for the first week winter has returned with a vengeance!
Wind, rain, sleet - snow down to 400m ASL!
Nice pics-ASL ???
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above sea level! :)
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Ah, thank you Carolyn, I was thinking 'Australian Soccer League' but couldn't think why ::)
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More buds open on the hybrid onco, PT0426.
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Spectacular flowers, Jamus.
Today we visited our friend, Cathy, who has a garden in a cooler climate than ours.
Here are some pics from her place:
1) Crocus - we think it's C. sieberi;
2) Erythronium sp
3) & 4) Galanthus snogerupii (please note, Otto, that it is not dead!)
5) seedling cyclamen - but what species?
cheers
fermi
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Wow that's late late flowering for snogerupii! and for the little Crocus too. However the Erythroniums seem far ahead of mine. Nature works in mysterious ways. :)
This little Aubrieta is just getting going up in the rock garden. I like how the plants are interacting here.
ps: Fermi do you think your friend's cyclamen could be persicum? I think the markings and wavy margins are a match.?.?
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Good morning Fermi and Jamus , Fermi I am indeed surprised to see Galanthus ikariae ssp. snogerupii in flower now in September . Here it always starts the winterfl. Snowdrop season in May . The seedling lvs. are Cyclamen repandum ,also you forgot to name the Narcissus growing at Ferny Greek Hort .Soc. N. minor 'Douglas Bank'.
Jamus your photo of the stunning Pat Toolan Onco Hyb. is superb !Here no buds yet on any Aril species or crosses -but I am still hoping . Thanks to you I too have 4 flowers on the jade green Iris tuberosa - see Fermi's photo of it also taken at the Ferny Greek Hort . Soc . garden where we enjoy much sunshine and good air movement .
For this reason I have now planted most of my Aril Irises there and hope for better growth and blooms. My garden is too cool and shady. Is the Daphne in the pot Daphne
xrollsdorfii 'Wilhelm Schacht' -it looks very healthy and might flower soon .
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Spectacular flowers, Jamus.
Today we visited our friend, Cathy, who has a garden in a cooler climate than ours.
Here are some pics from her place:
1) Crocus - we think it's C. sieberi;
2) Erythronium sp
3) & 4) Galanthus snoperupii (please note, Otto, that it is not dead!)
5) seedling cyclamen - but what species?
cheers
fermi
The crocus is not C. sieberi - this always has a yellow throat. Most likely C. tommasinianus or a hybrid of it with C. vernus.
The cyclamen seedlings - at first glance I though the leaf shape reminiscent of Cyclamen repandum but the leaf markings are more typical for Cyclamen hederifolium. A check of the tubers would settle it - smaller, smooth skinned, rooting from the base in C. repandum; larger, more rough skinnned and rooting from the upper surface in C. hederifolium.
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Hello Otto, yes the Daphne is 'Wilhelm Schacht' , well spotted! I'm happy to hear that the Iris tuberosa I sent you is flowering. It's a beauty isn't it? I will send you some more aril irises when they look a bit stronger. I'm waiting for warmer weather to spur them into growth.
Here are some pictures from my garden today.
1) Amazing dark blue Anemone blanda from Otto.
2) Moraea aristata
3) Sedum spathulifolium
4) Soldanella montana alba
5) Sparaxis elegans
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Amazing dark blue Anemone blanda from Otto.
Fantastic dark colour!
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Wow! re the oncocyclus iris.
But also other beauties like fermi's narcissus and late snowdrops, and the range of colour in that sedum jamus.
I have a few to share from yesterday.
1. Pseudomuscari chalusicum is being pushed around by the shrubs - may have to move it.
2. Anemone nemorosa virescens with its greenish bracts. Took me awhile to appreciate it but it has an endearing shyness .
3. An old narcissus, but new for me. Narcissus 'Grand Primo'.
4. The Hawera narcissus are starting to open...
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And two more.
A lovely erythronium - washed over with the palest yellow, although i seem to have lost that in the photos.
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Beautiful Erythroniums Jacqui, I love them but find them a bit challenging in my marginal climate.
Look at this! A juno!! Iris bucharica, a kind gift from Otto. I'm surprised that it has flowered now, so late when other people's have been and gone.
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Visited the Dunedin Botanic Gardens last weekend. Most of the collection of large magnolias was a bit past their best but there were still a putting on a good display.
Magnolia campbellii in the upper garden. This perhaps Dunedins best-know and earliest flower magnolia still a few flowers hanging on.
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Magnolia ' Lanarth' quite brilliant especially close up.
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And tucked away in another border Caerhays Belle
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and just because it was there Rhododendron arboreum
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5) Trillium - even harder for us to flower - this is the first flower since it was planted a decade ago!
2 weeks later the trillium is now in bloom!
It came as trillium sessile from our local group's annual "Bunfight" - plant exchange - in December 2007!
Growing here in a raised bed on the shady side of the house with hellebores and galanthus
cheers
fermi
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I think that may be Trillium chloropetalum Fermi, Trillium sessile is smaller in the leaves and the flower is sort of chubby rather than long and narrow, and the whole plant is quite short 10-11cm high. I'm not an expert but we did import T. sessile from Stewart Preston from NZ and it does not look quite like that. But there is nothing wrong with T. chloropetalum its just as beautiful and gorgeous foliage.
Viv
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Hi Viv,
I think you're right - I must check who put it on the Bunfight.
It has certainly been a strange year for us to get it to flower ;D
Here are a few more pics:
1) Babiana odorata x B. pygmaea seedling
2) Narcissus (lost label) 3 W-O with DBI 'Wanganui Gem'
cheers
fermi
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Opening days at the Crowden family's lovely gardens in Tasmania.......
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Very tempting, Maggi ;D
We enjoyed staying there last year and will one day get back for a look at the garden in early spring!
In our garden today:
Daphne genkwa
Daphne x transatlantica 'Eternal Fragrance'
Phebalium sp
Isopogon sp
Pulsatilla vulgaris & Forsythia 'Gold Clusters'
cheers
fermi
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Doug Logan has posted pix on Facebook from the recent NZAGS show ....
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https://www.facebook.com/doug.logan.56/posts/10213182735699019 (https://www.facebook.com/doug.logan.56/posts/10213182735699019) is the link if you can access FB.
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I thought you may be interested in some of the Banksia's, Grevillea, Eucalyptus and others in flower along the Bass Coastline, Victoria Coastal Park. Cape Liptrap, Waratah Bay and Inverloch
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Some more
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Burchardia umbellata 1.jpg
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I thought you may be interested in some of the Banksia's, Grevillea, Eucalyptus and others in flower along the Bass Coastline, Victoria Coastal Park. Cape Liptrap, Waratah Bay and Inverloch
Oh yes!
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and more
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Eucalyptus caesia Silver Princess_01.jpg
Eucalyptus caesia Silver Princess_02.jpg
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and more
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Hibbertia obtusifolia .jpg
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Last ones
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Drosera auriculata.jpg
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Hi
A few photos of what is flowering in our garden at the moment (besides daffodils).
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Hi
Some more photos. We grow quite a few camellias but they have been knocked around by the number of heavy frosts we have had this year. We have about 60 reticulata seedlings in our shade house that will have to be planted out at some point so there will have to be some new gardens. We also have 14 tree peony seedlings coming along but I have already made a new bed for them.
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Another lovely diary post by Vivienne Condon from the Australian Victoria AGS group "blog" - this time about Otto Fauser's remarkable garden - http://agsvicgroup.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/a-visit-to-ottos-to-view-fritillaria-on.html (http://agsvicgroup.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/a-visit-to-ottos-to-view-fritillaria-on.html)
It's always worth having a read of these blogs to see more of what's happening with our friends in Victoria!
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Gosh Viv,
you present so beautifully in the blog.
Lovely photographs, and previously of our native flowers.
I have been saving up a few garden photos over the week.
Increasing flashes of colour in a garden escaping winter's bleak days.
1. A Primula kisoana cultivar
2. I think Hawera is my favourite garden narcissus - slightly unkempt and brightening up the garden path for weeks on end
3. Tulipa saxatilis bakerii
4. I was lucky to receive a pot of a pleione orchid from Otto.'Shantung', with the colour and sheen of silk.
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A few more...
5. Iris japonica x wattii 'darjeeling' looks like it may be rather too vigorous - but sweetly so
6. A plant i thought i had lost - first flower ever. Arisaema sikokianum. Most pictures i have seen show it fully open. so watching it unfurl has been a revelation.
7. the small bearded iris 'Gingerbread man' bought from Lynn McGough
8. Some beautiful erythroniums from Otto's garden have started springing up here - after sulking for a year after transplanting. I think E. revolutum. i adore the way the petals curl just before extinguishing.