Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: shelagh on December 24, 2018, 02:09:51 PM
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This might be thought a bit of a cheat as we have 2 Adntipodeans to show you. Firstly Correa pulchella which is looking very festive at the moment also Melicytus alpine looking frosty with it's white berries.
Also known as the Christmas challenge or the Cuckoo in the nest. Brian found this pot of Cyc. pseudoibericum but we appear to have a stowaway. Any suggestions?
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What's better than a walk in the garden after a gargantuous meal ;D
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Looks like a chilly walk Yann.
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Lovely Correa Shelagh 8)
Here 'Federation Belle' has been going since about August & should continue well into the spring. Very cheery in the winter greenhouse.
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Also known as the Christmas challenge or the Cuckoo in the nest. Brian found this pot of Cyc. pseudoibericum but we appear to have a stowaway. Any suggestions?
Looks a like C. creticum or C. x meiklei. Better to see the flowers, so when those buds open it will be clear.
I like the correa- is that seed grown?
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Looks like a chilly walk Yann.
not so much as you can think, minus 2
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Lovely Correa Shelagh 8)
Here 'Federation Belle' has been going since about August & should continue well into the spring. Very cheery in the winter greenhouse.
Nice to see some "Aussies" in the Northern winter!
cheers
fermi
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Ashley what a cracker that is.
Bart no not from seed I'm afraid, they don't seem to set seed here in Bury.
Glad you like them Fermi.
Yann it's 8C today and we could do with some frost to slow things down, Brian spotted a Hepatica coming into flower today.
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A grey old day here but dry at the moment (for a change) just a chance to take a few pictures.
Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill', two shots, after a pretty severe hair-cut last year so no flowers on the top part of the plant.
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Just coming through, Eranthis hyemalis, with lots more to come.
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My first couple of Snowdrops.
Galanthus elwesii
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Galanthus 'Godfrey Owen' just pushed through the 'porridge' that passes for soil in my garden. Many more to come.
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Pieris 'Valley Valentine'
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Just a couple of my Hellebores that I could get to without getting my shoes 'clarted up'.
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Skimmia japonica. This one grown from a cutting taken from a neighbour's garden some 20 years ago.
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Lots of goodies there for the end of the year, David! Bodes well for 2019, I hope!
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Viburnum tinus having re-established from a shrub badly worried by an attack of Viburnum beetles some five years ago and cut back to some 2 feet high.
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and to finish Tulbaghia 'Purple Eye' with still a few flowers after flowering wonderfully since last March and surviving 'The Beast from the East'.
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David, how lovely big Helleborus and already so full of flowers! :o
Yours is truly a winter garden, so much flowering in winter.
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Leena, I think it is more to do with having a relatively benign (but wet!) climate than any skill exercised by (this) gardener. We have had only two very light frosts so far this year. I sometimes wonder if I cut down my Hellebore foliage a little too early in the Autumn (it is normally looking looking pretty awful by the end of September) and whether this might prompt early flowering?
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Leena, I think it is more to do with having a relatively benign (but wet!) climate than any skill exercised by (this) gardener. We have had only two very light frosts so far this year. I sometimes wonder if I cut down my Hellebore foliage a little too early in the Autumn (it is normally looking looking pretty awful by the end of September) and whether this might prompt early flowering?
I am just thinking of cutting back my leaves. Even after they collapsed in the summer heat they came back up again eventually, and most are still green. The flower stems are now getting going with the first flowers opening here.
I have 2 9" pots of Narcissus "Spring Dawn" in full flower. They are the first "Daffs" of the season for me. Great bulbs and no trouble or special treatment. Haven't repotted them for 2 years at least. Maybe I will plant them amongst the hellebores.