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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: ArnoldT on December 04, 2020, 06:33:35 PM
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Some ivy leaves
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Don't forget the Cyclamen Arnold.
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Shelagh
I was waiting for someone to comment, you win!
It's been living outside here in Northern New Jersey, USA for twenty years.
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Must admit I prefer them to Ivy.
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Some ivy leaves
Nice to have some green :)
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Don't expect too much from outdoor plants in my climate this time of year ;) We had a long warm, dry spell ( most days above freezing, we had a couple days of +12/13, nights always below freezing, but well above average. Snow was much diminished on the ground, but far from all gone. The other night our warm spell began its departure with a couple of hours of rain (very weird at this time of year!) followed by freezing and snow. Luckily the snow fell before the rain had frozen, so the ice is mostly textured and the snow stuck to it-- not too slick. The following day was around 0C, so some melting on things in the sun... Some garden shots.
1-Artemisia
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2-Castilleja seed pods
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3,4-Malus/Apple -- these froze before dropping leaves, so are still hanging on to some..
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5-Sempervivum seed heads
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And here am I moaning about the rain. It looks lovely Cohan but I wouldn't want to live with it.
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2 days without rain! New record this fall. But it is a very dull and dark day. The sky is cloudy but the temperature is +6C.
With the low level of light at this time of the year it is not much in flower.
An unnamed Primula, heavy rain has damaged the flowers.
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A Clematis cultiver, also a bit weathered.
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Maybe I get strawberries for Christnas?
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Hamamelis 'Diane' I think.
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Nice snow scenery Cohan!
I wish we'll get more snow but after a first round we are back to the trend that started few years ago - lots of rain in December :-\
Despite of the latest rainy period, we already had temp. down to -9C, and most plants are dormant by now. So, no flowers in December here Trond, except a little Crocus surprise which took advantage of the protection made for the rose and flowers now.
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But there are quite a few hardy 'evergreens' to be enjoyed during the snowless periods: ferns and Epimediums, various Helleborus, Dianthus and Draba buns, Euphorbia,.....Paxistima canbyi in the last image (I highly recommended for cold regions).
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today ...cold and sunny winter
Rhododendron ferrugineum
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Gentiana ligusticus
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Helleborus foetidus
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Wow the frost really sets off the edges doesn't it. No frost here in Bury so far just rain, rain, rain. :-[
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Despite of the latest rainy period, we already had temp. down to -9C, and most plants are dormant by now. So, no flowers in December here Trond, except a little Crocus surprise which took advantage of the protection made for the rose and flowers now.
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Nice crocus, Gabriela! My autumn crocuses rarely open, the insolation usually is too low. - I haven't planted out my Paxistima yet, it is still in the greenhouse.
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today ...cold and sunny winter
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I haven't seen plants in the garden frosted like that in a couple years! Very nice. Too much rain here.
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At least You are still able to enjoy some nice flowers, Hoy!
Cohan, Your wonderful pics start me dreaming of a white winter! Often I´d wish that we had lots of snow to relax and do a lot of reading, instead I have to work in the garden all "winter" .
Choisya ´White Dazzler´ in flower again.
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Some Camellia sasanqua in flower, too.
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A snowdrop with leaves of Cyclamen hederifolium and Geranium sanguineum.
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Just leaves: Arum italicum ´Pamela Harper´.
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And here am I moaning about the rain. It looks lovely Cohan but I wouldn't want to live with it.
It's not that bad-- usually only lasting snow for 5-7 months ;)
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Trond- Still green and lively looking, even if the flowers are a little beat up!
Gabriela-- lots of green there too :) it was funny to see rain here the other day, hope we don't see it often, since even on warm days at this time of year, we don't get full melt, with nights always below freezing, days short and sun angle low, so that ice lingers in places- gravel roads and town roads have a lot of ice in places (highways are dry).
Catwheazle- nice shots-- frost on plants always looks great :)
Mariette- my winter fantasy is that I will have time for writing, painting, editing etc etc... but then there is wood to cut, snow to shovel..... Your winter is looking lovely so far :)
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In 2005 i sown 2 pots full of Mandragora officinarum, i made some selections of interesting colors and throw away the others.
I also had the misfortune to plant 3 subjects in my garden...bad idea when last year i wanted to move them while they were suffocating other plants. My spade and my back remind very well the deep roots 70cm at least! Such as Crambe(i really enjoy) roots can become a nightmare to remove. This grow very well (i can garantee) in rich loamy soil. Those under glass are grown in 7l pots.
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And did they scream when you dug them up Yann?
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;D ;D ;D
https://der-kreative-wahnsinn.blogspot.com/2017/04/harry-potter-mandrake.html
No, he has changed back :o
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Very nice shots with frosted plants Catwheazle; we rarely get the proper conditions for this kind of phenomenon.
And did they scream when you dug them up Yann?
I bet the whole neighborhood heard them Gail :) :)
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And did they scream when you dug them up Yann?
No but me yeah :+) what a work to dig! Never plant that in your garden if one day you've the idea of changing pattern.
I broke a carbon spade!
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Despite of the latest rainy period, we already had temp. down to -9C, and most plants are dormant by now. So, no flowers in December here
Also here no flowers. The past week it was below freezing, with no snow, but since yesterday it has rained and it is above freezing now, so ground started to unfreeze.
Paxistima canbyi seems like a very nice hardy plant, it was new to me and I had to google it:).
Two pictures from last week-end. In the first Epimedium ex 'Amber Queen' which has very nice leaves, and I have admired it all autumn.
In the second picture there is a Hepatica which I got as H.crenatiloba, and I even posted a picture of it's flowers as H.crenatiloba last spring when it flowered for the first time, but since then I have started to think that it was misnamed and it is H.transsylvanica or it's hybrid:(. Nice plant still. The grasses behind it are Luzula sylvatica 'Igel', which is my favourite. A compact plant which is evergreen so also adds to autumn, winter and spring garden.
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This is the most I can hope for colour around here for a while ;) (well, I could hope for several days of frost in a row, then it is much nicer, this is only one night of fog, making rime frost). Shots taken mostly within a few metres of the front door, last one from the driveway looking out.
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some foliage and Cyclamen coum, already
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Helloborus are ready for the new year, in the garden many are showing their stunning colors. I brought into the greenhouse severals pots to shoot them protected from the rain.
Helleborus orientalis subsp. abchasicus, 3 years old from Phedar seeds.
by the way i got an error 500 when uploading photo bigger than 1.5Mb, i guess the GD library used to resize produce the bug.
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Yann, great shape and coloration sometimes I lament the fact that hybridus forms have taken over from certain helleborus species.
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very beautiful..