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Specific Families and Genera => Meconopsis => Topic started by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 02:22:35 PM

Title: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 02:22:35 PM: Word from Kevock Garden Plants (http://kevockgarden.co.uk) - "Meconopsis are us ;D busy repotting and planting them -lots of new varieties too....."

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Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Steve Garvie on May 15, 2017, 06:44:42 PM: Meconopsis pseudointegrifolia
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Meconopsis racemosa -from Bjørnar Olsen seed.
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Self-sown seedling from Mec. Lingholm.
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Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on May 20, 2017, 03:05:36 AM: I was out spreading mulch in the garden and finally looked up to discover not only had the first blue meconopsis opened, but a white one showed up too. Surprise! I have no idea from which seed packet the white one came.
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Steve Garvie on May 22, 2017, 11:29:09 AM: Meconopsis punicea -first flag of the year unfurling.
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Meconopsis integrifolia -clearly different from pseudointegrifolia (see image further up page).
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Meconopsis delavayi -growing in a clay pot in a shaded frame, it has remained compact and has 4 flowers this year (one last year).
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Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Claire Cockcroft on June 06, 2017, 04:00:06 AM: Meconopsis horridula flowered for the third year in a row. I suspect it is a series of offsets that keep this particular plant going.

A nice, pale "fertile blue" meconopsis added some variety to the darker blue mecs.
...Claire
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Roma on June 06, 2017, 10:44:39 PM: Meconopsis rudis or ?horridula
I sowed seed from a pale blue and a white with pale green leaves and no spots.
First two to flower
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Thorkild Godsk on June 11, 2017, 02:50:40 PM: Meconopsis baileyi alba double.
I have had Meconopsis for many years, but have never had a Meconopsis that becomes double, is it common?
Thorkild DK.
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Maggi Young on June 11, 2017, 04:30:25 PM: Seems to happen from time to time - but not always as pretty as yours, Thorkild.
This blue one was just pictured by Chris B in a garden she visited -
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Thorkild Godsk on June 11, 2017, 04:44:08 PM: Thanks for the information. Maggi

Thorkild. DK
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: ChrisB on June 12, 2017, 09:24:12 AM: The people who have the garden I visited seemed to think it was a perennial. There were certainly two double flowers on it. They have saved seed apparently. Don't think they had a name for it though...
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Maggi Young on June 13, 2017, 05:13:44 PM: Andrew Luke from Kew writes for the Hardy Plant Society about growing Meconopsis in the south of the UK ....
http://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/blog/potm-1706 (http://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/blog/potm-1706)

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Thanks to Miranda Janatka for the link.
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: ChrisB on June 13, 2017, 08:25:11 PM: Thanks Maggi, interesting....
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Maggi Young on June 15, 2017, 04:44:18 PM: From Alan Elliott‏ - one of the many SRGC contributors to the new Meconopsis for Gardeners book -on Twitter....

Updated this Saturday's @TheBotanics #Meconopsis workshop with 'above inflation rise' in new info including new potentially devastating pest with @ MeconopsisGroup

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Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Thorkild Godsk on June 18, 2017, 09:29:03 PM: Meconopsis hybrid
From my garden today
Thorkild. DK
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: johnw on June 24, 2017, 01:08:49 AM: It's is a wonderful & long Meconopsis season this year with temperatures and rainfall just about perfect. At a friend's garden today I spied a row a small-flowered dark blue (forget the picture) which was really quite lovely. I asked the name and he said 'Mrs. ___', I said 'Mrs. Jebb', no 'Mrs. something else'. I still say 'Mrs. Jebb'. Am I right?

The Mecs in question are in the back row, save for a pair of stray large-flowered ones.

john
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Yann on June 24, 2017, 10:20:30 AM: I'm not often in this thread my climate doesn't allow growing Meconopsis, however i admire the photos posted here.

John your shading frame is excellent, is it a whole "house" or just a 1/2 span?
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: johnw on June 24, 2017, 03:39:17 PM: It's a full lath house at my friend's, mainly to protect from wind gusts as the garden is close to the crest of a hill. And deer!

Here are 2 pix. Last week and the last photo taken after a huge Rhododendron rex was moved out in 2015 I believe.

These structures are highly recommended in Nova Scotia, one can even gain an extra hardiness zone within.

johnw
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Steve Garvie on July 10, 2017, 12:04:28 PM: Meconopsis lancifolia -sadly nothing to cross-pollinate with.
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Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: Julia on July 10, 2017, 06:33:36 PM: Hi John,
Yes the back row looks like 'Mrs Jebb' they are small and look straight at you, 90 degree angle.

Julia Corden
National Collection of Large Blue Popies.
Explorers Garden, Pitlochry
Title: Re: Meconopsis 2017
Post by: johnw on July 10, 2017, 08:35:21 PM: Thanks so much Julia. Hope you're keeping well.

john - 23c but feeling like 31c with the humidity. Neighbourhood cats konked out on the shady sidewalks.