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Bulbs => Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum => Topic started by: Ian Y on January 01, 2020, 11:01:32 AM
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Best wishes to all for the New Year.
Click the link for the first Bulb Log of 2020 where at last the Narcissus flowers are opening.
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Happy 2020, Ian :)
I'm so pleased you mentioned my potted narcissus in your Bulb Log released on the New Year's Day :D Thank you!
Now I'm looking for an early flowering deep yellow for breeding ;D
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looking forward to yet another year's Bulb Logs Ian.
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The early signs of spring are all around as I continue to prepare the garden for the mass flowering of the bulbs. Click the link for this week's Bulb Log.
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This Bulb Log explains why you should be growing bulbs from seed.
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See more forms of Eranthis pinnatifida and Narcissus in this week's Bulb Log.
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Jan221579691259BULB_LOG_0420.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Jan221579691259BULB_LOG_0420.pdf)
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Feast yourself on Narcissus in this Bulb Log plus signs of an early spring in the garden.
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Jan291580296555BULB_LOG_0520.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Jan291580296555BULB_LOG_0520.pdf)
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In this Bulb Log a white wave of Snowdrops is washing across the garden, click the link below.
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This weekend Ian is in Grunberg, Germany, at the ISU International Hardy Plant Union Conference - he's onstage now it seems, from these FB posts by ISU .....
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Eranthis pinnatifida, an albino form. Ex. Japan, Okayama, Takahashi, Bicchū.
In contrast to Ian’s pinkish eranthis with dark leaves and red stems on the Bulb Log, the albino form lacks of any pigments in its body ;)
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This Bulb Log includes a report from the ISU Winterdays Conference in Grünberg and my first walk in the garden and the bulb houses in five days...........
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Eranthis pinnatifida, an albino form. Ex. Japan, Okayama, Takahashi, Bicchū.
In contrast to Ian’s pinkish eranthis with dark leaves and red stems on the Bulb Log, the albino form lacks of any pigments in its body ;)
Tatsuo there are so many forms of this beautiful species thank you for sharing.
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I was interested to read Ian’s comments about the snowdrops which are all so similar. It can be so difficult to distinguish one from another similar bulb. Just plant out in garden and enjoy without name labels.
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Ian,
Eight or so years ago you wrote that you were crossing Green Flake and Don Armstrong to develop a lot of new poculiform snowdrops. Has that project worked out well?
Diane
It might be too soon to tell. In 2010 I hybridized two pocs and finally one of the seedlings has a bud. I won't know if it is a poc until it opens. Snowdrops sure take a long time from seed.
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Ian,
Eight or so years ago you wrote that you were crossing Green Flake and Don Armstrong to develop a lot of new poculiform snowdrops. Has that project worked out well?
Diane
It might be too soon to tell. In 2010 I hybridized two pocs and finally one of the seedlings has a bud. I won't know if it is a poc until it opens. Snowdrops sure take a long time from seed.
No Diane, I am afraid that Green Flake did not like our garden it disappeared and Don Armstrong is not doing that well. A number of snowdrops, mostly involving Galanthus elwesii have not survived in our garden and weather.
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Oh, that is too bad. My Greenflake dwindled away without progeny, and my friend who discovered it might have one weak little plant left (she hopes). We went to the garden where she found it and searched all around, hoping that perhaps it had dropped seeds, but there were no others at all like it.
We've just discovered that it is in Freda Cox's book on snowdrops. Does that mean you gave her one? Or anyone else? It would be a shame if such a pretty flower no longer exists anywhere.
Diane
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I don't know of anyone still growing it - perhaps it only survives as a memory.
I have found that not all the bulbs that I raise from seed are long lived some dwindle after a few years whether it is our conditions or just a week clone and a genetic dead end I can only speculate. Sadly some of the ones we lost have been very attractive happily there are always more survivors.
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A white wave of Snowdrops is in full flow in this week's Bulb Log.
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There are plenty of flowers to see, inside and out, in this week's Bulb Log including Snowdrops, Narcissus and the first Erythronium.
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Feb261582711256BULB_LOG_0920.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Feb261582711256BULB_LOG_0920.pdf)
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This Bulb Log features the early spring colour along with some thoughts on habitat manipulation in the garden.
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http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Mar041583320867BULB_LOG_1020.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Mar041583320867BULB_LOG_1020.pdf)
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Gold is one of the colours to brighten this Bulb Log which also features Crocus, Eranthis, Galanthus, Leucojum, Narcissus and others.....
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Plants and gardens bring colour and pleasure into our life.
Click the link for this week's Bulb Log where the Erythroniums are getting into action while the Galanthus are still on display.
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Thanks, Ian and Maggi, it's always inspiring to see your beautiful garden.
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Give yourself a break click the link to enjoy the flowers and colour in this weeks Bulb Log
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Mar251585138031BULB_LOG_1320.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Mar251585138031BULB_LOG_1320.pdf)
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Lovely to see the small white things still looking good up in the frozen (even further )north. The snowdrops are pretty impressive too!
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An appreciation of foliage in this week's Bulb Log, also notes on seeds and feeding the bulbs....
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Click on the link for a feast of colour in this Bulb Log a wonderful prelude to the imminent Erythronium season.
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Erythronium season is well under way although not yet at peak flowering plus plenty more in this Bulb Log.
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We may have to be in isolation but with mass community plantings the garden is not - so much colour to see in this Bulb Log.
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Hi Ian,
Another great show. I’m envious of your cooling sea breezes and your Trillium rivale that looks to be thriving. My sole survivor is in a pot so that I can move it somewhere cool in the summer (here in landlocked Switzerland even the shaded parts of the garden gets dry in summer). Another reason for keeping it in a pot was my understanding that it wasn’t fully hardy, but your clump proves that to be wrong. In conclusion, I think I’m going to plant mine into a shaded bed (that already has T. erectum) - it hasn’t been thriving and this may be the (last) chance that it needs.
Best regards,
Keith
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Thanks Keith I wish you great success with your Trillium rivale if you can get it to set seed that should help you establish it.
Sometimes we keep plants hostage in pots as an insurance against loosing it in the garden but from experience I find it is often the reverse the ones in the garden are the survivors.
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Simply Erythroniums in this Bulb Log - click the link to view.
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Click the link for a few Fritillaria, more Erythronium plus the chance to help me asses some of my new hybrids.
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I enjoy the bulb log and videos every week, though rarely comment anything. Thank you! :)
My favourite of your Erythroniums is D. I liked it most even from the first group picture, it somehow stood out from the rest of them
Maybe it was the contrast with pale flowers to darker marked leaves, but also the way it grew was nice. Maybe the others were bigger clumps and that is why D looked different.
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... and B would be my choice!
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D for me. Leena has already said everything I would want to say. Lovely. But then they are all very attractive.
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Thank you Leena, David and Jon, I value all your comments.
It is very interesting to know your choice and the reasons behind it.
I did intend to say in the bulb log that B was the first to open its flowers and was fading as I took these picture with D being the last to flower so it presented as a more compact plant as the stems had not elongated as they do.
All of them just starting into flower as Craigton Cover Girl was going over so would extend the flowering season.
Thanks again for helping me.
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Hello Ian,
My choice of the Erythronium seedlings would be C followed by B, however they are all worthy of a place in the garden.
Brenda Wilson.
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Thank you Brenda, part of my dilemma is there is not a poor one among them.
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Overall, I like D best. I think the subtle color blends better with the foliage. For me at least, a strong pink and green don't go together very well. High on my list of criteria would be floret spacing and flower symmetry with regard to petals and sepals. As a floret ages, if the sepals strongly recurve and the petals do not, this is what I would breed out if I could. A's inflorescence is too stringy, and C's is too compact.
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Thanks for your input Rick all valuable comments that will help me decide.
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Trillium are the main subject of this Bulb Log, click the link to read why I divide them in full growth - Anemone and Molly also appear........
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Another great log & beautiful trilliums Ian; thank you.
For me a benefit of this lockdown has been more garden time, and a chance to plant out batches of seedlings before the new roots develop.
My only clump deserving of the name was a poor old T. grandiflorum too long in a pot, but it separated readily into quite a few nice divisions that are in the ground at last.
However the variability of seedlings is more interesting and, as you show so clearly, allows adaptation to local conditions with successive generations & self-seeding.
Would you advise division of hacquetia now or later?
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Ashley,
Last winter I re-read some of Beth Chatto's books, and she recommended splitting hacquetia in winter, just before it starts into growth. So in January I managed to split 6 pieces off H. 'Thor' and they all seem to have survived so far.
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Ian,
Another most enjoyable bulblog, thank you.
I have spent much of the lockdown trying to remove as much celandine from a large woodland bed - although I love them, sometimes things get a bit out of control and I decided that enough was enough. Your ficaria verna pale form - how do you control it? Does it set seed with the more usual bright yellow flowers? I have found a couple of very pale ones in the garden and potted them up. I have not decided what to do with them yet - I don't want to unleash yet another invasive terror into the garden! How long have you been growing the pale form?
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Thanks very much Carolyn; I'll do that.
... trying to remove as much celandine from a large woodland bed - although I love them, sometimes things get a bit out of control and I decided that enough was enough. ...
Likewise but with Allium triquetrum which is a (beautiful) thug in these parts.
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Another great log & beautiful trilliums Ian; thank you.
For me a benefit of this lockdown has been more garden time, and a chance to plant out batches of seedlings before the new roots develop.
My only clump deserving of the name was a poor old T. grandiflorum too long in a pot, but it separated readily into quite a few nice divisions that are in the ground at last.
However the variability of seedlings is more interesting and, as you show so clearly, allows adaptation to local conditions with successive generations & self-seeding.
Would you advise division of hacquetia now or later?
I would not move it just now unless you have no option with plants like that I would prefer to move or split them just as they are showing the very first signs of growth. However sometimes it is best to do things when it suits the gardener so if you can lift it and divide with minimal damage then it should be okay to do it now just be sure to give it after care in the form of watering for a few weeks even if it rains.
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Bit late to divide Hacquetia now, Ashley - better in late winter. (Even though it has turned very nippy lately!)
We've had the pale Ficaria for some years now - it is very well behaved, just forming a nice clump .
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Ian,
Another most enjoyable bulblog, thank you.
I have spent much of the lockdown trying to remove as much celandine from a large woodland bed - although I love them, sometimes things get a bit out of control and I decided that enough was enough. Your ficaria verna pale form - how do you control it? Does it set seed with the more usual bright yellow flowers? I have found a couple of very pale ones in the garden and potted them up. I have not decided what to do with them yet - I don't want to unleash yet another invasive terror into the garden! How long have you been growing the pale form?
Thank you Carolyn, the pale Ficaria is much better behaved than the typical yellow form it stays in clumps and does not spread out very quickly. The area I showed is after around 15years.
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Thanks Maggi and Ian. It's fine where it is for now so I'll leave it alone until next winter.
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Thank you Carolyn, the pale Ficaria is much better behaved than the typical yellow form it stays in clumps and does not spread out very quickly. The area I showed is after around 15years.
Thanks, Ian, that is useful to know.
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Propagating Ramonda, moving Colchicum, more Trillium, the last few Erythronium flowers plus wild flowers are all a click away in this Bulb Log.
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Calochortus, Ornithogalum and Allium are flowering under glass with plenty more in the garden, just click the Bulb Log link to enter.
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'Purple haze, all in my brain
Lately things they don't seem the same'
Click the link to see Corydalis 'Craigton Purple' Dicentra hybrids and masses of flowers enjoying the sunshine.
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The picture titled "Corydalis ‘Craigton Purple’ and sister seedling" shows a closeup of the flowers - which all have laughing little elfin faces.
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Diane your image of happy little Elfs is very appropriate in our garden:-))
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Click the link to read the Bulb Log - troughs are the subject what happens when they get old?
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Impressions of the blues though the mist plus other colours are available.
Click the link for the Bulb Log.
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Meconopsis, Corydalis and Dactylorhiza are the main performers in this Bulb Log
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Dear All,
Does anybody have tips for me, how to grow Meconopsis (like Ian) in a clay soil in Holland.
Gr Henk.
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Pray? ;D
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It is a sad Bulb Log as on Friday we had to say good bye to Molly.
I work my way through re-potting of the bulbs in the bulb house.
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That's so sad, Ian.
She was a lovely companion for you and I always loved seeing her pop up in your pics,
love
fermi
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Ian and Maggi,
So sorry to hear about Molly, it is always so hard to lose a friend and I'm sure that she was a true friend to you.
Take care of yourselves
Gail
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It is so sad to lose a beloved companion. :( I always loved seeing Molly with you in the garden, in pictures and in video. She will still be there in memory.
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Kind thanks to all who have expressed sorrow at the loss of Molly - I cannot lie - we are finding things very hard right now. She and her fellow 'small whites' will never leave our hearts.
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The loss of a treasured pet is always hard to come to terms with. We share your pain, we lost one of our dogs recently and they leave a gap that is hard to fill. They give so much joy and pleasure and expect so little in return.
Regards
Jeff
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I'm so sorry to hear of your loss Maggi and Ian. Dogs are such close companions and when they pass on there is such a big gap.
It looks as though Molly had a wonderful life, regally surveying all those Erythroniums!
Best wishes,
Tristan
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See what driveways are really for plus the summer jungle of growth and flowers, all will be revealed if you click on the Bulb Log link below.
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Gardens are places where we can be creative but nature remains the master.
Click on the link to read this week's Bulb Log.
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A wide ranging Bulb Log with signature plants, bulbs in sand beds, woodland plantings, Daisies, Roses and more are just one click away....
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Just click the link to see beautiful Rhododendron foliage, summer lilies, primula, arisaema, and more in this weeks Bulb Log.
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Plants and trees in containers is the theme for this Bulb Log.
Click the link to view.
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The first signs of autumn, fruits foliage and flowers - green grows the garden oh and Bees just click the link below....
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It is a working Bulb Log this week trimming, shredding, cuttings and repotting Erythroniums.....
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Meconopsis as 'weeds'; how wonderful 8)
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It is a working Bulb Log this week trimming, shredding, cuttings and repotting Erythroniums.....
https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Aug191597832591BULB_LOG_3420.pdf
Apologies I wrote Saxifraga studiosorum when I meant ANdrosace studiosorum! Oops!
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Late summer merges with Autumn in this Bulb Log I also look at the detailed anatomy of some flowers.....
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Click the Bulb Log link below to learn how I deliver the first storm, start off the bulb new year and the feeding program I use.
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The start of the Autumn display in the Bulb Log with Crocus, Colchicum and Cyclamen flowers joining in with some more exotic looking subjects.
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Click the Bulb Log link below to learn how I deliver the first storm, start off the bulb new year and the feeding program I use.
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https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Sep021599041995BULB_LOG_3620.pdf
Just seeing the cover you can't resist reading the content, again thanks Ian for sharing your growing experiences and skills.
I'm surprised by the NPK formula you use, i never try more than 3/4N. Did you used lower formula in the past and saw differences?
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Yann, I would prefer lower nitrogen but I use the 777 formula because it is readily available and that is why I apply it at a low rate so as not to overload the bulbs with N.
After the initial feed I switch to lower N liquid feed during the winter then potassium, K, in spring.
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ok, this autumn i'll try to add more N to my homemade mixture. I use amino acid for 3 years and my conclusion is that bulbs really appreciate it, +30% size, roots are really stronger.
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Click the Bulb Log link below and enjoy the flower power of the autumn flowering Colchicum and Crocus.
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Autumn flowering Crocus are the main subject of this week's Bulb Log, click the link to view all.
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Terrific edition Ian, thank you.
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Autumn in the garden and under glass, click the Bulb Log link to join me in our sanctuary.
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Click the link for this week's Bulb Log featuring Autumn flowers and storms.
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Capturing Autumn light and colours as the flowering interest slowly moves from the garden to the Bulb Houses.
Click on the Bulb Log link to read all.
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Autumn Crocus and colours a plenty in this week's Bulb Log plus propagation of bulbs and buds full of spring promise.
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This week's Bulb Log is celebrating the Autumn colours, the flowers of, Crocus, Colchicum and Cyclamen all growing in the open garden.
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This week I am seeking 'Shelter from the Storm' and finding lots of flowers including Crocus, Galanthus and Narcissus.
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Click on the link for late autumn colours, leaf lifting plus I review some of the troughs.
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Narcissus season starts in the bulb houses, click the link to view species and hybrids.
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https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Nov181605698141BULB_LOG_4720.pdf
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You are ahead of ours here - but your Craigton Chorister is the first to flower this year (just opening now). I was unable to give the first monsoon on September 1 again this year - potting had only just started. The later watering is likely responsible for us being behind. Nice to have the first flowers of the season (not counting the autumn ones).
Until mine get properly under way, I will be enjoying yours!
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Anne, I fall in love with these wee beauties every year
Because I was working on building the numbers up all of our Craigton Chorister are in pots where they are still in tight bud, a while away from flowering, however we have plenty other clones that are in both pots and the sand beds and the flowering of those in the sand is always way ahead.
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I've been getting caught up on bulb logs and just found out Molly died. I'm sorry. Such a pretty girl but I'm sure you and Maggie loved her for her personality. Do you plan to get another dog since I believe you are now dog less?
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Thank you Jan, we miss Molly deeply and would love to get another but we have to wait until we find a suitable rescue dog preferably a middle aged westie bitch.
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The subject this week is reflections, to find out more you will have to click the Bulb Log link below.
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https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Nov251606304578BULB_LOG_4820.pdf
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I wish I could walk past the end of your drive every day :o
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Well Anne, I hope that if you did, you'd also stop in for a cuppa!
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If I walked from here, I'd need CPR!
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If I walked from here, I'd need CPR!
Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that - mind you, our hill is quite steep for a lot of the locals, too!
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In this Bulb Log I find myself in the bulb house looking at the sand beds showing what is flowering now and every month except August - plus notes on the cultivation methods.
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https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Dec021606906639BULB_LOG_4920.pdf
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I am unfamiliar with Tropaeolum. Is the one covering so much area in the frit house just one plant?
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Diane it is several plants they grow very well in the sand increasing both at the tuber and by seed.
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On a dark wet December day it is good to review the colour we had from this bed in 2020 and look forward to more in 2021. Click the link to read this week's Bulb Log
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https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Dec091607512512BULB_LOG_5020.pdf
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December days are dark but they are brightened by the many small Narcissus and birds in this Bulb Log.
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https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Dec161608118401BULB_LOG_5120.pdf
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Lovely narcissi Ian, and thank you for yet another interesting year of the Bulblog 8)
Agreed about the importance of varied cover near bird-feeders, although here it doesn't prevent the occasional lightening raid by a sparrowhawk.
Do you ever lose hellebore flower buds to rodents? Some years bank voles eat every last one on my plants Wiring them in isn't really an option, apart from looking so ugly :'(
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Thank you Ashley we also have Sparrowhawks and often see them eating or else we find the remains of some poor victim in the garden. I sited the feeders carefully so there is no easy way in for the predators.
Although we have plenty mice they have never eaten the hellebores.
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As always, I enjoy your bulb log. Especially I have liked to see the same beds in different times of year.
Do you ever lose hellebore flower buds to rodents? Some years bank voles eat every last one on my plants Wiring them in isn't really an option, apart from looking so ugly :'(
Here bank voles eat Helleborus buds in autumn, and this year there has been a lot of voles. Last year we put up a fence around the garden so deer/roes can't get in the garden, but it also means that foxes or neighbours cats can't get in the, luckily there is a pair of tawny owls which nest close by. The earliest of Hellebores are most damaged like this Early Purple. I have put coffee grounds around the buds so that the smell would deter voles, and it works with rabbits but not with voles.
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Interesting that you have this problem too Leena. Bank voles are not indigenous to Ireland but were introduced accidentally, possibly in the 1920s with machinery imported from Germany for a major hydroelectric project on the river Shannon. Later they spread through the south & west along river valleys & became very common in this area about 10-15 years ago. Apart from hellebore buds they also take ripe cyclamen capsules & strawberries (all sweet?) and are very thorough unfortunately. It's hard to find a deterrent that won't affect other animals and birds too. Meanwhile I must test how our local rabbits respond to coffee grounds.
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We are fortunate that we don't have any voles in the garden just mice.
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Click the link to the Bulb Log for early growth and a round off of 2020.
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https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2020Dec231608716812BULB_LOG_5220.pdf
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That array of bulblog covers is splendid Ian 8)
A wonderful visual summary of another year in the garden with the plants we love.
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Thank you Ian, for entertaining and informing us for another year. Many thanks too, to Kelly for the index work, which is so useful.
The front cover photos make a beautiful collection. Looking forward to more in 2021.
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Ian, another year, another tour de force.
Thanks for sharing your insight, enthusiasm, infectious sense of wonder and, of course, your garden.
The review of covers was - as others have remarked - a visual feast and a reminder of a gardening year now past.
Here's to 2021!
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Yes, I want to join that!
Thank you for taking the trouble to write about your great Bulb log :-)
I always enjoy reading it and have already learned a lot from it.
I am happy to read that you will continue it in 2021 :-)
greetigs
Bernd
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Hi ian,
are there still YouTube videos of you?
I had seen one of yours once (garden tour) but I can no longer find it :-(
greetings
Bernd
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All Ian Young's you tube videos can be found from this page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLSJ9GmDtJMTdMo3nUWqWg
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;D thx ;D
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Thank you everyone for your kind words and your encouragement it is nice to be appreciated.
Hi ian,
are there still YouTube videos of you?
I had seen one of yours once (garden tour) but I can no longer find it :-(
greetings
Bernd
Bernd there are 0ver 115 videos on my YouTube channel that Maggi gave you the link for.
I also add links to them all in this thread on the Forum https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12953.0.