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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Anthony Darby on April 01, 2007, 07:22:16 PM
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I wonder if this is an April fool? The label in the pot says Tulipa cretica and as it's not in my handwriting and the bulbs haven't been transplanted, I'm assuming that the person from whom I bought it has mislabelled it? Any suggestions?
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Hello I was out yesterday enjoying some spring vibes, and took two pictures of some harbingers of spring here in Sweden, Hepatica nobilis, which can be grown in quite extreme conditions ( maybe hence the red foliage ) and Pulmonaria obscura which favors a more shaded and damp environment.
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I wonder if this is an April fool? The label in the pot says Tulipa cretica and as it's not in my handwriting and the bulbs haven't been transplanted, I'm assuming that the person from whom I bought it has mislabelled it? Any suggestions?
Anthony, to me your Tulip looks like T. aucheriana.
But I'm not sure.
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I would expect more yellow in the throat in T. aucheriana but I'm not sure if that is always the case.
Paul, most interesting to see the Hepatica making its home in this uncomfortable place!
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My thought was T. aucheriana too, but I can't remember what throat mine had last spring. Nice though Anthony.
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Tulipa aucheriana looks about right, but it comes from Iran and Syria, so how did it come to be sold as T. cretica? I wonder if the other plant is the same?
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Aha! The seller also sells Tulipa aucheriana, but at 50p/ bulb cheaper than cretica. >:(
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Anthony, my first thought on your tulip is Tulipa humilis.
I checked out Tulipa aucheriana and have discovered that it is generally considered to be a geographical race of humilis. It differs from the type humilis (if there is such a thing) by its smaller flowers with a less well defined central blotch.
The name Tulipa aucheriana is commonly used for commercial stocks of humilis.
I want T. cretica and have seen it listed in a recent bulb catalogue to drop through our door, I hope I get the real thing.
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This is what I photographed at Susan Tindalls as T. aucheriana
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Following the advise of Ian and Martin I bought a Corydalis on Saturday while in Dublin - I went down to look at a Tufa wall. It came unlabelled. A name would be good
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A brief spring report from Norway.
I just came back from a short trip up north and on my way I had to cross some mountain areas. Normally there should be only snow and ice to look at in the end of March, but spring are extremely early even in the mountains this year. It was a wonderful sight with melting water coming down the cliffs and Saxifraga oppositifolia hanging on the vertical stone walls along the road.
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Anthony this is what I have as T Cretica
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Here are some flowers in my garden today :
1) Degenia velibitica- flowering its heart out
2) Fibigia triquetra - almost a lookalike - not mentioned in the encyclopaedia of the AGS
3) Iberis candoleana - selfseeded - always a reliable flowerer
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They do look similar don't they Luc.
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My tulip doesn't look like yours Ian. Heigh ho. :-\
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Last weekend my friend Koos van Dijk the owner of Kwekerij Alpine at Oudehoorn had his yearly alpine plant sale. Here you will see some of his plant that were on display and for sale.
I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.
Henk Westerhof.
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Alpine sign : Anemone x lipsiensis : Arisarum probosideum : Erodium corsicum album
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Henk Westerhof
Anemonella thalictroides alba: Anemonella thalictroides pale pink full double:
Anemonella thalictroides double pink : Daphne genkwa : Daphne x susannae Anton Fahndrich :
Ipheion Alberto Castiljo
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Beautiful Daphnes, Henk! Are they all from Koos?
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3:
Henk Westerhof
Iris acutiloba : Jeffersonia dubia : Leucanthemum catananche : Lithodora rosmarinifolia :
Pleione Shantung : Polygala chamaebuxus
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4:
Henk Westerhof
Narcissus citrinus ssp belinensis : Narcissus citrinus ssp belinensis close up:
Ornithogalum sibthorpii : Oxalis Ione Hecker: Polygala chamaebuxus : Sebaea thomasii :
Tulbahghia simmleri : Tropaeolum tricolor : Tropaeolum tricolor close up
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5: The last for this moment
Some Rhodohypoxis
Henk Westerhof
Rhodohypoxis baurii baurii : Rhodohypoxis baurii Douglas : Rhodohypoxis baurii Dusky :
Rhodohypoxis baurii platypetala
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Dear Maggi,
Yes the are all from Koos and he many more
Henk Westerhof
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After a winter underneath a cloche Pleione Limprictii. Winter hardy but the flowers are not so lets hope for no frost
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Lovely, Ian, Pleione limprichtii is a gem. You can always keep the cloche handy and cover the flowers with a layer or two of fleece and cover the lot with the cloche again on a frosty night though, couldn't you? Definitely worth the extra effort!
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I love the thought of Saxifraga oppositifolia hanging in curtains down rock walls. It must be magnificent!
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Re: Flowering now April 2007
« Reply #10 on: Today at 09:18:10 AM »
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A brief spring report from Norway.
I just came back from a short trip up north and on my way I had to cross some mountain areas. Normally there should be only snow and ice to look at in the end of March, but spring are extremely early even in the mountains this year. It was a wonderful sight with melting water coming down the cliffs and Saxifraga oppositifolia hanging on the vertical stone walls along the road.
Geir
Yes, it must be a great sight... you can see the water on the stone in Geir's photo of the Sax. opp......and what a strong colour it is, and good flowers... yummy!
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This is my Sax oppositifolia. One day it may hang like a curtain
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Hi all, think we have sussed it, hope the photos are visible.
Serapia lingua(dans baby)
Fritillaria 'Craigton Cascade'
Podopyyllum delavayi (ellens baby) watching it open daily, fascinating!
Are other enthusiasts equally sad ?????
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I don't think you have to be sad to watch flowers open. Today was so sunny and hot, I sat watching erythronium come up and flower. Well I had a cup of tea between times ;D
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We've just been watching the first of the new series of "The Beechgrove Garden" on BBC television, where SRGC President, Ian Christie, wearing his Snowdrop lover's hat, gave Carole Baxter, one of the presenters, a super tour around the massed snowdrops at one of his favourite sites. Ian explained the differences between G. nivalis and plicatus and showed how hybrids can be so varied. He is a natural for television, his friendly manner and knowledge come effortlessly across to the viewer. Carole Baxter is one of the most knowledgeable and relaxed presenters on TV garden shows... and to prove her credentials, she is a long-time member of the SRGC!!
Fun to have this item, filmed a few weeks ago, on just as the last snowdrops are flowering here... and we found a lone Crocus scardicus out today in the garden... it has been a super warm and sunny day!
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Are the names correct of the plants I posted earlier (on top of page 2)
Please feel free to give comment on the plants.
Henk Westerhof
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Maggi, Maggi, Maggi! You could have told us the Beechgrove Garden can also be seen on Sky Digital Channel 971
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Just out in the garden I see my Dicentra cuccularia is flowering 2 weeks earlier than last year and my creeping Phlox are ready to open weeks early too
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Good News! Good News! When I checked the BBC website last night, it did not seem that a replay of the Beechgrove Garden featuring Ian Christie was available, however, just gone for a second check and I discover that there IS a replay feature. Go to the BBC Scotland homepage :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/
At the moment, almost center page (with a photo of Barry Manilow, for some reason!) there is this notice: Recently from BBC Scotland
Browse, watch and listen to the most recent content featured on BBC Scotland. Pop Arranging RaW Highland Cafe Action Scotland Beechgrove River City with listen/watch again buttons for some. Just click on the Beechgrove button, or if this feature box has changed, look elswhere further down the same page to find another WATCH button for the Beechgrove Garden.
This will open a Real Player Box, and there are various segments available, you don't have to sit through the whole programme if you don't want to! Ian's piece with Carole at Brechin Castle is second from the end of the wee list, entitled (surprise surprise) SNOWDROPS!
See Ian the Christie kind in Action!
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never seen so many http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=4451127
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Wonderful pix everyone. Spent the day catching up with everything in the garden on a really lovely day. Sun felt it had some warmth in it at last, despite a cooling breeze at times. Very uplifting with lots to view. Just a couple of pics to share.
Magnolia stellata now in full and glorious bloom.
and at the other end of the scale Saxifraga andersonii on the rock garden
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Dear Maggi
Thanks for this great link. It is great to be able to watch some gardening programes, especially as here in Romania there are none.
Thanks again.
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Can anyone ID this Epimedium? I received it as alpinum, but I doubt it.
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I took a photo today of a group of plants that I took on April 14th last year. The heat is badly affecting the A. blanda
last year
and now
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Returned to the garden after a long winter at the beginning of this week, and found some nice plants in flower. Corydalis malkensis had escaped the rock garden and grew vigorously in the clay a few meters away from the original plant, which looked inferior to the escapee.
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Still in the rock garden looking good though is Draba lasiocarpa, which is easy and seeds around a little.
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Symplocarpus foetidus which I brought back to Sweden on the plane from New York back in 1995 ( well packed )smells quite unpleasantly if you stick your nose in the spadix, but it's a nice foliage plant later in the season and the flowers are interesting and beautiful in their own special way.
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Paul,
Great to see the Symplocarpus doing so well with you. I was taken by this plant when I read an article about it several years ago. One of its amazing features is that the tip of the plant actually increases in temperature in spring, a feature which allows it to make its way through frozen ground.
I hope you will post some photographs later on in the season when it has grown further.
Paddy
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some of you will remember that last year I tried to remove my Pulsatilla pratensis bohemica from my crevice bed. In the process I broke off all the tap roots - still in the crevice - and planted the remainder on the rockery. well looky here -
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Mark,
And did they reshoot in your crevice bed? Given that root cuttings are the way of propagating Pulsatillas you might have got a bunch of them from accidentally breaking off the roots. Looks good!
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so far nothing from the crevices but you remind that I also took root cuttings from the one that is about to flower. I must check and see what has happened
Nothing from the root cuttings. They are still in place but havent rotted which is a good sign. While trying to remove the plant I also broke off growing points. Two are trying to grow but they also have no roots
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Good luck. I hope they eventually all do do something. Always nice to have an accident turned into a valuable addition!! <grin>
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Here are a couple of wild flowers from the area.
1 Anemone nemerosa growing in the wood next to the stream
2 Another of the same, which was ona dark bank but a stream of light was just catching the flower and the moss capsules.
3 from the same location Viola riviniana
Now 3 from Tenerife
4 If there is one plant I would like to have clothing my ugly fence panels it would be the Bougainvilea.
the next 2 I would like to know the names of if anybody can help
5 This was a large tree with beautiful firey red pendant flowers and large black seed pods.(many of the trees there seem to have large seed pods)
6 This was a climber and seemed to be making vigorous growth on sevral walls. The flowers are very large, perhaps about 15cm across
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John I was told there wasnt much to see on that island but that came from a non gardener.
I have A. nemerosa coming out of my crevice bed this year. It's been in place almost 3 years and this is the first I have seen them. They were obviously in recycled potting mixes.
I checked the root cuttings of my Pulsatilla. They have no roots and no growth so far but they all have swellings at the top end. Could these be new plants?
I'm also planting some Primulas at the base of my raised beds where they face north. Time will tell if it works
Lastly here is an untidy shot of the front garden looking out of the sitting room window. Pots of bulbs stay in the back garden and then come to the front when in flower. They go back eventually!
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Lewisia tweedyi from the greenhouse. Grown from Chiltern seed-I was disappointed with the colour last year (its first year of flowering) but this year it is showing a rather nice flush of pink at the ends of the petals that didn't show last year.
The second is an unknown Rhododendron from the garden bought around ten years ago for 50p from a market stall and makes a lovely sight each year.
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David that rhodo must make your Yorkshire blood happy every year with that value for money ;D
Always lovely to make bargins 8)
Joakim
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I love the soft colours in your tweedyi David !
Great looking Rhodo too !!
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John,
I have one of those Bougainvilleas growing in my garden (same colour) and it too is in full flower right now (it flowers for about 8 or 9 months of the year). Isn't it just the most wonderful colour??
Mark,
Your garden is looking lovely. That double primula is fantastic. Sort of looks like a double version of the gold laced? VERY nice. Great pics. From what I have read (never done it) the swelling at the top of the root cuttings should be the shoot starting to initiate. Here's hoping!!?? Keep us posted please. Did you take any photos? Always interesting to keep a record of this sort of thing for the future (and for those of us who may be trying it at some point in the future too!! ;))
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Paul I'll take a photo soon
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John
The tree with pendant red flowers is a flame tree, Brachychiton, possibly B acerifolia or some hybrid.
The climber with yellow trumpets I believe is a Solandra maxima
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David that rhodo must make your Yorkshire blood happy every year with that value for money ;D
Always lovely to make bargins 8)
Joakim
Joakim, It makes an old Yorkshireman very happy! ;D
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Here's flowering for me in the garden :
1 & 2 : Ranunculus ????? - label lost - can anybody help with an ID ?
3) Towsendia rothrockii
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Can't help you, but lovely plant
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Two plants flowering for me tonight after first day back at work. First Leucojum nicaeense first flower in plunge bed. Secondly Soldanella minima in the garden.
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Mark, a lot of Tenerife looks like a building site with lots of uninteresting dry scrub but as always people tend to stay around the hotel swimming pool. Us lot usually head for the hills.Mind you some of the hotels do have lovely trees and shrubs.
Paul, green with envy.
Kenneth, you are a star for ID ing my pics. Now I can file them.
Just time to post 3 Shortias, which I have to grow outside in pots in the shadiest part of the garden just covered with a pane of 'perspex'. Shortia uniflora, Shortia galacifolia-x-uniflora, Shortia katoensis
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Returning after a long absence from the forum.
I have been out in the garden today and took these photos.
Lawrence, Northampton, UK
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The first Gentiana clusii and acaulis have started to flower today. They are nameless.
Hans
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that is great pink!
Lawrence that;s a great shot of the Frit.
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looking good for me despite the drought is
Erysimum amoenum
as above
Pulsatilla georgica
Paraquilegia aneminoides - will it flower?
Soldanella carpatica - where would it be happy?
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Great pix everyone !
Lawrence - superb pictures - I love the "Vestal"
Hans - never seen a pink Gentiana like yours - lovely !
Mark, I think you're in for another year's patience before that Paraquilegia considers flowering - I just planted one about the same size in a little trough I filled - will show it on the forum one of these days.
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Returning after a long absence from the forum.
I have been out in the garden today and took these photos.
Lawrence, Northampton, UK
Lawrence, nice to have you back on the Forum I have missed seeing your stuff.
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Two plants flowering for me tonight after first day back at work. First Leucojum nicaeense first flower in plunge bed. Secondly Soldanella minima in the garden.
Nice pictures Mick. Is the Leucojum generally available, I think I must have a crack at them? I liked the Soldanella too. I bought a Soldenella maxima late last Spring (bought on the spur of the moment) and didn't really know what to do with it. I left it in its pot and lost it during the Summer. I notice that Mark is also asking for advice on growing Soldanella-I could use some too.
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Mark, a lot of Tenerife looks like a building site with lots of uninteresting dry scrub but as always people tend to stay around the hotel swimming pool. Us lot usually head for the hills.Mind you some of the hotels do have lovely trees and shrubs.
Paul, green with envy.
Kenneth, you are a star for ID ing my pics. Now I can file them.
Just time to post 3 Shortias, which I have to grow outside in pots in the shadiest part of the garden just covered with a pane of 'perspex'. Shortia uniflora, Shortia galacifolia-x-uniflora, Shortia katoensis
John I loved you Shortias, lovely little plants. Shortia is one of the many plants I know nothing about would you be prepared to give a little more detail on their cultivation please?
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David,
Mine was a single bulb bought from RarePlants website. It is also known as Acis nicaeensis, I have found it at a good price here http://www.dryad-home.co.uk/bulbs.htm . Not bought anything from them, so don't know about quality.
My Soldanella are just planted in well drained grit bed. I also have Soldanella dimoneii but not in flower yet.
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Is the Leucojum (nicaeense) generally available, I think I must have a crack at them?
David, Leucojum nicaeense is generally available, mainly through specialist bulb suppliers, also listed frequently on seed exchanges. A nice little one to grow from seed, flowering in 3-ish years. But you will need to look for Acis nicaeensis as all the small Leucojums have changed their name and are now Acis (in effect, all except L aestivum and L vernum, which stay as Leucojum).
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Thanks for that Diane. My "wants list" has been further extended!!
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Dryad is our own Anne's web site
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Finally the snow that came a few days ago has melted and the plants can keep up the growing. At the moment the Pulsatilla 'Budapest' really starts to show off in my garden.
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Beautiful pulsatilla, growing so well.
That fur coat would keep it warm when it snowed
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You are so right Susan. Below you can see a picture of the same plant taken a couple of days ago. Can anyone tell me if this plant comes true from seeds. And if the correct name is Pulsatilla grandis 'Budapest'.
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Hi Geir !
Totally amazing pix - I've tried sowing Budapest a couple of years back - unfortunately, the colours were not even close :'(
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opps I didnt think of adding the name of the Primula. It's a double Gold Lace called 'Elizabeth Kellelay'. I have now changed the assorted Primulas to Wanda and vulgaris ssp sipthorpii
Today I had the editor of the gardening programme I will one visit the garden. Not a clue about plants or gardening!! It's going to be a long 9 hours. I might have said already they expect me to feed the presenter, sound man, camera man, researcher and editor!! Thats mid morning break, lunch and afternoon break. What a cheek.
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As far as I know the Pulsatilla should be 'Budapest seedling' propped by seed
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Luc, I also have grown pulsatilla seed from a show winning Budapest but although nice, it is nothing like like its parent or Gers.
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Mark - Fame has a high price !!!! ;D
Susan, I didn't think I was the only one with this experience - otherwise "Budapest" wouldn't have been so hard to get.... :)
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I am quickly approaching the end of a two week holiday, spent at home working in the garden. Although I have been taking photographs each day, I haven't had the time to post any of them until now. My G.P. has advised a period of rest following a visit this afternoon and I thought, what better way to rest than posting a few photographs to the SRGC forum. So, here you are:
This first group of photographs are all of anemones, Anemone nemerosa cultivars and Anemone blanda which is a very obliging plant in the garden, seeding itself around gently and appearing in a variety of colours.
Anemone nemerosa 'Robinsoniana'
Anemone blanda
Anemone blanda
Anemone blanda
Anemone nemerosa 'Alennii'
Anemone nemerosa
Anemone nemerosa 'Bowle's Purple'
Anemone nemerosa 'Bowle's Purple'
Anemone nemerosa 'Bracteata'
Anemone nemerosa 'Royal Blue'
Paddy
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One final anemone nemerosa, one which is of Irish origin.
Anemone nemerosa 'Lucy's Wood'
Anemone ranunculoides
This will be a new name for most of you, I imagine. It originated in a Co. Wexford garden some years ago, having been found in a local wood: Lucy's Wood, and so the name.
Paddy
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Geir, as you know, you have shown 'Budapest' in the old forum as have others...well, plants 'like' it or from it etc etc. Have you seen the article by Mike Stone in the Rock Garden , the journal of January 1995? The article is titled "A quest for Pulsatilla 'Budapest Blue'. The journal is Volume XXIV, part 2, Number 95. The Article begins on page 155. This translates to page no. 51 ( of 116) in Volume 95 on the SRGC CD of past Journals. Photos on pages 20-22 of No. 95. I presume you have the CD?
I think Pulsatilla vulgaris ssp. grandis is the correct name for the original plant.
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Paddy, nice anemones... but are you okay?
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Nice Anemones Paddy. Keep well and look after yourself.
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Maggi,
Nice of you to enquire. It seems that I shall survive this bout of old age and its effects on this old crock of a body. However, I shall, like Spike Milligan, insist that my gravestone, if there be one, shall read, 'I told you I was ill'.
Now, a ranunculus which I forgot to post above and two of those special weirdo flowers for you Maggi and then a few other odds and ends from the garden in recent days.
Ranunculus millifoliatus
Asarum maximum 'Silver Panda'
Asarum caudatum
Abies koreana new cones - one of the pleasures of this time of year is to see these lovely coloured cones appear again.
Bergenia ciliata - not the easiest for me as my soil becomes quite wet in winter.
Cyclamen coum - amazing where these little plants can seed themselves.
Euphorbia mellifera - I despise honey but think the scent from this plant is beautiful.
Euphorbia mellifera
Haquetia epipactis
Helleborus torquatus
Paddy
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David,
I'm fine, thank you.
I forgot to say above - Maggi, that Asarum maximum now has 6 flowers. Of course, there is always the impatience to get a photograph when the first flower appears but this plant has gone on to make a great show.
Paddy
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Is Paddy's Ranunculus above, the same one that Luc was seeking a name for on page 4 of this thread? See« Reply #56 on: April 10, 2007, 07:32:45 PM
Glad to hear your Asarum maximum is doing so well... the beasties you sent me look to be settling in fine.
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I had the same thought Maggi - it surely looks like it... would love a firm confirmation from another "authority". And thanks for remembering my question.
Do take care of yourself Paddy - work less hard and take more pictures...!
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Luc, I've been puzzling away for 2 days! I felt I knew the plant but I could NOT remember the name... this is a common problem for me! Then I saw Paddy's plant and thought it looked the same, but the name did not immediately strike me, so I am not sure!
Here are all the pix together:
Luc1
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Luc2
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Paddy
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Luc & Maggi,
I had seen the photograph you posted - No. 56 - and wasn't sure if it was the same as the one I have now posted, Ranunculus millifoliatus. I wondered if the foliage on your plant, Luc, was a little less divided than on mine. Also, I would not be an expert on identification of ranunculus and was nervous to give an opinion.
Paddy
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Paddy, your hesitation becomes you, I am less sensitive. In my family we have never allowed ignorance to prevent us from both having and expressing an opinion!!! ;D ;D ::) :P ;D
Well, Luc, seeing them altogether, it is, as we say, "a close approximation", is it not? :D
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At this stage of the evening it must be obvious to you online at present that I am spending a lot of time sitting on my bottom at the computer catching up on posting photographs. The picture is like this: armchair with me sitting comfortably, television on, Large tub of Ben & Jerry's 'Caramel Chew Chew' vanishing intomy tummy. It really is a tough life. Oh, oh. Youngest son called for transport. Quick post and I'm off.
There were a few posts on magnolias during the week. Here are a few in flower at the moment.
I think that the little M. 'Fragrant Cloud' shows just what great plants these magnolias are. Look at the size of it and see how many flowers it is carrying.
M. 'Fragrant Cloud'
Same again
M. 'Heaven Scent'
M. soulangiana
Same again
M. stellata
M. stellata 'Harvard Centennial'
M. X loebneri 'Leonard Messell'
Same again
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Here are a few plants currentlly looking good in the garden but if this weather continues,I suuspect not for long.However,let's enjoy it while we have it.The first is a delightful little fern(no more than 20cms.)growing beneath rhodos.and magnolia and slowly spreading.Never a problem and holds its fronds until the following year when I cut them down.Then Arum creticum which Ian has featured on his bulb log.This one grows under a group of birch trees as do the triiliums albidum.
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Thanks for trying to help out Maggi :-* - it does look very much the same to me - foliage and flower. I might take another pic tomorrow emphasizing on the foliage. I might add that since my photos were taken - the flower stems have somewhat elongated and are now approx. 10 cm long...
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Maggi, I had the CD but it was damaged because of an accident. Maybe it is possible to buy a copy? I bought this Pulsatilla from the plant market during the Alpine Plant Conference in Holland (2005?). It just had the name Pulsatilla 'Budapest' on the label. I have tried to figure out a bit more about this plant, but have not really found the answers I am looking for. So I think I will have to try to get my hand on a copy of that article you are mentioning. To bad I do not have that journal of January 1995, I became a member in 2000.
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On the subject of Ranunculus I've had no replies to my query in the ID forum so I'll place it here.
Ummm, very strange this message just posted itself
Also included is a Ranunculus in my crevice bed and the double R. acris
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After a week away things have progressed in the greenhouse. Orchis papilioneacea; Serapias neglecta and Barlia robertiana are well out.
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Geir, I will make a copy and send it to you, have I got your postal address?
Anthony, so glad it rained in Spain, serve you jolly well right for shoving off to the "sun" Tee Hee!!
Love the orchids, I am a great fan of Robinson's Barley Water, as you know!
Hah! so the rain wasn't on YOU in Spain... crossing from thread to thread here! Saw some very disgruntled holidaymakers on the news the other night though... it WAS raining on them!
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Geir, for a while it was known as Pulsatilla halleri Budapest. Don't know if that is still the case.
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Geir, I do have your address, of course!
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John,
I am madly jealous of you Arum creticum. This is what I should have in my garden at the moment but for some reason unknown to me the whole patch collapsed about two weeks ago. I dug them up, found some were a bit softish and had a bad smell. I cleaned them up, treated them with fungicide and planted them out into three clumps. There were about 50 tubers in all. I'll have to hope they revive and come again next year.
Paddy
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I think that the little M. 'Fragrant Cloud' shows just what great plants these magnolias are. Look at the size of it and see how many flowers it is carrying.
It is a smasher, Paddy, but then, they all are! Fab display!
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A favourite tree: Malus floribunda
The buds, red before opening.
Buds, opening to pink
Tree itself, grown as a specimen underplanted with various anemones, blanda and nemerosa, and crocus.
Maggi, the magnolias are just great plants.
I must look for a photograph of a very special one for you in a minute.
Paddy
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If only that tree stayed small I would rush out and buy one tomorrow! Karen Junker says the actual name is 'Dan Quing'
"MAGNOLIA 'Fragrant Cloud' correctly called M. 'Dan Quing'. The flower is reminiscent of that of M. soulangeana 'Lennei', but not as dark. The lovely flowers are deep purple on the outside, but more or less white within. The scent really is superb and completely justifies its Anglicised name.
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Paddy are all these plants in your garden? Is the AGS Ulster Group by any chance visiting you in June?
Someone recently commented on the quality of my photos. Not always
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A special magnolia.
This tree, along with many, many others, were grown from seed sown in the 1960s. Most are of M. cambellii. This one has been selected as being worth naming - note they waited 40 years to decide to name it.
It has been named, Magnolia 'John Congreve' after the father of the present and, unfortunately, the last of the Congreves, Ambrose, who celebrated his 100th birthday last week.
Magnolia 'John Congreve' - a full view of the tree.
M. 'John Congreve' flower
M. 'John Congreve' flower
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Mark,
Yes they are all in the garden. I have been taking photographs away for the last ten days or so, holidays, but hadn't found time to post them.
Of course, the last three posted are from the gardens of Mount Congreve here in Waterford. Wouldn't I love to be able to say I had that tree in my garden. A little one may come my way soon.
No, the Ulster Group of the AGS is not visiting. I'm afraid I am not into groups coming to the garden, not my scene, too much stress for me in advance of any such visit. I did it for a few years and have had enough of it.
Re Karan Junker, she has a new book just out on woodland plants. It came in the post yesterday morning and, despite its obvious attractions, I maintained my self-discipline and left it wait in line behind those books which are ahead of it for reading. It looks like a good general introduction to the area of woodland plants, excellent in its layout and presentation but, perhaps, not detailed enough for those who specialise in a particular genus.
Paddy
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My, that Magnolia 'John Congreve' is a wonderful colour and a fine shape to the tree. Lovely!
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Finally, a few odds and ends.
Mertensia virginica - the Virginian Bluebell.
Pulmonaria 'Blue Ensign', a really fabulous blue, I think.
Paris polyphylla, interesting rather than startlingly beautiful.
Sanguinaris canadensis
Moorea vegeta - this must be the most fleeting of flowering plants. It took me three days to catch the flowers open. In the morning I would see buds just ready to open and would come back to check later to find that they had opened and faded. I caught them eventually, an interesting little thing.
Paddy
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I would plump for Ranunculus millifoliatus as well Maggie (but spelt millefoliatus)....mine is just coming into full bloom here in sunny (for once) Whitworth, Lancashire.
North Midland AGS Show this weekend....possibly camera time?
Greetings to all.
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Maggi,
Isn't it just a magnificent tree! At the moment they are in the process of propagating this tree using an air-layering method and they are hopeful of having some in the near future.
Paddy
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Cliff,
Forgive my poor spelling. I shall check in future.
As with yours, my plant is really just beginning to come into flower and is a great plant to give a long period of flowering as long as it is dead-headed.
Paddy
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Ah, there you are, Cliff! I hoped this would draw you out!
Hope you have a good day at the AGS show, we'll be waiting eagerly for your pix! It is the Edinburgh show this weekend, of course... we won't be there, as Ian is off to Shetland where he has an exhibition opening at the Bon Hoga gallery and I am here in Aberdeen with Lily-dog.Things are not going as well for the Edinburgh Show Secretaries as they might hope at this time.... Carole Bainbridge has broken her leg and is in plaster... not what she needs this week. Well, I suppose not any week, really! Get well soon Carole! The intrepid Carole was not deterred by her accident from getting along to hear Finn Haugli's talk for the SRGC at the RBGE the other evening, though!
Finn Haugli is across from Norway, on a mini tour, and has given three talks... and how we wish we could have attended those, too.....sigh!
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Paddy, these pix are super, I love the mertensia and the sanguinaria, they are like smart portrait shots!
Your Moorea, should actually be Moraea vegeta also known as Dietes vegeta, I think. I do like these Irids, we should grow more... must leave memo for the BD!
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OK Maggi,
The spelling is bad. I really must take more care. Shall I write lines?
Paddy
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how hardy is the Moraea?
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Paddy, we're all as bad! Not enough professional typists here, I think!
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I think Paddy's Moraea has a serious contender in fleeting flowers with Jeffersonia diphylla. I picked 2 plants just opening their buds for a plant sale, and by the time I'd got 15m to the house all the petals had dropped off!
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Now that Cliff "Ranunculus" Booker has spoken, I think I'll go for R. Millefoliatus for my plant.
Thanks a lot for helping out !!
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Mark,
I'm not sure of the hardiness of this Moraea as I only planted it out a short while ago. I do have M. huttonnii growing in the garden for several years and it has never been troubled by the weather, flowers every year and has flowers much more impressive than M. vegeta, large and a clear yellow, very iris-like in fact.
Paddy
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I grow Moraea vergata and it has white flowers - so I'm wondering if it is the same plant at all ???
My plants do not survive outside if we get a normal winter - ie I lost them last winter but they have come through this one OK - under cold glass they are fine and my original plant is 4 or 5 years old - I suspect it is the cold and wet which does them in, rather than the cold on its own.
Sue
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I have a friend who grows a Moraea huttonnii brought back from South Africa many years ago. It flowers every year in a south facing border against a wall, by a slabbed path.
Here's some stats Mark: I went round the garden (and greenhouse) this morning and counted 121 Cypripedium (species and hybrids) shoots.
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That is an impressive statistic, Anthony....I wonder you could afford a holiday, or that the children can eat!
Luc, yes, I was waiting for the Ranunculus to proclaim, bless him!
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There is Moraea vegeta and Moraea virgata... two different plants. By the name, you would think M. virgata would be white, like Sue's.....but it seems it is yellow, very like M. lewisiae... confusing, isn't it?
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Arisaema sikokianum
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A few Arisaema sikokianum
Hans
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The first time I have flowered a Cypripedium,
Cypripedium Gisela.
Anthony I must be doing something right.
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Here are a few pics taken early this morning, hence the low sun.
Glaucidium palmatum in mum's garden
A view in mum's garden with some rhods in it to persuade Maggi to come to our open day. All forumists welcome, last Sunday in May.Plenty of CAKE
Don't want to blaw but I thought the field was looking good with all the Erythroniums flowering, unfortunatly I will have to remove all the flowers soon to stop them seeding amongst each other and also makes the bulbs bigger.
Some really bright Primula rosea growing for seed.
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I knew you had a field but that's massive!
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Susan, your Mum has a lovely garden.
One of thesed days I will get to Scotland again, I must try to time it with one of your open days if CAKE is on offer!
You must have boundless energy coping with the demands of your fields, if you have any to spare (energy, not fields!) just pop it in the post please.
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I like most flowers but I seem to have a dislike of Arisaema and Ciprepedium. Can't think why, I just don't like 'em. But then it wouldn't do if we all liked the same things.
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The field certainly keeps me busy, I have totally abandonned my own garden, it is in a mess now.
You are very welcome to our open day, or any other time, give me a call, as you can gather I am not often at the house.Always plenty of cake at mum's, my cupboards tend to be a bit bare at times. Reminds me better think about baking for the Perth Show next weekend.
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Fellow Forumists, yes, I must confess, I have never visited either of the Band Family's gardens at Pitcairngreen. I know, I know, this is a shameful admission. Believe me, I am distressed by this fact and not just because the Band Baking is famous throughout Scotland...deservedly so, I might say... but because I know that these are great growers with a fine sense of the artistic which lends their gardens that extra va-va-voom. Jean Band, Susan's Mum, has an all round capacity for hard work and kind heartedness that couldn't be matched by the workers who were made to build the pyramids and Florence Nightingale! The SRGC would not be what it is without Tom, Jean and Susan Band, I promise you that.
Go along to the Perth Show on 21st April and meet them all there. With luck, you could also meet Adrian, Susan's partner, struggling to keep their Border terrier, Heather (they say she's pure bred, but if you ask me, there is certainly some real terrorist in that wee dog) from mugging any other dog in the area! Hard to believe than something so little and cute and friendly could hate dogs so much... that's Heather, not Adie!!
Oh, and Mark, about those Erythronium in bulk..... need I say more... you've seen the evidence now, see how many Susan has!
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I was sidetracked by my admiration for the Bands and Susan's field so I neglected to comment on the positvie outbreak of Arisaema sikokianum !! Early for these, from an Aberdeen point of view... I seem to be saying that a lot lately! (some things are ahead, and going over fast in the heat, though it has been overcast and coolish today and is dampish and pretty chilly now.)
That is a forest you have there, Hans!
Hans, I must apologise, we have not sent the primula yet :o, and now there is a local holiday so the post office is closed... we will send soon :-[!!
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Early for these, from an Aberdeen point of view... I seem to be saying that a lot lately!
Can't believe that Glaucidium palmatum is fully out... it isn't here.... :-\ :(
Derek, your Gisela looks well, I wish you continued success.
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For the first time after aborting its flowers in the previous 2 years, Cypripedium formosanum has bloomed. I asked Barry Tattersall the reason earlier in the year and he said the likely cause for aborting was too much water at the emerging stage. I tried to modify this year and success at last.
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"The likely cause for aborting was too much water at the emerging stage" - too little water has the same effect John.
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Looking good, John!
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John and Derek nice cyps :)
With the orchids starting to come it is almost so that it is time for an orchid tread is it not?
Do You grow the cyps under glass or in doors since atleaast Gisela seems to be a bit early for outdoor cultivation but then I do not know the UK flowering times.
Susan
It is really a delight to see "real" plant sellers that actually grow what they sell and not only sell the pre grown stuff from Dutch mega suppliers. My hat goes off for You. They are getting rarer in Sweden and hobby growers are taking the nisch by selling of their extras. It is nice to have access to pofesionals aswell since they might be more available in what thy sell. I still love plant markets since there are always something interesting there.
I would love to come visiting (even without the offer of cake) but we can not :(( (this time who knows about the future)
Kind regards
Joakim
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Great pics everyone.
Susan,
your fields look stunning. I echo that it is nice to see sellers actually growing their plants (even if I can't access them.... being all the way over here in Aus! :)). Great Stuff.
I have heard of Glaucidium palmatum many times but never actually seen a pic of it (never looked it up obviously). Now I think I can see why people want it. It certainly does look lovely. I think it will have to be added to my seed wants, although from what I have heard it is very hard to get seed of this plant. Do they just not set seed much, or is it just that very few people grow them?
Great to see these different things, particularly now when we're just coming through autumn. The maples are colouring here etc, plus Crocus just starting and the first of the autumn Galanthus. So different to see things like Erythronium and Fritillarias in flower in other peoples gardens. LOL
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Thanks for the nice comments about my field. It is massive - I surprise myself everyday when I go over :)
Watch the green hill behind, I have my sights set on turning that into bulb fields as well! Look out the Dutch ;D
The Glaucidium in mum's garden is early, but I find that if you have a few plants of it they all flower at slightly different times. Usually the last to flower is the lovely white one, normally flowering at the end of May .
I have some spare seed (of the purple) which I never got round to sowing if anyone wants it.
If it doesn't come up this spring it will do next year, again unusually they all germinate at different times over the spring. The seed is big so you can easily leave behind those not germinated.
For anyone wanting the seed can you use the personnal message facility(the little speech bubble under my picture) rather than the email as this will keep the requests seperate from my other emails and easier to find.
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Here are some of the plants flowering in my garden right now:
Sanguinaria canadensis fl pl.
Sanguinaria canadensis fl pl 1
Jeffersonia diphylla
Jeffersonia dubia
Adonis-vernalis
Callianthemum anemonoides
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I grow quite a lot of plants in tufa. At the moment it is mostly the Saxifragas and Drabas that are flowering:
Sax dinnikii
Sax-georgei
Sax-iranica-'Cumulus'
Sax-wendelboi
Sax opposit v speciosa
Sax-'Lismore Carmine'
Draba acaulis
Draba dedeana
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Luc it was grown outside I did get a bit worried as it was just coming through so took it in the Alpine house if frost was forcast but as it was the first time I had grown a Cyp I was being carefull.
Has any one grown Alkanna Aucheriana? I have had this one 18 months and I seem to be losing as much as it grows.
Alkanna Aucheriana.
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Lovely saxifragas Kirsten, not a bite out of any of the flowers, how do you manage.
Can we see the whole tufa construction please? look interesting
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Derek, we've only had the Alkanna once and it died outside, so i have no useful tips, sorry.
Kirsten, how do you keep the tufa from being covered with liverwort and weeds? That is our problem!
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My word - it's finger licking time again ! What a show.
Great plants Kirsten - beautifully grown Saxes on the tufa - !!! :o
Have never grown Alkanna Derek - but your specimen doesn't look bad at all - quite on the contrary !
And Susan... I was in Holland for business yesterday - word is spreading rapidly about fields in Scotland full of glorious bulbous plants... they are considering counter action... ;D
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Kirsten, what a beautiful show.
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With the orchids starting to come it is almost so that it is time for an orchid thread is it not?
said Joakim......
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there is a Cypripedium thread already, here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=422.0
and a thread(s) for other orchids may be opened any time.
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Cypripedium nose count is still rising, but as I have had most of these plants for several years, 10 noses (shoots) could equal one plant? The first that will open will be Cypripedium 'Sabine', which cost me 3 quid as a seedling before the hybrid had even been registered. It has seven flowering stems this year.
This morning I had to take a couple of cameras to Glasgow for repair and decided to dash on up to the Kibble Palace for the Orchid show (I had to collect an Ophrys insectifera plant from Ratcliff Orchids). Was just about to buy a parking ticket on the Great Western Road, when two kind gentlemen gave me theirs, saying that an hour wasn't long enough for them. I then had a nice chat about orchids with them (one being Bill Torrance). Bumped into Jeff Hutchings too.
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Derek, I suppose it must be possible to grow Alkanna aucheriana outside. I have one in a trough for about 10 years from an Archibald collection. This trough is covered with a sheet of plexiglass in winter. Last December this sheet was broken during a storm and I thought my plant was dead. But about two weeks ago new green shoots appeared. I damaged some branches today when removing death leaves.
It will look much better and compacter when grown outside than in your alpine house.
Jozef
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Adarby with time and skill cyps do not thave to be expensive.
I am looking forward to see lots of cyps and other orchids :)
Especially of cyps since most of mine are still to small to bloom.
Are You going to have the orphys outside or in alpine house or under glass?
Maggi the tread apeared after my sugestion/hope of more orchids to be shown.
So, it did, Joakim! Sorry! M/color]
Kind regards
Joakim
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Not so nice today, but still warm enough for the tortoises (Rocky and Pebl) to investigate their new outdoor 'run' (ex sand pit). Here's three that are blooming today. Fritillaria imperialis (aka "בпו!Ь" in cyrillic); Meconopsis x Cookei 'Old Rose' and Ophrys insectifera.
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Great pix Anthony - That Frit is impressive !!!
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Mark
a picture of the whole plant would be useful,
but probably your double Ranunculus could be
Ran. repens var. pleniflora
Luit
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hello Luit good to see that my Ranunculus tempted you out in to the forums. It is a small plants and what you see is the whole plant. No basal leaves. Here is is again
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Here's a few more from today: Asarum sp.; Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda Buttercup, but introduced to the Med over 200 years ago); Ophrys sicula and Cypripedium 'Sabine' rotated to even up the flowers, which should be out in a day or two.
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The wonderful pictures on this thread make us even more anxious for spring. Our spring is late this year but the snow is now almost gone. First flower today posted below; Ranunculus kochii.
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now then if only my R. kochii looked like that. It was all leaf and small flowers
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Beautiful images folks....many thanks from sunny Whitworth.
Makes you want to stroke the stem of that Meconopsis x Cookei .... but hands off please!
Oh for a R. kochii as good over here in the U.K.
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Several images taken at Easter of the massed plantings of daffodils at Trentham Gardens (near Stoke-on-Trent) in aid of the Marie Curie Cancer Research campaign.... and photographic evidence of the recent whereabouts of our beloved bulb despot. He has been returned under plain brown wrapper Maggie.
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Beautiful everyone!! Beautiful!! Thanks everyone for taking the time to post.
Anthony... those Ophrys (the dark one in particular) are amazing. No idea whether they're grown here in Aus or not, but must one day go looking to find out whether they are. I don't think I've seen a "bad" pic of them yet. So striking. The Meconopsis is damn impressive as well!!
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There has been a stream of the most fabulous photographs posted over the last couple of days; really enjoyed them; many thanks to all the posters.
Rob & Sharon, if asked to choose one plant, it would be your Ranunculus kochii, a real beauty, loved it.
With apologies to Luc, Maggi and Cliff, I said I would take a photograph of the foiliage of Ranunculus millefoliatus for your attention, so it is posted below.
Also just into flower is Ranunculus gramineus.
Paddy
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Better late than never Paddy - and no appologies needed ;D
It definitely is the same plant. I had already come to that conclusion after the "Oracle" (Ranunculus) had spoken ;D
Thanks again
Luc
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Lovely saxifragas Kirsten, not a bite out of any of the flowers, how do you manage.
Can we see the whole tufa construction please? look interesting
Susan, I have two tufa beds. One is about 7 years old and placed among my troughs. There is no shadow at all on this bed. The other 2½ yars old and facing to the north. It don't get sun at all in the Winter.
When I plant in the tufa I drill holes 2,0 cm by a maximum of 20 cm deep. The holes are filled with a mixture of tufa grit and sand (nothing else!). It takes quite a long time to plant because you have to be very careful not to damage the roots. For planting I use small plants, mostly seedlings or well-rooted cuttings. Until now I haven't used fertilizer on the tufa or on the plants.
Maggi, I don't have much weed on the tufa, no more than I can handle. As far as liverwort is concerned I follow a piece of advice I got from Harry Jans 5-6 years ago: I sprinkle Magnesium sulphate on the liverwort (like salting an egg) and it dies within short time. It has worked very well for me.
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My first Gentiana after the redish one.
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The flowers come early this year. My spring favourite, Jeffersonia dubia, is at least two weeks earlier than usual. Hard to get the right color but I think I managed well this time.
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Thank you Jozef when I first had the plant I looked in Will Ingwersons Manual of Alpines the only Alkanna in there was incana and he said full sun and alpine house but I will give it a try can not do any worse.
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Very impressive, Kirsten, and so well kept! How on earth do you cut the grass so neatly right up to the tufa? I imagine you on your knees with small scissors!
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What a stunning rock garden you have created. And the greenhouses they look bigger than you house, no doubt filled with goodies.
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Kirsten,
Fabulous garden, brilliant. You are obviously an enthusiast. I can only imagine the many treasures which have found happy homes with you.
Many thanks for showing the photographs.
Paddy
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A few things in flower here at the moment. The Gladiolus tristis if grown in a cold greenhouse, the rest outdoors.
Arisaema amurense var. amurense
Chasmanthe bicolor
Dryas drummondii
Erodium pelargonifolium
Gladiolus tristis
Gladiolus tristis - change in flower colour followin pollination
Muscari 'Valerie Finnis'
Viola 'Molly Sanderson'
Paddy
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Paddy, Gladiolus tristis-absolutely beautiful, I must try some.
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David you should be able to grow them outside, ours are just about to come out in the garden here.
Paddy is that pink one a particular named form? I've only ever seen the creamy ones and would like to grow those too.
Brian
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Here is Gladiolus illyricus flowering in the greenhouse. It is the earliest of my three pink gladdies (communis and italicus).
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Very impressive, Kirsten, and so well kept! How on earth do you cut the grass so neatly right up to the tufa? I imagine you on your knees with small scissors!
Luckily it is not grass, Anne. It is a small Cotula sp bought many years ago as Cotula minima (which is an invalid name). It can stand you walking on it without problems. The problem for me is to keep the grass an other weed away from the Cotula. On the other hand I am glad that there also are a lot of Dactylorhizas reseeding itselves in the Cotula.
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Brian,
The pink flower is the same plant as the pale yellow shown with it. It seems to me that it goes pink following pollination. The pink flower was certainly yellow the day before.
Paddy
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very very impressive Kirsten. Makes me look forward to the Czech conference even more
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Paddy, Thanks for that, I must learn to be more observant! Ours still in bud, can't wait for them to open as I love the scent. One cut flower will scent the whole house (it is only small :))
Cheers
Brian
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Hi all,
here comes some pictures from my garden - all is 3 weeks earlier than last year .
Flowering-Cacti
P.-kavachensis
P.-lithophila
P.-mascula-ex-Caucasus
P.tenuifolia
Rebutia
Greetings
Hans
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Luckily it is not grass, Anne. It is a small Cotula sp
says Kirsten....
AHA! You see, there IS always a clue ::)... how clever, it looks really fine. :D
Hans, is there any plant that you do not care for and grow? You seem to have very broad tastes, I admire you for it. Lovely to see the paeonias flowering already, and the colour of the Rebutia flowers in your last pic is so rich!
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Maggi ,
Thank you for your compliment .
To your question :
Yes - I grow not any Rhododendron !
But when I see all the pictures from your garden ....I have never seen before it.
I have luck with my climate and so I can grow a lot of plants where is not possibly in other areas - but not all .
Yes the Rebutias are always the first flowering cacti in my greenhouse and I like it too .
From Paeonia flowering in this time : P. emodi ,decomposita ,mascula v. hellenica , clusii ,mlokosewitschii ,lithophila ,tenuifolia ,different mascula .....
Greetings
Hans
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Hans,
A fascinating collection of plants. Many thanks for posting.
A few things in flower here at the moment.
Chasmanthe bicolor
Clematis 'Francis Rivis'
Lysichiton americanus
Muscari 'Valerie Finnis'
Velthemia bracteata
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Apologies for repeating some plants in posting.
Hans,
Fabulous paeonias. I have perfected a method for killing them, took years of practice and lots of plants on which to practice.
Paddy
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Paddy ,
I dont understand that you have problems with peonies -thats really hard plants .
This genus is so old and have survived millions of years - they grow from southern California to the cold Sibiria - there are only few things you must give them - the importent is a good drainge and a place with air - thats mountains plants and they grows always on slopes ...mostly in a little shade .
They are not sensible for cold -I have seen a wonderful collection in the french alps ( Jardin Botanique Col de Lautaret ) - this plants grows in 2000 m altitude .
The most peonies grows on calcy soil with some exeptions - only really difficould are P. californica and P. rhodia :
P. californica has a other growing circle and P. rhodia start with growing in December -it is impossibly ( for me) to grow it outside .
The cold is not the problem for peony - it is the wet in winter .
If you have any questions - please ask .
Greetings
Hans
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A few images from the garden today....
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Oh my word, Cliff, what super photos! Great detail in the hairy bits :o and a delight to see the Ladybird carrying on regardless of your activities! 8)
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Paddy your Muscari 'Valerie Finnis' is too dark but whatever they are it's a nice colour combination. Here are mine
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No Mark,
It's 'Valerie Finnis' OK.
Hans,
Yes, the only thing which really kills the paeonias is excessive wet and guess how I am at watering things in pots in my glassouse?
I had a good number in pots in the glasshouse and killed them all by rotting them through overwatering. I'm afraid I am very heavy handed with the watering can and other plants have suffered the same with me. Yesterday, I decided I had enought of growing narcissus in pots in the glasshouse and planted out about 50 pots of them into raised beds in the garden. Other bulbs are just as unfortunate in my hands and I am going to plant out anything that can go out. I am moving in potted plants of strawberries instead and will have an early crop to eat. Lovely.
Paddy
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Paddy ,
Peony are extrem difficould to grow in pots - exept treepeonies ( they have other roots )
Grow not any in pots -it is much better outside .
I have a lot of seedlings in pots - because my garden is full .I store it on the eastsite of my house -protectet from rain -and in winter covered with some branches of Abies .
I will search for you a picture.
Here are some peonies more in flower :
P.mascula-w.f. Sicily
P.clusii-K
P.clusii P.
P.macrophylla
P.mascula-Apulia1
P.masculaHF
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Paddy here are some seedlings :
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here some more : ;D
P.russoi-G.S
P.russoi-M.C1
P.russoi-M.G
P.sinijangensis.
P.steveniana
P-mloko.
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Hans, my peony seeds are sprouting too.
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Anthony :
Good luck !!!
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A fine collection of peonies. Here are two more, flowering in my garden now.
Lawrence, Northampton, UK
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One of my Japanese maples is flowering profusely.
Up until now it has only produced one or two flowers.
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Three more flowering plants from my garden.
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Hi Buddy ,
I have know it : there must be some other peony collectors !
Thank you for your nice pictures - it is funny : my Exochordia flowering exact in same time
Greetings
Hans
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The orchid season has started. My Pleiones are quite slow this year and instead some other species have brought colour to my greenhouse. First Dendrochilum tenellum, a species with minute flowers looking more like a grass than an orchid. Still I find it quite elegant.
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Next Dendrobium linguiforme with its feathery flowers.
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Coelogyne cristata dislikes heat and will spend the summer in the garden.
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The first Cypripedium this year.
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Now some bulbous plants. Melasphaerula ramosa is flowering for the first time, three years after sowing. It is called fairy bells and I like its airy appearance. Seeds will be available.
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Oxalis cathara is another Soth African species.
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And so is Ornithogalum caudatum.
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Now a couple of species in "Swedish colours". First Corydalis wilsonii, one year after sowing.
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And then a Chirita (species unknown) which is very floriferous. Seeds are available.
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Finally a plant from the living room. Hoya calycina is spectacular when in flower and the scent is almost overwhelming.
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Nice plants and pics Ola :)
Are You growing the Cypripedium in a greenhouse or have Spring come that far in Sweden? 8)
Do You know what Cypripedium cymbidium it is? Gisela, ventricusum or (macranthusXcalceolus) or possibly Axel? I think I have covered most of the possibles but not looked close enought to be able to determine (nor am I skilled enough) one perticular.
Kind regards
Joakim
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In the absence of more pix from the recent AGS Ulster show, I'll remind any non-AGS members that you can see some photos from the show on the AGS Website: http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/servlet/htmlservlet/shows/results/shows2007/shows/ulster/photogallery.html
I am impressed by the size of the artisitic section.
Many congratulations to Susan Tindall for her Farrer medal winning pan of Anemonella thalictroides 'Oscar Schoaff' .
I see lots of other friends were doing well at the show, including Billy Moore, from Dublin, who won the SRGC Quaich for the best plant in a pot less than 19cm, for his Primula bracteata
Billy also won an AGS six pan medal class and the best Australasian plant..........
Ian is staying with Anne and Billy on his trip to Dublin, so they should all be in high spirits !
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Can anyone put a name to this small tree? It was here when we moved to the house and makes a stunning show every spring. People stop in the street and stare. Some come and knock on the door to ask what it is. And to my embarrassment I have to say I'm not sure. It seems to be a malus, but never produces any autumn fruits, not even tiny ones.
My thought has always been a form of M. floribunda. The buds are pink and it opens white. But is there a double form of M. floribunda? The flowers are decidely semi-double.
My copy of Hillier's encyclopedia of shrubs and trees, which might have helped, went missing some years ago and has never turned up again.
I should probably try some cuttings.
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dont know Martin but anyone would want a tree that does that every April
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Hans,
Just catching up on your posting now. You really have a fabulous collection of paeonias. It seems that you give every spare space to pots and pots of seedlings. They are an extremely beautiful flower. I really must grow them again and this time in the garden instead of in my glasshouse of death.
Martin,
I don't think your tree is Malus floribunda, a tree I grow here and is in full flower at the moment. The flowers of M. floribunda are red in bud and open to pink, fading a light pink. However, they are never as white as those you have shown in your photograph.
I wonder if it is one of the flowering almonds?
Paddy
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Paddy, I don't think it's an almond. The leaves aren't right. The flowers are typically malus-shaped, lightly scented, but not scented like an almond. I'm still thinking malus. I've found some white-flowered forms of M. floribunda illustrated on Google images, so I'm thinking maybe a white semi-double variant of floribunda, or maybe M. hupehensis.
Mark, it looks even better from the side:
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fantastic.
looking similar is a Prunus I bought today from plant centre. P. glanduosa fl pl. I hope it comes back this good next year. Instructions say it will not exceed 1m high and it hard prune immediately after flowering
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Whatever that tree is, Martin, it is a smasher! Are you sure it is not entirel ;)y made from white candy-floss?
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Mark,
I was looking in Hilliers book last night, for Martins tree, and the P. glanduosa fl pl was the nearest picture I could find to it.
Regards,
Mick
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Mick, I also saw the pic of Prunus glandulosa 'Albiplena' in Hillier's colour dictionary (I really wish I hadn't lost the much more extensive Hillier's encyclodedia or whatever it's called!) but that's only a small shrub, as Mark says, only about 70-100 cm tall. Different kind of flower too. Mine is a small tree, with more malus-type flowers rather than cherry flowers (and malus type leaves) also an apple-blossom kind of scent.
I'm pretty sure it's a malus, but I can't put my finger on exctly what species or variety.
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Mark,
The key to Prunus glandulosa is to maximise new growth. The flowers are only on the previous season's growth, not anything older. So the "current" growth is to te maximised. Unless it is grafted it will run slightly, slowly spreading into a little thicket. With mine I cut them back straight after flowering (as the petals drop) to around 4 to 6 inches tall. The plant then sends up strong tall growth to about 3 or so feet tall. Each growth then has flowers from top to bottom, making them look like a giant pipe-cleaner. It is definitely stunning. I have seen it grown as a shrub (to about 6 feet) as well, where a height is decided for cuttings and it is then cut back to that height each year (the same as is best for Prunus 'Elvins' to get maximum display). This results in mature trunks and then straight shoots covered in flowers, bursting out like a fireworks display. The same result would also be had by grafting the glandulosa onto some sort of upright rootstock.
I trim my 'Elvins' like this and it is amazing when in flower, with shoots up to around 2 metres long with flowers right from the trunks to the tips of the growths. I grow both the double white P. glandulosa and the double pink one. Both are just gorgeous. I have pics of the double pink in full flower, and of P. 'Elvins' in flower if you are interested.
I hope this is of some help.
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Hi Maggi ,
Now special for you some pics of flowering treepeonies :)
Some of this are really rare like P. qiui and P. decomposita
and on this pictures from our terasse you will also see our other family member :
the cat "Felix"
Greetings
Hans 8)
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Hans, you have made my day so bright with these lovely flowers! Felix has a fine place to make his sleeping spot, does he not? How luxurious to take your siesta under a P. rockii!!
I am very excited to have seed of these excellent forms: for instance, the form of P. rockii IR... so pink and what wonderful colour in the foliage! Today I have told my peonies in the garden that their cousins are making flowers in Germany: here we have only leaves and some buds which show promise for a few weeks' time.
Some of this are really rare like P. qiui and P. decomposita
Super to see these plants, Hans. I have not seen them before in "real life". Beautiful! What a joy your garden must be to you with all these fine plants!
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Hans lovely peoneas :)
That used to be my big love and I still love them but now I am starting to go towards magolias as well.
In Portugal I do not see many peoneas but a lot of magnolias.
I have planted some self sown plants here in Portugal that originally came from Sweden. They grow well this year but I think they suffer in the summer unless they get a lot to drink. They are most likely red singles but we will see if/when they flower. 8)
Now to my dilemma.
I were looking for iris when I realiced that the gardencenter actually had nice (and cheap 10-12€) ::) magnolias.
I found one marked "nigra" and took that at once. It did not have that many buds 2-3 but they where dark. I also found plants amongst the soulangiana that where with a lot of buds 6-9 in a bush shape but it was not marked. The flowers are 6-10cm. I found a third by the enterence of the gardencenter that had one stem/strunk that can be a tree rather than a bush and that one had big flowers with a slight scent (10-15cm) and I planted that at once and assumed it to be soulangiana as well.
A few days later the "niga flowered and it was not dark inside as I exspected it to be so I presumed it was wrong >:( . (Now I am no longer sure it should be dark inside) so I am not sure if it is a nigra or not. I have big trouble getting a clear picture of the coulor but I have anderstood that it is not as dark inside as outside.
Please if any one is able to identify the plants or confirm what I belive tham to be I would be gratefull.
Nigra? full view
Nigra? bud
Soulangiana? bush bud
Soulangiana? bush flower after beeing in a warm car for a while
Soulangiana? bush planted together with some irises.
Soulangiana? tree planted tree with some petals lost in the process
Soulangiana? tree flower
Kind regards
Joakim
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Maggi - I know it are a clever person and so you recognize the parents of the seeds .
This plant where Felix sleep is P. rockii "Bing Shan Xue Lian" !
Later I wil send you for your pleasure more pics with treepeonies - they have startet now !
A very good adress for all kind of peonies is the nursery RIVIERE in France - I can really suggest it!
Joakim - in Portugal grows P. broteroi - I will later send a picture .
I have not visit Portugal for Paeonia -I know this plants from Spain - they should grow without problems.
To Magnolia -I grow not any ....no room....wrong soil ...to hot in summer.....
One of the famost nurseries for this plants ( and collection ) has EISENHUT on the Lago Maggiore - it is breathless .
Did you know that in Finland grows many Paeonies ( P. anomala)? -they grows natural on on the Kola Peninsula.
Greetings
Hans
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Hans I have never been to Finland :-[
I am in the southern part of Sweden where we have closer to Denmark and Germany.
It would be nice to see peoneas in the wild especially in Finland.
I have not been around so much in the wild in Portugal only along roads and then I do not see as much as I want. I have tried to find a Portuguese Flora but they do not have one that is available :o
So all the lovely iris, narcisuss, orchids, (well I have seen some 2) and now peonea are a mystery to me. Atleast in the wild :-\
I do not expect (or thought) magnolias to have any problem with warmth. It can be warm here in Portugal and since they also grow in Hungary they can take a lot of cold as well even if the flowers sometimes get damaged. But after seeing the pics of our garden I understand that it is full of other things and might not fit any magnolia.
I would love to visit a real nursery where they grow these plants in mass numbers. We even have one in Sweden that I have not visited :-[. Maybe I will happen this year. He works mostly with "non tree" peoneas and has done some nice garden hybrids.
Kind regards
Joakim
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I will tell you a sad, but beautiful story about P. rockii.... a friend of ours who loved flowers and had a most beautiful garden, was dying and was in hospital, every day her husband brought her a bloom of P. rockii to give her pleasure and memories of the garden she loved, on the day of her funeral there were only two blooms left on the plant. It was so sad, but a tale of great love.
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Joakim ,
I know in Sweden a big nursery for paeonia :
The owner is Hermann Krupke ( born german )
Guldmedsgarden
SE - 52495 LJUNG
A other wellknowing peonycollector is Prof. Harald Fawkner .
I hope it helps you a bit .
Best wishes
Hans
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Hans it was Krupke that I was thinking on and also hope to visit some day.
His page is in Swedish but mabe the pics is something to look at any whay.
http://www.guldsmedsgarden.se/
Maggi that was a lovely story.
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Lovely Magnolias Joakim.
Quite a number of years I visited a nursery that was closind down and saw a pot with a stick in it labelled Magnolia Pink Ice for 50p. I bought it and planted it and now it is about 20 feet tall. I had to stand on the top of a tall step ladder to take this picture. (it is a little bluer in colour than the real because of some strang thing that happens in Photoshop when the file size is reduced)
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John
That was a lovely one. I bet that is 50p that You never will regret spending. Maybe that You did not by more??
I have heard that some magnolias bloom only in the top so that one need to be on the second floor or on a ladder to see them.
John does this one have flowers all over or only higher up?
But then it is nice to see them and well worth getting the ladder. :)
Joakim
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Hans,
Fantastic Paeonia pics. Lovely to see the species. It is so rare to see them, so it is a real treat. I must admit to having never heard of quite a few of the species you have posted. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them in the future. Thanks for taking the time to post them.
Joakim,
Great Magnolias. The bud looks about the right colour for 'Nigra' as far as I know. It tends to be dark on the outside and light on the inside. The shrub tends to grow outwards rather than upright like so many of the Magnolias. It will end up wider than it is tall, if left to grow as it wants to. There are SO many named Magnolias around now. I have a bit of a collection of them, but particularly love the dark coloured ones such as 'Vulcan', 'Felix' and 'Black Tulip' (all bred in New Zealand I think? Have they made their way around the world yet?) and have all 3 of them, although mostly still too small for flowering. I have other large flowered ones as well, plus normal x soulangeana and a couple of stellata types. I realy have too many for my little garden, but I just LOVE them. ;)
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Malus purpurea
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OOH! That IS pink! What a good tree! Does it fruit to that extent, also?
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It does fruit profusely, but I don't remeber the fruits being as conspicuous as the flowers. This is also growing at the Botanical Garden in Cluj.
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When you see a Malus that is such a good specimen, doesn't it make you wonder why there is such a preference for the flowering cherries in so many town plantings ? Or private gardens, fo that matter . I always think the prunus varieties while so pretty for that brief spell of flowering, are not the most attractive trees later and, of course, most of them produce no fruit. I like a tree to work harder for its place!
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Hi All
I got this tree peony for half price, because the label was missing, some years back.
It is growing in the front garden next to the road.
Looking at Hans post it looks like Paeonia Taiyo.
Does anyone have a different suggestion for the name?
Regards,
Rob
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I have no idea as to its name. Rob, but what a half-price bargain. It is a smasher! I'll bet that gets a lot of admiring glances from passers-by. Extraordinary from my viewpoint here in (today, very cold and dull) NE Scotland, to see it in full flower.
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if only there was a miniature P. rockii
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Hopefully Ian will show the best Flowering Now display that I have seen in a very long time. Last night I, and many more, went to Ian's Bulb Log Live lecture in Dublin. Thanks for driving the Irish leg,William. Out side of the National Botanic Gardens restuarant was a brilliant display of Tulips, wall flowers, daisies and pansies. The scent too.
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Joakim, The Magnolia is obviously the tree type and so the flowers are starting at about 2m now but I'm sure will start getting too high to reach. Good job it's not grown for its perfume or else I would have to buy a James Bond jet pack. ;D
Razvan, that is a wonderful Malus.
I have just lost a favourite Ceanothus Koncha, which covered a standard 2m fence panel. I went to garden centre today and on an impulse bought a very pretty INDIGOFERA HIMALAYENSIS 'SILK ROAD'. The label says that it is hardy and ideal for the hot dry spot against the fence panel facing south. Does anybody grow it?
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Yes I greatly appreciated the good audience and the fact that people had travelled a long way to come and see me.
One picture here Mark of the wonderful display and more in the bulb log feed back.
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John, I seem to remember from some press stuff from last year, or the year before, that INDIGOFERA HIMALAYENSIS 'SILK ROAD' is a new cultivar to the market, it was hailed as being hardy. I have yet to see it up here but I will keep an eye out for it. I think the flowers are fuller in Silk Road than in other forms. I made a vague note of it because I'm interested in plants that produce dyes for textiles etc.
So, in a few years, you'll be able to report on its performance as a garden plant and tell us how Pat has dyed everything in your house indigo!
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Here's some flowering in the greenhouse: Ophrys apifera X tenthredinifera; Serapias sp. and Asphodelus fistulosus.
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wow, Ian, so much better from your helicopter!
Impressive orchid collection, Anthony.
I'm offering some seeds here as I know most people watch this thread. Posters only, sorry. This morning I collected seeds of Eranthis cilicica. Would you like some before I sow them myself?
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Here is a reminder from my first garden, an Ulster Mary, pusing up through where the weed supressing fabric meets the raised bed wall. It appeared last year after 3 years with no top growth. If it remains here it can stay but if it romps it will have to go
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Mark, if you have any left, I would like to have some Eranthis cilicica please
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As nobody else has come forward some are yours. All I need is your address
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Mark, thanks very much, I will post it to you privately
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Here is a lovely trough hugging willow S. reticulata. The stems are tight to the trough walls. Doing very well when comparing 2006 and 2007
Can I take cuttings and root them by just sticking it in water?
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I forgot something that I thought was dead. When I planted Pulsatilla vernalis I thought it was dying especially the brown bud. I didnt realise the emerging bud has a dense covering of brown hairs. Here it is today
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Maggi ,
here are for you some new flowers from my garden :
P. "Zi Ban Bai" was a wrong named P. rockii - I have received it from a seller from England - later he send me a replacement for it .
P. ostii "Fen Dan Bai" is from a italian nursery -they work close with Prof. Osti - this plant has in some years until 60 flowers .
P. rockii ES is from a private source - it has a different growing form as my other Rockii -they grows like bushes -this plants has few branches but strong and high .
My compliment to the last pics of Ian ( Bulblog) -never seen before such beautiful Erythronium !!!
Greetings
Hans
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Here comes some rare greek species :
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and some more :
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Hans,
Great pics. I love the P. parnassica in particular. The purity of ostii is beautiful, as to me is rockii with it's lovely contrasting flares. So veyr nice!!
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Not only peony flowers in this time :
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Hans you must have a huge garden. What size is it? Can you show the garden by taking a photo from an upstairs window?
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Mark ,
My garden is not not so big .
Sometime I wish it was bigger - but if I must clean the weed it is big enough .
The size of my ground is around 680 m2 - but there is a house ,garage,way ,terasse,greenhouse,two bulbframe ....
A garden can never be big enough :'(
Hans
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Hans, Paeonia ostii "Fen Dan Bai" is SO beautiful! But all your plants, peonies and others , look very well and full of health. A joy to see them, thank you!
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Here are some pics from my greenhouse :
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Mark ,
and here some from my garden :
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my garden is only 42 feet 13m across.
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Hans, yours is a lovely garden, big enough to try all kinds of planting-I am envious!! I like your greenhouse and your open extension to it also-is it glazed with polycarbonate?
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David ,
Thank you for your compliments !
To my greenhouse : this is plexiglass -thats better than polycarbonate .
Polycarbonate is not so clear -and after some years it's yellow - so a lot of light is away .
This is a special contruction from Austria ( Princess Glashaus) -and I'm totally satisfied with this extension . It is not a big work and every year after the frost nigth I opend it until autuum ( last year until December .On the other side I have 3 windows and they are also always open -and on the roof the same . In the wintermonth all this windows will opend automatic -so I have never really hot inside .
My cacti are all from the Andes of South America and they like a lot of ligth and always fresh air .
The last summers are very hot here ....sometimes more than 35° C ( in shade) -but I have not any lost !
From this seller I have also my bulbframe - it's also opend automaticly in the winter .
Greetings
Hans
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Now, if I had the room bulb frames would be top of my list, together with doubling the size of my greenhouse; building a few cold frames; a few poly tunnels; re-siting Mrs N's clothes dryer thingy that I bang my head on every time I pass it; and much much more! ::)
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David ,
My greenhouse is 3m broad and 6m long .
Here is a pic of my bulbframe -this is a bit more than 3m broad .
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Smart bulb frame, Hans, and with a good height at the sides.
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What a superb place you have Hans. Thanks for the series of pics. It transports us all into your garden. Just tell us to 'buzz off' if we stay too long ;D
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Anthony ,
No problem with visiting my garden....friends are always welcome ! 8)
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Hans,
A wonderful garden and so perfectly organised. My wife would like our glasshouse to be so neat and tidy but I'm afraid it is not in my nature. I will not show her the photograph of your glasshouse as she would have too much to say to me.
Many thanks for the photographs.
Paddy
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Paddy ,
Thank you - but maybe I should send you a picture in winter when my greenhouse is full with plants .
You write ....perfectly oranised......mhhhhh - I think it's could be better !
Greetings
Hans
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I know how to make Mary think you are a tidy man, Paddy, show her any of Ian's photos of the insides of his glasshouses on the Bulb Log....once she regains consciousness she'll think you are wonderful!
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Great garden Hans ! Thanks for showing us, very beautiful and interesting !!
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Luc ,
Thanks for your friendly comliment - but please think :
I'm not alone with create this garden !
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I'm not alone with create this garden !
Well, of course not, Hans. ::)...we all know ( we women, anyway) know that most of the credit is due to Frau Joschko :D ;) :D
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You are 100 % correct Maggi ::)
Have you connections to the Secret Service ?
and also I must confess that many of the plants for what I have searched in the wild first found by my wife Barbara ! ( p.e. one of this Cypripedium....) - she has very sharp eyes - thats from her training with collecting fungus !!! : :D
Greetings
Hans
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Hans, all wives have connections to the Secret Service! :-X
My very best wishes to Barbara!
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Pulsatilla flavescens
Gentiana clusii
Gentiana seedling alba
Gentiana Iceberg
Androsace ?
Hans (Austria)
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3 plants first one outdoors some Serapia Lingaua
then two from my greenhouse a nice Lewisia from my seeds
and the my favourite Lewisia Tweedi
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That's a very nice tweedyi Derek, did you grow it from seed?
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I can see why this is your favourite L. Tweedyi Derek !
You don't seem to allow any foliage.... ;D
Great plant !
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A few pictures taken in the garden in the last few days.
Malus floribunda taken 3 days apart.I missed it in it's red bud stage.
Frits.beneath Prunus sargentii and acers.
Sorbaria sorbifolia 'Gem'
Trillium albidum
Ttrillium Kurayabashi
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Lovely pictures, John! The sunlight shining through the Trillium kurabyashi flowers is so dramatic!
Just wait till Ian sees your fritillary meadow... he'll be so jealous. What a delight to see, has it taken long to establish? What a wonderful garden to create and enjoy!
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Your fritillaria meadow is a stunning sight John. I am deeply envious it must be wonderful to just stand and watch them dancing in the breeze. The other plants are also wonderful you have a superb garden thank you for sharing it with us.
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John,
Great photographs or should I say great garden well photographed?
Malus floribunda is a particular favourite of mine but the planting of frittilaria is outstanding, something rarely seen and so to be appreciated all the more.
Paddy
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Here are few of mine at present
R Loderi King George and a close up
Trillium grandiflorum
Narcissus jonquilla
Trillium simile
Rhododendron Prim. Doksa looks better in the ground than in a pot here
Trillium grand. roseum
Shortia sold. var magna
Lewisia hybrid
Rhodo curlew and razorbill
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How beautiful are your gardens! Our spring is just started with:
Trollius patulus
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1356770/small/49841785.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1356770/49841785/#mainImageLink
Primula sonchifolia
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1199602/small/49841756.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1199602/49841756/#mainImageLink
And saxifrags
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1356770/small/48791018.jpg) (http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1356770/small/49841776.jpg) (http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1356770/small/49841781.jpg)
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Great pictures Olga and lovely plants. Thanks for sharing them
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The flowers in south west Sweden is a little later than in Britain. Some exemples of what is flowering right now.
1. A greek violet, Viola schariensis
2. Shortia uniflora, just out today. It has been waiting some time now for warmer weather.
3. Jeffersonia dubia. Picture taken some days ago. Now it's beginning to fade.
4. A small bush, Corylopsis sinensis var calvescens. (Used to be C platypetala). Soon the beautiful leaves will complete the picture.
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Thanks for the compliments eveyone,it is a pleasure to share the garden with you all.I started the garden from an absolutely bare plot forty-two years ago and am still developing it.
I planted 100 frits.originally about thirty years ago and evey year since I have collected the seed and scatter sown it in the following January.A slow process but well worth the effort.
Here are some images that I forgot to include last night.
Cercis sinensis 'Avondale'
Myosotidium hortensia(Chatham Island Forget-me not)
Prunus 'Ukon'(the nearest to yellow prunus)
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Olga, Ian, Kenneth & John,
A great display of plants. Many thanks.
My pick of the bunch, so to speak: Olga's trollius, Ian's shortia, Kenneth's shortian and John's cercis. All so very very desirable.
John, with the cultivar name 'Avondale' I thought that your cercis might have an Irish connection but I have just looked at a book on plants with Irish connection and find no reference to it, nor in the Hillier's Manual. Can you tell me anything about it - besides the fact that it is a beautiful tree, of course.
Paddy
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Paddy,
I have just checked Hilliers and it is listed in there.Apparently it is a New Zealand selection.I came accross it three years ago in a local garden centre and could'nt resist it,but then again I can't resist plants full stop.
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John,
I am obviously showing the age of my copy of Hilliers and consequently my own.
It looks like a wonderful plant.
Paddy
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Here is one I forgot to post not a plant but a general view at the bottom of the garden which gives a feeling to me of what is the best time of the year
The acer is A palmatum atro superbum with a japonicum aureum just coming into foliage. The skunk cabbage has bee seeding itself and is gring in just 4" of mud over the concrete base of the pool
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Charming, Ian. No garden is complete without water, is it?
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Your'e not wrong Maggi
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How long did you have to wait for the fish to jump out of the water Ian? :o
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Lovely view, Ian.
Great shot of the fish jumping.
Paddy
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Oh, the fish is JUMPING? I thought the poor thing was high and dry from too low a water level on account of the lack of rain!
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....And there was I thinking it was singing for Anzac Day....I should know my plaice!
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I should know my plaice!
So you should, Cliff.. and anyway, it is clearly a carp.
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Oh ....... carp ::)
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A couple of pictures of a minor (very!) triumph. After years of loosing Clematis plants in the garden to wilt I gave up and tried one in a pot instead. Here is Clematis 'Nelly Moser' (I like 'em big and blousy!!)
The structure on the right hand side of picture 2 is my home built shelving for over-summering my Primulas and Auriculas. It weighs an absolute ton because I don't do joints and every piece of wood is screwed to 'tother with angle plates etc.
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I have only two Camellias in the garden: This is the luscious C. 'Anticipation'
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This is at the east side of the house, where neighbours are building a huge extension >:( right up to the boundary line....YUCK :( Luckily the Forsythia, (which I notice has been looking really good wherever I see it this year) will serve as a distraction, if not a screen... it looks bright with the camellia
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My other camellia is along from the double pink, it is the very charming C. 'Margaret Davies1 ( or Davis ?)
A very neat double white with a sweet pink/red picotee
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I'd appreciate it now if you do NOT remind me that I don't care for double flowers! :-\
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My houseworking skills are often called into question, usually by myself, so here is a shot to prove that my whites are whiter than white
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Betula jacquemontii
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I peeled mine on Monday evening. Currently it is a lovely shade of pinky brown that will bleach as soon as the sun comes back
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That's a lovely combination Maggie.Is it a scilla at the base ? Incidentally,I jet-wash all of my birches but none of them look like yours.I think you must have been around the DULUX.
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Is it a scilla at the base
Now, I deliberately didn't mention what the little blue and white bulbs are at the base of the birch, because I have terrible trouble differentiating the squilly things, and at the time of posting, I couldn't remember their name! Just been out ofr a look to see if inspiration strikes.....it is a Chionodoxa, a form of Chionodoxa forbesii I believe . It's from Turkey, home of so many good bulbs.
As to the white birch, I scrub it with an old window brush and some soapy water, then rinse down. I have used a jet wash on some other trees that were a bit green and scruffy... brings 'em up a treat!
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Sorry you lot only just caught up with the fish thing. By the way the fish's position is known to fishermen as tail walking.
Anthony as I am a flyfisherman I cast a fly and made him rise.
Carpe diem as they say
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A few pictures of Gentiana taken in the rock garden in the last few days.
Gentiana-acaulis
Gentiana-acaulis
Gentiana-angustifolia 'Iceberg'
Gentiana-angustifolia 'Iceberg'
Gentiana-verna-garden
Gentiana-acaulis-white
Gentiana clusii Violett
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Iceberg is a stunner. One of the plants I'll be looking for while at the conference
Maggi has used white paint. Just look at the colour of the Chionodox nearest the tree.
Would a jet wash not strip the delicate paper thin bark? I would be scared to do that to mine
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Franz, your gentians are beautiful.
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here are a few plants from the garden from the last few days
Hyacinthoides non scripta bracteata. Anyone got colours other than pale blue?
while dead heading this Pulsatilla I thought I should show you how floriferous it is. One of the three suddenly died in full flower
a Corydalis that first showed last year. Lovely bronzed leaves. Which one is it?
Ranunculus parnassifolius in a crevice but is it happy?
Erythronium 'Craigton Cream'
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Seeing Franz's wonderful gentians reminds me that I intended to post this one
G Acaulis Belvedere I had from our esteemed President. It seems quite vigorous and very free flowering
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Beautiful photos everyone !
Love the Gentians in particular - I have a nice little clump of G. verna angulosa that carried 20 flowerheads and buds. Yesterday, they were all lying beside the plant - pecked off by sparrows... >:(
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Sorry you lot only just caught up with the fish thing. By the way the fish's position is known to fishermen as tail walking.
Anthony as I am a flyfisherman I cast a fly and made him rise.
Carpe diem as they say
Ian, when I was a student, back in the early 70s living with my parents in Callander I tied flies for the Trossachs Rod Company for extra cash. My favourite was the 'Durham Ranger', which I could sell to American tourists for £1 (when simple trout flies were 5p). In those days, 'commercially' made flies were works of art.
Anthony.
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David, Paddy and everyone! Thanks for compliments! Spring is so beautiful! I’d like to make images of every flower when go to the garden. Plants are new every day. New flowers, new conditions.
Paddy
This lovely trollius is native to western Caucasus. It blooms when snow is just melt. And it is very compact when blooms. But later it grows like usual trollius. May be slightly lower.
Franz
Iceberg is outstanding! My is too little and do not bloom yet.
Some pictures from last garden visit:
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1332874/small/50150978.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150978/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla aff. ambigua
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1332874/small/50150981.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150981/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla flavescens 1
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1332874/small/50150983.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150983/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla flavescens 2 (may be subspecies of P. patens)
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1332874/small/50150986.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150986/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla grandis
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1332874/small/50150987.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150987/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla multifida
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1332874/small/50150994.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50150994/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla tenuifolia
(http://photofile.ru/photo/olga_bond/1332874/small/50151000.jpg)
http://photofile.ru/users/olga_bond/1332874/50151000/#mainImageLink
Pulsatilla vernalis
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Franz,
Wonderful flowers, excellent photographs. A great treat to see them all from your garden. Many thanks.
Mark,
Great pulsatilla, what a display of flowers on a plant, a really good one.
Olga,
Many thanks for information on Trollius. I can't view your latest postings at the moment - because of the configuration of the internet system here at work. I will look at them tonight.
Paddy
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Thanks, all, for the comments.
Ian, Gentiana acaulis ‘Belvedere’ is a good growing and flowering cultivar. It comes from the Alpine Garden Belvedere in Vienna. This is the oldest alpine garden of Europe and was created 1803 by Duke
Johann.
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Mark,you said that you were out peeling your Betula utilis.What's the difference between doing it by hand and removing it with a jet wash.I have jet washed them for several years now with no detriment to the trees.
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My concern is that when I start to peel before they are ready too much comes away showing the green inner layer under a think layer of bark
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Oxalis is starting to bloom - here are my first ones :
1) oxalis brasiliensis
2) same - close up
3) oxalis triangularis purpurea
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Anthony I tie my own flies but a Durham Ranger now that is a work of art. I will certainly buy one for a £1 if you have one ;D
Franz thanks for the info on Belvedere I was given the impression, maybe incorrectly, this was found around the Marmalade in the Dolomites on or near the Windelbeg. There are certainly some beautiful forms in that area. Maybe both facts are correct
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Ian, I haven't tied a fly in anger for over 20 years. I did take my vice into school to start a fly-tying club, but some little scrote stole it so the club never started. >:( I never got it back and the culprit was never traced. I gave all my hooks to the janitor. I still have half a jungle cock cape somewhere?
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Anthony i should put it for sale on Ebay it's a bit of a rarity now
Here is a photo of a Durham Ranger to remind you
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A picture of Clematis cartmanii 'Joe' flowering in the greenhouse, a plaant we keep in memory of my Dad who was also a 'Joe'
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David,
Just bought one of those today at Harrogate flower show. Does it need the Greenhouse?
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Recently I was asked if I am still gardening.
(I used to contribute regularly to the Old Forum)
After closing the nursery I had to make a new start,
So since the last two years I planted trees and shrubs
and perennials around the house and the (empty)
glasshouses and I still do because there are many
empty places.
And I built a raised bed where the soil is the same as
in the surroundings: the sandy soil for growing bulbs
in our area.
For the walls I used broken flagstones.
Good rocks are difficult to become here, so I decorated a
little with stones we gathered with the children during
holidays, mostly in Austria.
So here are some pictures of some older and some
younger plants.
Raised bed (2 pics.)
Anthyllis montana ‘Rubra’
Phlox sub. ‘Daniel’s Cushion’
Dodecatheon tetrandrum
Exochorda rac. ‘The Bride’
Phlox douglasii ‘Ochsenblut’
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David,
Just bought one of those today at Harrogate flower show. Does it need the Greenhouse?
Mick, I usually keep it outside after flowering and then bring it back under glass October/November and it seems to work for me. We have had the plant for four years now and some years it has flowered better than others.
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My word, Luit, you HAVE been busy! These beds are looking just wonderful, what a fine home for plants this is! A project that you and Vroni can be really proud of, I'm sure. I can't think of many plants that would not enjoy this lovely spot, you can probably grow anything you like!
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A few subjects that have just made April.
Acer griseum
Paeony Duchess of Kent
Athyrium niponicum Ursula's Red
Athyrium x Ghost
Cornus China girl
Cornus nutallii
Epimedium rubrum
Magnolia Sundance
Magnolia S.D
Primula sieboldii
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continuation...
Staphyllea colchicum
S.C.close-up
Stylophorum diphyllum
Sundance
Trillium grandiflorum.
Trillium grandi.Snowbunting
Trillium sulcatum
Woodland path
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John, you really do have a garden to be proud of with a magnificent selection of plants.
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Great garden pictures from all of you.
Here some impressions from today
The first is an unknown Sedum hybrid. Can you help for the name, please?
The rest is nothing spectacular but I like it.
Sedum.
Hyacinthoides hispanica
Hyacinthoides hispanica resized
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next lot...
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Hyacinthoides non-scripta resized
Aubrieta deltoidea
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and more...
Asperula odorata
Anemone sylvestris
Centaurea montana resized
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and finally my first roses in blossom.
Rose Snow Ballet
Rosa polyantha Prince Igor
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Dear John Gennard,
Can You tell me a bit about the cultivation of the lovely Athyrium ferns
Henk Westerhof
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Hello Henk,
These are selected forms of Athyrium nipponicum.None of these are difficult to grow providing that they have adequate moisture at the root,Mine are in semi-shade but I think they would grow in a more open position always providing that they have the moisture at the root.
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Having seen everyone's super photos I thought I'd better wander round the garden with camera in hand. We haven't had any rain in six weeks so things have gone over quite quickly...the garden is open in July and we have warned them that it will be Autumn Colours!! Anyway in alphabetical order and remember it depends which glasses I have on as to whether the photos are any good ;D
Apple blossom
Brunnera Hadspen Cream
Brunnera Jack Frost
Brunnera flower
Cerinthe major purpurescens - when this became fashionable we found ourselves paper millionaires in seeds!
Clematis Asao
Clematis montana Primrose Star
Clematis recta Velvet Night
Dicentra bountiful
Dicentra spectabilis
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and...
Echium pinniana, just starting
Epimedium Lillafee ?
Euphorbia amygliodes purpurea
Fothergilla major - super for autumn colour too so should be good in July!!
Fritillaria acmopetala
Gentian angustifolia hybrid
Gladiolus tristis
Heuchera Plum Pudding and mysotis
Lamium orvata
Melianthus major bud
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Ooh I've just noticed I'm now a junior member, that's taken years off me!
olearia phlogopapa Comber's Pink
Olearia with Vinca
Paeony delaveyi
pink bluebell
Primula Elizabeth Kilellay ..isn't she a stunner
Pulmonaria David Ward
Rosa primula which has fantastic scent, like incense, but it's the leaves which give it off
Saruma henryi I love this little plant
Sophora microphylla Sun King
Thalictrum aquilegifolia
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next
Tree peony
Trillium
Tulip Abu Hussan with Ballerina
Tulip Blue Heron
Tulip unknown as I lost the label
Tulip Queen of the Night
Tulip viridflora Golden Artist
Veronica gentianoides
White bluebell
Wisteria sinensis with Vestia Lycoides (I'm not sure whether this colour combination is right!
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Excellent photos Brian....many thanks for sharing.
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Very kind of you to say so Cliff - the photographer in this house pooh poohs my snaps!
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Brian, that was a wonderful selection of plants. You have a beautiful garden.
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Oh Maggi, there are very many plants which would not
grow in our soil. For instance most Ericaceae and many
plants suited to peat beds are impossible here.
Our pH is about 6.5 !
Luit
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Our pH is about 6.5 !
Well, Luit, that does make a problem for some of my most favourite plants !
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Well April has two hours left in our time zone. Just enough time to post two pictures of things starting to happen here . Our internet connection has slowed to 16.8 kps which makes it hard to keep up. I think we will have to get a sky link to fully participate. Many wonderful photos being posted.
Catkins from a small salix
Hepatica taken in full sun with a diffuser
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Lovely shots Rob. Many thanks!
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Super pix, Rob. What a nuisance that your internet connection is SO slow... might a couple of new hamsters in the wheel help?!! :o
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Jeepers, Brian, you have been busy. Great plants and great photographs.
Rob, there you are squeezing the last drop out of April and good plants too. I wonder if that is Salix hylematica? This plant is in my mind as I have been scolded here at home for cutting it right back to the base, reduced from four feet X four feet to 4 inches X four inches. It was beginning to take over - again.
Paddy
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Paddy, re. the willow pic that Rob posted. I went and checked the label, and it is Salix aff. subopposita. It stays quite small, never much taller than 12 inches (30cm).
Sharon
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Many thanks, Sharon. It's a very nice looking plant.
Remind me of the name of the yellow-flowered shrub with the wisteria, that dreadfully smelling foliage remains in my mind.
Paddy
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Paddy, do you mean the Vestia Lycoides in Brian Ellis' last pic in reply no. 332, 30th April ?
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How did I miss this pic? I remember tying this fly in the early 70's.
refers to reply 314 on page 21 of this thread!