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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: chasw on January 01, 2013, 02:37:21 PM
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Really pleased with our Garrya thia year,the best tassles we have had since we bought it
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here the first flower of Helleborus vesicarius
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here the first flower of Helleborus vesicarius
Lovely picture Chris. Is this growing outside?
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I grow it in a cold frame together with my crocusses,now the frame is open when it's freezing -5°C I close the frame and from june I close it and give no water until end september.
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And here is January in Belarus:
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Two plants from my greenhouse(s).
Dionysia 'Judith Bramley' is a Michael Kammerlander “creation”. A hybrid between D. afghanica and probably D. tapetodes.
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Daphne bholua should be hardy here in Belgium, at least according to a couple of people.
But for me it is every time a battle again to get it through winter.
This is a white form with a cast of pale pink (from Dirk Jockel).
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I agree with you Josef, it's often a problem to get D. afghanica and its hybrids undamaged through our winter. Often the start of the winter is rather mild and the plants are getting too early in bud. Later on winter starts getting colder with (severe) frost and during those cold periods plants are getting damaged.
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Beautiful images, Jozef.
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Dear all, unusually mild here with lots more rain I hope we do not have a repeat of last spring when we went back to winter in April. I have noticed Adonis amurensis well into growth and Meconopsis beamishii with interesting foliage, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Ger, I have this problem not only with afghanica but with many Dionysias.
Maybe we have to sleep the nights in our alpine house, like those experts in the south of England. ::)
Thanks Cliff !
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You are ahead of us Jozef, our Daphne bholua and Dionysia Judith Bramley are still both in tight bud but have definitely started to grow in the mild weather the last few weeks.
Judith Bramley is one of the 4 tiny Dionysias I have persevered with and I hope it one day looks as good as yours.
I don't know why I still try: Dionysia + mild damp Lancashire winter = corpse.
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Here's a blood orange bloom indoors I believe it's Moro.
Scent is amazing
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Arnold - that is my favourite scent in the whole world - I am extremely envious. I can just look at that beautiful blossom and imagine the fragrance...... well, I could.....until Ian appeared in the room with a plate of piping hot Onion Bhajiis :-X
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MAGGI:
I would agree, taste buds over nose hairs anytime.
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Do Blood orange flowers smell any different than "regular" orange blooms?
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Rick:
I'm not sure but the scent fills the house. It's the only orange I have.
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Do Blood orange flowers smell any different than "regular" orange blooms?
Not from my ( long ago) experience with huge orchards of mixed orange varieties in Libya, Rick - they all have the same scrumptious fragrance that so delights me!
Every orange blossom I have encountered since is equally lovely.
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After 3 weeks in December with snow and frost the temperature is now about 10 oC. In the garden many plants think it is spring.
1. The very first Eranthis hyemalis
2. Eranthis pinnatifida follows soon
3. More E. pinnatifida to come
4. Galanthus 'Spindlestone surprise'
Poul
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And a few more.
5. Galanthus 'Barnes'
6. Muscari adilii from JR
7. Muscari adilii from PC looks different from the above
8. A late Colchicum troodi
9. Muscari aucheri 'Autumn Glory' over its best
Poul
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These 2 two plants are already past their best flowering time.
Daphne suriel is a Himalayan species (India). In my garden (greenhouse) the leaves start to grow again after flowering.
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Petrocosmea rosettifolia is a gesneriad growing on rocks in Yunnan (China) at about 1400m.
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Both plants are not hardy (here in Belgium).
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In flower here now; Helleborus liguricus. Sown in August 2010, first flowers now.
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Filling the greenhouse with a wonderful citrussy smell!
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Already a lot of beautiful things ....
Here an early flowering form of Adonis amurensis (sold to me as dahurica )
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Asphodelus acaulis
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Asphodelus acaulis
I am so happy that he grows so wel Michael. :D 8) And flowering earlier then the motherplant....
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;D ;D ;D
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Poul this is my Muscari adilli from Paul Christian.
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I don't think it is but keying out is a nightmare.So little is written on this genus.
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Some plants in flower here now:
4 x Cyclamen coum
Galanthus ikariae subsp. snogerupii (should be G. ikariae)
and Helleborus niger
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I don’t see a lot of differences among these Daphne laureola forms.
Daphne laureola ssp. philippi is about 50-60 cm in height. A nice compact shrub.
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Daphne laureola 'Margaret Mathew' is a little bit smaller and laxer growing. But maybe this is because I put this plant in a drier area of my garden.
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Daphne laureola v. cantabrica is the smallest one (about 30 cm in height) and seems to be less hardy. Probably from the Cantabrica mountains in Spain.
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I am wondering whether anyone has other clones/forms/subspecies and would be interested in exchanging.
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I like all the white and green flowers and H. liguricus is particularly beautiful, Wim ! ;)
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Already blooming in the open garden, Helleborus thibetanus (cool dappled shade and somewhat moist conditions, endemic to western China).
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So many nice pictures to stir a mid-winter longing for spring, thank you all.
Here we are having a wet and mild January, which certainly stirred this Iris Evening Twilight into action. We get hellebores and occasionally snowdrops flowering in January, but I have never seen an Iris out this early.
Knud
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Very nice and early Helleborus thibetanus :)
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Jozef
Not so far away from where I live Daphne laureola subsp laureola grows wild.
If you are interested send me a pm.
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1) Out here, Ranunculus calandrinoides is looking good ! Frost is coming though.... :-\
2) Helleborus sternii - Hawthorne strain Blackthorne strain opened it's first flower !
3) Saxifraga "Vecerni hvezda" is my earliest Sax opening.
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Is there a typo there Luc (for the Hellebore). I haven't heard of the Hawthorne Strain but there is a Blackthorne Strain originally produced by Robin White at his Blackthorne Nursery.
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Oops..... senior moment, David. :-[ Of course it's Blackthorn strain !
Thanks for pointing it out ! ;)
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Two more winter flowering Daphnes.
Daphne mezereum 'Alba'
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and Daphne mezereum 'Bowles Variety'. The latter one has smaller flowers, but probably they are propagated from seeds and there will be lot of variation.
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Daphne x hybrida is a hybrid between D. odora and (probably) collina. This plant isn’t hardy (in Belgium).
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The flowers - more than two months, before the foliage - even longer.
Betula....
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The flowers - more than two months, before the foliage - even longer.
Betula....
Natalia very atmospheric
This plant I found flowering under the staging it had been in a trough until the trough broke up during some building work and I had meant to replant it in the replacement trough. Scoliopus bigelowii
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Two small Dionysias.
Dionysia 'Ewesley Theta' and Dionysia 'Ludek Zvolanek'. Both are hybrids between D. afghanica and tapetodes.
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Obviously the touch of a Master Jozef. Beautiful.
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'Ludek Zvolanek' looks very close to afghanica - beautiful.
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Ludek is the brother of ZZ the StoneRider - who has tonsilitis and is ill in bed when he had hoped to be travelling to Denmark.... for more work with huge stones at Bangsbo. . :'(
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Ian, thank you... Scoliopus bigelowii.... ооооо....plant my dreams, but it is just a dream - we have it too cold. :'(
Jozef - Вeautiful Dionysias!!!
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Thanks for your nice comments.
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Hi!
Hamamelis (January) in My Garden:
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Best Regards! zvone
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Nice hammamelis Zvone
Here we have a lot of snow but the odd brave flower is showing
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Some of my plants with snow:
Pinus leucodermis 'Schmidtii'
Gaultheria procumbens
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here a little treasure Eranthis pinattifida
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Great Picture Ian, I noticed today in my alpine house that Calianthemum is growing well, cheers Ian the Christie Kind
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Ian M, lovely Eranthis - a real gem. 8)
Ian C.,
got curios and just checked genus calianthemum on the web. Wonderful flowering species endemic to the alps. Never had them on my screen ;D
Which species is yours? Difficult to please?
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Great Picture Ian, I noticed today in my alpine house that Calianthemum is growing well, cheers Ian the Christie Kind
Looks great Ian hopefully mine are nice and snug under the snow ;)
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Hello Armine, we have this as Calianthemum anemonoides and it is totaly hady will come through the ground even when it is frozen the flowers vary and some are excellent with others raggedy, the plant sets seed which must be sown when ripe for best results. I will post picture from last years flowering cheers Ian the Christie Kind
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A few Helleborus in the rain today.
All Helleborus Ashwood Hybs
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A few more.
Helleborus Ashwood Hybs
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Helleborus niger, battered by the rain.
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Michael, you grow a super selection of Hellebores - and how good it is to see the variation in the shapes and colours of the flowers at what seems a very early point in the year.
A particular comfort to those of us still under snow. thanks!
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Nice show Michael.
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Hello Armine, we have this as Calianthemum anemonoides and it is totaly hady will come through the ground even when it is frozen the flowers vary and some are excellent with others raggedy, the plant sets seed which must be sown when ripe for best results. I will post picture from last years flowering cheers Ian the Christie Kind
Very lovely when in flower Ian. Thanks.
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Really lovely hellebores. It's hard to say which ones I like most, but the picotee edged ones are really special. :)
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Lovely hellebores Michael. They're not so advanced here.
In the greenhouse,
Correa 'Federation Belle' flowering since November and with quite a few buds to come
Tropaeolum tricolor just starting now
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Very colourful Ashley !
Here some Dionysia's flowering .
First two 'Ewesley Theta ' (with one week difference ) , then archibaldii .....and 'Judith Bramley '
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Iris winogradowii fully out today in a forgotten pot, under fleece protecting other pots from the snow. Pure chance it did not get flattened by the weight of the snow. Some more to come in the same pot hopefully.
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For the last day of January, here are some pics of plants flowering here now:
Helleborus atrorubens
Galanthus artjuschenkoae
Cyclamen coum
Crocus angustifolius 'Bronze form'
and Eranthis hyemalis
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In the cold greenhouse.
Asphodelus acaulis
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Unbelievable but true.
On Tuesday 29.01. we had -8 ° C and 40 cm of snow.
Today on Thursday 31. 01. no snow and +12 C.
Eranthis hyemalis and Crocus oliveri begin to flower.
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Unbelievable but true.
On Tuesday 22.01. we had -8 ° C and 40 cm of snow.
Today on Thursday 24. 01. no snow and +12 C.
Eranthis hyemalis and Crocus oliveri begin to flower.
What a story Franz..... :o
But variaton keep us alive ....and what a nice carpet with Eranthis !
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here a little treasure Eranthis pinattifida
Hello Ian, you allready noticed that I like this little treasure a lot. ;D
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Unbelievable but true.
On Tuesday 29.01. we had -8 ° C and 40 cm of snow.
Today on Thursday 31. 01. no snow and +12 C.
Eranthis hyemalis and Crocus oliveri begin to flower.
Hello Franz, what a difference!!Beautifull plants
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Very colourful Wim and Franz. The winds are shredding everything here.
Lovely Asphodelus Arnold, beautiful colour.
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January 14 was a decent day. Ken was working at a garden on the coast and I went out there for lunch. To my amazement I discovered a flower on Gentiana dinarica ready to open and predicted an untimely demise in light of the artic blast in waiting. Ten or more rotten frigid days followed with highs under -6c and double digit lows to -16c. Today he photographed it. ::) Good grief I see another in that pic getting ready to flower....I'll shut up about that one.
johnw
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It's survival tales like that which give us the hope to carry on with plants, isn't it? Since sometimes "hope" is all we've got!
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I still need to wait weeks for the first flower buds...If there ever will be any...ceazy winter this far..one week it's 8*C and rain..the next -22*c and no snow cover...been going like this yo-yo all winter...Those plants that survive this winter will in my opinion been classified as "Hardy" 8)...the rest will be nice nobel compost for the future.. :D....but i really enjoy the pics you guy's post..feels like spring around the corner even here....Cheers Jonny
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jonny - I can relate. It is -8c here this morning and so the ground will be nicely frozen before 10-20cm of snow tomorrow. Thus the ground will stay frozen while the sun shine brightly on the broad-leafed evergreens until relief in late March. Shubenacadie Sam saw his shadow this morning so 6 more weeks of winter.
Are you in Northern Sweden?
johnw
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jonny - I can relate. It is -8c here this morning and so the ground will be nicely frozen before 10-20cm of snow tomorrow. Thus the ground will stay frozen while the sun shine brightly on the broad-leafed evergreens until relief in late March. Shubenacadie Sam saw his shadow this morning so 6 more weeks of winter.
Are you in Northern Sweden?
johnw
We're having the see-saw weather too and in the Galanthus threads, we are reminded that Ground Hog Day for those "over the pond" is Candlemas here.
No ground hog worth his salt would even have come out of his burrow today - too blooming cold!
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Are you in Northern Sweden?
johnw
Hi John.
No I'm in the mid west parts. When the wind comes from south west (Dominating wind in summertime) it's coastal climat with rain not snow. But when it turns and comes from the north east it's inland climat with temp. down to -32*C (-25*F).
So it's a natural selection of my plants every winter :D...Magnolias goes really good here so does most of the perennials...Rhodos. and other evergreen plants can really struggle winters like this...Think i lost between 50-60 a few years ago in one winter....but they have been replaced like the true optimist i am gardening in the end of the woods :) //Jonny
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jonny - I'd be interested to hear which hardy rhodos you lost in that winter. I have a friend north of Toronto who is colder than you and he has a good collection of rhodos, many are brachycarpum hybrids but he even has a few evergreen azaleas.
johnw
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And a few more.
6. Muscari adilii from JR
7. Muscari adilii from PC looks different from the above
Poul
Here is Muscari Adilii from PC in bud on March 2, 2013
and in Fruit May 2012 (sorry for the bad photo is was in the background of another plant)
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Blooming on January 16, 2013 on a sunny day
Scilla lingulata (AGM Form)
Crocus imperarati came as Crocus coricus.