Daphnes 2008-2009

[Maggi Young]

Picture says it all, Giles. 

Our snow is melting now, helped by a very rainy day. Hope yours is too.

[Lesley Cox]

My Goodness! What a difference. I have never thought of D. odora as anything less than tough as old boots, but perhaps we are not quite so cold here or certainly not for such prolonged periods.

[fermi de Sousa]

These two plants are the same cultivar of D.odora, bought at the same time last Autumn, from the same place.
One was left out, the over kept (just about) frost free.

So  , which is which?
cheers
fermi

[Tony Willis]

two pictures of my Daphne bholua 'Sir Peter Smithers'

It is in a pot and inside for the winter. I have lost Jaqueline Postill and a white form in the garden not withstanding a friend fifteen miles away has huge plants in his garden.

[mark smyth]

My Daphne is now finished flowering and the ground it covered with flower confetti

[Lesley Cox]

A pretty - and scented - background for the snowdrops, Mark.

[David Shaw]

'I have been told the white form does not cross with the coloured forms and breeds true which has me scratching my head - different ploidy(?).' From JohnW on January 6.
John, the first of my D. mezereum seedlings are coming into flower. The flowers from the red seed are flowering red and the flowers from the white seed are coming true white.

[Lesley Cox]

This is my experience too, and that of other gardeners locally. Always pink flowers from seedlings of the red-berried pink form. Always white flowers from seedlings of the yellow-berried white form. Nive to have this certainty when giving away the seedlings.

[mark smyth]

I'm not impressed with the 'white' one. It's far from white and more like cream

[Giles]

Mark,
My white D.mezereum.
Also
'Spring Beauty'
'Spring Herald'
D. blagayana (it stinks)

[Giles]

Daphnes enjoying the sunshine.

[Martin Baxendale]

I'm not impressed with the 'white' one. It's far from white and more like cream

I must have the only white/cream Daphne mezereum in cultivation which doesn't have any scent! It's a second or third generation seedling from my father's 'Bowles' White' form, is the only one still with me and it smells of....absolutely nothing! Just my luck.     I really should replace it. As Mark says, it's not really that much of a looker compared to the pink/red forms, and without any scent it becomes a bit pointless.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very nice Giles - I bet the fragrance is heavenly in that greenhouse !!! 

[Giles]

Luc:  it might have smelt nice were it not for the fact that I decided to sterilise the gravel under the staging with Jeyes Fluid (methanol and coal tar)
and the result is certainly eye watering.
Martin:  my white one doesn't smell either.

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin:  my white one doesn't smell either.

I'm pretty sure my father's white ones did, unless my memory's playing tricks. The yellow berries are quite nice, but an unscented daphne just seems a bit disappointing.