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Tony Willis

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Re: Biarum
« Reply #30 on: August 29, 2009, 10:01:23 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on August 27, 2009, 11:41:49 PM
Oh God, how can you live in a climate like that? ???

Something we ask ourselves most days,we should have moved when I retired. The plus point though is we are able to grow a great range of plants.
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #31 on: August 30, 2009, 10:16:01 AM »
Me too Tony. I still have the feeling that I should move back to Yorkshire before it's too late but Mrs N would take a lot of shifting. I'm fed up of needing webbed feet!
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2009, 09:36:54 PM »
I never did find my Biarum tenuifolium that I have potted up! ??? Here it is struggling through a gentian and a persistant weed (Viola sp.) in my garden. I have since dug up this group and separated a dozen Biarum tubers, half of which I replanted, minus the gentian and viola. The other half I've put in a terracotta long Tom.
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2009, 09:42:26 PM »
We can grow a great range of plants in a DECENT climate.  ;D
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #34 on: September 14, 2009, 05:11:22 PM »
Two more biarums in flower.

The first I think is Biarum carratracense from Granada in Spain and the second is Biarum tenuifolium from the Peloponnese.
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #35 on: September 16, 2009, 07:55:21 PM »
Flowering here now- what I presume is Biarum tenuifolium.
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #36 on: September 20, 2009, 07:05:19 PM »
Biarum tenuifolium in my bulb frame
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #37 on: September 24, 2009, 01:06:50 PM »
Noticed the comments on Biarum ditschianum back on page 1. Alex - my plants from the same nurseryman were certainly B.ditschianum and also flowered in June (their first flowering here). I was very relieved to see your comment on how short a time the flowers live. Mine were just showing above the compost one day and had shrivelled when i next visited the greenhouse two days later. I assumed they had aborted due to my doing something wrong. Perhaps not eh?  I must take a day off work when I see the bud next year!

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Re: Biarum
« Reply #38 on: September 24, 2009, 10:05:07 PM »
And sit by the plant with a camera, a book, a choc bar and a cup of tea, in order to record the event? ;D
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #39 on: September 25, 2009, 08:20:58 AM »
Certainly the camera and chocolate but I think it might need to be a nice refreshing beer or two if I'm sitting in the greenhouse in June! I apologise in advance for the resulting camera shake. Heady stuff that chocolate... ;)
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #40 on: September 26, 2009, 05:59:11 PM »
Thanks, Darren - he did send a replacement the next year which hasn't flowered yet, so I will hold out some hope for that. My big B. ditschianum pot is still throwing up flowers after a couple of months, amazing really, it's never done this before. I hope it won't be too weak after this grand effort. It seems there's no seed, unfortunately, perhaps because I've only got one clone.

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Re: Biarum
« Reply #41 on: September 26, 2009, 06:22:42 PM »
B. ditschianum, which I bought from PC is growing very well, every year producing a lot of leaves and also many offsprings in the ground, but the tuber is not becoming bigger - so it has never flowered.
Can anybody recommend me something, that I will see also some flowers?
Alex, the picture of your ditschianum is very nice!
best greetings,
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #42 on: September 27, 2009, 08:47:50 PM »
Hi,
Please can anybody inform me who is PC,forgive my ignorence, ??? ??? ???

Thanks
Guy ;) ;)
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #43 on: September 27, 2009, 08:57:21 PM »
Guy, it is  Paul Christian, http://www.rareplants.co.uk/         
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Re: Biarum
« Reply #44 on: September 28, 2009, 07:49:31 AM »
Thanks Maggi,
Should have coped that (menopausal memory loss)  :o :o :o ??? ??? it solves a clue !!!
Best Wishes,

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