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Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« on: July 02, 2010, 03:10:13 AM »
Magnolia sieboldii, one of the best Magnolias with a delicious fragrance, is still flowering thanks to recent rains.  Last year it continued into August.  We potted over 100 self-sown seedlings last week.

Unfortunately those in the trade are disappointing, small-flowered and facing the ground, often more of a bush than a tree.   This strain is second generation from collected wild seed from Korea, has quite sizeable flowers and grows like mad for the first few years often attaining its ultimate height in 3 years.

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« Last Edit: July 03, 2010, 12:29:37 PM by johnw »
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2010, 09:04:36 AM »
Beautiful, pristine flowers John.  Something to thank the rainfall for!
« Last Edit: July 02, 2010, 09:51:42 AM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2010, 01:09:52 PM »
Splendid flower John !!  :o :o
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2010, 01:47:04 PM »
Campanula pulla from the rock garden today.

I don't have much luck with the small Campanulas and normally buy a few plants each year to replace the ones decimated by slugs.

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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2010, 10:15:55 PM »
A lovely start to July John and David with your postings  :)  Looking up into the Magnolia flower is wonderful and I love the blue of the Campanula bells.
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2010, 10:23:46 PM »
After an unusual cold and rainy spring our weather now turns to an other
extreme,-it gets hotter and hotter. Today we had 35° C and the forecast
promises still more. I am sure,that several plants will not survive this torture!
Campanula fragilis(the Abruzzi form) flowers profusely in the alpine house
Eriogonum umbellatum, a living souvenir from the NARGS conference 1986 is a reliable
flowerer every year. The flowers are quite useful for small flower arrangements
A new plant and a real gem for my taste is Hypericum kazdaghensis, I raised it from
seed which ZZ(alias Stone Rider) collected on Nif Dag in Western Turkey
Helichrysum milfordiae, very common nowadays but still one of my favourites.
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2010, 12:34:45 PM »
Quote from: Luc Gilgemyn on July 02, 2010, 01:09:52 PM
Splendid flower John !!  :o :o

Luc / Brian

I should mention that the mother plant I grew from high altitude collected wild seed from Korea. As there are no other sieboldiis in the neighborhood so the seed from this tree is selfed.  This seed gives large-flowered progeny and the photo is of one of them. We collect more than 3kg of cleaned seed every year for various societies, a time comsuming job it is and it can leave you with orange hands for a week.  It seems the small-flowered ones in the trade originate from the west coast.

This species even grows in central New Brunswick where winter temperstures can go to the low -30's celsius.  Here it stands full sun but drought and heat & humidity can be problematic in hot summer areas.

If you want seed just sing out.

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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2010, 01:51:10 PM »
today a lot of flowers in our garden:

Dahlia X
Petunia X
Verbene bonariensis
Punica 'Nana'
Plumbago
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2010, 01:54:34 PM »
...and more :

Littonia modesta
Nerium oleander yellow
Nerium oleander white
Trachelospermum
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2010, 02:00:04 PM »
..and more :

Pelargonium
Aeonium spec.
Zamia furfuracea
Euphorbia 'Diamond Frost'
Basilicum 'Magic Blue'

Enjoy  8)
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2010, 06:53:43 PM »
Lots of lovely stuff there Hans.
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2010, 07:40:22 PM »
David  :D Thank you for your friendly comment  ;D
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2010, 07:45:44 PM »
Quote from: johnw on July 02, 2010, 03:10:13 AM
Magnolia sieboldii, one of the best Magnolias with a delicious fragrance, is still flowering thanks to recent rains.  Last year it continued into August.  We potted over 100 self-sown seedlings last week.

Unfortunately those in the trade are disappointing, small-flowered and facing the ground, often more of a bush than a tree.   This strain is second generation from collected wild seed from Korea, has quite sizeable flowers and grows like mad for the first few years often attaining its ultimate height in 3 years.

johnw

John, beautiful Magnolia sieboldii.  My goodness, 100 self-sown seedlings!  It's a dang weed!!!  I've let my membership in the Magnolia Society lapse, but our local magnolia guy, Stephen Cover, runs the seed exchange, and several years back I received seed of the Korean form of M. sieboldii.  With all of the warm (hot) weather we've been having, I have two seedlings that I planted out last year that are practically leaping out of the ground, putting on so much growth, about 3' (1 meter) tall right now.  Thanks for showing this, something to look forward to.
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2010, 08:14:00 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on July 03, 2010, 01:51:10 PM
today a lot of flowers in our garden:

Plumbago
Lovely plants Hans.  Is the plumbago hardy in your garden?  I tried one outside here and it survived one winter but was killed the next.
The Zamia is fascinating too - presumably the corn-on-the-cob looking structure is the fruit??
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Re: Northern Hemisphere July 2010
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2010, 08:37:37 PM »
Thank you Gail  :D

No ...the Plumbago is in a pot !
We have here in winter aound -10° and 3 weeks with snow  :-\

This Zamia has in last winter also such a flower ....it is not a fruit ! ....in some days it will open this structure and the is pollen inside - so there must exist also female flower ...
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