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Grow From Seed / Re: Growing Daylilies from Seed

« Last post by Guff on December 06, 2024, 09:34:45 PM »

It's been another week......

Next update will be an open flower.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: December 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by Carolyn on December 05, 2024, 11:51:19 PM »

Yes, i agree with Maggi, beautiful blue Conanthera. I see that it is not frost hardy though…. pity!

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: December 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by Maggi Young on December 05, 2024, 05:46:09 PM »

Lovely to see these, fermi. I think the blue of the  Conanthera trimaculata is gorgeous!

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Seed Exchange / Re: SRGC Seed Exchange 2024-2025

« Last post by Richard Green on December 05, 2024, 02:26:16 PM »

Just a quick note for UK Members.  Your paper copies of the Seed List were mailed out yesterday on Wednesday 4 December.  Hopefully they should arrive on doormats by the weekend.  We prefer that you please order and pay online if at all possible.
A note for Overseas members. You will NOT receive paper copies of the seed list, but can download a Adobe pdf or Microsoft Excel copy from the website Seed Ordering pages.
Any overseas member wishing a paper copy of the Seed List can request one by email to the address on the Seed Pages.  Copies will be mailed out to those who have already asked for one probably by this coming weekend.
Any overseas member without internet access should know from instructions in previous Dryas newsletters that our Yearbook gives telephone and postal contacts for the Seed Exchange Team as always.  We are very clear that no member will be disadvantaged by any lack of computer literacy.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / December 2024 in the Southern Hemisphere

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on December 05, 2024, 02:25:44 PM »

It's officially summer in Australia and we're going through the usual turmoil of weather that can't make up its mind to be hot and dry or hot and wet
It's the worst time to be a dormant bulb when a sudden rain-shower saturated the soil/potting mix and then the sun heats everything to cook you and introduce rots!
Here are a few things still hanging on before the sun fries them:
1) Conanthera trimaculata
2) Callirhoe involucrata
3) Ornithogalum dubium
4) Campanula zanzegura
5) Clematis campaniflora
cheers
fermi

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Plant Identification Questions and Answers / Re: Weed id

« Last post by Palustris on December 05, 2024, 01:20:54 PM »

Greenkeeper says that it grows to about 18ins tall if left alone and that the flowers are definitely not yellow, so maybe not Senecio.
Had a look at the rear of the leaves and they are not hairy.
He has potted some up and we will grow it on to flowering to see if that helps.
Thanks all the same.

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Plant Identification Questions and Answers / Re: Weed id

« Last post by Vinny 123 on December 04, 2024, 09:49:29 PM »

It is doing an amazingly good impression of ragwort if it isn't ragwort.

Have you carefully extracted more than one and definitely found one to be connected to the other?

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Plant Identification Questions and Answers / Re: Weed id

« Last post by Tomte on December 04, 2024, 09:27:26 PM »

Surely not glechoma.. the habit is very different. Senecio erucofolia has runnets, but has even more pinnate leaves. Can’t really tell from your pictures if that would match.

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Plant Identification Questions and Answers / Re: Weed id

« Last post by Palustris on December 04, 2024, 08:29:33 PM »

Thanks. Book says that Senecio jacobaeia does not have runners and this thing most definitely does. Obviously it is not a weed either myself or the greenkeeper have come across before. One suggestion is Glechoma?

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Plant Identification Questions and Answers / Re: Weed id

« Last post by Tomte on December 04, 2024, 07:20:15 PM »

The first photo makes me hesitant due to the more or less entire leafs, but the second one strongly reminds me of ragwort (Senecio jacobaea). Possibly younger stages of this plant may also have more entire leafs, and from personal experience this also fits your description in terms of persistence.. nice flowers, but better not touch it ungloved, it’s liver-toxic upon skin contact.