Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: mark smyth on December 15, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
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Today is the first day I have got into the garden for about two weeks. Quite a few plants are flowering out of season buy a month or several months. These include
Cyclamen coum - normally February for me
Daphne Bholua 'J. Postill' - normally February
Lonicera pupusii - normally February
Pulsatilla vulgaris - never been without a flower this year
Primula veris
Geranium 'Rozanne' has to be cut back again to make way for snowdrops. Last time was September for Colchicums
Do you have much showing now ahead of time?
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This isnt flowering out of season but somehow flowering again.
Colchicum autumnale 'Alboplenum'. As ever my Ranunuculus ficaria collection are in full leaf now with some in flower. The plant shown is one of my own finds and so far un-named. The third Ranunculus is, I think, 'South Downs'
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here is my Daphne 'Jacqueline Postill' ready to burst open, Cyclamen coum, a better shot of Lonicera x purpusii and an annual Chrysanthemum still going strong. This Chrysanthem should have gone to seed a long time ago
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Is this a late or early Hepatica flower? Took the photo just now
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I don't know what you give them Mark but mine are still in bud just above ground - so more patience is required.
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Luc I dont know why my plants come out early. The garden is wide open except for a short Leylandii hedge on the west side of the garden. I live in Antrim which may be influenced by Lough Neagh the largest fresh water lake in the UK. 22x12 miles or 15x8km. The town is located just off the top right corner of the lake
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Lovely pictures as usual Mark.
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thanks. I was up in my private jet to photograph Lough Neagh.
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Beautiful settings Mark - but that snow must date from last Winter or ???
Maybe it is the water and the warmth that it holds that makes your plants such early birds - and of course the Irish climate in general.
Good to see that you landed your private jet ok ;D and were able to post the pix.
Thanks again
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yes snow from February this year
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Mark, do you grow Daphne "Jacqueline" in a pot?
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no it's in the ground
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Here is Ipheion 'Wisley Blue' opening today -in the garden!
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Lovely pics Marck and Anthony
I also saw a hepatica bloom already in late november in The botanical garden in Lund Sweden. It was a h. transylvania so it is a bit earlier but generally not that early.
Thanks for sharing
Joakim
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I'll have to buy some Ipheons next year. It's a flower I like but have never bought.
Here is my Lonicera in full bloom
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Hi Mark,
Is that lonicera fragrantissima? Ours doesn't usually lose its foliage so doesn't look as impressive. i notice on the galanthus thread that you seem to have re-modelled your yard, have you added a sand-bed?
cheers
fermi
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Fermi, I think Mark said his lonicera is x purpusii. I don't grow it so I'm not sure!
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It was bought as Lonicera x purpusii but I'm open to opinions. Fermi I dont have a sand bed as such but the reason the cats like my garden is the top few inches in a mulch of grit sand from a local quarry. It's not sand and it's not grit very dark brown brown when dry and black when wet.
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Daphne 'Jacqueline Postill' is now fully open and smells great
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Yes, the daphnes are well into bloom now. Actually, I hadn't noticed the bloom but caught the scent in the garden. The 'ordinary' Daphne bholua is flowering better than D. b. 'Jacqueline Postil' and, indeed, of the two here in my garden, I prefer it. Perhaps this is because it is an older and much bigger plant and came as a gift from a friend.
Paddy
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Mark, your Lonicera purpusii looks right and here is mine, which has been flowering for ages also. It still has leaves on part of the shrub where it has a little more protection.
The last picture, a detail, looks yellower because of the background but it is white to the eye.
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when I see this Lonicera at snowdrop dos it's always looking good in February. Mine is well past it now
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This Alstroemeria needs to be told what month it is