Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on July 01, 2013, 03:35:15 AM
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It's the first of the month, the middle of winter and the "white stuff on the ground" here is due to narcissus and other bulbs! ;D
Narcissus bulbocodium ssp graelsii
Acis tingitana
Sternbergia candida
cheers
fermi
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Another white for you Fermi, Crocus minimus albus, so much earlier than the regular purple forms. It's been in flower since mid June, the other doesn't start until mid August and goes on until late October with me.
Then a bit more colour, a carpet of liquidamber foliage which fell in the week of rain we had two weeks ago. The flooding is still severe in lowland Otago and now we are told that nor'west winds are melting the high country snow so we should expect more floods!
Lots more crocuses have flowered early. C. chrysanthus from Mt. Parnassus (Marcus' seed) has already finished and gargaricus is well on the way. C. x Bornmuelleri is out and so is baytopiorum (Anne's W's seed) but both are lacking enough sun to open the flowers properly. Many little daffs too. I'm pleased to see the whiteness of N. b. graelsii in your picture Fermi. I have it as seedlings from Rafa by way of Anthony in Ak but not flowering yet. Somehow all the "white" forms I get seem to have some lemon in them so I hope these come like yours.
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My Narcissus cantabricus from seed kindly sent from Spain, and sown in July 2011, has sent up to flower buds, the first of which is just opening. 8)
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A real achievement to be growing these little Narcissus species in Auckland Anthony. I wonder if anyone else is? I think my friend at Warkworth may be, and he certainly grows some crocuses.
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A real achievement to be growing these little Narcissus species in Auckland, Anthony.
Well, Lesley,
if Anthony follows Ian Young's example of how he aclimatised the Siberian (I think) Erythronium to their "warmer" Aberdonian garden by growing successive generations from seed then Anthony may succeed in doing the same with the small daffs in "tropical" Auckland! ;D
Do other galanthophiles use Euphorbia, Dwarf bearded iris and California poppies as companion plants for their snowdrops?
These Galanthus elwesii grow in our rock garden in full sun but don't get watered when they are dormant.
cheers
fermi
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I have snowdrop seeds from Canada and England sprouting now. 8) I asked at a local garden centre at bulb time if they have any snowdrops but just got a blank look. ::)
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I collected some seeds off my Narcissus viridiflorus this weekend. I'll be sending them both to the seed exchange.
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I collected some seeds off my Narcissus viridiflorus this weekend. I'll be sending them both to the seed exchange.
;D ;) Great oaks, Anthony, great oaks..........
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I have some other seeds set by. I could send plenty of acorns, but it would be coals to Newcastle as it seems to be Quercus robur that has been planted in the council grass verges near us. Rather odd, as native trees are evergreen and don't cause an autumn leaf problem! I would like to try the kermes oak (Quercus coccifera), should anyone have acorns.
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This Hesperantha has been in flower since Saturday (posted to the South African Bulbs thread already) and a third flower opened today; I brought in to the office so that I could pollinate it!
I love the speckling on the exterior of the petals.
cheers
fermi
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Juno Iris planifolia in the garden;
Sternbergia candida now with more flowers but a bit bowed down by the frost this morning!
cheers
fermi
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I asked at a local garden centre at bulb time if they have any snowdrops but just got a blank look. ::)
Quite a common phenomenon amongst Aucklanders I think. ;D Many have not heard of the South Island at all :o so a snowdrop is a totally alien concept.
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Where I live it is unusual to find an Aucklander. Most seem to be like us, from over seas. :o
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Well count your blessings Anthony! :D
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More flowers open now on the clump of Acis tingitana, and
the Sternbergia candida look better when open!
cheers
fermi
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Fermi I keep seeing those Hesperantha photos above and thinking how beautiful it is.
Had a lovely visit from Marcus and Trevor N today.
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Already posted elsewhere, but repeated here for those who don't scour every new page of the Forum!
Galanthus "Outer Green Tips" - AKA 'Merlin' 'Comet' (thanks, Lesley for the correction)
G. elwesii
Narcissus pachybulbus
Galanthus - maybe plicatus
Narcissus romieuxii ? seedling?
cheers
fermi
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Hi Fermi,
I had 'Outer Green Tips' from Marcus a few years ago then he subsequently listed it as 'Comet.' Your romieuxii seedling looks exactly like my seedlings from 'Julia Jane.'
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Thanks for the correction, Lesley.
Here's Galanthus elwesii growing in the Rock Garden and a bit more open in the warm weather we had this morning.
cheers
fermi
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In flower today, Crocus olivieri ,this form has a puple flower tube. The pick doesnt show it. Mathew Murray who collected it back in 2001 in Greece. Was a hard find after the goats had ate every seed capsules
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Crocus corsicus, another wild collection.
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I potted up 43 weldenias yesterday. Usually I don't do them until they're breaking dormancy, say Sept but can't bear the waste of time as I wait for warmer weather. They all had good growing points and there were a few broken roots that also seemed to have growing points. I've not previously been able to get them going from root cuttings but maybe this time? :-\
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I've posted these elsewhere, but we do have a few new flowers each day as we race towards spring!
Iris Blue ice
Iris Dance On
Narcissus hispanicus
N. hybrid(Westholme x N.viridiflorus) from Lawrence Trevanion
N. GlenBrook Ta-Julia
cheers
fermi
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A couple more flowering in the garden - Iris unguicularius from Lesley, and a Cymbidium hybrid.
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Your unguicularis has more flowers on it than mine has Anthony, 2 more! In the meantime, Bill's 'Starker's Pink' should be out tomorrow if there's some sun. It seems more lavender than I remember it from my mother's garden. I'm sure hers was really pink.
Here is Iris reticulata 'Gordon,' new bulbs from a garden centre, so imported, so a little earlier than they should be. I'll post some crocuses tomorrow.
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Nice flowers all; we're almost giving Luit a run for his money - notice I said 'almost'! ::) ;D
I have several bulbs of Narcissus cyclamineus and Tecophilaea cyanocrocus just barely hanging on in my warm climate - both have produced one flower this year; something tells me I'm losing the battle...
Nice to have grown them at least once from seed to flowering size, of course there are many other things I can and do grow well - Snowdrops are also not one of them!
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Oops - posted in the wrong hemisphere. ???
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Oops - posted in the wrong hemisphere. ???
Not to worry, I've moved it for you. ;D
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I haven't sorted the latest crocus pics yet but will do, ASAP. I'm in the process of sorting crocus pots and narcissus and have most of those done, now starting on galanthus and frits and then others as they begin to come through, putting them in trays in separate blocks so I can find things when I want them. The original shift had everything neatly recorded in an exercise book but as I've taken things from trays then filled the gaps with other things, the contents of each tray have become hopelessly mixed. I've so far emptied maybe a third of the original trays but keep finding more crocus pots to the extent that each one is "another b..... crocus." Of course I love them all but had no idea there were so many!
I had neither slugs nor snails at my previous address but though I've seen just a single tiny snail, there are legions of slugs. I am now only seen with a box of slug pellets in one hand. The little sods have eaten the bud out of Frit. alburyana!
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Lesley , there is an army of slugs and snails in my garden and at the moment they are not only munching on the newly emerging leaves of Frits and Scillas etc . but have suddenly developed an appetite for the rarer Reticulata Irises ( I.bakeriana , zagrica ) and also dwarf Junos like rosenbachiana and parvula etc.
Looking forward to see your Crocus pictures - here are a few taken today . Thousands of Tommies in many shades opened in the sunshine ,and C. rujanensis is selfsowing .
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A couple of daffs from Keira Bulbs this year
Narcissus Papa Snoz
Narc. KB/BH/white/small/1/04
front view of the above
cheers
fermi
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A few of the narcissus flowering at present. The white bulbocodium is ex Monocot many years ago and only part of the species name left. The small yellow came labelled Narcissus tazetta Lord Channing -only planted this year.