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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Anthony Darby on January 01, 2008, 04:32:11 PM
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Half an hour in the warmth of my study and Crocus michelsonii 'God's Look' opened its flowers today.
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Nice crocus Anthony her is a little treat I gave myself over Christmas from Ashwood. Only a few on sale as yet but this one took mt fancy for shape and colour contrast
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I wanna onea those-to both ;D
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Nice crocus and helleborus.
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Anthony,
That is one corker of a Crocus. What a colour combination!! Beautiful!! I've arranged to finally get C. mathewii this year here in Aus, so I'll finally get to see one of those lovely dark centred Crocus one of these years!! I just love the pics I've seen of them. I like the height and proportions of your one in particular..... very nice. 8)
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Great way to start off the year !
C. Michelsonii hais been on my wants list for a while but your picture only put it higher on the list Anthony ! ;D
Too bad Ashwood is a bit out of the way from here... ;D I wouldn't have minded a Christmas treat like that one either.... 8)
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Nothing very special but one or two nice things out in the garden as well as snowdrops. I think I have the pruning regime for the Witch hazel right as it is smothered in flowers, so pretty at this time of the year I wish I had room for some more varieties. My eye was also taken by good old Helleborus foetidus, I must get all the old foliage on the hybrids cut down, I see that eric smithii is heavy with bud. Nearby a Silybum had seeded in the vegetable patch, the rosette is most attractive...but it will have to go when the patch is dug over! Another joy of this time of the year is the seedheads on the clematis, this one is a tangutica and smothers one side of the gazebo. The Daphne mezereum has been flowering since late October. I planted it near the back door so that we could enjoy it even if we didn't feel like gardening. The birds sit in it's protection and eat the food from the seedfeeders and also peck the branches (for insects?). Lastly, also by the back door... but in a pot are two Correa, this one is "Dusky bells" I think, you can see why they are called New Zealand fuschia. The yellow one has several buds but only one flower out, it's a very pretty soft yellow. I am struck yet again at how much is still in flower, on my walk this morning I passed several gardens with roses in bloom. I don't think they will enjoy the cold spell which is about to hit us.
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Whoops hit the wrong button!
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Do you guys really call Correa "New Zealand Fuchsia"? I'm not sure there are actually any Correa that are native to NZ...... if there are then they are very few as the vast majority of Correa are native to Australia, predominantly South East Aus as far as I know? Interesting that they're been attributed to NZ rather than Aus in their common name. Shows why common names can be somewhat misleading!! ;D
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Sorry Paul et al I had meant to say Australian but had been looking at one of the other threads and had that fresh in the mind ::)
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No problemo. Just thought it was strange..... particularly as NZ already has Fuchsias (F. procumbens) to start with.
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And it would be something of a reversal as well, since the Aussies are known for "pinching" everything good that is ours, such as Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, the luscious Pavlova dessert, bands Splitenz and Crowded House, a certain famous race horse called Phar Lap, etc etc etc..... :D
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Now now Lesley. No need to get snitty. As a peace offering I'm happy to offer you Russell Crowe back if you'd like?? ;D (now where is that innocent smiley with a halo when you need it?)
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Paul,
You're probably happy that L'il Orphan Kylie's been 'adopted' out as well.
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No, I just don't think much of Russell, that's all!! ;D
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Now now Lesley. No need to get snitty. As a peace offering I'm happy to offer you Russell Crowe back if you'd like?? ;D (now where is that innocent smiley with a halo when you need it?)
Ah, but do we want him?
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Shows why common names can be somewhat misleading!! ;D
Well, the hungarian common name of Saintpaulia ionantha is Capensis violet :o :o :o
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Maybe we should have gone to Ashwoods instead to Colesbourne. I really want a very nice Hellebore of two for the centre of one of my raised beds
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Seems to be the only thing in flower in the garden at the moment.
So I'll post picture of Helleborus niger from today.
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Mick,
The weather must be kind in your neck of the woods. I took a few photographs of H. niger but the blooms were all splashed and splattered following recent rain.
However, there were some things in flower at the moment.
Brian,
I grow a few witch hazels and have never pruned them at all and would not do so except they were getting in the way of something important.
Paddy
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I meant to mention above in reference to the photograph, 'Cyclamen coum with seedling' that this is a very simple method I have used very successfully to propagate Cyclamen coum and C. hederifolium in the garden. When the seed capsule is ripe and beginning to split, I scrape back a patch of the bark which I use as a mulch and then scatter the seeds on the ground. They invariably germinate the following season. You can see the patch of seedlings above. Reputatedly, ants will otherwise collect them and disperse them according to their own purposes.
Meanwhile some more photographs from the garden today:
Paddy
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And a last few,
Paddy
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Paddy, your cyclamen are lovely plants, but the ones labelled as cilicium are both persicum.
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Perfectly correct, Diane. These were bought as Christmas decorative plants a few years ago and have continued to do well on each following year. I will go back and correct the names, if I can.
Paddy
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Paddy
This witch hazel was spreading quite a bit and only flowering at the ends of the branches. I wanted to reduce it's size and get more flower and it does seem to have worked. We went to one of the National Collections of witch hazel last year and the holder said they could be pruned successfully if they became too big for their space which prompted me to have a go.
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You already have quite a colourful display Paddy ! Nice plants and pictures. Once again the Green Isle is way in front of us, half frozen "continentals" ;D
Your I. K. Hodgekins makes me long for mine to flower - I'll need to be patient for 6 or 8 more weeks or so. Thanks for making the waiting seem shorter ;).
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Flowers and foliage now, after a day and night of sleety rain. But finally the sun is shining!!!! 8)
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Paddy isn't 'Gravetye Giant' a form of Leucojum aestivum?
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Paddy must have been on the drink yesterday
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Mea culpa, Hic!
How did you notice?
Paddy
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Luc,
I'm afraid it is not really a colourful display but an odd bloom here and there except for the shrubby plants shown. There really is only a handful of daffodils in flower, not that many snowdrops - more promising to flower but not that many actually open yet. But when flowers are scarce they may be appreciated all the more.
Paddy
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My Narcissus 'Jenny' is just beginning to show above ground as is Iris 'Katharine Hodgkin'. You must have dodged all the bad weather in Waterford Paddy, and I thought I lived in a balmy (barmy!) part of the world. Iris retic. 'Gordon' is well up but no trace of danfordiae yet and no sign of a flower on my Iris unguicularis.
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David,
It was a case of one of those 'pet, days on Saturday last. Friday was terrible, as was Sunday. Today, again is a frightful day and I wouldn't even venture out to look at the plants.
Paddy
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I've got this hellebore hybrid in a pot so I was able to take the photo indoors.
It has been raining all day, with some sleet mixed in this afternoon.
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Pretty plant Rob, and a lovely photograph.
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Lovely, Rob.
Paddy
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Ipheions "Jessie" (darker than it looks - some sun came out just as I was taking the photo!) and "Alberto Castillo". Jessie has been flowering slowly but steadily since early December. Alberto Castillo has just started.
Chloë
in wet, when-in-rains-it-pours north Portugal
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Chloe,
A very well timed posting of your Ipheion 'Alberto Castillo' when Alberto has just started posting to the forum.
Odd to be growing him in our gardens, so to speak, when he is posting to the forum.
Paddy
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Belated happy new year everybody.
I've been enjoying the Wisley log recently, though most put-out to discover a massonia species I'm not growing - yet! (M.hirsuta). I've been growing a number of these for some years the following are currently in flower:
Top is (allegedly) a form of M jasminiflora which was offered in the Mesemb study group seed exchange a few years ago . A Hamburg BG seed collection. Terry Smale told me that one of his seedlings had flowered with strikingly pink anther filaments and fortunately one of mine has done likewise. To my eye it bears little resemblance to the other forms of M jasminiflora I grow (which despite the name smell disgusting!). This is a little past it's best - the outer flowers had gone over and have been removed - Paul is absolutely right about botrytis on the dead flowers with this genus.
Next up is M depressa, which is just opening now and is the last species to flower with me (The first - M.pygmaea, flowers in september). Note the pools of nectar like those in Paul's Daubenya pictures. I don't grow any Daubenya. I've had seedlings of D aurea before but found them very difficult indeed.
Then a few other bits and bobs. an Iris reticulata flowering in it's 7cm seed pot. Was open pollinated seed from one of Alan McMurtry's reticulata hybrids. Looks like straight reticulata to me, possibly with some I histrioides influence.
As well as massonias this South african is in flower at the moment. Gladiolus maculatus. A lovely scent too. Many more in flower than there were last year so I'm hoping for a good seed crop.
Last up is the very lovely Scilla aristidis (or aristides depending on who you read). This has the charming characteristic of staying compact despite flowering in the depths of winter and under glass.
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Only one pic of Ranunculus calandrinioides from Morroco.
Gerd
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Gerd, when do you water your Ranunculus calandrinioides after its summer rest? How quickly does it then come into growth then?
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Lovely pictures Darren and Gerd
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Darren,
That small gladdy looks super !
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Gerd, when do you water your Ranunculus calandrinioides after its summer rest? How quickly does it then come into growth then?
Maggi,
I water them later than other wintergrowing species around the middle of November. It comes into growth about two weeks later. I have two pots, one of them is faster than the other.
This species is very suscectible to mildew when grown inside. So I give them the shelter of a greenhouse only during very cold spells.
Gerd
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Thanks, Gerd.
I am interested that it is as late as November, this is valuable advice for anyone new to this lovely plant.
Growing at this time of year it is nicest to be able to enjoy it under glass, anyway...... especially with the weather at the moment!
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Another point, Gerd, do you give them overhead protection when they are outside in better weather?
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Another point, Gerd, do you give them overhead protection when they are outside in better weather?
This plant is one of the very few I have which vagabondize around in my garden acording the weather, best at the sunniest place, under overhead protection in a corner when it is very windy or during heavy rains and inside the greenhouse during temperatures below zero.
I must confess this is not the specialists way. Best cultivation during winter and spring perhaps is to keep this plant permanently in a sunny and good ventilated alpine house. Deep temperatures never damaged the plant. Dry during the resting stage.
Gerd
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Whatever you do with it Gerd, it looks very attractive ! ;)
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Maggi,
I grow R. calandrinioides outdoors on a raised bed and it has done very well over the several years it is there. It is in growth at the moment.
Paddy
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You surprise me, Paddy. I would have thought it would get too wet during the summer and rot off.
Waterford is even better than I thought, eh?
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Maggi,
Of course Waterford is brilliant. Don't I live here!
Paddy
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Paddy, LOTS of Ireland is brilliant... look what arrived for us today from Geebo (Guy) in Nenagh.....
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Two lovely hellebores... Many thanks for this generous gift, Guy and Maureen :-* I have a great spot for them where I think they will do well.
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Haven't seen Guy on the forum in ages. Coax him back.
Good looking hellebores.
Paddy
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I grow R. calandrinioides outdoors and it has done very well over the winters in the last years. This year it survived 5 weeks permafrost without snow. The temperature was between - 12° and - 5° C. all days. The plant did not have protection. Nevertheless it comes of Morocco it is perfectly hard in my garden.
This photo is from today. Temperature 8° C.
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I grow R. calandrinioides outdoors and it has done very well over the winters in the last years. This year it survived 5 weeks permafrost without snow. The temperature was between - 12° and - 5° C. all days. The plant did not have protection. Nevertheless it comes of Morocco it is perfectly hard in my garden.
This photo is from today. Temperature 8° C.
Franz,
I would like my plants (only 2) would ever look as yours. Very impressive!
I tried some younger plants outside and they look very bad after some time and finally died.
It was not the cold which killed them but our wet summers. The plants weren't able to turn into the resting stage.
Gerd
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Franz,
I am amazed how well forward you plant is considering your temperatures are so cold. Despite our milder conditions my plant is only now putting out its leaves.
Great photograph.
Paddy
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Lovely healthy plants, as ever, Franz. It was the wet in summer that was the problem with ours, for sure.
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Gerd,
You are right, our summer is not as wet as yours.
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Haven't seen Guy on the forum in ages. Coax him back.
Guy is around betimes, Paddy. I think winter is bad for him and he has been very busy. He'll pop up one of these days, I expect.
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Darren,
That small gladdy looks super !
I wonder is it Gladiolus maculatus?
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A few images that I took today in the alpine house,the first are of three different plants of helleborus thibetanus showing the variation in both leaves and flowers and a tray of cyclamen coum 'Maurice Dryden' flowering in the tray in which they were sown and Adonis.
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That's good enough to cheer anyone up in this weather, John.
H. thibetanus is a delightful plant... ours are safely underground at the minute, a treat for later.
How nice to see the mass of Coum 'Maurice Dryden' because I was a huge fan of the real chap, who is so very sadly missed. I was greatly touched when Kath phoned me to offer condolences on the death of my Father at Christmas , so near to the anniversary of Maurice's death.... that dear lady has a heart of gold.
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Super helleborus thibetanus John, I must look out for it to go amongst the snowdrops.
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Lovely plants John my thibetanus are outside so looking a little bit more bedraggled
Here is Iris Histrio because I find digital (unlike film) overdoes blue I have tried to bring this back to the lovely pale violet clour of the true plant
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In case people are getting fed up with white fever here is something ELSE coming up at present. ::)
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I've always fancied Gymnospermium. How easy are they? Can they do OK outside also?
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Mark I always keep mine inside in a pot.It needs a long hot dry(what a joke here) summer rest but others may grow it outside. They are very easy doing it my way
I planted all my Helleborus thibetanus out lat year and wait to see if they survive. The seed from last year is just germinating as a back up if the garden proves fatal.
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Tony is right Gymnospermium likes very little water even when growing it comes from arid mountains - see reference in Janis Ruksans - in eastern asia where many tulips and juno iris come from. The trick will be if "I" can keep it even in a pot!
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I managed OK in sunny D. Eventually exchanged my last plant, but it flowered well every year. Never set seed though.
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Here in western Sweden we have a really mild winter this year (like last). Some say it has something to do with the greenhouse effect. I don't know! The bulbs in our bulb bed does not care about why it is so mild. They just grow. In the absence of sun they don't open though. In the case of this one I don't care. I find it more attractive this way. It's a white form of Colchicum szovitsii.
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Beautiful, Kenneth, the pure white of the bud with the contrast of the dark foliage ... 8)
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I don't know about 'Global Warming', I think Blackpool has got stuck on the 'Rinse Cycle'!!!
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Cyclamen pseudibericum in flower now,I think it should have waited another couple of months
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I think it should have waited another couple of months
Well, I am certainly appreciated the sense of those animals who are safely tucked up in hibernation at the minute! Most of our plants are keeping their heads down in the garden and under glass things are fairly quiet... they must know Ian's away!
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"I don't know about 'Global Warming', I think Blackpool has got stuck on the 'Rinse
Cycle'!!!"
Probably better than 'spin'...
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Probably better than 'spin'...
For this comment Carlo wins the "optimist of the day award".... this prestigious awards consists of a bar of finest chocolate... naturally, with the current world situation, the SRGC cannot take the risk of any item , such as this prize, being tampered with, contaminated by any noxious substances etc, so I have taken it upon myself to exhaustively test said choc bar and, while I am delighted to assure Carlo that it was fit for purpose and quite untainted, my tests have resulted in the ingestion of the prize..... I could send the wrapper, I suppose, or might I be being TOO optimistic to believe that would be acceptable?? ::)
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With bright sun to day, some shrubs are already in flower
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and Chimonanthus praecox with his hyacinth perfume
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There is still plenty of water in your river, I see, Do!
My red Hamamelis, which I tink may be Diane, but I am never quite remembering it, has finally come out, she is usually much earlier than this. The yellow is late, but is in a shadier spot.
I don't have the Chimonanthus... though I love scented plants.
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Beautiful Chimonanthus! It's on my wish-list now.
Hope it does like Ph. 6.5 or 7 ??
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Lovely pics everyone.
Tony W.... that Cyclamen psudibericum is just glorious!! Haven't seen a pale pink like that before. I think I've seen pics of a pure white, as well as the traditional bright pink (which is what I grow and love), but not that lovely pale. Outstanding!!
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Maggi, my garden is along the River Doubs and the snow of the Jura begin to turn in water. It is always a charming spectacle to see many waterfowl, herons, aigretts and swans which go on the water or along without see us.
Luit, Chimonanthus is not exigeant on the PH. I have seen it on calcareous grounds too.
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Here in Hungary there are Hamamellis and Chimonanthus only in botanical gardens :'( :'( :'(
Men think they are not enough hardy for our climate, though they thrive in sheltered positions, I've seen in arboretums very nice plants. They are absent in nurseries too.
Most people does not care for winter-goodlooking gardens here.
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Katherine
if you want, I can send you seeds of them or cuts if success or perhaps seedlings of a friend who sow them in autumn.
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Thank you very much Dominique, but I can obtain seeds here. The truth is, that the garden in which we live is not our own, this is a house with 9 flats, and everybody has something to comment (and nothing doing) if I want to plant something, so I have my plants in pots. Maybe someday, in another place.
I was jus moaning about the absence of gardening culture here. ;D
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Luit, Chimonanthus is not exigeant on the PH. I have seen it on calcareous grounds too.
Thanks, I'll give it a try when I can find a nice grown plant!
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I'm surprised that no-one is calling the Chimonanthus by its "common" name, of "wintersweet," the most appropriate common name in the world surely. I actively look forward to winter for that delicious, cold scent and I'd bottle it if I could. Like the wonderful perfume of Philadelphus `Belle Etoile' which is out at present, the wintersweet is one I can quite literally smell in my dreams and I've many times woken to have either scent right there in my nose, even though it may not be their flowering time.
Wintersweet takes many years to flower from seed which I suppose is why most nursery stock is grafted. The variety 'Luteus' has a bigger, all yellow flower and similar perfume.
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Lots of species hellebores in flower here at the moment.
1. Helleborus vesicarius.
2. Helleborus vesicarius.
3. Helleborus atrorubens from a small site in southeast Slovenia.
4. As above.
5. Helleborus atrorubens from a site west of Zagreb where a good proportion of the flowers are spotted and veined.
6. Helleborus croaticus from the largest site I know of for this species in northeast Croatia.
7. As above.
8. As above.
9. An as yet un-named species from high up in the Velebit mountains, Croatia.
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Great to see the flowers starting on your hellebores, Tim. They are all looking very healthy....looking forward to seeing more, of course!
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That's good to hear Maggi because there will be many more to come over the next few weeks :-)
Helleborus niger is looking good this year too. All of these plants have been grown from wild collected seed as have all of the Cyclamen purpurascens growing in amongst them. Our damp, cool summer meant that some of these C. purpurascens had 50+ flowers on them last year.
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Great plants Tim look forward to seeing some more
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Tim lovely hellebores.
Paul thanks for your comments re the cyclamen.I have a selection of these in pale colours,the form of the flowers of some of them comes very close to libanoticum. Three more pictures from last year
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Obviously I was tempting providence with my remarks about Blackpool getting stuck on the rinse cycle. Look what my cold frame looked like this morning. It has never done this before!!!!!
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John I though you had posted a picture of mine by mistake!!
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On a happier note this beautiful but tiny Cyclamen alpinum is in flower in the alpine house AND grown from SRGC seed sown Jan 05.
Top view to show the propellor shaped petal arrangement
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Obviously you were under the same dark cloud Tony. The irony is that it also caused problems to the pumping station and we are without water :'(
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Bad news on all the water fronts, then JoF.... hope you are not long without house water and VERY quickly without frame water......you can prove you weren't exaggerating about the rain though, that's for sure. What a mess! :'(
The Cyclamen is a little stunner... glad its okay.... was the water not getting into the lower part of the alpine house ?
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Just had a thought... can Teasel swim? :o
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John,
Obviously a plunge bed rather than a cold frame.
Below, on the kitchen table on my return home this afternoon, a selection of Helleborus X cultorum picked by Mary from the garden during the day.
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I was happy to see some shrub photos posted earlier, as that is about all
I have to enjoy. My shrubs - Arbutus unedo, Mahonia Charity, Fuchsias,
Jasminum nudiflorum, and Grevillea victoriae bloom all winter. Maybe it
it is because the deer don't like them, and they're too big for the rats, which
instead eat little things like cyclamen, crocus, and hellebores.
I do have a few snowdrops already open. Fortunately, nothing eats the
flowers.
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Cyclamen coum has rushed into flower in the last week at temperatures soar. Also Cyclamen alpinum (as we now call it) which is a favourite of mine. Small is beautiful.
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Just going out for lunch but was stopped by Helleborus x. ericsmithii flowering by the door of the garage. Lots of buds still to come!
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Obviously a Helleborus with flower power Brian !!!! :o
A real stunner !
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Luckily no flooding here. Plenty of mud though. Here are the orchids in my greenhouse - mostly Orchis and Ophrys in the foreground with Barlia, Serapias and Anacamptis behind.
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John's cylamen alpina or is it trocoptheranum? reminded me to take a picture of my own trocopterhanum album.Rod Leeds spotted this when visitiing my garden with a snowdrop group about 3yrs ago and told me that the album form was quite rare.Can anyone confirm that this is the case?
I was also surprised to find Rhod.sitchoense well on the way to being fully open and Daphne jezoensis in the alpine house
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Anthony, your orchids are looking very healthy :D
John, what a nice selection... great colours in these (for most of us) very dull days!
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John Cyclamen alpinum is the 'new' (old? correct?) name for trochopteranthum.
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John's cylamen alpina or is it trocoptheranum? reminded me to take a picture of my own trocopterhanum album.Rod Leeds spotted this when visitiing my garden with a snowdrop group about 3yrs ago and told me that the album form was quite rare.Can anyone confirm that this is the case?
John, although C. alpinum forma Leucanthum is likely to be in the collection of most hardcore cyclamen enthusiasts, it's not a particularly easy plant to get hold of in any numbers or from all that many sources, so yes, it is quite rare. The problem I have found with my own stock plants of alpinum f. Leucanthum is that a very small proportion of seedlings come true, even when the parent plants are kept together but away from normal forms of alpinum.
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John,
It would be Cyclamen trochopteranthum (note spelling) which is now a synonym of C. alpinum (if the chaps in England are to be believed--I still like the old name myself...)
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Only one chap was responsible for the name change, Carlo... C G-W.
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I still like the old name myself
Me too and it's fun to tell children about the name and show them why it is relevant.
Also, it always reminds me of how our nephew used to talk of his passion for "helicopeters".... we still call them that! Oh, and another of his words "tangerIan"... yes, Cyclamen trochopteranthum is good enough for me :D
Only one chap was responsible for the name change, Carlo... C G-W.
Yes, indeedy ::)
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John,
It would be Cyclamen trochopteranthum (note spelling) which is now a synonym of C. alpinum (if the chaps in England are to be believed--I still like the old name myself...)
I like trochopteranthum myself. One sounds so clever when pronouncing it.
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You can not sell a book unless you have something new to say!
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Thankfully the water is back on in the house and the water in the garden has subsided. We are half way down a gentle sloping hill and so the water seeps onwards to the next garden and the cold frame emptied in about 24 hours. One redeeming feature of the flooded frames was all the small black keel slugs laying drowned when the water subside.
Teasel thought the puddles were great fun and even more so managing to wipe her paws on my trousers, whilst trying to encourage me to throw her toy to retrieve. I won't bother you with my comments to her!!!
Yesterday began with frost and the air was still so I took a picture of the Witch Hazel.
In the alpine house a nice Narcissus romieuxii which, like the Cyclamen alpinum (the label of which now bears both specific epithets, to please all our readers) was also from good old SRGC seed, sown in Jan 2005.
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JoF, what great pictures.... my yellow Hamamelis is only just showing the tiniest beginning of colour. I've never known it so late.
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It's SUNNY at last Cool, blowing a gale as well, but caught a picture of Hamamalis 'Diane' at her best.
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Oh, yes, Anne, that is perfect with the sun showing the colour, just the best way to appreciate the flowers.
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With no frosts at all, my wintersweet, Chimonanthus praecox 'Luteus' is looking good - not one frosted flower. The scent is fantabulous, but a bit mixed up with fragrance of the huge (2.5m - 8ft) Daphne bholua 'Jaqueline Postill' right next to it. With these two, plus half a dozen scented winter box around the front path, and the mild weather, the walk to our front door from the road doesn't half smell nice - almost overpowering today!
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Martin the joys of living nearly in the south.The chimonanthus is wonderful.We have never had a flower in many years of growing.
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A couple of things in flower in thee greenhouse. The orchids are just starting as is the cyclamen parviflorum
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That orchid is just so exquisite!
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Nice Tony, really nice.
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Just Narcissus albidus from Afourer/Morocco
Gerd
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These are Helleborus atrorubens thriving since November and Cyclamen persicum from Israel
Gerd
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Helleborus thibetanus
Hans
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A very fine form of the plant we call Helleborus thibetanus, Hans.
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It's a real smasher Hans !
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Super!!!
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These are Helleborus atrorubens thriving since November
How sprightly! I like the way there are so many flowers, all nicely
arranged on an upright stem.
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These are Helleborus atrorubens thriving since November
How sprightly! I like the way there are so many flowers, all nicely
arranged on an upright stem.
Great colour and so good that they HAVE been thriving since November... great garden value 8)
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A couple of things in flower in thee greenhouse. The orchids are just starting as is the cyclamen parviflorum
That's a lovely orchid. Not one I've seen before. Early too.
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Today it has been lovely weather here in Denmark, almost like spring. A couple of plants are beginning flowering.
Karl Kristensen
Denmark
www.kalle-k.dk
Adonis amurense Chichibubeni
Helleborus x hybridus yellow double
Primula ovalifolia ssp. cralifolia
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A little walk round the garden today with a whiff of spring in the air
Hamamelis
Cyclamen coum in a trough
Eranthis hyemalis
Iris Katharine Hodgkin
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... and in the greenhouses
a strange sight in mid winter - Silene californica - has been in flower almost non stop since last summer.
Petrocosmea grandiflora doing very well this year
Narcissus Camoro wonderful green sepals (just had to throw out my second pot of this due to virus, along with a pot of N wilkommii - so sad, but not worth the risk :'( )
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Spring's not far away, even in Denmark.
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Great to see a low level photo of the Eranthis. Mine are very late this year with only a few up.
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Loving that fat Petrocosmea, Diane!
Narcissus is N. 'CAmoro', with an A not an O !
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Loving that fat Petrocosmea, Diane!
Narcissus is N. 'CAmoro', with an A not an O !
Yes, sorry, of course, a silly slip from me, I know it's from N CAntabricus MOnophyllus x ROmieuxii I believe, thanks to Henry and Margaret Taylor for the cross and the name.
The Petrocosmea's been a treat this year, always flowers in the dead of winter, but never so well as this. And I've done some leaf cuttings s-l-o-w to take but I think I have some rooted.
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Beautiful images folks....many thanks.
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Just beginning to open
Ranunculus cadmicus ssp. cyprius
Gerd
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Here today floweing a couple of Hellebores the first is a self sown seedling of Black Prince (also in the gardenand a plant dating back at least 80 years) and a newer "black" strain from Ashwood a couple of years ago. Both are darker in reality. Also I Katherine Hodgkin - note the slug pellets spread after some pest had cut down 3 flowering stalks. And finally Leucojum vernum
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Superb Hellebores Ian ! :o
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Luc the time of the Hellebore approaches 8)
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One fever replacing another ??? ;)
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Aye Luc that's right but with Hellebores there is a chance that with some you can tell the difference ::)
Ian
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Here today floweing a couple of Hellebores the first is a self sown seedling of Black Prince (also in the gardenand a plant dating back at least 80 years) .....
Ian, I take it you didn't plant it? ;D
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Ian,
a nice clump of Leucojum vernum. So early - beautiful. :D
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Wonderful pics everyone. Enjoying them immensely. Sooooooo far from Eranthis here at the moment, so it is nice to be reminded of their little bundles of joy. ;D
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Ian, that Prince-seedling is a beauty. Would be nice to see a picture
of the real Prince. Until now I've only heard of "Ivory Prince". cannot imagine
such a seedling is coming out of that?
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Luit in naming the plant I had a senior moment the parent is Black Knight Not Prince which you will find in the Hellebore history. When BLACK KNIGHT comes into flower I will post a picture. I think it my seedling may be a natural cross with a plant I acquired as a "seedling from Hamburg Black Grape" but I have never found a reference to such a plant. Nice plant though very floriferous and early.
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Thank you Ian, looking forward at your Black Knight.
It has to be really better, otherwise.....! Your seedling is a stunner.
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Took a couple of photos of plants brought to our HPS meeting on Monday night by David Boyd, of the AGS Ponteland group - Scopiolus bigelovii and Crocus chrysanthus 'Sunspot'
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Chris,
I just love Scoliopis bigelowei. It's always a joy when it flowers here each year, even if it is the tiniest thing when grown in the garden and therefore at ground level instead of a pot. ;D Tiny, but perfectly formed. The Crocus as I've said before to Mark S in the Crocus thread is just gorgeous!!!!!!!
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They made me drool, Paul and I just had to take their picture!
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Sunspot's definitely on my wants list for next season.
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So expensive though! But beautiful. Could get several pints for the price of just one bulb!
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Anthony place your order now because Rob says he doesnt know if he will have the stock this year
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So expensive though! But beautiful. Could get several pints for the price of just one bulb!
Nice plant, but I think I'll have the pints and wait for it to come down in price!
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Ah... there's a man with the right (??) priorities! ;D
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A chum and I walked along to a local hotel on sunday, where an Antiques and Collectors' Fair was taking place. It was stiflingly hot in the hall and so after a while we were gasping for a drink... tootled along to the bar and ordered a Martini and lemonade and a glass of white wine..... £11.55.... I nearly fainted clean away.... the bar seems to sell double measures as standard and price accordingly.... I know I don't get out much but I was really shocked... that was a Crocus 'Sunspot' plus the postage! :o :o :o
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And your crocus would be there again next year for you Maggi! Wonder which is the better buy?
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The better buy would certainly be the Crocus, Christine!! Next time out I'll take my own bottle of water :P
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This one is for Paul. A minute Trillium relative flowering in a trough. Don't remember it being this early before ???
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tootled along to the bar and ordered a Martini and lemonade and a glass of white wine..... £11.55.... I nearly fainted clean away.... the bar seems to sell double measures as standard and price accordingly.... I know I don't get out much but I was really shocked... that was a Crocus 'Sunspot' plus the postage! :o :o :o
Probably only buy you a glass of water in London or Edinburgh,just shows the advantage in living in a remote spot (I could not think of a better description )
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At present Cyclamen coum flowers with an unusual bloom in my meadow.
It is a self seedling. What do think the expert?
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At present Cyclamen coum flowers with an unusual bloom in my meadow.
It is a self seedling. What do think the expert?
Franz,
I am far away to call me an expert but I would like to ask the same question. I noticed this phenomenon also at C. coum and C. persicum.
Is it possible that flowers can't go to their ' normal ' position when conditions are wrong (too cold/hot, roots disturbed, etc.)?
Gerd
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Gerd,
That is possible, but all other blooms are normal.
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Could it be a hybrid with the one with whirly petals? Alpinum.
It also flowers in winter, and is closely related to coum,
according to Grey-Wilson's book.
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All these great pictures here, will also try to post one.
At the moment Eranthis `Grünling´is flowering here.
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I've never seen a green Eranthis before.
I have a pale yellow one, just coming up, and a yellow-orange
which started flowering a week ago. The ordinary yellow one
has not emerged yet.
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Then there are the ones that could have been
flowering if they hadn't looked delicious.
Usually the deer just bite, but sometimes they bite and pull.
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The same here, the usual form E.hyemalis start to grow a little later. I have a orange one, `Schlyter´s Orange´that looks like yours and a pale form named `Schwefelglanz´.
Fortunately there are no deer in my garden, only a young dog which found all of the Galtonia bulbs while searching only five minutes.
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So do the named varieties of Eranthis come true from seed, or are they only propagated via division etc? I've only ever really heard about them here on the SRGC, never elsewhere. The only ones I know of here in Aus for sure are the straight species (although there are a couple of minor variations in strain there I think), and var auranticus. I don't know of any other variants here, although that doesn't necessarily mean they aren't. If they come true from seed then there is obviously more hope of finding them in Australia than there would be if division is the only method of importation. By the sound of it there are something like 10 different named varieties now, at least that at a rough guess would be how many I think I can recall seeing names of?
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Franz, I have had Cyclamen coum hybridising with C. alpinum and producing similar flowers to yours.
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While spring may be just around the corner, winter has its certain charms. In our part of the world the prevaling color in winter is a damp gray green. One of the sources of the green in the forest is the mass of epiphytes - mosses, lichens, and even ferns. Here are a couple photos of the fern Polypodium glycyrrhiza, which is a close relative of Polypodium vulgare. These are photos from the wild, not from gardens - no humans have had a hand in creating these scenes!
Ed
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Paul,
when I got it it was said that E.`Grünling´, `Schwefelglanz´and `Schlyters Orange´ will come true from seed. At that time they haven´t been flowering sized, now they are and all `Grünling´are really true, from `Schwefelglanz´and `Schlyters Orange´ I only got two of each and now I have a 50:50 rate. When they set seed this year I will try. As the gardener from which I got it is a good one whom I trust and who has a lot of experience with growing Eranthis I believe that they are true.
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Renate,
Are you growing them well separate from each other, or else isolated from bees etc so that they can't cross pollinate? otherwise they'll just cross amongst themselves anyway. Good luck with getting more, and keep us in mind when you eventually have more seed than you need. I'm sure there are a few of us here who'd give it a try, even if it was only a 50/50 chance of true from seed. At least we could isolate the 50% that WAS true!! ;D I'd love to see pics of the seedlings as they flower, jsut to see what the differences between them are. As I mentioned, other than talk of it up here on the SRGC I've never heard of named forms other than auranticus, so they're all fascinating to me.
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Renate + Paul ,
I'm also keen for this plants!
I grow "Schwefelglanz" + "Grünling" as mature plants - in year 2006 I have received from a good source also seed from both .....I think not they will flower in this year -but shure next year -so we will see .
ALso I have pollinate my both plants last spring and also sowing those seeds .....
E. h. "Flore plena" does not seems produce seeds - so I make cuttings in last year ....
I still search for E. h. aurantiacus !
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Here are my C.coum with the unusual flowers although my garden is in the Austrian Alps and the soil is frozen.
Hans
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Hans and Paul,
I grow it as isolated as it is possible and I hope I will get lots of seed!
The E.h.`Flore Plena´I have can not set seed, there are only flower leafs. As I know there are some different sports.
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Paul,
Eranthis x tubergenii `Guinea Gold´is another named one but I haven´t seen it yet.