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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Irm on January 01, 2014, 02:35:50 PM
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Happy new year to all plant lovers ! :D
I will begin with my Helleborus thibetanus, they bloom to early this year ::)
and there are also the Helleborus niger in my Berlin garden
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Great detail on the thibetanus picture. Happy New Year, Irm!
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Short break between storms here, so able to take a few photographs. Iris unguicularis has its first flowers of the winter; Helleborus x sternii 'Beatrice le Blanc Strain'; and Helleborus x ballardiae 'Shooting Star'
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Yesterday was a much better day than New Year's Day so I ventured out to see what was in flower or looking reasonable. Nothing very exciting but still colourful on a winters day.
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And the final five.
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uff, I finally have a few!!
hamamelis pallida
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lonicera purpusii
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abeliophyllum distichum
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Some plants in flower here now:
Cyclamen coum
Eranthis hyemalis 'Moonlight'
Iris 'Dance On'
Iris 'Early Morning Light'
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I am delighted to see all these fine flowers - nothing like that in our garden here...... just some snowdrops, winter jasmine and the very first beginnings from the Hamamelis - a very slow start compared to so many of you.
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All beautiful and especially welcome at this time of year 8)
Wim, are 'Dance On' & 'Early Morning Light' Alan McMurtie hybrids? I haven't seen either before but like 'Dance On' especially.
Apart from 'C. adjaricum' which is usually first here, most of my coums are behind yours.
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I forgot to add the situation in my interior jungle..It's clearly reaching an alarming point for my love life!
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Gosh Wim, your eranthis are way ahead of mine, I think the first is just shouldering its way through the mulch!
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Wim, are 'Dance On' & 'Early Morning Light' Alan McMurtie hybrids? I haven't seen either before but like 'Dance On' especially.
Apart from 'C. adjaricum' which is usually first here, most of my coums are behind yours.
Ashley, they are McMurtrie hybrids indeed and they are both always very early! We're having very mild weather over here for the moment so the C. coum are flowering quite early.
Gosh Wim, your eranthis are way ahead of mine, I think the first is just shouldering its way through the mulch!
Most other Eranthis are just showing over here too, this one I got only last year and it seems to have some adjusting to do ;)
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A happy new year with the first signs of spring from me!!! :)
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Some sunshine and Adonis reveals its beautiful flowers always early January...
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Some more...
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Very nice Adonis, Eddy. 8)
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Brief window of decent weather here so ventured out with camera:
1. This clump of Iris unguicularis is very floriferous at present, probably due to mild weather.
2. Helleborus x glandorfii seems to be a good "doer" and has been flowering for some time.
3. Helleborus niger 'Potter's Wheel', somewhat muddy after all the rain.
4. Helleborus 'Walberton's Rosemary' has also been in flower for some time and also seems to be enjoying the weather.
5. Helleborus argutifolius 'Silver Lace'
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One more, Helleborus abschaticus, like all the Hellebores receiving too much attention from the molluscs in all this wet weather. And I see Amana edulis is about to open!
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Some more...
Wow! :o Thanks for posting these Adonis pics, Eddy,
not something that we're likely to see locally :'(
cheers
fermi
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Thanks Maggi and Fermi for the attention!
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Some sunshine today for a very welcome change (back to normal tomorrow!) and Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' is doing her stuff with the whole of the back garden smelling great.
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It's great to hear that your Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' is now living up to expectations. Ours is just beginning to scent the garden :)
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These bulbs have never flourished at this time in my garden.
Eranthis hyemalis
Colchicum hungaricum
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A happy new year with the first signs of spring from me!!! :)
Wow - are those bees real? (Or stuffed???)
Crazy climate...
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Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane'
I love the 'folded' petals. Pity there's no scent.
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It's great to hear that your Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' is now living up to expectations. Ours is just beginning to scent the garden :)
Sorry Brian I missed the above. Yes, after a very slow start in life she's doing rather well now. I'm convinced it was a result of my telling her a couple of years ago that if she didn't start to perform she'd be dug up!
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Sarcococca is a joy at this time of year - a sprig brought into the house will scent a room for days. Here are Sarcococca orientalis, Sarcococca confusa, Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna, and Sarcococca ruscifolia.
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We really need the scent button to appreciate Sarcococca
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I was thinking of buying one sarcococca these days, do these have different scents?Which has the strongest scent for you?
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Hi!
Some from My Garden:
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Hamamelis virigiana
Best Regards! zvone
MORE PICTURES: http://zvonem.blogspot.si/news/ (http://zvonem.blogspot.si/news/)
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I was thinking of buying one sarcococca these days, do these have different scents?Which has the strongest scent for you?
They're all highly scented, difficult to choose. S. hookeriana var.digyna is probably the showiest. Interesting article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3296342/How-to-grow-Sarcococcas.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3296342/How-to-grow-Sarcococcas.html) and here: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/06/sarcococca-alys-fowler (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/06/sarcococca-alys-fowler)
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I thought this Crocus 'lost label' was quite sweet and it has beaten the snowdrops in our garden.
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Thanks John, I'll try one for next year because I think their time is over here, spring is upon us already:
prunus mume "beni chidori"
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Cyclamen coum and Eranthis hyemalis are starting to flower in the open garden here.
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I thought this Crocus 'lost label' was quite sweet and it has beaten the snowdrops in our garden.
C. imperati imperati I think Shelagh, possibly 'de Jager'.
Such a beautiful plant at this (or any) time of year.
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Here is an early flowering Helleborus in my Berlin Garden :) name: red january (Roter Januar).
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I don't get it, after such a mild winter I went for a walk in mt Chortiatis today in hope to find anemones, crocus, cyclamen ecc and there was nothing!
Just a promise for next time:
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And this!
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Sunny day today for a change; a couple of general shots...
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A few other things flowering at present (or seedheads!):
Camellia hiemalis 'Shishi-gashira', Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens 'Freckles', Iris foetidissima.
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A couple of things just beginning for me. Gynospermum albertii and Scoliopus biglovii. The latter usually resides in the open but the pot is temporary quarters while its new place is sought
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I am so enjoying the photos on this thread. The only things to be seen in the garden here are deer, unfortunately.
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Scoliopus biglovii. The latter usually resides in the open but the pot is temporary quarters while its new place is sought
That is a little gem! To say that I am smitten would be an understatement!
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That is a little gem! To say that I am smitten would be an understatement!
It is interesting isn't it but it is very small and not in a very distinctive colour so you almost need a magnifying glass to find it ;)
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It is interesting isn't it but it is very small and not in a very distinctive colour so you almost need a magnifying glass to find it ;)
My kind of plant! Big and brassy isn't for me.
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Thank you for the name Ashley. The blackbirds enjoy causing havoc by flinging the labels about.
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I don't get it, after such a mild winter I went for a walk in mt Chortiatis today in hope to find anemones, crocus, cyclamen ecc and there was nothing!
Just a promise for next time:
Maybe these plants know something we humans do not... maybe they have some inner feeling about the coming weather???
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Maybe these plants know something we humans do not... maybe they have some inner feeling about the coming weather???
Yes, I'll bet they do!
According to this paper : Vascular Plants from Mount Chortiatis (Makedonia, Greece)
Vassiliki Karagiannakidou and Thomas Raus
Willdenowia
Bd. 25, H. 2 (Feb. 8, 1996), pp. 487-559
Published by: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem - where " An inventory of 1220 vascular plant taxa from Mt. Chortiatis (E of Thessaloniki, Makedonia, Greece) is presented, based on published information and on extensive recent field work. Data from widely scattered sources have been critically compiled, and numerous new records are included, thus updating a previous floristic checklist of the area published more than 50 years ago. The combination Hieracium macranthum subsp. testimoniale formed by Gottschlich is validated, and Launaea mucronata is excluded from the 'Flora europaea' area. " - it seems sensible to surmise that this lack of growth from such a wide plant population is for a very good reason ::)
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A bit cheeky maybe as it's indoors, but.......................
Clerodendrum ugandense is just getting going indoors. It's about five years old now and I leave it outdoors until it has taken a couple of light frosts and then bring it indoors. Sat between the fire and the window it dumps its frosted foliage and then starts into growth again. A few weeks later it is in bloom. It gets a little leggy, but I just cut it back and use them for cuttings. I cut it back again late spring when it goes back out. Six to eight weeks later it should be in bloom again.
If I said that these blooms are about 3 or 4% of the buds it will be no exaggeration.....................
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More pics as I love this plant.......................
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Clerodendrum ugandense is just getting going indoors.
More pics as I love this plant.......................
Me too, Keith!
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very pretty, your blue butterflies keith!
this is one of my favourites blooming today:
chaenomeles no name
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and two hybrid violas, I would never had guessed the really fragrant one would be the monster; the tiny one has no scent at all...
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and the last piece of news, a strange seedling of enterolobium cyclocarpum
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Flowering today
Clematis napaulensis
Clematis napaulensis
Ribes laurifolium
First pulmonaria flowers
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also flowering
Daphne laureola philippi
Correa pulchella (?)
Anisodentea el royo (flowered all last winter too!)
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Crikey, Margaret, amazing what the heat from over 8 million people will do for a garden ! An extraordinary range of flowers outside.
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Mr. Bigelow (spelling?) caught me out yet again. Found Scoliopus bigelowii in flower in the frame today with 5 flowers open, one with all the petals stripped by something already. See Ian's bulblog for last October for photos. S. hallii will be about a month later for me; normally.
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Yes, Maggi, but nearby friends' gardens are much warmer. We are windy and don't get any sun until Easter. None of the snowdrops are open. As they were saying on the Galanthus thread they need a bit of sun to open.
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Hi Margaret, I think your Correa may be Dusky Maid. We had ours for several years but the foliage always let it down. I just love those deep pink bells in the middle of winter.
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Hi Margaret, I think your Correa may be Dusky Maid. We had ours for several years but the foliage always let it down. I just love those deep pink bells in the middle of winter.
Indeed correas are wonderful winter plants. I must look out for this one, but what's the problem with its foliage Shelagh?
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This is not a flowering item, but since there is not so much to see this month I post this strange phenomenon. Normally Arisaema sikokianum doesn't form side corm. The only way to increase this plant is sowing it. A couple of years ago I replanted a bulb and saw shoots that formed bulbs later on that year. This peculiar behaviour is repeated now every year. On the pictures you see the rejected bulbs from last year and the new shoots on the motherbulb for this year. Strangely bulbs resulted from seeds of that motherbulb show this same character.
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It should be called Arisaema sikkokianum 'Moneymaker' ;D
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This is not a flowering item, but since there is not so much to see this month I post this strange phenomenon. Normally Arisaema sikokianum doesn't form side corm. The only way to increase this plant is sowing it. A couple of years ago I replanted a bulb and saw shoots that formed bulbs later on that year. This peculiar behaviour is repeated now every year. On the pictures you see the rejected bulbs from last year and the new shoots on the motherbulb for this year. Strangely bulbs resulted from seeds of that motherbulb show this same character.
A most interesting feature - and a useful one too!
Is the plant otherwise consistent with the type - perhaps it is from an unusual population?
It is part of the wonder of plants that such changes occur is it not?
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A bedraggled, mud-spattered Hepatica transsylvanica 'Winterfreude'
Photo taken today just before the sleet and snow started to come down.
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Ashley in reply to your question there is very little wrong with Margaret's specimen. However if you look carefully you will see just 2 partly discoloured leaves, I'm afraid our had the opposite, 2 good leaves to dozens of discoloured ones.
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Two colchicums in flower now -
Colchicum kesselringii - nice dark markings as promised by Luc S :)
Colchicum hungaricum - a gift from Kot
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Hi Shelagh and Ashley
My Correa is quite healthy - the yellowish leaves in the bottom right belong to Pittosprum Tandara Gold. I've checked my records and the plant came from The Old Walled Garden (Now linked with Fibrex nurseries - they got married ;)) and is C.mannii. We also have Correa reflexa nummularifolia which is a better looking plant. Will take a photo if my toothache eases up.
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I've just given a talk on woodland plants (I often call these 'sylvan delights' in a more poetic moment) to a local village garden society. More than anything it is the way these plants combine that captivates me. These are not typical woodlanders but give this same effect
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Two colchicums in flower now -
Colchicum kesselringii - nice dark markings as promised by Luc S :)
Colchicum hungaricum - a gift from Kot
I like them both Arthur . And I must have a word with Luc S. ;D
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I forgot to add the situation in my interior jungle..It's clearly reaching an alarming point for my love life!
;D ;D ;D
What is it?
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A wee spot of sunshine today.
((Some would say that this is a very feminine composition. But frankly, it just happened.))
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Planned by a man, planted by a woman I suppose :o :P ;)
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;D
Planted by a woman without a plan!
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;D
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Ashley in reply to your question there is very little wrong with Margaret's specimen. However if you look carefully you will see just 2 partly discoloured leaves, I'm afraid our had the opposite, 2 good leaves to dozens of discoloured ones.
Thanks Shelagh, it's a lovely plant all the same.
... I've checked my records and the plant came from The Old Walled Garden (Now linked with Fibrex nurseries - they got married ;)) and is C.mannii. We also have Correa reflexa nummularifolia which is a better looking plant.
And thank you Margaret, for the name and source. As a youth (i.e. not long ago ;)) I planted C. mannii in my parents' garden (south coast of Ireland) where it came through several winters unscathed and flowered over such a long period. I must try it again.
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;D ;D ;D
What is it?
It's my telosma cordata, here it is blooming after I unraveled it from the wires; this plant is so forgiving!!
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The few days of sun this week have worked their magic