Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: freddyvl on January 14, 2014, 07:48:29 PM
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A few Hamamelis varieties from the many in flower in our garden:
- 'Livia': Named by Robert and Jelena de Belder (Kalmthout, Belgium) after their first granddaughter Livia. One of the best red cultivars and it has also one of the longest flowering periods of any witch hazel. (flowers 22mm long);
- 'Orange Peel': This cultivar has a more upright growth and wide petals (3 mm). Overall effect is a clear orange. (flowers 22 mm long);
- 'Amanon': Raised by van Heijningen (Netherlands) and named for his granddaughter Manon; however, he wanted all his cultivars to begin with the letter A, ensuring prominence at the top of any alphabetical list ! (flowers 25 mm long);
- 'Robert': Named after Robert de Belder after his death in 1998. (flowers 23 mm long)
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A few Viburnum with a good scent are also flowering in the garden at the moment:
- Viburnum bodnantense Dawn
- Viburnum foetens
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This look like a journey to Kalmthout Arboretum ?
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Some pics from last weekend - made inside the GRUGA park of Essen (Germany)
1. + 2. Paulownia tomentosa
3. Cercis siliquastrum - white selection
4. + 5. Rosa majalis
Gerd
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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post, but here is my cherry tree in full flower a few week ago.
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/04/8abuby4e.jpg)
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I have a couple of Acers in pots both of which are probably reaching the end of their potted days. Is it possible to take cuttings please and if so what is the best time of year to do this and how should I take and keep them?
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I haven't much experience of trying acers from cuttings - but there are ways to rejuvenate Acers in pots. You can take them out , get all the soil off, then cut back the roots a bit before re-potting - and then cut back the bushes quite hard. Sort of bonsai technique really- but good to give new lease of life to a nice acer. We have even dug up a 3m acer from the garden with a 10 -12cm trunk and cut it down to 45cms and regrown it as a pot plant.
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Cheers for that Maggi. Need to be brave then?
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Yes, bravery called for. Leave it a couple of weeks then go for it. They'll bleed a bit, but in a couple of weeks the flow shouldn't be too bad.
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David, Acer cuttings can be difficult if they are not managed properly. They are not that difficult to root but getting them through the first winter is the problem. I found that I had to bring the parent plant into the greenhouse in late winter and force the new growth to produce cuttings and get a early start, because if you don't get a substantial amount of growth before the first winter they will fail to grow in the spring. It is a while since I was growing them so modern science may have come up with a better system or maybe I didn't acquire the proper technique.
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Thanks for that Michael. If you find them difficult I'll find them impossible so I'll give Maggi's suggestion a try.
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A little out of season, but I found this photo (here (https://twitter.com/_Paisajes_) ) and couldn't resist showing it ....
Wisteria avenue in Kawachi Fuji garden, Japan.
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Apologies to those struggling to get their wisteria to flower........ :-X
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A little out of season, but I found this photo ...
Wow.
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Wow.
I know - just glorious, isn't it? 20 different species I believe. The garden is apparently a bit tricky (http://www.japan-guide.com/forum/quereadisplay.html?0+99373) to get to.
http://www.tourismontheedge.com/places/asia/a-colorful-walk-wisteria-tunnel-at-kawachi-fuji-gardens-japan.html (http://www.tourismontheedge.com/places/asia/a-colorful-walk-wisteria-tunnel-at-kawachi-fuji-gardens-japan.html)
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Tweeted by Panayoti Kelaidis:
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The worth of a tree!
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Tweeted by Panayoti Kelaidis:
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The worth of a tree!
Clever, poignant and timely.
Chris
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John Richards, former President of the AGS also has an eye for a fine tree. He has a great fondness for trees and plants that make a colourful display in autumn and is in the process of building a website to showcase his photos of such plants
See it here : www.autumncolour.co.uk (http://www.autumncolour.co.uk)
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I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is September and found this beauty Fothergilla major 'Blue Shadow' . Glaucous blue without hosta flowers or slugs! An instant favourite added to my want list. Dirr reports it is a branch sport of the cultivar 'Mt. Airy'.
-Rob
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Just happened to see this post. That is a wonderful colour, Rob! I love my ordinary Fothergilla major - but 'Blue Shadow' this is something else. Pity it isn't available in Germany...
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One of our Flickr contacts living in southern England wrote that he had recently planted this shrub in his garden. With EU regulations don't plants now pass over borders without regulation and supervision? I will inquire as to his source if you wish.
A Japanese birch - Betula apoiensis - in our garden last October is pictured below. Another favourite, and I was very glad to see it in the Seed List this year as the seed on ours is never viable and my efforts to root cuttings always end in failure. I have never found a source for it here in Canada. Totally hardy, and with a low of -33C this am it needs to be.
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Oh thank you, Rob and Sharon! That is very kind of you. Some English nurseries do ship to Germany, not all, alas.
Your birch is quite beautiful. I can see why you want more of them. Unusual that a Japanese shrub is hardy to this extent. I have just read up on this birch: It is very rare and endangered in Japan (Hokkaido). (Apparently it is a tetraploid hybrid between Betula ermanii and Betula ovalifolia.) So by rearing baby B. apoiensis you are doing a good deed!
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I should have followed up regarding the source of Fothergilla 'Blue Shadow' sooner and I apologize.
Our Flickr contact said he got his shrub from from www.crocus.co.uk/ (http://www.crocus.co.uk/) and the Plant Finder has 14 entries for it, but under F. x intermedia, not F. major.
In Dirr's Manual (2009) there is no reference to F. x intermedia only F. major and gardenii. What is described in the Crocus plant list appears to be the right plant no matter what name it is given.
Again Bolinopsis I'm sorry for being tardy.
-Rob
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Thank you, Rob! It is very kind of you to find out about the nursery in England. I'll find a way to get hold of this lovely shrub even though they do not deliver to Germany. ((I'm going to a school reunion in Wales in summer..... ;) ))