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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Irm on February 01, 2016, 07:03:54 PM
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There are not many flowers in my Berlin Garden in the moment :( cold, windy, rain .. So I hope, you will show me your plants ! ;D
G. 'Margaret Biddulph'
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Tecophilaea cyanocrocus 'Lichtlinii'
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I have seen early Springs before but this is ridiculous.The pictures that I am about to post are not quite the same as those that I took last year and those are dated 5th.March.I took these yesterday during a rare spell of sunshine and bearable temperatures.
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Polygala chamaebuxus flowers since a longer time.
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I have seen early Springs before but this is ridiculous.The pictures that I am about to post are not quite the same as those that I took last year and those are dated 5th.March.I took these yesterday during a rare spell of sunshine and bearable temperatures.
What a magnificent display. Thanks for sharing.
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There are not many flowers in my Berlin Garden in the moment :( cold, windy, rain .. So I hope, you will show me your plants ! ;D
G. 'Margaret Biddulph'
But that is a beautiful one, worth admiring in the cold and rain ;)
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fine weather, but cold :-)
Bernd
Cyclamen coum and Rhododendron hirsutum (and Gentiana angustifolia)
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Superb undergrowth naturalized bulbs, John.
When I think that I protect my single Eranthis ... ;D
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.I took these yesterday during a rare spell of sunshine and bearable temperatures.
Wonderful views and plants combinations, all looking so natural! :)
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Gloomy day with a lot of wind, just thinking of better weather for the following months. Nature is already waking up.
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Gloomy day with a lot of wind, just thinking of better weather for the following months. Nature is already waking up.
Gentiana flowering is more than I can take at this moment :'(
I should stop wandering through this threads.
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Sorry ;D
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I have seen early Springs before but this is ridiculous.The pictures that I am about to post are not quite the same as those that I took last year and those are dated 5th.March.I took these yesterday during a rare spell of sunshine and bearable temperatures.
Beautiful view John. With such a huge population of Eranthis hyemalis there should be a fair chance of finding some interesting variations. Did you look for those?
Poul
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The first Hepatica ;)
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The missing winter in our region supports flowering of
geophytic plants.
We started more than 25 years ago with 4 corms of
Cyclamen coum from Eastern Turkey and must say,
that the ants did and do a good job.
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The weather has turned ungodly warm and dry again. It was 21 C yesterday at our farm! :P
My wife and I had much work to do at our Sacramento, California home. This time I brought my camera. :)
Salvia semiatrata blooms all winter in Sacramento. It will be finishing-up its bloom cycle very soon.
A seedling Abutilon loaded with flowers now that the weather has turned warm.
The first of the Narcissus in bloom. A generic variety, but cheery.
Camellia cuspidata ? I have to admit the only Camellia that I like. The plant came from the Western Hills Nursery, Occidental, California - many years ago. The pure white flowers always looks so pristine. I am not up on Camellias at all. I have been told it is another species or hybrid.
The last of the flowers on Cyclamen coum in our Sacramento garden.
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Wonderful Robert. I particularly like the Salvia.
I don't know, maybe we need a thread called - February in the North of the Northern Hemisphere :) Out in the woods yesterday:
Symplocarpos foetidus
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Some warm cheer between the storms.
Anemone biflora
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Generic pink Helleborus - still very much appreciated in the garden. They have been in the garden for years. They seed about and spread throughout the garden.
Iris reticulata 'Harmony' - Also generic, however a real trooper! This variety blooms consistently and returns strongly under a wide range of adverse conditions. I can not say this for any of the other reticulata type Irises I have grown, which is not many. Still, I am impressed with this variety for its strong constitution.
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Aye, tis a strange year here. It is supposed to be getting colder this week-end. The soft growth put on by many plants during this mild spell may be damaged by later frosts.
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After a couple weeks with mild and grey, rainy, stormy weather we have got sun, little wind - and freezing temperatures.
Not much in flower though. Only the snowdrops are soon in full flower but a single crocus shows some colour.
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Spring is continuing to progress here with temperatures 23 C or above for the last 6 days.
A nice compact Narcissus papyraceus hybrid blooming today.
Trond,
It seems that your springtime may be a long drawn-out affair. Not such a bad thing! :)
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Last week most of the snow melted here, but yesterday it snowed more!
I hope after next week it will melt and I will see snowdrops in March, the forecast promises warmer than average March and April here. :)
Picture is from yesterday morning.
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Some winter sunshine at last, encouraging plants to stir.
Ornithogalum lanceolatum
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Leena,
What a beautiful snowy scene! :)
I wish that we would get some snow too, at least up in the Sierra Nevada.
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Yes Leena, so very beautiful! I wished for more snow but it didn't happen here. I had hopes for an early spring last weekend when I found Hepaticas with nice, fat buds.
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And then horror with very little or no snow cover and last night temperature: -23˚C. Day temperature: -20˚C to -17˚C. I only took a picture for the records.
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:'(
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Thanks Robert and Gabriela. :)
I feel for your plants Gabriela, snow is a good protection from cold though I don't like it otherwise, it makes everything more difficult when there is a lot of snow (not so much this year). Perhaps your Hepaticas are used to cold do maybe they survive it even without snow cover, let's hope so :).
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Spring is continuing to progress here with temperatures 23 C or above for the last 6 days.
A nice compact Narcissus papyraceus hybrid blooming today.
Trond,
It seems that your springtime may be a long drawn-out affair. Not such a bad thing! :)
Robert,
with the temperature well above 20C I would call it high summer! We rarely get that kind of weather even when we have summer ;)
The spring here at home is a protracted affair ;D As we have no real meteorological winter (the mean temperature below 0C) we instead have a prolonged spring lasting from January till June ???
Nice Narcissus! I have to wait a month or more for my first ones. . . .
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What is snow?
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We don't get it like we used to do we Ian, even the frost isn't as bad as it was when I was a kid. I think people are more softer if that's the right word to use, nowadays they shut schools down at the drop of a hat. When I was a kid we had to go to school no matter what the weather was like.
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Thanks Robert and Gabriela. :)
I feel for your plants Gabriela, snow is a good protection from cold though I don't like it otherwise, it makes everything more difficult when there is a lot of snow (not so much this year). Perhaps your Hepaticas are used to cold do maybe they survive it even without snow cover, let's hope so :).
Thank you for your sympathy Leena, I know you understand. These are extreme temp. for February even here and while most spring flowering sp. are completely dormant, Hepaticas are the only ones with the big, fat flower buds above ground (-28C last night).
Let's say it will be interesting to see how it goes :)
What is snow?
Thanks - you made me smile :)
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Robert,
with the temperature well above 20C I would call it high summer! We rarely get that kind of weather even when we have summer ;)
The spring here at home is a protracted affair ;D As we have no real meteorological winter (the mean temperature below 0C) we instead have a prolonged spring lasting from January till June ???
Nice Narcissus! I have to wait a month or more for my first ones. . . .
Trond,
We have had over a week of this "summertime" weather (20 C or more) with more record breaking temperatures the next few days before it is forecasted to rain. It is very strange! ??? I was out working and cleaning-up the garden yesterday. I was very surprised that most of the plants have held their dormancy. There are the exceptions. There is one cherry tree in full bloom. I tried to take some photographs but they did not turn out. Maybe I will try again today, however my wife and I will be at our Sacramento home most of the day (and I will bring the camera :) )
Many of the Narcissus are in bloom now, including some of the dwarfs and a few interesting hybrids. The early Magnolias are in bloom, as well as other early bloomers. The timing is about right. There is even one Ranunculus californicus in bloom. This is a bit too early, however last year I spotted one in the wild blooming in December.
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Stop Press. We have just had our second snow fall of the winter. The first was as bad. See attached. John, I remember riding my bike to school in winter. The fog and frost was so bad we used to have a white front when we got to school. Our school milk quota (a third of a pint) had to be put on the radiator pipes to thaw it before we could get a drink. Like you, there was no shutting of schools in bad weather. We had to step up over the snow to walk to school, about one mile. If there was no heating in the school we kept our coats on. There were not many pupils with colds in those days. Snow drifts in the garden today, img. 1000973.
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Those were the days ;D, if I'm honest though I don't miss the snow now we hardly ever get it down here in Lincolnshire. Like leena said earlier it does have its uses in protecting plants from the cold, still hate the stuff though and I hate driving in it.
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I don't know, maybe we need a thread called - February in the North of the Northern Hemisphere :) Out in the woods yesterday:
Symplocarpos foetidus
Gabriela, can't we just occupy this thread?
Regarding the Symplocarpos I once read they produced heat and it looks as your plant has melted its way through the ice!
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Nothing is in flower here at this time and my Hepaticas are safe under the snow blanket. (They seem to take a lot of freezing though)
The catkins of this hybrid birch (nana x pubescens) are barely seen through the hoarfrost.
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Birchwood. Many trees are killed from attack by the caterpillars of Epirrita autumnata.
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Spruce twigs.
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Gabriela, can't we just occupy this thread?
Regarding the Symplocarpos I once read they produced heat and it looks as your plant has melted its way through the ice!
Wonderful winter scenery Trond!
Don't worry, I don't have that much to show to open another thread ;) and after all it is more about our continental type of climate, many others forumists are northerly than I am, right?
Symplocarpus is a fascinating 'creature'. Indeed the inflorescence produces heat, up to more than 15C than the surrounding temp., but this year they have also been tricked into early growth. Usually they show up in late March. Apparently other aroids present this phenomenon of producing heat, called thermogenesis. It is believed that the salicylic acid from the plant functions as a hormone and initiate the heating process....I can make a long story. Better one more image:
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It will be interesting to hear how those Symplocarpus survive the bare ground and extreme temperatures in Ontario.
john
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Trond,
Are the photographs from near your home or in the mountains? It looks like you are still in the grip of winter. 23 C here today. :P I can not say that I am pleased. Other than a few snowflakes, basically no snow here this winter either.
Finally another storm is forecast to arrive Wednesday evening. We are back to below average precipitation to-date. In addition, we still have not achieved the precipitation total we reached last year for the whole season. There is much more snow in the Sierra Nevada this year than last year. This is very welcome. I guess I would like to see much more this season. ::)
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Robert,
Fortunately it is at our cabin! Although I wouldn't mind a blanket of snow back home. it is very cold nights there now and sunny days - desiccating weather :-\
Up here the plants are adapted to harsh weather.
Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) - a very dense specimen. It only grown 5cm/year. Most others up here grow at least 15-20cm/year.
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Norway Spruce (Picea abies) - a strange name as it is the last forest-making trees to reach Norway after the last glaciation ended. But it is still marching on and covering more and more of the open alpine landscape.
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An inhabitant of the windswept ridges, Juncus trifidus.
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It will be interesting to hear how those Symplocarpus survive the bare ground and extreme temperatures in Ontario.
john
Well, interesting to say the least. I will keep my eyes open even more in the spring; it is known that extreme temperatures can induce spontaneous mutations. After the past two record cold winters I may have a dwarf form Polygonatum from a clump of P. multiflorum. I have to see how it shows up this year to be sure it wasn't temporary (extremely low with very short internodes but otherwise 'normal' looking).
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Trond,
The snow looks very inviting. It was 24 C at the farm today. I worked-up quite the sweat today pruning the orchard. The peaches are already showing color. This is about 30 days early!
High in the Sierra Nevada some of the Juncus species create interesting patterns of dry foliage after snow melt in the spring/summer. The dry foliage looks like the spokes of a bicycle with a tuft of new green foliage in the center.
The following are a few photographs from our Sacramento bungalow taken on Sunday.
Prunus 'Okame' putting on an excellent show of flowers. Prunus incisa will be putting on a mass of white flowers shorty.
Leucojum aestivum are blooming here and there both in our front and back yards.
Magnolia stellata 'Rubra" or something like it. This grows near the center of a bulb - woodland bed in our backyard.
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Up at the farm I cleaned up this bed Sunday afternoon. Most of the plants are still dormant, a relief given the warm temperatures for the past week or more. The one exceptions were the lilies that were pushing new growth very early. Fortunately, they are Lilium pardalinum and various forms of L. parvum. The new growth of these are quite resistant to late frost. It will be very strange if we do not get more frost this season.
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Starting again with Narcissus cyclamineus. When the drought started 4 years ago I forgot to keep them watered during the summer when they were dormant. :-[ It has not taken long to get blooming plants again from seed. :)
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The first cherry blossoms up at our farm. This species always blooms and produces fruit (very good quality) extremely early in the season. I bought this tree back in the mid 1970's at Vallombrosa Gardens in Chico, California, from Arthur Wiebe. He called it a "Chinese Easter Cherry" and indeed it generally produces ripe fruit around this time. The species was originally introduced at the U.S.D.A plant introduction garden (long gone now) in Chico in the 1920's. I have never been able to get a positive identification. A long time ago I had someone from the California Rare Fruit Growers check it out. He said it was not even a Prunus. This was complete nonsense. ::) I know this is a long shot, but any ideas as to the species?
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Wonderful winter scenery Trond!
Don't worry, I don't have that much to show to open another thread ;) and after all it is more about our continental type of climate, many others forumists are northerly than I am, right?
Symplocarpus is a fascinating 'creature'. Indeed the inflorescence produces heat, up to more than 15C than the surrounding temp., but this year they have also been tricked into early growth. Usually they show up in late March. Apparently other aroids present this phenomenon of producing heat, called thermogenesis. It is believed that the salicylic acid from the plant functions as a hormone and initiate the heating process....I can make a long story. Better one more image:
I suppose at 60N I for one am north of you, Gabriela ;D
Interesting what you tell! I have one Symplocarpus in my garden but I think it is late every year, and it grows very slowly. Maybe the summer temps are too low? Hope I will see it melting its way through the snow some day :o
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Trond,
The snow looks very inviting. It was 24 C at the farm today. I worked-up quite the sweat today pruning the orchard. The peaches are already showing color. This is about 30 days early!.....
Robert,
Your flowering garden looks very inviting to me!
Although it is very nice to go skiing in fine weather (you are welcome to join any time :) ) I prefer spring and summer! What do you prune at this time, cherries and the like?
Nice flowers! I like that Magnolia and the pink Prunus also (can't help with name of the other one). Strange that your snowflakes bloom at the same time, my plants at home are also in flower! But I have to wait two months to see the first Magnolia stellata and Prunus blooming :(
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we have had plenty of sunshine in the last fortnight but cold winds to go with it so the crocus haven't been opening but the last two days have been warmer in in spite of the sharp frosts overnight so I took the opportunity take photos today in view of the forecasts for the next few days.I think they are probably at their peak.
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John, your garden is such a tribute to your years of care - a paradise indeed.
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Trond,
Another photograph from the Sacramento garden taken today, Tuesday.
Magnolia x loebneri - I do not remember the variety name. The label was lost 20 years ago. Non-the-less a very beautiful tree.
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The orchard is mostly apples, and peaches, however there is a variety of others; Figs, Pomegranates, Kiwi Fruit, Pluots, Pears and a few other types. It will take me about 4-5 days to get it all done, if I work all day at it. For me, this is late in the season to be pruning the fruit trees, but it is not the end of the world. It will get done. :)
The warm weather has the bloom cycle at mixed up this year. The Leucojum generally blooms much earlier in the season. The Magnolias and early Prunus species are on schedule.
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Are they are tommasinianus Crocus?
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Breathtakingly beautiful John — Your garden is a paradise, thank you for sharing. :)
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Another photograph from the Sacramento garden taken today, Tuesday.
Magnolia x loebneri - I do not remember the variety name. The label was lost 20 years ago. Non-the-less a very beautiful tree.
The warm weather has the bloom cycle at mixed up this year. The Leucojum generally blooms much earlier in the season. The Magnolias and early Prunus species are on schedule.
So beautiful - Magnolias not expected in flower here until April.
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Maggi,
Our Sacramento home was built in the early 1940's during the great war. I am sure that due to the wartime effort the houses were all built small back then - a blessing for us who want more garden space! As street trees, I guess they planted whatever was available. In our case the upper end of our street was planted with a rich dark flowered form of Magnolia x soulangeana. They are huge trees now and in full bloom. It is quite the sight. I regret that I do not have a photograph. My wife and I will be back down to Sacramento on Sunday. Maybe I can photograph them then, if the flowers last. Right now the wind is howling as a new storm approaches. Not so good for flowers.
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more and more plant are flowering
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Spring in Vienna!
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Are they are tommasinianus Crocus?
Yes they are all tomasinianus.
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Franz, your H. vesicarius looks similar to H. foetidus, a plant which grows wild near me and should be in flower now. It grows in woods on limestone. We also have H. viridis near here.
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Franz, your H. vesicarius looks similar to H. foetidus, a plant which grows wild near me
but H vesicarius is much more difficult to grow! I have tried and failed.
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more and more plant are flowering
Beautiful pictures Franz!
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more and more plant are flowering
Franz very nicely grown as usual
Do you give any of these plants overhead cover at all?
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Franz very nicely grown as usual
Do you give any of these plants overhead cover at all?
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Do you give any of these plants overhead cover at all?
... that's my question too, especially for the extraordinary Ranunculus!
Gerd
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I think my plant is Helleborus vesicarius. H.foedicus has narrow leaves and no good smell. I cultivate Helleborus vesicarius 20 years but it had not often flowered A very difficult plant.
Only Helleborus vesicarius hat sometimes an overhead cover.
Thank you for the compliments.
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Narcissus romieuxii ‘Atlas-Gold’:
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Gymnospermium albertii:
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First of the Pleione in the cold front porch...............
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Around about christmas time I noticed flower spikes forming on one of my Billbergia nutans out in the unheated greenhouse so I moved it into the bathroom. Here it is in bloom..............
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Anemone coronaria var. flora pleno in bud
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Franz
H. vesicarius and thibetanus are 2 species that I have failed to successfully grow to flowering all others fine so very impressed with the plant in flower.
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Morisia monanthos flowering under glass
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Romulea bulbocodium, young plant in the greenhouse.