Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Catwheazle on January 01, 2018, 12:49:47 PM
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For two days the snow is gone .... I absolutely had to use for a garden tour - I already had withdrawal symptoms ;-)
Tonight it will snow again, then again "garden break" announced :-(
greetings
Bernd
Adonis amurensis
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Helleborus niger
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Helleborus foetidus
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Leucojum vernum
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Ophrys purpurea
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Ophrys sphegodes
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Aceras anthropophorum
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New Years day - 1 January 2018
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Geranium dalmaticum - easy-to-grow. I like the red and green foliage this time of year.
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Primula (Dodecatheon) hendersonii selections coming up in a"fish box" tough.
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Seedlings of Collinsia heterophylla coming along with Dichelostemma capitatum out in the garden.
A lot to look forward to this coming year. :)
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More photographs from 1 January.
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Today is a "holiday" in the U.S.A. I did not have to "work", so I worked on and finished our nursery supply shed - lean-to. ;D This finally organized some loose ends! It was made with 99.5% recycled, reused materials. The only new materials were nails and two metal bracts.
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The Greenhouse -Aviary is at a standstill right now. At least solarium is weather proof. The bench in front of the wall will be in the greenhouse. Everything to the left of the glass door will be part of the aviary.
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The old foundation footing from the removed room is being filled with "alpine" soil mix (old spent & die-outs). Tubs with alpines are sitting on top of the spent soil.
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And here we are today:
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(Bellis perennis)
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Well we've missed the very worst of the winter frigidity that has paralyzed the continent. The witchhazels have pulled in their flowers and the coums have been frosted. In the greenhouse things a bit more promising. The first flower of the new year is Camellia oleifera, the Camellia from which camellia oil is extracted from the seeds - a simply beauty.
johnw - a balmy -8c
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Nice fat yellow buds of aconites locally this morning. No sign of mine in the grass yet with a similar exposure; maybe just a leaf or two showing. Probably wetter and colder in my coarse grass.
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Cold here in Aberdeen, but no snow at the moment - see Ian's latest Bulb Log for more ....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018Jan171516188852BULB_LOG_0318.pdf (http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2018Jan171516188852BULB_LOG_0318.pdf) , but here are some snowy shots from Ian the Christie kind, in Kirriemuir....
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and in Neustadt, in Germany, the cyclamen in Thomas Huber's garden look like this.....
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And this, yesterday, from the garden of a friend near Edinburgh....
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We haven't had much snow at all, compared to normal here. Nothing grows at this time of year in Minnesota (USA), but I do have freeze-dried flowers of Allium thunbergii 'Osawas'
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Poor things! But they do make a very attractive picture, Rick.
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and in Neustadt, in Germany, the cyclamen in Thomas Huber's garden look like this.....
Just love the pictures , all those lovely cyclamen popping their heads through the snow.
Angie :)
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Galanthus blooming at the El Dorado County farm, California.
Far too warm here! 62 F, 16.7 C yesterday. We might get a change. Snow is in the forecast, not at the farm, but just up the road.
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I'm surprised to see so many pictures around on Facebook already of Eranthis hyemalis - only a tiny few just beginning to show here - this little group are the first to appear - they are around 2 cms tall and their shape make them look less like emerging leaves and more like little yellow Soldanella flowers! They appear more green on the photos but to the eye they are quite yellow.
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Today in our meadow garden: 13.00 hour, 3°C, much too early for our taste.
We never had so early flowers in the past years.
Busy moles are a big problem for us.
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Not much in flower here yet as we got a fair amount of snow last week.
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Narthesium ossifragum in snow
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The lake is not frozen though. It hasn't been that cold.
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Mossy rocks
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Not all plants are snow covered
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Huperzia selago on a rock outcropping.
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Blechnum spicant
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Looks very cold but it is +2C actually.
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The fjord is also open.
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What an unusual-looking plant Huperzia is. It used to be called Lycopodium, but
does not look like any lycopodiums we have growing here.
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I haven't been around much as I'm up to my neck in court and solicitor paperwork for my brother who has major grief with the ex-wife at the moment but as it has been so cold and dark there ain't been much to show!
Outdoors right next to the house Salvia 'Amistad' is still blooming surprisingly well..............
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4701/27818042699_2212e20bdc_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JobJVR)Salvia 'Amistad' (https://flic.kr/p/JobJVR) by longk48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/35724365@N05/), on Flickr
In the unheated greenhouse a small Salvia coerulea is in bloom. It really needs more light to look good as the blooms are a little deformed.............
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4619/25724852498_c22bb50d84_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FcdApC)Salvia coerulea (https://flic.kr/p/FcdApC) by longk48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/35724365@N05/), on Flickr
In the front porch (enclosed but unheated) Ceropegia woodii is blooming well...............
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4735/24484586697_454946c65a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DiBUAv)Ceropegia woodii (https://flic.kr/p/DiBUAv) by longk48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/35724365@N05/), on Flickr
The same goes for Kalanchoe x houghtonii and Kalanchoe daigremontiana...............
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4697/38717404345_0f94620dbc_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/21ZjPqe)Kalanchoe x houghtonii (https://flic.kr/p/21ZjPqe) by longk48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/35724365@N05/), on Flickr
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4657/24967075197_c70e49fedd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E3fMBK)Kalanchoe daigremontiana (https://flic.kr/p/E3fMBK) by longk48 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/35724365@N05/), on Flickr
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Very nice - some winter cheer.
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Trond,
Great winter scenes! 8)
Not much going on here. Winter finally arrived with snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We might get some snow at the farm. It has been too many years since it last snowed at the farm.
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A few Cyclamen coum are blooming in the garden.
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A Heuchera seedling with nice foliage.
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Spring seems to have sprung...in January... ??? ::)
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Certainly looks like Spring in this photo I received from a German friend today - this is from Mahlberg..
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Lovely lovely spring views! :)
I also liked Robert's Heuchera leaves, they are so good all year if you don't have snow. They are also good plants here in the spring and late autumn, my favourites.
Weather is very changing here, yesterday it snowed 25cm, then it rained and a lot of that snow melted. Now it is couple degrees above freezing but next week it is again going to be at least -10C.
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Spring is here :D
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Not much in the way of winter this year. Currently we are at 78% of average precipitation to date. The weather forecast is for dry and record, to near record, high temperatures for the next two weeks or more. Drought conditions have returned to our portion of California.
With very little cold weather, many plants are starting to bloom or coming into growth extremely early. Silene lanciniata ssp. californica generally blooms much later in the season. Other plants of this species in the garden are still very dormant. Our small city garden has it own micro climates.
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I noticed this flowering stem on Primula (Dodecatheon) hendersonii elongating. This is an early blooming species, however this early is extreme. The other forms of Primula hendersonii from higher elevation sites are just emerging from the ground. We do get a good extended blooming season from all the different forms of this species. We must have gotten just enough chilling hours as seeds of this species are germinating at this time too.
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I scattered seed of Eschscholzia caespitosa throughout colonies of Dichelostemma capitatum, Allium falcifolium and Allium uniflorum. This combination should look great later this season.
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A seedling of Allium serra from the coastal mountains getting ready to bloom. This too is extremely early. I'll be glad to ID it too, as the foliage is not correct for Allium serra. Whatever its identity it looks nice and I hope the flowers are attractive. Things (labels, etc.) get mixed up from time-to-time. :'(
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Many Narcissus continue to bloom in the garden. The label on this pot of Narcissus is N. cantabricus. It has very nice white flowers.
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The first thing to bloom properly in the garden this year and I almost missed it - Asarum splendens.............
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meanie,
I have not seen any flowers on any of our Asarum species yet. But then everything seems out of synchronization this season. Eranthus hyenamis is not even showing above ground. One of the Magnolias is blooming in fits and starts like it did not get enough chilling hours. Lomatium macrocarpum is starting to germinate. :)
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Today in my greenhouse:
Dionysia bryoides
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Iris rosenbachiana 'Harangon' (JJA 0.596.059)
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Gymnospermium albertii
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Gymnospermium albertii is growing well, Ebbie - such an attractive plant.
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meanie,
I did check the Asarums in the Sacramento garden. There was one open flower on A. splendens. The flower buds on A. europaeum are starting to open, however none of our California species are showing anything yet. On Thursday I will be checking a bog on Peavine Ridge, El Dorado County, California for Asarum lemmonii. I have found them there in the past. If all is well they will be covered with some snow and I will have to dig down to find them. Fun! :)
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First bloom of the season.
Sternbergia fisheriana
John B