Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on July 01, 2018, 01:35:58 PM
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Winter is well and truly entrenched here but after frosty mornings we've been having cool, sunny days - great for gardening ;D
More "early" bulbs are coming into flower:
Colchicum cupanii is in full flower now;
Acis tingitana is just starting to flower;
Hoop Petticoat 'Untschen' from Lawrence Trevanion
cheers
fermi
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Most Kniphofias are not suitable for the Rock Garden though we do grow some of the smaller summer flowering species in ours.
In our garden the winter flowering varieties tend to get burnt off by the frosts unless like this year the heavy frosts don't occur till after the spikes emerge.
This variety gets called "Winter Cheer" for obvious reasons though we had decided to get rid of them because we don't often get to see the flowers. Thankfully we didn't get many dug out and we're now getting some nice spikes of bright orange "Red Hot Pokers', though this week there'll be a frost every night so that might be the end of them - as can be seen in the second pic :-X
Another variety has also produced a couple of spikes - not sure if this was a purchased plant or a seedling - this one is more yellow and not as tall,
cheers
fermi
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1) Mid winter and we have the "Summer Snowflake" in flower!
2) Galanthus elwesii "Green Outer Tips" AKA 'Comet'
3 & 4) WInter flowering Jasminum nudiflorum
5) Winter honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissisma - the best shrub for winter scent in our area as wych-hazels aren't heat hardy enough :'(
cheers
fermi
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It's been a while since I've posted! Here are some recent flowers from the garden.
1. Crocus tommasinianus
2. C. chrysanthus 'Gypsy girl'
3. Galanthus rizihensis
4. Crocus ? forget
5. The crocus bed with a few early spring species.
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And a few more.
1. Eranthus hyemalis
2. Four petaled rizehensis
3. Four petaled rizehensis again
4. Saxifraga cochlearis var. minor
5. G. elwesii
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All our very beautiful Jamus .
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...especially the photo of Saxifraga cochlearis var. minor is fantastic. I love to repeat myself...the combination of the plants with the shape and colour of the stones...an absolute work of art.👍
Just the way I like it.
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Thank you. I absolutely love the few little Saxifrages I grow here, some from Otto, some from Lynn McGough and Craig Wilson. They are VERY hard to find in Australia.
Here is Saxifraga paniculata minutifolia, which is putting on some growth at the moment... very slowly!
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That's funny to see this cochlearis growing 13000km from it's mountains :)
I don't doubt how difficult it should be to source in your country.
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Yes I agree Yann! Funny in a good way... I need more of this kind of funny in my life. ;) I'm trying from seed but not much luck... there's some piece of the puzzle I'm missing.
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So love that winter honeysuckle. It catches me by surprise every winter when I wonder from where that beautiful scent is emanating.
Thank you Fermi for the name of the Moraea which is such a great asset with its continuous flowering for so long.
Iris planifolia flowering well.
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Iris planifolia flowering well.
Wow, Pat,
they look wonderful!
Ours are only just poking their noses above the gravel
cheers
fermi
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Iris planifolia flowering well.
Understatement of the week!
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A few Australian native plants in flower now:
1) Dryandra sp
2) Correa pulchella prostrate orange form
3) Eremophila glabra good grey leave form
4 & 5) Pomaderris obcordata
cheers
fermi
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I think this is a little Scilla (?) that I may have posted a few years ago when it was only a couple of flowers. It is now only about 3 to 4 cm tall but lots more flowers on the stem.
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hello Pat , your large patch of Iris planifolia is superb . It has to be the largest group doing so well in the open garden in Australia .Do you still grow Iris x sindpers ? I have lost mine .
I think your Scilla is actually Hiacynthella dalmatica .
regards Otto.
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Hi Otto,
Lovely to hear from you. No I do not think I have Iris x sindpers anymore. The Iris planifolia patch shows signs of virus so I will not share any which is a pity. I left them insitu all summer etc. and they do look marvellous (apart from the damn virus). I have just found my planting plan where Hyacinthella is included and it shows as: J&J 0.571.360 Hyacinthella nervosa. I can't find where I have put all my J&J seed catalogues so maybe someone can help with the description. Oron believes it is damatica too.
Here it is again today.
Also Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles" and Clematis balaeric cirrhosa. Winter honeysuckle and Dutchman's pipe from SRGC seed (flowering for the first time for me)
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I have just found my planting plan where Hyacinthella is included and it shows as: J&J 0.571.360 Hyacinthella nervosa. I can't find where I have put all my J&J seed catalogues so maybe someone can help with the description. Oron believes it is damatica too.
Here it is again today.
From page 93 of the JJA master seedlist - available online as part of the Archibald ARchive on www. srgc.net !
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Thank you Maggi. I knew you would have the reference within easy reach.
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As promised Otto here are a few things flowering in my garden
1. Iris atropurpurea, from David Shahak seed, germinated in March 2015.
2. Galanthus transcaucasicus from Otto
3. Crocus tommasinianus and C. tommasinianus var. pictus
4. C. tommasinianus vr. pictus
5. Galanthus woronowii
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A beautiful sunny day today and I gardened ALL day. Heaven.
1. Cyclamen coum, picotee type and others
2. reticulata 'Harmony'
3. reticulata 'Pauline'
4. Wendy's Gold
5. Need a name - tag has gone missing
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Part 2.
1. and 2. reticulata 'Purple Gem'
3. Fessia (Scilla) greilhuberi
4. S. Arnott
5. Iris schelkownikowii
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Part 3.
1. Galanthus 'John Gray', my absolute favourite.
2. Iris atropurpurea (again)
3. Dendrobium sp.
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A few of the flowering bulbs at present.
An old double from Trevor Nottle.
Double narcissus which is very common in my garden nowadays.
A juno that has lost its tag.
One of the oncocylcus beds that might flower this year.
The patch of the dark leaved Oxalis has taken off!
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I like those double tazettas, Pat (and that Juno!)
Here we have more winter blooms:
1) one of Lawrence Trevanion's green daffs - 'Virivest' which is 'Westholme' x N. viridiflorus;
2) Crocus sieberi varieties from Hillview's last catalogue
3) Retic iris 'Blue Ice' from Alan McMurtrie (via Janis Ruksans via Marcus Harvey)
4) Hesperantha humilis
5) Narcissus seedling from 'Spoirot'
cheers
fermi
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Ooo Hesperantha humilis is very nice. I like that. The Trevanion green daffodil is beautiful too.