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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Jupiter on September 01, 2019, 09:39:36 AM
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Spring! I have spent the whole weekend gardening and it has been bliss. I have so many ideas inspired by my visit to Olinda for Oron's talks; it was an educational as well as a enjoyable weekend.
Here are some early spring flowers from my garden;
1. Saxifraga edithae 'Bridget'
2. Narc. cyclamineus alongside Narc. cyclamineus 'Viv' (a lovely gift from Otto)
3. Ipheion peregrinans 'Rolf Fiedler'
4. Anemone blanda
5. Tropaeolum tricolor
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part two;
6. Serapias neglecta
7. Moraea macronyx
8. Babiana sp? (B. nana)
9. Steps up through the rock garden
10. Gladiolus watermeyeri
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You really are a perfectionist Jamus, very taken with your crevice pots and that spectacular gladiolus.
It was a lovely weekend to be outside.
1. A hermodactylus iris that came from lambley nursery - named blue jade i think
2. Cardamine pentaphylla - much slower to increase than its cousin 'flickweed'
3. One of my favourites, from Otto: Hyacinthella leocophae
4. Crocus etruscus
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5. Our native Boronia megastigma lutea
Each year i put a pot on the doorstep for the scent, then plant it out in the garden after flowering
6. Bellevalia dubia
7. Erythronium lilies
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Hello Jamus...
again great plants... as always from you. But I find the photo of the steps particularly fascinating. You should show some more photos of the complete rock garden...what I have seen so far is exactly to my taste and a great inspiration for me.
Greetings
Thomas
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Hi Jacqui, it was really nice to see you again at Olinda. It's just a pity we can't catch up more often. Are you sure you bought the jade blue Hermodactylus tuberosus from Lambley? Mine was from Marcus and he said it was very rare here and I even gave a bit back to him because he said he didn't have it anymore!
Thomas thanks for your compliments; the rock garden is 50% joy and 50% pain, I am still learning what species do well in our challenging climate. Recent drought conditions haven't helped. It's not looking its best in terms of the health of the plants right now...
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A great start to spring with your flowers, Jamus and Jacqui!
Here are a few more from our garden:
1) Acis trichophylla
2) Gagea fibrosa
3) Hesperantha latifolia
4) Muscari muscarimi
5) Crocus minimus 'Bavella'
cheers
fermi
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Hi Otto, if you're reading this, can you please tell me the name of this Scilla you gave me when I was at your place, one that we forgot to give a label!
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Hi Jamus,
yes it is such a pity not to meet more often.
Marcus told me about your hermodactylus. I think he said it was a chance seedling. Yes it is rare but david Glenn did list it a couple of years ago on line. It wasn’t in the printed catalogue though so maybe very few. Naturally I snapped it up :)
The Scilla has me curious. I thought maybe ingridae but anthers wrong. Shall await Otto’s reply with interest.
Fermi the muscari muscarimi is very sweet.
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I like the colors of your minimus, somes are really dark. In Corsica most of them are pinkish or violet, those in Sardinia are dark.
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Lovely images all.
My first attempt at downloading directly a phone camera image I took recently .
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Lovely trillium t00lie - your season is getting into its stride!
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Lovely trillium t00lie - your season is getting into its stride!
Thanks Maggi .Yes a lot of colour with a number of early Trillium's in bloom with other 'bits and pieces'.
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Dave, beautiful Trilliums!
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Dave, beautiful Trilliums!
Thank you Herman
Here are a few more all raised from garden collected seed so sometimes I find identification a bit hit and miss. :)
Trillium with very narrow petals the leaves have a slight petiole like base so maybe it has some angustipetalum influence.
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Raised as Trillium maculatum the leaf colouring is more pronounced in this its second year of flowering .
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Trillium kurabayashii.
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So lovely Trilliums! :) I especially liked the first one (Sept 7), but it is good to see any from your spring while our spring is still far away. :) Here I got some seeds now from my Trilliums, but many seed pods had disappeared one night, maybe to voles. One seedpod which I thought was good, but when I reached to take it, a wasp came from the hole in the base of it :o, and there were only two seeds left. I didn't think wasps could eat Trillium seeds but maybe they just dropped them or something.
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Hello all,
Toolie s trilliums are gorgeous.
I have only one up, and maybe it will be the only one that flowers - without those lovely leaf markings, sadly.
A few from last days.
1. The trillium
2. The Narcissus 'Hawera' clump
3. An epimedium hybrid I bought years ago does well in the garden
4. A Gordonia yunnanense that was rather a disappointment for some years is coming into its own now
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and 3 more..
5. Muscari muscarimi
6. My very first Juno ever to flower - kindly gifted by marcus and susan
7. A slightly the worse for wear pseudomuscari
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You have lots of beautiful things flowering Jacqui. I love your rare shrubs; Gordonia is new to me. The juno is lovely! That's a rare creature... is it Iris magnifica f. alba?
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Jamus you do say the nicest things..
For my part, I love your artistry with the rock garden.
I think the Juno has magnifica in it but wondered if it might be a cross. I'm so pleased it has finally flowered.
It has been quite a wait.
Here are two for today, tulips saxatilis and anemone blanda.
Spring is such an exciting season.
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Some more from the garden in the last few days:
Tulipa bakeri - now T. saxatilis (Bakeri Group) 'Lilac Wonder'
Galaxia (now Moraea) fugacissima
Narcissus 'WubWub' from Lawrence Trevanion
Hesperantha vaginata & ssp stanfordiae? from NZAGS Sdx 2011
Narcissus 'Joycelon Newman' from Keira Bulbs
cheers
fermi
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1) A bit of spring sunshine - Hesperantha vaginata, Gagea fibrosa and Nothoscordum felipponei
2) Gladiolus watermeyeri
3) Narcissus 'Split' 11aW-W (Gerritsen, Holland)
4) Isopogon cv
5) Olearia pimeleoides
cheers
fermi
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Fermi, you must have bought seed of Gladiolus watermeyeri from Silverhill the same time I did. Is that the first time flowering for you?
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Fermi, you must have bought seed of Gladiolus watermeyeri from Silverhill the same time I did. Is that the first time flowering for you?
Hi Jamus,
no mine came from seed from NZAGS 2011 http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14607.msg363362#msg363362 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=14607.msg363362#msg363362) reply #54, first flowered in 2016,
cheers
fermi
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A few more from our place:
1) Bellevalia ciliata
2) Anemone pavonina red - grown from SRGC seedex seed a few years ago
3) I think this is Anemone heldreichii x A. pavonina
4) Tulipa agenensis ssp sharonensis
5) Not sure if this is Tulipa clusiana 'Lady Jane' or seedlings of it but whatever, they are getting swamped by the self-sown sweet-peas :o
cheers
fermi
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So lovely Trilliums!
Hello all,
Toolie s trilliums are gorgeous.
Thanks Leena/Parsla. It seems spring is well underway in Aussie and also over on this side of the ditch with various Erythronium, Primula and Fritillaria in bloom
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Cheers Dave.
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More Trilliums including a nice deep pink coloured rivale I picked up while in Christchurch last weekend for the NZAGS Annual Show.
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Babiana nana , Arum unknown , Moraea 'lucky dip' and ? ..its had that many names changes and I've forgotten all of them for the moment ... :'( ;D ,and finally Tropaeolum brachyceras originally as seed from Bill Dijk.
Cheers Dave.
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Cheers.
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Great pics folks. Some absolute crackers in here. Wonderful.
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You really are stealing the spring show Toolie, absolutely gorgeous, although Fermi’s bellevalia and anemones are also very pretty. I don’t know how you grow the frit meleagris in the ground. I can’t seem to keep it alive that way. Specially when hot dry summers are followed by a proper drowning.
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Inspired to pop up a few photos too.
1. This delightful leggy, delicate, triandrus-hybrid narcissus came to me as 'Russell Falls" but the blooms look a little different to the pictures of same on Daffseek. I remain unsure.
2. I thought I had lost the Narcissus triandrus, after seeing others blooming on the AGS bench a few weeks ago. I'm so relieved it is only tardy.
3. Anemonella thalictroides
4. Pseudotrillium rivale, kindly gifted me by Otto
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Lovely to see so many treasures in your
New ZealandSouthern gardens, t00lie and Jacquie.
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:o I didn't know Jacqui had moved to NZ! ;D
Here are a few new flowers in our garden:
1) Paeonia kesrouanensis from Wilma, a past member;
2) Iris 'Satan's Mistress' from Otto;
3) Gladiolus abbreviatus - returns to flowering size! The bigger corms were killed in the freeze in 2017;
4) Moraea marlothii from seed from SIGNA
5) Tulipa vvedenskii or albertii - originally from Marcus as T. albertii but there are some questions about it!
cheers
fermi
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Well, she hasn't, as far as I know - but my geography isn't getting any better!! :-X :-\ :-[
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Well, she hasn't, as far as I know - but my geography isn't getting any better!! :-X :-\ :-[
Maggi, my dad used to say "I've forgotten more about this than you'll ever know"! You have a huge task and still know more than I'll ever learn :-*
Here are a few more from the garden:
1) Bulbinella floribunda - I think the one I posted earlier is actually B. robusta, though this looks more robust ;)
2) Symphytum sp
3) DBI 'Raspberry Jam'
4) Muscari romana
5) Tulipa 'Fergana Group'
cheers
fermi
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You really are stealing the spring show Toolie, absolutely gorgeous, although Fermi’s bellevalia and anemones are also very pretty. I don’t know how you grow the frit meleagris in the ground. I can’t seem to keep it alive that way. Specially when hot dry summers are followed by a proper drowning.
Thanks Jacqui .Frit meleagris seems to enjoy our woodland conditions and there is no fear of a dry period I can tell you ;D very miserable conditions today and rain forecast all day tomorrow.
Lovely to see so many treasures in your Southern gardens, t00lie and Jacquie.
Thanks Maggi
Great pics folks. Some absolute crackers in here. Wonderful.
Please to see you are still around Paul. :)
Heloniopsis orientalis
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Arum creticum purchased a year ago and given a cool summer rest under cover when dormant I'm so pleased to see it in flower again this season.
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What I have as Romulea crocea
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Arum hygrophilum runs about a bit however it has a lovely bloom.
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Muscari negletum
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Tulipa humilis var.violacea
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Muscari latifolia
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Erythronium dens-canis looking neat and tidy
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Frit. elwesii one flower .I'm not sure how long the multiple seedlings from last season will take to grow on to flowering but it would be nice to see them as a clump.
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Arum apulum first flowering raised from seed
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Ranunculus crithmifolius in the 'NZ' sand bed.
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Next project ... bulbs sprayed off ---the top of the 3 wooden pegs will be the height level --the first of many barrow loads of river sand in place --sandstone rocks awaiting eventual placement.
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Thanks everyone for sharing the delights of your Southern spring.
That Ranunculus is rather special Dave 8) Are you growing it in pure river sand?
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Thanks everyone for sharing the delights of your Southern spring.
That Ranunculus is rather special Dave 8) Are you growing it in pure river sand?
Thanks Ashley. Yes has flowered the last two seasons in pure river sand. I lift the winter cover as soon as I see buds.
Further work on the 'new project' this afternoon. After some thought I decided to dig out all of the sprayed bulbs now rather than wait ,(probably missed a few so will deal to them later if they become an issue), dump a few barrow loads of river sand and set the rocks in place .Still to close off most of the crevices to stop the sand from washing out which will take some time because of the need to continue using an axe upside down to break up some of the larger limestone rocks left over and then decide where /what plants to use ......
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Nice job Dave. If you have any spare rocks you might pop a few in the post for me? ;D
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Nice job Dave. If you have any spare rocks you might pop a few in the post for me? ;D
Thanks David.You arrange the cargo ship buddy ....I'll arrange the parcel .... ;) ;D
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Lovely to see so many treasures in your New ZealandSouthern gardens, t00lie and Jacquie.
Thank you Maggi :)
Its the best time of year.
Tulipa batalinii has survived the winter, and epimediums popping up all over the place.
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Thank you Maggi :)
Its the best time of year.
Tulipa batalinii has survived the winter, and epimediums popping up all over the place.
Tulipa and Epis just starting here as well Jacqui.
I love the endless variations in the shape of the leaf margins and degree of flecking in Trillium rivale. Here's a small sample ...
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This last one is a beauty :-* :-* :)
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Toolie the trilliums are marvellous. Especially the purple-leafed ones - spectacular.
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Dave, thank you for showing your beautiful Trillium's! I have only light colors of Trillium rivale.
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Toolie the trilliums are marvellous. Especially the purple-leafed ones - spectacular.
Thanks Jacqui
I think the dark leafed one is of Australian descent.
Dave, thank you for showing your beautiful Trillium's! I have only light colors of Trillium rivale.
Thanks Herman there are a multitude of different coloured petal forms of T.rivale being cultivated here in NZ ,some vary considerably in the size of the petal .
Cheers Dave.
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Dave, I am envious of your collection of Trillium rivale. Perhaps one year a seed or two will finally germinate successfully... it isn't for lack of trying. Nice to see them!
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Dave, I am envious of your collection of Trillium rivale. Perhaps one year a seed or two will finally germinate successfully... it isn't for lack of trying. Nice to see them!
Thanks Gordon.
Fresh seed is best and in our conditions numerous seedlings appear around the parent plants.
Cheers .