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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on June 02, 2010, 07:40:21 AM
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The 2nd of June and no posts yet? C'mon! Someone in the SH must have some flowers!
Here's a Gladdie that's in bloom now,
"Las Vegas"
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cheers
fermi
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Hoop petticoat daffs (most likely "Nylon") are also in bloom
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And Crocus cancellatus ssp mazzariacus has a new flush of flowers!
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I posted this last month (Monday ;D) to another thread, Mandragora autumnalis
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cheers
fermi
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Soon the Aloes will be in bloom - just wait and see! ;)
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Darn all here except what was already flowering in March-May and everything covered in mud splash.
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This little "critter" has just started flowering (...if you can call it that!) in my shade house and is stinking the place out :P It's tassel can be up to 1 metre in length. Certainly not pretty, but interesting and fun to grow - Aristolochia macroura:
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I took a punt and ordered some Hepatica seed from Ashwood.
H. nobilis made it through OK
H. pubescens and H. japonica were detained. They released them today when I emailed suggesting that they could be considered varietal forms of H. nobilis
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A couple of plants flowering for me now,
Lachenalia viridiflora and
Lardizabala biternata not really rock garden plant but something different.
bye Ray
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Good work with the Hepatica seed Ross. 8)
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A couple of plants flowering for me now,
Lachenalia viridiflora and
Lardizabala biternata not really rock garden plant but something different.
bye Ray
Lovely Ray & as you say the Lardizabala biternata is really different. Is that the plant with the chocolate scent?
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I think the climber with the chocolate scent (and I should know ;D) is Akebia quinata (chocolate coloured too). I don't know this one of Ray's, at all. It looks nice though.
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On second thoughts, they must be closely related as they are both in Lardizabalaceae. Maybe the Akebia has been renamed? But the flowers don't look quite the same in both plants and the leaves of the Akebia are shorter, rounder. I used to grow the Akebia in another garden. It climbed to 8 metres.
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Hi ray,
I have to grow my Lachenalia viridiflora in pots in the Shadehouse as the red-legged earth mites devour it in the garden >:(
At our combined AGS and FCHS Rock Garden Group meeting last Saturday a couple of growers brought their Massonias for an outing, but I neglected to write down names!
This one I think is Massonia echinata
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This is possibly Massonia depressa
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Not sure about this one
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Also on show was this intriguing Lachenalia rubida (? from Clan William)
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And this iris histrio (or was it Iris histrioides?)
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cheers
fermi
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Fermi , the Iris on display on saturday night was I . histrio , the one col. near Sofa , Lebanon .
A few photos from today , taken in the Rockgarden for Australian Plants at Ferny Creek Horticultural Soc. Gardens , which I landscaped and planted .
Australia does not have any native Erica species - the closest are about 45 species of Epacris - also now in the Ericaceae . Most of them are quite beautyful and valuable ,as they flower now in late autumn and winter .
In recent years a number of hybrid Kangaroo Paws appeared in the trade , here is a dwarf one (with the cutesy name 'Bush Baby' with native grasses ) .
Otto.
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Hi Gail,could not smell any scent in the flowers.
Hi Lesley,Have both L biternata and A quinata,one flowering in autumn and one in spring.
Hi Fermi.I also grow my L viridiflora in pots not because of the red legged mite but because I find that the early frosts knock it around so as soon as the flower spikes appear I put them under cover.bye Ray
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A couple of years ago I was sent some seed of Iris histrio, from Israel but by way of South America. One came up almost immediately but wasn't there last year, but this week, following the drowning we all got last week, and a sharp drop in temperature, there are a number germinating now. Lovely to see them at last. :D
We are getting another drenching with even colder temps. Snow ro 300m is predicted for later today (that includes me) and there is more road flooding. I was surprised at how much snow had fallen on the Canterbury mountains when I was up there a week ago. The ski fields are opening already.
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My yard is one giant lake at the moment. Great for the daffies but I hope they don't come on too early again this year
A couple of years ago I was sent some seed of Iris histrio, from Israel but by way of South America. One came up almost immediately but wasn't there last year, but this week, following the drowning we all got last week, and a sharp drop in temperature, there are a number germinating now. Lovely to see them at last. :D
We are getting another drenching with even colder temps. Snow ro 300m is predicted for later today (that includes me) and there is more road flooding. I was surprised at how much snow had fallen on the Canterbury mountains when I was up there a week ago. The ski fields are opening already.
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Oh Ross, I hope the rain stops soon and you can drain off. It must be heartbreaking to have flooding in the garden, let alone in the house. Thank heaven for our hill. ::)
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Oh Ross, I hope the rain stops soon and you can drain off. It must be heartbreaking to have flooding in the garden, let alone in the house. Thank heaven for our hill. ::)
It won't make it to the house but getting to my car this morning involved gumboots ::)
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Winter has certainly well and truly arrived, with heavy rains, often big downpours, floods in many South Island places , and now more rain, snow and frost forecasted.
Despite all the bad weather, and with a bit of protection, there are still a few bulbs flowering in the nursery.
One of the first species to flower, Narcissus viridiflorus is still going strong.
The clusters of star-shaped, tubular flowers have tiny almost non existing solid green cups, you could miss the little flowers altogether, but for their powerful sweet fragrance.
Also flowering is the brightly coloured Northoscordum hirtellum (syn.Ipheion hirtellum) from South America, which produces wonderful canary-yellow flowers with a greenish tinge in the throat
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This time a couple of unusually, beautifully shaped Cyclamen hederafolium silvery leaves, even without the flowers still attractive.
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Superb cyclamen, Bill.
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That combination of narrow leaves with so much silver is very appealing. I hope you're sowing plenty seed Bill. :D
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At our combined AGS and FCHS Rock Garden Group meeting last Saturday a couple of growers brought their Massonias for an outing, but I neglected to write down names!
Hi Fermi,
Darren says ........
The first Massonia looks like the plant from a Burdach collection (11182) which has been going round in the UK as M.Jasminiflora. The pink anther filaments are distinctive. Some now think this is now a new species.
The second Massonia resembles the plant Darren grows as M. aff. echinata from a Silverhills seed collection.
The last Massonia is M. pustulata.
Hope this helps,
Susan and Darren
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Here is yet another picture and this time of a flowering Cyclamen hederafolium with the attractive variegated, beautifully shaped, silvery leaves.
Lesley, I have more of these variegated C.hederafolium seedlings coming along. Would you like some seed or sdgs?
Naturally, in exchange I would love another plant of Weldenia candida if you have one to spare. ;D ;D Fair exchange?
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When sowing seeds, there are different methods going about this task:e.g. the seed media, depth, moisture, time, temparature etc.
I've done an experiment with the Tropaeolum azureum and Tropaeolum bracheceras, as oppose to the normal sowing practices.
With both species I put the seed in a damp paper kitchen towel in a closed plastic icecream container to stop the kitchen towel drying out, at nearly zero Celcius in the fridge for 1 month.
The close-up pictures will show you the resuts.
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Here is yet another picture and this time of a flowering Cyclamen hederafolium with the attractive variegated, beautifully shaped, silvery leaves.
Lesley, I have more of these variegated C.hederafolium seedlings coming along. Would you like some seed or sdgs?
Naturally, in exchange I would love another plant of Weldenia candida if you have one to spare. ;D ;D Fair exchange?
nice cyclamens! the colour of leaf stems just adds to the charm...
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Bill I've already promised you another Weldenia, but not until say August, when I'll be dividing the big one. I haven't any others in pots at present. Don't forget you've sent me some super Arisaema tubers. ;D So if you think of anything else you'd like as well, that's fine. Seedlings of the Cyclamen would be great, when they've died down perhaps.
Thanks.
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Those are very telling pictures of the Tropaeolum seeds. I'll be interested to hear the BD's comments. What will you do with them now? Pot them individually? and at what depth?
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Bill I've already promised you another Weldenia, but not until say August, when I'll be dividing the big one. I haven't any others in pots at present. Don't forget you've sent me some super Arisaema tubers. ;D So if you think of anything else you'd like as well, that's fine. Seedlings of the Cyclamen would be great, when they've died down perhaps. Thanks.
Lesley August will be fine for the Weldenia but don't worry, I will remind you, just in case you forget ;D ;D
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Those are very telling pictures of the Tropaeolum seeds. I'll be interested to hear the BD's comments. What will you do with them now? Pot them individually? and at what depth?
Lesley, some of those germinated Trop. seeds will be potted up seperately, while the remainder will be lined out in the larger, deeper polystyrene containers and covered with 10-15 mm. of coarse river sand.
As soon as the new threadlike shoots appear, I will be putting up some support to accomodate the new growth, and hopefully produce flowers and more seeds in a few months time.
I will show more pictures of the progress in the near future.
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Bill, might you feel able to send some seeds over here too? I have a nice form of Cyclamen purpurascens ex Limone form I can offer in exchange, also to anyone else who might like a few (as long as the slugs don't get to them first there's quite a lot of seed pods).
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Excellent pics everyone. I'm hoping to prepare some pics today and post them too.
Anne,
What a cracker of a silver purpurascens!! :o :o It looks to be absolutely solid silver?
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Excellent pics everyone. I'm hoping to prepare some pics today and post them too.
Anne,
What a cracker of a silver purpurascens!! :o :o It looks to be absolutely solid silver?
Paul, what about an almost solid gold leaved cyclamen?
I am surprised this second year seedling that popped up out of a batch of varigated sdgs is still alive.
On the other hand, if you look closely, there is a hint of chlorophyl to keep it alive.
Would be interesting and looking forward to perhaps see it flowering next time.
Looking forward to your pictures Paul to liven things up a bit this time of the season.
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Bill, might you feel able to send some seeds over here too? I have a nice form of Cyclamen purpurascens ex Limone form I can offer in exchange, also to anyone else who might like a few (as long as the slugs don't get to them first there's quite a lot of seed pods).
Anne, you are more than welcome to some of that special Cyclamen seed when they're ready in a few months, and would love to try a few seeds of that beautiful silvery leaved Cyclamen purpurascens.
Will send you my postal address by pm. Thanks.
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Bill,
That's an impressive set of leaves for just a second year seedling. ??? Given they only produce a single leaf the first year for me usually, how the heck did you end up with so many leaves the second year? It would be interesting to hear whether it flowers, and if so, what colour the flowers are? It would be fascinating if it stays permanently yellow like that throughout maturity..... and what the seedlings from it would end up looking like if it was successful in setting seed.
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Bill,
That's an impressive set of leaves for just a second year seedling. ??? Given they only produce a single leaf the first year for me usually, how the heck did you end up with so many leaves the second year? It would be interesting to hear whether it flowers, and if so, what colour the flowers are? It would be fascinating if it stays permanently yellow like that throughout maturity..... and what the seedlings from it would end up looking like if it was successful in setting seed.
Sorry Paul, just checked the date, you're right, its a third year seedling. (senior moment) ;D ;D
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Bill,
Not a problem. I just thought you must have been loading yours up with steroids to get them to grow that quickly into a second year plant. ;D ;D
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A brilliant Cyclamen Bill. I hope it will stay like that for you. Just enough goldy-green in the centre to provide some chlorophyll. I can imagine it would cause a sensation on a bench at the Cyclamen Society's shows. ;D
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Howdy All,
I posted some Cyclamen pics down in the Cyclamen topic, and various bits and pieces here and there (Massonias and Haemanthus for example) if anyone is interested. There are assorted bits and pieces flowering the garden here that will fit in with this topic though....
Everything from my Beaugainvillea which has been in flower since about October, through the Canarina canariensis which has a single flower on it for the second year in a row, to Protea nerifolia alba (with a closeup for he lovely furry details), Iris unguicularis 'Snow Queen', and unknown Gladiolus nanus type that has appeared out of nowhere. Anyone know which one it is? Doesn't match any others I have, so I am wondering whether a hybrid seedling or something?
Anyway, enough chattering..... here's the pics.
Enjoy.
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been enjoying your pix intyhe other threads, Paul and these are a fab selection, too. The white Iris unguicularia is just perfect and your "volunteer" Glad. is a good one....the photos are super too... great detail .... I almost feel I could "adopt" the protea and give it a saucer of milk!
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Lovely pictures Paul, the Canarina is one of my favourites but that Protea is wonderful!
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Some good cheerful winter warmers there Paul. Is the Wahlenbergia a form of an Australian native?
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Thanks all.
Lesley,
Yes, it's a double form of an Aussie native. 8)
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Howdy All,
I posted some Cyclamen pics down in the Cyclamen topic, and various bits and pieces here and there (Massonias and Haemanthus for example) if anyone is interested. There are assorted bits and pieces flowering the garden here that will fit in with this topic though....
Everything from my Beaugainvillea which has been in flower since about October, through the Canarina canariensis which has a single flower on it for the second year in a row, to Protea nerifolia alba (with a closeup for he lovely furry details), Iris unguicularis 'Snow Queen', and unknown Gladiolus nanus type that has appeared out of nowhere. Anyone know which one it is? Doesn't match any others I have, so I am wondering whether a hybrid seedling or something?
Anyway, enough chattering..... here's the pics.
Enjoy.
now that's a nice mild floriferous winter :)
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Cohan,
Yeah, we only get down to about -8 or -9'C these days, but I'm banking on one of these years getting back to the winters of a number of years back. That will sort out the plant "men" from the plant "boys", let me tell you. ;D There's a lot of things that are borderline here that wouldn't survive the old temperatures of 20 years ago. :o
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Everything from my Beaugainvillea which has been in flower since about October, through the Canarina canariensis which has a single flower on it for the second year in a row, to Protea nerifolia alba (with a closeup for he lovely furry details), Iris unguicularis 'Snow Queen', and
Paul, I like your Iris unguicularis , I am very fond of the Iris family, Iris are among the most fascinating, colourful, prized plants in the garden landscape.
Your flowering Canarina canariensis is another beauty, way ahead of our plants in the nursery, not even budding up.
Good show, keep those pictures coming.
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Two more pictures of a potful of Narcissus bulbicodium sp. and the last of the flowering Nerine angustifolia I think.
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Yet again, the half dozen N. cantabricus I bought from Marcus earlier in the year, are flowering as a selection of different pale yellows to lemon shades, not unlike Bill's above. He seems somehow to have them thoroughly mixed up. Fortunately I have seed from Rafa of the genuine article.
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Just a few more of the beautifully variegated marked Cyclamen hederafolium plants. Enjoy
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This time I am showing pictures of a few bulbs I picked out of the Narcissus bulbocodium var. mesatlanticus selection.
The flowers are almost flat, wide spreading, nicely propotioned and fully two inches ( 50 mm.) accross.
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Those are very good leaves Bill. Who needs flowers? ;D ;D
Your N. romieuxii are well ahread of mine too. Last year I had 'Atlas Gold' out be now. Not a bud in sight so far but they were bone dry until very recently.
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For some spectacular colour the Lachenalia's are hard to beat this time of the season, almost in the middle of winter.
Lachenalia quadricolor and Lachenalia viridiflora never fail to demand attention when displaying their brilliant colours.
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The first of a nicely shaped miniature trumpet daffodil to flower, and looking forward to many more to come, especially the new seedlings flowering for the first time.
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Bill,
Great Narcissus. Excellent form and looks so tiny. I adore the colour on the Lachenalia viridiflora. So strong!! :o
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Cohan,
Yeah, we only get down to about -8 or -9'C these days, but I'm banking on one of these years getting back to the winters of a number of years back. That will sort out the plant "men" from the plant "boys", let me tell you. ;D There's a lot of things that are borderline here that wouldn't survive the old temperatures of 20 years ago. :o
it does seem to be just a matter of time in most places.. knock on wood..
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A very cute - and early - Narcissus Bill. Is it a new one?
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A very cute - and early - Narcissus Bill. Is it a new one?
Lesley, this is a new cultivar named Birdmagic that I exchanged with a well known American miniature breeder, when he was visiting one of our national daffodil shows. I am pleased with its performance and first year flowering after acclimatization, and hope will be fertile to breed from.
Long may exchanges continue, always something new to look forward to.
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A very cute - and early - Narcissus Bill. Is it a new one?
Long may exchanges continue, always something new to look forward to.
MAF and ERMA permitting. ???
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MAF and ERMA permitting. ???
Don't start me on MAF or ERMA, they've given me high blood pressure for years, not to mention the black sheep label.
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No, I've probably said more than enough about both, on the Forum. Pains we have to live with I'm afraid. >:(
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Nerine humilis (breachiae) alba is a charming, late flowering, dwarf species with spikes of delicate white flowers, with narrow wavy perianth petals.
Flowers appear in mid-late autumn., and make excellent container plants.
The second picture is of a dainty, miniature size Tazetta type Soleil d'Or, (still under number), specially bred by another well-known NZ grower/hybridiser.
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Bill,
I love the Nerine. I've never seen a white humilis before. A favourite of the smaller species, flowers religiously every year even in a small pot. The pure white petals make it seem even more dainty. I must see if that one is available anywhere here in Aus, as it is a beauty. Love the little Narc too. Thanks for the pics.
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Bill,
I love the Nerine. I've never seen a white humilis before. A favourite of the smaller species, flowers religiously every year even in a small pot. The pure white petals make it seem even more dainty. I must see if that one is available anywhere here in Aus, as it is a beauty. Love the little Narc too. Thanks for the pics.
Paul, if and when this species set seed, remind me in a month time for a few seeds, you might get lucky.
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Thanks Bill. Did you grow yours from seed? I've only a single clone of my own humilis, and it has never set viable seed for me here unfortunately, despite hand pollination. Obviously not self fertile. ::)
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I'm wondering why I'm the first to post a snowdrop pic to this thread (having only the mildest of "white fever' symptoms myself)!
Galanthus elwesii "Comet?" (this was in Marcus Harvey's previous lists as "Green Outer Tips" but he's now pretty sure it's "Comet")
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And another Galanthus elwesii
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And to continue the white theme, the diminutive Allium chamaemoly
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cheers
fermi
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I'm wondering why I'm the first to post a snowdrop pic to this thread (having only the mildest of "white fever' symptoms myself)!
Goodness knows Fermi, but thanks for a midsummer fix ;D
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I have buds showing but they are still a way down
I'm wondering why I'm the first to post a snowdrop pic to this thread (having only the mildest of "white fever' symptoms myself)!
Galanthus elwesii "Comet?" (this was in Marcus Harvey's previous lists as "Green Outer Tips" but he's now pretty sure it's "Comet")
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And another Galanthus elwesii
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And to continue the white theme, the diminutive Allium chamaemoly
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cheers
fermi
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Same here. Not a single snowdrop out yet, even the reginae-olgaes haven't flowered yet but it was so dry early on. I've had a look and they're still there, just extremely late. A few buds on the new ones from Marcus, happily.
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There are hundreds of G. elwesii v. monostictus in flower already here in my garden and with many more in bud - also great drifts of G. rizehensis , one of the easiest here multiplying at a great speed , and very nice .
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Otto it must be lovely to have great drifts of Galanthus - lucky you.
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Nice show Fermi and Otto, with the first of the season's charming snowdrops, no garden should be without them, keep them coming.
One more and the cetainly the last of the season's beautiful Brunsvigia grandiflora still flowering at the moment.
Not to forget the interesting, nice coloured Canarina canariensis putting up a brave display, not very hardy, will have to cover when frost is forecasted.
Looks like the Nerine humilis (breachiae) alba with a little help, is setting seed Paul, you might be in luck.
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Wonderful, Bill. Hopefully yours doesn't do like mine does, and look like they're setting seed and abort. Fingers and everything crossed for the seed to mature. ;D
Excellent pics everyone.