Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: meanie on April 03, 2011, 12:25:10 AM
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Blooming for the first time in my partners garden......
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That is beautiful! I have one small plant in the garden which is quite spindly so I have bought a new plant which is still in a pot. I find fritillaries quite difficult so I hope I get a result like yours.
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I wish that I could take credit for this Galanthophile, but it's all Sues work!
She bought it at the end of season sale for a couple of quid, put it in a ten inch pot and shoved it in the corner for the winter! It stands about a metre tall.
She's a little disappointed that there don't appear to be any offsets though....
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She's a little disappointed that there don't appear to be any offsets though....
Patience, there's time !
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I agree Maggi, but you know how it is.....
Strangely, her F.imperialis seems to have blasted again. Looks as if I may "win" that one, as failing two years in a row would be the final straw!
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Congratulations!! That is a beauty!! I hope to flower it one year, some time in the distant future when I am hopefully finally successful with it. ::) I can dream.
Thanks for the pics. 8)
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There are many colour forms of F. persica but I like this red/brown best, usually with a plummy bloom on the flowers.
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Paul T - stick with it, it's worth it!
Lesley Cox - I had no idea that there were other shades around, but this is the shade for me. I love dark flowers - I'm hoping to get blooms from my Hollyhock "Nigra" this summer. I'll try to dig out the photos of a very dark Phal noid that I have from when it was in bloom.
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Meanie (I really don't like addressing someone by such a name) there are forms in different shades or mixtures of greens, reds, and even ivory white. All are magnificent though I've only seen most here, on the Forum. :(
It seems you like the very dark colours? Do you grow chocolate cosmos for instance (Cosmos atrosanguineus)? I grow the so-called "black" hollyhock too. It's wonderful.
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Greens certainly sound interesting.
I'm an appalling "bigot" when it comes to plants, and for some reason Cosmos suffers my from prejudice towards what I call "daisy like" flowers. Pansies are another that I really don't like, but I have grown this one in the past simply because it's the closest thing to a black flower that I've found......