Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: pehe on December 12, 2011, 11:37:44 AM
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The garden is not at its best, but there are some flowers (among the weeds :-[)
When you look closer, many of the bulbs are ready for spring.
Galanthus elwesii monosticus Hiemale + Narcissus Cedric Morris
Crocus laevigatus Fontenayi
Narcissus cantabricus foliosus
Ipheon (Notoscordum) dialytemon
Nerine undulata
Crocus imperati Jager
Colchicum vernum
Iris histrioides George
Eranthis hyemalis
Orchis purpurea
Poul
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Tulips anyone? Tulipa iliensis in an open sided sand plunge. It was more open yesterday in a rare patch of sunshine but, of course, by the time I got around to getting the camera it was dark and gloomy again.
I had Oncostema(Scilla) peruviana open at the end of November and Convolvulus cneorumis covered in opening buds for the first time this year but these I guess are late rather than early. What is a gardener supposed to do ???
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Some Asarum in flower. Asarum hypogynum from Taiwan, Asarum nipponicum and a small flowered species from China, possibly Asarum ichiangense.
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It has been the year of Ilex verticillata here and the partridges have left them alone. All throughout the province they are stunning save for the largest female I've ever seen - some 6m wide x 3m high across - which didn't have a single berry.
johnw
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Anyone like to guess what this is? :D
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Well it's not a snowdrop!
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Today in the garden: Hamamelis 'Rochester' (syn. Ham. mollis 'Superba')
A spreading hybrid between Ham. mollis and Ham. vernalis making a shrub 3 m tall and wide. It's a very useful cultivar in that it has the strongest (sweet) scent of any (particularly very fragrant by 'warmer' and windless weather) and it is always by far the first hybrid to come into flower (december). It's a hybrid with vernalisblood which means that the flowers are not very large (approximately 13 mm) compared for example with the Ham. intermedia cultivars (Ham. japonica x Ham. mollis) but the overall color is a brilliant coppery orange. A disadvantage can be the fact that it often retains its dead leaves during winter, especially young(er) plants. So when you wanted to buy a Hamamelis this one must be one of your favorites !!!
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Anyone like to guess what this is? :D
No idea. Ian thought it might be a Euphorbia, but I don't!
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Today in the garden: Hamamelis 'Rochester' (syn. Ham. mollis 'Superba')
A spreading hybrid between Ham. mollis and Ham. vernalis making a shrub 3 m tall and wide. It's a very useful cultivar in that it has the strongest (sweet) scent of any (particularly very fragrant by 'warmer' and windless weather) and it is always by far the first hybrid to come into flower (december). It's a hybrid with vernalisblood which means that the flowers are not very large (approximately 13 mm) compared for example with the Ham. intermedia cultivars (Ham. japonica x Ham. mollis) but the overall color is a brilliant coppery orange. A disadvantage can be the fact that it often retains its dead leaves during winter, especially young(er) plants. So when you wanted to buy a Hamamelis this one must be one of your favorites !!!
What a great plant, Freddy. Wonderful colour.
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Anyone like to guess what this is? :D
I have never seen anything like it. Can't even say whether it is a monocot or a dicot ???
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Today in the garden: Hamamelis 'Rochester' (syn. Ham. mollis 'Superba')
A spreading hybrid between Ham. mollis and Ham. vernalis making a shrub 3 m tall and wide. It's a very useful cultivar in that it has the strongest (sweet) scent of any (particularly very fragrant by 'warmer' and windless weather) and it is always by far the first hybrid to come into flower (december). It's a hybrid with vernalisblood which means that the flowers are not very large (approximately 13 mm) compared for example with the Ham. intermedia cultivars (Ham. japonica x Ham. mollis) but the overall color is a brilliant coppery orange. A disadvantage can be the fact that it often retains its dead leaves during winter, especially young(er) plants. So when you wanted to buy a Hamamelis this one must be one of your favorites !!!
Very nice indeed, freddyvl! I have a soft spot for Witch hazels but for the time being I only have 'Pallida'.
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Anyone like to guess what this is? :D
No idea. Ian thought it might be a Euphorbia, but I don't!
"Never a willow" ::)
Possibly an Aloe?
cheers
fermi
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Anyone like to guess what this is? :D
No idea. Ian thought it might be a Euphorbia, but I don't!
"Never a willow" ::)
Possibly an Aloe?
cheers
fermi
Lachenalia?
Happy Christmas
Erle
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It was one of the Bromeliads flowering in my kitchen at the moment. I'm embarrassed to say that I cannot immediately remember the name! :-[ Where is Michael Ben (member on here) when you need him? I got these from one of his friends in Madeira a few years ago and this is the first time they have flowered.
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I wouldn't have got that, John. It was the furry stem that was confusing me.... :-\
Michael hasn't been around for a couple of months or more..... wonder how his studies at the RHS are getting on?
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Thanks for putting us out of our misery John. They are most interesting plants and it's great to have them flowering under your nose, so to speak. Those two plastic rings nearby didn't have anything to do with it, did they? ;D Probably plant food of some kind. ;D ;D ;D
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Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Rain, rain and more rain here in Blackpool. Everything here is looking as though rice would be a favoured crop but on the rock garden just 2 little things are managing to flower. Senecio pulcher looks very unlikely to be there and to be flowering at this time of the year but did just the same last year even after the lowest temperature of -15C which saw off a lot of bulbs. The other is a a little cyclamen self seeded into a a gap.
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Cheerful colour for an English mid-winter John. Very best wishes to you and yours too and hopefully not too harsh a New Year, weather-wise. :)
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My Tulipa turkestanica aff. have been open a few days now. Many in the garden have noses above ground now.
13C today. I would really like some frost to put the Geraniums and other perennials to sleep for the winter. Aster laterifolius is growing again
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Happy Christmas to everyone.
I am just back from a week at the parents place on the South Coast of UK. A strange mix of things in flower there - some far too early and some far too late! :-\
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And a few other random pictures I took in my parents garden.
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Crikey, a lot more colour there than here, John. What a Christmas treat.
Some of the other visitors out in the garden look a bit stoney faced though... party poopers!
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I like the grass. ;D
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I like the grass. ;D
I'm sure that Dad will be glad to hear it ::)
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I meant the pampas grass. ::) I could never get mine to flower! ;D
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Flowers everywhere in NZ. Cain comes in with fluffy bits attached all over him. Mercifully, though it doesn't seem to seed about. I've not seen a self-sown one here or anywhere.
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The unusual mild weather brought the first flower of Ranunculus calandrinioides
in the open garden.
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Hi John, I can see where you have got you GREEN THUMBS from! (Is this correct english? We call it green fingers.)
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Yes, John definitely has green fingers. I am just green. ;D
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Its better to be green then it is to be bleu. ;D
Lina.
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Its better to be green then it is to be bleu. ;D
Lina.
No! Ajourd'hui: Bleu, bleu, le ciel est bleu ;D
For the first time in days - weeks - the weather is calm and the sky is almost cloudless! So far this winter very mild weather, only 5 days when the night temp have dropped below 0oC. The Crocuses is 10cm tall but without flowers as the weather has been too dull.
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Eranthis hyemalis is very early this winter.