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Author Topic: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere  (Read 8455 times)

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January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« on: January 01, 2014, 02:35:50 PM »
Happy new year to all plant lovers !  :D

I will begin with my Helleborus thibetanus, they bloom to early this year  ::)
and there are also the Helleborus niger in my Berlin garden


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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2014, 03:31:01 PM »
Great detail on the thibetanus picture. Happy New Year, Irm!
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2014, 07:04:16 PM »
Short break between storms here, so able to take a few photographs. Iris unguicularis has its first flowers of the winter; Helleborus x sternii 'Beatrice le Blanc Strain'; and Helleborus x ballardiae 'Shooting Star'
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2014, 02:44:54 PM »
Yesterday was a much better day than New Year's Day so I ventured out to see what was in flower or looking reasonable.  Nothing very exciting but still colourful on a winters day.
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2014, 02:46:16 PM »
And the final five.
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2014, 05:56:52 PM »
uff, I finally have a few!!
hamamelis pallida
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lonicera purpusii
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abeliophyllum distichum
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2014, 03:26:54 PM »
Some plants in flower here now:

Cyclamen coum
Eranthis hyemalis 'Moonlight'
Iris 'Dance On'
Iris 'Early Morning Light'
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2014, 03:35:51 PM »
I am delighted to see all these fine flowers - nothing like that in our garden here...... just some snowdrops, winter jasmine and the very first beginnings from the Hamamelis - a very slow start compared to so many of you.
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2014, 04:31:15 PM »
All beautiful and especially welcome at this time of year 8)

Wim, are 'Dance On' & 'Early Morning Light' Alan McMurtie hybrids?  I haven't seen either before but like 'Dance On' especially.
Apart from 'C. adjaricum' which is usually first here, most of my coums are behind yours.
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2014, 12:05:18 PM »
I forgot to add the situation in my interior jungle..It's clearly reaching an alarming point for my love life!

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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2014, 02:48:05 PM »
Gosh Wim, your eranthis are way ahead of mine, I think the first is just shouldering its way through the mulch!
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2014, 05:58:56 PM »
Wim, are 'Dance On' & 'Early Morning Light' Alan McMurtie hybrids?  I haven't seen either before but like 'Dance On' especially.
Apart from 'C. adjaricum' which is usually first here, most of my coums are behind yours.

Ashley, they are McMurtrie hybrids indeed and they are both always very early! We're having very mild weather over here for the moment so the C. coum are flowering quite early.

Gosh Wim, your eranthis are way ahead of mine, I think the first is just shouldering its way through the mulch!

Most other Eranthis are just showing over here too, this one I got only last year and it seems to have some adjusting to do  ;)
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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2014, 11:41:00 AM »

A happy new year with the first signs of spring from me!!!  :)

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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #13 on: January 08, 2014, 04:52:05 PM »
Some sunshine and Adonis reveals its beautiful flowers always early January...

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Re: January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2014, 04:53:53 PM »
Some more...

 


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