Looking for Daphne x Burkwoodii Lavenrii

[Morgayn]

Hi Everyone,
I just found this forum and am so excited! I am hooked!
I've been looking for this daphne for three years now, and even had some cutting sent to me but have had no success.
Does anyone know where I might find it?
I have quite a few plants that I will offer for exchange and I will work on getting the list up soon.
Thanks!

[Maggi Young]

Hi Morgayn, welcome to the Forum.
 Can't help you with this daphne cultivar other than to say that Karan Junker's nursery has listed it...
Junker's Nursery Ltd., Lower Mead, West Hatch
Taunton
Somerset
TA3 5RN
United Kingdom
Telephone
   (01823) 480774
Email
   karan@junker.co.uk
Website
   www.junker.co.uk

[Morgayn]

Hi Maggi,

Thanks! I have spoken with Karen and she's had some bad luck with weather/plants and doesn't have it in stock right now.
I'll keep looking!

[Maggi Young]

Oh dear.... I was even less help than I thought!
Must say that Lavenrii is not a form I know.

[Morgayn]

I had better check my spelling next time!
I've heard from some people that it's the same plant as Somerset and Albert Burkwood, but I'm not sure. I may have to get a few and compare them. Here's a little note on Lavenerii form the Lottah Nursery in Tasmania Aus.
 "The original hybrid first arose in France in 1920 from a natural cross of D. caucasica x D. cneorum and was named D. lavenerii. A decade later a similar cross was made by the Burkwood brothers and introduced to the trade as 'Albert Burkwood' and 'Somerset'. D. x burkwoodii is a fairly popular deciduous variety although much less common than D. odora."

Maybe the name is what is throwing me off. Maybe I'm looking for something that's right in front of me!

[Maggi Young]

 I still don't know it! But, under the spelling 'Lavenerii' I found this from Todd Boland ....
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/84370/

"This cultivar is very similar to 'Somerset' in having grey-green semi-evergreen foliage. The flowers on 'Lavenerii' are very pale pink to almost white while 'Somerset' is medium pink."

[Onion]

Daphne 'Somerset' is in the trade in Germany by the nurseries. This cultivar can be propagate by cuttings. Not so difficult as D. cneorum. The propagation mixture we (in the nursery) have, is alike Ian Young's mixture for the bulbs. We only change the leafmould-part against a loambased soil (Don't know the right word).

[Lesley Cox]

I've come across him various times in assorted links, but who's Dave?

[Maggi Young]

I've come across him various times in assorted links, but who's Dave?

Todd Boland- one of the speakers at April's Alpines 2011 conference, works at the Botanic Garden in Newfoundland.  

I don't know who, exactly "Dave" of Dave's Garden is, but  "his" website has been around for  quite a long time and quite a lot of folks I know of, like Todd, post pictures there.
 This tells of the site's ownership.....http://davesgarden.com/aboutus/

[Mad]

I don't know this daphne, but I see that Pieter Zwijnenburg is listing it as Daphne burkwodii 'Lavenierii'. He has only email address: zwijnenburgjr@planet.nl (he is in Boskoop, NL), phone: 0031(0)172 216232. This doesn't actually means hat he has it, anyway..
Hope this will help.

[Morgayn]

I don't know this daphne, but I see that Pieter Zwijnenburg is listing it as Daphne burkwodii 'Lavenierii'. He has only email address: zwijnenburgjr@planet.nl (he is in Boskoop, NL), phone: 0031(0)172 216232. This doesn't actually means hat he has it, anyway..
Hope this will help.

Interesting!  I may have to send him a note. I'd really like to find a few.