Daphne

[angie]

Daren I blame all you lot on this forum for my taste in plants. My plant collection has grown so much since I came to the forum. There are so many plants that I had never see before. When someone shows a lovely picture. I just want to see if I can get it and grow it.
When I was at Ian Christies nursery he has a lovely dwarf yellow daphne growing. It was just covered in yellow flowers, such a beautiful sight.
I have grown a couple of dwarf Daphne's in a plunge bed outside but I felt that I never got the good of them. Just thought it would be lovely sitting in a cosy place on a rainy or windy day and being able to smell those Daphne's. Lets just hope that I manage to grow them.
Pity I didn't have limestone. I just pinched some granite stones of my wall today .

Angie 

[ruweiss]

Razvan, I don't think, that your plant is the true Daphne sericea. Attached is a picture of a plant I
obtained as D.sericea and I also think, that this also true to name. The ugly low temperatures last
winter down to - 20° damaged it and I dug it out and threw it away.There is still a plant of another
clone in my collection and this one looks better. It is hard to say, which plant you have bought,
D.x burkwoodii 'Carol Mackie' has this upright habit and is also quite hardy, the best is to wait for the
flowers.
Angie, another suggestion to grow the dwarf species like Daphne petraea and its beautiful forms,
D.jaminea, D.modesta and similar other ones is the use of tufa blocks. Nurseryman Gerd Stopp is very
succesfull with this method, he told me some weeks ago, that even 'difficult' species grow much better
this way, than their cousins planted in pots.
Sorry, that I have no actual picture of his wall, the attached photo was made about 5 years ago.

[angie]

Angie, another suggestion to grow the dwarf species like Daphne petraea and its beautiful forms,
D.jaminea, D.modesta and similar other ones is the use of tufa blocks. Nurseryman Gerd Stopp is very
succesfull with this method, he told me some weeks ago, that even 'difficult' species grow much better
this way, than their cousins planted in pots.
Sorry, that I have no actual picture of his wall, the attached photo was made about 5 years ago.

Wow that is some picture  . I have never seen a greenhouse that the roof opens up like that. I wish I could see it close up.
I would love to grow my Dahpne in Tufa or something similar but its impossible to obtain.
Thanks for showing me.

Angie 

[David Nicholson]

A second flush of flowers on my Daphne x susannae 'Cheriton'. Liking the conditions on my little rockery and now around an 18" spread. I bought it about 3 years ago as a rooted cutting from Robin White at an Exeter AGS Show. How tall and what sort of spread should it be eventually please?

Some of you may have followed my tales of my recalcitrant flowering Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' Here she is today still growing rapidly together with her in January 2009 by way of comparison. I managed four very tiny flowers earlier this year and look forward to many more next year.

[David Nicholson]

Anyone clarify for me eventual size (height and spread) for Daphne x susannae 'Cheriton' ?

[Michael J Campbell]

David,Robin white says about 30-45 in height and 60-90cm  width

[David Nicholson]

Cheers Michael, I think I've put mine in the wrong spot.

[Michael J Campbell]

David, it will take it a while to get to those dementions but don't move it, they Don't like moved. You can prune it lightly after flowering to keep it in check.

[Lesley Cox]

It has taken about 20 months but at last I'm (fairly) sure a cutting has rooted of D. petraea 'Persabee.' It was one of about 30 which had been on the tunnel house potted plant and the new growth had etoliated so I trimmed them all off and made cuttings of them. Gradually they all died except this one. It is surrounded by Anagallis tenella so I'm not sure about moving it yet, maybe in another year or two. There are already some flowers out on the outside trough plant.

[David Nicholson]

Some of you may have followed my tales of my recalcitrant flowering Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' Here she is today still growing rapidly together with her in January 2009 by way of comparison. I managed four very tiny flowers earlier this year and look forward to many more next year.

Well, I did speak quite harshly to her, in fact I told her if she didn't perform in 2013 she was coming out. Here she is today and I've told her she's done well and can stay!

 

[Brian Ellis]

Excellent David, ours too is covered in bud again.  Very satisfying that yours has settled in.

[David Nicholson]

I'm well chuffed Brian, it's taken a long time to settle. By the way, it looks from my pictures as if it was a nice day. It wasn't! It poured down most of the morning with heavy showers in the afternoon and I rushed out to take a picture between showers and the sun greeted me for all of a minute and a half. 

[Brian Ellis]

That doesn't surprise me, I'm waiting for a let up in the rain to nip up the post office.

[David Nicholson]

Jacqueline is filling the whole of my back garden with her scent, absolutely beautiful and well worth waiting for. Even the bumblebees, that at this time of year think my Mahonia is the best thing since sliced bread, are impressed. A question though- there are some fairly leggy top growths on her, about 12-14 inches in length with no leaves other than a leafy clump at the very top, would I get away with snipping these off or should I leave well alone?

[Michael J Campbell]

David, Snip them in half  when you see new growth starting.

Cheers

Michael.