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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 18:28:12 GMT
A first snowdrop just about visible on the right of the primrose, which has flowered almost non-stop since last spring. I think there are some more snowdrop leaves around the garden, but can't [yet] see any flower buds. They were very late going in and I can't remember exactly where they are The birds like the tree above On second look could that be a chionadoxa and not a snowdrop? Oh well, will know in a day or so Attachments:
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Post by rgsp on Jan 31, 2013 21:51:33 GMT
A first snowdrop just about visible on the right of the primrose, which has flowered almost non-stop since last spring. I think there are some more snowdrop leaves around the garden, but can't [yet] see any flower buds. They were very late going in and I can't remember exactly where they are The birds like the tree above On second look could that be a chionadoxa and not a snowdrop? Oh well, will know in a day or so Not a snowdrop, certainly, nor a chionodoxa either I think. I'm not at all sure about this, and I hope for your sake I'm wrong, but the bud looks awfully like "Star of Bethlehem"
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 23:01:28 GMT
A first snowdrop just about visible on the right of the primrose, which has flowered almost non-stop since last spring. I think there are some more snowdrop leaves around the garden, but can't [yet] see any flower buds. They were very late going in and I can't remember exactly where they are The birds like the tree above On second look could that be a chionadoxa and not a snowdrop? Oh well, will know in a day or so Not a snowdrop, certainly, nor a chionodoxa either I think. I'm not at all sure about this, and I hope for your sake I'm wrong, but the bud looks awfully like "Star of Bethlehem" I'll let you know
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Post by rgsp on Feb 2, 2013 12:25:48 GMT
I've got too many to post for week 5, but here's quite a number anyway. The "low feed" pen of ewes are enjoying today's sunshine, which comes in via the gate for a few hours each day. The snowdrops on the south side of the house are now nearing their peak, though those on the other side, and in the wood, are only just poking through. These aconites are on the north side of the house, under a tulip tree. They come best from seed, but the seed MUST be collected when just ripe and before it gets shed everywhere, which only gives about 3 or 4 days, and then it has to be sown within days. Buying commercial seed is a waste of time and money, ditto bulbs. We just can't get Iris Danfordii to come back after the first year, but they flower well once in pots, and aren't expensive, so a few get bought each year and treated as annuals Happily, unlike Danfordii, Iris Histriodes come back reliably: just plant them incredibly deep. Iris Histriodes "George" is particularly good and tough. They are a bit battered this year after the high winds and rain of the last few days. This Slipper Orchid was bought from a garden centre just before Christmas, and has been looking exotic in the middle of the kitchen table since then. I'd doubtful about whether it will flower again next year, but we'll see. Dendrobium orchids, however, actively LIKE being warm in the day, and colder overnight, and so thrive on the kitchen window sill. This one is at least two and maybe three years old.
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Post by 4wd on Feb 2, 2013 13:54:48 GMT
That's a good tip about the aconites. Here there is a stone trough by the house which has literally three of four which come every year but they have defied every attempt to spread them even nearby. Yet some places you see them almost like weeds along paths and all sorts. I have seen seedlings here close by them too but they have never survived being moved.
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Post by rgsp on Feb 2, 2013 14:18:50 GMT
That's a good tip about the aconites. Here there is a stone trough by the house which has literally three of four which come every year but they have defied every attempt to spread them even nearby. Yet some places you see them almost like weeds along paths and all sorts. I have seen seedlings here close by them too but they have never survived being moved. Your experiences sound exactly like ours, and most people's I think, before learning the way to do it. Good sized seedlings WILL transplant, but only when they get up to flowering size, and best done early in the season as soon as they've put leaves up. If you do try collecting seed, it needs to be done just as the seed pods start to split, and the seed at that stage is beginning to go browny-green, but is rather sticky, presumably as some sort of dispersal strategy. The other thing is that the seedlings ONLY have two tiny ordinary oval seed leaves in their first year, and I bet 99% of them in gardens just get hoed up as weeds: nobody's fault really. In the second year they'll most likely have just one recognisable aconite leaf, and no more unless things are unusually favourable. There is just a chance of a flower in the third year, but in any case there should be several leaves.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2013 17:51:00 GMT
Planted today Attachments:
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Post by daveb on Feb 3, 2013 13:38:20 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Feb 3, 2013 17:07:31 GMT
Well done getting a good shot of these. It's nice to be able to see inside which is easier said than done. And usually they are jiggling about in the wind I find! Just emerging here.
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Post by matthew on Feb 3, 2013 17:41:15 GMT
I didn't realise there were so many varieties of snowdrop. 90?? ish. Our double ones which look like ballerina's skirts are out now, so I'll have a go - if it stops raining No idea of their latin names. We brought a few from Leics. 30 years ago and they seem to approve of life in Cornwall. Although the cowslips didn't.
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Post by rgsp on Feb 3, 2013 18:31:05 GMT
I didn't realise there were so many varieties of snowdrop. 90?? ish. Our double ones which look like ballerina's skirts are out now, so I'll have a go - if it stops raining No idea of their latin names. We brought a few from Leics. 30 years ago and they seem to approve of life in Cornwall. Although the cowslips didn't. With very few exceptions Snowdrops all have the Latin species name Galanthus Nivalis, followed mainly by English varietal names, and a few sub-species names. I hate to say it, but there are over 900, not 90, recognised varieties of snowdrop, recognised and held in the NCCPG snowdrop collection that is. The name for the nutters gardeners who go potty are very enthusiastic about Snowdrops is Galanthophile (of course!). Our ditches here in Suffolk are full of cowslips in season: they obviously love it, so I'm not surprised Cornish conditions don't suit them.
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Post by matthew on Feb 4, 2013 18:27:12 GMT
Well I got the 9 and one 0 right, rgsp. But rubbish taking close ups of those 'ballerina skirts' of the doubles. My bad leg has shifted something along the rebuilt calf bit, and boy is it giving me some gip. so bending down is , errr ... difficult. Attachments:
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Post by matthew on Feb 4, 2013 18:28:45 GMT
... and here's a small yellow iris in a pot Attachments:
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Post by matthew on Feb 4, 2013 18:30:43 GMT
Yellow crocus poking through, with black grass in the background, small daffs and a of aqualegia coming up in front. Attachments:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 12:22:37 GMT
Well it is after all a snowdrop and there's another one on the left too The leaves are shiny which I think is a bit unusual - anyway not bad for a few bulbs bought rather late! Attachments:
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