"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 4/1/07 09:03, in article , "Charlie
Pridham" wrote:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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We got back from Jersey this evening and have yet to do a tour of our
own
garden - it is dark, wet and windy and the flight was horrid! However,
we
noticed that, in Jersey, mimosa is coming into flower, daffodils are a
*lot*
further advanced than here, though not yet in bloom, Correa and
Rosmarinus
are in full flower and the buds on the Magnolias are fat and promising.
However, when we arrived in Jersey the temp was 2 degrees lower than
Exeter
and during our 5 day stay the two have been pretty much the same. I
can
only imagine that Jersey is *consistently* warmer while we have more
peaks
and troughs in temp terms.
Ray took three Holboellia fruits from the plant we gave my son a couple
of
years ago and they're a mass of seeds. Those, along with the acorns
from
the holm oaks at my mother's Guernsey house which we took in November
and
which are sprouting already, will give the nursery a good stock of
these
plants! He also took some seeds from Magnolia grandiflora in the
Jersey
garden but I wonder how long *those* will take to become viable trees!
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I have never seen fruit on my Holboellias here and have always blamed
lack
of warmth at the right time. No sign of daffs but my Correa's and Acacia
bailiana are in full flower, yet many of the things other posters have
remarked are still going strong in their gardens went at the first wiff
of
cold back in early November

The Holboellia fruits are slightly obscene purple fat sausage things,
crammed with seeds. We're especially delighted to have these as there's a
family connection! We used to raise most of our own but also sometimes
bought some in from a wholesale nursery which has recently gone to the
wall,
very sadly. The new owners only had it about two years. ;-(

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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

I think I know who you mean, we knew Roger the previous owner but as we grow
all our own plants now I don't use them anymore and had not realised - sad.
I got quite a few Holboellia to root last year and have experimented with
some winter hard wood cuttings in late October, which are looking realy good
I will let Ray know how they go and may try Akebia like that next year :~)
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and
Lapageria rosea