On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Spider wrote

"Kate Brown" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Spider wrote

"Sacha" wrote in message
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So - what's flowering in your garden on New Year's Day? ;-)



On high ground in SE London:

a perfectly astonishing quantity of flowering stuff

In another highish bit of SE London we've got several very ordinary but
startlingly red cyclamen (Persicum? I'm afraid I bought them in Lewisham
market, and they don't go in much for the Latin) and a solitary surprised
pink, together with a lot of frozen rosebuds. Whereabouts are you,
Spider? We're in Blackheath.


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Sorry, Kate, I forgot to comment on your Cyclamen. It certainly does sound
like a persicum type. I don't know of another cyclamen which produces red
flowers. The flowers of persicum types also tend to be larger - although
not all of them as large as the 'Christmas' houseplant forms.

These flowers are a little bit larger than the wild ones, but not huge.
They have a sweet scent - some of these started indoors last year and
were planted out later, and at least one started off bright red and has
reverted to pink.

Oh, and I forgot a yellow jasmine, going great guns.

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