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Have just been visiting The Plant Specialist a nursery near here as it
was the NGS day. Lovely afternoon here in Amersham and a lot of hardy plants were in great flower! Sean showed us a plant he has just acquired (stock won't be available until next year) a beautiful gladiolus papillio "Ruby" An intense magenta colour and very striking. Everyone saw it in his nursery stock and was asking about it. Mind you I also saw Twining's After Eight dahlia for the first time and a lovely Erigeron called "sommerneuschnee" and bought both as I was looking for something white to stand out in the evening garden. Anyone tried any of these plants? Are they successful? Janet (off to see how many Erigerons I can make from 1 purchase!) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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In article , Sacha
writes can make from 1 purchase!) We have Gladiolus papilo and planted it in one of the borders where it got swamped by some Crocosmia. It's an absolutely beautiful plant and entirely unlike the Edna Everage types. http://www.theafricangarden.com/gladioluspapilo.jpg But the one Sean had today was http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230 an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike the normal papilio which I also have and admire. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... In article , Sacha writes can make from 1 purchase!) We have Gladiolus papilo and planted it in one of the borders where it got swamped by some Crocosmia. It's an absolutely beautiful plant and entirely unlike the Edna Everage types. http://www.theafricangarden.com/gladioluspapilo.jpg But the one Sean had today was http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230 an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike the normal papilio which I also have and admire. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which as you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then either die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get it to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both occasions. But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!) -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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On 13/7/07 00:52, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote: In article , Sacha writes can make from 1 purchase!) We have Gladiolus papilo and planted it in one of the borders where it got swamped by some Crocosmia. It's an absolutely beautiful plant and entirely unlike the Edna Everage types. http://www.theafricangarden.com/gladioluspapilo.jpg But the one Sean had today was http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230 an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike the normal papilio which I also have and admire. That is *gorgeous* - what a colour! I'll have to see if our bulb supplier has that but I think it's unlikely. Definitely a 'must have' - thank you, Janet. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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On 13/7/07 08:18, in article , "Charlie
Pridham" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... In article , Sacha writes can make from 1 purchase!) We have Gladiolus papilo and planted it in one of the borders where it got swamped by some Crocosmia. It's an absolutely beautiful plant and entirely unlike the Edna Everage types. http://www.theafricangarden.com/gladioluspapilo.jpg But the one Sean had today was http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230 an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike the normal papilio which I also have and admire. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which as you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then either die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get it to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both occasions. But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!) We planted some G. papilio in the border along the house, opposite the tea room lawn. It came up once, was greatly admired and has never been seen since. Ray has some others in pots, fortunately. Do you find it doesn't like competition. There is a lot of Crocosmia 'Krakatoa' in that area and our guess is that it's just swamped the gladiolus. And are you selling either/both of those glads? ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk (remove weeds from address) 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 13/7/07 08:18, in article , "Charlie Pridham" wrote: "Janet Tweedy" wrote in message ... In article , Sacha writes can make from 1 purchase!) We have Gladiolus papilo and planted it in one of the borders where it got swamped by some Crocosmia. It's an absolutely beautiful plant and entirely unlike the Edna Everage types. http://www.theafricangarden.com/gladioluspapilo.jpg But the one Sean had today was http://www.gapphotos.com/imagedetails.asp?imageno=47230 an absolute stunning plant by the look of it. Very rich colour unlike the normal papilio which I also have and admire. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which as you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then either die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get it to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both occasions. But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!) We planted some G. papilio in the border along the house, opposite the tea room lawn. It came up once, was greatly admired and has never been seen since. Ray has some others in pots, fortunately. Do you find it doesn't like competition. There is a lot of Crocosmia 'Krakatoa' in that area and our guess is that it's just swamped the gladiolus. And are you selling either/both of those glads? ;-) -- Sacha We have to dig loads of G. papilio out each year as its invasive and has a running habit and will seed if allowed, although fortunately it never kills other plants. here it will even grow in quite deep shade (although it never flowers there) I am suspecting it likes our dry soils (as I recall you are wet in places) we do not find it the slightest bit tender as it does not come up in spring until late and its only drawback is a tendency to be individualist in so much as its direction of lean giving a somewhat erratic look to the clump! Ruby I have given up on, I never feel comfortable selling something I can not grow. Many garden visitors have tried to get papilio to flower and failed and I can not see why it is so easy, we grow it with cannas, hedychiums and for a bit of earlier colour, Tritilaria, which grows in amongst it. And yes we sell some to visitors! -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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In article , Charlie Pridham
writes Unfortunately while Ruby will bulk up in pots and is therefore easy to produce it does not in the garden behave like the fabulous papilio which as you know spreads rapidly but rather forms many small corms which then either die or take years to reach flowering size, I have tried twice now to get it to grow in an area papilio does well but it has disappeared on both occasions. Oh ... poo ..................... But it is a stunning colour (and takes a good picture!) Not 'arf and people will buy it in droves not realising it won't be any good in the garden! :) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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In article , Charlie Pridham
writes Many garden visitors have tried to get papilio to flower and failed and I can not see why it is so easy, we grow it with cannas, hedychiums and for a bit of earlier colour, Tritilaria, which grows in amongst it. And yes we sell some to visitors! I grow p. in pots and just shove them into gaps when they flower, they always seem to need splitting so I have some to give away by the autumn as well! Not tried it actually in the ground but might use a pot or two to experiment now you say it likes dry conditions. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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