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

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

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

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)


Thanks for the reminder. I'll be out there counting ... but not until I've
had tea in bed.
Happy New Year.

Spider

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

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)


Thanks for the reminder. I'll be out there counting ... but not until I've
had tea in bed.
Happy New Year.

Spider


Wimp!
Okay, you grab your torch I'll grab mine. Zzzzzzzzzz otoh, I'll see you
later. ;-) We stayed awake because we knew the 'children' would ring us
and I'm happy to say that they did. Now, along with their permission, we're
off to the Land of Nod. ;-) Happy 2009 everyone. I do hope very
sincerely, that it is a good year for everyone, rich in health and
contentment.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

In article ,
says...
So - what's flowering in your garden on New Year's Day? ;-)


Happy New Year to you all.
Here is my list for 1st January 2009, all out doors. Rather surprised
there is as much as its been cold and I do not plant stuff for this time
of year, also surprising is what is not on the list - no snowdrops,
daffodils, celandines, and even Camellia St Ewe is still in tight bud

Abutilons - megapotamicum, milleri, Kentish Belle, Wisley Red and Nabob.
Acacia retonoides (been flowering since July)
Berberis dawinii
Buddleja salvifolia Alba
Clematis - cirrhosa balearica, Freckles, fasiculiflora, and a late flower
on John Warren!
Clianthus puniceus (this is lagged in bright red flowers)
Coronilla valentina (looking and smelling lovely)
Correas - alba and harrisii
Cytisus Porlock
Chaenomeles Crimson and Gold
Cyclamen coum album
Delairea oderata (Wafting the marzipan scent each time the sun comes out)
Escallonia Golden Brian
Fuchsia magellanica
Garrya elliptica
Helleborous various hybrids plus x sternii, argutifolius, and foetidus
Iris stylosa (they have changed its name but I prefer the old one!)
Isoplexis canariensis (still a few flowers - it started end of May)
Lapageria rosea (several)
Lavatera maritima
Lonicera x pupusii
Mahonia x media
Pandorea jasminoides Rosea superba (still opening flowers whenever the
sun comes out)
Pandorea Golden Showers
Perennial Stocks
Phlomis fruiticosa
Polygala
Primrose (just one flower!)
Roses, Bonica, Cornellia, Fiona, Alberic Barbier, Francoise Juranville
Rosemarinus Severn Seas
Salvia guaranitica Black & Blue
Senna corymbosa (tail end now and its not enjoying the cold)
Solanum laxum Album
Sollya heterophylla
Symphytum ibericum
Viburnum x bodentense Dawn
Vincas - majus variegata, difformis alba, & Jenny Pimm

Garden still looks a bit tatty and bleak from the windows!!




--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

[quote='Charlie Pridham[_2_];826470']In article ,
says...
So - what's flowering in your garden on New Year's Day? ;-)


Happy New Year to you all.
Here is my list for 1st January 2009, all out doors. Rather surprised
there is as much as its been cold and I do not plant stuff for this time
of year, also surprising is what is not on the list - no snowdrops,
daffodils, celandines, and even Camellia St Ewe is still in tight bud

Abutilons - megapotamicum, milleri, Kentish Belle, Wisley Red and Nabob.
Acacia retonoides (been flowering since July)
Berberis dawinii
Buddleja salvifolia Alba
Clematis - cirrhosa balearica, Freckles, fasiculiflora, and a late flower
on John Warren!
Clianthus puniceus (this is lagged in bright red flowers)
Coronilla valentina (looking and smelling lovely)
Correas - alba and harrisii
Cytisus Porlock
Chaenomeles Crimson and Gold
Cyclamen coum album
Delairea oderata (Wafting the marzipan scent each time the sun comes out)
Escallonia Golden Brian
Fuchsia magellanica
Garrya elliptica
Helleborous various hybrids plus x sternii, argutifolius, and foetidus
Iris stylosa (they have changed its name but I prefer the old one!)
Isoplexis canariensis (still a few flowers - it started end of May)
Lapageria rosea (several)
Lavatera maritima
Lonicera x pupusii
Mahonia x media
Pandorea jasminoides Rosea superba (still opening flowers whenever the
sun comes out)
Pandorea Golden Showers
Perennial Stocks
Phlomis fruiticosa
Polygala
Primrose (just one flower!)
Roses, Bonica, Cornellia, Fiona, Alberic Barbier, Francoise Juranville
Rosemarinus Severn Seas
Salvia guaranitica Black & Blue
Senna corymbosa (tail end now and its not enjoying the cold)
Solanum laxum Album
Sollya heterophylla
Symphytum ibericum
Viburnum x bodentense Dawn
Vincas - majus variegata, difformis alba, & Jenny Pimm

Garden still looks a bit tatty and bleak from the windows!!




--
Right, that's it, I'm feeling totally inadequate. Two inches of ice on the pond today.

In article ,
says...
Right, that's it, I'm feeling totally inadequate. Two inches of ice on
the pond today.


Unlucky you! I don't try and have stuff flower now as we are not open and
I prefer to hold fire until later, its just some plants seem determined
to keep going, many of those listed have done well on some new walls I
built last year and I am about to order another 525 blocks.
We have had loads of frost but so far its not been low enough for long
enough to freeze any water in the garden allthough we have had a burst
pipe (outside) because I forgot to drain the outside down.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:28:54 -0000, Charlie Pridham
wrote:

allthough we have had a burst
pipe (outside) because I forgot to drain the outside down.

Snap Charlie! The same happened here.

All I have in flower is winter jasmine, ipheon, cyclamen (coum or
persicum) and lonicera fragrantissima, though the latter is not very
fragrant; it needs some sun. Likewise the sarcococca. I must walk
past it. It should be flowering soon.

Janet Conroy, where on earth do you live?

I heard on our local news today that a guy in Thornbury, S. Glos, has
daffodils in bloom in his garden!

Pam in Bristol

Charlie Pridham writes

Happy New Year to you all.
Here is my list for 1st January 2009, all out doors. Rather surprised
there is as much as its been cold and I do not plant stuff for this time
of year, also surprising is what is not on the list - no snowdrops,
daffodils, celandines, and even Camellia St Ewe is still in tight bud

Goodness me! This really highlights the differences between Cornwall and
Yorkshire!

Agree with the comment on cold - without checking records, it feels to
have been the coldest winter for nearly 10 years. All ponds are frozen
today, as they were for a large part of December.

Cyclamen coum album

No hint of C coum yet.

Fuchsia magellanica

Mine, of course, has been cut down to the ground and I won't expect
anything more till mid summer.

Helleborous various hybrids plus x sternii, argutifolius, and foetidus
Buds just showing on orientalis

Lonicera x pupusii
Yes.

Primrose (just one flower!)
Quite a few primroses and polyanthus, and a single auricula

Viburnum x bodentense Dawn
Yes, and V tinus.

Pieris and mahonia in bud.

Other flowers:
Pansy
Calendula (still hanging on grimly from the autumn)
Hammamelis - a red flowered one. H mollis not in flower yet (though it
did have a burst of flower in the autumn, as did Fothergillia)
Winter jasmine
Yellow poppy
And an astonishingly large crop of oyster mushrooms. Does anyone know
the best way to preserve these? Drying?)

Altogether, a pretty pathetic showing, although the garden still has a
lot of interest in berries and bark.

But in the frost-free greenhouse I can boast two species of cacti and a
succulent in flower, along with jasmine, pelargonium and butterwort.


--
Kay

In article ,
says...
But in the frost-free greenhouse I can boast two species of cacti and a
succulent in flower, along with jasmine, pelargonium and butterwort.


Thats the beauty of an unheated conservatory/Greenhouse, in there its
already spring and we have around 40 different pelargoniums flowering
plus yet more Lapageria, and the Brugmansia and Tibouchinas we brought in
along with some tender Salvias all still flowering. Jasmines azoricum and
angulare providing scent if the temperature gets above about 10c (not
that its done that recently!) But some late flowering gingers have failed
to open their flowers :~(
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea

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

Roses, periwinkle, daffodil, polyanthus, fuchsias, camellia Inspiration and
the autumn one, hellebore...not sure which exact types of most. Other
Camellias showing colour.
Happy New Year


Robert
Rowdens Reservoir Allotments Association
www.rraa.moonfruit.com

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

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)


On high ground in SE London:

Marguerite, cover'd in yellow flowers.
Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve', many buds, one flower.
Hebes 'Purple Emperor', 'Gloriosa', 'Nicola's Blush', 'Midsummer Beauty',
'Purple Picture', plus one purple seedling - all with some flower,
'Gloriosa' lots of flower, but not enjoying frost.
Cyclamen coum, few crimson buds; Cyclamen persicum, 5 coral pink flowers
(slightly sheltered pot culture).
Fuchsias 'Rufus the Red', Lady Boothby, Mrs Popple, magellenica - scattered
flowers and buds; not enjoying frost.
Jasminum nudiflorum and polyanthum, in flower plus many buds.
Rosmarinus prostrata 'Severn Seas', many flowers
Erigeron karvinskianus, many white flowers.
Chaenomeles 'Red and Gold', many *just* colouring buds; C. 'Geisha Girl',
tight buds only.
Veronica prostrata 'Georgia Blue', one perfect flower.
Sarcocca, many pink buds.
Laurus nobilis, very many buds (west side of tree most advanced).
Vinca minor, dense apical bud growth with one clear flower bud.
Rhodo/Azaleas, 'Vinecourt Dream', 'Ptarmigan', cilipinense - in bud only
Helleborus argutifolius, (lenten) hybrids, lividus, double-flower-type -
many buds, some more advanced.
Mahonia japonica, many lovely, scented flowers.
Pieris, many buds.
Sophora microplylla, many compact buds.
Exochorda macrantha 'The Bride', scattered tight green buds.
Pelargonium (zonal), scarlet flowers and buds - in open porch.
Primulas inc. vulgaris, few flowers.
Roses nozomi, 'The Fairy', 'Audrey Wilcox - few buds and scattered haws.
Pyracantha 'Orange Glow', 4 large panicles of bud with some scattered
flowers.
Lavatera rosea sport, 2 frosted flowers, 1 coloured bud.

also, there were berries on:
Pyracantha, Cotoneaster (lacteus and horizontalis), Fatshedhera, Ilex
'Golden King', Roses 'The Fairy', 'Ballerina' and moyesii 'Geranium'.

plus, bark colour on Betula pendula purpurea and Cornus alba 'Sibirica'.
Glancing around, I could also see many flowers on a neighbour's Coronilla
(no, I'm not cheating! It's not in my garden, but I add it for the
phenologically aware!

Chilly Spider
Wishing everyone a happy and blooming new year.

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Spider wrote

"Sacha" wrote in message
.. .
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.


--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot org dot uk if you
want to reply personally

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

"Sacha" wrote in message
. ..
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.


--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot
org dot uk if you
want to reply personally


I'm in Upper Norwood, Kate. Somewhat below the sight of the old Crystal
Palace. We have some good views; in fact we can just see the Wembley
Stadium arch from here.

Spider

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

"Sacha" wrote in message
. ..
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.


--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot
org dot uk if you
want to reply personally

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.

Spider

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Spider wrote

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

"Sacha" wrote in message
.. .
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.


--
Kate B

PS 'elvira' is spamtrapped - please reply to 'elviraspam' at cockaigne dot
org dot uk if you
want to reply personally

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.

--
Kate B

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