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Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? I've
never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
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On Mar 30, 10:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? *I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. *I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. * Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Can you post a pic? Judith |
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On Mar 30, 10:12*pm, Sacha wrote:
Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? *I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. *I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. * Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. Yes, I noticed only this morning how flowerful mine is. The other plant that is better this year than I can remember it ever being is the Pulmonaria, the garden is full of it and so many flowers. |
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says... Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. Mine are floweing their socks off this year, I had not noticed how much the flowering has been reducing these last few mild year, likewise the Ribes and Forsythia, seems the cold was not all bad -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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On Mar 30, 10:34*pm, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:27:05 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France wrote: How is Edward? -- Martin I'll reply by email, thanks for asking Martin. Judith |
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On 30/3/09 22:27, in article
, "Judith in France" wrote: On Mar 30, 10:12*pm, Sacha wrote: Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? *I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. *I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. * Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Can you post a pic? Judith Here you a http://i41.tinypic.com/16k49l0.jpg To the left of the pic there will be a Rosa banksia lutea and a Clematis redehriana flowering in due course! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
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On Mar 31, 12:27*pm, Sacha wrote:
On 30/3/09 22:27, in article , "Judith in France" wrote: On Mar 30, 10:12*pm, Sacha wrote: Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? *I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. *I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. * Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Can you post a pic? Judith Here you ahttp://i41.tinypic.com/16k49l0.jpg To the left of the pic there will be a Rosa banksia lutea and a Clematis redehriana flowering in due course! -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online It took my breath away, how beautiful! Judith |
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On 31/3/09 13:00, in article
, "Judith in France" wrote: snip It took my breath away, how beautiful! Judith Thanks, Judith - it is flowering its little socks off this year! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
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On 31/3/09 15:24, in article , "Spider"
wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 30/3/09 22:27, in article , "Judith in France" wrote: On Mar 30, 10:12 pm, Sacha wrote: Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Can you post a pic? Judith Here you a http://i41.tinypic.com/16k49l0.jpg To the left of the pic there will be a Rosa banksia lutea and a Clematis redehriana flowering in due course! -- Wow, Sacha, that is amazingly beautiful! Mine is flowering well this year, but it's a twig by comparison. Pruning does seem to help, although I'm not sure I've got it snip-perfect yet, but it certainly seems to make a difference. Spider I don't think there would be any snip perfect here, to be honest. More a question of hack it back and get over it! It was planted a long time ago, Spider, at least 50 years and Ray thinks - thinks- it's Knaphill Scarlet but we can't be certain. Hyams swapped plants between Agatha Christie, the Elmhirsts at Dartington and himself so when it comes to things he planted, there's no knowing always what we have. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 31/3/09 15:24, in article , "Spider" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 30/3/09 22:27, in article , "Judith in France" wrote: On Mar 30, 10:12 pm, Sacha wrote: Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Can you post a pic? Judith Here you a http://i41.tinypic.com/16k49l0.jpg To the left of the pic there will be a Rosa banksia lutea and a Clematis redehriana flowering in due course! -- Wow, Sacha, that is amazingly beautiful! Mine is flowering well this year, but it's a twig by comparison. Pruning does seem to help, although I'm not sure I've got it snip-perfect yet, but it certainly seems to make a difference. Spider I don't think there would be any snip perfect here, to be honest. More a question of hack it back and get over it! It was planted a long time ago, Spider, at least 50 years and Ray thinks - thinks- it's Knaphill Scarlet but we can't be certain. Hyams swapped plants between Agatha Christie, the Elmhirsts at Dartington and himself so when it comes to things he planted, there's no knowing always what we have. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Indeed, I didn't really think Ray had snipped it twig by twig :~)! Perhaps there's a Chaenomeles expert out there somewhere, but it doesn't really matter which one it is (except that we all want one now!); that's such a lovely story that it's a kind of provenance in itself. Quite a responsibility to look after a magnificent plant with like that such a history. Spider |
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On 31/3/09 22:15, in article , "Spider"
wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 31/3/09 15:24, in article , "Spider" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 30/3/09 22:27, in article , "Judith in France" wrote: On Mar 30, 10:12 pm, Sacha wrote: Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? I've never seen ours so well covered in flowers and it's put on a lot of new growth, too. I'm wondering if it's the very severe cutting back it got last year for the seriously cold spell we had. Perhaps it responds best to brutal treatment! I've no idea which it is as it was planted long ago but it's a deep coral colour. -- Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Can you post a pic? Judith Here you a http://i41.tinypic.com/16k49l0.jpg To the left of the pic there will be a Rosa banksia lutea and a Clematis redehriana flowering in due course! -- Wow, Sacha, that is amazingly beautiful! Mine is flowering well this year, but it's a twig by comparison. Pruning does seem to help, although I'm not sure I've got it snip-perfect yet, but it certainly seems to make a difference. Spider I don't think there would be any snip perfect here, to be honest. More a question of hack it back and get over it! It was planted a long time ago, Spider, at least 50 years and Ray thinks - thinks- it's Knaphill Scarlet but we can't be certain. Hyams swapped plants between Agatha Christie, the Elmhirsts at Dartington and himself so when it comes to things he planted, there's no knowing always what we have. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Indeed, I didn't really think Ray had snipped it twig by twig :~)! Perhaps there's a Chaenomeles expert out there somewhere, but it doesn't really matter which one it is (except that we all want one now!); that's such a lovely story that it's a kind of provenance in itself. Quite a responsibility to look after a magnificent plant with like that such a history. Spider It's sad that when Hyams left here, he gave a lot of things back to Dartington. OTOH, when Ray bought this place, the garden was so neglected that it's quite possible many would have died anyway. We do have a wonderful Magnolia delavayi which was given to Hyams by Agatha Christie as a clone of one of hers and it's a huge thing now. Obviously, there are other lovely things he planted but that's a known provenance because her old gardener - now dead - was a friend of Ray's and came here often. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
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"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 31/3/09 22:15, in article , "Spider" wrote: Here you a http://i41.tinypic.com/16k49l0.jpg To the left of the pic there will be a Rosa banksia lutea and a Clematis redehriana flowering in due course! -- Wow, Sacha, that is amazingly beautiful! Mine is flowering well this year, but it's a twig by comparison. Pruning does seem to help, although I'm not sure I've got it snip-perfect yet, but it certainly seems to make a difference. Spider I don't think there would be any snip perfect here, to be honest. More a question of hack it back and get over it! It was planted a long time ago, Spider, at least 50 years and Ray thinks - thinks- it's Knaphill Scarlet but we can't be certain. Hyams swapped plants between Agatha Christie, the Elmhirsts at Dartington and himself so when it comes to things he planted, there's no knowing always what we have. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online Indeed, I didn't really think Ray had snipped it twig by twig :~)! Perhaps there's a Chaenomeles expert out there somewhere, but it doesn't really matter which one it is (except that we all want one now!); that's such a lovely story that it's a kind of provenance in itself. Quite a responsibility to look after a magnificent plant with like that such a history. Spider It's sad that when Hyams left here, he gave a lot of things back to Dartington. OTOH, when Ray bought this place, the garden was so neglected that it's quite possible many would have died anyway. We do have a wonderful Magnolia delavayi which was given to Hyams by Agatha Christie as a clone of one of hers and it's a huge thing now. Obviously, there are other lovely things he planted but that's a known provenance because her old gardener - now dead - was a friend of Ray's and came here often. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online (snipped a bit) You must really enjoy seeing these plants flower, knowing their history. What a lovely thing to be part of and continue to nurture. You're so lucky. Thanks for sharing that picture; it gives me something to aim for :~) Spider |
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from Jennifer Sparkes contains these words: The message from Sacha contains these words: Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? Yes, even the usually rather puny white flowered one. Mine's in the pink of condition. -- Rusty Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk |
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On 1/4/09 12:03, in article ,
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote: The message from Jennifer Sparkes contains these words: The message from Sacha contains these words: Anyone else noticed that theirs is doing particularly well this year? Yes, even the usually rather puny white flowered one. Mine's in the pink of condition. No need for you to feel blue about it, then. -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon Exotic plants, shrubs & perennials online |
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