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And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
Penstemons, Pelaroniums, fuchsias
"Sacha" wrote in message .. . Trevor Appleton26/12/03 6:07 Sacha wrote in message .. . What has everyone found in their garden just now? We have Fuchsias, a Cestrum, Rhododendron, Hydrangea (new flowers, not just hanging on types) Sarcococca, one lonely violet, Iris reticulata, Pulmonaria, mimosa just about to burst forth, Chaenomeles, comfrey, Daphne bholua, Mahonias, Nerines, and Lonicera (2 sorts) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the 'x' to email me) Daphne bholua 'Darjeeling' can be detected from a couple or three tens of metres away. Absolutely covered in flowers and my favourite plant in the garden. Mahonia 'Charity' has been flowering for about two months. Other than than, there are no buds on the Snowdrops, Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn' is still in bud along with Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis and Hammemellis mollis. Cyclamen coum is flowering in the polytunnel only. BTW does anyone grow these (supposedly) winter flowering wallflowers? Mine have been in the polytunnel since September (bought as plugs from Gardening Direct) and are just thinking of coming into flower now. We have one or two in flower (just) outside on a bench. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the 'x' to email me) |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
In article , Trevor Appleton trevor@wea
ther.4dinternet.co.uk writes Other than than, there are no buds on the Snowdrops, Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn' is still in bud along with Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis and Hammemellis mollis. You're Yorkshire somewhere, aren't you? We're in NW leeds, about 400 ft up. If you're over in the east, presumably you get colder winters than we do. Our V bodnantense has been out at least a month. -- Kay Easton Edward's earthworm page: http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
Kay Easton wrote in message ... In article , Trevor Appleton trevor@wea ther.4dinternet.co.uk writes Other than than, there are no buds on the Snowdrops, Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn' is still in bud along with Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis and Hammemellis mollis. You're Yorkshire somewhere, aren't you? We're in NW leeds, about 400 ft up. If you're over in the east, presumably you get colder winters than we do. Our V bodnantense has been out at least a month. Yes near Driffield 70ft amsl and 15 mls from the sea -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
"sugarCandy" wrote in message ...
The rosemary bush has been in flower for a month, penstemons still going strong, fuchias escaped the frost so far, geraniums under the front window are putting up new flower buds and I picked a ripe lemon from my lemon bush on Christmas eve! Ann Medway in Kent Ive got one of those pink flower mallow type bushes still covered in bloom and growing up through it is an orange eccremocarpus still flowering. Horrible colour clash though!!! Mark NE Wales, 4 miles from Mold |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
Tonight might do the eccemocarpus and the mallow in though, the BBC
weather site is saying -11C. Its seems a bit excessive so Ive emailed a complaint to them :-) |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
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from (Mark Fawcett) contains these words: Tonight might do the eccemocarpus and the mallow in though, the BBC weather site is saying -11C. Its seems a bit excessive so Ive emailed a complaint to them :-) Be careful: they may forecast a hurricane for you if you get up their collective nose. -- Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano, iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03) |
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from "Trevor Appleton" contains these words: Sacha wrote in message .. . What has everyone found in their garden just now? We have Fuchsias, a Cestrum, Rhododendron, Hydrangea (new flowers, not just hanging on types) Sarcococca, one lonely violet, Iris reticulata, Pulmonaria, mimosa just about to burst forth, Chaenomeles, comfrey, Daphne bholua, Mahonias, Nerines, and Lonicera (2 sorts) -- Daphne bholua 'Darjeeling' can be detected from a couple or three tens of metres away. Absolutely covered in flowers and my favourite plant in the garden. Mahonia 'Charity' has been flowering for about two months. Other than than, there are no buds on the Snowdrops, Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn' is still in bud along with Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis and Hammemellis mollis. Cyclamen coum is flowering in the polytunnel only. Cyclamen coum flowering in the garden and a few reluctant flowers on Hamamelis 'Pallida'. Lonicera x purpusii 'Winter Beauty' is opening in a sheltered spot and a small Sarcococca. Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles' is covered in flowers. For the first time ever, two plants of Helleborus niger have been flowering really well since a week before Christmas. Some Helleborus hybridus are also unseasonally in flower. Our bulbs aren't as well ahead as others' though. Snowdrops hardly showing at all and certainly no sign of aconites. Janet G (South Lincs) |
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sheltered spot and a small Sarcococca. Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles' is covered in flowers. Snip Janet G (South Lincs) Janet What's the secret to growing Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'? Everytime I try I kill it, even though I can grow virtually every other Clematis with no problems. Steve |
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from "Stephen Williams" contains these words: Snip sheltered spot and a small Sarcococca. Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles' is covered in flowers. Snip Janet G (South Lincs) Janet What's the secret to growing Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'? Everytime I try I kill it, even though I can grow virtually every other Clematis with no problems. Steve I'm not sure. I have it growing up a short barn wall (about 5' tall). The wall faces east. There is no shade or protection for the lower parts of the plant as you would normally expect for Clematis but the whole area is a bit protected (in an otherwise windswept fenland garden) in that there is another short wall facing it about 6 ' away to the east and one side of a greenhouse to the south. The bed is very free-draining as you'd expext at the base of a wall, but there's a leak in the guttering just above so it sometimes gets gushed at. I'm afraid none of that is at all conclusive unless the combination of light free-draining soil, occasional dousings and a certain amount of shelter, yet open position is significant. It took off from the day it was planted in April 1999 and I bought it as a very young plant mail order from Buckingham Nurseries. It has never been fertilised or pruned and in fact thrives on total neglect. I have given every biy of information I can think of in the hope that some secret lies within it! Good luck Janet G |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
"Janet Galpin and Oliver Patterson" wrote in message ... The message from "Stephen Williams" contains these words: Snip sheltered spot and a small Sarcococca. Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles' is covered in flowers. Snip Janet G (South Lincs) Janet What's the secret to growing Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'? Everytime I try I kill it, even though I can grow virtually every other Clematis with no problems. Steve I'm not sure. I have it growing up a short barn wall (about 5' tall). The wall faces east. There is no shade or protection for the lower parts of the plant as you would normally expect for Clematis but the whole area is a bit protected (in an otherwise windswept fenland garden) in that there is another short wall facing it about 6 ' away to the east and one side of a greenhouse to the south. The bed is very free-draining as you'd expext at the base of a wall, but there's a leak in the guttering just above so it sometimes gets gushed at. I'm afraid none of that is at all conclusive unless the combination of light free-draining soil, occasional dousings and a certain amount of shelter, yet open position is significant. It took off from the day it was planted in April 1999 and I bought it as a very young plant mail order from Buckingham Nurseries. It has never been fertilised or pruned and in fact thrives on total neglect. I have given every biy of information I can think of in the hope that some secret lies within it! Good luck Janet G Thanks Janet, I'm on clay, which seems to help every other Clematis in the garden - so free draining it isn't, particularly at this time of year. I guess I'll have to try it in a large pot and see if that works. Steve |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
"Stephen Williams" wrote in message ... Snip sheltered spot and a small Sarcococca. Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles' is covered in flowers. Snip Janet G (South Lincs) Janet What's the secret to growing Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'? Everytime I try I kill it, even though I can grow virtually every other Clematis with no problems. Steve Good drainage, Full light, and not too frosty and plant in late spring not autumn. other than that its abit too easy! :~) -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
Charlie Pridham2/1/04 10:02
"Stephen Williams" wrote in message ... snip Janet What's the secret to growing Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'? Everytime I try I kill it, even though I can grow virtually every other Clematis with no problems. Steve Good drainage, Full light, and not too frosty and plant in late spring not autumn. other than that its abit too easy! :~) I'm wondering what *specific* problem the OP is finding with this Clematis? Is it that it just doesn't grow *at all* or is it that its habit is different to that of most well known Clematis? IOW, it flowers at the top, not all the way up? Just a thought. One of our friends grows hers on a low fence, no more than 5' high on the garden side and about 8' on the road side and trains it all the way along. It looks *wonderful*, grown like that. The other possibility is that he is growing it in a patch where Clematis wilt has already occurred so needs to find a new site. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the 'x' to email me) |
And flowering in the Christmas Day garden........?
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I'm wondering what *specific* problem the OP is finding with this Clematis? Is it that it just doesn't grow *at all* Snip Thats the problem - starts to grow and then by spring has turned up its toes.... Snip The other possibility is that he is growing it in a patch where Clematis wilt has already occurred so needs to find a new site. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon I have tried it a border where there have not been any Clematis before and it is south west facing with shade at the roots. In similar border about 25 feet (or 7.625mtrs) away there is a Montana that blooms prolifically each year. Is 25 feet too close? Steve By the way I garden in Worcestershire where we do have some frosts, but I currently have a Pelargonium in flower in the same border as I was trying to grow the Clematis, so the frosts haven't been that bad yet. |
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from Sacha contains these words: SOME frosts! I was at school in W. Malvern in the winter of '63....... And I hitch-hiked from Essex to Mallaig, the snow chasing me up the country. It caught up with me near Shap, and the Glaswegian returning home for Hogmanay asked me to go and sit over the axle of the Standard van he was driving 'fur a baitterrrrr grup. An' I jist hope we dinnae meet an artic comin' doon sideways......" We hit the bottom of the hill ay 60, in a blizzard with not a lot of visibility. I knew Shap well, and had seen the holes in the wall beside the road where lorries which had lost their brakes had gone through - and down. I think I might just have used up one of my lives that nicht. Mallaig? Warm, no snow, gorse^^^sorry, whin in bloom. In the bar, some fishermen were chaffing and one of them asked me politely if I minded if they continued to speak in Gaelic. I replied that it was their bar, I was quite happy. One of them said something rather funny and I smiled. Well, I was in. I retired to my tent with a lot of new Gelic phrases, many of which might not have pleased the meenister, and retired to my tent. Shortly afterwards arrived the first of the first-footers, and my wee two-man tent never had less than four people in it until about five in the morning. Dammit! I've missed *ANOTHER* Highland Hogmanay! -- Rusty Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar. http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
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