January 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[Maggi Young]

This is not a flowering item, but since there is not so much to see this month I post this strange phenomenon. Normally Arisaema sikokianum doesn't form side corm. The only way to increase this plant is sowing it. A couple of years ago I replanted  a bulb and saw shoots that formed bulbs later on that year. This peculiar behaviour is repeated now every year. On the pictures you see the rejected bulbs from last year and the new shoots on the motherbulb for this year. Strangely bulbs resulted from seeds of that motherbulb show this same character.

A most interesting feature - and a useful one too!
Is the  plant  otherwise consistent with the type - perhaps it is from an unusual population? 
It is part of the wonder of plants that such changes occur is it not?

[Anne Repnow]

A bedraggled, mud-spattered Hepatica transsylvanica 'Winterfreude'
Photo taken today just before the sleet and snow started to come down.

[shelagh]

Ashley in reply to your question there is very little wrong with Margaret's specimen.  However if you look carefully you will see just 2 partly discoloured leaves, I'm afraid our had the opposite, 2 good leaves to dozens of discoloured ones.

[art600]

Two colchicums in flower now -

Colchicum kesselringii - nice dark markings as promised by Luc S 

Colchicum hungaricum - a gift from Kot

[Margaret]

Hi Shelagh and Ashley

My Correa is quite healthy - the yellowish leaves in the bottom right belong to Pittosprum Tandara Gold. I've checked my records and the plant came from The Old Walled Garden (Now linked with Fibrex nurseries - they got married ) and is C.mannii.  We also have Correa reflexa nummularifolia which is a better looking plant. Will take a photo if my toothache eases up.

[Tim Ingram]

I've just given a talk on woodland plants (I often call these 'sylvan delights' in a more poetic moment) to a local village garden society. More than anything it is the way these plants combine that captivates me. These are not typical woodlanders but give this same effect

[krisderaeymaeker]

Two colchicums in flower now -
Colchicum kesselringii - nice dark markings as promised by Luc S 
Colchicum hungaricum - a gift from Kot

I like them both Arthur . And I must have a word with Luc S. 

[Anne Repnow]

I forgot to add the situation in my interior jungle..It's clearly reaching an alarming point for my love life!

What is it?

[Anne Repnow]

A wee spot of sunshine today.
((Some would say that this is a very feminine composition. But frankly, it just happened.))

[David Nicholson]

Planned by a man, planted by a woman I suppose

[Anne Repnow]

 
Planted by a woman without a plan!

[David Nicholson]

 

[ashley]

Ashley in reply to your question there is very little wrong with Margaret's specimen.  However if you look carefully you will see just 2 partly discoloured leaves, I'm afraid our had the opposite, 2 good leaves to dozens of discoloured ones.

Thanks Shelagh, it's a lovely plant all the same.

... I've checked my records and the plant came from The Old Walled Garden (Now linked with Fibrex nurseries - they got married ) and is C.mannii.  We also have Correa reflexa nummularifolia which is a better looking plant.

And thank you Margaret, for the name and source.  As a youth (i.e. not long ago ) I planted C. mannii in my parents' garden (south coast of Ireland) where it came through several winters unscathed and flowered over such a long period.  I must try it again.

[fenius]

What is it?

It's my telosma cordata, here it is blooming after I unraveled it from the wires; this plant is so forgiving!!

[art600]

The few days of sun this week have worked their magic