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sottych

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Spring-flowering shrubs
« on: March 17, 2013, 12:16:03 PM »
Parrotia Persica 'Vannessa'  , flowers  red now
And Garrya Eliptica
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Hoy

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2013, 08:31:11 PM »
How old is that Parrotia? I had one for many years but it never flowerd and last year I cut it down - it got too big for the place.
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sottych

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2013, 05:49:03 PM »
Hello Hoy ,
My Parrotia  , 13 years and blooming all thes year , flowers red are beautiful !
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sottych

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2013, 05:51:18 PM »
Flowers every years , excuse my English!!!
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Hoy

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2013, 04:08:22 PM »
Your English is much better than my French ;)
Think I have to get another tree and hope I get old enough to see it flower!
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Onion

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2013, 09:32:25 PM »
Hoy,

Parrotia has a problem with late frost. In the nursery I work we lost a lot of plants when they are young, growing in pots and then we have a late period of frost. Mid of March till start of April. Cultivars like 'Vanessa' or 'Felicie' seeming better from this point.
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Hoy

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2013, 09:54:58 PM »
Onion, I can see that, thanks. We often have pretty mild spells during the winter followed by a cold period in late March but the Parrotia survived for many years. Once it got frost scars on the stem though.

Parrotia is rarely for sale here so I'm not sure I can choose much :-\
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Onion

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2013, 07:58:53 PM »
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Hoy

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2013, 08:32:48 PM »
Thanks Uli!

Fall colour of my Parrotia before I had to cut it down.
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ruweiss

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2013, 09:51:48 PM »
Daphne mezereum in full flower. We hope for warmer weather, that the
bees can fly to pollinate the flowers for a good set of seeds.
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Helen Johnstone

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Re: Spring-flowering shrubs
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2013, 10:00:56 PM »
Grevillea 'Canberra Gem' - just starting to flower despite the cold
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