Flowers and foliage January 2008

[ian mcenery]

Great plants Tim look forward to seeing some more

[Tony Willis]

Tim lovely hellebores.

Paul thanks for your comments re the cyclamen.I have a selection of these in pale colours,the form of the flowers of some of them comes very close to libanoticum. Three more pictures from last year

[John Forrest]

Obviously I was tempting providence with my remarks about Blackpool getting stuck on the rinse cycle. Look what my cold frame looked like this morning. It has never done this before!!!!!

[Tony Willis]

John I though you had posted a picture of mine by mistake!!

[John Forrest]

On a happier note this beautiful but tiny Cyclamen alpinum is in flower in the alpine house AND grown from SRGC seed sown Jan 05.
Top view to show the propellor shaped petal arrangement

[John Forrest]

Obviously you were under the same dark cloud Tony. The irony is that it also caused problems to the pumping station and we are without water 

[Maggi Young]

Bad news on all the water fronts, then JoF.... hope you are not long without house water and VERY quickly without frame water......you can prove you weren't exaggerating about the rain though, that's for sure. What a mess!
The Cyclamen  is a little stunner... glad its okay.... was the water  not getting into the lower part  of the alpine house ?

[Maggi Young]

Just had a thought... can Teasel swim?

[Paddy Tobin]

John,

Obviously a plunge bed rather than a cold frame.

Below, on the kitchen table on my return home this afternoon, a selection of Helleborus X cultorum picked by Mary from the garden during the day.

[Diane Whitehead]

I was happy to see some shrub photos posted earlier, as that is about all
I have to enjoy.  My shrubs - Arbutus unedo, Mahonia Charity, Fuchsias,
Jasminum nudiflorum, and Grevillea victoriae bloom all winter.  Maybe it
it is because the deer don't like them, and they're too big for the rats, which
instead eat little things like cyclamen, crocus, and hellebores.

I do have a few snowdrops already open.  Fortunately, nothing eats the
flowers.

[tonyg]

Cyclamen coum has rushed into flower in the last week at temperatures soar.  Also Cyclamen alpinum (as we now call it) which is a favourite of mine.  Small is beautiful.

[Brian Ellis]

Just going out for lunch but was stopped by Helleborus x. ericsmithii flowering by the door of the garage.  Lots of buds still to come!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Obviously a Helleborus with flower power Brian !!!! 
A real stunner !

[Anthony Darby]

Luckily no flooding here. Plenty of mud though. Here are the orchids in my greenhouse - mostly Orchis and Ophrys in the foreground with Barlia, Serapias and Anacamptis behind.

[johngennard]

John's cylamen alpina or is it trocoptheranum? reminded me to take a picture of my own trocopterhanum album.Rod Leeds spotted this when visitiing my garden with a snowdrop group about 3yrs ago and told me that the album form was quite rare.Can anyone confirm that this is the case?
I was also surprised to find Rhod.sitchoense well on the way to being fully open and Daphne jezoensis in the alpine house