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Anne Repnow

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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #45 on: March 09, 2014, 11:15:37 PM »
Dappled shade is best, well draining loamy soil, fairly dry in summer and some frost in winter...
In some parts of my garden Hepaticas do well, in other parts they don't. Don't ask me why...  :-\
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #46 on: March 10, 2014, 12:36:43 PM »
Last Saturday, between my weeding sessions, I had time to take a few pics. So much going on in the garden, but I will just show you bits.

Wild collected Helleborus
Helleborus - from seeds
Hepatica - a nice pink one
Erythronium (dens-canis?) - from the forests, not doing too well in its location
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #47 on: March 10, 2014, 04:12:23 PM »
Just finished my least favourite job of the year; giving the hedges their annual trim. Not neat suburban hedges, but proper farm hedges full of hawthorn, blackthorn, wild roses, brambles, holly etc., in fact anything with spines and prickles. Only fell off the ladder once and the puncture wounds will heal. That's it until the August tidy-up.

A couple of combination that work in the garden today: Muscari and Lathyrus vernus, and Helleborus, Galanthus and Viola.
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #48 on: March 10, 2014, 04:13:17 PM »
Taraxacum officinale.
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Anne Repnow

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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #49 on: March 10, 2014, 04:28:17 PM »
Ah, I've got a lot of that exceptional plant.... ;D
Good luck with your punctures and possibly stiff muscles, John.
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #50 on: March 11, 2014, 06:22:33 PM »
Our hedges need their annual trim but sometimes go without and become even more scruffy. Fortunately the wildlife doesn't mind.

This is a lovely early flowering 'cherry' - a  supposed cross between Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii' and P. mume: P. x blireana. The flowers are very good and the foliage deep bronzy-red and it makes a relatively small bushy, twiggy shrub rather than a tree. A real sign of spring against a sunny sky.
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #51 on: March 12, 2014, 03:10:23 PM »
The Booker front garden on this gloriously sunny day ... plants are coming into leaf and flower after a wet and windy winter.
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #52 on: March 12, 2014, 04:01:59 PM »
How lovely - but shouldn't there be Sue out there with a cuppa?
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #53 on: March 12, 2014, 04:05:34 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on March 12, 2014, 04:01:59 PM
How lovely - but shouldn't there be Sue out there with a cuppa?

Yes Maggi ... but she had already made me one.  ;) ;D :-* :-* :-*
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #54 on: March 12, 2014, 04:34:24 PM »
Clematis armandii 'Apple Blossom', and another unknown early flowering clematis - any suggestions?
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #55 on: March 12, 2014, 08:05:53 PM »
In my Berlin Garden, Ypsilandra thibetica is in flower.
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #56 on: March 12, 2014, 08:07:50 PM »
A first Corydalis, C. malkensis.
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #57 on: March 13, 2014, 05:36:36 PM »
A Salvia microphylla cutting from last year in bloom on the display bench at the top of the garden. Been outdoors for a couple of weeks so the flowers are a bit of a surprise!


One of my baby Desfontiania spinosa has buds too!
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #58 on: March 13, 2014, 07:20:21 PM »
A couple of splashes of colour in the garden now.

Camelia 'Carnation'
Euphorbia rigida - looking better than I can ever remember
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Re: March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #59 on: March 14, 2014, 08:18:00 PM »
Wow - what a beautiful Camellia! And it is huge  :o !

Here I am still enjoying my Hepaticas (photo 1 - H. nobilis var. japonica 'Purple Forest Hybrids')
Photo 2: a little corner under the styrax tree with Hepaticas and Helleborus torquatus 'Schneeeule'
Photo 3: Helleborus orientalis 'Pink Lady'

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