March 2014 in the Northern Hemisphere

[WimB]

4 years ago I sowed some Jeffersonia dubia, dark form...today I had the first flower and it's a real dark form 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It's a beauty Wim !!!
(where's the drooling smiley Maggi ??) 

[Steve Garvie]

Super-looking dubia!!!
Now I need to track down a seed source! 

[WimB]

Super-looking dubia!!!
Now I need to track down a seed source! 

There's a line, Steve...I'll put you in there 

[Maggi Young]

It's a beauty Wim !!!
(where's the drooling smiley Maggi ??) 

Beautiful colour - the drooling smiley was actually in my first reply to Wim - which has somehow disappeared. 
 
( it's from the VRV forum    )

[Chris Johnson]

What a stunner, Wim.

[Ross Barbour]

Gorgeous! 

[rgc]

The Rhododendron Praecox in my small front garden has been flowering for the last week and the flowers have survived a frost a few nights ago and last night. It puts on a good show each year and always makes me think that spring is on its way. It is rather straggly due to 30 years of neglect and competition from a R. williamsianum (that does not produce many flowers) and a larger rhododendron on its left. Trying, with judicious pruning of its neighbours, to give it more space to develop.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful colour - the drooling smiley was actually in my first reply to Wim - which has somehow disappeared. 
 
(Attachment Link) ( it's from the VRV forum    )

 

[greenspan]

@wimb

wonderful dubia wim...please show a photo when the stamens + ovary is fully developed. i'm asking for, because i'm looking for a wonderful type of Jeffersonia dubia with purple ovary + stamens...look at this photo (triggering salivation  ). i found out, that this type seems to be native only in south korea. your plant seems to show at least purple stamens.

Erythronium caucasicum starts the Erythronium season this year...but 4 weeks earlier than last year. (many thanks to Sergey )



an early bird also ...Ranunculus calandrinoides from atlas mountain range



maybe this year i'll get good flowering of Asphodelus acaulis (atlas mountain range)..ignore the "blue grains"

[WimB]

@wimb

wonderful dubia wim...please show a photo when the stamens + ovary is fully developed. i'm asking for, because i'm looking for a wonderful type of Jeffersonia dubia with purple ovary + stamens...look at this photo (triggering salivation  ). i found out, that this type seems to be native only in south korea. your plant seems to show at least purple stamens.

Hi Greenspan, it has a normal green ovary...it isn't the Korean form...haven't got that one, been searching for that type for a while now too!

[greenspan]

do you know the origin of your dubia? the purple stamens look like i call the "korean type".

[WimB]

do you know the origin of your dubia? the purple stamens look like i call the "korean type".

I received the seeds from a friend, but he doesn't know the origin of his plant. It's most certainly not the Korean form, the Korean form has a red ovary, dark tipped stamens and a paler lavender-blue colour than mine. I'll post a pic of the ovary and stamens of my plant tomorrow. You can see quite some pics of the Korean form next to the regular form here: https://www.nargs.org/forum/jeffersonia (page 1, page 7, page 8, page 13, page 16 and page 18)

[Cyril L]

4 years ago I sowed some Jeffersonia dubia, dark form...today I had the first flower and it's a real dark form 

Wonderful dark form Wim.  I have heard of this and read about it in a past AGS journal but I am glad to see it is in cultivation.

[Cyril L]

It seems there is not a separate thread for Daphne 2014.

Here is my earliest flowering daphne, Daphne jezoensis.

Correction: my earliest flowering daphne this year was Daphne bholua.