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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #105 on: March 30, 2015, 07:19:20 AM »
Wow Kevin. Perfect.
Silly me, but I'm asking. Are these yours? And what are thouse containers made of ???
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Some of my creations :)
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #106 on: March 30, 2015, 07:51:18 PM »
They're troughs in my back garden and they're made from concrete, painted black. They're 1 metre in diameter and too heavy to move around. The limestone I quarried myself from a farmer's field and I bought the Tufa in Derbyshire.
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Co. Limerick, Ireland. Zone: 8. Height. 172m. Lowest temp: Dec. 2010. -14°C. Wet maritime climate.

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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #107 on: March 31, 2015, 05:12:04 AM »
Thanks, I love them  :)
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #108 on: March 31, 2015, 08:15:01 AM »
Nice show there Kevin.
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David Nicholson
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #109 on: March 31, 2015, 02:38:41 PM »
Ken came in the house saying he wondered why Epimedium 'The Giant' was not sending up flower stalks in the greenhouse this spring.  I told him to check the ceiling where the stems are bent across it, it snuck up behind & through 'Fragrantissimum' & a Rhododendron nuttallii hybrid!

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« Reply #110 on: March 31, 2015, 04:16:39 PM »
This is a few years old and has grown well.
It has handsome leaves but the flowers have always been caught by the frosts.
This year we've escaped!
Nice scent as well,
David
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #111 on: March 31, 2015, 04:23:48 PM »
Well at least it is spring indoors here. 

Helleborus xballardiae 'Pink Frost' and Rhododendron dauricum x ludlowii.

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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #112 on: March 31, 2015, 05:19:23 PM »
Lovely Edgeworthia David, I can imagine the amazing scent, how old is a few years?
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Brian Ellis, Brooke, Norfolk UK. altitude 30m Mintemp -8C

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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #113 on: March 31, 2015, 07:20:48 PM »
Brain,

it is probably 5 years old.
It was a risky purchase for someone living in Suffolk with our frosts but
it came through the 2010/11 winter with no problems.
It has produced  buds in past seasons but they have always died.

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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #114 on: March 31, 2015, 08:54:25 PM »
Hello! I missed your rock beauties and came to browse. Then of course I thought I'd share mine, too. Nothing unusual, still..





some bulb pots, my wild freesias, anemones, fragrant cyclamen (I think some persicum hybrid) and saxifraga (thought you'd help with species id!)
« Last Edit: April 01, 2015, 10:51:59 AM by Maggi Young »
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #115 on: March 31, 2015, 08:58:11 PM »
I forgot my favourite spring visitor, the tiny veronica (maybe persica?) and the hazelnut flowers!
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #116 on: March 31, 2015, 08:59:47 PM »
We suffered from a very stormy day today, but springtime cannot be
stopped anymore.It is simply a pleasure to watch the plants and the
developing flowers.
Ranunculus calandrinioides forms flowers since January.
The Ranunculus vaginatus is from J. Jurasek's wild seed collection in
Bosnia- Herzegovina, but i am not sure, if ths is the correct name.
Narcissus cyclamineus was always on my wishing list, so I was happy
to get seed from a seed exchange  in 2012 and evenhappier when
they flowered for the first time this spring.
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Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #117 on: March 31, 2015, 09:03:35 PM »
The rest:
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Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #118 on: March 31, 2015, 09:57:49 PM »
Your Chorispora is a new one to me. What a lovely plant. Does it have any particular cultivation requirements, Rudi?

Congrats on your lovely pot of Narcissus cyclamineus. Growing from seed certainly seems to be the best approach for this species.
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Matt Topsfield
Isle of Benbecula, Western Isles where it is mild, windy and wet! Zone 9b

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Re: March 2015 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #119 on: March 31, 2015, 11:37:02 PM »
That Chorispora is most unusual and lovely. I haven't heard of this one can you tell us more Rudi ?

Here are a couple from me

Narcissus cyclamineus seems to like me and is seeding happily in my moisture bed. Also Callianthemum ids looking good at this time
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