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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #180 on: February 25, 2008, 11:22:48 AM »
Mine is in a pot and I bought it from Christian about ten years ago. It flowered for the first time last year after I had made an effort and given it a hot dry summer rest. It was a miserable thing and I wondered why I had bothered.Just wish it had looked like Franz's
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #181 on: February 25, 2008, 06:14:22 PM »
The first Corydalis solida red of Rumanian origin are open
+ Viola alba from the Pontus/Turkey and Viola sempervirens,
the last one is Anemone caucasica

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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #182 on: February 25, 2008, 06:53:14 PM »
 First a windblown Tecophilea leichtlinii, then the first flowers on a Hellebore last Pulsatilla halleri ssp slavica.

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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #183 on: February 25, 2008, 07:18:50 PM »
Very nice Violas Gerd - smashing Anemone as well !

Too bad for the Tecophilea Derek - it must have looked very good !

Here's some from me :

A small trough getting the Spring fever with Hepatica nobilis and the remainders of Crocus corsicus

and some early season colours featuring Saxifraga ferdinandi coburgi var. rhodopea - Tulipa pulchella violacea and some Cyclamen coum seedlings.
« Last Edit: February 26, 2008, 08:32:54 AM by Luc Gilgemyn »
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #184 on: February 25, 2008, 07:19:33 PM »
Super colour this Corydalis Gerd, and of course these blue Viola.
But on Viola you are the specialist, isn't it?
Thank you for those pics.
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #185 on: February 25, 2008, 07:20:57 PM »
Tulip time already Luc?
Nice!
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #186 on: February 25, 2008, 07:25:10 PM »
Nice pictures folks.
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #187 on: February 25, 2008, 09:40:12 PM »
A few from the garden to-day.Not a lot of colour but still welcome at this time of the year.
Cyclamen hederifolium 'Silver cloud'
 Daphne papyracae
 Daph.papyracae
 Garya elliptica
 Hamamelis 'Aphrodite'
« Last Edit: February 25, 2008, 09:55:15 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #188 on: February 25, 2008, 09:54:20 PM »
More treats, John. I don't even know Daphne papyracae !
The Garrya reminds me of a very good specimen our old friend and neighbour had.... sadly it was bulldozed when her house and garden were redeveloped :'( :'(
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #189 on: February 26, 2008, 07:10:39 AM »
But on Viola you are the specialist, isn't it?


Luit, I love violets especially - but a specialist ?

Luc, nice planting, nice trough!

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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #190 on: February 26, 2008, 06:24:14 PM »
Some (non-alpine) foliage in the garden this week:

Angelica archangelica
Cyclamen hederifolium
Helleborus argutifolius
Myosotidium hortensia
Rhodocoma capensis
Leucojum vernum


« Last Edit: February 26, 2008, 09:06:31 PM by ashley »
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #191 on: February 26, 2008, 10:42:35 PM »
But on Viola you are the specialist, isn't it?


Luit, I love violets especially - but a specialist ?

Gartenpraxis 2002, Nr. 10   ;D
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #192 on: February 27, 2008, 12:45:27 AM »
Luit, can  you mean the article  'Rosettenbildende Viola-Arten aus den Anden' ?
That would be about the rosulate violas of the Andes, I  believe?  8) Certainly a subject for experts!
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #193 on: February 27, 2008, 12:48:39 AM »
Ashley, those leaf variations of Cyclamen hederifolium are wonderful, all so different. What a delight these cyclamen are and they bring such a long period of interest to the garden.
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Re: Flowers and foliage February 2008
« Reply #194 on: February 27, 2008, 06:57:00 AM »
Luit, can  you mean the article  'Rosettenbildende Viola-Arten aus den Anden' ?
That would be about the rosulate violas of the Andes, I  believe?  8) Certainly a subject for experts!


Yes Maggi!

There seems hardly to be anything you don't know, Maggi?   ;D

Almost frightening............ ??? :o :-[ 8)     :-*
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