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Helleborus multifidus is starting soon to go dormant, beside it is Epimedium 'Frohnleiten'. A nice combination.This small Helleborus niger is grown from Holubeck seeds from Italy three years ago, and it is already going to flower next spring. It has very nice foliage.
We'd not had even a touch of frost until last night. The mercury plunged from 10c with hard rain to -3c overnight. A mad scramble till 3am to get pots into cold storage. Can you still buy mercury thermometers on that side of the water? They are no longer available here (new) unfortunately. My cheap alcohol greenhouse max/min has faded to a clear liquid and is invisible more or less. Guess I should buy a more expensive model. Another alcohol lab. model sticks and I can never get it to give a clean reading. Maybe after Brexit :-) who knows.There are Gallium alloy metal versions but I have never seen one available.
Robert;Once again S.semiatatra is refusing to bloom for me. However, S.lasiantha and S.gesneriiflora have just started to produce flower buds.Overnight frosts seem early this year but I cannot say that I keep a log. Worse still is the frequency that we've been having them.
The days have been cloudy with above average temperatures in Sacramento, California. The mornings have been foggy. High temperatures have been running 69 F (20.5 C) to 63 F (17.2 C), with lows about 52 F (11.1 C). At about 3:30 p.m. the Dew Point has been 57 F (13.9 C) with a relative humidity of 70% to 80%. (Attachment Link) Potentilla gracillis var. fastigiata is one of my favorite Potentilla species. Up at the Sierra foothill farm, they will often bloom three times each year. Not so in our Sacramento garden, at least yet! The foliage looks great.The climate almost the same with Antalya Turkey..And with my sorrow,I always treated as a weed for this plant