February 2009

[ashley]

Snow here not topping either Diane or myself

Ashley,
Do you have a name to that Hamamelis?

Göte there's often a clue  
It's Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane' (HH. japonica x mollis), selected at the Kalmthout Arboretum in Belgium.
The colour is best I think if planted where the sun can back-light it.

If you have any difficulty finding it locally please let me know.

[Lesley Cox]

I agree that it's better to remove the old leaves (of all Helleborus) around the time the new buds are showing. The leaves have done their job by this time and are already beginning the dying process, with new ones ready to appear as the flowers are maturing.

[David Shaw]

Around January time I remove the dead leaves from our hellebors. I remove all old material from the ones that start again from resting buds but some, like H. foetidus have their new flowers on the top of existing stems.

[Diane Clement]

Maybe this should have gone in the bulb section, but I couldn't find a very good thread, so stuck it in here.
This has just opened up, quite a cutie
Hyacinthus transcaspicus

[mark smyth]

I really like these small Hyacinths

[Maggi Young]

The BD has just been asking for seeds of these wee guys from one of the lists
Hard to resist those blue anthers!

[Diane Clement]

The BD has just been asking for seeds of these wee guys from one of the lists
Hard to resist those blue anthers!   

There's more to come, so I'll have to do a tickle.  The bulbs came from PJC.

[mark smyth]

The same as PC?

[Lesley Cox]

Yeah, obviously one wouldn't remove the older leaves from HH. foetidus and argutifolius. They are more shrub-like in growth then perennial.

[Diane Clement]

The same as PC? 

Yes

[gote]

Ashley,
Thank you for the info. If I know the name I believe I can find it. I agree with your planting suggestion. My H virginica is in the wrong place I understood that too late 

Re: Göte there's often a clue Wink Grin.
When it comes to shrubs - and to myself - a clue is often all I have. Some were planted by my grandfather and some by my father neither of them labelled. <-Me
Some are gifts from people who got it as gift from someone who........
Then not all nurseries supply what they say they do.

For many decade Swedish gardeners and nurseries would claim to grow the very ancient "Svealandsrosen" Supposedly a Viking age rose type.
In the nineteennineties i think, someone found out that it was 'Minette', a French cultivar from the late 19th century.

Horticulture is full of myths    Many enough to qualify for a thread of their own.

Göte

[Anthony Darby]

Maybe this should have gone in the bulb section, but I couldn't find a very good thread, so stuck it in here.
This has just opened up, quite a cutie
Hyacinthus transcaspicus

Lovely pic. Nice to see it in the flesh, so to speak.

[Tony Willis]

Diane very nice hyacinthus its alovely thing. It would appear to have been collected by Janis as there is a picture of it in his book.

Helleborus vesicarius is flowering now

[Rafa]

beautiful plants, 

[art600]

Rafa

Very very nice - my erythroniums are still underground.