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Author Topic: Flowering now in the garden March 2009  (Read 62352 times)

Maggi Young

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Re: March 2009
« Reply #135 on: March 17, 2009, 07:32:58 PM »
Thanks, everyone, glad to know that Aberdeen can lighten a corner at times,eh?!!

 I thought this was a good foliage combo... from the top... Ophiopogon ( we have this dotted about the place, I like it!) then Aquilegia, Colchicum leaves and rhododendron leaves along the right hand side

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Rhododendron pachysanthum buds are bursting....

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 at the small end of the Rhodo scale, R. lapponicum parviflorum Japonicum is flowering

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Re: March 2009
« Reply #136 on: March 17, 2009, 07:54:05 PM »
Spring is coming, for sure.....
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Narcissus cyclamineus are a favourite .... a selection in frames....
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In Troughs and raised beds the Primula marginata forms are beginning, though some are slower to get into growth than others.....

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 This is P. marginata 'Napoleon'
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Re: March 2009
« Reply #137 on: March 17, 2009, 07:58:47 PM »
Here's a little trough with Primula marginata...
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 A wee tufa trough with young plants...
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The Saxifragas are making themselves known.... agan, some slower to come into leaf growth than others...
Sax. oppositifolia..
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Re: March 2009
« Reply #138 on: March 17, 2009, 08:00:40 PM »
Another pic of Saxes in a raised bed...
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some more colour  ....


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Re: March 2009
« Reply #139 on: March 17, 2009, 08:03:16 PM »
Marvellous Maggi!
Will there be anything left for himself to put in the Bulb Log when he returns .... or maybe you should be scripting the next one!!
Especially like the pic of Lily :)
Oh and the dark Erythronium dens canis ... and ...

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Re: March 2009
« Reply #140 on: March 17, 2009, 08:06:47 PM »
Maggi, your Primula marginatas are more advanced than mine and mine are in the greenhouse. Lovely selection of plants.
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Re: March 2009
« Reply #141 on: March 17, 2009, 08:15:46 PM »
Methinks she's run out of battery...........
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Re: March 2009
« Reply #142 on: March 17, 2009, 08:22:27 PM »
Methinks she's run out of battery...........
Quite right, Carlo, I did... just been for a  banana and a glass of milk... that'll get me going again..... ;D
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Re: March 2009
« Reply #143 on: March 17, 2009, 08:36:48 PM »
Wonderful thread Maggi...here it's Helleborus niger, Iris reticulata, crocus, Tussilago, Galanthus, etc....the very beginnings. It was great to see Ian in Portland at NARGS Western Study Weekend and Annual Meeting. We had a great visit...and will be getting together (you included) sooner than the last time...
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Re: March 2009
« Reply #144 on: March 17, 2009, 08:40:07 PM »
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We had a great visit...and will be getting together (you included) sooner than the last time...
My, that sounds mysterious... and appealing!  Something to look forward too, obviously :D

 Opening in the alpine house....
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and T. leichtlinii

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Re: March 2009
« Reply #145 on: March 17, 2009, 08:56:50 PM »
Maggie,how nice to have the guided tour of your garden and how surprising that you are so advanced considering your location.A wonderful series of pictures of such high quality.Thank you.
John Gennard in the heart of Leics.

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Re: March 2009
« Reply #146 on: March 17, 2009, 09:02:27 PM »
John... et al, you are too kind, thank you.   I hoped that you could overlook one or two fuzzy photos to enjoy the flavour of the place ...... I am reasonably pleased with some of the shots .....I'm getting better at holdingthe camera steady! :P
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #147 on: March 17, 2009, 09:08:03 PM »
Paddy I'm not a fan of the genus Salix. With the lot of drainage systems in this area Salix is a weed. But see this Salix in flower by a friend I must have it, now growing two year for me.
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Re: Mid- March 2009 in Aberdeen
« Reply #148 on: March 17, 2009, 09:34:04 PM »
Friends, the lack of sunshine and the BD ( not necessarily in that order) must be frazzling my brain..... there is a March thread in existence already.... sorry!Even though some of my photos are from the glasshouse... I will merge the threads now. :-X
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #149 on: March 17, 2009, 10:59:48 PM »
Maggi, it seems everything in your garden is bursting ino flower so fast.
Here the most plants just start to show some buds.
Well, today I saw my pink Abeliophyllum is almost open and really full
branches with flowers, but I'm afraid they will not last long, because
some very cold nights are forecasted this week.
There are some Crocus fields flowering here now and some field with Narcissus
Tete a Tete are becoming yellow, but that's it.
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