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Luc Gilgemyn

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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #345 on: March 27, 2009, 08:12:29 PM »
Flowering with me at the moment - despite the lousy weather...

1) Primula marginata 'Drake's Blue'
2) Acer japonica - unfolding
3) Erythronium dens canis 'Pink perfection'
4) Scilla bifolia
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #346 on: March 27, 2009, 08:23:11 PM »
- despite the lousy weather...superpics of super plants.
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #347 on: March 27, 2009, 08:53:45 PM »
Flowering with me at the moment - despite the lousy weather...

1) Primula marginata 'Drake's Blue'

Luc, if you have an offset to spare later in the year and would like a swap I'm your man ;D

Lovely stuff, all of them.
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #348 on: March 27, 2009, 09:07:04 PM »
Lovely images, Luc ... terrible weather here as well, as the raindrops illustrate ...

Very tiny Pulsatilla vernalis in bud ...

Erythronium dens-canis ...
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #349 on: March 28, 2009, 11:59:57 AM »
I get an overwhelming urge to towel dry that pulsatilla bud and give it a drink of warm milk  :D

On a walk  with Lily this mornig I have seen the first Pulsatilla vulgaris flowers in a nearby garden. They were looking pretty cold and wet , too. :(
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #350 on: March 28, 2009, 02:53:53 PM »
I have been re-potting and tidying up the asarums. Asarum forbesii is in flower but it was a surprise when re-potting an Asarum splendens out of a six inch pot. The new stolons coiled around the bottom of the pot were 95cms long
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #351 on: March 28, 2009, 02:55:49 PM »
I love the way the A. forbesii buds look like little pumpkins!

I take it you have given that A. splendens a bigger pot, then Tony?
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #352 on: March 28, 2009, 03:07:52 PM »
I love the way the A. forbesii buds look like little pumpkins!

I take it you have given that A. splendens a bigger pot, then Tony?

No I broke them all of and potted them separately to make extra plants,why I do not know!

I am going to try some in the garden. They will perhaps draw the slugs away from more choice things.
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #353 on: March 28, 2009, 03:12:34 PM »


No I broke them all of and potted them separately to make extra plants,why I do not know!

I am going to try some in the garden. They will perhaps draw the slugs away from more choice things.

A new business opening eh? Tony's Delicatessen? ;D
« Last Edit: March 28, 2009, 03:14:08 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #354 on: March 28, 2009, 07:16:24 PM »
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #355 on: March 28, 2009, 07:20:05 PM »
It is a miracle with sunshine, isn't it?  So few days from the snow to this colour!   8)
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #356 on: March 28, 2009, 09:24:54 PM »
It has been bitterly cold here to-day with a strong NW wind and with a frost forecast for tonight I thought I should snatch a photo of Magnolia campbellii 'Charles Raffil' before the flowers are turned to mush.Last year we had a -7degrees earlier than this and the buds were reduced to mush before we saw any colour so this year is a bonus even if we lose them tonight.
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #357 on: March 28, 2009, 09:26:56 PM »
Oh, John, how absolutely stunning. I do hope these glorious blooms survive the night. Thanks be for a picture of them anyway. :-*
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #358 on: March 28, 2009, 09:44:23 PM »
Scillas covering every inch of bear earth in the Winter border that flanks the bulb meadow and Pachyphragma macrophyllus taking over from aconites crocus and snowdrops.
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Re: Flowering now in the garden March 2009
« Reply #359 on: March 28, 2009, 10:22:51 PM »
Super Magnolia pictures John!
I may be cold with you, but of Pachyphragma I just see buds. No flowers yet.
Next week temps should rise above 10 C. at last.
I think this year we had till now just 2 days a bit over 10 C.
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