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Michael J Campbell

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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #240 on: April 14, 2009, 07:03:11 PM »
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This is the first time I have flowered this Acis.
 Acis tricophllum.

How did you manage that? I have yet to succeed in flowering it. Any tips?
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #241 on: April 14, 2009, 07:41:24 PM »
Another picture of Erythronium purparascens and a Bee orchis which has been under glass no idea what it is but around 12 inches tall flower spike. cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #242 on: April 14, 2009, 08:01:47 PM »
I have to agree with all you folk when you say that this time of the year is the best.
There are some wonderful flowers that you all put up here, I just sit here drooling over my keyboard, jotting some of them down on my “want list”  ;D

Hope you like some of these!  :)

Rhododendron ‘Ginny Gee’
Rhododendron calostrotum ‘Oban’
Phyllodoce x intermedia ‘Fred Stoker’
Phyllodoce alutica
Phylliopsis hillieri ‘Sugar Plum’
Camellia japonica ‘Adolf Audusson’
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #243 on: April 14, 2009, 09:51:15 PM »
That's a very interesting Ophrys, Ian. Is it in a pot under glass or in a bed with glass protection?
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #244 on: April 14, 2009, 10:51:43 PM »
Quote from: Michael J Campbell on April 14, 2009, 07:03:11 PM
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This is the first time I have flowered this Acis.
 Acis tricophllum.

How did you manage that? I have yet to succeed in flowering it. Any tips?
I did get a good potful to flower a few years ago.  Hot, dry summer before may have helped.  The pink form (ex Walllis) increases fast ... fast .... fast :o but seems to make mostly non-flowering bulbs, mine went from 5 to 500 bulbs in a few years.  I've chucked them all now, fed up with no flowers and suspicious of virus :-\
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #245 on: April 15, 2009, 07:19:44 AM »
Hi, the Orchid is in a pot all the time it flowers well but lots of problems with black tips on the leaves it get very little water in the winter, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #246 on: April 15, 2009, 08:11:25 AM »
We have seen Bee orchids in the wild flowering off black withered leaves or from a cluster of grazed leaves-so any leaves at flowering time are a plus! We have seen them in a reserve in Lincolnshire, where they are regularly walked over/ trampled by visitors and flower on the shortest stems they possiby can. Tough little mites!
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #247 on: April 15, 2009, 09:26:01 AM »
Pics from my garden today morning.

Daphne genkwa
Fibigia triquetra
Frit.meleagris
Primula auricula
Primula carniolica
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #248 on: April 15, 2009, 11:34:54 AM »
Wonderful pics everyone.  Love that Daphne genkwa, the Erythronium japonicum and so many others.  Special mention has to go to Hans glorious Calochortus luteus though.... what an absolutely smashing picture!!  Great stuff!!  8)

Thanks everyone.  ;D
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #249 on: April 15, 2009, 01:17:24 PM »
The flowering D. genkwa is a real eyecatcher Karl !

Nice set of Rhodo's Mr Lampwick  ;D

Hans,
My Calochortus Luteus does not show buds yet - I hope it'll be as nice as yours !

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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #250 on: April 15, 2009, 01:28:39 PM »
Stunning Daphne Karl!
Is this the type which Fritz Kummert distributed?

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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #251 on: April 15, 2009, 02:53:34 PM »
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The flowering D. genkwa is a real eyecatcher ......

Stunning Daphne Karl!



 It most certainly is! Very fine indeed..... I thought at first glance at the photo that with that large amount of flowers this was a beautiful early Lilac/Syringa  8)
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #252 on: April 15, 2009, 03:07:55 PM »
Luc ,

I had this Calochortus bulbs since 3 years -this it was the first time flowering .

Good luck for yours
Hans
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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #253 on: April 15, 2009, 05:46:13 PM »
I don't get in these other rooms very often as I am a through and through Galanthophile!  But......

...I spotted this in the garden this afternoon and liked it so much I had to share it.

John  ;D

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Re: Flowering Now - April 2009
« Reply #254 on: April 15, 2009, 06:41:17 PM »
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This is the first time I have flowered this Acis.
 Acis tricophllum.

How did you manage that? I have yet to succeed in flowering it. Any tips?
Michael the only thing is to give them a dry summer and keep them pot bound.
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