Flowering Now - August 2009

[Giles]

Magnolias:
globosa,doltopsa,cathcartii,lotungensis,acuminata subchordata,rostrata, x weiseneri, laevifolia(3 cultivars), nitida, campbellii 'Charles Raffill', officinalis, officinalis biloba, sprengeri diva 'Burncoose', x foggii 'Jack Fogg', cylindrica, insignis, liliflora nigra, zenii, sargentiana robusta, delavayi, chevalieri, macrophylla ashei, grandiflora 'Exmouth', sieboldii sinensis 'Grandiflora', obovata, fraseri pyramidata, chapensis, maudiae, mclurei.
3 pallets of peat, a ton of sulphur, a backache, and 10yrs to learn how to use a chain saw.........
(PS Cassiope's make excellent compost  )

[Maggi Young]

Magnolias:
globosa,doltopsa,cathcartii,lotungensis,acuminata subchordata,rostrata, x weiseneri, laevifolia(3 cultivars), nitida, campbellii 'Charles Raffill', officinalis, officinalis biloba, sprengeri diva 'Burncoose', x foggii 'Jack Fogg', cylindrica, insignis, liliflora nigra, zenii, sargentiana robusta, delavayi, chevalieri, macrophylla ashei, grandiflora 'Exmouth', sieboldii sinensis 'Grandiflora', obovata, fraseri pyramidata, chapensis, maudiae, mclurei.
3 pallets of peat, a ton of sulphur, a backache, and 10yrs to learn how to use a chain saw.........
(PS Cassiope's make excellent compost  )

Crikey..... busier than even I thought!
Had me foxed for a minute with the chainsaw comment, till I pictured scene ten years hence and all became clear! You could perhaps do some "judicious pruning" to avoid the worst excesses, though, eh? Say after nine years?? 



I'm shocked to the core by your cassiope compost  jibe  ......go and wash your mouth out  .... that's fighting talk to an Eric lover like myself 

[johnw]

Magnolias:
globosa,doltopsa,cathcartii,lotungensis,acuminata subchordata,rostrata, x weiseneri, laevifolia(3 cultivars), nitida, campbellii 'Charles Raffill', officinalis, officinalis biloba, sprengeri diva 'Burncoose', x foggii 'Jack Fogg', cylindrica, insignis, liliflora nigra, zenii, sargentiana robusta, delavayi, chevalieri, macrophylla ashei, grandiflora 'Exmouth', sieboldii sinensis 'Grandiflora', obovata, fraseri pyramidata, chapensis, maudiae, mclurei.
3 pallets of peat, a ton of sulphur, a backache, and 10yrs to learn how to use a chain saw.........
(PS Cassiope's make excellent compost  )

Yikes, I wouldn't want to see the bill!

johnw

[Paddy Tobin]

Giles,

Do you like magnolias?

Plenty of room for snowdrops underneath.

Paddy

[joop huyslook]

A Semperivum (?) from Greece

Looks like Sempervivum marmoreum. Typical for this species is the white margin of the petals.
Where exactly did it come from?

[Arykana]

Thank you for the name  of my flowerfermides, I try to keep in my mind

They are blooming now

[Paddy Tobin]

Arykana,

Brilliant colour, lovely flowers.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

I went down to Edrom nursery with my mum today. She needed plants for the rockery I just built her; I needed plants for a trough. Phew! What a selection! Too much choice! There were at least two plants in their new raised bed that I wanted but were not on sale. One was a very dwarf elm with leaves about 2mm long. The other, if my memory serves me correct, was Gentiana syringae, but I can't find it anywhere. Four hour round trip, but a superb lunch in the New Inn at Coldingham made up for it. I've never had so many scallops in a starter before!

[Darren]

Hi everyone,

Anthony - Edrom is great isn't it? I think Aberconwy sell that little elm - perhaps Tim could bring one up for you at discussion weekend time?

Some pictures from my garden over the last few days:

This first is a thank you to Ian Christie. You may remember giving me a tiny cutting of Rhododendron forrestii repens when we visited the nursery a few years back? Here it has produced a couple of unseasonal flowers. These are its first flowers too.

Next is Pelargonium endlicherianum. This grows outside unprotected even in our very wet winters. I bought it from Tim Ingram at Alpines 2001. Subsequent plants from wild seed were nicer forms but less hardy and died out.

Origanum Kent Beauty is looking at its best in August, as is Convolvulus sabatius which will be two meters across by the end of the season.

The sorbus is S. fruticosa showing its white berries and a hint of the spectacular autumn colour to follow. I love this plant - it came from Aberconwy nursery and has only reached 60cm high in 4 years.

The lily is one from Vietnam given to me by Peter Bland as a seedling. I think his stock came from Henry and Margaret Taylor? It has a lovely scent. I think I have seen it for sale as L. majoense but cannot swear to it.

The last is for Cohan - not an 'alpine' but one of the earliest Conophytum to flower with me . C.bilobum TS765. This species normally has plain yellow (or white) flowers. This clone with the very attractive red anther filaments is very attractive.

[Anthony Darby]

My Crinodendron hookeri is starting its second flush of flowers this year.

[Sinchets]

A few stalwarts flowering in the summer heat 
Hibiscus aculeatus
Hibiscus militaris

[cohan]

Hi everyone,
Some pictures from my garden over the last few days:

Next is Pelargonium endlicherianum. This grows outside unprotected even in our very wet winters. I bought it from Tim Ingram at Alpines 2001. Subsequent plants from wild seed were nicer forms but less hardy and died out.
The sorbus is S. fruticosa showing its white berries and a hint of the spectacular autumn colour to follow. I love this plant - it came from Aberconwy nursery and has only reached 60cm high in 4 years.
The last is for Cohan - not an 'alpine' but one of the earliest Conophytum to flower with me . C.bilobum TS765. This species normally has plain yellow (or white) flowers. This clone with the very attractive red anther filaments is very attractive.

thanks, darren,
that cono is really nice, flowers and 'foliage'
really like the sorbus too, and that pelly is long a favourite (long distance)

simon, good to have something going still
'rose of sharon' H syriacus was semi-common in toronto, and also at its best in mid-summer when most of the flowering shrubs/trees and roses etc had petered out..

[Arykana]

Have anybody Queen Ann"s lace??

[Giles]

Which one?
Down here, Anthriscus sylvestris is sometimes called 'Queen Anne's Lace' or 'Cow Parsley' (and it grows as a common roadside weed everywhere),
but I think Daucus carota is called 'Queen Anne's Lace' too.

[Rafa]

Here, another endemic snapdragon from Spain.