Flowering Now - August 2009

[Lori S.]

Interesting (though, as I said, I don't grow either)- here are the patents on 'Rozanne' and 'Jolly Bee', respectively, claiming the parentage mentioned in the other internet references, above:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/PP12175.html
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/PP12148.html

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[Regelian]

Anthony!  Isn't that an enticing foto.  Did you raise yours from seed?  How much cold do they handle?  As I recall, they prefer an acid soil, which I doubt I can truly provide, although I have a few ericaceous plants that have adapted, they are the exception.

Thanks for sending the fotos,

jamie

[Anthony Darby]

Garden centres here sell the plants, so no I don't grow from seed. I think they are marginally hardy here, and mine is certainly in a sheltered spot.

[Onion]

Anthony!  Isn't that an enticing foto.  Did you raise yours from seed?  How much cold do they handle?  As I recall, they prefer an acid soil, which I doubt I can truly provide, although I have a few ericaceous plants that have adapted, they are the exception.

Thanks for sending the fotos,

jamie

Jamie,

we have the Crinodendron in cultivation in the nursery here. We protected it in a glasshouse in with 5 Degree Celsius in winter. I know a Crinodendron patagua who survived the last winter with -21 Degree Celsius in a nursery in Duisburg. I saw the plant in February, damaged and all leafs brown. The same plant I see two weeks ago, with new leafs and new young shoots and a high of 40 centimeters. I think it can survived in a shade position in the garden.

[Regelian]

Thanks, Uli, for the encouraging words,

as you know, Cologne is warmish and I suspect a matured plant will have few troubles.  Seeds are on the way, so I'm game!   After all, I do have a palm (Tr. fortunei) thriving here, as well as Agapanthus, Edgeworthia chrysantha, Fuchsias, etc.  A lot depends on position and ground.
J.

[Lori S.]

Winding down...
1, 2) Campanula incurva
3) From a few seedlings of Arisaema sanguineum 'Siren's Song' planted out last year, I was glad to see one finally emerge not long ago... not a moment too soon!
4) Tiger lilies, Lilium lancifolium
5) Aconitum x cammarum 'Bicolor'
6) Clematis tubulosa var. davidii... blooming between the greenhouse and fence where a lot of heat is trapped.  (Another plant more in the open won't bloom for a while yet.)  Nice fragrance.
7) A couple of very late Clematis alpina flowers... very strange.
8 ) First flowers on Aconitum heterophyllum, from seed last year.
9) Aurelian-asiatic hybrid lily, 'Ivory Bells'
10) Rosa 'John Cabot', still going strong.

[Paul T]

Lori,

I love the bicolor Aconitum, and the Clematis tubulosa is another I've not come across before.  Is it one of the shrub ones, like C. stans?  Looks a bit like it could be, although very different leaves.

[Lori S.]

... Clematis tubulosa...  Is it one of the shrub ones, like C. stans?  Looks a bit like it could be, although very different leaves.

Yes, it's mostly upright but slightly rambling.

[Paul T]

Lori,

Interesting.  C. stans is truly a shrub here, behaving very much like a tree paeony, dying back to "trunks" then reshooting from the old leaf axils etc.  So yours is sort of like a cross between a shrub and a climber then?  How big does it get to?  Does it die right back to the ground?  I keep coming across new Clematis here on the forums that I've never heard of before. All good! 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Love the Campanula incurva Lori !  Bold flowers are'nt they ? 

I grew a white form this season - I read somewhere it was monocarp, but my plant has made new rosettes so I'm hoping.
Do you have some experience with it ?? 

[Stephenb]

Clematis alpina almost always flowers again in the autumn here (just a few flowers)

[Oron Peri]

Finally.....some signs that summer is ending down here..
some photos taken yestardy just before sunset at the beach.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Looking nice Oron !
Don't worry only 3 more months before the first Iris' appear ... 

[Oron Peri]

Thanks for reminding me of that Luc, just when i started to be more optimistic...

[Lori S.]

C. stans is truly a shrub here, behaving very much like a tree paeony, dying back to "trunks" then reshooting from the old leaf axils etc.  So yours is sort of like a cross between a shrub and a climber then?  How big does it get to?  Does it die right back to the ground?  I keep coming across new Clematis here on the forums that I've never heard of before. All good!  

Sorry, Paul - I misunderstood your question - thought you were asking about habit, for some reason.  C. tubulosa dies to the ground completely here.

Love the Campanula incurva Lori !  Bold flowers are'nt they ?  

I grew a white form this season - I read somewhere it was monocarp, but my plant has made new rosettes so I'm hoping.
Do you have some experience with it ??  

Luc, they seem to be mostly biennial-ish here... plants that haven't bloomed in the second year will last another year or so.  These plants are from a batch I grew from seed in 2006 or 2007.  Will have to check photos to be sure.

Clematis alpina almost always flowers again in the autumn here (just a few flowers)

Interesting... haven't seen it here before.  Also have a single bud on Rosa 'Agnes'... unprecedented as well for us.