Daphne 2010

[Paul T]

 

I think I always do that when I see everyone's Daphne over there.  Stunning, everyone.  Michael and Giles..... you've got some absolute JEWELS!  Congrats Michael on that variegated seedling.... very striking.  The 'Golden Treasure' that you have both posted has the strongest yellow variegation.... must be gorgeous in person.  And the flowers on the rollsdorfi variants.  Wow! 

Thanks so much everyone.

Nothing near as interesting in Daphne here at present of course, but I do have some lovely seedlings coming along from SRGC benefactors who sent me seed.... in a few years I should hopefully have some interesting flower photos to post as well. 

[Giles]

Daphne jasminea (very easy and reliable)
D. x thauma
D. 'Ernst Hauser'

[Ragged Robin]

Daphne jasminea (very easy and reliable)

Ooo Giles, that is lovely, one to look out for, has it a good scent?

[Giles]

Robin,
Sadly not, but it flowers twice a year: in the Spring, on old wood; and again, now, on new wood.

[Ragged Robin]

Sad about the scent bonus but I really like the foliage as well, Giles, and two lots of flowering is terrific 

[Lesley Cox]

These are really lovely but I thought D. jasminea was one of the tricky ones?

[Giles]

..it can't be, I've had it for quite a while  
A jasminea hybrid, 'Forach' (arbuscula x jasminea), with the same pointy flowers.

[Lvandelft]

Lesley, D. jasminea is since several years doing well on my exposed, raised bed.
Just this spring I had only a few flowers after the hard winter. Picture is from another year.

[Lesley Cox]

You know John Richard's tale of D. jasminea, how he and some others climbed for hours to its known habitat but never saw it, then as they returned to their vehicle in the Delphi rubbish dump, found it growing and flowering by the wheel of the car. I have a wonderful slide of it somewhere, in that same place, but could take a month to find then I'd have to get it scanned. Maybe...

[Giles]

Daphne petraea seedling, (first flowering).

[iann]

Is there are well defined list of species that are self-fertile?  My D. tangutica is covered in berries again but nothing else has ever produced a single seed.

[Maggi Young]

Well, as to "self-fertile" I don't know but Brickell and Mathew say that these are the ones "which set seed reasonably freely in cultivation" .....
Daphne acutiloba
D. alpina
D. altaica
D. caucasica
D. euboica
D. giraldii
D. gnidium
D. laureola
D. laureola ssp. philippi
D. lonilobata
D. mezureum
D. mezureum var. alba
D. oleoides
D. pontica
D. retusa
D. tangutica

.... hope that is of help to someone!

[Giles]

- wolongensis, bholua and papyracea also set seed quite well.
Here:
D. x whiteorum 'Warnford'
D. x whiteorum 'Kilmeston' (x2)
Un-named cneorum x jasminea cross.

[iann]

Thanks.  I thought maybe there was a well known set of self-sterile or self-fertile plants, but it seems not.  Obviously some cultivars are likely to be effectively sterile.  Maybe some species are common enough or promiscuous enough that they frequently get pollinated.  D. tangutica certainly seems to come true from seed although I've never seen another one anywhere near.

[John Kitt]

Does anybody have any advice on germinating bhoula seed?
I harvested seed Sept/Oct 2009 and sowed immediately. No success as yet?
Plant is in full flower at present so expect some more seeds if the current downpour in Hobart hasn't stripped everything bare.

First useful rain for months so shouldn't complain .