January 2011 - Northern hemisphere

[Hoy]

Do you know, is jezoensis easy from seed

Yes, you should get 100% germination from fresh seed (If you can get fresh seed) and they are easy to grow on.
I Will be starting to graft in a about ten days and I can  stick on a few for you if you want. They do nor set seed every
year because the weather is usually very frosty and cold when they flower.

Yes please! I will be very thankful

[Michael J Campbell]

Can You PM me your address  to put on my file so I won't forget. The old brain is slowing down

[Juan Fornes]

Natalia: beautiful picture with such a magic light one could almost expect some winter elfs running and laughing around there!
Michael: your Daphne must be a joy to see these cold days, with such a vibrant colour!

[Paul T]

Great yellow Daphne, Michael.  Stronger colour than I realised that the yellow Daphne came in.  Excellent!

[David Nicholson]

Daphne jezoensis

A beauty Michael.

[Paddy Tobin]

Daphne jezoensis

Michael, is this outdoors?

I have one outdoors, grown from seed, but see no sign of flowers at present. Paddy

[Michael J Campbell]

Yes Paddy, they are outsdoors in pots but I bring them in a flowering time to try and get seed, and to stop the slugs from eating the flowers. They come from all over the parish to eat the flowers.

[Paul T]

Michael,

Ah, I didn't realise that it was a more widespread occurrence..... I'm sure my snails migrate from anywhere in the city to my garden, but I always thought it was a local phenomenon.  Nice to know it isn't just my garden that attracts them. 

[Hoy]

I protest My snails and slugs are the worse
Furthermore they know exactly which plants are the dearest or rarest or most expensive

[Natalia]

Michael, You Daphne are magnificent!
I sowed Daphne jezoensis - have ascended not so much, dry seeds have received in the end of winter. Some shoots were eaten by slugs, but one plant has survived.
It is interesting that this young plant has transferred frosts to -35 оС almost without snow. The top has suffered, but for a season was restored. I hope this year at me there will be a young bush.

[Pascal B]

In flower right now, Asarum taipingshanianum, a small species with shiny, often spotted leaves. This species is more of the rhizomatous type and runs around in a pot and sometimes even produces shoots from the drainage holes. Because the leaves are not the best at this time of the year I have attached a picture of the leaves in the wild.

Asarum taipingshanianum flower 2.jpg

[Paul T]

Very, very cool, Pascal.  I'm finding Asarum splendens is doing for me what you've just mentioned, and trying to appear out drainage holes.  I don't grow many Asarum at all, so having one as impressive as splendens multiply like that is most definitely a good thing. 

[Carlo]

VERY nice. I'm a big asarum fan and have grown 15 or so species at one time or another. I'm down to just A. maximum now, which, like your plant, is now in flower.

[Roma]

Signs of Spring?
Cyclamen coum
Eranthis hiemalis
Galanthus plicatus
Trillium ovatum (I think)

[shelagh]

Just been out to check the greenhouse wasn't getting too warm (what a joke) and went back for the camera to record what's out at the moment.

Only flower fully out in the garden is Cyclamen coum.  In the greenhouse I found Cyclamen coum BSBE1 and the tiny flowered (less than 1 cm across) Cyclamen coum Meadens Crimson it is the most wonderfully intense shade of .... I don't know you tell me.

Also spotted a couple of days ago a small shrub Westringia fruticosa 'Smokie' which we dont grow for its flowers which are minute it took 11 pictures to even get one this good