Daphne 2011

[Jozef Lemmens]

Two variegated clones of Daphne x burkwoodii.
Golden Treasure is without any doubt the best flowered form of both.

[Knud]

Beautiful plants, Jozef. Is 'Golden Treasure' fragrant? If so, I can imagine your garden on a warm evening.

Can anyone help me ID the little Daphne in the first picture. I got it at the 2003 Discussion Weekend, and it blooms for the first time this year, started a few days ago. For six years it did nothing, just sat there, nice and dark green though. Last year it it sprouted some new growth, and this year it is blooming, and sprouting a lot of new shoots. It has a wonderful smell.

The second picture is of a D. retusa, which I also got at the 2003 Discussion Weekend. It bloomed first time two years ago.

Knud

[Jozef Lemmens]

Knud, most Daphnes are fragrant.
It is nearly impossible to identify your plant on a picture without any mention of measures. My first thought was going to D. arbuscula (or an hybrid). But if I am right, your plant should have to cover about half a square meters after 8 years. I am only guessing, so it can be anything.

[mark smyth]

Jozef your yellows and alpina are fabulous. Is alpina in the ground? Mine is in a trough where it remains small

[Jozef Lemmens]

Mark, my largest alpina is about 90 cm in height. A bit too large for a trough, isn’t it 

[Maggi Young]

Mark, my largest alpina is about 90 cm in height. A bit too large for a trough, isn’t it  

A horse trough? 

  

[Jozef Lemmens]

A horse trough? 

Hmm, are there horses in Scotland? So far as I can remember I saw only sheep, sheep and ....sheep. 

[mark smyth]

  Jozef but you might it is Wales that has the sheep.

[Jozef Lemmens]

D. oleiodes time arrived. This is a lax form of Daphne transcaucasica 'JH-33/97', but there are nice dome forms in cultivation.
A species from the Caucasus.

[Olga Bondareva]

I am full of jealousy looking at photos of everyone. Beautiful daphnes!

[Jozef Lemmens]

Daphne oleiodes ssp. oleiodes 'VH-134/97' is a clone originating from Bolkar Dag – Turkey.

[Jozef Lemmens]

A better flowered form of Daphne oleiodes is this garden clone.

[David Nicholson]

You grow some lovely Daphneys Jozef. Could you say something about your cultivation methods please?

[Lvandelft]

I just have one clone and it flowers so rich that I never searched for another one.
A picture from last Friday.
Daphne oleoides

[Knud]

Knud, most Daphnes are fragrant.
It is nearly impossible to identify your plant on a picture without any mention of measures. My first thought was going to D. arbuscula (or an hybrid). But if I am right, your plant should have to cover about half a square meters after 8 years. I am only guessing, so it can be anything.

Thank you, Jozef. My apologies for this late response. You are right, it is very similar in leaf to a D. arbuscula that I have, but quite different in flower. In the first picture you can see both plants, the unknown in front with whitish flowers, the arbuscula above it with mauve flowers (in front of the clematis). The next two pictures show the arbuscula and the unknown in more detail. As mentioned in my previous posting I got the unknown in 2003, and the arbuscula in 2007 during the Czech conference as a rooted cutting with only one "ring" of leaves. It bloomed first time in 2009, and is on the whole a much more vigourus plant than the unknown one. Having said that, the unknown one is putting on a lot of new growth this year, as seen in picture 3.

Maybe the arbuscula's vigour is due to the fact that I accidentally "cemented" it in place during planting. I was making it a good home and thought it would like some of the stone flour I sometimes mix into composts. I grabbed a small handful and mixed it in, planted the Daphne and was very pleased. It was only later, and too late, I discovered I had taken the "rock dust" from the wrong bag; one with extra strong cement used to "glue" bolts and the like into holes in rocks and concrete. And while on planting disasters, the clematis in the first pictue, well that's what happens when you mess up your labels and plant small seedlings in a crack. Could anybody tell me which clematis it is?

Knud