Daphne 2011

[Jozef Lemmens]

David, I don’t believe I have a special cultivation method. When you have plenty of them, some are always flowering well and some are flowering badly.
Most are in the garden ground. The most difficult ones in (plastic) pots. I use a Bonsai fertilizer.

Knud, the flowers of D. arbuscula vary from white to pale and very dark pink.

Here are 2 clones of Daphne oleiodes f. “vermionica”. The first one is a MESE collection.







The second one is a collection from M. Pavelka and is still small but seems to be a better flowered form.

[Knud]

Knud, the flowers of D. arbuscula vary from white to pale and very dark pink.

Thank you Jozef, for identifying my unknown D. arbuscula.

Knud

[Darren]

My own little oleoides is flowering in its trough for the first time

And D. alpina looked great a week or two back alongside Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia, on the rock garden.

Can I be forgiven for also including this herbaceous Daphne in here? Stellera Chameajasme var chrysantha. It lives in a pot and has increased steadily over the last 6 years to nearly 40 stems this year.

[angie]

Darren never new you got herbaceous Daphne, thanks for showing us this wonderful plant. Does it have a nice scent.

Angie

[Darren]

Yes it does Angie - a typical Daphne scent 

[angie]

Lovely 

Angie

[Michael J Campbell]

Daphne susannae Cheriton,the second flush of flowers this year

[DaveM]

I have grown Daphne bholua 'Jacquelline Postill' for many years and have seen the species in the wild in Bhutan, but have never realised until now that it could be 'stoloniferous'. This last winter the plant, at least 12 years old and about 2 metres high nearly succumbed, becoming almost entirely defoliated and with flower buds killed on all but the lowest branches which were buried in snow. After a slow start it has however regained much of its leafy elegance. Whilst weeding beneath it recently I noted some young shoots around the base. At first I thought these were seedlings (never seen seeds on it before though) but on closer inspection the shoots are new growth from stolons. This phenomenon has not happened before and I assume it to be a response to its near death experience. Has anyone else noted such a phenomenon?

[Giles]

Yes, it does sucker, Dave. There was an exchange of letters in The Plantsman 10-20 years ago about this.
People reported that some cultivars/clones did it more than others.

[Brian Ellis]

Our Daphne bholua 'Jacquelline Postill' was a present, a sucker from the parent plant about three years ago.

[DaveM]

Well, one lives and learns, thanks guys. Yes, I too have taken a couple off to see how they do.....

[Lesley Cox]

I have a leggy JP bought at an NZAGS salestable and assumed it would be a seedling but now I have slight hopes it may be a sucker, and so will be true. But of course the original could have been a seedling as I don't think there are many named forms in NZ. I haven't seen a single one in any nursery or garden centre.

I lie. I bought one as 'Pink Ice' from a southern tree nursery.

[Olga Bondareva]

Daphne kamtschatica, June, 20





And a couple of days ago

[Lesley Cox]

That's a lovely plant Olga. and seems to go from flowering to almost mature fruit in a very short time. My D. oleoides does the same. I go to have another look at the flowers and find orange fruit!

[Paul T]

Wow, Olga.  Great colour and berries.  Never heard of the species before.

Thanks to everyone who has been posting here.  So many species and varieties that we don't get here in Australia unfortunately.  They just aren't commercially available here.  I have some little gems coming along from generous people on the forum who sent me seed (I am so looking forward to the Daphne oleioides after seeing these pics, but a couple more years to go at least I think).  I just love the dark pink forms, which I have yet to see in the flesh as yet.  This topic is emminently drool-worthy. 

Thanks all.