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Maggi Young

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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #15 on: February 13, 2011, 09:51:47 PM »
Thank you, Rudi.  It is probably the case that some handwriting was mistaken.

I did ask Stuart Pawley if he could identify the donor to see if we could find more that way but he  told me today he is busy at the moment.
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2011, 07:42:21 PM »
Only three weeks early this year due I suppose to our warm weather that also brought out two bumblebees
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2011, 10:09:26 PM »
Mark,

SO cute and fuzzy!!  ;D  Nice Daphne mezureum as well. 8)
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2011, 10:15:57 PM »
Question Guys,

I'm starting to pull together a list of "wants" (or should that be needs  ;D) and one of the plants I fancy is Daphne petraea graniflorus ( sorry if I spelt it wrong) any idea where I can track one down?
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2011, 10:19:01 PM »
Thanks Paul but I cant take any credit. It was planted and left to look after itself. If you want some seeds just ask
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2011, 10:22:01 PM »
Mark, lucky boy,
What a beautiful big-flowered form, has it a special cultivar name?
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2011, 10:30:06 PM »
Rudi if you seeds I can look for some under the plant. I saw seedling today

This year I must give it a small trim because all flowers are at the stem tips. I need new growth at the botton also
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2011, 05:12:33 PM »
Rudi if you seeds I can look for some under the plant. I saw seedling today

This year I must give it a small trim because all flowers are at the stem tips. I need new growth at the botton also
Mark, be careful!
In my experience D mezereum don't like trimming and don't regrow from the base very well.
Trond Hoy, gardening on the rainy west coast of Norway.

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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2011, 09:01:27 PM »
OK thanks. Can I nibble the tips?
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #24 on: February 26, 2011, 03:28:13 AM »
OK thanks. Can I nibble the tips?
:o
I think they're poisonous, Mark!
 ;D
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2011, 11:26:54 AM »
If you try to nibble you have to spit out quickly! Still you will get a burning astringency in your mouth and feel suffocating. I friend of mine once tried ;D - he survived.
I think however the shrub tolerates it better than you  ;)
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2011, 11:44:27 AM »
I would nibble with secateurs like a deer
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #27 on: February 27, 2011, 10:23:27 PM »
Deer with secateurs! :o OMG if they learn to use shot-guns it would make hunting season very interesting!
 ;D ;D ;D
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fermi
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2011, 08:50:26 PM »
Too valuable for nibbling - Daphne blagayana "Brenda Anderson", now in full flower.
Rudi Weiss,Waiblingen,southern Germany,
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Re: Daphne 2011
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2011, 09:21:21 PM »
Ah, Rudi, I think I can even smell the fragrance from here..... 8)
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