February 2011 - Northern Hemisphere

[TheOnionMan]

Freddy, fantastic colors on those Hamamelis cultivars.  The close up shots reveal surprising detail, the flowers crinkly and wrinkly and bright, delightful.

[Paul T]

Wonderful Witchhazels.  Such a range of colours.  I have an orange (Diane), a purpley colour (Ruby Glow) and have asked a local nursery to find a yellow (pallida?) if possible.  Not sure where I am going to fit it, but I'll find a way.  The whole range of colours like you've just shown is brilliant.  Thanks.

[Paddy Tobin]

Freddy,

A wonderful display of witch hazel, an excellent selection of colours and they look so very well planted in your garden, a perfect combination with the snowdrops.

Tom,
A great spread of snowdrops.

Paddy

[TC]

Hoy

The woods are public property and include a rugby pitch, petanque and a kid's playground.  The woods are totally left to grow as they please except that any trees that may be dangerous are felled.  The estate has been there for hundreds of years. I would think that the Snowdrops would have been planted in the 19th century

[Hoy]

Thanks, Tom. Seems to be an interesting spot on Earth  I love woods! Like this: (Taken last summer, not now as you probably guess 

[Olga Bondareva]

Freddy, Tom
Thank you so much! Your images are like balm for my heart waiting for spring! So many flowers!

Freddy
Do you grow any sorts of Hamamelis vernalis?

[Maggi Young]

Folks, do have a look here to see some shots  of a wonderful Devon garden..... home of a cyclamen collection... amongst other things....

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6670.msg185697;topicseen#msg185697

[alpinelover]

Eranthis hyemalis shows me some flowers today.

[freddyvl]

Freddy, Tom
Thank you so much! Your images are like balm for my heart waiting for spring! So many flowers!

Freddy
Do you grow any sorts of Hamamelis vernalis?

The natural distribution of Hamamelis vernalis is the American Midwest (Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana). The flowersize is (disappointingly) small. That's why H. vernalis and his cultivars are in general not in the foremost rank of witch hazels for gardeners. They do, however, exhibit good autumn colour and the flowers have a 'wide' colour range.
We have the botanical form and 2 cultivars:
- H. vernalis 'Lombart's Weeping' (Lombarts, NL, 1954): overall color = orange-red, petals = 6 mm long
- H. vernalis 'Sandra' (Dummer, ENG, 1962): overall color = golden yellow, petals = 10 mm long
The smallest Hamamelis is also a H. vernalis namely 'Quasimodo' (Zwijnenburg, NL, 1980): 1m tall and 1m wide.

[Olga Bondareva]

Thank you very much Freddy. H. vernalis is hardy enough here. This is why I interested in it.

[johngennard]

Folks, do have a look here to see some shots  of a wonderful Devon garden..... home of a cyclamen collection... amongst other things....

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6670.msg185697;topicseen#msg185697

Thanks for referring Maggie(I don't nrmally follow this thread)Just my type of garden.

[Maggi Young]

Folks, do have a look here to see some shots  of a wonderful Devon garden..... home of a cyclamen collection... amongst other things....

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6670.msg185697;topicseen#msg185697

Thanks for referring Maggie (I don't normally follow this thread) Just my type of garden.

   
John (kentgardener) and I thought that there would be non-galanthohiles who would enjoy seeing Jo's lovely Devon Garden.....so you've proved us right, John  

[Lesley Cox]

Stunning witch hazels, and I can imagine the perfume.

Tom, how could you NOT find a Galanthus thread. There are 399 of them!!! (and every one a little gem. )

[johnw]

"I removed it today and Tantallon was flowering. I also grow whitei, calderiana and a number of others but this one seems the easiest at least at present"


My Ian, a garden of aristocrats.  The Tantallon is sensational.  We saw it at Inverewe and were floored by the colour.

johnw

[ian mcenery]

"I removed it today and Tantallon was flowering. I also grow whitei, calderiana and a number of others but this one seems the easiest at least at present"


My Ian, a garden of aristocrats.  The Tantallon is sensational.  We saw it at Inverewe and were floored by the colour.

johnw

John please do not get the idea that I grow these petiolarids well as nothing could be further from the truth - some barely survive and the odd one occasionally does moderately well which recharges the spirits. For a really good doer in the open garden I recommend Primula petiolaris itself . I had one from Jack Drake many years ago and as long as it is divided minimum every 2 years it does really well. The rest are very fickle and a lot have departed in spite of my "Himalayan bed"