Flowering now August 2007

[rob krejzl]

Mark,

Really wierd.

They used your concrete and didn't question what use you were intending for it? How did they know it was strong enough for the tank? Have you billed them for your labour and materials?

[mark smyth]

They laid the concrete base!! My bulb frames were going to go along the side of the greenhouse and the rest of the garden was to be a new raised bed

[Brian Ellis]

Paddy,
This is perhaps more what you would expect from a purple leafed plant.  It was bought as Eucomis pole-evansii purpurea?  at the West Acre Plant Fair a couple of years ago. and has three rosettes of foliage now, just the one flowering.  If anynone can nail down a name for it other than E.pole-evansii purpurea I would be most pleased to know.

[mark smyth]

Eucomis pole-evansii 'Purpurea' is how it's listed in the 2007/8 Plant Finder

[ian mcenery]

Can't help with the Eucomis pole evansi as I only have seedlings at present but thought this species was supposed to be a giant.
Here are a few of my own

The crocosmia vulcan seems to be better behaved than Lucifer being more compact a better colour and longer lasting.

[ian mcenery]

and a few more

The Lilium Auratum may not to be the real thing but a hybris as it lacks the golden ray

The Rudbeckia is amazing up to 10 ft tall hardly an alpine but hey ho

[mark smyth]

Late tall Rudbeclias are great especially those with big leaves. Hopefully I'll get lots of photos at Beeches on Sunday

Here are a few plants in my garden. I have now removed all the Arctotis, red daisies, from the garden because of the early Colchicums.

Abies koreana 'Blue Pearl'
Abies koreana 'Blue Eskimo'
Argyranthemum canariense pale form
Nymphaea pygmaea 'Helvola'

[mark smyth]

I was at Margaret Glynn's today and took some photos there

Actea
Aster - unknown and very floriferous
unknown Campanula
a very unusual Dianthus - nicely scented
a huge Hakonechloa
Helianthus nuttallii - perennial and one of the best
unknown daisy - short and covered in buds

[Paul T]

Mark,

You're not wrong about that being an unusual Dianthus.  Fascinating!!!

[Lesley Cox]

Mark, I know the bureaucrats rule the world and their lackeys do what they damn well please, but I can't believe people came into your garden and laid concrete without your consent and presence, without any kind of consultation first. If it happened here they'd be on aTV programme called "Fair Go" and there would be redress sought and compensation given. Shame on them!!!

[Lesley Cox]

Many years ago my mother had a carnation (and there have been a few similar since) with a purple/grey ground colour slashed with magenta/red. It too was well scented. Wish I could find it nowadays.

[Susan Band]

Mark, If I hadn't seen the rain drops on the Dianthus I would have said you had played the old trick of giving the cut flower a drink of coloured ink The unnown daisy is a Euryops, I will go and see if mine has a label when it stops raining. Totally hardy and not liable to sudden death like Europe acreus.

[annew]

I thought the unknown daisy might be x Solidaster - how big was it?

[Brian Ellis]

Ian and Mark
Thank you for your replies, like Ian I thought Eucomis pole-evansii was supposed to be a giant, hence my querying of the name.

[mark smyth]

The daisy would be, from memory, less than 30cm. I'll phone Margaret later to see if she knows the Dianthus