March 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere

[johnw]

Maureen - What a healthy & lusty brute your Shortia x Leona is!

johnw

[Maggi Young]

John, Maureen's garden is full of such lusty plants!

 Maureen, I think your super dark foliage may be a form of Shortia uniflora.......

You must have  missed our temperature 'high', being that bit lower down the hill and nearer the river and with larger trees.  We did make it to the promised high... even a  tiny bit more in the full sun at midday.... beter than many a summer's day.....( pity it's all gone to pot today again! Not cold though, so that's something. )

Your shortia buds are further advanced than ours,and your C. 'Beth Evans' a tad ahead of ours too, your slightly lower temps. notwithstanding.
Amazing what a half a mile's distance can do.

[Gerdk]

Ah Düsseldorf, the place where I went to school. Do they still keep wild boar in the Neanderthal?

Maren, I didn't notice wild boars but there are still some larger creatures with horns and shaggy hairs and thanks god behind a fence!   

Paddy, thank you for compliments!

Gerd

[jomowi]

John, Maureen's garden is full of such lusty plants!

 Maureen, I think your super dark foliage may be a form of Shortia uniflora.......

You must have  missed our temperature 'high', being that bit lower down the hill and nearer the river and with larger trees.  We did make it to the promised high... even a  tiny bit more in the full sun at midday.... beter than many a summer's day.....( pity it's all gone to pot today again! Not cold though, so that's something. )

Your shortia buds are further advanced than ours,and your C. 'Beth Evans' a tad ahead of ours too, your slightly lower temps. notwithstanding.
Amazing what a half a mile's distance can do.

Maggi - I don't recall this Shortia having flowered.  Will watch out this year.  No sign of any yet. Could be what you say, but there is also listed on our plant list a Shortia soldanelloides Magnus (from Gottenburg). Could it be this?

The temp I quoted for yesterday was not measured in my garden - it came from the BBC weather forecast after the evening news.  I think they take their data from Dyce.

[Maggi Young]

there is also listed on our plant list a Shortia soldanelloides Magnus (from Gottenburg). Could it be this?

Mmmm, could be, but the dark foliage suggests more uniflora or galicifolia

Here's  a link to a photo of Gerben's plant of Shortia soldenelloides magnus.....

http://www.gerbianska.com/Schizocodon%20shortia%20soldanelloides%20magnus.htm



 Your plant is a stonker, whatever! 

[Maggi Young]

Shortia key here, for interest.....
http://www.barnes-botany.co.uk/shortia.html#2a

[angie]

Hi Maureen

That C.Beth Evans is lovely against the Shortia leaves, can't wait to see the Shortia flowers open right 

Angie

[jomowi]

there is also listed on our plant list a Shortia soldanelloides Magnus (from Gottenburg). Could it be this?

Mmmm, could be, but the dark foliage suggests more uniflora or galicifolia

Here's  a link to a photo of Gerben's plant of Shortia soldenelloides magnus.....

http://www.gerbianska.com/Schizocodon%20shortia%20soldanelloides%20magnus.htm



 Your plant is a stonker, whatever! 

Thanks for pic. link. You are right it is not what I suggested.  Thanks for key link too, will have to put that on hold for now as I am about to go away and it looks time consuming let alone some brain power to interpret it!

[johnw]

Maggi / Maureen - The leaves seem awfully big for a uniflora don't you think?  I'd vote for Magnus though something not quite right for a soldanelloides; hard to say as Maureen's plants seem to be on steroids....

johnw

[YT]

Hi all, here are Viola yedoensis white form and Taraxacum albidum

[jomowi]

author=johnw link=topic=6821.msg193496#msg193496 date=1300826746]
Maggi / Maureen - The leaves seem awfully big for a uniflora don't you think?  I'd voted for Magnus though something n

ot quite right for a soldanelloides but hard to say as Maureen's plants seem to be on steroids....

author=Maggi Young link=topic=6821.msg193486#msg193486 date=1300825141]

 Your plant is a stonker, whatever!  

 

For "stonker" and "steroids" read "an annual mulch of well rotted sieved compost covering all the borders, not just round individual plants".
Over and out, I'm off to Hexham show in a round about way.


edit by maggi to sort out "quote" marks

[Jozef Lemmens]

Is there anyone who can confirm whether this is Callianthemum sajanense? I have this plant from Halda seeds and it is flowering for the first time. I am in doubt whether this is the true species.

[Gerdk]

Hi all, here are Viola yedoensis white form and Taraxacum albidum

Tatsuo,
Really nice and well grown plants -
Due to my preference for these species I admire the violet especially!

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

Is there anyone who can confirm whether this is Callianthemum sajanense? I have this plant from Halda seeds and it is flowering for the first time. I am in doubt whether this is the true species.

I don't know it but some photos of the plant here: http://www.plantarium.ru/page/view/item/7543.html   
Perhaps a very variable species........

[fleurbleue]

Very nice white forms YT