Podophyllum 2011

[Graham Catlow]

I posted a photo of my P. delavayi last year and indicated that I had moved it from a raised bed that it was getting too big for and moved it to a large plastic tub. It has survived two very severe winters since moving it. However, that is not the point of this posting. Last year I also showed a photo of a shoot from a root that must have been severed in the move. This year (18months from the move)there are well over a dozen more appearing. I managed to dig half a dozen out and pot them up but most of them are too deep to get at without disturbing the whole bed. I am amazed that there is still life in the old roots. So perhaps if you want to increase your delavayi just put a spade through some of the roots and wait a while.

[Maggi Young]

Seems a scary move, Graham.... but a bold one, from your experience. 

[Graham Catlow]

Seems a scary move, Graham.... but a bold one, from your experience. 

Probably me being naive about what might happen Maggi but it worked. It was taking up a meter of a three meter raised bed and I thought that was too much. I still get the same size plant but somewhere it is managable.

[ian mcenery]

Hoy - A nice aurantocaule. Has it survived your bad winter? I seem to have lost all aurantiocaule seedlings here over the winter and they were stored indoors frost-free. It seems to follow in the footsteps of difforme. Do other forumists have similar problems with this aurantiocaule?

In Stern aurantiocaule's winter hardiness was questioned, at least in Britain.
 
johnw - +16c here yesterday.

At last! It has survived the cold freezing winter without snowcover. Plants emerge out of the moss almost ready to flower!

Trond you a are just a little behind mine which is now flowering

[johnw]

At last! It has survived the cold freezing winter without snowcover. Plants emerge out of the moss almost ready to flower!

Hoy - What was the low temperature that your aurantiocaule survived?  The frosty hairs on the new leaves are spectacular.

Here the delavayi x versipelle has fully flushed now after a very wet April (120mm+) and a few warm night and huge rains the past few days.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

after a very wet April (120mm+) and a few warm night and huge rains the past few days.

How nice, the last day it rained here was 23rd February!

[johnw]

after a very wet April (120mm+) and a few warm night and huge rains the past few days.

How nice, the last day it rained here was 23rd February!

Brian - It always amuses and at the same time frustrates me when the locals say the climate of England is wet, grey and foggy.  Here the average is more than an inch of rain a week (never quite works out that way) and 120 days of fog.  Summers here are certainly much cooler at night especially along the coast.  The maples are barely in flower here and unlike inland it will awhile before the trees flush out due to very cool nights. 

johnw 

[David Nicholson]

In Devon it often is wet, grey and foggy

[johnw]

In Devon it often is wet, grey and foggy

Wet is putting it mildly David.  The last time I was there it was stair rods.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

How nice, the last day it rained here was 23rd February!

Same here and it still is!!!

[johnw]

Podophyllum versipelle in friends' garden today.

Surprising their tiny delavayi seedlings from Green Mile seed have survived the winter which gives hope.

johnw

[Hoy]

At last! It has survived the cold freezing winter without snowcover. Plants emerge out of the moss almost ready to flower!

Hoy - What was the low temperature that your aurantiocaule survived?  The frosty hairs on the new leaves are spectacular.

Here the delavayi x versipelle has fully flushed now after a very wet April (120mm+) and a few warm night and huge rains the past few days.

johnw

The lowest I noticed here was -16C.
This is the record from last year at the met observation station a little further inland: (We had no snow cover here, the met station had some and they had more rain than here)

[Robin Callens]

Some Podophyllums flowering at the moment in our woodland garden:

Podophyllum x inexpectatum (P.pleianthum x P. peltatum)
Podophyllum mairei
Podophyllum delavayi
Podophyllum pleianthum
Podophyllum aurantiocaule subsp. aurantiocaule
Podophyllum "spotty dotty"

[Brian Ellis]

Wow, what a variation between the flowers, they are wonderful plants Robin. 

[Lesley Cox]

I absolutely agree with Brian. I hope you will photograph and show them later when they are in fruit, or as many as set some.