Flowering now September 2007

[mark smyth]

I grew Tithonia when I first got into gardening. Fabulous plants. Is the Bidens bulbous?

[Brian Ellis]

No Mark, I think it's stoloniferous... but don't take my word for it just in case!

[Lesley Cox]

Don't apologise Brian for the non-alpines. I think what Maggi would like is more alpines but not fewer other things. Hope so anyway. That's what WE want. More of everything.

I thought that white beside your clematis was my most favourite thing, Rubus x Tridel `Benendon' but then realized, being autumn with you, that it's probably a white Anemone japonica.

[Brian Ellis]

Yes Lesley 'tis Anemone japonica, such a lovely white against a grotty fence panel

[Maggi Young]

Gerd, I meant the size in cms for the height of the stem and flower! But this is still too big, perhaps, so 10cms tall?

Brian, you have a never ending stream of goodies in your garden.
I am having a bit of a "thatch" obsession just now, since Ian returned from his visit down to Jane and Rod Leeds and stayed with them in their delightful thatched house and he was lucky enough to visit another and see lots of super "oldie worldie " houses, half-timbered et al...lovely! Even the village hall the Group held their meeting in was thatched! Such fun!   

[Maggi Young]

Meant to say, too, that our Clematis, which is quite like Brian's,  has no discernible scent, though I nearly inhaled half of it when testing it today! The flowers are so tiny and only coming out so only singles to sniff at once... in a day or two when it really gets going I'll try again!

[Brian Ellis]

Maggi, Ian went to the right place to see some lovely thatched houses including Jane & Rod Leeds.  The bonus there of course is their wonderful garden and glasshouses ... am I green?

[Paul T]

Loving the pictures everyone.  Hans, that Narcissus humilis is unusual too!!  Learning quite a bit from this thread!! 

The thatched roof house Brian posted is pretty impressive too.... not exactly something we see a lot of around these parts!! 

Thanks for the pics everyone.   

[Paul T]

Howdy All,

Hearkening back to the August "flowering now" thread........  I noted yesterday that there are small points coming up in the seed pot of the Veratrum nigrum seed I got from Toolie last year.  I don't recall anything coming up last year, but these do look like reasonably substantial and I would have assumed that they weren't fresh germination?  How big ARE the initial cotyledons as they emerge from the soil?  Nothing has unfurled or anything close to that as yet, but there are solid points coming up all through the pot.  Given how neatly they are spread I would imagine that they are all second season, and that I missed them last year.  I am particularly pleased, having thought that they had never / were never going to germinate. 

Now how many years will I have to wait for them to mature in my conditions?  Probably a lot longer than whereever they naturally grow, if most other things are anything to go by! 

I'm most chuffed to have them up, and don't want to wait for them to mature and flower (but of course know that no matter how much I may not want to.... I'm still going to have to!!  ).

[Maggi Young]

The bonus there of course is their wonderful garden and glasshouses ... am I green?

Well, you're just a bit green round the edges, Brian! And why not! Lovely place, indeed and with the added bonus of two lovely kittens to play with!

Paul, i haven't grown Veratrum from seed so I'm no help to you... good luck with the seedlings, though!

[Hans J]

Here in southern Germany has startet Galanthus with flowering :
Galanthus reginae olgae from Taigetos Mts.
Also a pic from today from my Sternb. lutea -this plants grows in a sunny border

[Martin Baxendale]

Nice elegant Gal. reginae-olgae, Hans. Was it from the Jim Archibald collection in the Taigetos?

[Hans J]

No Martin - it is not from the Archibald collection

[mark smyth]

green tipped?

[Hans J]

  - yes