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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2011, 07:42:11 PM »
Thanks for putting us out of our misery John. They are most interesting plants and it's great to have them flowering under your nose, so to speak. Those two plastic rings nearby didn't have anything to do with it, did they? ;D Probably plant food of some kind. ;D ;D ;D
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2011, 01:39:59 PM »
Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Rain, rain and more rain here in Blackpool. Everything here is looking as though rice would be a favoured crop but on the rock garden just 2 little things are managing to flower. Senecio pulcher looks very unlikely to be there and to be flowering at this time of the year but did just the same last year even after the lowest temperature of -15C which saw off a lot of bulbs. The other is a a little cyclamen self seeded into a a gap.
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #17 on: December 25, 2011, 07:49:18 PM »
Cheerful colour for an English mid-winter John. Very best wishes to you and yours too and hopefully not too harsh a New Year, weather-wise. :)
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #18 on: December 27, 2011, 04:56:01 PM »
My Tulipa turkestanica aff. have been open a few days now. Many in the garden have noses above ground now.

13C today. I would really like some frost to put the Geraniums and other perennials to sleep for the winter. Aster laterifolius is growing again
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2011, 05:45:12 AM »
Happy Christmas to everyone.

I am just back from a week at the parents place on the South Coast of UK.  A strange mix of things in flower there - some far too early and some far too late!   :-\

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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #20 on: December 28, 2011, 05:55:55 AM »
And a few other random pictures I took in my parents garden.
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #21 on: December 28, 2011, 10:26:35 AM »
Crikey, a lot more colour there than here, John. What a Christmas treat. 
Some of the other visitors out in the garden look a bit stoney faced though... party poopers!
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #22 on: December 28, 2011, 10:47:31 AM »
I like the grass. ;D
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2011, 03:21:59 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on December 28, 2011, 10:47:31 AM
I like the grass. ;D

I'm sure that Dad will be glad to hear it  ::)
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2011, 10:04:49 PM »
I meant the pampas grass. ::) I could never get mine to flower! ;D
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #25 on: December 29, 2011, 04:46:48 AM »
Flowers everywhere in NZ. Cain comes in with fluffy bits attached all over him. Mercifully, though it doesn't seem to seed about. I've not seen a self-sown one here or anywhere.
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #26 on: December 29, 2011, 08:27:39 PM »
The unusual mild weather brought the first flower of Ranunculus calandrinioides
in the open garden.
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #27 on: December 29, 2011, 09:01:34 PM »
Hi John, I can see where you have got you GREEN THUMBS from! (Is this correct english? We call it green fingers.)
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2011, 10:14:29 PM »
Yes, John definitely has green fingers. I am just green. ;D
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Re: December 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #29 on: December 29, 2011, 10:27:49 PM »
Its better to be green then it is to be bleu. ;D

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