Finally, some gardening weather!
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There’s so much to do and see in the garden. A break in the cold weather allows me to get on.
First off, in an earlier blog I showed you a picture of the neighbour’s garden which was full of cyclamen, all seeded from my garden. Here are close ups of some of the delights next door.
But here’s a couple of photos of a cyclamen which I’ve raised from seed and is not going anywhere! It’s a silver/pewter leaved coum.
Snowdrops in the frames are starting to emerge.
Firstly, a double, Lady Beatrix Stanley. Excuse fingers but at least I don’t bite my nails!
Nerissa, another double
Yet another double, Sybil Roberta.
According to the latest monograph on galanthus , Sybil Roberta and Dionysus are one and the same snowdrop. Here’s a picture of pots of both, grown next to each other in the frame. The one on the left is Sybil and on the right Dionysus. As you can see, Dionysus is some way from flowering and this happens every year, so I’m going to keep them as separate snowdrops.
This next illustrates the perils of swapping snowdrops out of flower. It’s meant to be White Dream, which is a single form of nivalis. Now in flower for the first time, it’s a double which looks very much like Lady Beatrix Stanley to me. If only I could remember who I swapped with.
Finally on the snowdrop front, a very nice one for which I’ve lost the label. Any ideas?
Here’s a couple of narcissus from the alpine house. The first is Joy Bishop and the second Yellow Pet. There are differences I promise.
Lastly, I’ve been busy replanting a bed in the front garden.
The first picture is before, the Hellebores and cyclamen have got out of hand.
The second is the same bed, dug out and with a good layer of leaf mould and spent compost incorporated. The hellebores and cyclamen I dug out found a good home with a friend from work.
Lastly, replanted with several named hellebores, epimediums, primulas, erythronium, anemone nemerosa forms and saxifraga fortunei. Since this was taken several pots of galanthus too. I can’t wait for everything to flower now. Of course the cats love it too!
5 Feb, 2010
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wouldnt mind some of the little daffs. they are beauties.
5 Feb, 2010
Thank you Terratoonie.
I'll bear you in mind at repotting time Seaburngirl
5 Feb, 2010
You've got some beautiful snowdrops. I am NOT an expert - but doesn't that un-named one look like 'Lapwing' that you showed us in your Colesbourne Park blog? Unless I could see them side by side, they look pretty similar from here!
I'd love an alpine house. :-)))))
6 Feb, 2010
I wish it were Lapwing Spritz but the upper half of the green marking is quite different. Good idea though! I don't think it's anything particularly desirable but I like it. Unfortunately I'm not an expert either.
I'd love a second alpine house!! They are like sheds, it doesn't matter how many you have, you always accumulate more stuff to fill them.
6 Feb, 2010
Nice blog Love the snowdrops, good insight into your front garden.the soil looks pretty friendy.
How large is the alpine house?
Brian
7 Feb, 2010
Hi Brian, the alpine house (adapted greenhouse really) is 8' x 6' but I have a couple of large Access frames and 3 smaller lift-up frames too. However I still haven't enough room at certain times of the year.Drives my wife mad with trays of seeds, seedlings, cuttings and divisions all over the garden. I think I may need treatment!
7 Feb, 2010
Hi Paul you dont want me sending to many Plants then! The more space the more you aquire if you are anything like I was. The only way I could reduce my numbers of plants was to take down one glass houes, this I did 3 years ago That one was 16 x 8 and when full held a lot of Alpines and Bulbs I dont regret doing it because it was getting hard work.I still have 2 others one of which is empty in summer, and no i dont want to grow tomatos in it.
Brian
8 Feb, 2010
Wow! That's a lot of glasshouse! :-)))
8 Feb, 2010
Good lord Brian, that's a Wisley sized glasshouse. How may plants did you make homeless by taking that down? At the moment, summers are not too much of a problem because my bulbs are taking a summer rest. Of course there is a lot of repotting but I do spread that over a couple of months. Other things I have lot of such as semps and jovibarbas are also not too work intensive. So it's only the primulas really. Yes please to more plants and when this latest cold spell is over I have a couple more for you.
8 Feb, 2010
Paul & Spritz
Yes it was a good size ,It housed a lot of large pots between 6in & 10in heavy clay one's i used for showing Alpines & Primulas many of the plants were old so i took cuttings of the favorites and discarded the old ones.I still have enough room under glass.
The house was not wasted it has been re erected two gardens away to house the lady's collection of Tortoise.
9 Feb, 2010
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Lovely cyclamen and snowdrops..
I like the photos... beautiful...
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