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cohan
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Re: Image of the day - 2012
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Great stuff, Jim, you have some really choice plants
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west central alberta, canada; just under 1000m; record temps:min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F;
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A few more plants from today that i missed.
Daphne of some sort
Erythronium revolutum
Pulsatilla vulgaris, a pretty weed. As soon as the first seed heads are visible the Weedwhip treatment takes care of seedset and keeps the seedlings down to a level that can be managed with Roundup
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Jim Hatchett, Eagle Idaho USA Zone 5? 11" average annual precipitation
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Wow, nice, Jim! You're in a pretty dry climate - do you have to give your erythroniums supplemental water, or do they cope without?
And I'm sure there's lots of people who would envy you those awful weeds...
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Lori
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Zone 3
-30 C to +30 C (rarely!); elevation ~1130m; annual precipitation ~40 cm
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Nice colours on the Pulsas! I'm surprised they'd spread so much in your climate- or are they in an irrigated part of the garden? I have one little patch expanding, but they are just the basic coloured ones..
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west central alberta, canada; just under 1000m; record temps:min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F;
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus
http://urbanehillbillycanada.blogspot.com/
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I keep the pulsatillas around because they give a mass of color early in the spring. The red form flowers about two weeks ahead of the purple ones. I made the mistake of letting them go to seed a few times and they come up all over my yard, you cant usually pull them up because they develop a deep tap root that resprouts when you break it off---so Roundup. The plants in the picture have not seen a drop of supplemental water for several years. The part of the garden that they are in is going to be completely remodeled this fall which will be the end of them i am afraid.
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Daphne x susannae cheriton
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One of the weirdest plants in our garden -
Othonna cheirifolia
. This often gets battered by the winter but surprisingly was unperturbed by the cold snap we had after Christmas when temperatures dropped well below normal. It is a fascinating plant both for its leaves and flower buds, and I don't remember it flowering as freely as this before.
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram
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I garden in a relatively hot and dry region (for the UK!), with an annual rainfall of around 25", winter lows of -10°C and summer highs of 30°C.
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And the leaf arrangement appears to be two-ranked that adds to the interest, too. From the Plant Delights site:
This evergreen native to the African countries of Algeria and Tunisia is still little-known in the US, despite being used extensively by the late UK garden designer Gertrude Jekyll in the early 1900s.
Not at all a cold zone plant, but apparently good as a summer container plant.
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Rick Rodich zone 4a. Annual precipitation ~24 inches
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I have tried Othonna here with no success. They dislike winter wet
Maybe I should try at my summerhouse . . . . It is an interesting and decorative plant.
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Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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I too tried Othonnia with similar results.
What does do well here are our native dwarf willow...here is Salix calcicola about to burst in the crevice garden at work. I collected this one three years ago.
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Such perfect catkins, Todd. It looks like that one is going to outgrow the bed.
It can't be that old...(?)
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Rick Rodich zone 4a. Annual precipitation ~24 inches
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Quote from: Todd Boland on April 16, 2012, 05:22:42 PM
I too tried Othonnia with similar results.
What does do well here are our native dwarf willow...here is Salix calcicola about to burst in the crevice garden at work. I collected this one three years ago.
The willow is very nice, the garden scene is absolutely deluxe!
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Interesting to see an Othonna in an English garden- I'm used to seeing/thinking of the genus only in tender succulent and caudiciform collections-- if you think this one is weird, you should see some of the caudiciform species
does this one have any thick trunk?
Great willow, Todd- I'm still hoping to run into some native dwarf spp with seed- tough timing though..lol.. I've only seen them inside national parks where I wont take cuttings... if I were to find some in forestry lands it would be different... Never see them on seedlists, I guess for viabliity reasons....
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http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus
http://urbanehillbillycanada.blogspot.com/
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No the othonna has very ordinary stems - I've seen other species listed in Silverhill's seed list but know nothing about them. Fascinating to hear that it was used by Gertrude Jekyll!
The salix is very attractive; we are generally too dry to succeed with these in the garden but they must be very fine in association with dwarf ericaceous species and dwarf birch - I remember Todd's lecture at Nottingham and those northern landscapes must have a very quiet beauty.
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I garden in a relatively hot and dry region (for the UK!), with an annual rainfall of around 25", winter lows of -10°C and summer highs of 30°C.
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Quote from: Michael J Campbell on April 16, 2012, 03:53:10 AM
Daphne x susannae cheriton
Hi Michael, another beautiful Daphne!
Todd, Salix do good here too but I don't have many in my garden.
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Trond
Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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