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Lori S.
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Re: Image of the day - 2012
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January 23, 2012, 09:09:53 PM »
More thoughts of spring...
Draba acaulis
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Lori
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-30 C to +30 C (rarely!); elevation ~1130m; annual precipitation ~40 cm
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Very cool (in more than one sense of the word)!
I didn't know Draba could be so wooly!
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Rick Rodich zone 4a. Annual precipitation ~24 inches
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Well, here's another good wooly one then,
Draba ventosa
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It's native to Alberta, in alpine screes, though I haven't seen it in the wild yet.
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Ya know, making a longer and longer want list (two more now) has its advantageous. I can compare my want list to the Seed Ex offerings, for instance, and my order practically makes itself!
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Rick Rodich zone 4a. Annual precipitation ~24 inches
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Tim Ingram
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January 24, 2012, 03:32:00 AM »
I hardly dare show a picture of a snowdrop after talk of deep snow and temperatures down to -30°C or below! Our climate is perfect for these plants and gardeners become quite obsessed about them, for good reason, they really light the garden up through these short days. I am growing many of them under rows of dwarf apples, along with other woodlanders that come on later. The variety, 'Trym', has become quite iconic for the repetition of the inner tepal markings on the outer tepals.
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram
Copton Ash, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8XW, UK
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: RickR on January 23, 2012, 10:12:53 PM
Ya know, making a longer and longer want list (two more now) has its advantageous. I can compare my want list to the Seed Ex offerings, for instance, and my order practically makes itself!
Can't you just return the whole Seedex list and say: I take them all
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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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January 24, 2012, 04:30:23 AM »
We have gotten a little colder weather now - the temperature has fluctuated around 0C so the snow doesn't melt. On the other hand there are less cloudy and we risk seeing blue sky
Tonight it is expected to be very likely to see Aurora borealis, even as far south as I am
Lori, I haven't considered growing any Drabas before but now I am tempted!
Tim, not much snow there! Your spring is more advanced than mine, but that is no surprise, is it
BTW I am going to visit Norfolk in February (on duty, not holiday). Hope we get nice weather
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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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Trond - some good alpine growers in Norfolk, especially of crocus! You are not going to John Innes by any chance? This is where I worked many years ago. A great county, if a little flat!
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram
Copton Ash, Faversham, Kent, ME13 8XW, UK
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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Don't worry Tim- when its -30 we need to see flowers
Fortunately that weather is gone for now- we are back above normal with most days this week above or just slightly below freezing..
I planted some Galanthus in fall, hoping to see some flowers this spring, not sure if they are mature bulbs or not, but they certainly wont be flowering in January here
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west central alberta, canada; just under 1000m; record temps:min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F;
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Tim, you are killing me with snowdrop images...maybe in early April I'll see mine.
And Lori, you are killing me with woolly drabas....I can only grow the fuzzless types. Funny about that...I can grow Stachys byzantina, Antennaria and Lychnis flos-jovis but 'choice' fuzzies are next to impossible.
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Quote from: Tim Ingram on January 24, 2012, 05:25:59 AM
Trond - some good alpine growers in Norfolk, especially of crocus! You are not going to John Innes by any chance? This is where I worked many years ago. A great county, if a little flat!
Not sure I have time to visit anything - I am with 3 of our high school students on a EU funded project from Monday till Friday staying at Holt Hall.
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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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Tim, I agree with Cohan, I love to see the flowers too. It's just a different "world" here, although I admit a little envy as well!
Quite a ways until spring, but I must say that as soon as Christmas is over and the days start getting even a minute or two longer, I say spring is on the way...
and start sowing seeds. Helps a little!
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Faith S. Gardening in central Alberta climate, from min. -44 c to max. 36+ C. ( not often! ) Avg. annual precip. ~ 48 cm Altitude ~ 820 m. Have "frying pan gardens" up around the house, and also some woodland areas down the path...and love them both.
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Nice snowdrops, Tim! Well, I suppose there
might
be signs of life here in another 6 weeks or so, weather permitting.
Here's
Townsendia parryi
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Nice Townsendia- the Androsace gives me the scale- big flowers! but I guess anything would look big beside the Andro...lol.. how high would this be?
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west central alberta, canada; just under 1000m; record temps:min -45C/-49F;max 34C/93F;
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The
Androsace chamaejasme
tend to be up to about 5cm tall and the
Townsendia
is up to maybe 3cm tall... it is kind of hard to sense the scale with these close-ups.
Phlox hendersonii
growing in a trough:
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