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Title: The Floral Parade - your pictures
Post by: New shoot on January 02, 2019, 15:42
I've done a couple of similar threads, but time for a proper sticky topic I think.

It doesn't have to be an actual flower, just an ornamental plant you have grown and are proud of, is looking lovely or brightens your day somehow.

I'll start with a couple - the first spring flowers in my garden are some pretty cyclamen and the garrya is having it's moment of glory.  It is a good screening evergreen and is easily clipped into shape, but the tassels are something a bit special, especially at this time of year when not much else is doing much  :)
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Post by: snowdrops on January 02, 2019, 17:20
Lovely, every year I say I’m going to get a garrya, maybe this year will be the one lol
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Post by: New shoot on January 08, 2019, 19:49
These are always the first snowdrops to bloom in my garden  :)  They are next to my little wildlife pond and are just starting to bud and flower.
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Post by: mrs bouquet on January 14, 2019, 15:14
the cyclamen are looking great, and I have one snowdrop appeared,  (do pigeons peck these?).  The Iberis haven't stopped flowering all year.  The lobelia and bedding begonias are all doing well. French Marigolds, and the Skimmia, lovely berries, but I am worried about the leaves, they are looking a bit bleached.

I would like a Garrya, but haven't got the room.  This is such a nice thread.  regards,  Mrs Bouquet
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Post by: New shoot on January 26, 2019, 17:18
Lots today to spot while there was a break in the rain.

Hellebores galore.  I have then from white to inky dark purple and as many in-between as I can find  :D
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Post by: New shoot on January 26, 2019, 17:23
Plus native primrose and wild crocus that have seeded into my garden from somewhere.  They are everywhere now and I'm quite happy about that  :D
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Post by: New shoot on February 13, 2019, 19:59
Iris reticulata in glorious blue  :)
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Post by: New shoot on March 24, 2019, 20:34
Lots to choose from today, but my top 3 were Scilla growing under my olive tree, Epimedium lutea, which is a pretty, shade loving plant and some of my new bulbs.  These are Narcissus Prom Dance  :)
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Post by: New shoot on April 07, 2019, 10:35
Miniature tulip Lilac Wonder and Erysimum Red Jep (scented perennial wallflower) today  :D
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Post by: Hobovore on April 20, 2019, 20:49
As incompetent as I am, I get the occasional, sort of success. Here they are!...whatever they are.
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Post by: snowdrops on April 20, 2019, 21:43
Hobo ore, they’re wall flowers 😊
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Post by: JayG on April 21, 2019, 12:31
Fantastic display of tulips at Hardwick Hall on Good Friday in the walled garden borders - they start with white ones at one end (not in picture) and progress through yellows, oranges and reds through to deep purple (behind me, also not in picture.)
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Post by: New shoot on April 21, 2019, 18:44
I have pictures of the tulip parade here at chez NS today  :)  Its not quite as grand as a walled garden border (ooohh how I wish), but they are pretty enough for my little garden  :D

Tulip Gavota and Synaeda Amor, which are new.  The pink ones are more muted than the picture in real life, but I thought they looked lovely back lit by the Easter sunshine.  Finally some pink and white mix ones I can't remember the name of, as I have had them for years.
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Post by: New shoot on May 31, 2019, 20:50
Today is mostly about free flowers  :) 

 A little Joie de Vivre rose that was a free bare-root plant and has been in about 3 years now, plus Erigeron karvinskianus that just arrived on its own and planted itself in the top of the wall behind our house,
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Post by: mumofstig on May 31, 2019, 21:11
The Buff Beauty rose on the fence, has just started flowering :)
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Post by: snowdrops on June 01, 2019, 08:03
All lovely, I must get out & take some pics of mine, no roses I don’t like thorny plants (memories of childhood being forced to weed the front garden by my grandma, a pain in the bum, literally ) 😂
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Post by: New shoot on June 16, 2019, 09:03
The first sweet pea posy of the year  :D
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Post by: New shoot on June 28, 2019, 10:31
Calendula on the plot looking cheerful.
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Post by: sunshineband on June 29, 2019, 11:19
Calibrachoa now three years old growing in a very exposed wooden box planter up about 1.5m. Seems to like I though!
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Post by: JayG on July 03, 2019, 14:40
Gorgeous rose with a fantastic scent (forgotten its name, seem to remember it's something to do with Queen, Empress, or even Princess, plus something with an African or Arabian 'flavour' - please share if you happen to know!  ;))
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Post by: New shoot on July 03, 2019, 18:29
Achillea that I grew from seed last autumn.  Most are in the garden at home, but I had 3 spare that I bunged into a bit of the plot  :)
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Post by: New shoot on July 16, 2019, 15:29
Dahlias and helyichrysum on the plot today  :)
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Post by: Plot 1 Problems on July 16, 2019, 16:06
Let my globe artichokes run to flower this year:
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Post by: New shoot on July 17, 2019, 10:32
You will make a lot of bees very, very happy Plot1  :lol: 

I've let some of mine flower in the garden at home and they are mostly full of bee backsides, where they are heads down and burrowed in gorging themselves  :D
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Post by: New shoot on July 24, 2019, 11:01
Dahlias at home.  I've treated myself to a couple of big, dark brown salt glazed pots and this selection of peachy, apricot and soft orange colours looks lovely in them and against the weathered brick of my old house  :D

Penhill Watermelon, Julie One and Nicholas.

Title: Re: The Floral Parade - 2019
Post by: snowdrops on July 24, 2019, 14:51
They’re lovely News,
Here’s my collection of mainly lilies from Monday’s photos
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Post by: snowdrops on August 04, 2019, 20:57
Here’s another day Lilly that’s started to flower, my latest addition & then  a photo of one of my dahlias in the garden that has survived overwinter for the 2nd year.
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Post by: New shoot on October 07, 2019, 11:18
Been a bit lax keeping this up to date  :lol:

The autumn cyclamen are in full swing now.  They have self seeded all over the place and this one is in the path next to my back gate.

The dwarf Japanese anemones are also flowering well.  This is one of the Pretty Lady series and I think it is Emily, but I am not totally sure of that. 
Title: Re: The Floral Parade - your pictures
Post by: New shoot on January 01, 2020, 20:42
New year and there were some flowers around - not many, but something pretty to share  :)

The Garrya I started the thread with is back out in flower, with some red berries from Nandina in the foreground to set it off.

Then a cheerful little viola that is sitting in a pot of bulbs that are just shooting.  I have bulbs coming up everywhere and some nice new ones to share when they are out, but the viola steals the show for today  :)

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Post by: snowdrops on January 01, 2020, 21:19
They are a bright & cheerful thing to see this grey day, thank you
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Post by: New shoot on January 25, 2020, 21:02
Greyness abounds with cloudy, misty and damp days.  We need some colour  :D

The dwarf iris are off, the cyclamen are bright little dots of hope and the snowdrops are emerging looking serene and lovely as always.  It will be spring soon  :)

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Post by: Yorkie on January 27, 2020, 20:47
Saw my first daffodils on the city walls today
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Post by: New shoot on February 15, 2020, 21:00
Grabbed some pictures before the storm. 

Snowdrops now out in a crowd.  The more the merrier I say  :D

Hellebore looking lovely.

A pot of joy - crocus Prins Claus and Spring Beauty.  They are adorable  :D

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Post by: New shoot on February 23, 2020, 19:51
More crocus.  These are Blue Pearl  :)
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Post by: jezza on February 27, 2020, 12:32
Hello some irises they'd been dug out last year but have come back jezza
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Post by: New shoot on March 02, 2020, 11:50
Anemone assortment today.  Big showy Anemone coronaria Bordeaux in flower and some little Anemone Blanda just emerging.
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Post by: New shoot on March 14, 2020, 13:47
A new one to me - Chionodoxa Pink Giant. Very pretty  :D

The Anemone blanda are also fully out now.
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Post by: mumofstig on March 14, 2020, 13:55
Cut these from the allotment hedge, very pretty for the time of year :)
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Post by: jezza on March 29, 2020, 10:12
Hello a bed of geraniums seen at a trade show in Warwickshire there's 7 shades of red from one end to the other  jezza
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Post by: New shoot on March 29, 2020, 10:15
Plot primroses. 

These started as a few scrawny plants rescued from the communal dump heap.  I saw flowers struggling through the waste and rescued them.  A couple of years on and the little spot I planted them in next to my darlek bins is a blaze of colour  :D
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Post by: New shoot on April 03, 2020, 17:53
Tulips  :D  The dwarf ones are out and they are Lilac Wonder and Little Beauty.  The first of the taller ones are just starting as well.  Those are Gavota and Strong Gold.
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Post by: New shoot on April 10, 2020, 17:07
More tulips and auriculas I have grown from seed today :)
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Post by: New shoot on April 26, 2020, 20:43
The final assortment of colours from the auriculas and the first aquilegia in the garden to flower   :)
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Post by: RJR_38 on April 27, 2020, 08:06
A few pics from my garden this April- I finally feel like I am getting somwhere with it!

In the mix are tulips, Dicentra, spanish bluebell, Solomans Seal, wild garlic  (all 3 grow like weeds!) And pansies that are still flowering from September.
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Post by: JayG on May 02, 2020, 18:30
A pretty, but perhaps not exceptional Azalea in my front garden this afternoon.
What is remarkable is that it was there when I bought the house 21 years ago, and has had literally no care or maintenance of any kind since then - perhaps 20% wider but I for one can certainly forgive a touch of middle aged spread!  ;)
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Post by: Growster... on May 02, 2020, 18:44
Lilac, Fuchsia, Weigela, Golf...
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Post by: New shoot on May 18, 2020, 11:29
The new, the old and the unknown today  :lol:

A new iris I bought called Burnt Ember.  I'm not sure if I like it or not  :unsure:  OH says it is out of character with the garden and is just brown and purple  ::)

Next an old favourite.  A cottage garden pink doing its stuff by the back door and looking lovely.

Then one that has seeded in from next door.  Neither of us planted it and we don't know what it is.  It is a very strong stemmed plant so is useful for propping other stuff up in our over stuffed gardens  :lol:  We both just pull it out when it gets too much.
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Post by: Plot 1 Problems on May 18, 2020, 12:06
I chucked a load of flower bulbs into a spare space last year and this one has comeback again. It's not food so I have no idea what it is, but the bees like it. It can stay and I'll grow around it.
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Post by: mumofstig on May 18, 2020, 12:09
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Neither of us planted it and we don't know what it is.

Is it one of the calamint/nepetas?
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Post by: mrs bouquet on May 18, 2020, 12:14
P1P, surely that beautiful plant is a Lupin.    It certainly is a good-looker.  I would love one, but the pests love them even more up here.   Mrs B
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Post by: New shoot on May 19, 2020, 20:33
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Neither of us planted it and we don't know what it is.

Is it one of the calamint/nepetas?

I’ve been pondering that one but I don’t know if the flowers are right  :unsure:

Close up of flower. They are tiny in real life, but unexpectedly stunning in close up.
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Post by: Asherweef on May 20, 2020, 07:53
I chucked a load of flower bulbs into a spare space last year and this one has comeback again. It's not food so I have no idea what it is, but the bees like it. It can stay and I'll grow around it.

It’s a Lupin.  Lovely colour!
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Post by: Growster... on May 20, 2020, 09:33
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Neither of us planted it and we don't know what it is.

Is it one of the calamint/nepetas?

I’ve been pondering that one but I don’t know if the flowers are right  :unsure:



Close up of flower. They are tiny in real life, but unexpectedly stunning in close up.

It might be a 'Skullcap', News?

The only reason why I think this, is because we have a load of 'Wood Forget-me-nots' growing, we wanted to look them up, and your plant is on the next page in our DK book!

What a lovely flower!
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Post by: New shoot on May 20, 2020, 15:34
Gold star for you Mr G and go to the top of the class  :D

It is a Somerset Skullcap.  I'll let next door know when I see her as she has been trying to ID it for ages  :)
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Post by: Growster... on May 20, 2020, 18:54
It's a beautiful flower, News, I wish we had something like that, but the 'Wood Forget-me-nots' have appeared from nowhere!

This year, we're sowing some 'Honesty', and so far have about forty plants, which will take some shifting, I can tell you...

As we're not driving anywhere much, there's a huge thistle by the passenger door of the car, where Mrs Growster shows a leg and steps in, and I rather like it, as the stem is about two inches thick, (the thistle, not Mrs Growster's leg), as it's about five ft tall, and is just making yellow flowers!

Sometimes those wild plants tell a big story...
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Post by: New shoot on May 21, 2020, 20:26
I wish we had something like that

That's easy enough solved.  I'll try and get some seeds  :)  It can't be too tricky to get going as it appears all over the shop in my garden.  It is not invasive as such, but certainly an enthusiastic self seeder  :lol:

My neighbour had a single Honesty plant in a pot last year right next to the fence with us.  We have a low wire fence at the front and plants freely move between the 2 gardens.  I now have a whole line of them along the strip next to the drive.  With a 40 strong force, you could take over Kent  :lol:
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Post by: New shoot on May 30, 2020, 09:02
Blowsy beautiful peonies with the mad firework flower heads of Christopii alliums.

Garden pink with added very determined bumblebee  :lol:

Finally blue flowered garlic chives. Usually they are white but I found these years ago and they are a bit different  :)
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Post by: Yma Ym on June 11, 2020, 06:30
Thought I could join in

New here and very confused. 

A Salvia Smallii and a Quinea Gold Martagon lily

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Post by: Yorkie on June 14, 2020, 11:37
Lovely piccies and welcome to the forums  :)
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Post by: Subversive_plot on June 19, 2020, 19:10
Orchid:  Maxillaria tenuifolia (narrow-leaved Maxillaria, or coconut orchid)

Flowers are about 3 - 4 cm across.  Smells like a day at the beach, with a scent exactly like coconut tanning oil. I've had this one about 5 years now.  Grows indoors when cold, outdoors when warm or hot.  Not sure from the preview whether the photo is attached or not(?)
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Post by: snowdrops on June 19, 2020, 20:15
Orchid:  Maxillaria tenuifolia (narrow-leaved Maxillaria, or coconut orchid)

Flowers are about 3 - 4 cm across.  Smells like a day at the beach, with a scent exactly like coconut tanning oil. I've had this one about 5 years now.  Grows indoors when cold, outdoors when warm or hot.  Not sure from the preview whether the photo is attached or not(?)

Yes it is & very pretty too
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Post by: snowdrops on June 19, 2020, 20:16
The new iris in the bog garden flowered yesterday
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Post by: Subversive_plot on June 20, 2020, 15:15
Love that bog garden!
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Post by: snowdrops on June 20, 2020, 19:48
Love that bog garden!

Thank you, it’s only small, well there’s 2 actually,one either side of the pond, I do have to water it frequently though to keep it wet but there is pond liner at the bottom with a few holes spiked into it
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Post by: JayG on June 25, 2020, 10:15
Pacific giant delphiniums looking good this year despite the mixed weather - one year I'll remember which plant has which colour flowers and introduce a few new ones (hopefully this pic will help me remember!)
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Post by: Plot 1 Problems on June 25, 2020, 15:36
A random plant that survived from bulbs I planted a couple of years ago, first time it's flowered! Guessing it's some kind of Lilly? If it ain't edible I ain't a clue ;)
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Post by: snowdrops on June 25, 2020, 20:50
Yep an asiatic Lilly
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Post by: mumofstig on June 25, 2020, 21:33
Pacific giant delphiniums looking good this year despite the mixed weather - one year I'll remember which plant has which colour flowers and introduce a few new ones (hopefully this pic will help me remember!)
Lovely, JayG - I've given up growing trying to grow them, only had a couple of good years since I moved here 13 years ago. No matter what slug pellets I use, I even bought Nematodes one year, they still just get decimated so no more for me :(
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Post by: JayG on June 26, 2020, 08:04
Yes mum, if the snails get there first it's curtains, at least for that year, and I've had a couple of close calls, but refuse to be outwitted by a mere mollusc!
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Post by: JayG on June 26, 2020, 12:04
Thought I'd take a picture of my David Austen 'Jubilee Celebration' in case it gets nobbled by a thunderstorm.
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Post by: New shoot on June 26, 2020, 12:21
That is gorgeous  8)
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Post by: Yorkie on June 26, 2020, 18:42
I can almost smell its wonderful scent from here!
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Post by: Subversive_plot on June 30, 2020, 03:24
Another one of my orchids: Epilaeliocattleya 'Golden Sunburst'.  An intergeneric hybrid.
It has a fragrance as sunny as the color.
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Post by: Fairy Plotmother on June 30, 2020, 09:07
Pacific giant delphiniums looking good this year despite the mixed weather - one year I'll remember which plant has which colour flowers and introduce a few new ones (hopefully this pic will help me remember!)
Lovely, JayG - I've given up growing trying to grow them, only had a couple of good years since I moved here 13 years ago. No matter what slug pellets I use, I even bought Nematodes one year, they still just get decimated so no more for me :(

Same here! 😡
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Post by: New shoot on July 13, 2020, 11:38
Allium sphaerocephalon and Crocosmia Lucifer  :D

Sorry to the person nearby whose bees keep making onion flavoured honey  :lol:
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Post by: snowdrops on July 13, 2020, 12:33
Found this Amararillis the other day in the greenhouse about to open, not sure if it’s one of the babies I potted on a few years ago, need to scroll through my photos to have a see if I’ve had one the same before or if it’s a newbie.
No I can’t find it, but of course I might not have taken a photo, did find the next picture though of this day Lilly that I bought as it has a significant name to me, a really rich colour & a lot taller than my other day lilies
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Post by: Judypumpkin on July 15, 2020, 09:51
I am very proud of my passion flower. I bought it last summer, and this year it has gone crazy and spread all over the wall.
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Post by: Yorkie on July 15, 2020, 20:23
Beautiful, they can get pretty rampant if they're in a location they appreciate  :D
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Post by: Growster... on July 16, 2020, 06:30
Lockdown meant we had to compromise at first, but then were tipped off that High Banks could help a bit...

Mimulus, own geraniums, own fuscias, 'Albufeira' lilies, (free with blueberry plants, which are not doing at all well, but we hope to keep these particular chaps)!
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Post by: New shoot on July 16, 2020, 08:00
What a lovely flower filled garden  :D
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Post by: Growster... on July 16, 2020, 14:17
What a lovely flower filled garden  :D

Thank you, News!

We're just lucky to have the time and space to do all this, and hope that others can eventually get to some normality a.s.a.p....

There are some 'armpits', which won't get photographed of course..:0~
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Post by: JayG on July 17, 2020, 16:21
My 'centrepiece' flower border - hollyhocks at rear, heleniums and alstromeria in the middle, two salvias front right.

The hollyhocks are doing remarkably well to say how close together I planted them - was given them by a friend last year who realised they would grow too big for her garden, so I just plonked them in any old how.
4 of about 6 plants now flowering, and I'm really chuffed to see 4 different colours so far.  :)
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Post by: Yorkie on July 17, 2020, 21:51
That's lovely, JayG.  Are most of the plants perennials?
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Post by: JayG on July 18, 2020, 07:26
That's lovely, JayG.  Are most of the plants perennials?

The alstroemerias and heleniums are herbaceous perennials, the salvias perennials, the hollyhocks either short-lived perennials or biennials (depending on which website you visit to find out!)
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Post by: New shoot on July 18, 2020, 20:28
On the hollyhock theme but a bit different  :)  This is Alcalthaea suffrutesens Parkfrieden.  It grows tall and upright like a hollyhock, but the flowers are smaller and a bit different.  The bumblebees seem fairly smitten with it.

The other picture is Dahlia Cornel Bronze.   It is the best of the bunch so far for flower power, but the others are budding up.
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Post by: New shoot on August 05, 2020, 11:42
Dahlia duos today.  I have 3 large pots of them and a mix in each.  Now they have all got going, it is a blaze of colour outside the back door.  They are all in large dark brown pots, picked to go with the plants, but that was a waste of time, 'cos you can't see them for foliage now  :lol:

Cornel Bronze and Nicholas

Molly Raven and Darkarin

Cornel Bronze again, but this time with Penhill Watermelon
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Post by: Subversive_plot on September 20, 2020, 18:48
I'm sending a photo of another one of my orchids, Laeliocattleya Tropical Pointer 'Cheetah'.  I've had this about 8 years, this is the best it has bloomed for me.

Normally I tell people it isn't fragrant. But this year . . . voila! Nicely fragrant. Sometimes orchids are like that.
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Post by: Subversive_plot on September 20, 2020, 18:52
Another orchid, Potinara Frank Gilmore.  6-inch diameter fragrant flowers. I have had this plant since it was a seedling, this is the first time it has bloomed for me.
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Post by: snowdrops on September 23, 2020, 15:09
I took these yesterday 22nd September, in the first here’s cyclamen,primula & a Californian poppy, all in flower at the same time! The 2nd photo is of various flowers blooming yesterday but mainly dahlias that really are giving it there all this year
Title: Re: The Floral Parade - your pictures (another orchid)
Post by: Subversive_plot on December 20, 2020, 19:25
This is my Cattlianthe Golden Wax, which I have owned continuouslysince 1985. I've named this clone 'Allison Irene', after Mrs. Subversive.

The second photo shows what I am growing it in. Yes, that is 100% wine corks. Plastic wine corks, to be specific. Before you mark me as a complete nutter (fair point actually), I'll explain why. Many types of orchids like their roots exposed, and when watered, to have their roots dry completely. This is a perfect solution for that type of orchid, I thought of it a few years ago.




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Post by: Subversive_plot on January 03, 2021, 20:19
Yet another orchid (I will probably post pictures of a few different ones over the next few weeks). This one is a hybrid, Cymbidium Tommy 'Sweet Lime'. A friend in California sent me a division of this roughly 6 years ago. It stays outside in the cold, except anything actually below freezing, or when it is in bud.  When flowering, it likes to live on our wine cabinet.
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Post by: snowdrops on January 03, 2021, 20:46
Both lovely Sub