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Post by Fractal on Oct 19, 2023 19:25:41 GMT
Hiya where've you been hiding interesting plant Ah, here and there Grindle 😀
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Post by Fractal on Oct 19, 2023 19:24:30 GMT
Ah, here and there Grindle 😀
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Post by Fractal on Oct 19, 2023 19:23:54 GMT
Should be Steve. I got mine from Larch Cottage Nursery near Penrith but it's definitely available elsewhere. I'll see of there's any places come up.
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Post by Fractal on Oct 15, 2023 12:31:45 GMT
For anyone that's likes to add a bit of gentle spice to their food, a Sechuan Pepper bush (Zanthoxylum bungeanum) might be an option. Bone hardy deciduous shrub with ash-like leaves (one of its other names is Prickly Ash). The small round fruits are covered in little oil glands (Citrus is a close relative). It's these small outer coatings that are used. The single black seed inside is tasteless and not used. Luckily, as they dry out, they split open and drop out. Here is a photo of mi e that I've had two years now. I wasn't sure if it was self-fertile but it definitely is.
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Post by Fractal on Jun 29, 2022 22:20:17 GMT
Thank you all much. I must try and improve my contributions here!
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Post by Fractal on Sept 1, 2021 21:52:07 GMT
They do all seem to change to tongue-twisters don't they! I'm sure that even the garden centres will still be using the old names for years. Pretty sure they will Sue.
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Post by Fractal on Aug 30, 2021 8:42:04 GMT
Here is just a starter...
The genus Sedum has been split in half. The low evergreen Stonecrops remain in Sedum whereas the taller perennial types that die back each year are now placed in Hylotelephium.
Aster has been split up with the typical Michaelmas Daisies now in Symphyotrichum.
The Japanese Anemone group which are all late flowering apart from the spring flowering A. rupicola (one of the parents of A. 'Wild Swan') are now all called Eriocapitella.
I'll add others over time.
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Post by Fractal on Aug 30, 2021 8:19:12 GMT
Thought this might be of interest. I'll post a list of the ever changing names of common and familiar plants that have been placed into newly created or other genera.
Only found out a few minutes ago that the Japanese Anemone group are no longer in the Anemone genus but now called Eriocapitella.
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Post by Fractal on Aug 23, 2021 4:55:08 GMT
Sorry, Happy Belated Birthday 🌷⚘🌺
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Post by Fractal on Aug 18, 2021 6:17:31 GMT
My Hoya carnosa is a lot darker than I was expecting! The person that gave me the cuttings off my original plant obviously has another form with darker flowers and sent me those. Flowers smell of chocolate.
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Post by Fractal on Aug 18, 2021 6:13:03 GMT
Thank you all, I hope your arm isn't too painful now ladybird.
I'm glad the fish survived the attack grindle, I hope whatever it was doesn't come back.
You are right SueA, everything is very overgrown here too, and I have lots of cutting back to do. My bin is almost full already and it isn't being collected until Friday of next week.
I have potted one some Heliotrope seedlings and also some Lobelia and the only two Basil seeds that germinated. Also repotted the Hoya cuttings that Fractal sent me, they are doing well now It was fine as long as I didn't move suddenly, didn't bend, and didn't sit down, and held on to things as I moved around That's good 👍🏻
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Post by Fractal on Jul 25, 2021 11:33:18 GMT
Two Persicaria (Blackfield and Golden Arrow) and a Spanish Poppy (Papaver rupifragum). I'll post pics in due course.
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Post by Fractal on Jul 25, 2021 11:29:29 GMT
Love the seating areas in their garden Fractal, is that your dad's observatory in the corner? Thanks Sue a yes, that's his observatory.
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Post by Fractal on Jul 24, 2021 9:27:01 GMT
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Post by Fractal on Jul 24, 2021 8:07:50 GMT
Funnily enough I've just bought some seed from Chiltern Seeds of the white form. Lots of seedlings of it now to add to the red I have. I've seen a pink one somewhere too that'll be in seed now. Must remember where I saw it and collect some.
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