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Post by grindle on Feb 20, 2023 4:40:48 GMT
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Post by SueA on Feb 20, 2023 14:50:15 GMT
I'll have to go & check my Kojo no mai grindle, I haven't noticed any signs of flowers yet though. I think the weather has had an effect on hellebores here this year, the more sheltered ones in the front garden are O.K. but in the back the combination of heat, cold & flooding seems to have hammered some of them. |
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Post by balc2 on Feb 20, 2023 21:50:33 GMT
Today I discovered some blue crocuses starting to open but not in the pots on the balcony railings as I had expected but in 3 different pots on the balcony floor. I took some photos but I haven't done anything with them yet. Perhaps tomorrow.
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Post by seaburn on Feb 22, 2023 19:01:01 GMT
I love Iris and I manage to have something of interest with them all year round. January to probably, March I. unguicularis is in flower. This is Peloponnese Snow.  From February I. lazica is flowering too.  Several I reticulata types are also doing their thing. DS Dijt and Lion King [though I think it was mis-named and is in fact Purple Hill. It is much larger that most retics.]   There are plenty of plants starting to put on a show but enough for now. |
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Post by balc2 on Feb 22, 2023 21:02:36 GMT
I love Irises & these are lovely, seaburn! |
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Post by grindle on Feb 23, 2023 4:13:45 GMT
they look great seaburn love the ungularis  |
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Post by balc2 on Feb 23, 2023 21:26:00 GMT
Here are the blue Crocuses I took some pictures of a few days ago. I was removing greenflies from the sprouting buds in the pots in rings on top of the balcony railings when I discovered several more pots with blue buds about to open! We only need a warm sunny day for them to open & I'll get some more pictures!   |
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Post by SueA on Feb 24, 2023 14:07:57 GMT
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Post by balc2 on Feb 24, 2023 20:52:13 GMT
Lovely to see so many Crocuses in bloom as well as all those lovely Hellebores, SueA! |
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Post by grindle on Feb 25, 2023 4:40:55 GMT
lovely photos SueA your hellebores are looking beautiful |
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Post by SueA on Feb 25, 2023 9:28:26 GMT
Thanks balc2 & grindle, I'm surprised at how well the hellebores that got through winter are doing & the crocuses along the edges of the lawn - although I have lost some of the crocuses which were at the wetter far end of the garden. The snowdrops are all going over now & there didn't seem to be as many of them as usual so I may buy some more 'in the green' ones. |
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Post by balc2 on Feb 26, 2023 21:17:33 GMT
My two plants of Clivia have now finished flowering & the flowers are dropping off yet - amazingly - they look as if they had just this minute been picked even though some of them have been on top of the compost for 2 or 3 days!
  
I shall move them back out on to the balcony in a couple of months time when frost is no longer expected - & if it so happens a frost is predicted I can always bring them inside during the night & put them back out the next day.
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Post by grindle on Feb 27, 2023 4:06:41 GMT
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Post by SueA on Feb 27, 2023 14:34:22 GMT
Looking lovely grindle & that Camellia is very pretty! 😊 |
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Post by balc2 on Feb 27, 2023 15:36:55 GMT
grindle Those Hellebores look amazing! The Camellia is a beautiful shade of pink!
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