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Here's some of the Harlequins I grew last year   [cotitsalv] |
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« Reply #166 on: 11:58:16, 29-05-2008 » |
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At the moment my garden is its usual May-June riot of flowers that don't particularly go together - yellow iris, ladysmock, pink true geraniums, calendula, oxalis, aquilegia, foxgloves, limnanthes (poached eggs), valerian (must quell it), dicentra, yellow Welsh poppies  and flamboyant scarlet oriental poppies  - and the Benjamin Britten rose has had several flowers already. See my avatar. |
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John W
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« Reply #167 on: 19:22:30, 29-05-2008 » |
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We've had about two inches of rain this week which flattend most of those Polygonum spikes I photographed earlier, also de-petalled the yellow rose, and two newly opened iris flowers in the pond are very bedraggled but may recover for a photo  The pond overflowed onto the patio, and the lawn is a clay swamp  |
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« Reply #168 on: 19:46:46, 29-05-2008 » |
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It sounds as though Harlequin stands up to blight, the bane of tomato and potato growers. I'm growing 18 or so tomato varieties this year including Ferline, reportedly blight-resistant, and hoping against hope that they don't succumb, sadly I even had blight in the polytunnel last year. I avow organics but thank the Lord for Mancozeb.
Harlequin sounds like Santa a small firm annd sweet plum tomato that seems to have suddenly disappeared after enjoying great favour with M&S. Happy cropping.
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John W
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« Reply #169 on: 16:12:23, 02-06-2008 » |
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A couple of flowers appeared last week I think this is a variety of Erodium or Heron's Bill  and this is a variety of Water Iris  |
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Andy D
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« Reply #170 on: 23:49:41, 03-06-2008 » |
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I've just finished potting on my peppers and chillis. One of the chillis is a variety I haven't grown before called Heatwave - they're red, yellow and orange and are described on the packet as hot, hot, hot!
There were only 25 seeds so I sowed 18 of them 1 per cell in modules. Germination wasn't that good and I've ended up with 10 decent sized plants. However of the remainder, 5 of them germinated very late and have now grown into small but healthy looking plants.
I don't like thowing plants away but is it worth bothering with these 5? Or is the fact that they took ages to germinate indicative of a poor plant which won't come to anything?
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #172 on: 00:26:07, 04-06-2008 » |
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We've had about two inches of rain this week which flattend most of those Polygonum spikes I photographed earlier, also de-petalled the yellow rose, and two newly opened iris flowers in the pond are very bedraggled but may recover for a photo The pond overflowed onto the patio, and the lawn is a clay swamp Commiserations, John. It's tough being a plant at the mercy of the weather. Hope patio and lawn are drying out. I love your photo of the starlings bathing in your stream (that must be over on the Twitchers thread - I only had time for a quick look yesterday so couldn't reply). And your flower pictures are lovely too - that yellow rose is pretty. We have a shrub rose here with masses of single yellow flowers which have just finished. |
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John W
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« Reply #173 on: 17:07:35, 09-06-2008 » |
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Shrubs are blooming! Can't find my little notebook which might name all these. The first one is Escallonia whose leaves are very glossy one side and sticky on the back!    and this might be another variety of Erodium in the bog  |
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« Reply #174 on: 18:09:29, 09-06-2008 » |
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Nice pics John, I think the second one is Philadelphus and the third one looks like Myrtle to me (are the leaves glossy and fragrant when crushed?) I love white flowers. I tried to grow an Escallonia but had no luck at all.
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« Reply #175 on: 18:31:35, 09-06-2008 » |
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the third one looks like Myrtle to me Wha...? Hello? Oh. Sorry. As you were.  |
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« Reply #176 on: 18:53:06, 09-06-2008 » |
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Here's a Moaning Myrtle for Harry Potter fans. That's Myrtle, Martle, not Martle, Martle. Or even turtle. Ok, Martle?   |
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John W
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« Reply #177 on: 19:12:36, 09-06-2008 » |
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Nice pics John, I think the second one is Philadelphus and the third one looks like Myrtle to me (are the leaves glossy and fragrant when crushed?) I love white flowers. I tried to grow an Escallonia but had no luck at all.
Hi Mort, I remember Escallonia being vey common in those eight-foot high hedgerows along the windy small roads of Cornwall. Philadelphus, well, I do recall planting one but I'm really sure it's on the other side and hasn't flowered yet. The individual flowers on the shrub are quite small, five petals. Myrtle? I can't remember planting one of those. The little notebook I've mislaid had a garden map draw in it with plants named, over twelve years ago before I had a PC. I rarely look at it so of course I've put it somewhere safe........ John W |
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Antheil
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« Reply #178 on: 19:36:34, 09-06-2008 » |
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Nice pics John, I think the second one is Philadelphus and the third one looks like Myrtle to me (are the leaves glossy and fragrant when crushed?) I love white flowers. I tried to grow an Escallonia but had no luck at all.
Hi Mort John, I am not Mort, I am Ant. But Mort and I do share an uncanny resemblence - do you notice we are never on the MB at the same time? Queen Victoria's Ma-in-Law, (Mother of Prince Albert) sent her a cutting of Myrtle (Cheap engagement present!) From thenceforth it was her favourite shrub at Ventor and was also in her wedding bouquet (not a lot of people know that) |
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« Reply #179 on: 20:05:31, 09-06-2008 » |
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Soz Anna, I saw Mort's posting and, well you know at my age.... That'll be Vent nor IoW. I think our daughter was conceived there in 1983  Funny how anything Queen Vic liked the whole female population liked. I'm sure some of her friends benefitted through that little scam. And a lot of baby boys were named Albert  |
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