hollydolly
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Some more from my DD's garden
A flower a day ...
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hollydolly
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...and the 3rd and final one for this week from DD's garden
MarkD
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...and the 3rd and final one for this week from DD's garden
That is some fine foliage in front of the dahlias. Wonder if it might be a coprosmia?
hollydolly
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I think it's Berberis..lutin Rouge
MarkD
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Nice I figured it would be something less familiar to me.
I’ve got a few new seedlings I think are more common in the UK. Tricky finding a situation shady enough and convenient enough to water extra which doesn’t make it hard to see. Foliage is what I value highest.
If my manner of care doesn't discourage it too much maybe next year I'll see some of these:
From what I could find online it seems to be more mainstream in the UK.
hollydolly
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I think you may find those Chatham Islands Forget-me-nots.. are endemic in New Zealand... we have them here of course but they're more prevalent in NZNice I figured it would be something less familiar to me.
I’ve got a few new seedlings I think are more common in the UK. Tricky finding a situation shady enough and convenient enough to water extra which doesn’t make it hard to see. Foliage is what I value highest.
If my manner of care doesn't discourage it too much maybe next year I'll see some of these:
From what I could find online it seems to be more mainstream in the UK.
MarkD
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I think you may find those Chatham Islands Forget-me-nots.. are endemic in New Zealand... we have them here of course but they're more prevalent in NZ
Right. I only meant that I can't find anything about them in the US but the UK has lots of information and plants for sale.
Imogene
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The famous Corpse Flower is blooming and on display at Austin Peay University.
”The time has come for an infamous flower bloom — rare enough to draw crowds — inside a greenhouse at Austin Peay State University.
The rare, fleeting and enormous bloom of the titan arum — widely known as the “corpse flower” — is happening now. It began to open in a flashy show of burgundy, with a smell of rotting flesh, on Friday afternoon. APSU updated its visiting hours until 11 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.”
A rare 'corpse flower' blooms in Clarksville — and visitor hours are extended
I have not seen it in real life, nor do I plan to.
”The time has come for an infamous flower bloom — rare enough to draw crowds — inside a greenhouse at Austin Peay State University.
The rare, fleeting and enormous bloom of the titan arum — widely known as the “corpse flower” — is happening now. It began to open in a flashy show of burgundy, with a smell of rotting flesh, on Friday afternoon. APSU updated its visiting hours until 11 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday.”
A rare 'corpse flower' blooms in Clarksville — and visitor hours are extended
I have not seen it in real life, nor do I plan to.
We have one of those in the botanic gardens in Adelaide ( South Australia) and people flock by the 1000’s to see it and “ smell it” its growing in a huge glass house in Adelaide
@Imogene
Rare Corpse Flower's bloom brings thousands to Adelaide Botanic Garden
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Rare Corpse Flower's bloom brings thousands to Adelaide Botanic Garden
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OneEyedDiva
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In front of the building across from ours.
MarkD
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Me too. Thanks for the pointer.
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I have seen it in real llife but wouldn’t do it again. Corpse smell is the worst. The flowering structure is interesting and of course the actual flowers are much smaller like the fruit they leave behind.
I meant to say that old building is a post office
MarkD
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I guess this is a town in the sense that property owners near by need a place pick up their mail? Living in a cracker box shaped warehouse myself I find it charming by comparison.
hollydolly
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Couple of days ago I visted a stately home which is more famous for it's gardens than the house itself.... these are the gardens directly out front of the house, but there are 92 acres of Landscape gardens to see.....
againstthegrain
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Indian Paintbrush
RadishRose
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they are attracted to beer and will drown themselves if you place half-full beer bottles around the plant.
hollydolly
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Nemesia in abundance at the Itlian gardens at the Stately home
RadishRose
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This was also part of my garden
MarkD
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This was also part of my garden
Nice. Did try growing it too before deciding even my benign climate cannot please all the plants all the time.
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Pretty sure I posted the first blooms this year of my Brazilian Walking Iris but today I had to use my wife's phone to get these. I think her's works much better. There are two single blooms and one double which are back to back.
