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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 28, 2023 11:45:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 28, 2023 15:59:05 GMT
So beautiful, bright, & cheery. The combination of those pansies with the pots is wonderful, Mick.
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Post by mich64 on Dec 28, 2023 20:15:43 GMT
Beautiful pansies Mick. It has been so warm here combined with no snow that we are worried some of our perennials are going to sprout up thinking spring has arrived! Have never had weather like this at the end of December.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 29, 2023 18:20:21 GMT
Pansies are the only thing that the municipal gardeners of Paris plant during the winter.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 29, 2023 20:10:04 GMT
And here’s some more!
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Post by bjd on Dec 30, 2023 7:37:01 GMT
Pansies and violas are the stalwarts of the garden, from autumn to early summer. Unfortunately, I didn't plant any this year.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 11, 2024 14:42:27 GMT
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Post by lugg on Feb 11, 2024 19:23:22 GMT
Beautiful.
I was in Southbourne a couple of weeks ago and they there were so far in advance of here . I wish I could have taken a photo as i walked passed several beautiful bushes ... but I was hanging on to Enzo who was in that state of mind where he refused to stop!
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 11, 2024 20:02:55 GMT
Most years the flowers are ruined by frost but maybe this year we’ll get a good display. Although it doesn’t really show in the picture the flowers are bicoloured with no 2 flowers the same,
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 11, 2024 21:36:47 GMT
Camellias were my grandmother's favorite flower and she had a bunch of them.
A friend of mine gave me a camellia bush the other day, saying she'd never been able to get it to do anything. It's scrawny and looks burned. I'll post pictures over in Gardening Waffle so you all can advise.
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Post by bjd on Feb 12, 2024 7:11:34 GMT
Jim Putnam is the video gardener I remain subscribed to. is one of his videos about camellias.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 16, 2024 15:01:59 GMT
I'm thinking about getting a camellia for the shrubery.....that red one is lush... My garden's a bit of a scruffy desert atm..needs clearig and weeding. I've been waiting to sort it all out after the snow...but we haven't had any. Everywhere is too wet so it will have to wait... messy garden just starting to wake up. Lots of perennials are just emerging so I really need toclear all of last year's dead stuff. the hellebores arestarting to open... a winter pot...starting to go over pot in the front garden...it just has little specimens of hebe, conifers and a strange moss thing I lost the label of. I poked in a few little dwarf irises (iris reticulata), not grown them before and I quite like them.
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Post by bjd on Feb 16, 2024 15:17:36 GMT
Nice hellebores. I have some too but they're not quite as nice as yours, Cheery. I just spent an hour at the garden centre but didn't see any hellebores, they are already selling spring plants.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2024 16:15:13 GMT
Indeed the garden looks awful at this time. Your pots of flowers look good though Cheery.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2024 16:24:36 GMT
Here’s a different flower on the Camellia
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2024 17:07:06 GMT
Your pots look so cheery, Cheery! And the yard looks as though it's resting for the Winter -- hardly a "scruffy desert".
I adore that double pink Hellebore. They're all lovely but that one is -- to use your word -- lush. As always, your color combinations star. I really like how you incorporated the variegated ivy in with the pansies and those wonderful iris.
Mick, that's a prize of a camellia flower. It's on the same bush as the previous flower?
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 16, 2024 17:46:26 GMT
Yes it is.
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Post by fumobici on Feb 17, 2024 3:56:36 GMT
Your hellebores put mine to shame, cheery. Mine were doing OK until it got down to 7F one night.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 17, 2024 6:06:54 GMT
I love hellebores(bored in hell ? Really ?) And that camélia flowers is just awesome. Lovely.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 29, 2024 15:44:19 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 29, 2024 19:01:19 GMT
Oooo ~ Spring beauty! Is that forsythia in the top picture?
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Post by bjd on Feb 29, 2024 19:57:58 GMT
I don't know what it is but it doesn't look like forsythia, which is rarely so bushy. I have a tea tree(leptospermum) of that same red colour in my garden, along with two pink ones. The pink ones tend to bloom really early, November/December, and then get hit by a cold spell so many of the blossoms die and they never look as good later, even though they continue blooming for months.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 1, 2024 11:18:00 GMT
No forsythia but a mimosa. This one became quite huge.
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Post by bjd on Mar 1, 2024 11:46:52 GMT
Strange -- the mimosas here are trees, not massive bushes.
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Post by whatagain on Mar 1, 2024 14:47:36 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 1, 2024 17:31:42 GMT
Spring has sprung on the Côte d'Azur.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2024 19:01:01 GMT
Just beautiful! I now have many orchid plants in this orchid paradise & am even getting some blooms.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 1, 2024 20:38:04 GMT
Those are quite superb bixa,
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 2, 2024 17:07:42 GMT
A friend on our hill in Spain checking one of the almond trees. There has to be some blooms somewhere. It's a bit wild though -
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2024 17:09:05 GMT
Thank you, Mick!
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