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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 23, 2020 17:44:21 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Aug 24, 2020 8:48:46 GMT
I brought back thousands of seeds in packets from Western Australia. That is when I learned I was carrying ' Coals to Newcastle'. So many Protea type bushes like the Pincushion bush/tree. But out of all the packets I was hoping the Kangaroos Paw would grow in my garden. No luck. I had the red and the green flowering one. Also the Sturt Pea ground cover. Nothing. When it came to planting seeds for The Smoke Bush and Black Boys I even spread ash on the soil to mimic a fire. Nobody came to the party…. I still have packets of seed so maybe I should try again. Seed is pretty old now.
Kerouac, what a beautiful flower - I don't know what it is……Not a Hibiscus surely?
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 24, 2020 9:10:21 GMT
I've grown kangaroo paw a couple times with seed from Chiltern seeds.
Somebody on my cactus forum has grown and flowered Sturts Desert Pea. Really spectacular and not easy to grow.
The problem might not be yours tod. The seed might not have been viable. Happened to me more than once and seed came from very well known sources. Others have had the same problem over the years from these sources.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 24, 2020 9:12:39 GMT
Gorgeous pictures K2!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 24, 2020 10:08:23 GMT
Wossat then K2? Was it scented...is it a gardenia? It's beautiful whatever it is
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 24, 2020 10:29:46 GMT
Not a gardenia or a hibiscus, but I have no idea what it is.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 24, 2020 14:32:22 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 24, 2020 15:28:40 GMT
No, the one that I photographed does not have a stamen standing out.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 24, 2020 19:07:41 GMT
Yes, I am right.
You can see the pistil (that's not a stamen) in your picture quite clearly in the second picture. The buds, leaves, and flower all announce that it is Hybiscus syriacus aka rose of sharon aka althea.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 30, 2020 9:37:15 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 30, 2020 9:38:13 GMT
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 30, 2020 10:26:11 GMT
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Post by casimira on Aug 30, 2020 11:37:04 GMT
Bixa is absolutely correct on the double white "Rose of Sharon".
Great pics Mick!
Patrick, those look like miniature pomegranites.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 30, 2020 12:49:14 GMT
Certainly a burst of colour Patrick! They remind me of a deliciously tiny sour fruit we had as children called Chinese Guavas.
Mick, that white and green spikey leaf plant is absolutely gorgeous!
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 30, 2020 17:24:56 GMT
Naturally you nailed it, Casimira ~ miniature pomegranates indeed.
Mick, the pure white dahlias (they are dahlias, right?) are just beautiful. I see you have more bright white notes in your garden. The fluffy gray and white bunches are a kind of euphorbia, correct? Are the lovely long matching leaves next to them part of the same plant, or something else?
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Post by lugg on Aug 30, 2020 19:02:26 GMT
Mick Reply #2859 - what is that - I have some pink ones but have forgotten what they are called .
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 30, 2020 19:41:27 GMT
Patrick, rose hips?
Stunning dahlia mickus...is that a euphorbia and a phormeum?
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 31, 2020 5:26:44 GMT
Yes, cheery, hips on some sort of wild (or escapee rambling) rose on our local city farm. (Perhaps I should add to "Old enough to remember" on rose-hip syrup!) I think Mick's white flowers are Japanese anemones. I always thought of them as sort of Edwardian in style, but I get the impression garden designers are keen on them again. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 31, 2020 6:25:19 GMT
Patrick is right - anemones which brighten up a corner which the sun doesn’t reach. Yes, Euphorbia and next to it a little variegated Yucca.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 31, 2020 8:51:49 GMT
I've added the variegated yukka to my wish list for 2021....
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 31, 2020 8:53:10 GMT
Your white Japanese anemones are much classier than my pink ones Mick (which are rampaging across the borders dagnammit)
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Post by bjd on Aug 31, 2020 11:06:47 GMT
I had lots of white Japanese anemones in my Toulouse garden - they came from the neighbour's garden and spread everywhere. I bought two here last fall -- one died rapidly and the other survived but hasn't grown and bloomed at all.
I like the pale pink ones but made the mistake of buying darker pink double ones and they were really invasive. Whenever I offered any to people, they always wanted the white ones.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 31, 2020 15:18:57 GMT
My hibiscus is beginning to worry me. I am afraid that it might die of exhaustion.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 31, 2020 15:20:13 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Aug 31, 2020 16:01:13 GMT
You are so lucky Kerouac! Your hibiscus looks tremendous. Must be very happy with its pot, its food, and its hours of sunlight.
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Post by bjd on Aug 31, 2020 16:14:12 GMT
I love those cleomes.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 31, 2020 17:01:34 GMT
That hibiscus looks amazing...I used to grow cleomes...first message board I was on was the Gardeners'World one and we had our own little seed trial...growing cleomes! It was great fun.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 22, 2020 7:29:05 GMT
My favourite rose - Peoples Princess
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Sept 22, 2020 16:59:32 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 12, 2020 6:53:32 GMT
I saved my withered hibicus flowers until today (when the last flower dropped off) and counted them before tossing them -- I had 31 flowers this year, plus about 5 buds that dropped off early. Not bad for a scrawny little indoor plant. There are still a few small buds on it, but I don't think that anything will become of them.
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