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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2010 4:47:12 GMT
Pete,
What a wonderful garden you have. Such a variety of plants and everything is so healthy. I truly enjoyed peeping into your world of wonder!!
jeanne
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Post by pete on Jun 25, 2010 18:42:03 GMT
Thankyou Jeanne. This is getting close now but I think it has further to go.  And the California Buckeye, (Aesculus californica) is just starting to open its flowers, basically its the Californian conker tree.  |
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Post by DAG on Jun 25, 2010 19:22:55 GMT
Oh how fascinating pete! How tall does it grow?
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Post by pete on Jun 25, 2010 20:58:30 GMT
The Protea or the buck eye Dag?
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Post by DAG on Jun 25, 2010 21:13:49 GMT
Sorry pete, the buck eye!
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Post by pete on Jun 26, 2010 18:45:07 GMT
The buck eye is about 18ft tall and would be a good rounded shape if I didn't have to keep pruning it all the time.
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Post by pete on Jun 26, 2010 19:43:58 GMT
Iochroma australis. The red flowers are calycanthus occidentalis  |
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Post by pete on Jun 26, 2010 19:47:59 GMT
And that has all grown above my greenhouse, which is why it doesn't get much sunshine these days.  |
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Post by victoria on Jun 27, 2010 19:43:28 GMT
Oh Pete, that is a beauty ... I assume that's what you sent me? It just is doing nothing and staying about 10cms tall ... it's in a pot with morning only sun ... I must move it.
Is that the path to your allotment?
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Post by pete on Jun 27, 2010 21:04:15 GMT
Yes its seedlings off of that plant that I sent you Victoria, can understand why yours is staying so small.
The path leads onto the allotment, you are right.
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Post by victoria on Jun 28, 2010 20:38:57 GMT
Was that a 'can' or 'can't' understand why mine is staying so small? Do they take a while to 'get their feet'? I thought I actualy lost it over the winter as there was nothing there but it came back.
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Post by pete on Jun 29, 2010 19:34:11 GMT
Sorry that should have read CANT
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Post by pete on Jul 9, 2010 20:54:59 GMT
I must admit to being a bit disappointed by the protea, as its aged its lost most of its colouring and now appears almost white .  But the BOPs (strelitzia) are doing fine after a very cold winter and the clump gets slightly bigger each year.  |
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Post by kedigato on Jul 10, 2010 8:48:49 GMT
But it is still beautiful, Pete. I'm surprised to see that it is outside, I assumed it was in your conservatory. Imagine having such an exotic growing outside!  The BoP's are looking lovely as well. Are they, and the Protea, in pots that you bring in for the winter months? Excuse me for being so rude and looking in through your window, but what is the plant on the RHS, with sort of fig-like leaves but with a thick stem? |
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Post by pete on Jul 11, 2010 19:45:11 GMT
Thankyou Kedi, yes both the strelitzia and the protea have spent the winter outside. The protea is potted as my soil is not acid, but the bop seems to like it in the ground and although slow its bulking up now after four years or so and producing five flowering stems this year. I tend to spend many cold nights covering them with blankets ;D Its not rude to enquire about anything in the pics, in fact I welcome it.  The plant you mention is Jatropha podagrica, the gout plant. |
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