Thanks for the info, Zenjeff. I thought that pink flower would be a Schizostylis/(HESPERANTHA). I was given some corms last autumn and am still waiting for flowers to appear! Is now their normal flowering season?
Papi Jo - my Hesperantha flowers in autumn, which is the normal time, I believe. I don't know why Zenjeff's has decided to flower in spring! Perhaps the unusual weather has something to do with it.
My Dicentra spectabilis (but not the little one, D.formosa) was also frosted this year. I think the hardiness rating refers to whether or not the plant will survive that degree of frost. In a normal year, in Britain we would have hard frost only when the Dicentra was dormant, safely under ground and therefore unlikely to be affected by the cold. This spring had an unusually warm period which brought herbaceous perennials early into growth, followed by a few nights of frost, and a lot of wind. The frost and wind damaged soft new growth on a lot of plants, including shrubs like Hydrangea. They will recover in time, no doubt.
What lovely gardens! Thanks for sharing.
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You may have a postage stamp sized garden Brickman, but it is interesting - packed with plants and some exotics too, great use of different textures - I would be proud to show anyone around that garden.
ref hesperanthas pink one is very early should be summer flowering ,also have snow maiden which is autumn flowering which is in bud all ready , here in the NE strange everything seems very early APril And May a lot milder than normal no frosts .bought them both as plants not corms .
Hi all, some lovely photos on this thread decided to take a few from my garden this morning, the poppy was tightly closed yesterday, the rain must have given everything a huge boost.
The garden is part work in progress so just flowers for now
I love the aquilegias Smeeinnit, can you give us some names please? Most of my aquilegias are vulgaris - just plain purple, mauve and pink, but I am always looking for more interesting colours and these are beautiful.
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Lovely garden Pat!
What's the exotic large leafed plant in the pot? Banana?
Yes, the big one is a musa basjoo , I have two red tigers in pots, all grown from seed. Thanks for the compliments ?
Papi Jo
Helebore is John Hopkins and the third pink flower plant is Hesperantha Mrs Hegerty. Great photos every one
Thanks for the info, Zenjeff. I thought that pink flower would be a Schizostylis/(HESPERANTHA). I was given some corms last autumn and am still waiting for flowers to appear! Is now their normal flowering season?
Papi Jo - my Hesperantha flowers in autumn, which is the normal time, I believe. I don't know why Zenjeff's has decided to flower in spring! Perhaps the unusual weather has something to do with it.
My Dicentra spectabilis (but not the little one, D.formosa) was also frosted this year. I think the hardiness rating refers to whether or not the plant will survive that degree of frost. In a normal year, in Britain we would have hard frost only when the Dicentra was dormant, safely under ground and therefore unlikely to be affected by the cold. This spring had an unusually warm period which brought herbaceous perennials early into growth, followed by a few nights of frost, and a lot of wind. The frost and wind damaged soft new growth on a lot of plants, including shrubs like Hydrangea. They will recover in time, no doubt.
What lovely gardens! Thanks for sharing.
Last edited: 18 May 2017 16:57:27
You may have a postage stamp sized garden Brickman, but it is interesting - packed with plants and some exotics too, great use of different textures - I would be proud to show anyone around that garden.
Brickman, you have certainly made the most of your small garden. It's beautiful.
Papi Jo
ref hesperanthas pink one is very early should be summer flowering ,also have snow maiden which is autumn flowering which is in bud all ready , here in the NE strange everything seems very early APril And May a lot milder than normal no frosts .bought them both as plants not corms .
Hi all, some lovely photos on this thread
decided to take a few from my garden this morning, the poppy was tightly closed yesterday, the rain must have given everything a huge boost.
The garden is part work in progress so just flowers for now
I love the aquilegias Smeeinnit, can you give us some names please? Most of my aquilegias are vulgaris - just plain purple, mauve and pink, but I am always looking for more interesting colours and these are beautiful.