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Posted by shrubs_n_bulbs z8/9 UK (My Page) on Thu, Dec 28, 06 at 7:18
| My Fuchsias, which are normally killed to the ground each winter, have decided to resprout shrub style, all along the stems. Maybe they'll flower before winter arrives :) |
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- Posted by deeds1 the far SWUK-9 (My Page) on
Thu, Dec 28, 06 at 7:34
| Mine haven't even lost any leaves! The Clematis are just starting to leaf out, poppies flowering, as is Lonicera 'Dropmore Scarlet'. That's unusual even for Cornwall. |
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I have a Qunice which has about 30 flowers on it and lots have opened up, is this right or wrong?
This is the first winter that i have had this plant, as i got in in the summer, but i brought it as i was attracted by the fruits and flowers which were on my sisters plant in summer.
So surley they dont flower and fruit twice in the later part of the year or do they.
Saying that lots of my plants still have leaves, flowers and so on, my fig tree still has all its fruit and normally they have hit the ground afew months ago.
My fuchsias are also still in full flower and no sight of giving up yet.
Who knows maybe in afew years we will have banana's growing readily and tropical gardens all over.As long as we dont get ant tropical bugs with it, i can't even stand the sight of a WORM.....let alone anything that has abit of speed behide it. |
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| Normally at this time of year I have swapped my window boxes to winter pansies with daffodils just showing through. This year the pansies are still waiting round the back of the house while the trailing geraniums continue opening new buds in the summer boxes. Still they're scarlet and with the dark green leaves look quite Christmassy in a bizarre way. |
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| It depends where you are in the UK. I just spent New Year in north Dorset where everything seems dormant (except the nettles and brambles) - just as usual. Here in London my lavatera is still flowering, my kaffir lily is producing new blooms, etc. etc. |
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| One nicotiana is still in flower - two others have died back down to a few basal leaves and look like they may resprout in spring. A nasturtium is still alive and I noticed a flower bud on it the other day. |
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| Lori, I discovered last winter that Nicotiana sylvestris is a tender perennial. A dead stalk which I did not pull out in time resprouted from the base. A self-seeded one here right next to the house is still five feet tall and going strong, no sign of damage. |
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| I have some Nicotiana alata which smelt wonderful on summer evenings and which I am trying to overwinter by mulching over the organs of perennation and also to self-seed by scattering the seed all over the border. |
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I have had N alata stay alive in pots over the winter but they didn't really flourish the next year.
I've got kaffir lilies flowering also, and abutilon megapotanicum pictum.
My snowdrops are out and plenty of daffodil spears starting to show.
I've pruned my clematis already, I hate having to cut things back when they've started to leaf out. |
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