| It's Spring* [message #28540] |
Mon, 19 April 2010 19:26  |
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It's Spring*
Smooshes!
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| Re: It's Spring* [message #28545 is a reply to message #28540 ] |
Mon, 19 April 2010 19:52  |
Piankatank
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Had no trouble identifying the tulips and pansies, but what was the bright yellow plant in the last photo? I suffer from a terrible case of garden envy. I see something pretty blooming and I want it (so do the 30+ deer which inhabit my place and have eaten their way through the vast majority of the plants *sigh*).
Hope the drugs relieve the infection so that you can have the tooth worked on.
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| Re: It's Spring* [message #28550 is a reply to message #28540 ] |
Mon, 19 April 2010 23:45 |
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ee cummings is my favourite poet - I am very fond of "everyone lives in a pretty how town"
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| Re: It's Spring* [message #28556 is a reply to message #28554 ] |
Tue, 20 April 2010 05:23 |
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| AJLR wrote on Tue, 20 April 2010 20:08 |
| Piankatank wrote on Tue, 20 April 2010 00:52 |
Had no trouble identifying the tulips and pansies, but what was the bright yellow plant in the last photo?
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That looks as if it may be a 'rosebud'/double flowered primula. Pretty little things - I've got some in the garden here that have flowers of so dark a red they're almost black
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also known as polyanthus?
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| Re: It's Spring* [message #28558 is a reply to message #28556 ] |
Tue, 20 April 2010 06:16 |
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 AJLR
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| BlueRose wrote on Tue, 20 April 2010 10:23 |
| AJLR wrote on Tue, 20 April 2010 20:08 |
| Piankatank wrote on Tue, 20 April 2010 00:52 |
Had no trouble identifying the tulips and pansies, but what was the bright yellow plant in the last photo?
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That looks as if it may be a 'rosebud'/double flowered primula. Pretty little things - I've got some in the garden here that have flowers of so dark a red they're almost black
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also known as polyanthus?
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Same group, yes - primroses, auriculas, polyanthus are all in the same family. Lovely plants and very useful. Auriculas are a little more finicky in their requirements (but worth it for their beauty if you have the facilities) but the others will cope with almost anything provided they're not in too dry a soil. Polyanthus in the UK have been bred to provide very bright and showy flowers for Spring bedding - as with this display, below, from an RHS show a couple of years ago. I rather prefer simple primroses, but these certainly make an impact.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: It's Spring* [message #28596 is a reply to message #28540 ] |
Wed, 21 April 2010 20:13 |
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loved the green poem which I'd never come across before - and all those cheerful spring flowers which are a delight
Someone says "pie" and we all go on alert, like meercats. "Pie? Where?" - Blackbear
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| Re: It's Spring* [message #28637 is a reply to message #28565 ] |
Thu, 22 April 2010 20:27 |
Piankatank
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| Robin wrote on Tue, 20 April 2010 09:37 |
Yep. Double or rosebud primulas. I have several--well, they DO look like tiny roses!! I also have a lot of the standard single variety, mostly yellow and pink--they SEED, which is lovely. Most of the things you want to seed don't, and the things you DON'T want to . . . But the doubles primulas seem to be as trouble-free as the singles, which is not often the case with the fancy versions of things.
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I don't see primroses much in this area, so I have to assume that growing conditions do not favor them. Shame, they are very pretty.
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