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Lilium 'Red Velvet': in the old bath planter by the door, twice as tall this year as last and quite magnificent. |
While filing up the watering cans earlier this evening I thought 'I need a picture of those lilies,' so scuttled inside for the camera. Filling two cans takes a surprising length of time, so I photographed a few other things in the vicinity, and again at the next filling, all within a short distance of the tap. Here are a few of them.
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Unfurling frond of Polypodium cambricum Cambricum Group. This is one of the latest plants to produce new growth in the year, but the beautiful fronds remain green throughout the winter. |
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Larix kaempferi 'Wolterdingen' - a dwarf larch, acquired in Prague some years ago, and now mounding up into an almost velvety heap of silvered soft-green foliage. It turns yellow in autumn. |
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A white Gentiana septemfida. This is in a pot bought from the greengrocer in Cirencester a few days ago, consisting of at least six different seedlings ranging from blue to white through bicolor. I'll separate them and pot them separately later in the year. |
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A hybrid between Digitalis (Isoplexis) canariensis and a purple foxglove, raised by Maarten van der Sar at Sahin in Holland. Esentially a shrubby foxglove, it produces a succession of flowering stems through the summer. |
The digitalis cross is very attractive, much nicer than the purple foxglove - does it have a name?
ReplyDeleteNo name as yet - it's under consideration for commercial release.
ReplyDeleteThis is another vote for the Digitalis - is there any news on it's commercial prospects yet?
ReplyDeleteThis has now been named Digitalis 'Illumination' and is now available via Thomson & Morgan. I find this cross fascinating and hope that this is the first of many involving the former Isoplexis.
ReplyDeleteThis is not 'Illumination', which is a similar clone raised by Charles Valin of Thomson & Morgan.
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