Monday, April 30, 2007
More plants available
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Monday, April 23, 2007
A fresh availability list is here
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Another Availability list is ready
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Notes and News for April 2007 Part 2
Iris japonica Variegata is relatively small variety but it makes a very showy plant as it matures with the white variegation becoming more distinct. This is another plant that would look good in a patio planter or at the front of a sunny border and it has the bonus of delicate Flowers that are just ice-blue with yellow and blue markings.
In contrast Jasminum humile Revolutum is a large growing semi-evergreen shrub (3m) with a spreading branching habit. As you would expect it has yellow flowers, borne in clusters in summer, with some fragrance. As it has green stems it would earn a place in a winter garden.
It is time to be thinking about Clematis armandii for 2008. We offer the species, plus Apple Blossom and Snowdrift and these will be ready for delivery in early March next year. Please note that we cannot hold them after we take delivery from our contract grower because they grow quickly at that time of year and become very damage-prone.
Prices will be:
20-59 £2.48
60-199 £2.42
for the price of greater quantities please give us a call. Apple Blossom will be available in restricted quantities and only those who order soon will get a share.
Buddleia lindleyana has long slender drooping tails of purple flowers that change shade with age giving the inflorescences a two-tone effect. Flowering continues form mid-summer until the frost and it as attractive to butterflies as the B.davidii types without growing so uncomfortably large.
Salix erythflexuosa is something we only grow occasionally, but it does have merits. Its wood is as golden as weeping willow but the growth can be as contorted as Corylus ‘Contorta’. Attractive in summer it really comes into its own in the winter, and it should be stooled as you would expect to keep the effect. I will tell you its demerit which is a susceptibility to anthracnose but this is easily controlled on the nursery and is seldom a problem in the ground.
I am writing this on Easter Monday – what a beautiful weekend it has been. Now we will know whether gardening has gone out of fashion or if everybody was just waiting for the weather.
In contrast Jasminum humile Revolutum is a large growing semi-evergreen shrub (3m) with a spreading branching habit. As you would expect it has yellow flowers, borne in clusters in summer, with some fragrance. As it has green stems it would earn a place in a winter garden.
It is time to be thinking about Clematis armandii for 2008. We offer the species, plus Apple Blossom and Snowdrift and these will be ready for delivery in early March next year. Please note that we cannot hold them after we take delivery from our contract grower because they grow quickly at that time of year and become very damage-prone.
Prices will be:
20-59 £2.48
60-199 £2.42
for the price of greater quantities please give us a call. Apple Blossom will be available in restricted quantities and only those who order soon will get a share.
Buddleia lindleyana has long slender drooping tails of purple flowers that change shade with age giving the inflorescences a two-tone effect. Flowering continues form mid-summer until the frost and it as attractive to butterflies as the B.davidii types without growing so uncomfortably large.
Salix erythflexuosa is something we only grow occasionally, but it does have merits. Its wood is as golden as weeping willow but the growth can be as contorted as Corylus ‘Contorta’. Attractive in summer it really comes into its own in the winter, and it should be stooled as you would expect to keep the effect. I will tell you its demerit which is a susceptibility to anthracnose but this is easily controlled on the nursery and is seldom a problem in the ground.
I am writing this on Easter Monday – what a beautiful weekend it has been. Now we will know whether gardening has gone out of fashion or if everybody was just waiting for the weather.
Notes and News for April 2007 Part 1
Libertia ixioides is a pretty addition to the range. Like most other Libertias it has three-petaled white flowers but its leaves are a dark green with a very narrow red margin and red bases which seem to become more noticeable with time. The midrib is slightly golden, but not as much so as in L. perigrinans
Gelsemium sempervirens is flowering at the moment (under cover), and it’s common name of ‘False Jasmine’ tells you a lot about it. The flowers are deep yellow trumpets with a fragrance of primroses. It is twining climber and is frost hardy, but it will not tolerate real cold.
Leymus magellanicus (Elymus magellanicus) is an electric blue grass with leaves about ¼ “ wide and growing to 75cm (yes I know, but are you fully metricated ?). It is clump forming rather than spreading like many of its family – which includes Couch grass! Potted now they will make striking plants very soon. Likewise Calamagrostis Overdam which is attractively variegated as well as producing pretty flower spikes. Calamagrostis brachytricha has plain green leaves but the prettiest of flowers
Imperata Red Baron are emerging very strongly and should be ready by early May. It is an oddity of this plant that all the roots seem to disappear overwinter and it has to regrow a fresh batch in the spring. There is nothing quite as red as Imperata and it is a good seller through summer and into the autumn, particularly as a patio plant.
Gelsemium sempervirens is flowering at the moment (under cover), and it’s common name of ‘False Jasmine’ tells you a lot about it. The flowers are deep yellow trumpets with a fragrance of primroses. It is twining climber and is frost hardy, but it will not tolerate real cold.
Leymus magellanicus (Elymus magellanicus) is an electric blue grass with leaves about ¼ “ wide and growing to 75cm (yes I know, but are you fully metricated ?). It is clump forming rather than spreading like many of its family – which includes Couch grass! Potted now they will make striking plants very soon. Likewise Calamagrostis Overdam which is attractively variegated as well as producing pretty flower spikes. Calamagrostis brachytricha has plain green leaves but the prettiest of flowers
Imperata Red Baron are emerging very strongly and should be ready by early May. It is an oddity of this plant that all the roots seem to disappear overwinter and it has to regrow a fresh batch in the spring. There is nothing quite as red as Imperata and it is a good seller through summer and into the autumn, particularly as a patio plant.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Just Camellia liners
Now in bold or May in Red
Camellia:
6 Aaron's Ruby - red large semi-double
20 Adolphe Audusson - red medium semi-double
235 Anticipation - pink large peony
60 70 Apollo - red & white large semi-double
5 Arajishi - red medium full peony
150 Ballet Queen Var. - pink large peony
20 70 Black Tie - red large formal double
30 Blood of China - red large loose peony
55 Brushfield's Yellow - white medium anemone
15 Cornish Snow - white small single in profusion
110 Debbie - pink medium full peony
20 Debutante - pale pink medium full peony
35 150 Dixie Knight - red large semi-double
50 130 Donation - pink large semi-double
35 Drama Girl - pink very large semi-double
10 110 E G Waterhouse - pale pink medium formal double
15 15 Edelweiss - white large semi-double
40 Elegant Beauty - pink large anemone
40 Elsie Jury - pale pink large peony
100 Finlandia Var. - white & red medium semi-double
15 Francis Hanger - white medium single
35 Glenn's Orbit - pink large semi-double
17 50 Golden Spangles - pink single gold splashed foliage
10 130 Grace Bunton - pale pink medium anemone
45 Grand Prix - red very large semi-double
40 Guilio Nuccio - pink very large semi-double
45 Hana fuki - pale pink medium cupped semi-double
140 Inspiration - pink medium semi-double
25 Kramers Supreme - red large peony
65 Lady Clare - pink large semi-double
40 Leonard Messel - pink large semi-double
80 Little Bit - red & white small full peony
10 Magnoliaeflora - pale pink medium semi-double
30 65 Margaret Davis - white & red large full peony
15 10 Margaret Waterhouse - pale pink medium semi-double
80 Mars - red large semi-double
15 15 Mathotiana Alba - white large formal double
30 Mathotiana Supreme - red large semi-double
110 30 Monte Carlo - pink large semi-double
5 100 Red Dandy - red medium semi-double
50 Rendezvous - red medium semi-double
20 Rosularis - white & red medium peony
5 San Dimas - red large semi-double
105 Senorita - pink large full peony
60 55 Shirobotan - white medium semi-double
80 90 Silver Anniversary - white large semi-double
75 Tiffany - pale pink very large loose peony
35 Waterlily - pink medium formal double
Camellia:
6 Aaron's Ruby - red large semi-double
20 Adolphe Audusson - red medium semi-double
235 Anticipation - pink large peony
60 70 Apollo - red & white large semi-double
5 Arajishi - red medium full peony
150 Ballet Queen Var. - pink large peony
20 70 Black Tie - red large formal double
30 Blood of China - red large loose peony
55 Brushfield's Yellow - white medium anemone
15 Cornish Snow - white small single in profusion
110 Debbie - pink medium full peony
20 Debutante - pale pink medium full peony
35 150 Dixie Knight - red large semi-double
50 130 Donation - pink large semi-double
35 Drama Girl - pink very large semi-double
10 110 E G Waterhouse - pale pink medium formal double
15 15 Edelweiss - white large semi-double
40 Elegant Beauty - pink large anemone
40 Elsie Jury - pale pink large peony
100 Finlandia Var. - white & red medium semi-double
15 Francis Hanger - white medium single
35 Glenn's Orbit - pink large semi-double
17 50 Golden Spangles - pink single gold splashed foliage
10 130 Grace Bunton - pale pink medium anemone
45 Grand Prix - red very large semi-double
40 Guilio Nuccio - pink very large semi-double
45 Hana fuki - pale pink medium cupped semi-double
140 Inspiration - pink medium semi-double
25 Kramers Supreme - red large peony
65 Lady Clare - pink large semi-double
40 Leonard Messel - pink large semi-double
80 Little Bit - red & white small full peony
10 Magnoliaeflora - pale pink medium semi-double
30 65 Margaret Davis - white & red large full peony
15 10 Margaret Waterhouse - pale pink medium semi-double
80 Mars - red large semi-double
15 15 Mathotiana Alba - white large formal double
30 Mathotiana Supreme - red large semi-double
110 30 Monte Carlo - pink large semi-double
5 100 Red Dandy - red medium semi-double
50 Rendezvous - red medium semi-double
20 Rosularis - white & red medium peony
5 San Dimas - red large semi-double
105 Senorita - pink large full peony
60 55 Shirobotan - white medium semi-double
80 90 Silver Anniversary - white large semi-double
75 Tiffany - pale pink very large loose peony
35 Waterlily - pink medium formal double
New Availability List
A new Availability list is done. Go to http://www.jackdawsfield.co.uk/ to Download it.
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