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So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Rose Petal on 21st June 2010, 8:21 pm
etc........ 
Love to see a few piccies of your other Winter blooms 
Love to see a few piccies of your other Winter blooms 
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Rose Petal on 22nd June 2010, 9:45 pm
few I took today...
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Simon on 27th June 2010, 3:43 pm
Cylcamen brighten up the garden down here at this time of year 
We buy them in pots and once they stop flowering plant them in the garden and they keep coming back up year after year
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Rose Petal on 27th June 2010, 4:38 pm
nice piccies, you'll have to give me some tips on taking good pics 
Mine are slowly coming along and yes same here buy as an ornamental and then into the garden, they are really easy to grow from seed as well 
Mine are slowly coming along and yes same here buy as an ornamental and then into the garden, they are really easy to grow from seed as well
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by Simon on 27th June 2010, 6:41 pm
I hope they will start to self seed in the garden too.
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Ozrosarian on 27th June 2010, 10:12 pm
Way back in Europe cyclamen used to grow in the wild, next to my grandma's home. They had an exquisite colour. But they were nicely fragrant too. However, I've never found fragrant cyclamen again. I cannot find anything here in garden centres either -- they're all offering ornamentals, big flower heads, different colours, but zero fragrance. Anyone knows anything about fragrant, dainty varieties in their pale pink colour?
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Simon on 27th June 2010, 10:37 pm
I have a miniature species cyclamen somewhere.. must look for it to see if it's still around. If not there is a hellebore nursery down here that also sells these different varieties of cyclamen.
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Balinbear on 27th June 2010, 10:51 pm
This really werid. I have never taken any notice of cyclamens before and here you are talking about them and today my wife came home with one!
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Simon on 27th June 2010, 11:06 pm
I really don't like them as potted plants Gary... but in the garden they are wonderful. They look amazing in deciduous garden.
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Simon on 27th June 2010, 11:11 pm
Oz... Do you have a Facebook account? Here is a link to the hellebore nursery's Facebook page... the link to their website is there as well:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1039602993#!/pages/Elizabeth-Town-Australia/Elizabeth-Town-Hellebores/352041825496?ajaxpipe=1&__a=6
They do mailorder too but you might have to ask them specifically about their cylcamen.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1039602993#!/pages/Elizabeth-Town-Australia/Elizabeth-Town-Hellebores/352041825496?ajaxpipe=1&__a=6
They do mailorder too but you might have to ask them specifically about their cylcamen.
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Re: So What Do You Grow In Winter For Colour ?
by Abbi on 28th June 2010, 1:03 am
I have cyclamen, penstemons, pansies, polyanthus, erigeron, hebes, alyssum, bedding begonias, gazanias and geraniums flowering now. Also a few confused nasturtiums delphiniums and lavender hanging on. Even a couple of azaleas and I don't think its their time either.
Also one lonely hoop petticoat and a snowflake (what are they thinking?)
Roses still flowering sparsely are the Mayflower, Leonardo da Vinci, Pierre do Ronsard, Friesa, Europeana, Victoria Gold, Lilian Austin, red flower carpet and Baron E Rothschild.
Also one lonely hoop petticoat and a snowflake (what are they thinking?)
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