JEARRARD'S HERBAL
Thats enough introduction - on with the plants!
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10th February 2008
Galanthus 'Lady Elphinstone' .
If you have a taste for the eccentric, then 'Lady Elphinstone' has all the whimsical unpredicability you could want. At its best it is a delightful
double flowered snowdrop with yellow markings with a tinge of green or apricot. When she is feeling less benign, the flowers come green as the ordinary one
, and she is often found in a less benign frame of mind. I have a hundred or so flowers on her this year and so far just one of them is yellow!
If she is moved, she will come green the next year. If she is left to form congested clumps she will turn green. If she gets the vapours she will turn green
, so each yellow offering is precious. It is quite vigorous, quite lovely and completely unpredictable!
10th February 2008
Asarum pulchellum . The Asarum have barely shown a sign of life in the spring before the flowers emerge. Later in the season
this will produce creamy white flowers but this first offering has a pinkish glow. The silver marked leaves bristle with white hairs.
10th February 2008
Narcissus romieuxii .
I have been growing a few of the Hoop Petticoat daffodils to see how they manage under my conditions. For the most part the forms I have grown have been interesting
, but there have been a few spectacular moments, such as this showing of N.romieuxii which I got from Desireable Plants as a "quite ordinary"
form. If this is quite ordinary then I am looking forward to some of the others.
10th February 2008
Ypsilandra thibetica .
A pretty little perennial from moist shady valleys in China (Sichuan, S.Humman, NE Guangxi). The fat central bud has been as swollen as a little green egg in a nest of leaves
, that has now extended into a warm white burst of flowers.
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