JEARRARD'S HERBAL
Thats enough introduction - on with the plants!
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... out in the garden.
28th September 2008
Nerine 'Purple Robs' .
The Nerine season has started with the usual improbable display of pink bravado. This one always bothers me - the colour is fantastic
, but the name always trips me up. I am convinced that it should be 'Purple Robes', but I maintain it as it was when I got it, on the
offchance that it was named after Purple Rob!
I spent some time on saturday photographing the collection on display at Wisley - next week would have been better, the flowers were only
just opening, but you have to take the chance when it arises!
28th September 2008
Tricyrtis 'Imperial Banner' .
One of the newer cultivars of Toad Lily. This one has good flowers and striking white variegated foliage. My plant
reverted with enthusiasm through the winter, and I must knock it out and split the variegated parts from the green before I lose it.
Other than that it has been a faultless performer tolerating abuse and still flowering freely. I admit that it engages me intellectually
rather than emotionally. I like it, I enjoy it, I poke around it keeping it free of weeds as far as possible, it is a source of great interest,
but I wouldn't shed blood to defend it from a hungry herbivorous toad eater.
28th September 2008
Cyrtanthus sanguineus .
While I was away, strange things were happening in the greenhouse. When I left on Friday, there was a short swollen flower spike emerging from the ground,
and this wonderful orange trumpet was waiting for me when I returned.
Better in the shade than in full sun, it seems to do well in a lightly shaded greenhouse. It might survive in the open garden, but I don't think it would prosper
, and I don't see any point in growing plants so that they barely cling to life. Much better in a pot where I can see it in the pink!
28th September 2008
Hedychium densiflorum 'Kalimpong Gold' .
Hedychium densiflorum is a variable species, and a couple of years ago I started collecting together the variants. This one came from
KobaKoba shortly before they closed, and is the darker of the two orange-yellow forms they named. In the sunlight it is a beautiful clear orange, with darker
tones towards the edge of the petals.
It flowered here last year for the first time, and I was a little underwhelmed, but this year it has been stunning!
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