Our Blog

 

We hope that members will contribute to this blog by sending photos and information to:

 

 hantsags@yahoo.co.uk 

 

 

Pictures of plants that you are growing, or that you have seen elsewhere, or maybe visits that you have made to gardens, etc that other members may like to go to.  Or perhaps problems that you have encountered that others may be able to help with - it's your page, so please contribute! 

 

 

May 2011 

 

From Elizabeth Hale

 

 

 

 

 

 Elizabeth says this is her shingle garden, which is a very hot area. Finding plants for it can be

difficult, but she keeps trying!

 

 

November 21st 2010

 

From Lesley Baker

 

 

 

 

 

Scilla lingulata var ciliolata has flowered well this year.  It needs to be kept frost-free I think -certainly didn't survive outside in a pot for me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Nerine undulatum is so pretty.  Another one that I keep in the cold greenhouse in winter, just frost-free.

 

 

 

 

 

  

I was thrilled to find this Oxalis hirta flowering in the greenhouse - given to me by Janice last spring.

 

 

 

November 19th 2010

 

From Janice Bennetts

 

Some autumn-flowering plants:

 

 

 

 

 An autumn crocus - can anyone identify it? 

Thanks to Eva for an identification of C. tournfortii 

 

 

 

 

.........Or this Colchicum? 

Thanks again to Eva, who says this is C. variegatum

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sternbergia sicula

 

 

 

 

 

Cyclamen hederifolium

 

 

 

 

 and finally Hydrangea Pia

 

 

Thanks for sharing your photos Janice. 

 

 

 

 November 2nd 2010

 

From Lesley Baker

 

 I've been a bit worried about some plants that I bought recently, as it seems too late to plant them out now, and anyway, I can't find places for them at the moment!  So I decided to 'plunge' them in a polystyrene fish box, filling in with a mix of sharp sand and 4mm grit.  Hopefully that will give them just that little bit of protection to get them through whatever the winter throws at us!  I'll let you know how many of them survive!  (Fish boxes obtainable from Waitrose, and probably other supermarkets, if you speak nicely to them!)

  

 

 

 

 

 

 .........and not an alpine in sight, but the autumn colour was beautiful at Stourhead!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 13th 2010

 

From Lesley Baker

 

A few plants that have been flowering in my garden this summer....

  

 

 

 

Campanula cochlearifolia - easy to grow in well-drained soil in sun.

 

 

 

 

Campanula Joe Elliott - bought at the Rocky Flower Show in June, and settling in well in a raised bed.

 

 

 

Campanula waldsteiniana, also purchased this year, in a trough 

 

 

 

Dianthus x arvernensis made a lovely display this year, wonderfully scented too.

 

 

 

Dianthus La Bourboule, growing in a raised bed.

 

 

 

Dianthus Dewdrop, making a good display in a well-drained sunny spot in the garden.

 

 

 

Gypsophila repens Dorothy Teacher flowered well for weeks in a raised bed.

 

 

 

Saxifraga cochlearis putting on a good show in the garden.

 

 

It would be lovely to see a few of your pictures too, either from your gardens, or your holidays.......please send me some!

 

 

 

7th May 2010

 

Elisabeth Hale has posted these pictures of Soldanellas in her garden.

 

 

 

 

 

17th April 2010

 

From Lesley Baker

                                      

 

Androsace sempervivoides in bud.....         and in flower, in small trough.

 

 

 

          Armeria maritima x juniperifolia grown in garden.

 

 

 

 

               Armeria juniperifolia Bevan's grown in clay pot in garden              

 

 

 

      Saxifraga marginata var coriophylla grown  in small trough                              

 

 

 

 

 

                  Primula marginata Adrian Evans grown in pot in garden.

 

 

20th February 2010

 

From Janice Bennetts

 

 

Two Pulsatillas from Janice's garden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

30th January 2010

 

From Lesley Baker

 

 

Nothing hugely exciting in my garden at the moment, but it's so good to see the first snowdrops!  Mine appeared about a week ago. I've forgotten which one this is, but it's always early, and has good foliage too.

 

 

 

 

In the greenhouse, I have Colchicum hungaricum, and also Ipheion sellowianum flowering for the first time - at last!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm sure many of you have a few flowers coming up now - do send in your photos!

 

 

 

 

 

 

27th October

 

Meeting at Chilworth, from Lesley Baker

 

Some of the plants on the display table at our last meeting:

 

Cyclamen intaminatum, from John McCarthy

 

 

 

...and various cyclamen in leaf.

 

22nd October 2009

 

From Janice Bennetts 

 

I have found that Sternbergia sicula (pictured below) flowers earlier in my garden than Sternbergia lutea.  Has anyone else found the same?

 

 

 

 

18th October 2009

 

From Lesley Baker - hopefully to get the ball rolling!

 

There's still quite a bit of colour in my small garden at the moment, though not so much in the alpines area.

This Teucrium ackermanii has been flowering for months, though, in a small trough, and it's still going strong. The leaves of Narcissus bulbocodium Conspicuus are just coming up in front of it now - a bit close now that I see how well the Teucrium's grown!

 

 

 

Also still flowering well is Chaenorrhinum villosum Little Dragons.

 

 

 

Nerines are giving a good show now, with Nerine bowdenii.......

 

 

 

Nerine Stephanie (which I will take in to the frost free greenhouse later).....

 

 

...,and in a friend's garden, Nerine Corusca var Major - definately tender.

 

 

 

Crocus speciosus makes a good splash of colour for a short while, in a sunny spot.

 

 

 

...and finally Colchicum Waterlily does well in deep shade under an apple tree.