Re: Our Garden over Christmas

> Janet B wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone.
> 
> Considering this is a quiet time of the year for flowers I was amazed
> when I went out with a pencil and pad to respond to the Christmas Eve
> posting.
> 
> So with a LARGE  brandy coffee in hand I offer you the following list
> and wish you all a floriferous and sweetly scented New Millenium.
> 
> Juanuaolla mexicana
> Mauranidia White and Red forms
> Cannas especially edulis
> tulbahgia fragrans
> Narcissus - tazettas
> Schitzostylis coccineus
> Paw Paw
> Perennial Tropaeolums - especially doubles
> Fucsia thalia
> salvia - especially elegans, confertifolia, Purple Majesty,
> cacalifolia, coccineus coral Nymph, leucantha
> Perpetual carnations
> chrysanthemums
> felicia
> Jasminum various
> Bouganvillea
> datura - several kinds
> solanum jasminoides
> Cestrum elegans
> Pelargoniums - various
> thumbergia grandiflora ,  and alata
> cyclamen coum, and africanum
> Begonias sp.
> Argyranthemum
> clereodendrum ugandense
> cobea scandens
> Mandevillea boliviensis
> Passiflora descasneiana
> Justicia adhatoda
> Various Osteospermums and roses just starting.
> Hibiscus rosa-sinense cultivars

Janet
I read your list with great interest as apart from a few plants such as
Argyranthemums, Felicia, Chrysanthemums, perennial Tropaeolums, Cyclamen
coum and the Narcissus, all your list would either be summer flowering
in my garden or couldn't be grown in the open at all. Of the latter the
Hibiscus is just on the borderline, but will flower almost year-round in
a glasshouse,  Thunbergia grandiflora flourishes outdoors in summer but
dies down to the root in winter while Bougainvillea is mzarginally OK if
it has a bit of winter shelter. One of our limiting factors is living
about 300ft above sea level in a valley in the hills. Only a few miles
away down at sea level the average temperature is several degrees
warmer, allowing the Bougainvilleas and the hardier sorts of
H.rosa-sinensis to flourish in the open garden.

I think one of the fascinations of gardening is the different pattern
forced on us by soil and climate, irrespective of our particular likes
and dislikes and the ways people achieve satisfying outcomes under their
own peculiar set of conditions..

Hope you are having a good New Year

Moira
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
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