Re: First Rains and Early Fall bloomers

Wow. That's the first I've ever heard of Umbellularia
being grown as an exotic ornamental. Marvelous
species.
-Jason in California

--- Anthony Lyman-Dixon
<lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> david feix wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if others are experiencing unseasonally
> early
> > blooming of the typical fall/winter things? 
> It also helps that
> > raccoons and squirrels don't immediately destroy
> the
> > new plantings, as they are determined to do in my
> own
> > garden. 
> > 
> > Sorry for the ramble, just thought I'd share some
> > thoughts on what is blooming now.
> > 
> >England's a bit weird too, but then it usually is
> but the olive that has done nothing whatever for
> these past 25 years, yielded a cutting five years
> ago which last month gave us our first ever baby
> olive which is very exciting. (comments on the lines
> of "Oh for heavens sake, get a life" are definitely
> not invited)  Again the saffron which produced two
> flowers over the same time span has been a great
> mass of colour this year and we sold the lot. And
> the Colquhounia which sometimes manages a manky
> little flower at the base of the branches, has this
> year been a blaze of crimson. So what's gone right?
> No fears of global warming at Arne Herbs, two nights
> ago we had thick
> ice on everything and the Caribbean thyme waiting in
> the van to go to
> market the next day, went black and soggy as did the
> Mirabilis.
> Meanwhile we have been pumping out the gas trying to
> keep the Aloes,
> Cymbopogons and Salvias from going the same way,
> David's comments about
> squirrels reminds me that the Umbellularia has
> fruited for the first
> time ever too and I have a great race every morning
> to get to the seeds
> before the squirrels which usually win. Sometimes
> the cats get the
> squirrels which evens the score a bit but the deer
> defeat me; anyone out
> there got a sabre-toothed tiger in need of a good
> home?
> 
> Anthony
> 


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