Droopy
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Western Norway
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Too boring in my own garden |
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There's nothing much going on out there, apart from the late spring flowers still at it, lots of aquilegia with fairly dull colours and some bushes, so I went for a trip. Mother's garden usually holds oodles of colours all through the season, and I was right.
It's azalea time:
And rhododendron time too. This is R. camtschaticum:
This is a white, small one that looks like R. camtschaticum, but I forgot to ask:
A couple of other minis:
Big ones:
Oxalis adenophylla:
Geranium:
New Zeeland edelweiss:
Meconopsis betonicifolia white:
The iris are starting, a sibirica:
A mass planting of Trollius, daisies and Centaurea:
Wonder where I can make space for a heap of those azalea?
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eileen
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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Droopy if I found myself in your mums garden I'd want to live there!! What wonderful colours and so much in bloom. One day I hope my garden will look just like that but somehow I doubt it ever will.
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Droopy
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Eileen.  I lived there, and now I'm trying to create my own paradise. I haven't got the same dedication to my plants I'm afraid, so I guess we're two doubting our garden's future then.
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eileen
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I'm back to have another drool over all those wonderful plants. Do you know the name of the mini rhododendron with the purple outer petals and the red inner ones? I'm finding it very hard to resist the temptation to break into a garden centre NOW for one just like it. 
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Droopy
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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If it's the blueberry-coloured one with bell-like flowers you mean, it's a Rhododendron campylogonum. It's got a sister too, called R. campylogonum var. charopoeum:
They're pretty cool, the flowers look like they're modeled in wax.
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tschnath
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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They are all so stunning. I really like the rhodos and the azelias. They are out now here also. I don't have any space for them, but one day I will make some. All the others are pretty also, I've never seen anything like the New Zeeland edelweiss before, I like them. I like them all actually. Thanks for sharing.
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Netty
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:49 am Post subject: |
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I'm speechless too Sjoerd! Droopy, I think if I was in your mothers garden I would never leave.
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Droopy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: |
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Thanks all.  She's out there all the time, weather permitting, and it shows.
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Biita
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Holy Moly!! I didn't know there was so many colors of azaleas. They are all very beautiful!
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Droopy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:16 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Biita. There are lots of colours of azaleas, the variety is amazing. These are the ones she found room for.
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Sherry8
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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Beautiful...the colors are so great...tell your Mom she has a gorgeous garden..
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Droopy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Sherry. I don't think I will tell her, she might get an overinflated ego.
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