First winter flower

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Re: First winter flower

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Here are a couple of my second generation seedlings. One has excellent deep colour. Even the stems are dark red.
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Re: First winter flower

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That's quite intense Mike.. do you think it might be Beni Chidori..?
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Re: First winter flower

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Not Benichidori because I grew it from seed from crosses that I did but it seems very close to it. https://www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/prun ... -tree-p504
You have one of these. When it comes into leaf you can recognize it from it's small reddish leaves :yes:
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Re: First winter flower

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Spring comes later in Canberra - my white P. mume is still only budding out:
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I bought a single pink recently - local, but flowering madly:
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It's too lolly-pink en masse:
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It will probably end up this size....
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Some other flowers that may be interesting. Camellia transnokoensis has tiny flowers, flushed buds, and small leaves - it could be ideal.
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But its habit looks thin and spindly - I will be growing it in the ground for a few years, and I suspect I may have to change my ideas about strong trunks...


Despite my amazing ability to kill the damn things, I remain fascinated by Grevilleas - there are some very interesting leaf forms and flowers in the rarer species. they often come from WA, so my chances here are not good. I'm doubling up the drainage grit in the mix for these. Here's hoping...

Grevillea levis has very fine detail, lovely colours in the stems, and delicate flowers:
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Grevillea acropogon has scarlet flowers that are just starting to bud up - the leaves are curious:
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Grevillea preissiana has very delicate foliage and fine red flowers with gold accents - they have now gone black, before forming seeds.
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I come unstuck with Grevilleas by pruning and root-pruning hard - I'm hoping to get something interesting from these, and a couple of Grevillea australis I'm trialling, by pretending to be someone much nicer than I really am...

If anyone has tried any of the oddities, I'd like to know how you went.

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Re: First winter flower

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First flowers opened today for what I think is a standard apricot, Prunus dulcis.

It’s getting a trunk chop and heavy root reduction in the next few weeks, once I’ve enjoyed the flowers. Don’t tell it, though.
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Re: First winter flower

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my white mume has finished for the year, now the double pink starts up.

No real scent to the double pink sadly, interesting flower though
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Re: First winter flower

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An almond I collected last year is showing off with some blossom.
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Re: First winter flower

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Winter is nearly over but the plum has finally put on a modest show.


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Re: First winter flower

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Wisteria getting ready to absolutely explode with flowers. Estimating 80-100 flower buds ready to go - I started counting and gave up. Fingers crossed the rain over the next couple days doesn't do too much damage to them.

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Re: First winter flower

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Nice. You don't have a place where you can keep it out of the weather?
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Re: First winter flower

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treeman wrote:Nice. You don't have a place where you can keep it out of the weather?
Kicked one of the dogs out of its kennel for the next couple days, she will need to share kennels with the other dog hahahaha. Priorities?

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Re: First winter flower

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Well it's definitely Spring here now. Not a great photo but you get the idea.

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