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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 3:54 pm Post subject: Galloping Galanthus |
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I took my kitchen compost container for a walk down the garden to the compost heap this morning. On the way I noticed my first snowdrop in flower - with a few others ready to open up. Daffs are up too, of course, and the crocuses. It's good to see the new flowers beginning as the old ones fade - the cyclamen are going over now, though there are still plenty of flowers on the jasminium nudiflorum.
Further investigation revealed the buds swelling on the witchazel and flowers ready to open on the mahonia. This year I'll try using the mahonia fruit, now I know it's edible and I might try the fruit on the Amelanchier, too. It will be nice to have some early garden produce. Later I might even try the berries from the Berberis Darwinii. I've heard they are popular in the Middle East. |
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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3129 Location: Kildare
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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Daffs in flower in Croppy acre Dublin at the moment. |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Costa del Letterkenny _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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Mews Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 07 Feb 2015 Posts: 31
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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I've had Cyclamen coum flowering in my garden since the start of the year
Iris reticulata has just started flowering.
No sunshine this weekend for any crocus to open. These are crocus chrysanthus 'Fuscotinctus'
Galanthus woronowii are only beginning to get established.
This picture of snowdrops is from a few weeks ago, they're still in bloom.
and the eranthis has been and gone.
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