tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post8518147739986092989..comments2024-03-28T03:06:56.796-07:00Comments on Prairiebreak: A Himalayan gem: Bergenia stracheyi Panayoti Kelaidishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-129570941636941922018-01-10T08:57:17.430-08:002018-01-10T08:57:17.430-08:00I meant Buddleja ""Sungold" or &quo...I meant Buddleja ""Sungold" or "Sunglow" maybe the same plant but with different names. It has beautiful scented yellow flowers and not the common Buddleja with flowers of boring blue purple shades. I also want garden centers start to sell Forsythia with beautiful white flushed pink flowers and not the bloody common Forsythia with boring yellow flowers. They should also start to sell the really hardy Bitter Japanese Orange Tree that can grows outside all year round, can be planted as a hedge. It has small leaves, lots of scented white flowers and lots of small scented orange fruits about toe size and long sharp thorns to keep intruders out. Normal citrus trees will not grow outdoors (or even indoors!) in England. But no garden centers sell this bitter Japanese orange trees in England. The Dutch only use its cold hardy rootstock to grab normal citrus trees on it.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-13818696656681998292018-01-01T14:29:28.605-08:002018-01-01T14:29:28.605-08:00It sounds as though you have the same plant I obta...It sounds as though you have the same plant I obtained nearly 40 years ago from Eric Hilton, near Bristol: it grows much faster if pampered! Mine at home on a hungry crevice is likewise pokey.<br /><br />Garden centres alas sell pretty much what wholesalers provide them and nowadays that's mostly named clones that are proprietary. Many of the plants are free trade: no one makes money on them so no one wants them (since anyone can grow them). If a plant is proprietary--they have a monopoly on it (so to speak). I think that explains the quandary we find more and more in a mass market anywhere.Panayoti Kelaidishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-73615642078856358402018-01-01T08:19:30.963-08:002018-01-01T08:19:30.963-08:00I have a small clump of this dwarf Bergenia in my ...I have a small clump of this dwarf Bergenia in my garden in England. For years I tried to find out its name - google searching: miniature bergenia, dwarf bergenia ect. without success! Then just last week, I found its picture in the latest issue of an English gardening magazine and they call it Bergenia stracheyi! At long last! Mine has white flowers and spreads very slowly. Maybe it's because it is planted in flat damp ground and not in a stoney rockery where it would be happier. You rarely see this dwarf Bergenia for sale in garden centres. Like the white Forsythia, or the yellow Budhlia 'Harleqin' ; very rare, always see Budhlia plants with flowers of boring blue shades in garden centres. Don't know why! Don't they want to make money?! Or maybe they garden centres don't know much about plants?!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-77893938173569126192015-11-11T06:44:46.045-08:002015-11-11T06:44:46.045-08:00That you for your sweet note, Christi: I envy you ...That you for your sweet note, Christi: I envy you your sojourn next to Savill: I think one of the most enchanting and amazing times I've ever had anywhere was at that garden in late April walking through endless acres of tiny daffodils (each species with its own meadow) in the golden afternoon light--with almost no one else there. Heaven must be like that! (Otherwise, I'll be content in the other place...).Panayoti Kelaidishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846898350006673316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-35297136463672645872015-11-10T23:30:35.663-08:002015-11-10T23:30:35.663-08:00Excellent … as always. Many thanks.
Excellent … as always. Many thanks.<br />Cliff Bookerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285536514190301233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134648325048818615.post-22767556150745933142015-11-10T22:57:53.928-08:002015-11-10T22:57:53.928-08:00My dear Mr. P ~ I am terribly remiss about stoppin...My dear Mr. P ~ I am terribly remiss about stopping over here to write a comment for I tend to read your blog (always!) in a reader & therefore don't visit 'in person.' But tonight I had to click over because dare I say, I have NEVER read a post anywhere about Bergenias and I do so love them! These photos are divine and you have even taken me down memory lane with your Savill Garden shot because in the late 80's myself & the Mister were living basically right next door .... I tromped thru that garden endlessly. <br /><br />Anyhoo, I shall never get to the Himalayas so am living vicariously ;>)) I'm especially intrigued about that Polygonum/Persicaria for that's the family that indigo dye comes from and as I'm learning, most things in that family give up some sort of color on cloth. I could blither on endlessly but I'll spare you.<br /><br />Lovely to pop by again ... Dang fine stuff over here! Best wishes from your Pacific Northwest seed pal,<br />ChristiSweetpeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000313813136860758noreply@blogger.com