From Tiny Seeds to Primulas Galore© Gay Klok
Dec 17, 1998
I sat for a while in the country garden "Kibbenjelok" last weekend. The sun is at last shining in Tasmania, after our wettest October and November on record. The sky was blue and the birds, having reared their chicks, were not too busy to share their songs. I don't have much time to just sit and soak up the perfumes of the garden and the joy of the early summer flowers but I took the time, it was such a great day. Looking around at the dashing and beautiful long borders filled with the Asiatic Primulas, I wondered at the miracle of so much beauty coming from the tiny seeds we brought back from Scotland. Let me tell you the story
My daughter and son-in-law, both medical doctors, had been working in England and Scotland for four years. Many times my daughter had written and suggested we come for a visit. I would answer her and write that we would love to but would not be able to for several months as one or the other garden was having an Open Day and we could not leave them. The years passed and again there came another plea from the other side of the world. Kees and I did the right thing, got our priorities right and arranged a holiday for ourselves looking at the great gardens of England travelling North to Scotalnd. Finally we joined the family in Scotland where they had organized several days of visits to the most wonderful Scottish gardens. Our first day ended up with Cluny House Garden and then we were going to a very exclusive [read high priced] country house, famous for its game cooking, to dine and sleep the night. Cluny House garden is not one of the large, formal, manicured estates we had been admiring but not absolutely loving, on our way to Scotland. It was late afternoon [my favourite time in a garden] and we were the only visitors. The garden was a huge bouquet of Primulas, Nomocharis, blue, pink and white Meconopsis, splendid trees and Rhododendrons. Masses of these wondrous beauties were on either side of narrow, wandering walk ways. A charming, beautiful garden, it just stopped me in my path, as I gazed with delight all around me. The other family members were chatting on much further up the path. Coming out of my reverie, I heard their voices drifting back to me and they were chirping merrily of the food they were going to eat at dinner that night
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Lynda, while you are at it, why not blue foxgloves? To go with your other blue perennials?Trying to get down to Kibbenjelok, have to change the bed sheets yet! But must go out and check on what
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I'm wondering whether there's a microclimate where they are, in front of our house, relatively shady and cool.The flowers are so beautiful, they're the pale pinky-green ones. And I don't think it
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I wonder if Lynda's hellebores haven't mutated?? Propagate those summer blooming hellebores and they may be as good as a blue rose in making you immortal!
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-- posted by CarolWallace
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Lynda, that is odd. Our weather patterns are certainly playing up the last 6 months. Christmas roses are seeding now and won't come into flower until early or mid Winter. I shouldn,t worry, it is p
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But I have extended my definition to include all shades of purple, and a few bluey-pinks. Unfortunately, most of the blue plants clash with each other! I noticed this morning that my hellebores
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