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Gardening Question?

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ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 19 Apr 2011 19:51

Found the photo!!!!!! That is something new I have found on GR!
Certainly looks like a camellia - got my gardeners encyclopedia out - it is the height which is throwing me off.

Again we have a magnolia stellata in the middle of lawn is about 29/30 years old and still only about 5' high but a mass of flowers each year.

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 19:15

In............Success Videos and Photos

It will also be on the ten o clock news tonight!

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 19 Apr 2011 19:09

Julia - where is the photo?

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 18:28

Yes but how did the flame of my heart get amongst my sign of loveliness?

I feel a song coming on!! lol

Mauatthecoast

Mauatthecoast Report 19 Apr 2011 17:38


Looks like a Camellia to me,very pretty :O) ...they can grow from
1-12 ft.tall and come in white,pink,red or assorted.....

.....looks like you've got an extra colour PH.......and white means a sign of loveliness while red..."you are the flame of my heart" lol

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 17:06

Doesn't it look odd with the one bright flower.

Julia

Julia Report 19 Apr 2011 17:04

I have just had that thought. What about an Hibiscus, though their flowers tend to be more trumpet like.

Julia in Derbyshire

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 17:02

Actually, that is what i thought it was........a Camellia!

Julia

Julia Report 19 Apr 2011 16:59

Chris Babes, have you looked at the picture. I have even looked at it through a magnifying glass, and it still makes me think of a Camellia. LOL

Julia in Derbyshire

PS. Just having a brain wave, will have to give it abit more thought, and come back

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 19 Apr 2011 16:46

Well established plant but only 3ft high - doesn't sound like a camellia to me - mine is about 10 years old and 6-7 ft high.

Julia

Julia Report 19 Apr 2011 16:07

Prickles Babes, he ain't started yet.

Just looked at you photee. I think it is a Camellia, if that helps

Julia in Derbyshire

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 15:55

Is Merlin still tampering with Julia's waterworks?

'Emma'

'Emma' Report 19 Apr 2011 13:36

Oh no another image. lolx

Emmax

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 13:36

Pmsl!! xx

Conan

Conan Report 19 Apr 2011 13:34

I am sure that would bring a smile to his anthers Holly.

But I wasn't suggesting impregnation of any kind. A quick splash n dash around his roots should be more than sufficient.

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 13:34

Me too Emma!!

I have put a photo on of my Pinky shrub!!

'Emma'

'Emma' Report 19 Apr 2011 13:31

I am now left with a horrible image in me
head of Merlin in marigolds.

Emmax

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 13:25

Robin, are you suggesting that i impregnate it wiv me phostogen?

Conan

Conan Report 19 Apr 2011 13:18

I think I know the answer Holly.

I suspect that this plant is a male member of it's species.

As you have not spoken to this poor lonely plant for such a long time then he is obviously trying to attract your attention and win back your affections in the only way that the male gender knows how.

He is desperate for you to take notice of him.

Why not go and whisper sweet nothings into his shell-like petals and treat him to a quick dose of phostrogen.

Then who knows what he might produce for you next year !

Robin Flowerdew

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Apr 2011 13:11

Oooo errrr Julia, trouble with your water? I dont like the sound of that.........and even more so, the thought that Merlin might sort it for you!!!
Hope you got Marigolds Merlin!