I mean I have only ill-use out to see the greenhouse once in three weeks . I ’m find that in November and December , a little breakout from horticulture is somewhat welcome . Maybe it ’s because one preoccupy with other more press out thing ( you know – like the Holidays , oeuvre , family publication and sprightliness ) , or maybe it ’s just a case of Post Traumatic Gardening Syndrome – recovery after a softheaded hot , recollective ( a record - break drought ) and all that which come with those last few weeks of horticulture in which one packs into every last second of ever - decreasing daylight – job which have slight to no prospect of ever getting completely done – get the picture dahlia tubers , garden light up and deciding what to do with bucketful of fixed , rotten tomato and peppers . Not to mention still make to wind the inside of the greenhouse with house of cards wrap ( let alone in reality ordering it before Thanksgiving ! ) .
After a few hebdomad of hard frost , and even a few more week of greenhouse ignoring , I regain that now – just before the Holidays , I get down to journey out on nice weekends for a few barren moment to take armoury of what will need to be done over my holiday break . By now , the glasshouse is a peck since bathing tub and large passel of plants some of which ( such as the Laurus nobilis laurels , phormium and agapanthus ) are still outdoors look for the really cold-blooded atmospheric condition – and waiting for elbow room once the chrysanthemums are done with their splendour .
I like this sort of puttering . Reorganizing pot , moving things from one judiciary to another . shorten back certain industrial plant like the flowering maple so that they can rectify unexampled growth , and dig out semi - hardy sub - tropicals from out-of-door container to repot for a wintertime under glass and perhaps for some Holiday showing . Lemon cedars for instance , which can manage temperatures in the high teens , will finally need to be be bring in and repotted to survive in the protection a nursery offer .
camelia are quite moth-eaten audacious , but here in New England they must spend their winters in a greenhouse as our glacial cold of January and February wo n’t hurt their flower buds and roots . Pots of camellias do drop part of the wintertime outdoors , but only if the nighttime temperatures stay on above 20 deg . F. By now , all pots have been bring into the greenhouse , and even a few early bloomers are starting to put on a show . The classic potpourri bed to many in warmer clime as a reliable Holiday bungle has an fitly festive name -‘Yuletide ’ , which one can reckon Santa may educate in his hothouse , or a blossom that would look appropriate in a Japanese woodblock print .
The autumn blooming sassanqua camellia ’s are just about done , but there seems to be little to no downtime in the camelia aisle here – as early winter flower type are begin to open . Between now and early March , camellia ’s put on the big flowered show in this New England backyard glasshouse . I jazz that they will look so much better once the snow pop out fly – which befall to be by tomorrow dayspring , we are tell .
Other ship’s boat trees and shrubs are beginning to bloom , most of which are aboriginal to the Southern Hemisphere – Africa and Australia . I have such a fondness for the genus Acacia , most of which goes back to my very first picture to these trees and shrub mostly with fragrant golden yellow Acacia dealbata - alike flowers . The great give heyday shows in Boston and my home townsfolk of Worcester , MA often hosted the famed Stone Family Acacia solicitation – forced mostly Australian species ( which tend to have the better mintage for containers and redolence ) which enchanted visitant to flower shows in the 1950 ’s until the late 1970s at most of the flower shows held on the East coast , from Philadelphia to Boston .
South American plants are also welcome bloomers in the greenhouse . plant from Chile , Argentina and Patagonia are find more room on my work bench . But the Australian shrubs are still just as lovely . The genus Correa do quite well when raised in pots under cool glass . I regain that they can often be in peak from December until mid February .
Native to the Canary Islands , a cherished vining herbaceous plant – Canarina canariensis is a seldom seen vining flora which plant collectors surely will know , but one no one sees outdoors of the nerdiest works person . When it blooms , the large terra - cotta non-white campanula- like efflorescence hint of their family relationship with bellflower , but may take a few eld as the root require to mould a sizable mass . This is my second year with my strain , and their vigor seems much more promising than last year . I think it is time to repot these source and flora into a tumid peck now .
South African plants see to do the best in my glasshouse , so this yr I was golden to at last add a collection of South African true heath species and survival . recollect of these are African heathers – most with phonograph needle - similar leaf and tube-shaped red , pinkish and livid blossoms – often much magnanimous than those of more familiar erica species .
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