Six on Saturday. Still January.
It ’s unusual how the most blue calendar month of the yr is so interminably long and this year we have had violent storm after storm and 24-hour interval after twenty-four hour period of stygian sombreness . But today is sunny , so let ’s make the most of it . We have plenty of winter blooms in January which return dependably every year and it is a joy to receive snowdrops , Cyclamen coum , winter aconites , hellebores and delicately fragrant shrubs such as daphne , witch hazel tree , meeting house and sarcococca . ( And each year I have to seek and think of how many c ’s sarcococca has . The reply is too many . ) But I have been blogging for more than ten years now and every January I write about the same flowers . Winter - blossom flowers are so delicate and very wanted but this year I longed for something big , blowsy , flamboyant and different .
And my compliments was grant because theSolandra maximawhich I buy as a tiny cut five years ago has bring forth three flower buds and I can scarcely contain my exhilaration . The Pianist ( who can scarcely contain his unconcern ) is taken into the conservatory at even interval each mean solar day to watch the progress of the buds . I hoped they would be undefended for this Six on Saturday post but they are not quite there yet . I shall show them when they do afford . The flowers are tremendous and fragrant too . They are pollinated by bats in the state of nature . They are certainly very jazzy . Their common epithet are ‘ Golden Chalice Vine ’ or ‘ Cup of Gold Vine ’ , both which seem very appropriate . I first amount across this plant years ago in Martinique and as I had never ascertain it before and had never ascertain such enormous blossom I was enamor . I never dreamt that I would one day have one blooming in my conservatory . It is of class , half-baked to grow a tropic plant which reach at least 12 meters ( 40 ft ) in height here in the UK . I have seen it growing in the glasshouse in Cambridge Botanical Garden but they have the outer space for elephantine climber . My plant got very big very quickly and I almost threw it out but or else I put it in a inhuman nursery each winter where it miss its leaves and looked as if it had turn a loss its will to live on . I decided that the only way I could keep it was to prune it firmly and keep it as a marvelous shrub in the conservatory in winter . And this is the event ; three beautiful fat bud . It has lovely calendered green leaves and I have to remember not to exhaust it or rub my middle with it as it is a member of thesolanumfamily and highly toxic . I believe it was sometimes used as an hallucinogenic drug in ritual in its native Mexico , presumptively by masses who liked to live dangerously .
alfresco as ever at this time of the year , my favourite works is beautifulDaphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill ’ which I would never be without as the pink flowers are so pretty and the fragrance is ineffably mythological . I wax lyric about this shrub every year , so all I will say here is that it is turn one for a wintertime garden and needs to be planted where you walk past it regularly .
Solanndra maxima
I have a new wintertime anthesis clematis this year with waxy white-hot Alexander Melville Bell - mould flowers . I produce it in a pot by the front room access as it is another plant which I savour as I do and go .
I retrieve I bore everyone with snowdrop each year as every wintertime I get ghost with them . Today , I am featuring just one and it is a variety ofGalanthus elwesii which has tremendous bloom . Galanthus elwesiihas broad glaucous leaves and it is very variable . This one appear by my compost heap many geezerhood ago and I take it with me whenever I move as it is much bigger than any of my others . It makes very showy thump as the heyday are so large .
Another winter preferent isCyclamen coum ; the little helicopter flowers depend far too finespun too bloom outside but they are perfectly stalwart .
Solanndra maxima
And in January the false hellebore are getting going and will still be looking good in March . The leave fluff the look of the flora and should have been cut off by now . The peak stand up out much well without the leaves and there is less risk of black spot fungal disease . I have cut off most of my leaf but as you see I still have some to go .
So there we have the last January Six on Saturday and next week it will be February and we will be able to jolly ourselves that spring is almost with us . Thanks to Jim atGarden Ruminationsfor encouraging us to find something horticultural to enjoy enjoy and share , even in darkest January
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