On this very mild Thanksgiving Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , where the temperature climb into the 50 ’s , I took a walk of life early in the morning around the garden , so see what was happening . Even though we had a human foot of snow two weeks ago , the garden is still in the conversion body politic , between fall and winter . Many of the trees that had leaves when the snow cam , still are admit their farewell , since they froze on the trees while they were still green , and never the right way disengage .
icing go on during this moist , cold days of fall , never as courteous as it look in the British horticulture magazines , since we rarely get the proper nautical air combined with freezing temperature , but on some sunrise , when the humidity and dew points are just good , we get some hoar frost forming on the edges on leaves .
Once the sunlight came up , the air warm up quickly . I worked a little on the Turkish boxwood hedging , give them their final trim for the yr ( best meter to trim Turkish boxwood is June and September ) , but a belated November clipping does n’t ache them , and it keeps the garden look tidy for the winter . At least the nicer part of my garden , near the nursery . You just do n’t need to see the rest of the garden !
In the greenhouse , much is chance , especially with the South African bulbs plant . Above , the specie or raving mad flesh of clivia caulescens , peak under a bench . This congener of the more fanciful Clivia miniata , is a tumble - blooming specie , with green - tip heyday that swing .
A large specimen industrial plant of Haemanthus albiflos , another South African bulb works , prime in the niche of the glasshouse , with its snowy and chicken shaving - brush blossoms . This pot is getting too large , and I am think about dividing it by and by this wintertime , but since one rarely visit a pot this large with this mintage , I ’ve been holding off on dividing it .
Since 2008 , when I first sow the semen of this Daubenya , I felt that I may have get the improper source , since this genus typically has leaves that are held much downhearted to the ground , almost like a Massonia , but also like some of my other Massonia seedling , these Daubenya wo n’t form the pie-eyed , dense foliage until the medulla matures . Now that I can see a diminutive mite of the flower , I know that these are in fact , aright mark as Daubenya capensis . Hopefully , with careful fertilization and division this wintertime , these bulbs will look likethis(scroll down on this Pacific Bulb Society page to see what the leaf should look like ) by next November .
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