Norfolk

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Diane Blyth: dianenblyth@gmail.com

Please note that we are now having live meetings at Hethersett Village Hall and they will take place from 2-5pm.

Some meetings will be on Zoom and members will be notified as appropriate.

Local group members will be sent a link to each Zoom meeting a few days before the meeting. Other AGS members are welcome to join our meetings and can request a link from Roy Mellor at roymellor@icloud.com.

All meetings are on Saturdays unless otherwise stated

Norfolk AGS Newsletter Summer 2023

Norfolk AGS Newsletter Early Winter 2023

Norfolk AGS Newsletter Summer 2022

Norfolk AGS Newsletter Early Winter 2022

Norfolk AGS Newsletter July 2021

Norfolk AGS Newsletter Early Winter 2020

Norfolk AGS Newsletter July 2020

Norfolk AGS Newsletter January 2020

The East Anglia Show has been scheduled for 11th May 2024

It will take place at Connaught Hall, Station Road, Attleborough, NR17 2AS, located just off the A11.

Members’ Pictures

Maggie Burman’s at least 15 year old Physoplexis comosa, looking good again this year.

Spring plants in Phil and Diane Blyth’s garden

Corydalis solida

Paeonia cambessedesii

Prunus incisa Kojo No Mai

Saxifraga and Scilla sps.

Tulipa turkestanica

Saxifraga Allendale Charm

Narcissus bulbocodium Arctic Bells

Narcissus Elka

Saxifraga x biasolettoi ‘Phoenix’

Cyclamen coum

Corydalis malkensis and Crocus tommasinianus

Phil and Diane Blyth write:

One of our seedling hellebores first time of flowering

Daphne Jacqueline Postill and Correa Marion’s Marvel were both unaffected by the snow

Plants growing in Ray and Coral Mitchell’s garden.

Arum hygrophilum

Crocus sieberi ‘Bowles’s White’

Crocus sp.

Eranthis hyemalis

A very snowy Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin’

Iris reticulata ‘JS Djit’

Daphne Jacqueline Postill & Correa Marion’s Marvel have been flowering since September in Diane and Phil Blyth’s garden.

Clematis cirrhosa ‘Freckles’ in the snow in Diane and Phil Blyth’s garden.

Summer in Maggie and John Burman’s garden.

Romneya coulteri

Romneya and Cotinus

Leptospermum in trough

A good year for the Wisteria

Part of the Alpine Bed

Caroline Woods and Roderick Woods saw Corokia cotoneaster growing very well on The Old Man Range in New Zealand on their trip there in January.  The pictures show their bush flowering on 27th April 2020, and the same bush with berries on 1st December 2020.

Phil and Diane Blyth write: Daphne Ernst Hauser in the crevice garden is in it’s third flowering this year.

Cyclamen are all over the garden. I love the leaves as much as the flowers.

Does anyone know what this Crocus might be?

Fuchsia Tom Thumb

Autumn flowering snowdrop – Galanthus reginae-olgae?

Nerine undulata f. crispa

Hamamelis x intermedia Arnold Promise

Caroline Woods and Roderick Woods write: I expect we all have similar plants in flower.  Cyclamen, Crocus, Colchicums, and a few Sternbergia.  Some will have snowdrops but we don’t! We also have many fungi at the moment.  I particularly like the Splash cup fungus, Cyathus strictus .  The ‘eggs’ in the nests are spore filled bags attached by thin threads.  Splashed out onto foxglove leaves they look like tadpoles.

Aconitum hemsleyana

Crocus cancellatus

Colchicum cupani

Crocus goulymii

Cyathus strictus

Old Nerines

Autumn Colour in Phil and Diane Blyth’s garden

Acer dissectum

Sternbergias

Enkianthus campanulatus

Correa Marian’s Marvel

Amaryllis beladona

Plants in Phil and Diane Blyth’s garden

Albizia julibrissin rosea

This is the first year that it has flowered

Crassala sarcocaulis. Helichrysum selago major. Oxalis squamata

Eucomis autumnalis

Daphne hendersonii Ernst Hauser

Lewisia longipetala Little Plum

Silene schafta

Convolvulus sabatius

Oenothera speciosa Siskiyou

Campanula x wockei Puck

Crevice garden

Freesia laxa red form and Allium carinatum subsp pulchellum

Gypsophila Rosy Veil

Lillium nepalense

Caroline and Roderick Woods write from their West Norfolk garden:

Calandrinia umbellata in its second year.  Too intense for eyes and camera!

Meconopsis Hensol Violet that Caroline has grown and watered.

What happens indoors with time and neglect. Echinopsis eyriesii I am told. My younger son brought a piece home 38 years ago, and left it when he left home.

Plants in Margaret Tyler’s garden

Osmunda Cinnimonea in the only (slightly) damp part of the garden.

Meconopsis Quintuplinervia in a trough for safety.

Indigofera Howellii loving the drought.

Siberian Irises Lady Vanessa and Mad Hat would welcome rain, as would I.

Plants in Peter Lyle’s garden

Fibigia clypeata also known as Roman Shields

Hieracium pilsoum

Lewisia George Henley

Linum ‘Gemmell’s Hybrid’

Nectaroscordum siculum and Libertia grandiflora

Two plants in Caroline and Roderick Woods’ garden

Gladiolus illyricus which is seeding around gently.  And rather more spectacular in colour, Tulipa sprengeri.  The seed was sown in 2013 and this is their second season of flowering.  In the autumn we will lift them and try to establish them in shrubby areas.

Three miniatures grown by Margaret Tyler

Adiantum aleuticum subpumilium

Hosta Dragon Tails

Hosta Holy Mouse

Phil and Diane Blyth’s garden

Arenaria montana

Cornus Florida

Daphne calcicola and Phlox sp.

Daphne sp.

Epimedium Amber Queen

Gentiana acaulis Belvedere

Iris sp.

Jovellana violacea

Lamium sandvasicum

Paeonia Molly the Witch

Paeonia officinalis

Paeonia teniufolia

Penstemon laetus ssp. roezlii

Phlox sp.

Primula Wharfedale Bluebell

Rhodohypoxis Candystripe

Trillium sessile californicum

Margaret Tyler’s garden

Anemonella thalictroides Oscar Schoaf and Betty Blake

Dodecatheon media album

Dwarf Iris Snowtree

Epimedium Pink Champagne

Pacific Coast Iris

Caroline and Roderick Woods’ garden

Arisaema sikokianum

Mertensia maritima

Osteospermum nanum?

Rhododendron prinophyllum

Don and Sally Smith’s garden

Our frog pool, – really bought to contain a mini lemon water lily – but between three to six frogs use it for sunbathing daily as the weather warms up. Sally enjoys a mid morning coffee on the garden bench beside them as they stare intently, in the water, heads only

Tiarella sp.

Variegated Stachyurus praecox inside the front garden and Phlox, Aubretia, plus seedling Geraniums etc, on the low
flint wall outside, mostly enjoyed by our friendly daily dog walkers

Phil and Diane Blyth’s garden

Clematis moonbeam

Cornus Florida

Penstemon laetus ssp roezlii

Phlox bifida Ralph Haywood

Pieris Silver

John and Brenda Foster’s garden

Asarina procumbens growing through greenhouse wall

Buglossoides purpurocaerulea

Camassia and Lunaria

Iris Gingerbread

Lamium orvala

Brenda’s week’s work taking off hellebore seed heads

Tulipa Spring Green

Vinca Jenny Pym

Wren’s nest outside summer house

Maggie and John Burman’s garden

Gentiana verna

Androsace sp.

Ballerina apple

Plants in Margaret Tyler’s garden

Epimedium Space Wagon

Erythronium Rosalimd

Narcissus Solveig’s Song

Primula Dunbeg

Diane and Phil Blyth’s garden

Aubrietia Elsa Lancaster

Collection of Sempervivums

Gentiana occidentalis

Tulipa Honky Tonk

Armeria juniperifolia bevans variety

Clematis moonbeam cascading down the side of crevice garden

Daphne hendersonii Ernst hauser

Raised bed

Rock garden

Hardy Gerbera and Tulipa saxatilis

Sanguinaria flora plena

Trillium ovatum x rivale

Trillium recurvatum

Phill and Lesley Webdale’s garden

Fritillaria acmopetala

Fritillaria involucrata

Fritillaria pontica

Prunus amanogawa

Staphylea colchica

Don and Sally Smith’s garden

A group of our koi happily feeding after their long five month fast

Daphne cneorum from Robin White with Omphalodes cappadocica

Exochorda x macrantha The Bride

Seed pods of Clematis nepalensis

Galanthus triplet and Narcissus sp. grown by Phil and Diane Blyth

 Two Epimediums grown by Peter Lyle

Epimedium lishihchenii

Epimedium fargesii Pink Constellation

Plants in Margaret Tyler’s garden

Iris suaveolens

Fritillaria meleagris Eros

Dwarf Iris

Anemonella thalictroides Cameo

Plants (and dogs!) in Phill and Lesley Webdale’s garden

Fritillaria pallidiflora

Magnolia Canary Bird

Narcissus

Plants in Maggie and John Burman’s garden

Erythronium White Beauty grown by Angela Prager

Anemones, Fritillaries and Trilliums in John and Brenda Foster’s garden

Anemone pavonina

Anemone robinsoniana

Anemone seemannii and a Primula vulgaris

Anemone pavonina

Fritillaria imperialis lutea

Trillium albidum

Caroline and Roderick Woods’ Erythroniums

From Ian Young’s e-book on Erythroniums we now know we have one clump of E. oregonum and two of E. californicum, not three or E. oregonum!

E. oregonum

E. californicum

From Don and Sally Smith

Their garden, happily swamped with colour

The new golden foliage on one of our acers by the pond, with Betula jacquemontii towering behind

Muscari Ocean Blue grown by Angela Prager

Plants in Roy and Sandra Mellor’s garden

Tulipa biflora

Narcissus sp.

Narcissus sp.

Helleborus sp.

Two plants from Don and Sally Smith’s garden

Corydalis Temuliflolia ‘Chocolate Stars’

Nandina domestica

Gardening in John and Brenda Foster’s garden

Pruning trees

Preparing to plant potatoes today

Helleborus Party Dress

Edgeworthia chrysantha and Fritillaria imperialis

Double daffodils, hellebores, fritillaria meleagris

Abies nordmanniana Golden Spreader

Plants and views in the garden of Brian Ellis and David King

Plants in John and Brenda Foster’s garden

Leucojum Gravetye Giant

Magnolia Leonard Messel

Primula vulgaris Vanilla Cream

Romulea tempskyana

Fritillaria imperialis Rubra – One Bulb bought in 1948 at Myddleton House

Fritillaria thunbergii

More from Caroline and Roderick Wood’s garden

Two Anemone blanda pictures – A few corms and 15 years of freedom

Caroline’s Trillium rivale after 12 years in a pot

Plants in Peter Lyle’s garden

Narcissus Snow Baby

Oxalis acetosella var. purpurascens

Plantago malato-belizii

Tulipa polychroma

Viola biflora

Maggie and John Burman’s garden

Lachenalia aloides grown by Sandra Mellor

Saxifraga Phoenix grown by Sandra Mellor

Plants in Ray and Coral Mitchell’s garden

Trillium chloropetalum

Sanguinaria canadensis

Muscari ‘Valerie Finnis’

Muscari sosnowskyi

Muscari macrocarpum

Muscari latifolia

Iris bucharica

Helleborus Dark Form

Corydalis malkensis

Anemone blanda

Allium paradoxum var. normale

Plants in Phill and Lesley Webdale’s garden

Chionodoxa giant blue

Fritillaria imperialis lutea

Fritillaria michailovskyi

Saxifraga sps.

Hellebores and Daffodils in John and Judy Wilson’s garden

Plants in the garden of Brian Ellis and David King

Tulipa humilis in Caroline and Roderick Woods’ garden

Pulsatilla sp. in Caroline and Roderick Woods’ garden

Soldanella montana – Peter Lyle

Chrysosplenium macrophyllum – Peter Lyle

Linaria vulgaris f. peloria – Peter Lyle

Oxalis stipularis – Peter Lyle