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Date:Feb. 20, 2024 Submitted by: Ginny Pearce, Michigan - Email: floragin@gmail.com Discussion: Here's a some new photos for you to post of my Flutterfest (Pearce-G. 2012) which I feel epitomizes candelabra branching. I'm still thinking about a good definition but what does it for me is that the many branches of what I consider candelabra style are unusually numerous, ladder-like but also not in a singular plane, and widely angled from the main stem as they progress up the scape. They are most often sub-branched as someone else has already mentioned. The wide distribution of the branches allows for all the flowers to open freely too. Ginny's Website is: https://www.gardenpathperennials.com)
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Garden: I moved to Spain some 12 years ago, mainly for the weather. Now that I have lived here for a while, I would add: because of the people who are genuinely friendly and still care about friends and acquaintances. Here I discovered a lot of new plants that I had little or no knowledge of. This is one of them, called Ceiba speciosa (Floss Silk Tree). It is considered one of the most beautiful trees in the world. In Spain it is also known as "palo borracho" or "drunken stick" probably because the trees look dishevelled and distorted as they age. (François has authored Website Eurocallis in many languages for years at: http://www.eurocallis.com)
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Garden: Palms grow by themselves here and we have lots of 'em. My favourite is the Canary Island Date Palm (pictured below). They form a big fat trunk that resemble an elongated pineapple. In nearby Elche in the Huerto del Cura you can see hundreds of exotic palms of different latitudes and other curious plants. This garden has an international tourist projection.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Garden: If I were sent to a deserted island but given the choice to take 1 plant with me it would be Caesalpinia gilliesii (pictured below) – it flowers up to 3 times a year for me.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Garden: The place where I live could also be called Rose Country – here they thrive on neglect and flower almost all year round - Long before Nicole's UNDEFINED appeared on the daylily scene, rose growers on the Continent were already working on dotted, stippled and streaked varieties. I particularly love SIMSALABIM hybridised by Kordes Roses in Germany. Flowers on one and the same bush can be very different.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Garden: A few years later Kordes came up with ABRACADABRA. That one too fascinates me.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Garden: Two more things that do very well here are BOUGAINVILLEA and LANTANA. I have planted several of them along my walls.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Daylily: Yes, I grow daylilies too. I lost the majority of my daylilies to the September 2019 floods but I was so lucky that Stefano Peroni's DEEP IMPACT survived the catastrophy.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Daylily: James Townsend's CINCH is one that I'll never do away with.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Daylily: A few years ago Jens-Peter Frohreich from Germany gifted me with his JP'S-ACINONYX. Flowers abundantly for me.
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Date:Feb. 8, 2024 Submitted by: François Verhaert, Spain - Email: fraver14@hotmail.com Daylily: My own I'LL-NEVER-FORGET-YOU was named in remembrance of the UK's Ted Czaicki, an avid daylily lover who sadly fell victim to COVID-19.
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Date: August 4, 2023 Submitted by: Don Church, Maine - Email: don@bluehillcountrygarden.com Seedling: I had a nice hot red spider bloom on an upright five foot scape which was the cross of (Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco x Red Viper) yesterday. One of the flowers was a polytepal diameter 11.5 inches. Nice when a plan comes out as figured. (Their Website is: http://www.bluehillcountrygarden.com)
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