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    Japanese Anemone Wild Swan

    these are really easy to keep,
    and mine flowered profusely and continuously from may to december last year!

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    Nice Dave
    Do we need to all forward our details to you to claim our free plants

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    I got some of them...……… and the Bee's love them………….

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sim View Post
    Nice Dave
    Do we need to all forward our details to you to claim our free plants
    These aren't cheap either!
    RHS gold medal winners...

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    Quote Originally Posted by anne View Post
    I got some of them...……… and the Bee's love them………….
    They certainly do but are being out competed by the big rhododendron in flower atm...so that is smothered in bees

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    Quote Originally Posted by MustBeSomethingInTheWater View Post
    Dave, do you happen to know what this pink flower is?

    @10 seconds in

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    tough one that as you don't get a real good look at the leaves,
    but going on the general shape, and size a rhododenron
    i'd say it looks like it could probably be a Rhododendron ponticum 'graziella'
    lots of varieties though...
    stunning colours...

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    the wild swans open up during the day then close up and 'nod' thier heads at night




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    Thanks, yes, that does look like it, doesn't it?

    I tend to think of Rhododendrons as being enormous sprawling triffids rampantly taking over 1970s gardens, much to the owners' chagrin!

    Perhaps there are dwarf (or aggressively pruned) Rhododendrons that don't overgrow their intended size.

    I know relatively little about plants, but ever since I saw the following video (and Modern Koi Blog has also covered the same Borsch-made pond), I've been assuming that the plant in front of the camera at the time code in the link is also a Rhododendron:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=88bf4q_7JR0#t=211

    Does it look like one to you, or do you think it may be something else? Without much blooming, I suppose it's a bit harder to identify.

    Magnolia is another possibility, but I just can't make out the flowers reliably, in the video.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MustBeSomethingInTheWater View Post
    Thanks, yes, that does look like it, doesn't it?

    I tend to think of Rhododendrons as being enormous sprawling triffids rampantly taking over 1970s gardens, much to the owners' chagrin!

    Perhaps there are dwarf (or aggressively pruned) Rhododendrons that don't overgrow their intended size.

    I know relatively little about plants, but ever since I saw the following video (and Modern Koi Blog has also covered the same Borsch-made pond), I've been assuming that the plant in front of the camera at the time code in the link is also a Rhododendron:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=88bf4q_7JR0#t=211

    Does it look like one to you, or do you think it may be something else? Without much blooming, I suppose it's a bit harder to identify.

    Magnolia is another possibility, but I just can't make out the flowers reliably, in the video.
    you can have azaleas 8ft tall and rhododendrons 1ft tall at maturity.
    some of the dwarf rhododendrons are my favorites, as they tend to have a more tightly compact habit...
    where as the azaleas tend to be a bit more leggy...

    i'd agree that does look like a rhododendron in the video, the flowers are only at the axial termination of last years growth.
    where as magnolia tend flower all along the branch.
    though judging by the branches supporting it it's a very old tree....

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    Quote Originally Posted by MustBeSomethingInTheWater View Post
    Dave, do you happen to know what this pink flower is?

    @10 seconds in

    My Japanese Garden Visit, project by Kokeniwa at Hannover (insurance company) 05/2016 - YouTube
    Plant is an azalea

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    Plant is an azalea

    Well, as I mentioned, I'm no expert with plants, so I defer to other people's greater knowledge of the topic, and you may be correct, but although I know azaleas are very commonly used alongside Japanese garden ponds, the flower heads in the video I posted just looked larger than the 50p-sized azalea flower heads I've seen in so many other Japanese gardens.

    The first of Dave's pics of Rhododendron ponticum 'graziella' do look strikingly similar to the flower in the video...


    For example, here's another video with the pond-side azaleas we're all so familiar with seeing in Japanese gardens:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHwe0AlWCcQ#t=65

    Am I kidding myself that the flowers are different to those in my first video? The ones in the first video seem larger and 'blousier' to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MustBeSomethingInTheWater View Post
    Well, as I mentioned, I'm no expert with plants, so I defer to other people's greater knowledge of the topic, and you may be correct, but although I know azaleas are very commonly used alongside Japanese garden ponds, the flower heads in the video I posted just looked larger than the 50p-sized azalea flower heads I've seen in so many other Japanese gardens.

    The first of Dave's pics of Rhododendron ponticum 'graziella' do look strikingly similar to the flower in the video...


    For example, here's another video with the pond-side azaleas we're all so familiar with seeing in Japanese gardens:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHwe0AlWCcQ#t=65

    Am I kidding myself that the flowers are different to those in my first video? The ones in the first video seem larger and 'blousier' to me.
    rhododendron and azalea I.D. is difficult as there are just so many varieties.
    and they both have dwarf and large species.
    but as you mention azalea flowers differ from rhododendron and tend to be in tight clumps, not borne on stalks as is typical of rhododendrons.

    this is a closer shot from that first video right next to the pink 'plant'
    at 1.22
    it looks like a young specimen of graziella to me
    if we had a much closer shot, azalea tend to have 5 stamen in the flower where as rhododenron typically have 10

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    argh... the plot thickens!

    I still think you may very well be right, Dave, but Sim made me look again at azaleas, given how popular they are in Japanese gardens.

    and I have to admit, the shape of the flowers in these azalea videos (in Japan, but nowhere near ornamental ponds) do also look very similar:

    youtube.com/watch?v=QVZc4Gl88Xs#t=240

    youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_bc85O-PY#t=966

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    At least this discussion has led to me looking deeper, so thanks, both of you, Dave and Sim.
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    Mines just finished flowering was going to take a picture of it.
    when it flowers you can’t see the leaves at all.
    have to wait until next year !

 

 

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