We have had a relatively mild, but wet, winter in Christchurch with few frosts. Each year I judge my season by when Bambi opens and take August 10th as normal. Bambi opened today, six weeks ahead of time.
In the pots we have had a wonderful display of romieuxii and cantabricus species and hybrids. May be I’ll have some for Minneapolis next year. I have mentioned one of the romieuxii before. As the flower buds appear there are three definite levels of buds. I took the pot to our Garden group in the first week of June. A month later the pot is still a mass of flowers. I see the succession flowering as a survival mechanism. If the first flowers don’t pollinate then there are two later opportunities for seed development. Photo is a couple of years ago. This year it has even more flowers in spite of being divided and repotted.
David Adams
Hi, David, What a gorgeous pot of flowers! I looked up Bambi on Daffseek and a different cultivar shows up there, a 1 W-Y from the Netherlands before 1948. Where does your Bambi come from? Glad to hear you might be in Minneapolis next year!
Thats a nice pot of romiexii David
Hi Becky,
My message was confusing. The story was about Bambi but the addition to the story and the photo was about a clone of romieuxii that I have also flowering month ahead of normal.
I see that there is a photo of my Bambi on Daffseek.