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  Kirsty Blair April 21, 2010 at 11:21pm

  Hi Anne,
  its does surprise me how hardy some of the plants have been this yr, your bulbs look nice and healthy! I was walking round my garden tonight and there are some things that look so much better than last yr even after all that snow/frost - my rhubarb is going mad at the moment and is about ready to be cut - yum!
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  Dave Sewell April 22, 2010 at 10:16am

  Yes this winter has been a really odd one and has exposed many of the plants that we'd started to take for granted as being, actually, not very hardy!
  Having said that I have a few pots of agapanthus that I've grown from seed taken from Bryher on the Scilly isles. You'd think that hardiness wasn't programmed into their genetics but they've almost all survived being frozen down to minus 12 in the Cotswolds! I now have some hope that they might even flower one day!
  Dave
  www.gardenmaker.wordpress.com
  www.the-gardenmakers.co.uk
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  Anne Hardcastle April 22, 2010 at 10:23am

  Sounds like my seedling Clematis, given to me in a smallish pot by a friend and not transplanted before the winter arrived......now sporting 4 fat buds ! Lucky you Cotswolds and Scilly Isles.
  Anne
  
  Dave Sewell said:

  Yes this winter has been a really odd one and has exposed many of the plants that we'd started to take for granted as being, actually, not very hardy!
  Having said that I have a few pots of agapanthus that I've grown from seed taken from Bryher on the Scilly isles. You'd think that hardiness wasn't programmed into their genetics but they've almost all survived being frozen down to minus 12 in the Cotswolds! I now have some hope that they might even flower one day!
  Dave
  www.gardenmaker.wordpress.com
  www.the-gardenmakers.co.uk
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  Dave Sewell April 22, 2010 at 2:16pm

  Hi Anne,
  I agree. On reading it does sound rather self-indulgent!
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  Kirsty Blair April 22, 2010 at 9:50pm

  I also have a clematis armandii 3yrs old and has never flowered - its now covered in lots of white flowers!
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  Green Giant Gardens April 23, 2010 at 7:42am

  My Hardy Green Banana (Musa basjoo) has been in the ground for 3 years. Each winter I wonder if it will make it through. This year I was very doubtful. The stump was covered in straw and fleece, and at one point when it was really cold, the cushions off my old sofa.
  
  Well you can imagine my delight yesterday when I dicovered six new shoots appearing from the base.
  
  Now thats what I call a hardy banana!
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  Will - WB Design & Construction April 23, 2010 at 8:29am

  Just come back from America and if you think we have a pollen problem here you would hate it over there, it was like 5mm thick in places and that is no exageration.
  
  Ace Garden Services - John said:

  One down side to this years amazing late spring display is that the pollen readings are off the scale. Thank god for hay fever tablets, - do they work on volcanic ash ?
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  Anne Hardcastle May 3, 2010 at 9:13am

  Amazing !
  
  Green Giant Garden Services said:

  My Hardy Green Banana (Musa basjoo) has been in the ground for 3 years. Each winter I wonder if it will make it through. This year I was very doubtful. The stump was covered in straw and fleece, and at one point when it was really cold, the cushions off my old sofa.
  
  Well you can imagine my delight yesterday when I dicovered six new shoots appearing from the base.
  
  Now thats what I call a hardy banana!