This result indicated the possibility of crossbreeding ornamental crabapple during the blooming period, although there were no later flowering plants among the existing hybrid combinations. Conclusion At present, the method used to breed new varieties of ornamental crabapple mainly involves open-pollination...
a) Purple flowering raspberry / rosebær (Rubus odoratus), a species which is often planted as an ornamental in Norway, usually a single clone so most are not aware that is has tasty fruit. With this in mind I germinated seed from the NARGS seed list, sown in January 2022 which germ...
Woody ornamental plants comprise a large number of genera, species, and cultivars that display a huge amount of phenotypic diversity. New introductions mainly result from natural existing variation or from selections in open-pollinated populations. Syste
Soyk S, Müller NA, Park SJ, Schmalenbach I, Jiang K, Hayama R, Zhang L, Van Eck J, Jiménez-Gómez JM, Lippman ZB (2017) Variation in the flowering gene SELF PRUNING 5G promotes day-neutrality and early yield in tomato. Nat Genet 49(1):162–168. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.37...
5. Trachystemon orientalis, early flowering borage; see my blog post “Trachystemon orientalis, a new Edimental for the dry forest garden” https://www.edimentals.com/blog/?page_id=1269 written having discovered this was edible on a trip to Bulgaria: ...
To prolong the flowering period, a mixed sowing model of early, middle and later flowering varieties in a ratio of 1:1:1 or 1:3:1 has been applied, and has been shown to achieve higher economic value by prolonging the total rapeseed flowering time (over 5 days, even over 7 days) in...