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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Post Number: 407
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 9:21 am: |    |
To get June under way here are a few Meconopsis delavayi pictures, they are just coming out.
 
We have quite a variation in flower shape and colour.
Ian Young, Aberdeen, North Eastern Scotland. |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 5:59 pm: | |
Hello,
I think you might like to see a photograph of Veronica bonarota how it grows in its native place. It grows in the southern and eastern Alps, always in limestone rock crevices at 2500 m. Sorry, the picture is not good.
Franz
Veronica bonarota
Franz Hadacek, Vienna, Austria |
Jozef Lemmens (Jozef)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 9:51 pm: | |
Hello,
Here are 2 Daphne oleiodes varieties.
Daphne aff. transcaucasica 'JH-33/97' is about 50-60 cm in height. I tried to root cuttings of this plant several times, but I was never successful.
Daphne 'vermionica' 'MESE-412'. This is a plant from seeds collected by the AGS on their MESE expedition to Greece. Is anyone else growing this plant but with purple flower tubes on the outside?
Convolvulus cneorum. Is easy in a sand bed.
Aetheopappus pulcherrimus. A nice compositae from the Caucasus.
Jozef Lemmens - Belgium - http://users.skynet.be/jozef.lemmens/ |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 10:23 pm: | |
Does anyone still grow a plant of or possess a decent photograph of Camphorosma perennis? I have a large aged cushion that was purchased under this (I must admit slightly dubious) label in the dim and distant past, but I have yet to see another example with which to compare it.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Cliff |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 10:37 pm: | |
Sorry folks, but I was away in hospital for two weeks with a heart attack,but have had two stents inserted and I am now back in working order again. so if missed any questions I will get round to them in the next few days.
Cheers.
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Post Number: 493
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 2:57 am: | |
Thankyou Franz, for the Veronica picture. As I remember my original plant, the flower heads were quite fluffy, in effect. I'm looking forward to my new little ones' blooming. It's very slow growing though.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 3:00 am: | |
Ian, can you tell me what has happened to all the Show threads? The ones with stunning pics by Cliff B and John F among others. I can't find them anywhere, going back to the home page of the site and scrolling through the different threads. I hope they haven't been removed.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 6:53 am: | |
Firstly, welcome back Michael...a 'Get Well Soon' image follows....we are glad to have you back safe and well.
Lesley, I believe you should be perusing the SRGC Shows files at the bottom of the page...perhaps we should now be asking Ian or Maggie to create an AGS Shows folder (underneath the main one of course)!
I hope to post a couple of images of Paederota bonarota this evening...one of a plant flowering at this moment in my garden and one taken last summer in the Dolomites....it is very damp and dismal this a.m., so will have to wait until later to get my camera out!
Kind regards to all,
Cliff
Still waiting Lesley...have you filled more than three sheets of foolscap yet?
Pretty primula in the garden ...'GET WELL SOON'
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 9:59 am: | |
Glad to have you back with us, Michael. Hope you are soon feeling strong again. Here we were, just thinking you were busy with some weeding or such and you were in hospital so poorly. Our very best wishes to you for better health!
Lesley, Cliff's right!
Cliff, what a good idea! |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 7:10 pm: | |
As promised this morning, I have posted a couple of images of Paederota bonarota...one taken in the Dolomites last summer and the other a poor quality image of a plant growing in a large pot in my garden in Whitworth, Lancashire, England (it was still very damp and dismal when I arrived home from work this evening to take the picture)!
Also I have posted a piccie illustrating the crimson hue of my Ranunculus glacialis flowers as they begin to fade....the pot managed to get a First prize at Southport Show just as the flowers were turning from brilliant white to slightly blush pink.
Cheers,
Cliff
Paederota bonarota (Dolomites)
Paederota bonarota pot (Whitworth)
Ranunculus glacialis - fading colour
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Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 7:39 pm: | |
Here are two large bulbs that are in bloom in my garden today.
Dracunculus vulgaris, the Dragon Arum reaches a height of 100 cm and the spathe is about 30 – 45 cm long.
Pancratium illyricum occurs at low altitudes in the central Mediterranean and is 30 – 45 cm in height when in flower.
In my bulb frame it presents no difficulties.
Dracunculus vulgaris
Pancratium illyricum
Franz Hadacek, Vienna, Austria |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 2:12 am: | |
Will get to the list over the weekend Cliff. 3 pages? You're joking. It's the full, movie length version. I guess Ranunculus glacialis could be near the top. Yesterday I thought R. semiverticillatus had a bud!!! First one in 13 years!!! But this morning when I pushed aside the snow, it turned out to be a small, round, white stone which had found its way on top of the rhizome.
Many thanks for further pics of the paedorota. I love this thing and am so pleased to have it again.
I have to go south to Invercargill this afternoon to give a talk to Southland branch of NZAGS. May or may not get there, as some southern roads are heavily under snow. I'm putting a couple of rugs, a pillow and a thermos of coffee in the car in case I spend the night on the road somewhere. The silly things we do for the sake of alpines.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 2:16 am: | |
As for Dave Toole! (If I get there, I'll stay overnight with Dave and Hilda) - When I suggested I should bring chains (snow chains) he told me not to forget the leathers, whips, handcuffs etc. Well really!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 03, 2005 - 10:41 pm: | |
Lesley
You get your thermals on girl, never mind the leather.
A few bulb pics to share.
First some USA onions.
Allium dichlamydeum
Allium acuminatum
I think my favourite Calochortus is C.pulchellus
I'm not too sure about the strange looking Scilla plumosa
Triteleia bridgesii Robinette selection
Triteleia hyacinthoides is less often seen but has lovely blue reverse and stripe
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 3:49 am: | |
I hesitate to suggest a name for your Scilla plumosa John (you know my recent record) but it is certainly a Calochortus and of the lovely "fairy lantern" group. Similar to Calochortus amabilis though mine has a purplish leaf but then it is always out in the weather, whatever that happens to be.
Regarding your VERY practical note, I'm just about to rifle through last winter's, with a view to resurrection.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 04, 2005 - 11:08 am: | |
Lesley, you've lost the place again.... you've read John's comment about the scilla as though it referred to the calochortus pic, above it!
John, that scilla is indeed a strange being and nothing like so pretty as your other offerings.
BTW.. don't tell Ian, because he'll only be encouraged, but I really like those alliums.
I would like to be able to have the Triteleia in our garden, but the weather in Aberdeen doesn't favour them, I don't know anyone here with them outside. Sadly no room under glass!
Lovely pix, thank you. |
Ian McEnery (Ianmcenery)
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Just back from a few days on the south cornwall coast, These are a few photos of how nature organises her rock garden on the cliffs
This Armeria Maritima along a wall on a cliff top this display - which the photo doesn't do justice to - was about 75 yds long and 4 feet high
This the dreaded foxglove in a stronger clour than the miffy things which seed in my garden
Silene Maritima and in bulk below
Poppies not yet in full flower
Ian McEnery Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Sorry Maggi - and John - must be the cold getting to me.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
John Humphries (Greenmanplants)
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Couple of dainty little numbers for me today.
First a little Lychnis flos-cuculi 'White Robin' for a moist spot in full sunshine.
Then Nomocharis pardanthina from 12000 in the Himal.
John H. Hampshire, South West England |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Looks like the weather was good in Cornwall, Ian M...lovely for a wee break... just love to see these flowers doing their own thing so well. it is a joy, is it not? Your poppies reminds me of a photo taken of me in a poppy field in early August 1972, just outside Edinburgh. Does this mean that Cornish poppies are at their peak always such a long time before Scots ones, or is this an indicator of climate change over the last 33 years? Bit of both, I expect!!Funny how an image can spark a memory, just like a scent. |
Robert Graham (Robgraham)
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Couple of pictures from outside - the Weldenia produced just one flower last year and looks as if it has many more to come now - what a pure white it is; and the geranium cinereum is so good this year.
Weldenia Candida
Geranium Cinereum Subcaulensis
Rob Graham, Edinburgh |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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just a few pics to get me back in working order.
Nomocharis saluensis.
Nomocharis hyb
A bed of Nomocharis Hybs
Lewisia Longipetala x Rediviva hyb white
Lewisia Longipetala x Rediviva pink hyb no1
Lewisia Columbiana wallowensis hyb
Lewisia Nevadensis x Brachycalyx hyb.
Iris Germanica Fall fiesta
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
Ian McEnery (Ianmcenery)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005 - 11:19 pm: | |
MargaretI think its a bit of both the temperature in Cornwall seldom goes down to freezing though in summer its usually lower than here in the midlands because of the sea. The poppies were only just starting as you might be able to see from the amount of buds to come.
Here is a poppy in my garden not an alpine I grant you but a beauty nevertheless - Beauty of Livermere
should have shown this one before this was from Crete in May and shows how big Dracunculus can grow out there with my better half standing by.
Lilium Macklinae
Incarvillea
Dactylorhiza Lydia bulking up
and finally Sax Tumbling Waters every few years I manage to get a display
Ian McEnery Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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A swarm of Lewisia columbiana alba hybs,
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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John, Re. Eccremocarpus parnassifolius." mid May onwards" I have checked the label and that is exactly what it says. I bought the plant from Carl Dacus plants in Dublin, and he told me it was from Chile. It is not an alpine and I suppose i should not have included it in this list.
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
Diane Whitehead (Diane_whitehead)
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The iris is a hybrid of Iris munzii, a California native that is mauve in the wild but often produces pure blue hybrids. I got the seed from the SPCNI (Society for Pacific Coast Native Iris) seedex 8 years ago, and this is the first flowering. I. munzii itself is considered endangered, in part because it is so slow growing, and apparently not very long-lived.
I have lost the name of the blue companion and would appreciate knowing it. It has long narrow basal leaves, white between the petals, and the stems keep on elongating like Forget-Me-Nots. The picture shows them beside each other. The unknown doesn't open clusters of flowers, and doesn't change its centre to yellow .  |
Anne-Marie (Samsgarden)
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Newbie, here!
I could use a little direction. Everything is exploding in my zone 8 garden Especially active right now are my cranesbills, roses, and campanula of various types. I would be happy to post a few choice pictures, but I'm intimidated by the "Rock Garden" part of the society name.
I'm not sure what qualifies for posting, and see quite a wide variety of plants, particularly in this forum.
?? Am I missing some critical info on the web site? I don't want to presume and post willy-nilly.
Any tips would be much appreciated. 
Anne-Marie, Seattle, Washington USA |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 9:10 am: | |
Post away Anne-Marie.
I think that most of us are interested in a wide range of plants but we do not have room to grow them all. I think a gardener reaches maturity when they realise that they cannot grow everything and learns to be content to enjoy plants in other gardens instead of trying to have one of everything themselves.
Let us see your garden and plants please.
Ian Young, Aberdeen, North Eastern Scotland. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 9:51 am: | |
Hello, Michael, glad to see you posting and feeling stronger. I think the point being made about your "eccremocarpus" which I re-post the pic of here, was that it is NOT an eccremocarpus at all. Eccremocarpus is in the family Bignoniaceae and this plant is surely a pea/ legume of some sort. Also, eccremocarpus are usually red or yellow, I think! They are from Chile. Perhaps there has been a label mixup. Can someone identify this pretty blue pea for us?
What is this plant? |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 9:59 am: | |
I echo what Ian Y has said about posting plants which are not strictly "alpines"... I believe that we are all pleased to enjoy a very wide range of plants on this Forum... after all, a garden of only alpines would deprive us of many delights. Many of the plants shown here are quite unknown to some of us and so it can only be a benefit to see them. So, Michael,Anne-Marie et al, don't worry, just share your lovely plants with us all!
Now, as Rob's ultra-white Weldenia has reminded me, it is Monday morning and the washing awaits!Not sure my washing will measure up!!
Weldenia candida must surely be in the running for the medal for purest white of any flower, don't you think? |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 9:40 pm: | |
I have just time to show 3 Gesneriads ( Mrs F demands her time on the PC).
Firstly Briggsia speciosa x aurantiaca
You'll be glad to know that I brushed poor old Ramberleas leaves since I took the pic.
Next is Jancaea heldreichii which needs no introduction
Lastly Ramberlea x Inchgarth , an intergeneric hybrid Ramonda myconi X Haberlea ferdinandi-coburgii
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 4:33 am: | |
Your gesneriads are truly mouth-watering John. As you remarked elsewhere, the Chinese Charita is Streptocarpus-like, and clearly is related to yours above, so, another gesneriad. I must try some paintbrushing of Haberlea pollen onto Ramondas and vice verse (or viva voce as my musical friend would say.)
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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John,
Those gesneriads are great!! The Jancaea in particular is quite remarkable. Never come across that genus before and those adorable leaves!! What sort of conditions do the ones you've shown need? I am assuming that frost free at the very least? I do grow a few Gesneriads.... Achimenes, Streptocarpus, Sinningia, Chirita (a very miniature species), Kohlerias and I'm sure there were a couple more... but I haven't tried any of the genus you mention there. Always nice to learn more.
Wonderful pics from everyone else as well. Michael, those Lewisias are amazing!! Never seen so many colours in them. I've only ever seen the most basic varieties here in Aus, although I am sure that there are a few specialist alpine growers who have collections of them. The Nomocharis are amazing.... what a collection of them. Another thing that is rare as hens teeth over here! So nice to see pics of all these uncommon (well to me at least) things up here.
Thanks everyone!!
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Harry Jans in Holland is the master at growing Jancaea heldreichii. Here are a couple of pics from has garden where he grows them in a specially constructed tuffa wall.
Harry's tuffa wall
Jancaea heldreichii
Ian Young, Aberdeen, North Eastern Scotland. |
Anne-Marie (Samsgarden)
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Thanks Ian and Margaret. Sorry to take so long to reply! I had to wade through boys playing "backyard soccer" and a child doing a report on ancient Greece to fight for some computer time!
Here's an intro to our garden. My favorite new campanula, the classic "Rosa Mundi" with our best penstemon, a pic of the front corner of our yard and a spanish lavender (they're in full bloom here, regular lavender not yet started).
I had to reduce the size so much that very clear pictures came out a bit fuzzy. Any suggestions?
Anne-Marie
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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My brain has now switched back on after the show in Edinburgh so here at last is one Cypripedium macranthos and Lilium oxypetalum.
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Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Lovelyphotos, Anne-Marie, and I have the same problem posting my pictures when I downsize so would be interested in a solution.
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
John Forrest (Jof)
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A mixed bag of things popping up now. The first came to me as Erodium guttatum but according to description in AGS Encyclopaedia of Alpines it would appear that it is E petraeum ssp crispum but beautifully marked whatever its name.
Helichrysum arwae
Oxalis nahuelhuapiensis Watson coll 1500m NeuquenProvince Chile only 1 germination tried several times to propagate it without success
Another Watson coll is Solenomalus pedunculatus interesting but flowers are ephemeral
An insectiverous plant Pinguicula leptoceras
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
John Humphries (Greenmanplants)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 07, 2005 - 11:19 pm: | |
re blurry photos, Anne and Anne-Marie
Another one for the technical chain that's coming.
If your package does it this way...
Set resolution to about 72-90 pixels per inch,(that's what your screen will show them at so no loss of definition on screen).
Set image size to about 6", (this will set the overall width of what you're going to show) ie 430-540 pixels wide.
A normal 35MM perspective will give a 6*4 picture and you then complete the process by using the JPEG compression to bring your file image size down to the 70K limit, this will vary according to the content of the picture, amount of single, solid colour etc but will normally be somewhere between 92-98% you should get pretty sharp resolution at that.
Unless you're like me and take blurry pictures in the first place!
John H. Hampshire, South West England |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Just need to press return before and after each picture so you don't need to scroll right to see everything.
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 3:15 am: | |
Super things again John and Ian, especially the helichrysum. The solenomelus is interesting to me too because I have a plant of a different species S. sisyrinchium(?) which I understand is blue flowered but in the 7 or 8 years I've grown it, I've never yet seen an open flower. They seem to open around lunchtime and be gone within an hour or so. Not much use if one is away for much of the day. It sets seed though but I can't imagine a long queue of people wanting some!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Anne-Marie (Samsgarden)
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Very helpful suggestions, John. I will try them, as well as spacing before and after. Indeed I do have many blurry ones, but it's disconcerting when the few clear ones become blurry as well!
Anne-Marie |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Beautiful things everybody...keep up the good work please.
Just a few images this week due to a paucity of 'interesting' flowers in the garden here in Lancashire.
A pair of aquilegia shots from a raised bed; a close-up of a New Zealand edelweiss and a macro of a teeny-weeny linaria (blooms 3 ctms tall) that pops up everywhere but are a delight as they brighten up any dark or shaded corner.
Enjoy this sunshine (that has suddenly crept up on us here in the north of England).
Cheers,
Cliff
Aquilegia in raised bed
In close-up
Leucogenes leontopodium
Macro of tiny Linaria species
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Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Ooh, John H , you fibber! When have you ever posted fuzzy photos? Thanks for the advice, will try it out on something. What beautiful lining on the tubes of that Linaria.
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Here are two bellflowers that are in bloom in my garden today.
Campanula lingulata and C. rupestris are found in Greece. They do well in my rock garden.
Campanula lingulata
Campanula rupestris
Franz Hadacek, Vienna, Austria |
Herman van Beusekom (Hermanne)
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We finally managed to get Lobelia tupa (from South America) into flower in our garden (it was again rain and not the frost)and it rewarded us with this beautiful picture. Cheers.
Herman van Beusekom
Groenlo. Netherlands
Zone 7/7a |
Michael J Campbell (M_campbell)
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The blue pea has now been identified. It is Psoralea Pinnata Collected by Stirton in South Africa C.H.11302 Here is the original picture and one of the mature plant. It has a strong cinnamon fragrance. Sorry for the confusion.
 
Michael J Campbell,Shannon,Co,Clare.Ireland |
Thomas M Cameron (Tmc)
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What appears to be a double flowered Rhodohypoxis has appeared beside single flowered varieties in my raised bed. It must have self-seeded over the past five years. Is this unusual? I can find no information on any double flowered varieties. |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Wonderful pics you guys, it fels like you could almost touch them (and I would be tempted to grab one or two if I could).
Thomas
Judging by the petals it looks like it is damage to the flower during bud stage and probably will be back to normal next year.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Thomas there are several double flowered Rhodohypoxis. At least 3 have been released in NZ including one called `Kiwi Girl' a bright red, fully double. Another is called `Bright Eyes' and is pink but very few people seem to have this perform well, the buds usually refusing to open properly. I imagine they have all originated as aberrant seedlings so maybe you are onto a good thing - if you like such things.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi Thomas, as Lesley says several doubles are aroung a double pink here called Goya plus the ones mentioned above but please bulk up yours as it looks great and maybe when you have several I can buu on with your name. I incude tonight a very unusual Meconopsis punicea with salmon pink flowers this was grown from our China seed plus our favourite Blue M. 'Slieve Donard' and M. Jimmy Bayne, also M. Dorothy Renton from Branklyn.
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A few more pics to share.
First Lilium nanum, a sweet tiny thing
A liitle larger Lilium oxypetalum insigne
There are one or two moments in slide lectures when you see a flower that sets your pulse racing. The first i remember was a picture of Gentiana urnula shown by George Smith. A more recent one was Roscoea humeana shown by Ron Mc Beath.
Here are 2 different colours of Roscoea humeana
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Sensational Roscoeas Mr Forrest.
A pleasure to browse this evening.
Hope you can make the lecture on Monday...
Cheers,
Cliff |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Ian (C), have you a picture of the foliage of Mec. `Jimmy Bayne'? If so, please show. I've yearned ever since seeing it and reading about it in a Journal a few years ago. I MUST get it into the country even if it means another trip to the other side of the world to bring it home. That, plus permit, re-establishing my defunct quarantine facility, MAF inspections etc etc, all up, a couple of plants shouldn't cost more than around $15,000.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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And again Ian, can you tell me something about the colour of Mec. punicea because a couple of years ago I raised around 400 and when they flowered this last Oct/Nov, about 1 in 10 was an odd, greyish, plummy red instead of the usual scarlet. A colour my mother would have called puce. Is this usual? They were NOT hybrids, true in every respect except the odd colour. And can I expect their seedlings to throw red as well as their own shade?
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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John, it's a shame you apparently haven't got access to the pic of Gentiana urnula! But the white roscoea is a nice thing instead.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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I'm a bit ashamed of the fuzziness of this pic, compared to John's. A case of too much down-sizing I think but it shows mine which I think is a bit deeper coloured than his. I find it grows to about 30cms in a sheltered pot but only half that in the garden. The black-striped seed pods are almost as good as the flowers.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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I'm fascinated by the crimping on the leaf of the white Roscoea. Is it normal for that plant?
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Here is my latest rare plant which is flowering now it is a recent collection of Lilium macliniae best known here as 'The Scottish Lily' the origonal collection is a pale pnk but I think this is superb.
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Anacamptis pyramidalis in the greenhouse.
Anthony Darby, Dunblane, Perthshire. |
Ian McEnery (Ianmcenery)
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Here is Anchusa Caespitosa from Crete which I am growing in a 2 foot clay drainage pipe in mostly a gravel mixture. This method I understand was pioneered in the Birmingham Botanical Garden and seems to be successful so far with a large amount of growth. Lets see how it copes with the winter. Has anyone got alternative ways to grow this.
Here is Roscoea Jeffrey Thomas
and finally Sarmentia Repens
Ian McEnery Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands |
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Anne
The crimping on the Roscoea leaf was only on that one and I have no idea why. I have posted your Corydalis seed.
Anthony
Lovely Anacamptis
Ian
That is very dark L.macklinae and rather nice. I was given some seedthis year of a dark pink so hope it is like yours. I find it grows ok for me in a pot as does Nomocharis but dwindles when planted out.
Here are some Nomocharis aperta which stays more or less the same from seed but some variation is shown
A mariposa type Calochortus venustus
Can anybody ID this Gladiolus which has popped up in the garden and I don't remember planting it but may have come from seed. It is only about 25cm. Could it be G. atroviolaceus?
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi Lesley, i am almost certain that if your meconopsis punicea are mixed shade rather muddy etc then you most definately have hybrids the salmon pink one I posted I have shown to Chris Grey Wilson and Chris Brickell who visited yesterday and they have never seen any colour variation except hybrids. The two Chris's wee here after a RHS Joint Rock meeting in Edinburgh looking at Meconopsis, M. Jimmy Bayne got an A.M and so did M. Barney's Blue with M. Slieve Donard getting an F.C.C so this was a first and a wee bit of history. |
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Alittle while ago somebody posted about Saxifraga Southside seedling but I have lost the thread(in more ways than one). The following might be of interestbecause of its lineage. I got a cutting of This S. Southside seedling from Beryl Bland( the well known silver sax queen) who got it from Lawrence Green (the botanical artist) who got it from Percy Picton. I think it has much better colour than most seen under this name.
Note from Moderator Young: John, do you mean the late Lawrence GREENWOOD, botanical artist and valued member of the SRGC, along with his wife, Lilian? (We are lucky enough to have quite a collection ofhis watercolours- a joy everyday)
Ian Young
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Ian Minty (Ian_minty)
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Hi folks, I'm back again.
I started a new job in February and I haven't had much time since then, what with the screaming wife and three kids.
I let the 2 oldest kids choose a plant each to take in to the SRGC show at Aberdeen las month, they were really delighted when we got a first and a second for their 2 plants.
This was tempered with my wife's dissapointment when the tea lady told her that they weren't open to the general public yet, only exhibitors. Irene pointed out that we've been showing on and off for the last 8 years.
Irene's comment was that they're not used to younger exhibitors.
Or was that a dig at me for being the "auld mannie" that's into gardening.
Anyway, here's some pics from my garden this weekend.
Got to rush supper's ready. |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi lesley, sorry for delay but here is picture of Mec. Jimmy Bayne showing foliage etc.
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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John, about your saxifrage Southside seedling it looks like what we have as Southside Red the flowers are bigger and stems long arching, and plant only produces a few new rossettes, I could be wrong |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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My profuse apologies to the Minty Family for their shock at not being recognised in the Tea Room for the exhibitors they are in Aberdeen!! It must be said that most exhibitors do not arrive with glamorous wife and giggle (yes, giggle!) of little girls with them, so you could perhaps forgive the error ! It must be said that the more "young" folk like Ian and his family the club can attract, the better, That is for sure and something that all show secretaries, let alone group convenors, are wrestling with all the time! I do hope that Irene managed to obtain her free tea and buns eventually, Ian. Why didn't you raise the alarm sooner? You know your wish is my command... well... almost!
Glad to see the Minty garden is flourishing ... hope you are enjoying the new job, too.
Cheers,
Maggi in Aberdeen
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