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Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Howdy All,
I think time for a new thread as the other one getting somewhat long for anyone on dialup. I can't call this late spring as we are still in early spring here in some ways, with the larger daffs only just starting.
Anyway, thought I would post a couple of pics.....
Cerinthe major - yellow form. Probably as common as muck to many of you northerners but pretty uncommon here in Aus.
Clematis cirrhosa with a bee passenger.
Clematis nepalensis which has been flowering now for a couple of months. The bees and the honeyeaters just love both of these Clematis and are always wandering about them.
Iris x sindpers is a juno iris. Not in my garden but in my friend Lyn's place here in Canberra. Lovely enough to post the pic here despite it not being mine. Seeing these makes me even more jealous of your Juno iris growing prowess Lesley!!
This Narcissus cordubensis is just not up to Graham's wonderful standard so I haven't posted it in the Narc thread. Still not able to get proper contrasts in the yellow flowers!
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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But these are excellent photos Paul, especially the Clematis pics. Yours put mine to shame I'm afraid.
Iris x Sindpers seems greyer and greener here I think. Maybe it's a matter of climate. There's a nursery down the road in west Otago called Blue Mountain Gardens. They mainly do bulbs for sale and for cut flowers. All the stock of Sindpers in the southern hemisphere came from there as well as what has been in the UK and elsewhere since world war 2, when it was lost in Britain. It was restored from Blue Mountain Gardens. For many years, way before the second WW, it has been grown in thick rows in a paddock like so many cabbages. Any listed in OZ by Marcus Harvey come from there (packed and exported by my own fair hand).
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Hi, Paul, glad you are feeling a bit better again and many thanks for starting new page... it was about time! Great new pix, even better than before. Thanks! Love the clematis.
M. Young, Aberdeen North East Scotland |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Lesley,
I was meaning that I am jealous of the fact you manage to grow the irises so well when they completely escape me. I think the flowers are wonderful and find that even more so every time I see another one that Lyn has flowerted successfully. She doesn't do anything particularly tricky for them, just gives them plenty of sand and keeps them drier for summer, but when I did that with bucharica (which is supposed to be the easiest) it died out for me. I tried it again with a bit more summer water and then again some other way which I can't recall right now but lost them every darn time!! I guess I need to try some of these from seed at some point and see if they acclimate to my garden from the start instead of having to sort themselves out once they arrive here as mature plants from Marcus H! LOL
Actually, which we're on the subject of Iris..... Iris magnifica alba seed which you sent me recently has first shoots up at the moment. Very pleased with that. Any particular instructions I should have for those as babies?
Maggi,
Thanks! New camera so still getting the hang of it. Not easy to shrink the darn things down from their 2.5Mb size to fit here and still have some clarity though!! *grin*
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Paul you'll probably find your yellows are OK out of full sun. I have the same problem with yellow and white
Mark, Antrim. Northern Ireland. z8+ |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Excellent picture Paul I particularly like the C.nepalensis. What camera did you finally choose?
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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John,
The Clematis nepalensis is a wonderful plant, flowering in the dead of winter for months. As mentioned great for honeyeaters and I just love the flowers. Seeds around a bit and I find a few plants in the garden but never a problem. I get quite a LOT of seedlings (majority are montana seedlings) of Clematis through the garden which isn't surprising given how many different ones I have here.
I'll post the camera information in the Digital Dillema thread to save posting it in different places around the boards.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Here are a few more from the garden today. First up another Juno iris, I. warleyensis, first flower from seed.
Othonnopsis cheirifolia has foliage rather like a seaweed in texture and feel. It's a member of the daisy family though, from Africa.
Draba rosularia (?rosularis?) is a good and quite easy bun which covers in bloom once it gets going.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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I love the snaky habit of Euphorbia myrsinites and the beautiful combination of seagreen and limegreen.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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And to finish, a couple of early rhododendrons. Rhododendron leucaspis
and Rhododendron `Snow Queen'
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Great stuff Lesley!! Love that Juno iris!!
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Doreen Mear (Doreen)
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First time this little Romulea tetragona has flowered for me. I love the bright magenta flowers - not much bright pink around this time of year, it's all yellows and blues until the phlox comes out - but also the leaves, just the shape of a Phillips screwdriver.
And also the feathering on the reverse of the petals.
Hm, previewing this message, I need to get to grips with aperture priority and depth of field with this new camera, only that might require more grey cells than I've got left!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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You'll soon have the full hang of the new camera, Doreen, you're not doing so badly at the moment, are you?
The romulea is a hairy little thing, isn't it?Don't you just love the way these modern cameras can let us see so much more than we can with the naked eye?
M. Young, Aberdeen North East Scotland |
Doreen Mear (Doreen)
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Margaret, you must be referring to the greenfly on the sepal - even with contact lenses and/or reading glasses I hadn't spotted that till now! Out with the spray tomorrow.
And it's not only getting the hang of the camera, it's getting to grips with the computer manipulation as well, but it keeps me out of the pub on a Saturday night!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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No, Doreen, I meant all the little hairs along the leaves! I only noticed the aphid now!
And I prefer not to spray, rather squish, it's organic control!
M. Young, Aberdeen North East Scotland |
Doreen Mear (Doreen)
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Difficult to squish when you can't see what you're squishing!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Wonderful pics Doreen!! Isn't the colour of the Romulea intense!!
I'll try to post some more pics soon. I now have a new computer which handles my camera, and unfortunately just after I bought it my old hard drive on my old PC died, taking everything with it...... all my email, all my pics from years of taking photos with my old camera. Everything gone I think!! Taking it to a computer specialist today to see if I can recover some of it. I don't even have people's email addresses any more so if you have been in contact with me it might be worthwhile sending me an email again as I don't have any addresses any more.
These things are sent to test us I guess!?
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Paul, I have to tell you - no doubt many already have - that the first rule of computer use is BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP everything you want to keep for future reference. I guess many of us learn the hard way!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Just two pics today. The first is the lovely Romulea sabulosa and my half dozen bulbs this year are giving only 2 flowers. Well 1 actually because I dripped the frost cover on the pot and broke off one bud. (Dropped, you drip!)
And Sebaea thomasii which is usually a lovely mound of yellow, richly perfumed bloom but it has just been shifted from a pot into a raised bed and needs a while to recover its equilibrium. Better by next year.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Lesley,
Have been trying to back up for a while now byt my CD burner had stopped working. That was one of the things that catalysed the purchasing of the new computer...... the problems with the hard drive arose only when I took to drive to a friends computer to try to take the stuff off it onto the new computer.
So in this case you could actually say that the only reason this problem occurred is BECAUSE I tried to back the darn stuff up!!!!!
Believe me, I would have bene backing up if it was possible.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
dave toole (T00lie)
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Paul --I've had a few computer problems as well.A computer guy took it away last weekend and gave it a 'stomach pump' as he called it!!!. He also reviewed a few settings and boy have things improved . I had managed to save all my photos of field trips to a CD before he arrived..This was lucky for when the computer was returned ,all shots in My Picture folder were deleted.
Lesley --I'm really pleased you posted that photo of Romulea sabulosa.I thought i had lost it however seeing the foliage in your photo hopefully confirms that i still have it growing in my alpine house unlabelled.
Doreen --I also have Romulea tetragona flowering now ---ex NZAGS seed sown 07/03,(about the time i went through a South African bulb seed craze),for the first time in a pot.No point in posting my photos. Your pics are a lot clearer anyhow.
It's winged leaves are unusual for sure.
Dave Toole.Invercargill.Bottom of the South Island New Zealand .Zone 8. |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Doreen and Lesley
Love your Romuleas. And Doreen you put a lot of the Brit women to shame, I wonder how many could describe the shape of a Phillip's screwdriver.
I will just go and lie low for a while until the pent up fury of the women folk dies down.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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John....Only the ones actually married to A.Phillips!
O.K. I will be on the hit list as well now. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Spare our blushes Cliff!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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OI CHEEKY LOT! Some of us do know one end of a screwdriver from the other! Anyway, I thought Doreen WAS a Brit!??
Anne, North Yorkshire, England |
Doreen Mear (Doreen)
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Not only WAS I a Brit, but still am!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Doreen Mear (Doreen)
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John - Don't think we were ever actually introduced but when you were judging you might have come across my name on a card or two at an AGS Show or two, under my married name of Hinchliffe.  But the ex got custody of the Phillips screwdriver so I've had to buy my own!
Lesley - I had the Romulea sabulosa (lovely colour)a couple of years ago but it didn't survive the winter here. Rather than buy another I'll look out for some seed - I tend to agree with I think it was Paul saying seed-raising leads to better survival - cheaper too, me being a thrifty Yorkshire lass as well as British!
Dave - I've just ordered some seeds from Silverhill for the first time, trying my luck with some South Africans. Re your kind remarks about the clarity of the pictures, I've just discovered two more sharpening tools, one on the camera and another on the computer software, so not only will we be able to see the hairs on the Romulea leaves, and the greenfly on the sepal, but, Margaret, look out for the flea on the greenfly's leg!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Howdy All,
Well apparently they can recover at least some of the hard drive..... should know how much and what in particular by tomorrow. I now have to work out how to edit my pics as well..... I have always used iPhoto that came with my old PC and so I don't have the installation disks etc. Got to work out how to do it with other packages now so that I can edit down and post some pics as I have been taking plenty recently with the new camera. Lots of bits and pieces flowering now, including the first of the Trilliums (which incidentally is a couple of rivale, with cuneatum and albidum in bud) and numerous other cute little bibs and bobs.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
John Forrest (Jof)
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Doreen- Yes I do remember and now for the formal introduction. "How do you, it's a pleasure to meet you".
Don't fret too much about the lost Phillips now that you have got a new 'sharpening tool' Do keep us informed about your experiments with these and it might be worth putting it on the Digi Camera Thread.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Doreen Mear (Doreen)
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Happy to meet you too, John!
First day of spring in about 15 minutes' time - how many years it will take to get used to spring starting on September 1st is anybody's guess!
And as for going digital, the neighbours will wonder what on earth I'm up to in the shrubbery, with yelps of 'Wow' one minute and 'Aaargh!' the next. I'll post at least one of my 'aarghs' on the digital thread, just as a warning to any other novices!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Now come on you two. This is not an introduction service! Back to the serious stuff.
Two trilliums and two irises. Overall I don't have wildly exciting trillums and find I don't after all, need every single variant ever seen. But Trillium chloropetalum is always good value and reliable.
Last year I bought this lower one as T. cuneatum. Perhaps someone would kindly confirm or deny, a la les Americaines when faced with NZ's attitude to nuclear shipping. Well they refuse to of course.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Nor am I quite positive that the iris below is Iris magnifica alba as it is slightly different from the two variants I already have under that name. I'm sure, however, that it's not the blue I. graeberiana under which name it came to me as AGS seed, in 2001. Gorgeous all the same.
I. magnifica is just that. Magnificent! And deliciously scented too, as are many Junos, in the style of Viola odorata.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Lesley, I'm really envious of your Juno iris collection - bet you're going to Tony Hall's forthcoming talk, market or no market!
On the British theme, how's about some red, white (well, whitish) and blue, on the first day of spring.
Pulsatilla ex 'Papageno'
Helleborus x sternii 'Blackthorn strain' which has beautifully marked leaves - when they emerge. The winter leaves look a bit tired at this stage.
And an occupant of my miniature garden, which would be going to the NZAGS Spring Show except it's three weeks too early, Primula marginata 'Drake's form'
With such a mild winter behind us, and a spell of very warm weather, all that will be going to the ball will be autumn gentians, everything else will be over!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Doreen,
Interesting Pulsatilla! It has fringed flowers?
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Doreen, I reckon the junos would do well with you. When Tony was here last (2000) I carted him around Central and the morning after we stayed at Olivers' in Clyde, he looked up at the hills back of the town and said it looked like the back end of Afghanistan! It does too, and junos love really stony, harsh-looking conditions. I'll miss the 5 days of the NZIS convention with him but will definitely go up to Chch for the talk. That's a Thursday.
Odd though, my P. marginata `Drake's Form' is still in tight bud!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Paul: Yes, the Pulsatilla is fringed; nice and compact too. I've a few different varieties of pulsatillas, but I would say this is my favourite.
Lesley: I've got a few one- and two-year-old seedlings coming through, graeberiana, willmottiana alba, and nusairiensis, for instance. How long do you reckon it takes before they are likely to flower?
Also, would the bucharica I bought from you last year be OK in the open garden - I've kept it in a pot till I dissuaded the local rabbits from tunnelling under my raised bed. Not owning a shotgun, I resorted to a hosepipe down the burrow at regular intervals; now our street has the cleanest rabbits in town, but they don't burrow at my place any more!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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I am finding that most species taken 3 to 4 full years, but perhaps depending on their growing conditions. My soil is good and when I plant out bulbs I usually mix in a bit of osmacote as well. On the other hand junos maybe don't like things TOO rich. Tony talks about 6-10 years for many of the rarer species but with the greatest respect to him, I think most will take a much less rigid regime than he permits them. I. rosenbachiana for instance, flowered in less than 3 years for me and so did what I had as kuschakewiczii, but in the event, is probably svetlanae. The taller kinds like magnifica, vicaria, bucharica will take 4 with the odd one in a batch coming to light in 3 so it's not such a long term and agonizing wait as it could be or we are led to believe.
Bucharica should be hardy considering where it comes from but I'd never like to be too dogmatic about what will survive with you, compared with here. However, I'm planting out all my taller species as they look so good in the open as they clump up.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
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Hi Lesley & Doreen
Great pics it seems strange to see the Trilliums starting to flower when I have just collected seed from mine. Your T. cuneatum falls within the general description of features in Fred Case' book but it's so general that you might get a donkey through. Especially love those Iris and you certainly seem to knock them out in an alarmingly fast rate.
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
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Lesley - thanks for the info. I'll try the bucharica outside (presumably you have more and won't say no to selling me another if it dies!) and since I have two or three small graeberianas, I'll take a chance with one in the open. The soil here is pure glacial grit, wonderfully well-drained, but with no humus in it whatever, so we'll see how they go.
On my scree, Ranunculus calandrinioides is producing its first spray of flowers, but it's looking tired and is but a shadow of its former self. It's been in the same spot for 3 or 4 years, so can anyone advise me, can it be resurrected if dug up, split and replanted in fresh soil? R. x arendsii next to it has been flowering for a month or more, and is still looking happy, but maybe calandrinioides is hungrier? Would post photos but we are also having our September storms!
This time of year though it's like Christmas every day, checking the seedpots for new arrivals. YeeHar, today there's a green molecule in a pot of R. glacialis, so since the local gourmet slugs feasted on the last crop, this is now surrounded by a parapet of pellets!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
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A lovely 18C today--Flowering in the alpine house-
Dionysia aretiodes bevere
In the new scree bed i constructed earlier this year--
Primula aureata
Elsewhere in the garden Erythronium umbilicatum--
A Romulea sps.grown from seed (label lost)
Iris winogradowii
A few early Trilliums--
Trillium angustipetalum with a red edge to its non flowering bracts?
Label states this is Trillium chloropetalum ?
In amongst a collection of 22 planted troughs which i received as a gift earlier this year numerous smaller Trilliums--
A Trillium relative-- Scoliopus bigelovii
And finally Trillium rivale
Dave Toole.Invercargill.Bottom of the South Island New Zealand .Zone 8. |
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Your plants are all looking very happy and healthy, Dave; I like your Scoliopus, and the rusty red anthers on that erythronium. What amazing generosity on someone's part to give you 22 planted troughs, you must have been over the moon, and on tenterhooks all year waiting to see what was going to come up!
Doreen Mear, Wanaka (Middle of South Island) New Zealand |
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Dave
Great pics. I think Scoliopus is very attractive but what a stinker. Definitely a peg on the nose job.
I think your Primula is P.aureata fimbriata (forma)
John Forrest, Blackpool, North West England, UK |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Doreen,
After my experience Ranunculus calandrinioides does not like division. I increase this beautiful Ranunculus with seeds. By the way, in my bulb frame it is a weed, to many self seedlings.
Franz Hadacek, Vienna, Austria |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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John F. : I despair of you! You photograph a huge rhododendron at Biddulph and "never thought to smell it" when the fragrance should have been deliciously all around you yet you are quick to damn one of my favourite plants as being a stinker when you need to get down on your belly to get your nose to the thing!! Really!! I admit that it does smell a little "doggy" but it is so beautifully marked that one hardly notices that!
You must make more effort to get your nose in gear for all the good smells around you, before you start beating up on little gems that whiff a bit!! There! Consider yourself told off!!
M. Young, Aberdeen North East Scotland |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Absolutely agree with you Maggi, regarding John's olfactory apparatus. One of the first rules of assessing a new plant - for me anyway - is take a good sniff. It's amazing how many plants are beautifully perfumed, even if only lightly. Oxalis lobata for instance. So get down to it John.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Franz, you should not have talked about self-sown seedlings of Ranunculus calandrinioides because you must now expect requests for seed from both Doreen and me. We have just a single clone in New Zealand and not a particularly good one at that and it never sets seed in spite of appearing on local seed lists each year. The seed donated is very thin and non fertile. I have divided mine occasionally with success but have now lost it altogether through two dry sumers and the inability to water thoroughly. Hokonui Alpines who list it occasionally must divide theirs too, to increase stock. So Franz, when you have some seed available, may we beg some please? R. x Ahrendsii does well here but again, needs a lot of water to keep it in good heart.
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Back to the pink buttercup for a moment, I have often read in UK plants book and catalogues that one should see a plant in flower before buying and select the best forms. This is the case apparently with R. calandrinioides and Trillium luteum, as examples. Likewise, to replace non-flowering stock of Iris danfordiae with new, fat bulbs each year. Well, all I can say to both those scenarios is - Chance would be a fine thing!
Lesley Cox, Lower South Island, New Zealand |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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