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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Post Number: 83
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 7:27 pm: |    |
No this is not an April fool this is a Narcissus of sorts.
Narcissus eystettensis or 'Queen Anne's Double' is a mutated form that has been grown since around 1600 (that is not 4pm but the year 1600AD).
The closer you get the worse or better you like it!!!
If you do not think of it as a Narcissus it may be ok.
What do you think ? Do you like it ? or Hate it?
Answers to the forum please. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Post Number: 105
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luv it! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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continuing with Narcissus here are some of mine.
'Colleen Bawn'
N. cyclamineus
'Elka'
'Little Beauty'
'Little Gem'
'Minnow'
'Oz'
'Toby'
'Toby', 'Little Beauty' and 'Oz' will be going to the Dublin show along with some species Tulips |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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These are all good flowers, Mark. I esp. like Colleen Bawn and Elka. Good luck at the Show in Dublin and safe journey. We're off to Stirling on Saturday, not much for the competitive classes but we're taking a few pretties for a display. Ian's giving the Easter Lecture to entertain the folks while judging goes on. Hope the weather is nicer than at present so we all have a good trip and the show gets lots of visitors! Anthony Darby won't be there, he has been consumed by his monster caterpillar,shown in Alpines General page of the Forum, I hear. He shouldn't have picked it up with his bare hands!!
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 10:07 pm: | |
Elka starts with a darker trumpet which fades with age. I'll take a photo of a fresh flower tomorrow. Margaret Glynn went green with envy when I told her it was 'Candlepower' |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 10:09 pm: | |
I just went and checked the thermometer which reads +10 just now at 10.15pm |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Well, she would, wouldn't she? I could have believed it myself if you'd told me that. Is it the same sort of size as Candlepower? It does look quite dainty.
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 10:26 pm: | |
Mark, we have to get a life!! Your post has made me trot outside to see what the temperature is here in Aberdeen. The rain has stopped. it's quite windy and the thermometer reads 0, plain zero. I'm looking on the bright side, for someone like Clay, in Alaska, it's probably -20 or worse! |
Clay R. Koplin (Claykoplin)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 4:22 pm: | |
Okay, Margaret, I'll take the bait. You're close on the temperature. It was bright clear and -14C night before last, the coldest night of the year, by the way, our April Fool. Last night was a different story with an Aleutian Low moving in and raising temps to 4C. It is blowing 40-60 kilometers per hour right now, and raining heavily. I have been dying to post my first picture, and will try here. I have been too embarrased to post pictures of the mundane commercial bulbs I've been blooming though they're all firsts for me and I'm excited as can be. Instead I'll post my new greenhouse (still under construction) and the fresh meter of snow we got over the last two weeks. It clearly shows what's blooming in Cordova, Alaska today: Absolutely nothing
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, April 02, 2004 - 11:24 pm: | |
'Elka' stands only 3 inches high at the top of the pedicel. This is a newly opened flower.
Some other goodies from today are
Scoliopsis halii
Narcissus 'Douglas Bank' with my finger in for comparison of size
Narcissus 'WP Milner'
Trillium rivale 'Roseum' AM form from Harold McBride
and lastly N. romieuxii flowering outside in a raised bed where I was told it wouldnt survive
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Well monsoon deluge here today with thunder and lightning, Ann hid in the potting shed but a few brave souls visited to buy some plants(mad Fools).Stirling show was awash with some very fine Fritillaria's( Ian Young etc) and yes I like Queen Ann's double. Mark here is Scliopus bigelowii sister to your photo. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 8:28 pm: | |
We're back, too, from a grand day at Stirling. Some horrible weather, but home to sunshine! All the flower power at the show would have cheered Clay in his snowy waste. How good to see pics of one of my favourite plants, the Scoliopus. They are both amazing intricate flowers, and the diminutive size of S. hallii has to be seen to be believed. For anyone unfamiliar with it, the stem is about 4-5cms and the flowers must be all of 10mm across. S. bigelowii is a little larger, the flowers perhaps 20mm from tip to tip, and so finely marked, also the leaves have brown spots when they are young. These fade as the leaves age and grow. Very interesting plants.
I am surprised that Elka is so very small, I thought she looked about 18cms or so. Where did you get her??
Are you safely home from Dublin, Mark, how did you get on? |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 9:09 pm: | |
I got four seconds for Cymbidium goeringii, N. 'Toby', N minor 'Pumilis' and N. 'Little Beauty'. 'Toby' would have got a first except for a stray unknown Narcissus bulb in the pot. One person told me to leave it in as the judges would allow for me being new and another said remove it.
'Elka' came from Broadleigh. |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Post Number: 84
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 11:42 am: | |
Mark
I think from the picture that the Narcissus you show as N romieuxii is a form of N. bulbicodium.
The flower shape and the fact that the anthers are held well down in the tube suggest bulbicodium.
There is however no reason why N romieuxii should not grow outside for you in a sunny well drained spot. It will suffer if you get a severe winter or very heavy rainfall in summer !! |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 12:09 pm: | |
Glad to hear you had a successful outing to Dublin, Mark. Were many of our other Chums, down, too? There were lots of great bulbs at Stirling. Fab frits from Fred Hunt, neat narcissus, inspiring iris, elegant erythrioniums !! There were masses of "real" plants, too, of course!
Cyril had huge cushions of Androsace and mats of Sebaea, spires of Orchis. What a grower that man is. You will be able to see him on the Forrest medal pages, with the winning plant.I know that this is "show" talk, but it is also "flowering now" so hope it passes muster!  |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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present were Margaret Glynn, Bob Gordon, Harold McBride, John McQuirter, moi, George and Pat Gordon, Jim Price, Pat and Normon Crossley and lots of the South Irish clan
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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All the usual suspects, as it were! I'm pleased to hear Pat and Norman were there, since I know he has not been well. Please pass on our best wishes to him. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Norman had a relapse recently and was looking quite ill yesterday |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Here is a pearl of wisdom from one of our customers when we were discussing the growing conditions for some plants, he suggested they had an area which had well drained moisture! now that is something we do not have, not sure if we ever will. Mark I look forward to seeing you all on 24th April at greenmount. |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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We travelled from SUNNY STIRLING through all sorts of weather to reach a west coast oasis -ARKINGLASS GARDENS. This is home to many huge trees, some British record holder and some beautiful rhododendrons, mostly un-named
Some skunk cabbages Lysochiton americanum
 
hybrid rhododendreon taliense x roxianum?
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Bark of 'thomsoni' type Rhododendrons
record Silver Fir
Hybrid white and pink rhodys
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Thank you Sandy for these wonderful pictures but I do not believe it was sunny! I have several fritillaria's from Chins so here is one Taipanensis? please correct me.\
popjpeg{2080,Fritillaris taipanensis} |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Easter sunshine it was WARM. A picture from one of our sinks,
Calianthemum kernerianum |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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we had a fantastic day here too. I took so many photos today of everything in bloom that I have found it difficult to choose what to show. I now know what Ian must go through for the weekly log.
Here goes anyway with 11 in alphabetical order.
Anemone blanda 'White Splendor'
Narcissus 'Kennelis'
Narcissus 'Xit'
Pelargonium papillionaceum
Pulsatilla
Ranunculus ficaria 'Orange Sorbet'
Trillium rivale - a seedling bought at the Dublin show
Trillium rivale - another seedling bought at the Dublin show
Tulipa schrenkii
and lastly Tulipa tschmimghanica
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Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Argg! Pelargaonium papilionaceum! Large plant; wonderful name, but - horrible smell of he-goat, even stronger than the lizard orchid! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 11:17 pm: | |
I've never been that close to a 'Billy' but will have a closer sniff of the plant in the morning. I hope it's OK to have the Pelargonium in? I do have two growing outside in my raised beds and will show these when they flower. They are P. quercetorum and P. endlicherianum. |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Hi folks
Back from sunny Spain to find things have moved along a bit. Cypripediums and trilliums well up, and these were flowering yesterday.
Trillium albidum
T. rivale 'Purple Heart'
Primula 'Rowena' from Evelyn Stevens showing the 'pin' form of the flower.
P. vulgaris with four petals showing the 'thrum' form of the flower. |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Well, April is living up to it's name as a month of scattered showers. The garden is also a place of scattered flowers at the moment.
Trillium hibbersonii which has remained two flowers for three seasons.
T. pusillum which has doubled its number of flowers to four since it was bought at Stirling in 2003. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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hot off the memory card this evening are
Narcissus 'Johnstonii' ~ three out of five bulbs supplied by Broadleigh are 'Minnow'
Another Trillium rivale bought in Dublin opened today. Isnt it lovely?
Iberis sempervirens 'Little Gem'
A Narcissus with the worst name 'Xit/Zit'
Narcissus 'Kennilis' has a lovely scent of lemon moose. I only realised tonight.
Can you ID this plant? I think it is Hyacinthoides
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi mark the visit to Belfast gets nearer I am now going to Visit Margaret and co on Sunday so will see you, two pictures to keep you going.
+++ jpeg +++ 2137 +++ Fitillaria tubiformis,
Erythronium purpurascens +++ |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Ian I'll be lunching with the gang too and visiting the two gardens. I may have to dash off early to go to work. |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Weather finally warming up. Here are some more in the garden today.
Erythronium 'White Beauty'
Fritillaria meleagris with up to five flowers per stem. |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Here is a new dimension for Rock gardening.
This is primula vulgaris growing atop a 15ft stone pillar at the entrance to Cambo house in Fife.
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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very interesting - so much for damp hedgerows |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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obviously no one told the plant it couldn't grown there! |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Still not warm in Dunblane - only 10 degrees Celsius. Not too cold for peacock butterflies and bum bees and these flowers photographed today.
Trillium cuneatum under my hawthorn hedge.
T. grandiflorum f. roseum
T. pusillum further out now
and Erythronium 'Sundisc' in the raised bed. |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Here's a wee alpine that has been growing at the top of a step for years.
Vitaliana primulifora |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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here are just a few of the 12+ species Tulips that I have in flower today
T. wilsoniana yellow form
T. clusiana
T. clusina 'Tinka'
T. batalinii ~ lost label
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Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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I'm a little confused. Mark posted a message in 'Alpines General' yesterday and it came up as 'Post 135'. His next post this morning is labled 'Post 138'. Have I missed some? |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Hi Anthony Marks posts 136 &137 are in the Bulb log Feedback under 'Dumpling the Blackbird'.
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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A very good show in Belfast at the weekend with some very good people, I managed to bump into Mark Smith who was not well, here are two pictures from the superb gardens I visited amidst warm sunshine and great hospitality.
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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yep I was rough and only getting my voice back. After the show I went straight to bed - plants still on the back seat - and didnt surface for 16 hours which was quite scary. I turned down lunch at Margaret's because I wasnt feeling too good but did manage to plant most of Ian's goodies but along the way managed to mix up some labels which I had re written on black labels. ID photos soon.
I guess the Trilliums are Bob's and the Adonis is Margaret's? |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Here is my first Geranium to flower. I've included it as it is a bulbous plant.
This is Geranium tuberosum
my small rockery and scree for which I need ideas for mid/late summer into late autumn ideas for colour.
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Mark the trilliums were at Bob's and the Adonis vernalis was at June Docherty,s garden |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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A couple more oddities flowering today.
Gynandriris sisyrinchium
and this anemone that just appeared from now where.
Anemone sp.
Haven't a Scooby as to what it is or how it came to be in my garden, but that may be my failing memory?! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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It's A. nemerosa for sure but which one of the 'blues'? |
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