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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Not a plant that we would usually expect with a September flowering, but many plants will produce bonus flowers in late summer and autumn.
Many of the dwarf rhodos will produce these extra flowers but it is not so common in the larger rhodos.
Rhodo elegantulum is one that regularly produces a second scattering of autumn flowers. |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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We too have a Celmesia with a flower bud! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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isnt it great when something is in flower and you only just notice.
This Hypoxis has been blooming and I only noticed today.
Most likely supplied wrong by the rare man himself. This is Colchicum atticum/montanum looking good today
and something from a members garden. Supposed to be non hardy but flowering now - 3 years outside.
Nerine crispa/undulata
and finally my pink bed is gone.
to make compost in Margaret & Louis's 6, yes 6!!,compost heaps. The red bed has been pulled out and ready to go. The pastels bed has a day or two to shine on. Now to wait for the first snowdrops next month. hehe!
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Sad to see all that fabulous colour reduced to a carload of waste, but satisfying to think of the lovely compost that will result in time from the re-cycling. We compost as much as we can but there are some larger prunings and some stuff that will not shred very well that we reluctantly have to put to the tip. Luckily our local Council has recently become "Waste Aware", to a limited extent, but they are providing big wheeled bins for a fortnightly collection of "green Waste". This will be taken to a council site, chipped as necessary and composted.I think the idea is that gardeners will be able to buy back the finished compost, and the rest will be used on the many municipal parks and plantings around the area. We are just glad not to be wasting the branchesthat are too big for our shredder to cope with, even though Ian keeps some "nice looking" branches to use for woodcarving and artworks! The scheme will be really great for people wanting to tidy their gardens but without the capacity for whatever reason to make their own compost heaps. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 9:35 pm: | |
We are getting brown bins too. For the last few years our skip area has had a huge dumping area from all green matter from trees to grass. All greenery no matter what size is taken away by the lorry load and put through a chipper. We are supposed to be able to buy it after it has composted but so far none has come back.
For those in to composting you can park a car in each of Margaret and Louis (silent 's') Glynns compost areas.
Three are for leaves only which fall on their 3 acre garden. This is one of two with leaves from 2003. The leaves would be piled high
two years on the leaves look like this
The other three bins are for layering grass with all other greenery from the garden like where my waste went. |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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We too compost everything we can and have been promised brown bins plus a box for bottles and another for paper. I suspect I will still be going to the recycling area though as I can't imagine a small box holding a fortnights worth of bottles! |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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I remember Louis's compost bins from a visit some years ago but these that Mark shows are the new and very nice version. Ours are much, much smaller, as is our garden, and made from anything that will form sides from old concrete blocks to wire mesh. I emptied our 'midden heap' today. This is where we place all kitchen waste such as tea bags, egg shells, fruit skins, vegetable waste and all sorts of garden weeds. The heap was started ten months ago and all but the top most layer is a rich dark worm filled compost ready to use. The midden is now ready to receive another years worth of material.
It is not just for the enviorment that we should compost but just think of all that lovely stuff that should be going back into your own garden. If you throw it all out you are robbing your garden of the very thing that will make it thrive, organic food for the soil. |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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Exactly Ian, I can never understand why people put to landfill all their weeds/grass clippings/hedge prunings etc. etc. and then go and BUY compost! Good lord the idea of buying something we can make for free from our own waste!! We have a printers next door to us at Findhorn and lots of the paper is delivered on pallets which are non-returnable so we have an endless source of wood to turn into compost bins. We tried one of those special cones for cooked food waste once but found it didn't really work for us- probably because there was not an awful lot going into it! Now any cooked veggie waste just goes into the compost.
As a total aside I watched our younger Siamese jump up onto the open compost bin squat down and have a piddle and get back off - I told her she was a very clever girl and had obviously been watching David! |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Absolutely, no need to buy expensive activators when nature supplied us with an endless supply of our own !! |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Word of caution: cooked veggie waste attracts rodents |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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Neither David nor I can remember how or where we bought this Tricyritis stolonifera 'Bridgemere' - this is the first time it has flowered and looks absolutely stunning!
This is just the first flower, there are lots more down the stem; info, even in AGS encyclopaedia, is limited so if anyone grows this bulb would appreciate info. |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Today while working on the bulb troughs my eye was taken by a mass, like a mulch, of green pellets on top of one of them.
It is under a dwarf pine so I looked at the pine and found some defoliated branches stripped bare of needles.
On closer inspection I found the answer, or the culprits, a squirming mass of caterpillars on a feeding frenzy.
Here is a closer look at them.
Obviously a very specialised caterpillar to feed on pine, they are covered in pine resin to the touch which I suppose will put off predators.
OK Anthony, bug super man, what are they ? |
Diane Whitehead (Diane_whitehead)
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Tricyrtis, though called Toad Lilies, don't grow from bulbs.
There are some good pictures and information at http://www.farmyardnurseries.co.uk/tricyrtis.htm |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Your caterpillars look like the pine sawfly (Diprion pini), which can be a serious forest pest. Sawflies are related to ants, bees and wasps and the larvae are characterised by the way they curl their bodies. One species which I remember as a child is the gooseberry sawfly, but there are many sawfly species. The largest sawfly in the UK is the horntail (Urocerus gigas) which is a fierce looking beast about 30mm long (plus 10mm horn) and black and yellow in colour. It is, like all sawflies, harmless, and its larvae are found burrowing in timber. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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still very warm and what a scorching day. I hope you had a good one too! The max today was 22C again and now that I'm heading for bed at 01.50 the thermometer is at 18C. Good weed killing weather especially for all the chick weed popping up on my cleared raised beds
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Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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We have also had many butterflies visiting, here is the only one I was quick enough to photograph. We have also a huke tree of Eucryphia with so many flowers and here is the double gentian featured in the RHS mag.
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Carol Shaw (Carol)
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Sorry Ian the gentian doesn't do it for me |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Red admirals and peacocks enjoying the sun in Dunblane too.
Two peacocks and a bum bee on Echinacea purpurea in a neighbour's garden.
Red admiral on the same clump.
The pink gentian - possibly a scabra hybrid - Gentiana Toki-Rindo.
Cyclamen hederifolium growing at the base of a fence. This form is a lovely deep pink. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Mark, I reckon your neat little Iris is Iris suaveolens. Obliging of it to give you an out of season flower. Amazing how many plants are doing that this year. Weather has been warm and sunny here in Aberdeen again. Might even have been hotter than Northern Ireland! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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hot weather is set to last for another two weeks which is really good. I looked up the Iris you suggest and it looks very similar. I'll label it in the morning.
Crocus kotschyanus 'Reliance' has been in flower for a few days now but has never opened fully even after the kitchen treatment.
This is a Tigridia growing at Margaret Glynn's
Same person came and helped me extend my rockery today.
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 1:23 pm: | |
About Ian's 'Double Gent, I'm so free to give the right name to the picture, which is "Eugen's Allerbester". It was featured in the Plantsman which normally gives very good information about plants, but not this time.
The breeder was the german nurseryman Mr. Eugen Schleipfer and not mr. Jürgen Peters, who is more a trader than a breeder.
Mr.Schleipfer told me that it's a very easy growing and propagating Gentiana, but as Carol states you like the double flowers or not, however it is very special! |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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very interesting Luit. I bought G. 'Eugens Allerbester' from a well known nursery and it's a normal flower.
Are you got out of season flowers? In my garden 2 different Anemone obtusiloba, Creeping Phlox, Pulsatilla and Daphne are flowering. They must be affected by this great weather - 24C/76F today |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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very bad English on my last query. It should read "have you got ..."
I was at Margaret Glynn's today (not again I hear ya shout) she has Anemone nemerosa 'Robinsoniana' about to flower, a Magnolia, a Daphne and a couple of Rhododendrons. |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Thanks Luit for the info on the double Gentian, I forgot to add the name, I suppose like most double flowers it does not please everyone but I do like it and it cetainly is different, here is another gentian featured by RHS it is G. Strathmore which we produced in 1986 it was not a seedling but a sport on another plant the only time we have ever had this happen.
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Carol Shaw (Carol)
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Now that is a nice Gentian! |
Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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I agree with Carol, but are'nt we rockgardeners always looking for that very special one?
When Mark says his double one flowers single, there is of course the possibility that Eugens Allerbester also was a sport instead of a seedling. Mr.Eugen did'nt tell me everything?? |
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Ian this is the double Gentian I bought from you at Greenmount. Is it the same plant you showed us above?
This is what I bought as G. 'Eugen's Allerbester'
And finally a plant I bought as G. x stevenagensis. It was the only one with sky blue flowers instead of deep blue. The colour doesnt show too well in this photo.
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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I could'nt resist making a picture of this caterpillar crossing my path. It was creeping on a path in the nearby dunes. I've never seen such beautiful coloured caterpillar, about 2 cm long, but must admit I had not much time in my former life.
Maybe Anthony can tell more about this one??
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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I think this must be a Spanish caterpillar, Luit, celebrating La Vuelta cycling race with the Spanish colours !! Either that or it is a feather from a ladies' hat!! It is hard to believe such a fantastic creation of colour and fluff could be alive! |
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Pied Piper
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Carol Shaw (Carol)
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Hi Luit and Maggi
Nope that caterpillar is even more special - it is the one which celebrates our Siamese daughter and my hair!  |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Hi Folks
Been confined to the back room (Merlot and Troy on DVD) while my wife entertained some friends. Anyway, the caterpillar is The Sycamore Moth (Acronicta aceris). What a splendid beast it is, and the only use I can think a sycamore can be put to this side of the 5th of November?
Anthony. |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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BTW the moth is a drab grey and the species isn't found in Scotland. |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi mark, the double gentian is indeed the G.'Eugen's Allerbester' and as for your G. stevenagensis well it sure is not the true plant, what exactly I do not know looks like a pale seedling from somewhere I will get picture of real thing when the rain stops.I love Pied piper. and Luit you could make a fortune selling your caterpillar, I do not think anything man made can match the wonders of nature. Carol I can't remember the orange streaks in your hair? |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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The rain has stopped but still misty not good light but here is Gent. stevenagensis plus a Lilium speciosum and Cornus canadensis with autumn tints and Pterostylus curta in the glasshouse. 
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Thanks Anthony. Indeed there are growing many sycamores (or field sycamore) near the place I found the little thing. I'm glad Marks horrible fly does not belong to my caterpillar, I would have problems keeping asleep and have a nightmare! Is'nt Pied Piper some fairy tale?? In that case: Cheers! |
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Ian, thanks for your hint but alas I was forced to stop as businessman, so I put it back to his place! |
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The Pied Piper is indeed a fairy tale, but the fly is a hoverfly and its larvae are voracious aphid eaters. They are very convincing wasp mimics too. |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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I have just found out from a fellow member of the Amateur Entomologists Society that the 'Pied Piper' (no, not the one from Hamilton, er...Hamlyn) is Helophilus sp. (probably H. pendulus). Its larvae is like that of the drone fly (Eristalis tenax) and lives in muddy water as a 'rat-tailed' maggot, so is not an aphid predator. |
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we learn something new everyday!
I was told many moons ago that i should study the Hover fly and it would make me famous. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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I thought that there was a difference between Mark's "Pied Piper" and our local Hoverflies, but none of them will stand still long enough for me to compare them fully! I think ours have less complicated tiger-stripes. They ARE the sort that have the aphid-eating larvae, though, are they not? Must try to catch a photo of our type, though I am sure it will not be as good as Mark's, which I think is really top notch. Great photo!! |
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Crocus flowering season just getting underway here in East Anglia. First C. nudiflorus (Orla - thanks to Ians' spare bulb sales) and C. vallicola plus the above Crocus kotschyanus ssp cappadocicus. Unusual in that the corms are oriented on their side and the flowers very nicely feathered. I'll post a few more as they appear but will try not to duplicate Ians' bulb log offerings. (Have also posted a couple of Colchicum pics in the relevant thread in the feedback.) |
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I assure you the photo wasnt of a hoverfly but a hoverfly on a flower to be used for desktop wallpaper. I didnt even see the proboscis being cleaned until I processed the image. Thanks anyway. Maggie there are 1000s of 'em out there and each species has a different look. |
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Ian is Pterostylus an Arisaema of some sort?
A couple of goodies from my garden today taken in between the rain.
Colchicum cupani var. pulverulentum
Crocus banaticus
unknown Hoverfly
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Pterostylis are terrestrial orchids, from Australasia. They are often called "Greenhoods", which is what I've heard some people call Arisaemas, though their (the Arisaemas) more common name is "Cobra lily". I know very few "common" or English, names for plants: I find it easier to try to learn the latin name, then I stand a better chance of knowing what plant is under discussion with friends from around the world. One man's goat's beard is another man's bearded lady, and so on!! With the latin, of course, you can get a problem with differing pronounciation but at least it is easier with the written word! |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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I thought the Cobra Lily was Darlingtonia californica, a terrestrial pitcher plant? See these common names! "Wake Robin" (Arum maculatum in the UK, and no, the robin concerned is not a bird) is another one.
The unknown hoverfly is the drone-fly (Eristalis tenax) which is a good mimic of the honey bee. It has larvae that are aquatic rat tailed maggots often found in water buts, but are good indicators of polluted water. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Don't the Americans call one of the Trilliums "Wake Robin" too?
How much of a coincidence is it that you told us about the Eristalis tenax and its' wonderfully named larvae and then Mark sends in a photo of said beast? |
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Anthony, you really know your insects. My Corn Marigolds are covered in them when the sun shines.
Yes Maggie they are Wake Robins. Isnt each one a different Wake Robin? Who is Robin anyway?
I used to belong to a web site which was US based and chatting about plants by US common names really did my head in. I know I do it too sometimes.
Up early cos I'm off to the bulb show today. Maybe I'll see some of you guys there? |
Thomas Huber (Hubi1)
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Hello all!
I would like to present you some of our "local heros": Four different forms of Colchicum Autumnale, all growing in the fields around my hometown.
The first with broad, roundes petals
One with narrow petals
A nice dark form
And a white one
Does anybody know the name of the following Colchicum, that I bought unlabled?
Best wishes
Thomas |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Some lovely pictures of wild colchicums Thomas. Here are some pictures of not so wild Crocus serotinus clusii
and a tiny Wahlenbergia(?) clinging to life amongst the liverworts.
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Lauren Bertoni (Laurenlolly)
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Hi All! Haven't posted in a while but I have some photos now, of Spring in Australia.
Dicentra cucularia:
Fritillaria meleagris:
Pulmonarias:
Cheers :-)
Lauren |
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