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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Month 3 already.
NB:- SOON IT WILL BE PALINDROME OF THE YEAR DAY!
03 03 03 This date is the same whether written by a British member or by an American,
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Primula allionii
2nd February 2003
Dunblane
For several weeks odd flowers have been appearing but in the last few days several plants have become much more spectacular. I grow a lot of allionnii s but really should cut down on the number to concentrate on the quality!
Primula allionii 'ANNA GRIFFITH' is the most beautiful of all.
Primula allionii 'WILLIAM EARLE' is dependable and was one of the first which I grew.
This is a wild collection made in the 1960's by Jim Archibald. Note how small and narrow petalled the flowers are compared to the more blousy cultivated plants.
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Scoliopus bigelovii
2nd February
Dunblane
This is a woodland plant fom Western North America, [Northern California]. It is related to Trillium. It grows beside the giant redwood trees. I would love to get a picture of the two together!
I grow it in a pot in a cold frame. It is a plant I associate with the late Alf Evans. Many folk grow it on their 'peat beds' but I lost it there by being careless. I planted another plant above it. Slugs love it, so I try to protect it. The slug damage is usually only apparent when I go to take it to SRGC shows.
Who was Bigelow?
'Scoliosus' is a twisted spine so presumably Scoliopus refers to the twisted petals.
Scoliopus bigelowii
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Margaret Young
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3/3/3- yes, it IS amusing! How good to see one of my favourite plants featuring. Scoliopus (referring to the curving flower stems) bigelovii is a most charming woodlander of most intricate flowers and attractive spotted(young)leaves which I feel often gets a "bad rap". It can smell a bit doggy,if you get too close, but the fab flowers more than make up for that, I reckon. The flowers begin when the leaves are hardly showing and come in a long succession over many weeks, the final flowers still lovely when the leaves are grown quite large and almost losing their spots. I think some years the leaf spots stay longer, may be a weather thing. It is difficult to capture on camera the rich brownypurple colour of the flower markings, which are also somewaht keeled. I read that Bigelow was a Doctor in Boston (1787-1879) who collected plants while making, on horseback, his housecalls to patients! He was also involved in the U.S.-Mexican boundary mission!! It does say a good deal for his eyesight if he could spot such an understated little flower from the back of a horse!! It must have been some horse, too, to be able to travel to California from Boston! The even smaller, Scoliopus hallii is oanother gem, but a little later in coming up. |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Snowdrops Galanthus nivalis
03 03 03
In an old garden near Doune
We were out walking, looking up in the sky for Red Kites, [birds not children’s playthings] when we spied some white flowers growing near a burn. They were just beside the road over a low wall, the whole area covered in moss. There were brambles and tangles through the trees and much of the ground seemed stony. I squeezed through the fence and photographed the snowdrops in the late afternoon sunshine. At first there was no sign of habitation but on the return part of the walk I saw a line of beech trees. These had been a hedge at one time and since no one trimmed the hedge anymore it had grown up into the line of trees. There just on the opposite side of the road from the snowdrops was the back wall of an old house. Only about three feet height of wall was left, the rest having fallen down or been take been away. The snowdrops were growing in what had at one time been a garden, or a place beside the burn for the family to get water.
The snowdrops must have grown there for years, who knows how many. They were a mixture of singles and semi-doubles. It was sad to think that a family might once have tended them but encouraging to see them still bursting into growth in spring. I hope they thrive for many years to come and remind others that this scrubby moss covered area was once a garden
   
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Three Corydalis
03 03 03
Dunblane
Corydalis kuznetzowii
Corydalis Persian Waif
The plant has extended a bit since I photographed it last month but still has a long way to go before it is fully out.
Corydalis primulifolia
This shows what happens when you let your Corydalis malkensis seed in the alpine house. It has grown up amongst the leaves of Primula marginata. I look forward to seeing the Primula flowers on the Corydalis foliage!
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Crocus cviccii
4th March 2003
Dunblane
The bulb with the unpronouncable name.
One great thing about it, is that it stays open when other crocuses like tomassinianus, vernus, etruscus etc close up when the sun goes in.
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Iris winogradowii
4th march
Dunblane
I was delighted to get bulbils of this at an SRGC Discussion Weekend because my original stock is virused. The virus shows as yellowish blothches on the leaves. Because the leaves are long and thin, the blothches are long and thin as well!
This flower is just opening. To buy, the bulbs are expensive. It's just wonderful when you canm get them for nothing
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Galanthus nivalis viridipice
5th March 2003 50 YEARS SINCE STALIN DIED
Dunblane
I already grow a clone of this which came from an AGS show. The green on the outer petals seemed quite good but not nearlt as distinct and clear cut as this plant which I bought at the snowdrop day at Cambo house. I was lucky and got a pot with two bulbs. All the other pots had only one occupant. It pays to browse.
Crocus tomassinianus ‘ERIC SMITH’
5th March 5, 2003
Dunblane
I got this on two occasions and have kept them separate although they are the same clone. It is superb plant with beautiful pure white petals. Highly recommended! Eric Smith was a famous plantsman who died a few years ago. He is well known in Hosta and Hellebore circles as a plant breeder and selector. He was a business partner of Jim Archibald at one time. I think a recognised feature of the clone is its tendency to produce flowers with 8 rather than the usual 6 petals. In one pan a purple seedling has turned up
Crocus tomassinianus ‘ERIC SMITH’
Crocus tomassinianus ‘ERIC SMITH’8 petals
Crocus tomassinianus ‘ERIC SMITH’with purple seedling
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Rana temporaria
Last weekend
Dunblane
This chap was caught last weekend during a rainstorm, at night, wind blowing strongly. Sitting on the steps between the conservatory and the greenhouse. Small as it might seem this little fellow tried to trip up my daughter as she checked on her rabbits. We photographed him and told him to get on with searching for slugs. Goodness alone knows that there are plenty of them. Either slugs or birds have decided that the white parts of snowdrops are good to eat.
To me, that is typical of Nature. Show an interest, especially a maniacal rock gardener’s interest in something [for me at present, snowdrops] then nature sends a critter along to munch or infect it. Guess which hellebore flowers are favourites of slugs. Double Hellebores, naturally. They don’t eat the singles. Anyway if you se this chappie slacking in your garden, make him get back to work eating slugs. He’ll need the energy soon to breed all the tadpoles.
I thought frogs were green and toads brown but my book tells me frog’s colour can be either, in fact it says ’variable’
FROG
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Hacquetia epipactis
6th March 2003
Dunblane
This tiny member of the Umbelliferae is just popping up in the ‘peat’ garden. It comes from Eastern Europe, Southern Poland and the Carpathians. That being so, one might have expected it to have more of a Polish sounding name. These names seem to have been reserved for Corydalis. The latter seem to have cornered the market in exotic names.
The Hacquetia is a splendid little plant which gently seeds a round, is never a nuisance and its clumps slowly increase in size. I grow a variegated form which I got from the late Alf Evans.
Hacquetia epipactis
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Dr Alfred Evans
Many years ago
Glenfarg
This picture of Alf was taken by John Duff and given to me by Mrs Duff. I scanned it and printed out and framed a copy for Alf a few years ago. I like the picture. Those of you who knew Alf can see he liked the same style breeks and jacket for many years! Alf’s Book ‘The Peat Garden’ is still the best on its subject. If you do not have one, look for a copy in your second hand bookshop. If you have a copy which you no longer need, give it a keen young gardener.
Dr Alfred Evans
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Thomas Schultze
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It is so nice to visit your forum and see that spring is already happening over there. Here in central Sweden our alpines still sleep under the snow (and most growers do not have an alpine house). I am a bit surprised that your forum is not used more than it is, our Swedish club STA (www.tradgardsamatorerna.nu) has a forum as well and it is used a lot to discuss things like the seed exchange, how to grow different species, etc. Maybe you english speakers are used to discussing on Alpine-L instead? Greetings, Thomas Schultze, member, Skoghall/Sweden |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Rhododendron ‘Christmas Cheer’
7th March 2003
Dunblane
Chrismas Cheer has been showing colour since the snow disappeared 3 weeks ago. It is an old hybrid of Rhododendron caucasicum [syn Rh. ponticum]. The other parent is not recorded in my book. I always wondered how it got its name because it never comes out before the end of February and found out that it used to be forced into flower for Christmas decoration. Not the showiest of rhodys it is none the less very welcome at this time of year. It is covered in buds but tends to put out fewer flowers early in the season. Our plant was one of the first things we planted in the garden. It layers quite easily. It must do if it layered for me!
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Podocarpus trough
7th March 2003
Dunblane
I planted this up for last year’s ‘Gardening Scotland’ show at Ingliston, Edinburgh. The colours of the different clones are much more distinct in winter than they were in summer. I like the Phormium in the corner as it helps to balance the trough. There are several different clones on the market. I bought these at the SRGC Glasgow show from Hartside nursery
Podocarpus trough
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Podocarpus plants
8th March 2003
Dunblane
On the picture of the trough above
Starting from the creamy light green plant in the middle back, The names of the different clones of Podocarpus are
Kilworth cream, Red Embers, County Park Fire, Otari, Flame, Jack's Pass
Here are close ups of the different colour forms.
Kilworth cream[left back], Red Embers [right back], County Park Fire [front right], Otari [front left]
Otari [right], Flame [foreground], Jack's Pass [behind]
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Narcissus ‘SNIPE’
8th March 2003
Dunblane
Almost a modern day legend, this is one of the most delightful of dwarf narcissi.
Much confusion exists between plants of ‘SNIPE’ and ‘MITZI’.
Unfortunately plants can’t speak and labels can be inaccurate.
I quote from what I wrote in the Show report for the 2002 SRGC Stirling show
I took the opportunity to photograph Narcissus 'SNIPE' and N. 'MITZY' at the show because there is some dispute as to their being different plants in cultivation in this country. SNIPE opens as a bicolour and fades to white. MITZY opens white. The flower shape is very similar but SNIPE is the more delicate.
The true ‘SNIPE’ was introduced to the UK by Ron Beeston from USA stock
I have been given bulbs of ‘MITZY’ so now I have both. They are about 10 cm tall.
At the moment ‘SNIPE’ is just in flower, while ‘MITZY’ is still in bud.
The photograph shows that ‘SNIPE’ is bicoloured at the moment
I expect it to fade over the coming weeks.
Confusingly when flash is used in photographing it, then ‘SNIPE’ appears much paler. This may be the cause of confusion resulting from pictures take indoors and at shows.
I intend to rephotograph ‘SNIPE’ over the coming weeks to show how it fades.
I hope this makes sense}
Narcissus ‘SNIPE’  Narcissus ‘SNIPE’close 
Narcissus ‘SNIPE’ taken with flash
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Narcissus jacetanus
8th March
Dunblane
This is one of the smallest Narcissus that I grow, since Narcissus hedraeanthus disappeared. Note the 20p coin beside the lower stalk. It is said to be a form of N. asturiensis. The books say that jacetanus is bigger than asturiensis but mine appears to be smaller at the moment. No doubt it will grow. It was its diminutive size that led me to put the coin beside it.
It was grown from seed from the Estiva Valley in Portugal. The plants were given to me as present.
Narcissus jacetanus
Narcissus jacetanus
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Iris histrioides Blue Sport of ‘George’
Last month Sandy Leven sent in a rather blue picture of Iris histr. George. There is still hope for him I found out…?
This week I visited the nursery of the breeder
Willem van Eeden where I saw a small area of a real darkblue sport of Iris histr.George with the same qualities.
Willem told me that some years ago at several places this sport originated. He was not sure about the availability of it already. At least one nursery in Holland has named it already, but I cannot tell what the name is.
I picked some flowers and made pictures and sent two with this message. On one picture you can see also one(old) flower of George to compare the colour.The first has nearly the real colour.
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Nw. 09-03-2003
Hereby I sent two pictures of a Narcissus I saw on 24-02 at the weekly bulbshow in Lisse (NL).
I liked it very much and I think it has much potential as a potplant!
It seems to be a Tazetta hybr.. It was forced into flower and it reached only 15 cm in height.
Is there anybody who knows wat it is? Is it new or could it be from wild origin in Spain?(In the book of Blanchard there are some pictures of something like this)
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J.I. Young (Iyoung)
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I would like to welcome Luit to the Forum, I hope that many of you who visit the site will become active and make posts as well as reading.
Show us your plants, ask questions, tell us your thoughts on what you see.
I thought that as Sandy Leven posted a picture of Alf Evans I would post a picture of him with my wife Maggi at the Stirling Show Last year. For those of you who have not met Sandy it will let you see who we have to thank for all these lovely posts he is making.
Keep enjoying the Site.
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Further to Luite's comments on Iris reticulata 'George', mine are not blue although they look blue in the picture. I took several pictures and the all came out blue rather than purple. Mine are the colour of 'old George' on Luit's picture. The new bluse one looks very desirable. The flowers have good substance and nice markings.
And! Thank you Ian for posting me with Maggi. |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Rhododendron pemakoense
Rhododendrom praecox
Daphne mezereum
10 3 2003
Dunblane
Rhododendron pemakoense
Rhododendrom praecox
Daphne mezereum
The Rhododendron pemakoense is growing in my garden. The other two are in different gardens near the Masonic Home in Dunblane. They are both quite old shrubs. We have lived here for over 25 years and I remember the Rh praecox being there when we came. I feel it needs a bit of feeding because the density of flowers on the bush is getting thinner.
The Rh pemakoense is beautiful and flowers well unless it gets frosted. It always looks very exotic and so it should, since it is native to Tibet. The flowers are quite big for the height of the plant [less than 1m]
Daphne mezereum is a plant I like to admire in other peoples’ gardens. It delights me with its early flowers but irritates me in that it looks like a lollipop with the flowers up the stem.
Isn’t it wonderful that their colour is similar. Why should that be?
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Primula palinuri.
I think this is a plant seldom seen at shows.
Maybe it is not so spectacular as some other alpine primula’s, but this plant is very special.
There should be different forms, but I am satisfied the form we grow. We grow it always in a glasshouse which is in winter just frostfree. After flowering we give the plants every week less water, till the leaves turn yellow and it looks the plant will die. We keep them in a light, but at sunny days shaded position.
During summer we keep them just alive, until mid september when we water it now and then, (if we don’t forget. ) We cultivate this primula like this because I somewhere read about it, these plants would get baked on the cliffs in the Italian Apennines during summer where it seldom rains. I never met a person who visited the place where it origins.
This plants is following literature hardy in Britain, or in the western part of Holland, in winter covered by a piece of glass.
The problem then is to get them nice into flower that way.
With me it does not flower every year as rich as I would like to.
Question:That is probably why I am not sure about when and what kind of fertiliser I should give them??
I hope to read about this plant at shows in the future!
P.S. About Iris George. Sandy, I know how difficult it is to get the good color on a photo.
I understood that you saw the 'Blues' after you already put them on the Forum.
For the picture of one flower of 'Blue George' I
made at least 8 photos, before I got this one. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Here are a couple more rhododendrons. These are currently being blown around by a very gusty wind!It seems that we often get very strong winds as the red rhodo, R. thomsoni, McBeath's form, opens its' flowers. This is a stylish plant, around six to seven feet tall now, at about 16 years old from seed. The beauty of the waxy red flowers is obvious, less so is the most attractive, peeling, cinnamon bark. The leaves are nearly round and have a pale green underside.
This next rhodo is a much smaller plant. R. lapponicum parviflorum usually comes into flower around Christmas, but only began to open a couple of weeks ago. The flowerheads are small and starry, of a deepish violet-blue.
This form is from Japan. Several of these flowerheads would fit into one bell of the Thomsonii. It is a slow-growing little bush with tiny, fragrant leaves, about the same age as the big red chap, but only around eighteen inches high.
If you know me, you will know how fond I am of Rhodos!! But just to show I am not TOO blinkered, here's a shot of Helleborus x eric smithii
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Not a plant for the rock garden, therefore I grow it in a pot.
Trachystemon orientalis is normally a plant for groundcover for bigger areas in semi-shady places with large leaves covering the soil. It needs a lot of space.
The flowers appear before the leaves in early spring and when growing in a pot it is easier to admire these beautiful flowers.
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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On last monday at the weekly flowershow in a tradecenter for bulbs etc.in Lisse (NL). I saw lots of beautiful bulbous flowers. Here are some pictures of some smaller ones I liked very much.
I am afraid the next picture is not so good because of the light at the place where it stood, (I did not use flash because of the special colours in the flower!), but this flower is so special that I want to show it.
Note the relatively big flowers !
I would like to know if this is new in culture or from where it comes.
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Abigail Anderson
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Luit, what a beautiful colour the Gladiolus has! I understand why you did not use a flash to make the photo, you would have lost the delicate shading. This is a most attractive gladiolus, I do not know it. I would certainly have thought it was some sort of orchid with such flowers! I only knew what it was when I made my "mouse" hover over the picture and the name showed ! |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Hello, here is Rhododendron cilpinense, looking lovely, even after a frosty night. If there's another frost tonight, she might not be so smart tomorrow!!
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Margaret
Our Rh cilipense is already looking not so clever! Hard frost night browned the flowers. You seem to have panted yours in a more sensible place than have I. I don't mean 'in the granite city' I mean under a bigger bush! |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Large Dutch Crocuses
Callander
16th March 2003
I went shopping for a birthday present in Callander, about 12 miles from Dunblane, and on the road in I was impressed by these crocuses planted many years ago under cherry trees
 
 
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Flowering now:
Lithophragma parviflora
From the western montane areas of North America.
Seeing these fragile flowers, it is every spring again hard to believe that groundfrosts down to – 5 ° C. do not damage the flowers nor the plants. Growing in pots the plants should overwinter in a cold frame, because they make their leaves already in october/november. In february the glass can be removed, and after watering they will stay outside without cover. The close-up photo shows very good the hairy buds and these hairs will take care that the frost does not harm the plants (?)
Lithophragma parviflora (close-up)
When grown in the open garden in sandy soil they need no cover at all. The leaves stay very small and get only a bit brown during winter and they will start flower a few weeks later than the potgrown plants. After flowering the plants die down By accident I found out that the very tiny bulblets are long living when stored in dry sand in a shed, because after having forgotten that I stored some, I found them after a year and put them in some whet peat and three weeks later they had lots of roots and leaves and the next spring they flowered again! .
Pan with Lithophragma parviflora
I wonder why I seldom read about these plants on alpineshows. Are they too easy or not spectacular enough?
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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I don't know why we see so little of Lithophragma parviflorum, which is a dainty thing. It is not often seen at nurseries and we have found it not to be very long lived here in Aberdeen. We have exhibited it once or twice and it is occasionally seen but not as much as it deserves. Your close-up shot shows how hairy it is and I think also how fragile the stems can be.
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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I know that there are other Hepatica pics elsewhere on this site, but I could not resist this blue charmer!
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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An attractive Scilla:
Scilla hohenackeri.
According to Brian Mathew in Dwarf Bulbs is this
plant "a rather overrated species, much too leafy to be attractive"
He compares it with Scilla griffithii, which plant (other specialists told me...) is rather difficult to grow.
Looking at my plant I wonder what he means by this??
Probably he saw a bad clone?
The flowers stand nice above the leaves, and
the plants are every year again very rich flowering.
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J.I. Young (Iyoung)
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That looks a pretty showy Scilla to me Luit, I think this is a much underated genera in cultivation with many good forms being over looked.
This is a seedling, flowering for the first time, raised from the famous cultivar Pulsatilla 'Budapest'. It does not retain the colour of its legendary parent but it has large and beautiful flowers, a promising future for this plant in our garden.
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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There are many forms of Primula denticulata around but I think this one has a quite unusual dark blue colour. It was a gift a couplt of years ago from Monika Carrie.....Thanks, Monika!!
I don't know if the seed was collected by Fred in the Himalayas or not. |
Fred Carrie (Fcarrie)
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Here are a few late March flowering plants
Top to bottom :
A fine dark coloured Hellebore that I believe came from Ian Young's mothers garden, although I can't remember where I got it. Apparently it comes true from seed although I have never bothered to collect or sow it.
Another shot of the same Hellebore.
A coup[le of Scottish natives :
Saxifraga oppositifolia "Corrie Fee", a white form of the "purple saxifrage"
Saxifraga oppositifolia "Corrie Bonhard", a pale form of the "purple saxifrage" collected by myself as a cutting about 5 years ago.
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J.I. Young (Iyoung)
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Further to my post of the Pulsatilla Budapest seedling, the parent and we believe the true plant were at the Edinburgh Show.
Having seen the original again and taking into account the different light conditions of the two photographs.I think that our seedling is nearer to the true 'Budapest' that I remembered.
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A second seedling is now in flower it it is almost exactly the same as well. |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Frittilaria eduardii
22 3 2003
Dunblane
I was delighted to get a Certificate of merit for this plant at the Edinburgh Show. I broke the bulb in half a couple of years ago and both halves are now flowering. I did the same with some others and it seems a reliable way of increasing frits which are reluctant to multiply
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Fred Carrie (Fcarrie)
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Sandy, the above Fritillaria eduardii looks for all the world like a crown imperial.
Is it as tall and if so, did you have to tilt it to get it through the front door at the Edinburgh show and does it have the same delicate fragrance of tomcat?
:o)
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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About this Pulsatilla seedling, Margaret, I must
confess that I have only read about the real ‘Buda Pest’ and remember having seen a picture of it with rounded petals???
And that there was some confusion about it being a P. vulgaris or P. halleri (the latter it should be)
But with such a seedling as yours I would be very happy as well.
Looking at your pictures I think it flowers in the open garden? Was the real Buda Pest also so early flowering ?
Or is the climate in your garden so warm?
It will probably remain always a secret where Buda Pest originated from, (gardeners in the old days were not so open about their crosses) but if it is really so early flowering there should be some ‘vernalis’ blood in it?
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Just a few pictures of a common tree in the homelands of so many frit's.
Just after opening the first flower
This year the start of flowering is about two weeks later than normal, caused by the cold weather. We have still frosts every morning living just 3 kms from the sea!!
The good thing about this cherrytree look-alike are the edible almonds in late autumn.
We are lucky to have one with sweet tasting nuts, there are many trees with bitter ones.
flowers about 5 days later |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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Hi, here is my photo of primula whitei
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