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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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August already ! Let it be this month that some of you who visit these pages will join in the fun and make a post. If you want to register or require some guidance get in touch.
The codonopsis are looking good in our garden just now I love them all.
Codonopsis cardiophylla is named for the heart shaped leaves, not visible in this picture.
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Cheating a bit again, no flowers here but with fabulous foliage like this, I would forgive these Rhododendrons if they never flowered. (Mind you, I'm glad they DO!)
Rhododendron yakushimanum x tsariense
Rhododendron makinoi
Rhododendron yakushimanum x recurvoides
These are all class acts!!
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Acaena microphylla
Dunblane
Some years this little felow is dificult to seee because it flowers poorly and with dull flowers. The leaves blend in well with stones, bark and siol because they are brown. It has loved this years hot sun and flowers well creeping over stones
 
 
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Is this juast a small Arum italicum pictum in seed?
I grow the spotted leaf form of the above, but they are not as far on as this wee guy and they are usually taller. Might it be anothe Arum?
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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STOP PRESS !!! AYRSHIRE GROUP TEAM LEAD BY SHEILA McNULTY WIN HONOURS AT FAMOUS FLOWER SHOW!
SEE "Alpines, General Forum Page" for PHOTO of prize-winng stand. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE TEAM
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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 3:52 pm: | |
I hope that you have checked out the piture of the Ayrshire Group's Stand .
I have been back to the seaside, well it is the hottest summer since 1957, the thing is that I visit the beach no matter what the weather, both to see the fauna,flora and to beach comb.
Here are a couple of pictures of what is in flower just now. I always try to get the sea in my shot as well as the plants.
Chamomilla recutita
Centaurea nigra
Calluna vulgaris
I also found a nice tree trunk which we are going back to saw up and bring home.
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Eryngium 'Miss Willmot's Ghost'
Dunblane
10th August 2003
I bought a plant of this many years ago at a Glasgow group meeting. 'It will seed round your garden and you will have lots of it,' I was told by the late Martin Bremner, who used to guide my purchases in my early days.
Well it is monocarpic and I still have it but I must have the mono-seed strain because I only ever have one plant. it flowers, sets seed and one grows and flowers a few years later. Perhaps I should collect the seed and sow it in a pot. It is beautiful, though, especially with the sun on its silvery leaves
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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Just to show that I am not obsessed with dandelions here is oenothera taraxacifolia.
Well it only has leaves like a dandelion !!
It is a great little plant that runs about by stolons popping up here there and everywhere.
The yellow flowers only last a day but there is a continual succession of them over several weeks.
Maggi told you of our introduced weed Tropeolum speciosum.
Well here is part of the reason that it gets everywhere in our garden.
Each of these lovely berries contains about four seeds which are spread by the birds.
So it is not just by it's adventurous roots that it spreads. |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Colchicum graecum has been flowering for some time in my rockery, judging by the dead flowers and the nibbled petals!
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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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It is always August before our water lily flowers. The trees around our pond have grown so much that it is shaded for most of the day so the water temperature stays pretty low. |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Polygonum affine 'Donald Lowndes'
Dunblane
15 8 03
I have grown this for many years and would insist on its being included in any top ten of easy, hardy, reliable, long flowering, non-demanding, weed smothering, colourful rock garden plants. You can tell I like it. It is easy to grow and spreads slowly. As the flowers age, they do so imperceptibly and as winter approaches they become slightly browner and browner but still they are architectural and from a distance still look like sound flowers in good condition. In winter it looks good with snow and frost on it. It is easily propagated as it roots as it goes
 close up the flowers of polgonum affine 'Donald Lowndes'
 Flowering beside Salix helvetica
 Flowering with new Zealand tussock grass |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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CHEATING IN THE GARDEN TO IMPRESS VISITORS
GO TO B&Q AND BUY SOME LILIES IN POTS. GREAT VALUE FOR MONEY AND THEY LOOK FABULOUS
 Lilly FARALITO
 Lily BIANCO UNO
 Lily MUSCADET
 Orange lily whose label got lost |
SandyLeven (Sleven)
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If you look closely at the lilies above you will see that I 'deliberately' put Lily BIANCO UNO on its side. Here is close up of it the right way round
 Lily BIANCO UNO |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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I have had Colchicum (Merendera) montanum growing here in a south facing slope for over three years, and each year it produces a few blooms, sometimes as early as July. This spot also has Galanthus reginae-olgae which has flowered in September before, but was late October last year.
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Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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My Allium wallechi has three blooms this year. They are almost black, but very attractive to wasps. The stem is nearly 2' tall and triangular at the base.
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Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Here's another photo of the same bloom of Allium wallechi, with the sun (and a busy wasp) on it.
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Allium wallichii
Dunblane
17 8 03
I was interested to see Anthony's Allium wallechii. It is a superb dark colour. I grow what I think is Allium wallichii [with an ' i ' rather than an ' e ' in the middle] I grew it from seed from Ron MacBeath's collection several years ago and more recently got a pot of seedlings from Alastair mcKelvie from his own collection. Mine are much pinker than Anthony's. They don't have bulbs but look more like spring onions in their stems.
I will take a walk down to Anthony's garden to see the dark plants
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Allium fasciculatum
Dunblane
17 8 03
This is another onion from a Ron Macbeath collecting trip. I haven't seen it anywhere else but then I probably haven't looked well enough. The flower stems are about 18" long and the umbel is complete sphere. The flowers mature at different rates so a clump flowers over a few weeks. When the flowers open they are creamy yellow and become greener with age. Eventually the flower umbel is little globe of shiny green immature seeds. The plant is perfectly hardy here and very distinct.
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Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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Sorry Sandy, you are quite correct. It is 'wallichii'. Couldn't read the label and should have checked the catalogue. This plant came from Paul Christian as Allium wallichii Purple three years ago. You are welcome to wander down anytime.
Anthony Darby
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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On the continent we had a real heatwave and it is so dry that even footballgrounds got closed because of water shortage, which I believe never happened before?
It is still dry, but here, near the coast we were most of the time lucky with some winds from the sea.
Many plants are still suffering after an extreme sultryness but then there is suddenly some surprise like this Senecio, with healthy green leaves and a very strong colour. Seems to like the hot weather?
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Biarum tenuifolium
Dunblane
29th August 2003
I got this smelly plant many, many years ago at a plant sale at an Edinburgh Discussion Weekend. It had no flower but a single leaf was visible. The label said 'ex Crete' so presumably someone many years ago collected it there. It is flowering early this year. I showed it in flower in October 2 years ago at the Inverness Discussion Weekend.
Like other Biarums it is pollinated by flies so it decided to smell like rotten meat! I don't like the smell but I do like the long dark spadix. Beasties come along and take bites of them after a few days. I used to blame slugs but I think they are nibbled by insects. I have another clone inwhich the spathe is lighter green in colour
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SandyLeven (Sleven)
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Cyclamen africanum
Dunblane
29th August 2003
For readers of Ian's Bulb log. Here is a picture of my Cyclamen africanum. The brown ridge at the front of the pot is the edge of the tuber which is about 12" across. The flowers open small and increase in size and petal length over a few days
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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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CONGRATULATIONS TO GOTHENBERG BOTANIC GARDENS who are celebrating their 80th ANNIVERSRY this weekend
SRGC has had a very close association with this great garden and all who work there.
I have been lucky enough to visit Gothenberg on several occasions and enjoyed many fine lectures when various Members of the staff have been to Scotland.
Gothenberg has a wonderful and dramatic rock garden full of treasures and bulb houses packed with delights but it also has great displays of the more common decorative plants.
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