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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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To Start off April here are two of the lovely hepatica flowers that Maggi bought at great expense.
I had them in the glasshouse so that I could get seed from them but that did not deter the sparrows from pulling their heads off. The remaining ones are now under wire.
This is one of our own seedlings which shows some promise withe the contrasting anthers. |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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Beautiful Ian |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Here are two Corydalis flowering at the moment!!
Corydalis rutifolia ssp. erdelii was collected in Turkey
Corydalis rutifolia ssp. uniflora was colleted in Crete. I a somewhat smaller version with more ore less solitary flowers
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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all 3 are lovely |
Tony Goode (Agoode)
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Here is one for you Franz. This Primula auricula was raised from seed you collected at Dobravatsch and kindly sent me a couple of years ago. Thanks!
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Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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Here is a celandine for Ian to prove that his lesson worked and it is suitably sized. It is a dusky leaved primrose flowered seedling called SMOKEY BEN. Trouble is I'm not sure how to place the pic on the page with its name.
SMOKEY BEN |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Well done Gwen.
You have the name on your picture if you hover your mouse arrow over the pic 'Smokey Ben' appears.
Always push for a new line before posting a picture, after the picture coding appears click again for a new line and put your title there, that will appear as text below the picture on the page. I will do it for you on your above post.
If you want to move the picture you can highlight the coding, click and hold and move it just as would move text in MS word. |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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I should have said you will need to refreash your page to see my change to your post.
Click the green arrows symbol next to the red cross up ot the top of this page. |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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That magenta hepatica with the white stamens is a stunner. Is it a named variety? |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Tony I am always happy if I see that my donated seed germinated and also flower. Collecting seeds in the mountains is not always a pleasure. Thanks for the beautiful picture. |
Tony Goode (Agoode)
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Juno iris are now coming into flower. I once grew true Iris warleyensis and am now raising new ones from exchange seed - well TRYING to raise new ones from exchange seed! The results so far are nice plants but NOT true, unadulterated Iris warleyensis.
This one is at least blue and floriferous.
This one looks like Iris bucharica.
Tecophilea cyanocrocus is looking nice too. I was given a few corms some years ago, a mixed batch. Grown on seperately I now have three ditinct forms.
  
I remember Ian showing us seedlings of his own raising which showed even wider variation.
I grow a few frits, would like to grow more but they are less tolerant of my careless routines than the crocuses! This one is a survivor.
Fritillaria hermonis amana Anti Lebanon Mtns Fm was collected and distributed by Bob & Rannveig Wallis. |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Ian,
Those two Hepaticas are definitely worthwhile breeding from. I wish I could say "send me your rejects from the breeding program" but unfortunately..... *sigh* I like your own white one. As you say, the contrasting anthers are very nice. What in particular are you trying to breed for?
So instead you'll just have to produce lots and lots of seed and share it around to all of us drooling admirers. 
I definitely have to say that the more I see of them the more I like Hepaticas. Out of interest, what time of year do seedlings germinate?
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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I remember Maggi buying those two Hepaticas at Early Bulbs - they really are beautiful and cost an arm and a leg!
Meanwhile in our now very breezy Apine House (David has taken some of the glass our!) Plants we would have hoped to get onto the show bench are already in flower.
Lewisia tweedii
P. marginata 'White Lady'
And a new (to us) and interesting Frit.
F. affinis tritula with its wonderfully denticulated petals
Outside the garden is changing again. Until last year this was a veggie plot but as we are part of an organic box scheme we ended up with a glut of veggies - David had also had covetous eyes and this last remaining plot for years, gave the raspberry canes to a neighbour and started digging! Maggi this proves he does work in the garden not just drink beer!
Also out in the garden is Tulipia Schrenkii
Erythronium tuolumnense
A Pulsatilla with no label
And N. bulbicodim 'Petticoat Hoops' with larger than normal flowers
N. 'Jet Fire"
and N. 'Rapture'
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The last two showing their cyclaminius parentage |
Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Here some pictures of Chionodoxa lochiae.
Since I took some bulbs out for friends, some years ago, increasing is going much faster??
{Chionodoxa lochiae 1}
{Chionodoxa lochiae 2}
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J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Paul, the hepatica seed from last year is germinating well now. What am I breeding for is a good question, all I can say is I will know when I see it.
I love the ones with large contrasting anthers and have been crossing the good colour forms with the white plants we have which have both contrasting anthers and beautifully marbled leaves. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Anne, in reply to your post no. 39, the two hepaticas shown are "Noumurasaki" for the dark one on the left and "Sayaka" for the pale one on the right. It is actually rather more salmom-pink in life, the photo shows more pink-pink, if you follow me! I got them from Jacques Amand (Living Colour) Tel. 01736 335851 for a catalogue!! They're not the MOST expensive, and they are very pretty and fat little plants!
Note for Gote: from a note of his on the "hepatica " pages, I got the good red form, shown on the Show pages, labelled as "Gyousei" rather than the gyousii it appeared on this Forum as!! Our error! |
john forrest (Jof)
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Wonderful pictures above everybody. A joy to behold.
I was out for a walk and by the river Lune, where there were the usual carpet of Ranunculus ficaria. I thought about the selected forms I have at home and began to look for differences in the hoard of flowers. It didn’t take very long to find ‘the better than average’ example.
Standard R.ficaria
'better’ R.ficaria
In my garden 2 selected forms
R.ficaria Salmon’s white
R.ficaria Colarette
I then began to look a bit more carefully amongst the mass of other Ranunculaceae.
Garden centre Anemone blanda
Self sown seedling with 29 petals
Here are just a few of the Ranunculaceae in flower at present.
Anemone nemerosa Allenii
Anemone nemerosa Royal Blue
Anemone nemerosa Yerda Ramusem
But look what Yerda Ramusem did last year
Anemone pallida
Anemone x seemanii
I showed the semi double Anemonella thalictroides but here is a ‘white’ single
Caltha himalaica
And lastly a selected form of the American Clematis tenuiloba
C. t.‘Ylva’
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Nice Caltha, John. I am a fan of Clematis ylva, which I say as "Yellva", though I've heard "Ullva"... well, it's pretty, whatever!
Luit,: How are you? We find that these Chionodoxa increase more when disturbed, too. I think they must have a mechanism which restricts increase when they are crowded which is over-ridden when disturbed so they make more to fill the space... I suppose this is a sensible action for survival... not to use up ALL available space , then capitalise on an opportunity! Certainly they do not increase so much when left alone.
Luit,Might you be going to the Conference at Wageningen? Ian would be very pleased to meet you at last! |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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As the sun came out again a further wander round the garden produced the following:
A Primula pubescins growing nicely in a trough (which is otherwise tatty looking and needs sorting!)
Androsace carnea
Pulsatilla hulleri
Trillium hibersonii
and a close up of same
Rhododendron 'Goosander' from that well kent nursery Glendoick
Saxifraga marginata rochheliana growing in tufa in the lime bed
N. 'Creagh Dubh'
Iberis saxatilis - a very 'common' rock garden plant but with a diameter of over 12 inches and a mass of flowers i am happy to accept in garden
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Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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Carol,
your picture shows the A. carnea ssp. brigantiaca.
A. carnea ssp. carnea is little seen in cultivation and the corolla is pale pink.
Franz |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Narcissus 'Creagh Dubh' doesnt suit it's name translation.
Creagh = rough pasture
Dubh = black |
Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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John 'O The Forest It warms my heart to find someone prepared to give celandines a second look. Here in the Eden valley there are surely great colonies of them too but I'm kept so busy tending to the Collection, it take over half an hour to dead head the potted ones before I start on those in the ground. Tomorrow if it is sunny I will take a picture of an oddity with nodding heads of cream over bronze foliage and post it here. One of nature's marvels is the change from a tribe of potted celandines on a chilly morning with all young flowers and buds closed, to the huge wave of wide open flowers when the warmth of the sun hits them, ablaze with yellows, oranges, creams, whites and lime greens As Lulu used to sing," It make me want to shout!"
Sad news tho' is that my once large and comprehensive collection of patches of Anemone nemorosa cultivars are all but wiped out by the dreaded Anemone Black Rot, from which I still find the brown cups at soil level as they appear from the underground sclerotia. |
Franz Hadacek (Fhadacek)
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I like Fritillaria very much, F. hermonis ssp. amana and F. acmopetala grows very easy in the open.
F. hermonis ssp. amana
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Can anyone tell me more about Primula (veris) officinalis? I was given some today. They definitely dont look like Cowslips or Oxlips. They came via Keith Lamb. Photo tomorrow |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Wonderful pics everyone.
Ian.... thanks for the confirmation of when the Hepaticas germinate. That means more into spring that winter so I have some idea when to "expect" (hey I'm being optimistic that they WILL germinate) them to start putting their little heads up. *grin*
Lovely to see the celandines..... the different ones you have over there are amazing. We have a tiny fraction of them here in Australia, and those from a couple of people who do import some of the forms from the UK etc.
So many things I want to add to my garden now. This site is bad for my health! LOL
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Göte K. A. Svanholm (Gote)
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Thank you Margaret.
Gyosei makes sense as a good Japanese word I cannot translate it without the Kanji but it sounds OK.
Göte |
Göte K. A. Svanholm (Gote)
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Primula officinalis Jacq. is as far as I know, a synonym for Primula veris L. = cowslip.
Primula officinalis (L,) Hill is Primula veris ssp. veris.
Göte |
Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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Mark re Primula officinalis. Gote is correct according to The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening.It says ' P officinalis, see P veris'
You know that P veris is the Cowslip and should have leaves abruptly contracted at the base. The oxlip P elatior can and often does have similar leaf to stalk transition. The differences are that Cowslip calyx is uniformly pale green [oxlip calyx has darker green midribs] Cowslip flowering head is smaller by half c.w.Oxlip and its flowers are deep,sometimes brownish yellow, even occasionally reddish c.w.Oxlips which are pale yellow. They can cross, producing swarms of plants intermediate in characters and are partially fertile.
What I would like to know is why Cowslip has the Sin its name and Oxlip doesn't |
Anthony Darby (Adarby)
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It would have to be 'oxesslip' or 'oxanslip'. The old spelling is 'oxeslippe' or 'oxeslyppe' or even oxanslyppe, just like cowslip used to be 'cowslyppe', which means cow dung - slyppe being 'slimy dropping' (I deserve a pat on the back for finding that one out! ). I suppose it got shortened to oxlip with 'es' removed, the 's' being unnecessary in oxlip but vital in cowslip. |
Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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Well done Darby, You must stand pat on your findings. And on that subject I have never seen better meadows full of Gentian verna nor of Primula veris than where there are quantities of cowpats. Maybe we should incorporate the material into the potting compost. Wonder if the plants are as particular about the pat age as are the Dung flies? |
Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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herewith the promised pic of the odd crook- necked celandine seedling. Cream flowers with bluish reverses on bronze leaves. Its pet name is Noddy. Flowers and leaves all normal, just the angle is different.Maybe genetic,maybe virus.
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Luit VanDelft (Lvandelft)
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Yes Margaret, I booked for 1 day at Wageningen, the day Ian is speaking there!
When I booked last year I was not sure if my condition would be so far o.k. , but now I
think I’ll be there. I am looking forward to hear Ian speaking and hope to meet him personally. It’s only 100 km from here!
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Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Oh, Luit, I am so pleased you will be there. I am only sorry that I cannot attend and meet you, too. I am glad that you are feeling well enough for this little trip. As the warmth comes more to the garden so, I hope, will the strength return to you !
Warm regards,
M |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Nice Celandine, Gwen.
creeping Phlox are just getting started here
P. 'Bavarian'
Phlox 'Alexander's Surprise'
Camellia 'Jury's Yellow'
Primula officinalis
Are opinions still the same? All the flowers face the same direction and are open flat as above. |
Carol Shaw (Carol)
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Hi Franz many thannks re Androsace
Mark I suspect daffie is a Brodie cultivar but we have not been able to prove this. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Mark, love the Phlox "Bavarian", great marking colour.
I think your primula is a hybrid, given the photo. |
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Gwen
That's an interesting Celendine and must be worth seeing if the character transfers, so get the paintbrush out.
Mark
Super pictures and your phlox is way ahead of mine. I grow loads for the beautiful carpet of colour they give. I have lost the names of many of mine (before digital recording) as the label went under the mats or was fancied by one of my feathered friends. |
john forrest (Jof)
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Here are 3 primulas blooming now
Primula amoena is most attractive from this collection of Holubec’s in Georgian Caucasus.
Primula boothii x aureata fimbriata was a cross I did about 20 years ago but is the only one of this type I have been able to keep since the weather patterns have changed. It seems to have hybrid vigour and increases well. I've never managed to get it to a show in all that time, so this is its debut.
This hybrid Primula David Valentine, which I think was made by Judy Burrow and named for her Uni colleague. It is an excellent doer and grows in any condition .
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Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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Mark, I agree, the primula is a hybrid. What shape are the leaves, how and where does each join its stem?
John, Too late, the pot of R. fic. Noddy has been visited by Small Tortoiseshells and Peacocks, Bumble bees,Hoverflies and Greenbottles as it stood on an outside shelf on the south side of the greenhouse where I keep oddities and new seedlings under assessment. Now it has reached that peculiar celandinious state wherebye its anthers fold inwards and cover its own stigmas, just to make sure I suppose. Nature seems to have invented everything including DIY. Look at your pulsatilla buds if you want to see the first'Thermal' underwear |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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I sympathise, John, we have lost many, many primula with the changing weather, not to mention a bad infestation of vine weevil a few years back, which coincided with a very hot summer. Where once there was a large and lovely collection of many sections, now there are only a few remnants to enjoy. I try to be philosphical about these things and look forward to the days when the garden is full of south african daisies but I find it hard going!
Gwen, no butterflies about in Aberdeen as yet, only greenbottles and a few bumblers. One or two wasps drawn to the Fritillaria house, of course, by the pong. |
Göte K. A. Svanholm (Gote)
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This is definitely not Primula veris. It looks like a Primula elatior. You really need to show the whole plant if you want an identification. Primula acaulis would look the same in a picture like this.
Below are two pics of P.veris
The red one is a variant of garden origin.
Below are two pics of Primula elatior.
I hope this went well. I grow both in grass that is moved in late summer.
Hope this is helpful
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Göte K. A. Svanholm (Gote)
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A PS.
I agree that it might be a hybrid or a garden selection. These have been selected for centuries.
Göte |
Gwendolen Mary Black (Gwenb)
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Maggie, It was David Mowle who once said that you can always tell a primula grower by his miserable face.Pampering them for the show bench is rewarding but labour intensive.Making collections and growing them outdoors and you have leaf aphids, root aphids, vine weevils and virus all trying to profit. In addition you have to deal with P marginata growing like elephants trunks sprawling about,visiting insects tramping all over the farina if the rain left any on the plant and worst of all you run the risk of developing Contact Dermatitis from handling the damned things. Have I left anything out? |
Luc Gilgemyn (Luc)
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John,
Just discovered your pic of Clematis tenuiloba "Ylva" - marvelous plant ! - I just happen to have bought one at my favourtie nursery over here in Belgium yesterday. However it's supposed to be planted outside and I see you keep it in a pot - would you (or anybody else) know if it's reliably hardy ???
Thanks
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Herman van Beusekom (Hermanne)
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Luc,
Bij mij staat er nu een in de tuin (zonder winterprotectie) te bloeien. Weliswaar geen 'Ylva' maar de gewone tenuiloba. Cheers. |
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Luc
I'm not sure what Herman's advice was but I have tried 2 times planted out both with fatal results. Sometimes you can grow things without protection if you can find the right place. In Blackpool we have about 150 cm rainfall and wet can kill plants in cold weather. My advice is to take cuttings and experiment.
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Ian McEnery (Ianmcenery)
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Luc
I understand that Clematis Tenuiloba will grow outside best in a trough so I am trying it out against the House wall. I will let you know this time next year how sucessful it is here in the UK Midlands |
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Well Herman wrote (in Dutch so showing the international character of this forum) that I planted -back in the summer of 2003- three plant of Clematis tenuiloba bought at David Sampson's nursery. These where planted in full sun and in a very lean mix of circa 75% stones. I did not protect the plants against our wintery wheather. Does this mean that Clematis tenuiloba is hardy ? I would not -necessarily- say so since our winters are heating up but I have no room for dozens of plants in pots. Thanks. |
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Thanks for the valuable advice John, Herman and Ian. Since I don't have room for many pots (except my Pleione) either - I'll go for my raised bed against the south wall of the house put it in a very lean mix and hope for the best - that's the warmest spot I can think of out here and I can protect it against most winter wet there too. Will see - I'll keep you informed next spring.
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A few pictures I took at the weekend when it was nice and sunny.
Firstly (Tony) this is what I bought as Iris bucharia.
It now has half a dozen flowers out.
Allium paradox var normale, one big arching leaf but at the weekend when I when shopping :-) I saw some with multiply leaves so looks like mine has got to grow a bit.
Detail of flower.
Next a couple of Androsaces, pyrenacia
and sempervivoides.
Lastly a plant bought, labelled as Draba mollissima,
but I think it may be wrong. Anyone like to confirm that and suggest the correct name. What ever it is the bee liked the look of it while I was photographing.
Andrew |
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All over my garden Anemone Blanda is flowering now in all variations, best place for them is in semi-shade:
"Blue shades"
A self-sown hybrid
"Rosea"
"White Splendour"
Puschkinia Scilloides also spreads his seeds freely all over the garden. I often pick the flowers just when they are withered, so that they can put all the power in the new bulb not in building seed. These bulbs have 20 - 30 flowers on one stem!
P. Alba |
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Great pix. Thomas I love P. alba |
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Blustery showers today, so here's what is out in the greenhouse jungle.
Tulipa montana
Bellevalia romana
Narcissus 'Xit'
Lachenalia sp. ex B&Q 2002 and flowering for the first time!
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Andrew,
Your Draba mollissima looks like D. longisiliqua. There is a beautiful picture from John Forrest in FLOWERING IN MARCH 05.
Franz |
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Beautiful pics you guys, I particularly like the close up of Anemone Blue Shades, most spectacular.
Here are a few of my bulbs that are out now.
Erythronium multiscapoideum
Fritillaria imperialis
Fritillaria michaelovskyi
Fritillaria pallida pale yellow form
Fritillaria pallida pale yellow form inner
I have a few more which I will post after I've had a cuppa. |
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Ahhh!Thats better, now for the other bulbs.
Fritillaria purdyi
Now 2 Irises First Iris afghanica
Iris vicaria
Romulea bulbocoides white form
Finally the ephemeral Sanguinaria Canadensis fl pl
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I just gasped at your Iris vicaria |
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MAGNIFICENT shots John. Chesterfield AGS Show this Saturday so might see you there?
Cheers,
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Hi everyone, I have not fallen over the edge of our planet just some family problems. Here is Sanguinaria canadensis Paint creek Star and Scopolia carniolica, Anemonella Snowball. We have returned to winter here with Siberian winds and snow falls, this is spring in Scotland
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Hello, Ian C., nice to have you around again. We were sorry to hear about the loss of Uncle T. You will miss him, and his eggs. Weather here in Aberdeen is ghastly, too. Driving wind and heavy rain... damage is being caused, I'm afraid. Not a lot we can do about it.
That Anemonella Snowball is pretty, and I don't really go for doubles, but this still has cute "sexy" bits which makes me forgive it!
Have you got this anemonella for sale? |
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Cliff
I won't be able to make the show so the baton is firmly in your hands to show us what shines.
Ian
Nice Sanguinaria. Does it throw away its petals as quickly as mine did( now completely bald)
Today I went to Brigsteer wood, which is near to Kendal in Cumbria Lake District and it is an absolute joy in spring with carpets of wild daffodils amongst the trees. This is a picture from last year because I was a bit late in visiting this year and many of the daffs had gone over.
A close up of a clump taken today
There were also carpets of Anemone nemerosa
Some of them had attractive pink colouring on the back of the petals
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Hi Everyone,
You have all been busy taking lots of nice pictures again! Welcome back Ian C - it was good to see you at Hexham and we are looking forward to popping in to the nursery when we are up the weekend of the Perth show. Was really pleased to get a piece of the Scopolia from you too. John - your pictures are as stunning as always. Anthony - your Bellevalia pic has helped me identify an unknown from AGS seed - thanks!
Some pictures from me:
Starting with the least hardy - this is Ferraria crispa with pollinator. Greenhouse full of flies but the flowers are fascinating. Brian Mathew's book on bulb cultivation reckons that Ferraria are shy flowering in cultivation but this is not my experience with the 4 species I grow;
Another of my Cape heaths, this is Erica chamissonis;
A pair of the 'Cape Cowslips' This is Lachenalia aloides var vanzyliae;
This is L.a. var aurea;
Some Irids next. This is (I think) Gladiolus huttonii grown from seed collected as G.watsonius;
This is Gladiolus 'Gillian' which I first saw in the collection of the late Ken Mellows;
The next three are colour varieties of G.gracilis var gracilis;
The next is Moraea (formerly Homeria) elegans, this is supposed to be strongly and sweetly scented but not to my nose it isn't...
Onto slightly hardier subjects - Ranunculus asiaticus 'Ken Aslet'. A stunning semi-double red which is cold hardy and was awarded a PC when shown by Kath Dryden. My plants came from Kath. In the award write up she says that it never sets viable seed, it does here but only if I cross it with an equally robust, semi-double white collected in Crete. Possibly they are both polyploid?
In March I showed the first flower to open from my pollen dabbing experiments from all the wild self-coloured forms of R.asiaticus I grow. This is the offspring now that a few more have opened, as you can see they have thrown some colour breaks even in the first generation;
On to the hardy stuff:
Narcissus x rozieri;
Seedlings of N.bulbocodium - some have extremely wide coronas over 5cm in diameter;
A pair of orchids, Orchis quadripunctata and Orchis tridentata;
Primula recubariensis
Finally Luc - my Pleione are showing signs of catching up!
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A lot of beautiful plants and pix again folks - this really is a great forum.
Your Pleione do look very good indeed Darren !
The phlox bavarian that Mark Smyth posted last monday looks very special too - haven't seen any of that around here.
Anthony's Tulipa montana is something I would appreciate in my garden too... Very nice !
Just to show that I don't grow Pleione alone - here's some outside pix taken early this week :
Draba yunnanensis J. Halda - quite hairy but does allright outside (provided it has a pane of glass above it's head in winter !)
Jeffersonia dubia - looks quite well this year.
Narcissus Jetfire - I've seen a lot of it already on this forum - but I guess nobody minds another look...
Saxifriga megasaeflora "Jupiter"
and a close up
Sax. bohemia
and finally :
Saxifraga petrashii assimilis
Enjoy the weekend - I hope your weather is better than ours !
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Darren, is your Narcissus x rozieri the same as 'Solveig's Song', or at least the same parentage? |
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And some more Pleione now - It's raining outside anyway - we might as well enjoy ourselves inside
I've made the pictures a bit smaller so that they can be viewed more comfortably on smaller screens too.
Here we go :
Pleione rakata
Pleione formosana alba "Kate"
Pleione formosana
Pleione tongariro
And the last one for today :
Pleione kilauea "Curlew"
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Anne, Narcissus x rozieri is the same cross as N. 'Solveig's Song' and it is the same cross that I have long grown and distributed as N. x cazorlanus.
All are the result of a crossing between N. triandrus and bulbicodium it is just the botanists keep finding earlier names that have prioity. I am not sure about giving them cultivar names unless they are very different from the pack and I have not seen any that would qualify yet.
I do like all of them they are great free flowering bulbs for inside or out.
Nice to share your beautiful pleiones Luc since we have so few left - and the pictures are the perfect size for the forum, thank you.
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Hi again to everyone first to Maggie, yes we have a few spare Snowballs with the sexy bits so will bring you one to Perth, Darren when will you visit us you are welcome to come even on Sunday when we are closed. a few more pics Berneuxia yunanensis, Erythronium Kondo note the good leaves, Erythronium sibiricum Altai snow and Hacquatia Thor.
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fantastic photos everyone especially the Africans. I bought the Cape Bulbs book just to look at Moraea and Gladioli. Jim Price over here has been after single R asiaticus for years. Everytime he buys tubers they are double. Anyone know where to buy them in large(ish) quantities? |
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Primula marginata 'Millard's Variety'
a leaf from my hybrid Primula. Could it be P. luteola?
Pulsatilla pratensis Bohemica
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Wonderful pics everyone!! Truely beautiful!!
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
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Hi Mark, I love the pulsatilla any chance if it set seed that a few might escape to Kirriemuir? Winter is still here with the worst day in April for many years. A dwarf shrub Vaccinium macrocarpum var ' Franklyn'
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Hi, everyone must be watching 'The Wedding' or I hope busy in the garden, Trillium ovatum looks good today as does Trollius altaicum and jeffersonia dubia
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of course Ian.
Your Jeffersonia is very timely because I just noticed mine in bud and it's label is missing |
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I, forgot to tell you that Broadband has reached the very heart of Teuchterland here in Kirriemuir and it is fantastic the pictures fly on to the computer. |
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Hi Ian
Yup ain't it great! We are disappearing off on Monday for a holiday in Cyprus if you are all lucky, or unlucky, there will be some pix when we get back |
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Well started a bit despondent today with a frost that turned a few buds brown. However Anemone fulgens put a brighter face on it by midday.
Cheers John H. |
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How about some Rhododendrons, I took these pictures the day before the weather took a step back into winter and we had 60 mile per hour freezing winds - that did a lot of damage.
Rhododendron sherriffii is not very common in cultivation it has wonderful lime green indumentum on the backs of the new leaves.
A real beauty with many of the best features of both the parents is this Rhodo yakushimanum x taliense.
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I am posting this picture of a celandine for Gwen Black who was having a problem similar to John and the post was appearing as an attachment.
Lets see what will happen.
Blue tips 300
Good that works, it is always best to save your pictures as a jpeg file. |
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Gwen,
That blue tipped celandine is really something isn't it!!? Do you by any chance ever have spare seed from any of your plants that you aren't wanting? I realise that you may be specifically breeding and therefore not want to share seed but I thought I would ask. You have so many different varieties and until I saw the postings from you and Mark Smyth I really had no idea just how many variations there were in the celandines. It must be a great joy having them flower for the first time and working out what new little gems you have had appear! *grin*
I am not after any particular type, just some variation to see what bits and pieces will end up amongst them. I am not aware of that many varieties actually being imported into Australia, so anything would be wonderful. There seem to be a few basic coloured doubles here and of course some of the marbled leaved ones, but things like the varieties that have been posted with the "doughnut" of tight packed petals in the middle are very different. Hopefully Mark will be successful in harvesting some seed for me as we discussed a while ago, but I realise that it is a tricky process so it might not be possible.
Ian,
The Jeffersonia is lovely!! (well actually all your pics are) I have 2 small seedlings of Jeffersonia diphylla that have now survived 2 growth cycles. This spring as they reshoot I am going to bite the bullet and try to repot them. I have been so reticent to do so as they are so finicky here, but I have been told that they are best transferred just as they commence growth for the year. Any helpful hints you can give to help me be successful? I doubt that my conditions are ideal, but they have survived so far so I won't be moving them to anywhere else, just to their own tubes so that they can grow on for a few years. I would very much like to see them flower one day, so hopefully they will survive the transplant.
Thanks again for your wonderful pics everyone. So different to what we have flowering here. I keep finding more and more things that I simply "must have" in my collection if I can find them.... you're all a bad influence! .... which is definitely a GOOD thing to me! *grin*
I do waffle on don't I? It's late and time to go to bed. So much fun coming up here and seeing all the things my new friends grow.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
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Thanks to Ian for posting the celandine picture for me.
Paul, I have been growing celandines in this garden for thirty years or more and buying any that were new to me. As they colonised their given spots they began to hybridise and year by year new seedlings were selected and cossetted. The yellow flowered chocolate leaved cultivar called Brazen Hussy is very common here in the trade and is potent , handing on its genes for chocolate leaf and many in-between leaves some with very distinctive patterns. Here it produced for me the orange flowered choc leaf which had been bred some years ago by deliberate cross and called Coppernob. Then we started finding chocolate leaves with cream flowers and now we have Primrose coloured flowers on dusky leaves. I leave a good deal of the crossing to nature but do plant together patches of those plants I wish to introduce to each other. The Holy Grail is to get doubles in colour other than yellow or cream which exist already or to get doubles on fancy leaves. By constantly selecting distinctive seedlings I am adding to the list of cultivars and encouraging those flowers with large overlapping rounded petals to improve the general garden worthiness.
Like most Ranunculaceae they germinate best when sown very fresh despite their not germinating until the following spring, but sending seed would be no hassle. A better way would be to send the small tubers in domancy but I'm not sure of your import restrictions |
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Many years ago I collected seeds of these two plants in the Mediterranean area.
Anemone coronaria
Corydalis solida
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Paul I have to confess that I'm not lettings seeds set just now as there are way too many to keep an eye on. Towards the end of the season I'll let some set seed into plastic camera film containers
Gwen that's a stunning plant. Is it as blue in real life? The green and white sepals look good too. |
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Mark, the celandine was photographed on an olive green towel. I adjusted the colour to match that as nearly as possible. The blue is about right. If anything the pictured petals lack a little warmth in the shade of cream. |
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decisions, decisions, decisions! It's hard to decide what to show out of the photos I took today. So in alphabetical order ...
Androsace carnea wrongly planted by me in not very gritty soil on my rockery but doing fantastic (and forgotten about)
Corydalis wilsonii which I bought on impulse. What do I do now?
Dianthus 'Whitehill' one of the spikey cushions in a trough - not that you can tell!
Polygala 'Lillet' in the crevice garden
Rhododendron 'Snipe' I hope!
Townsendia or is it Hymenoxis?
I see we are at 10,216 photos uploaded.
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Fabulous pictures above guys. All great but Darrens Moraea and the intriguing Ferraria ( though I'm not sure I'd like to share a room with it)Luc's Pleiones of course and Marks furry Pulsatilla like a little bat,Ian's Trollius,Ian's taffeta Rhododendron and Franz's fab clump of Corydalis selected for special mention.
Gwen's delicious Celandine with the blue edge is coincidental because I have a couple of pics with a similar theme.
There have been quite a few Anemonellas in the forum recently and I wonder if other clones behave as mine, which I raised from seed. As the pink flowers mature they become paler but then develop a lavender edge to the petals which becomes more pronounced as the stamens fall and the flower fades to white.
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Didn't see your last posting Mark we were obviously working at the same time. Super detail shots. It's great to get in close. |
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thanks John.
The lower left plants with it's picotee edge is lovely. I was going to buy some this weekend but decided they would get lost among all the leaves in my garden |
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Just a few plants in flower today in the garden. The first is Sanguinaria Canadensis the single does more for me than the double,
Jeffersonia Dubia
Trillium Riva;le which I raised from AGS seed a long time ago
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A belated thanks to Ian Y re N. x rozieri. What bliss to be able to write that on labels instead of the list of parents! |
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Gwen,
Thanks for the offer of tubers but our quarantine makes it difficult and expensive (and often terminal) to bring them through customs. While seed is slower it results in live plants, which is always good! LOL
Mark,
Great pics!! Re the celandine seeds.... I realised that you were not going to let seed set until late in the season.... you mentioned that when you originally offered. If it doesn't happen this year then there is always next year.
John,
Those Anemonellas are glorious. The tipped flower is remarkable.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
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Paul I havent dead headed any galanthus this year and it looks like many have set seed but time will tell. Brian Duncan the daff breeder tells me he is always disappointed with false pregnancies with his crosses |
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Mark,
Here's hoping!! I'd love to see what sort of interesting things end up from seed with all the different named varieties you guys have over there. Hopefully 'Trym' will be in there as well..... 'cause that is one I want to get seed of as you know. Might be lucky enough to score something similar in the way of seedlings from it as I know that it can produce them, but definitely worth a try!
I find it frustrating at times with "false pregnancies" as you so aptly described it. I have been asked a couple of times for seed of Galanthus gracilis but it VERY rarely sets seed, although it LOOKS like it has. The fruits end up being a squishy mass once they drop off, with no actual seeds in there. I was lucky enough to harvest 3 or 4 seeds from my clump last year, which have made their way to New Zealand to someone I know over there. Hopefully they'll be successful for her. I only have the single clone of gracilis which I figure drastically reduces the chances of it self-seeding.
As I have said before, any seed from the differently marked named varieties will be interesting. 'Trym' and the "thicker" flowered ones like 'Augustus' and 'Three Ships' (I think I have the names right) are of particular interestdue to their shape or substance, but you have a lot of different markings over there that I have not seen here, so you never know what will appear. Thanks for thinking of me.
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Darren Sleep (Darren)
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So many new posts since Friday - I can't keep up!
Anne - Ian Y has answered your question about Narcissus x rozieri better than I could (thanks Ian). My stock originally came from Kath Dryden. It is very similar to Soveigs Song but has slightly larger flowers with (to my eyes) less of the 'triandrus' about them.
Mark - I don't have enough spare plants of Ranunculus asiaticus to help out Jim Price but I can provide loads of fresh seed in a couple of months time. It would be open pollinated so some weird colour breaks might occur but hopefully no doubles. The single wild forms are so beautiful, easy to grow and common in the wild that it amazes me how hard they are to get. I've had stock of 'Ken Aslet' and a single yellow from Kath Dryden. The whites were from seed collected in Crete and I've a red from seed collected in Israel. A friend of mine recently gave me seedlings of the pink/purple form which was the only significant wild colour phase I was missing. It has taken me ten years to accumulate this lot!
Ian C - think Susan has got plans of an Archaeological variety on the Sunday after Perth but will pass on your kind invite.
May be back with some pictures later. Like those Anemonella John.
Darren.
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Darren Sleep (Darren)
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OK, as promised, some more pictures.
These are assorted Ranunculus asiaticus 'mongrels'.
Just to prove I grow the odd true 'alpine' too..
This is Ranunculus millefoliatus which I treat exactly the same way as R.asiaticus (it is summer dormant too).
The Tropaeolums tricolor and brachyceras have intertwined in this ventilator mesh. They are beautiful but wayward plants. For many years I tried potting tubers up separately to sell at shows but could never afford the space to keep them a yard apart so they ended up all tangled and unsaleable! If anybody would like a few tricolor tubers please let me know - there is barely room left in the pot for any soil!
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Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Thanks Darren,my N.x rozieri came from Kath too. |
john forrest (Jof)
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Since Darren has shown some lovely Ranunculus here are a couple of mine, not so colourful but a quiet charm.
Ranunculus parnasifolius Nuria
Ranunculus amplexicaulis
A few more of my Pleiones for Luc.
P. pogonoides
P. Tolima
P. Shantung
P. Shantung Ridgeway
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Jozef Lemmens (Jozef)
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Hi Luc,
A couple of days ago, you asked some information about Clematis tenuiloba 'Ylva'. I grow this plant in a raised bed (covered in winter). See attachment. But it isn't necessary to protect this plant in winter. I have a plant in the open garden too. This is another clone and the soil in my garden is clayish. I suppose this explain the difference in flowering time.
But of course, the plants on a show bench are much more beautiful.
Jef
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Nice shots John. My parnasifolius which is in my crevice garden must be wrong as it has smooth leaves. No sign of flowers so far. |
Luc Gilgemyn (Luc)
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Hi John,
Thanks for posting some more Pleione pix - they look very good, well grown and healthy indeed. Funny isn't it - out here with me, my Tolima is already over - my Shantung Ridgeway is still in bud...
Your Ranunculus parnassifolius looks great - I very much like the subtle pinkish veining - marvelous plant. I've not been able to grow it yet - this makes me want to try it again - would it survive in the open garden ???
Hi Jef !
Nice to see a fellow belgian around here - we could continue this conversation in flemish, but I don't think our friends would appreciate it.
Thanks for the advice on C. tenuiloba - I'll keep it in mind - it's a relief to see the tenuiloba (all be it later than the one under cover) coming up nicely in the open garden.
Luc |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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The first blooming of a dwarf Pulsatilla vernalis (6 centimetres high in flower) grown from seed collected high in the Dolomites. Three images captured today; 12th April in Whitworth, Lancashire. England.
Greetings to all and best wishes to everyone attending the alpine conference in Holland. I will be there in spirit but not, unfortunately, in body. Have a splendid time.
Cheers,
Cliff Booker
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Jozef Lemmens (Jozef)
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Luc,
Ranunculus parnassifolius is rather easy in the open garden. It needs a place that always remains humid (not wet). My plants are growing near a small mountain stream.
I have a few spare plants (seedlings of my own plants). If you like you can have one. I am at the Dutch Alpine Conference from tomorrow until Saturday. Maybe I meet you on Saturday?
Jef
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john forrest (Jof)
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Superb pics of Pulsatilla Cliff I have started saving for an SLR digital camera so that I can control the photos and get close up shots like yours (I’m already up to 50p). coincidentally I have been taking shots of a few Pulsatillas in the garden today.
Pulsatilla vulgaris
Pulsatilla rubra
Pulsatilla patens
Pulsatilla patens back
The furry flowers just make you want to stroke them
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Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Hi John,
Please send your hard earned pennies to a charity...you obviously don't NEED a digital SLR..... those are beautiful images.
Kind regards,
Cliff |
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John,
Er... what pray tell is wrong with your pictures that you CURRENTLY take? That last pic (with the furry bits you want to stroke! LOL) is very similar to Cliff's pics, so I don't know exactly what the problem is. They look great to me!! (Yours too as always Cliff!!)
Lovely to see Pulsatilla rubra... bought "red" pulsatillas a few times but never had them actually end up being anything different to normal, but that one you can really see if RED. Wonderful colour!!
Cliff, is that the standard bloom for P. vernalis? Lesley in NZ, is that the same as the seed you sent me last year? I just love it so I hope it is.... the seedlings are coming along quite happily so hopefully they'll flower for me at some point, although still a long way off as yet given they're only about 1cm high with about 4 leaves. *grin*
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Darren Sleep (Darren)
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Wonderful Pulsatillas! I gave up attempting to grow P.vernalis after a few years where the flower buds formed down in the rosettes but then failed to expand. Tried plants from different sources so it must have been my cultivation at fault. Wondering if they were kept too dry for too long in late winter when they were wanting to grow? Does anyone have any tips as I've just aquired two more plants for another attempt ? I aim to get a few more Pulsatilla now that I have space and suitable conditions in the garden.
Agree with the others John - you don't need a digital SLR with pictures like yours!
Darren.
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Luc Gilgemyn (Luc)
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Hi Jef,
I won't say no to that proposal - I'll be in Utrecht on Saturday - will most certainly meet you there. Would be nice if you had a R.parnassifolius to spare.
John,
Marvelous pix of the pulsatillas ! I agree with Paul, the red ones are brilliant - have'nt got anything like it.
And pleaease do not worry about the quality of your pix - they are simply wonderful.
Luc |
John humphries (Greenmanplants)
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I disagree on the camera front. I think the quality of John's photography already demonstrated shows that he could get the benefit from a digital SLR. He would be able to enhance his shots to an extent that few of us even aspire to. That doesn't mean there's anything wrong with what's already there, far from it, he's already way ahead of most of us.
Cheers John H |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Couple of other pulsatillas to add to the collection - images captured in Switzerland in 2004.
Regards to all,
Cliff
Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia Close-Up
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john forrest (Jof)
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I think Cliff's fabulous shots go towards proving my point. You are all very kind and supportive but you don't hear the swearing when the camera takes a shot focusing itself behind the subject of a thin stem or insists on flashing and blitzing the colour from some of the flowers. Also there is no real control over depth of field because I can't control the aperture. Mind you I used to swear at my Film SLR about a fortnight after taking the pics,when the slides came back. Now at least I can take as many shots as I like and bracket the exposure and even that can be manipulated on the computer. Not so bad and I wouldn't be without it but I would like the extra control.
After all that ranting here are a few shots taken today.
I love Lewisias and have quite a few in my collection.
First a deciduous Lewisia brachycalyx
Next is a hybrid I made a few years ago by crossing L. brachycalyx with a L.cotyledon Rose Splendour. This has sessile flowers like L. brachycalyx but is evergreen like L.cotyledon. I named the hybrid for my wife.
Lewisia ‘Patricia Forrest’
A little closer.
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Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Beautiful, John. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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lovely.
John you dont see how many out of focus shots we all dump. Looking at the shots I took today during and after work I can tell you I deleted 25 out of 60 photos. That's 41.66% rubbish shots. The rest will be stored and the best you'll see below.
Clematis macropetala - never noticed just how hairy the petals are
Muscari '?' - named after Kath Dryden's grand-daughter
Phlox 'Amazing Grace'
Potentilla neumanniana 'Nana'
Potentilla verna 'Pygmaea'
Potentilla tabertaemontani 'Nana'
all says the label!!
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Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Just to further the discussion about cameras a little, all my shots have been taken with a Nikon 995 digital (which is only a now very dated 3.34 mega pixel unit) and is certainly not an incredibly expensive digital SLR. I am a firm believer in the theory (even in respect of digital media) that the quality of the image is hugely influenced by the quality of the lens...Nikon, as we know, have always used superb lenses.
John, your shots are, as always, simply a pleasure to view and, while John (Humphries) is entirely correct in his summary of the situation, I wouldn't be TOO hasty in brandishing your wallet unless you need to make large prints of your fabulous images.
Cheers,
Cliff Booker. Whitworth. Lancashire. U.K. |
Thomas Huber (Hubi1)
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I made this Pulsatilla-shot at the Gotthard-Pass in June last year and will return this year.
Cliff, when and where have you been in Switzerland last year?
John, I can't wait to see pics from your new camera, although I don't know how you will top your marvelous pics! |
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John,
If you think YOUR shots aren't very good then I had best stop posting mine the Southern Hemisphere thread etc, because yours are much better than mine.
Then again most of you would probably blanch at how basic my camera is..... doesn't even have a memory stick but has 1.44Mb floppy disk inserted. My camera doesn't even rate Megabytes. LOL
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Thomas,
What a glorious picture!! What a backdrop!!!!!
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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John, I have never seen lovelier photos of "a readers's wife", if you'll pardon the expression!! How chuffed must Patricia be to have such a stunner named for her? Lucky lady, indeed. As to cameras, it can be irritating not to have fuller manual control with some digitals but surely there is a cheaper alternative to going the whole hog of SLR digital? (Money-saving Scotswoman speaks, here!!)I know Ian Y has been pleased with the newer type of Olympus he went for, to allow more "fine-tuning" of the pix. Not that he might not be tempted by a digital SLR, especially, as Cliff says, for larger print work but I think HIS focus in the immediate future is a digital projector !
Cliff, more fab pix, but could you restrict the width to 800 or less to avoid the "screen-scrolling" problem, mentioned previously? Thanks a million,
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Göte K. A. Svanholm (Gote)
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Please!!
All those closeups are indeed stunning. But what does the PLANT look like?
A shot showing the whole plant would be very welcome as an addition.
I must assume that I am not the only one who is ignorant. I can only surmise that the Phox 'Amazing Grace' is not a paniculata hybrid this time of the year.
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Anne Wright (Annsie)
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I wish to be counted among the ignorant! I agree with Gote it would be helpful to see the whole plant if we're talking gardening and not just photography (I'm just jealous...) |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Phlox 'Amazing Grace'
one creeping Phlox in my garden measures 28"x21"/71x53cm in under two years starting with a 9cm pot |
Anne Wright (Annsie)
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Thanks Mark! |
Ian Christie (Ichristie)
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I must agree that all the new pictures are fantastic and I think it is great to tell us what kind of camera is used as anyone who wishes to but a new digital can see the results taken by a few here, my camera is a Fujifilm finepix s 7000 which is 6megapixels so here are a few Erythroniums taken today, first is Ery Sundics Ery japonicum and an interesting hybrid between Ery pagoda and revolutum a super amber shade.
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Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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here are two more small Phlox
'Daisy Hill'
bifida 'Ralf Haywood'
and a little Dulux Sax S. x kellereri
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Luc Gilgemyn (Luc)
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Plenty more beauties on this forum again ! Marvelous !
Ian,
These Erythroniums are fabulous - I'm particularly fond of the hyb (last pic) - it has the same soft mixed pinkish/yellow colours that you find in Lewisia Tweedyi "Elliot's form" - verrrry nice indeed.
Mark,
"Daisy Hill" looks great too - I haven't seen it at this end of the North Sea - smashing !
I've had a look outside at my three or four year old "Amazing Grace" but it will take another fourtnight before it shows his beauty this year.
So I'll need to be patient.
Thanks again for all the lovely pix everyone ! Great show - great quality
Luc |
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Hi, Folks, we're half way through the month and this page is already miles long: I'll open another page to continue April, to improve download times for those of us without broadband!
Glad somebody can afford it, but it's not cheap enough for us, yet!! |
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A few oddities tonight this wonderfull primula maximowiczii collected by Ron McBeath is a real stunner also a Daphne Garnet from Robin White and a Sebaea thomasii from South Africa been outside all winter so this is a surprise.
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there are ads on TV for broadband costing £17.99 a month compared to my £28 |
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Ian the colour of E,japonica is wonderful and Primula maximowiczii is now on my wanted list.
Mark keep posting your super Phlox pictures. I've been most lax with mine and haven't kept good records of their names and the birds have collected all my labels. |
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This page is now closed . There is a new page for the second half of April... feel free to post there! |
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