We hope you have enjoyed the SRGC Forum. You can make a Paypal donation to the SRGC by clicking the above button

Author Topic: Puzzles  (Read 150338 times)

mark smyth

  • Hopeless Galanthophile
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15254
  • Country: gb
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #270 on: May 03, 2009, 10:24:34 PM »
Recently in the Narcissus thread mention was made of Narcissus facing the brightest light. Today while driving a plant popped in to my head. One, a native plant, that always moved towards the darker place. What is it? I hope there is only one
Antrim, Northern Ireland Z8
www.snowdropinfo.com / www.marksgardenplants.com / www.saveourswifts.co.uk

When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

mark smyth

  • Hopeless Galanthophile
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15254
  • Country: gb
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #271 on: May 03, 2009, 10:41:23 PM »
Two eggs. Who/what laid them?
« Last Edit: May 03, 2009, 10:44:09 PM by mark smyth »
Antrim, Northern Ireland Z8
www.snowdropinfo.com / www.marksgardenplants.com / www.saveourswifts.co.uk

When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

Paul T

  • Our man in Canberra
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8435
  • Country: au
  • Paul T.
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #272 on: May 04, 2009, 12:29:40 AM »
Fowl of some description.  ;D

Given the wide range of colours of egg we had from our assorted different types of chickens when I was growing up, both would fit within the realm of chickendom, but I would be guessing by the blu-ish cast on the left egg that it would more likely be some sort of duck, as some of those do tend towards blue-ish eggs..... they look a bit large for some of the bantams that have the same tinge to theirs.  The markings in the darker egg look a lot like a pheasant egg, except that it looks way too big?

If it was a month ago I would have just said "the Easter Bunny!"  8)
Cheers.

Paul T.
Canberra, Australia.
Min winter temp -8 or -9°C. Max summer temp 40°C. Thankfully, maybe once or twice a year only.

Lesley Cox

  • way down south !
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16348
  • Country: nz
  • Gardening forever, house work.....whenever!
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #273 on: May 04, 2009, 01:34:00 AM »
Parsons?
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

mark smyth

  • Hopeless Galanthophile
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15254
  • Country: gb
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #274 on: May 04, 2009, 06:52:56 AM »
Paul is hot ;D
Antrim, Northern Ireland Z8
www.snowdropinfo.com / www.marksgardenplants.com / www.saveourswifts.co.uk

When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

ranunculus

  • utterly butterly
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5069
  • Country: england
  • ALL BUTTER AND LARD
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #275 on: May 04, 2009, 07:15:48 AM »
Paul is hot ;D

He quite likes you, too!   :-* :-* :-*
Cliff Booker
Behind a camera in Whitworth. Lancashire. England.

Ragged Robin

  • cogent commentator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3494
  • Country: 00
  • in search of all things wild and wonderful
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #276 on: May 04, 2009, 08:19:04 AM »
Hooray!  I thought the puzzle trail had gone cold.....but obviously things are hotting up  ;D  My guess is that they look good enough to eat  ???
Valais, Switzerland - 1,200 metres - Continental climate - rocks and moraine

Maggi Young

  • Forum Dogsbody
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 44564
  • Country: scotland
  • "There's often a clue"
    • International Rock Gardener e-magazine
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #277 on: May 04, 2009, 11:35:20 AM »
I'm puzzling full time about the plant that " always moved towards the darker place."  :-\

Both those eggs are pretty big....  :o     the bluer egg is perhaps a goose egg...too big for a duck... well, any duck I've met!  Unless there's a chicken somewhere with watering eyes, might the lovely big brown speckled egg be from a turkey?  ??? I've never seen a turkey egg!
Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!

Editor: International Rock Gardener e-magazine

Alan B

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 25
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #278 on: May 04, 2009, 12:31:47 PM »
They look like chicken eggs by the size.  The brown one i guess could be a breed like marans and the blueish maybe an anacona.
in South Wales

Maggi Young

  • Forum Dogsbody
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 44564
  • Country: scotland
  • "There's often a clue"
    • International Rock Gardener e-magazine
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #279 on: May 04, 2009, 01:08:27 PM »
Alan, you have made me trot off to the pantry to examine the eggs there more closely!

Not sure how wide Mark's hands are; I thought the eggs looked pretty big.... but, on placing two eggs 
( fresh from the hens of local Aberdeen SRGC Members  Joan and Chris Rowe  :) ) on my own hand.... the hens' eggs look bigger than I thought..... my hands are approx. 8cm across the palm ( yes, yes, I know, not very dainty!)
 Click the pic to enlarge and yes, these eggs  look pretty big...... so I'm back to a duck and hen for Mark's eggs.... but as to which varieties, I have no notion..... hope there will be pix to follow of said feathered friends??
Margaret Young in Aberdeen, North East Scotland Zone 7 -ish!

Editor: International Rock Gardener e-magazine

mark smyth

  • Hopeless Galanthophile
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15254
  • Country: gb
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #280 on: May 04, 2009, 02:02:54 PM »
My hand is 9.5 cm across
Antrim, Northern Ireland Z8
www.snowdropinfo.com / www.marksgardenplants.com / www.saveourswifts.co.uk

When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

Alan B

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 25
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #281 on: May 04, 2009, 02:34:51 PM »
Guess that rules out chickens.
in South Wales

Ragged Robin

  • cogent commentator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3494
  • Country: 00
  • in search of all things wild and wonderful
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #282 on: May 04, 2009, 04:47:50 PM »
I don't think the brown speckled one looks pointed enough one end for a pheasants egg but then again if Mark was thinking in the car of of a Pheasants-eye narcissus (N. recurvus) pointing towards the dark that might possibly shed some light on the puzzle, although I'm not eggsactly confident   :-\
Valais, Switzerland - 1,200 metres - Continental climate - rocks and moraine

mark smyth

  • Hopeless Galanthophile
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15254
  • Country: gb
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #283 on: May 04, 2009, 07:23:09 PM »
I'll put you all out of your misery trying to think of what laid the eggs.

Alan was right the eggs belong to a Maran with the chocolate egg
http://www.chickenpictures.co.uk/siteimages/maranhen.jpg

and an Araucana the only chicken to lay a blue egg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__CePmZh0l7w/SCd_7ll1zFI/AAAAAAAABbw/aya3grbD9iE/s400/%2B%2BAraucana%2BHen.jpg

A friend breeds rare breed chickens. The two eggs in my hand are big. All his chooks are free range
« Last Edit: October 15, 2011, 04:46:46 PM by Maggi Young »
Antrim, Northern Ireland Z8
www.snowdropinfo.com / www.marksgardenplants.com / www.saveourswifts.co.uk

When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

tonyg

  • Chief Croconut
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2451
  • Country: england
  • Never Stop Looking
    • Crocus Pages
Re: Puzzles
« Reply #284 on: May 04, 2009, 09:50:52 PM »
I thought I knew what 'Little Ern' is, but there are more plants with such
hairy stems.
Here is the one I was thinking of and it's having yellow flowers.
If it is not the same, Tony may say what it is  ;D ;D
I know its been a long time but is yours Asarum pulchellum Luit???

 


Scottish Rock Garden Club is a Charity registered with Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR): SC000942
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal