Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum => Topic started by: Len Rhind on December 20, 2007, 03:07:28 AM
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Ian,
The idea of showing dissected flowers is brilliant. That is precisely the kind of solid information that a novice, like myself, needs to help put us on a solid footing of plant identification. Very much appreciated.
The Log Index is being kept up to date and will be ready when log 52 is posted. Will it be delayed by your trip to N.Z.? Of which, I hope you thoroughly enjoy and get lots of great photos.
All the best and Merry Christmas,
Len
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The idea of showing dissected flowers is brilliant. That is precisely the kind of solid information that a novice, like myself, needs to help put us on a solid footing of plant identification. Very much appreciated.
Agreed. :)
Every time when a new log appears, I read the others from the same time of last years, and this is interesting.
In 2006 you mentioned the rock garden. I would like to see pictures of your rock garden too. Do you have bulbs in the rock garden? I wonder why people in general don't put autumn flowering bulbs in the rock (alpine) garden. Here is a pic from the alpine garden of the Botanic Garden of Vienna in september with (maybe) Crocus speciosus. I liked it very much. But there are many more hardy autumn flowering bulbs!
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Just a wee point. The dissected ovary shows ovules not "embryo seeds". Fertilisation produces a fertilised ovule or zygote which then divides to become an embryo.
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Thanks Len I always strive to find something new to show or say but after five years it becomes more difficult. Log 52 will appear on time next week my trip to NZ will affect four logs in January/February but I am making provisions for that so no bulb log will be missed.
Kathrine I will endevour to show more of the bulbs growing in the garden but our weather is not the best for late autumn and winter flowering bulbs in the open. When we come into spring and summer I always show lots in the garden. It is a good idea to read back the same logs from previous years - I often do that but not until I have written the current bulb log as I am put off if I see I wrote much the same for the last few years.
Anthony, I bow to your knowledge of ovules, but I tend to use simplified terms to describe what I see rather than the full technical botanical terms which not everyone understands. What about a botanical lesson from you as a feature article for 2008.
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I'm no botanist Ian - that was Standard Grade biology 'World of Plants' topic, which I start teaching to my third years after Christmas (also in first year 'Cells and Reproduction', but they don't need to know zygote - and they are more interested in telling rudes jokes like "How do ghosts have sex?"). I think I've forgotten all the botany I did at school.
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Well. how DO ghosts have sex? Reply privately if that's more appropriate.
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Like things that go BANG in the night Lesley?
Eerily.... very much like the rest of us!
Did the ether move for you as well?
Do they 'float' from the top of the wardrobe....?
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I don't know but I am sure it results in phantom pregnancy.
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Really. Surely you know that they just put the willies up each other! ::)
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Ian,
The idea of showing dissected flowers is brilliant.
The Log Index is being kept up to date and will be ready when log 52 is posted.
I'll add my thanks to the lastest bulblog as well, a good new angle, can we see more please ?
Also a big THANK YOU to Len for the Bulblog Index.
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Well really children! That's enough of that.
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