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Ian Y

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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #120 on: August 10, 2016, 11:39:37 AM »
In this weeks Bulb Log 3216 I introduce and try out my new camera a Lumix DMC-LX100.


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Aug101470825376BULB_LOG_3216.pdf


N.B. errors  :
on page 9 - Pseudofumaria, not Pseudocorydalis
and on page 15  -  Lilium lankongense
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #121 on: August 10, 2016, 12:23:45 PM »
Hi Ian,
your artistry shines through in that cover!
I reminds me of the wonderful Rix & Phillips book I first saw in the 1980s - appropriately it was "The Bulb Book" (re-badged as "Bulbs" in the next edition)
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #122 on: August 11, 2016, 04:12:42 PM »
Ian,

I very much appreciated the information and process you went through to find a new camera. A new digital camera looms in the future for me and your information will certainly help me in the process. I too work well with a hands on, visual experience. Sacramento, California is a gigantic city where there must be a place where I can see and handle digital cameras in person.

Thank you so much!  :)  8)
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #123 on: August 11, 2016, 08:23:04 PM »
Hi Ian,
your artistry shines through in that cover!
I reminds me of the wonderful Rix & Phillips book I first saw in the 1980s - appropriately it was "The Bulb Book" (re-badged as "Bulbs" in the next edition)
cheers
fermi

Thank yo uFermi, yes I have both editions of that book also many more from that series and while I was inspired by Phillips pictures I first started to imitate the style from a  Keble Martin book of British Flora where each page was a composite of paintings except I used photography.

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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #124 on: August 11, 2016, 08:25:33 PM »
Ian,

I very much appreciated the information and process you went through to find a new camera. A new digital camera looms in the future for me and your information will certainly help me in the process. I too work well with a hands on, visual experience. Sacramento, California is a gigantic city where there must be a place where I can see and handle digital cameras in person.

Thank you so much!  :)  8)

Glad that you may get some help in making your decision Robert, the truth is there are so many cameras out there all of which will take the images you want so the decision often comes down to what feels good in your hands.
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #125 on: August 12, 2016, 01:13:56 AM »
BTW, Ian,
if your Romulea does't set seed we can send a few million from here!
It's a major weed in southern Australia
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #126 on: August 17, 2016, 12:00:07 PM »
This week in Bulb Log 3316 the garden is showing the signs of Autumn.


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Aug171471431377BULB_LOG_3316.pdf
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« Reply #127 on: August 18, 2016, 07:12:53 PM »
Your wonderful garden makes it for such an enjoyable stroll at any time of the year. Love to see Actaea rubra rejoicing in the Scottish climate - it is the most gorgeous Actaea I've ever seen!
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #128 on: August 18, 2016, 10:44:47 PM »
Thank yo uFermi, yes I have both editions of that book also many more from that series and while I was inspired by Phillips pictures I first started to imitate the style from a  Keble Martin book of British Flora where each page was a composite of paintings except I used photography.

Lovely photos as always Ian, and I too enjoyed the homage to Keble Martin / Phillips & Rix. Lovely to have such a late flowering Dactylorhiza too.

I spotted a couple of typos though - Pseudofumaria isn't it, not Pseudocorydalis? And also Lilium lankongense.

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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #129 on: August 20, 2016, 06:54:50 PM »
Thanks Tristan for spotting my senior moments, you are correct, it is Pseudofumaria and I have an extra 'g' in lankongense.
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #130 on: August 24, 2016, 12:26:02 PM »
Bulb Log 34 online now  -  getting the blues! http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Aug231471959121BULB_LOG_3416.pdf



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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #131 on: August 24, 2016, 08:18:32 PM »
Again, another a cracking bulb log. Always full of inspiration and reassurance. I feel less guilty for not having finished my own repotting yet! Brave to be releasing the bulbs from the regimented order of their pots, but I'm sure they will grow better for it.
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« Reply #132 on: August 24, 2016, 11:00:34 PM »
Today I was repotting, moving pots and sand in the green house plunges. Narcissus and Colchicums growing in the sand are by far healthier looking than those in pots. The Narcissus have better looking tunics
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #133 on: August 26, 2016, 04:49:25 PM »
I too have a new camera, a Lumix FZ 1000. I don,t get the great results Ian has. Either the camera needs to go to a well known opticians or I must try harder, as my teachers used to say. I can,t be bothered to carry a tripod either as I take pictures "on the run" and a tripod is extra weight.

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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #134 on: August 27, 2016, 06:09:42 PM »
Hi Ian,

Back in Bulblog #33 you mentioned that the weather had turned summer-like. How does that translate into high and low temperatures, at least for someone living in California? I do the best I can to create a mental picture of your gardening conditions, but I have to admit that it is sometimes difficult living in such a different area with very different climatic conditions.
Thank you so much for your efforts!

Now that I have the water leak fixed I can get to Bulblog #34.  :)
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