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brianw

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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #195 on: December 08, 2016, 09:34:51 AM »
Hi Robert
Yes thinking about it I can see this might be the case. Less stress on the trimmed root system when transferred to pots and a probable strong leader. Just looks odd the to see the dogleg on a species.
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Re: Latest Bulb Log 2016
« Reply #196 on: December 14, 2016, 11:49:13 AM »
This week I look back at some of the plants we grew and took to shows before I started writing the Bulb Log in 2003.


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Dec141481715757BULB_LOG_5016.pdf
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« Reply #197 on: December 14, 2016, 04:54:13 PM »
Great to see some of the non bulbous plants you have grown, particularly Eriophyton wallichii, which we germinated a couple of years ago.  Ours puts up one shoot then disappears underground till the following season.  How long did it take you to get a show worthy plant?  I also see you have Tropaeolum azureum self-seeding.  We have never seen seed on our plant so assumed it is not self-fertile.  I have been looking out for seed as I would love to get another plant going but it never seems to appear in seed lists.
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« Reply #198 on: December 15, 2016, 03:12:48 PM »
Ian, a good selection of well grown plants. I smiled at your comment regarding the Rhodothamnus and having to get another to try. Easily said but where are the suppliers? I have tried for years to purchase some of our own un-common native plants but it seems they are regarded as "not garden worthy" by most nurserymen.

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« Reply #199 on: December 17, 2016, 05:10:38 PM »
That is a very impressive alpine greatest hits album Ian! Do you think the first form of M. horridula might be M. rudis?

The demise of M. sherrifii is a shame. Perhaps we should all try to bank some seed of more difficult species in our freezers, in case of these kind of eventualities - especially for the monocarpic species?

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« Reply #200 on: December 18, 2016, 11:31:43 AM »
That is a very impressive alpine greatest hits album Ian! Do you think the first form of M. horridula might be M. rudis?

Yes if you go down that road but George Taylor lumped  all that complex into M. horridula and I stick with that. I can add that both those forms and many other variations came from a single seed collection and subsequent seed generations displayed an equally wide variation.
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« Reply #201 on: December 18, 2016, 03:38:59 PM »
I don't blame you Ian. I think there is a sight too much splitting goes on in taxonomy with not really enough hard ecological or molecular evidence to back it up.

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« Reply #202 on: December 21, 2016, 12:00:28 PM »
Bulb log 51 includes Narcissus, Eranthis plus a link to download my E- book Erythroniums in Cultivation, 278 full colour pages on Erythroniums and how we grow them.


http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2016Dec211482321225BULB_LOG_5116.pdf

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« Reply #203 on: December 21, 2016, 01:03:57 PM »
Cheers for that Ian. It must have been a tremendous amount of work to research it and write it up and I'm very grateful.
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« Reply #204 on: December 21, 2016, 01:54:51 PM »
Cheers for that Ian. It must have been a tremendous amount of work to research it and write it up and I'm very grateful.

Seconded.

A wonderful amount of research and a major work of reference for years to come.
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« Reply #205 on: December 21, 2016, 02:38:27 PM »
Thank you for this Christmas gift! :) :)
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« Reply #206 on: December 21, 2016, 03:53:05 PM »
Wow, Ian, thank you for this beautiful monograph.
I read it as the bulbs log, in small pieces. All of a sudden, it's great.
Nice work and nice reference.  :) :) :)
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« Reply #207 on: December 22, 2016, 06:01:16 PM »
Great Christmas gift! what else to say than thank you Ian ;)
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« Reply #208 on: December 22, 2016, 08:07:33 PM »
Thank you, Ian. Christmas came early. It will be nice to have something inspiring to read these dark evenings.
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« Reply #209 on: December 22, 2016, 08:32:57 PM »
One of my favourite genera too - thanks Santa!

Seriously this looks like an amazing reference work that I'm sure I will be using for a long time.

 


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