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Alpines / The Rock Garden - journal of the SRGC - TRG 155

« Last post by Maggi Young on July 07, 2025, 08:18:58 PM »

The Rock Garden - Journal of the SRGC - TRG155  is soon to be  on its  on its way to postal members and is available to all SRGC Members now via the  Members'  log-in  area at the  upper right of each page on the main SRGC  Website.

The Rock Garden is sent out twice a year to postal members, with the Dryas Booklet and Yearbook.  These and the Show schedules  are available to all fully paid up SRGC Members in digital format via the website log-in described above.

 To tempt you to take out SRGC membership to see the most recent of these  excellent journals for yourself, here is the cover image and contents page  of  TRG155.





and the back cover:

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Blogs and Diaries / Re: Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

« Last post by fredg on July 06, 2025, 10:05:10 PM »

Hi Fermi, that is Stylidium caespitosum.
It gets just the same treatment as the plants around it, ie Drosera, Sarracenia and Dionaea. They're all in pots sitting in lagoons or large trays.

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Cacti and Succulents / Re: Sedum, Hylotelephium, Phedimus and Rhodiola

« Last post by FrazerHenderson on July 06, 2025, 09:59:07 PM »

Issue 155 just published:

- Karl August Harald Smith, Swedish botanist
- Peruvian Stonecrops
- Viability of Crassulaceae seedhttps://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/Themes/default/images/bbc/italicize.gif
- x Semponium 'Destiny'
- Echeveria ccallu
- plus many other short reports and images of Sedum species

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Blogs and Diaries / Re: Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

« Last post by fermi de Sousa on July 06, 2025, 09:03:28 AM »

Hi Fred,
is that a trigger flower?
Which one?
How do you grow it - I find them quite tricky
cheers
fermi

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Blogs and Diaries / Re: Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

« Last post by fredg on July 05, 2025, 08:37:37 PM »

Hi Maggi.

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Grow From Seed / Re: Growing Daylilies from Seed

« Last post by Guff on July 05, 2025, 06:01:39 PM »

Seedling from years ago...

Clothed in Glory X Linda Beck
https://garden.org/plants/view/9706/Daylily-Hemerocallis-Clothed-in-Glory/
https://garden.org/plants/view/54733/Daylily-Hemerocallis-Linda-Beck/

Color is splotchy like Clothed in Glory is, which isn't great. I like the shape and edge though. Stuck my above seedling onto it, Yoga Man X Every Knee Shall Bow. Seeing if the pollen that was saved is good.

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Blogs and Diaries / Re: Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

« Last post by Maggi Young on July 04, 2025, 08:19:47 PM »

hi Fred, good to see you again!

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Blogs and Diaries / Re: Fred's Carnivorous Plants and other oddities

« Last post by fredg on July 04, 2025, 07:12:23 PM »

Just to let you know I'm still around.
A small pot of Anacampseros telephiastrum f. variegatum 'Sunrise'  I aquired for a very small sum on a recent visit to St. Boswell's.

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Grow From Seed / Re: Growing Daylilies from Seed

« Last post by Guff on July 04, 2025, 01:00:48 AM »

Should get some red-cranberry colors, hopefully with a fancy edge. Going to be grown through the Winter, maybe next Summer will see some flowers.

Some new seedlings are going to have their first flowers open in another week or two. Hopefully see something blue, or special that I can use.

Not going to do many crosses this Summer, still have lots of seeds from last Summer still to start. Some are going to be grown in tubs, just dont have room to grow all of them in solo cups and pot up.

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Flowers and Foliage Now / Re: June 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere

« Last post by Knud on July 03, 2025, 09:57:03 AM »

It´s surprising that Embothrium coccineum flourishes so far up in the North! It became a tree many tried to grow in the eighties and nineties, having seen it in flower in Great Britain. At that time, most failed to be successful, even in my part of the world, which belongs to the mildest regions of Germany.

Mariette, that was interesting about the Embothrium in Germany, I did not know. We have a mild coastal climate, not cold in winter and cool in summer - to the great frustration of many people. Adding to that frustration is the year-round rain. It’s a shitty climate, really, but many plants like it. The botanical garden sits protected on the southwest facing slope of a hill and I can imagine is naturally well drained, and it is certainly well run. Their South America section was established around year 2000 and they have a number of trees and shrubs, from Chile in particular. My favourite there is a very large Buddleja globosa. I was told the Embothrium flowers well every year.

One tree that does not flower every year in our garden is the Japanese Summer Camellia, Stewartia pseudo-camellia. This year, though, it is full of buds and just now in the middle of its three or so weeks of flowering. Each flower lasts a few days on the tree, then a few more on the ground as it is dropped whole. While on the tree the flowers are very popular with bumble bees but I have never seen one on a fallen flower. Each year, of course, the tree has good autumn colour.
Knud