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November Downunder
Lesley Cox:
Fermi I don't see why the saponaria wouldn't survive the methyl bromide, at least as well as some Viv has waiting here, such as Asperula suberosa which is so soft and has very fine roots as well. I'm quite worried about that one. A few others are doubtful too.
I need to get more propagated of `Gala Day' (named for my nursery, Gala Plants, named for my family's connections with Galashiels and the surrounding area in you know which country). So I'll keep some from the next batch and grow them on as hard as possible for you. (They wouldn't be ready for Tim's importation, scheduled for April. Maybe I can arrange to take all that lot with me, rather than freighting them.) It is especially nice with crimson calyces as well as the pink flowers which really are not done justice in the pictures.
Lesley Cox:
Can just squeeze these two beautiful white "flowers" in, in November. Sea flowers, shall we say and I'm indebted to Allied Press and Otago Daily Times for permission to place them on the Forum.
These are, obviously, two of our now famous icebergs, floating off the Otago coast. Iceberg watching has become a major passtime over the last couple of weeks. I've only had a tiny, very distant glimpse myself, but people who've flown out and around them say it has been the most thrilling experience of their lives.
In the first, the little black dots are the Australians who landed and placed their flag. The berg has mostly melted by now as it travelled north so the flag is probably at the bottom of the sea.
The scale is seen from pic 2 in particular as it is of only one end of a berg, and some has just crashed into the sea, hence the churned up water. Helicopter overhead gives a size comparison.
Sorry about the scrolling when the 2nd is enlarged. I can hear Anthony fuming already. I didn't realize they'd be so big, only about 98kb.
fermi de Sousa:
Lesley
Australia is under a dire drought at present, those Aussies were only trying to get us some more water! However they'll probably now be prosecuted for losing the flag!
Here's a pic of an alyssum tortuosum in the Rock garden a couple of weeks ago.
cheers
fermi
Maggi Young:
Lesley, I think the scrolling may be excused in this instance... after all, everyone knows that Icebergs are HUGE !! Majestic things, lovely to see these photos, thank you.
Fermi, glad to see you are busy in the garden with the Alyssum to show us rather than pfaffing about with flags! May I wish you rain... soon!
David Nicholson:
Lesley, really enjoyed your pictures of the icebergs-magnificent
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