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Maggi Young:
--- Quote from: Maggi Young on July 29, 2016, 05:27:47 PM ---Here is a photo of Molly Hall receiving her award earlier this month as RHS Young School Gardener 2016 - KS3 (11-14) for her work on heathers
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There is a Heather Society Event this weekend at Wisley..... Heather Society Open Day @RHSWisley Sat 25th Sept. Heather Collection guided tour, free workshops, talk by Molly Hall about her new Erica.
Lesley Cox:
The latest issue of IRG takes me back to a magnificent and magical day I spent a few years ago now, in Tasmania with Marcus Harvey and two friends. Although the places I was able to visit in just that single day were few and not among those mentioned in Alan Ayton's wonderful introduction to the alpine flora of Tasmania, many of the plants I saw were the same as or similar to those mentioned and photographed and of course in many instances reminiscent of our own New Zealand flora. so thank you Alan for your excellent article.
It had a special significance for me because of the superb photos featuring what I know as Richea scoparia. From a different locality from those described in Alan's notes, Marcus had collected seed of this beautiful species. He gave some to me and I grew literally hundreds of tiny plants from it. The fresh seed is like the smallest rhododendron seed, almost weightless and asking for just a light puff of wind to distribute it. It is very fertile or so mine proved to be. A lot of little plants were given to fellow rock gardeners and on the very day the IRG article was published, my Invercargill friend Dave Toole posted on Facebook, his plant with gorgeous red flowers. It could have come straight from the wilds of Tasmania. I'll go back and read Alan's article again and put a few names into my "Would love to grow this" notebook just in case they turn up on a seed list or in some obscure and out of the way little nursery. Happily, a few are in cultivation already, such as the delightful and to me very precious Herpolirion novae-zelandiae with its tiny, sky-blue lily flowers hugging the ground or a pot surface.
Maggi Young:
Good to hear the latest IRG rang bells with you, Lesley!
IRG 142 for October 2021
https://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2021Oct281635433923IRG_142.pdf
ruweiss:
IRG 142- an optimal editon for my taste, superb pictures of plants, many of them I have never seen
before with an educating text. My sincerest thanks to the autors for the excellent job they have done.
Redmires:
I'd just like to offer very belated thanks for the feature on the plants of the Tasmanian mountains in IRG 142. Tasmanian flora hold a particular fascination for me (I have a close friend who is now based near Hobart so I'm hoping to visit one day) and I really enjoyed all the details about habitats and wider ecosystems - they're so different from what we have in Europe and it's nice to have a context for a plant.
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