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Title: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: shelagh on June 02, 2007, 04:46:54 PM: Hi there,
Just wanted to let you know that next weekend Brian and I are off to Dumfries and GAlloway with the SRGC looking at gardens and this is what we are leaving behind.

Shelagh

1.6.07 001.jpg
1.6.07 010.jpg
1.6.07 012.jpg
Aethionema and Allium 'Hannah Rymer' 015.jpg
Alyssum spinosum 016.jpg
CAmpanula and AEthionema 013.jpg
Dianthus Eileen Lever 023.jpg
Maianthemum bifolia 018.jpg
Penstemon hirsutus pygmaea0003.JPG
Physoplexus comosum0001.JPG
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: shelagh on June 02, 2007, 04:50:02 PM: Hi there,

Just a few more pictures as it has been such a lovely day today and everything has come out.

Shelagh

Rhodanthe anthemoides020.jpg
Saponaria 014.jpg
Sax. Ruby Southside 025.jpg
Sedum hirsutum beaticum021.jpg
Sedum muscoidum022.jpg
teucrium aroanum019.jpg
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: David Nicholson on June 02, 2007, 06:51:14 PM: Shelagh, some lovely stuff there. I particularly liked the gorgeous clump of Dianthus 'Eileen Lever'.
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: Paddy Tobin on June 02, 2007, 09:54:48 PM: Shelagh,

Lovely plants but I am most taken by your comment that you had a lovely day as here it has been the most miserable day in ages, in fact the first day in weeks when I have not been out in the garden. I should, like you, have organised my photographs and posted a few. Instead I had the great pleasure of going out to shop for curtain material. Now, wasn't that a great treat.

Paddy
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 02, 2007, 10:02:24 PM: Pull yourself together Paddy! :(
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: Paddy Tobin on June 02, 2007, 10:27:56 PM: That's what the doctor told me also.

Paddy
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 03, 2007, 09:11:00 AM: At least you're not two tents? 8)
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: Paddy Tobin on June 03, 2007, 07:20:02 PM: Aye, but since I swallowed that spoon I can't stir.

Paddy
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: hadacekf on June 03, 2007, 08:25:32 PM: Shelagh,
The Saponaria 014.jpg is S. 'Bressingham Hybrid'. A hybrid between S. ocymoides, S. caespitosa and S. pumilio of garden orgin.
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 03, 2007, 11:35:42 PM: Nice plants Shelagh, especially the Phyteuma. Why don't alpine gardeners go into positive raptures about the little Saponarias? I think they're terribly under-rated, especially `Bressingham Hybrid' and `Olivana.' They are very fine plants which everyone should grow and gain much pleasure from them.
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: shelagh on June 04, 2007, 02:32:54 PM: Thanks to you all for your kind comments and to Franz for his additional information. By the way it's another lovely day here in Bury.

Shelagh
Title: Re: Our pocket handerchief
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 04, 2007, 03:01:39 PM: I somehow thought it was about Davidia involucrata? ::)