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SRGC Shows and Events => Events => Topic started by: Brian Ellis on May 07, 2011, 05:04:09 PM
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Just back from the show and about to process the pictures. First of all a cup of tea and something to look at, the Farrer plant was exhibited by Joy Bishop from Lightwater Phlox nana ensifolia
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Class 1 Cecilia Coller 6 pan including two super Asarums and a stunning Gentian
Class 2 Alan Newton Cypripedium calceolus x cordigerum, Ramonda serbica, Daphne Petraea 'Tremalzo'
Class 3 Joy Bishop Phlox nana ensifolia
Class 5 Cecilia Coller Primula sieboldii alba
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Class 6 George Young Androsace strigillosa
Class 7 Ian Instone Haberlea rhodopensis
Class 8 Lee & Julie Martin Cyclamen persicum
Class 9 Martin Rogerson whoops no names :-[
Class 9 Lewisias were back left L. Trevosia, Middleright L. cotyledon hybrid, front was a L. Carousel Hybrid - Thanks Martin.
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Class 10 Martin Rogerson Lewisis columbiana ssp wallowensis
Class 11 Martin Rogerson Lewisis leeana alba x cotyledon
Class 12 Maureen Ledgerton Saxifrage pubescens 'Snowcap'
Class 14 Colin & Elaine Barr Cypripedium calceolus
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and the pictures for
Class 11 Martin Rogerson Lewisis leeana alba x cotyledon
Class 12 Maureen Ledgerton Saxifrage pubescens 'Snowcap'
Class 14 Colin & Elaine Barr Cypripedium calceolus
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Class 15 Cecilia Coller Pleione Versailles x Pleione bulbocoides 'El Pico'
Class 17 Ivor Betteridge Trillium grandiflorum 'Flore pleno' This was lovely, mine, bought last year went to the great Alpine Show in the sky!
Class 18 Elaine Sharpe Thalictrum orientale
Class 20 George Young Petunia patagonica F & W 9290 sown Jan 2001
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Many congratulations to Joy (who I last saw wrestling a large trolley with show plants around the East Midlands Conference Centre) on that lovely Farrer plant.
Super photos, Brian, very good of you to share these with us... must have been a super day. 8)
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It was lovely, some great plants and I had a nice rest on the door for an hour!
Class 21 Jean Rich Fritillaria camstchatcensis alpina aurea Best Pan of Bulbs
Class 22 Ruth & Alan Jones Daphne Jasminea
Class 23 Dave Mountfort Rhododendron kusianum, Gaultheria pyroloides (Sikkim form), Rhododendron trichostomum
Class 24 Brian & Shelagh Smethurst Leiophyllum buxifolium
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Of course the best bit was meeting up with old friends and having a good chinwag ;D
Class 25 Ian Instone Rhododendron trichostomum
Class 26 Ivor Betteridge Larix kaempferi 'Nana'
Class 27 Cecilia Coller Podophyllum delavayi, Hakonechloa macra aureola, Tanacetum Haradtanii
Class 28 Brian & Shelagh Smethurst Celmisia longifolia
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EAST ANGLIAN SHOW AT WYMONDHAM HIGH SCHOOL, FOLLY ROAD, WYMONDHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NR18 0QT must have been a long trip for the Smethies and George Young.... well done those well travelled folks!
It was the ULSTER AGS Show at
GREENMOUNT AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE, MUCKAMORE, ANTRIM today as well......hope the Irish contingent had a good day too.
Just hoping someone who went to Glasgow had a camera!
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Not so far for Cecilia to travel though :)
Class 29 Jean Rich Ophioglossum vulgatum, Adiantum pedatum subpumilum (own spores April 2000), Cystopteris sudetica (from spores March 2004)
Class 30 Alan & Janet Cook Asplenium trichomanes Best pan of Fern
Class 31 Cecilia Coller Sempervivum erythraeum, Jovibarba arenaria from Murtal, Sempervivum ciliosum var Galicicum from Ochrid
Class 32 Cecilia Coller Sempervivum nevadense
I just love to see these big pans of Sempervivum!
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Class 33 Clive Dart Sedum furfuraceum
Class 34 Alan & Janet Cook Draba longisiliqua
Class 36 Dave Mountfort Aetheonima sp., Ramonda nathalie 'Alba', Iris gramineus, Rhododendron trichostomum, Rhodohypoxis Baurii 'Badger', Lithospermum diffusum 'Heavenly Blue'
Class 37 Michael Sullivan
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Class 41 Cecilia Coller Epimedium grandiflorum Nanum, Iberis oschtenica, Pleione 'El Pico' (P. verailles x P. bulbocodiodes), Penstemon eriantherus, Saxifraga 'Snow cap', Lewisia 'George Henley' AGS Medal 6 pans rock plants, distinct, not more than two of any one genus
Class 42 Lee & July Martin Cypripedium parviflorum, Celmisia gracilenta, Arenaria hookeri var desertorum
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Class 43 Anne Vale Campanula carpatha
Class 44 Ivor Betteridge Disporum smithii 'Rick', Phlox grayi, Athyrium filix femina, Allium sbelkovnikovii
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Why can't my Ramonda look like that!? Only one flower stem this year :(
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at least its better than my Trillium grandiflorum Flore pleno Mark :-\
Class 45 Ian Instone Dodecatheon pulchellum 'Red Wings'
Class 46 Alan & Janet Cook Androsace armeniaca var macrantha
Class 47 George Young Dicentra peregrina alba
Class 48 Martin Rogerson Lewisia columbiana hybrid, Lewisia rediva x 'Little Plum', Lewisia rediva x longipetala - nice bit of staging!
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to be continued later. ;)
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to be continued later. ;)
Yes, please! Enjoyed your report very much!
Gerd
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Wonderful show Brian. Now you really can't leave us hanging without a cultivar name on the Disporum smithii, it would be too cruel. What a plant!
Our group had its public sale today. I spied a medic friend who I hadn't expected and asked "What are you doing here?" He said you people are really good at advertising, there was a poster in the operating room all week long.
johnw
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Brian, I think that nowhere is too far for the redoubtable Mrs C. Coller.... she is a marvel and the delight of every show secretary within reach of her van, I am sure. Such exhibitors with so many fine entries are manna to a Show organiser! 8)
Seeing a lot of plants at this show that were also on the benches in Glasgow today, which is rather worrying for the Aberdeen show, on the 21st! Time for the pre -show panic to set in.... what will there be in two weeks time?
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Really good pictures and on the web site so early, thank you,
I did not have far to travel today but my plants did yesterday courtesy of Alan and Brenda Newton...hope Alan hasn't got a hernia carrying the P patagonica as was in a 36cm pan...was actually in an 18cm pan grown out through bottom into the plunge sand and I double potted it into a larger pot on Thursday with a large volume of plunge sand!!!...took quite a bit of doing I may say
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Thanks Brian, now I don't feel pressured to process photos tonight, which after two 3 hour drives is just as well!
Class 9 Lewisias were back left L. Trevosia, Middleright L. cotyledon hybrid, front was a L. Carousel Hybrid
Good day, excellent show and Cecilia scoring 29 points! I can't muster that many, never mind 29 capable of winning a first!
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George, very impressed by your Petunia patagonica. Mine doesn't have a flower on it yet.
(mind you it didn't flower last year either)
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Peter, I did a count yesterday and gave up/lost count when got to 200 flowers, there had to be quite a lot more as still a third of pot to go
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Thanks a million Brian for the excellent photos and great show report.
As an afterthought maybe if our various groups were to put up posters in many different but apparently unlikely places, we would gain some members otherwise ignored. The operating theatre, the local butcher's shop, golf or tennis clubs, Govt department buildings, HM Prisons or wherever (that last would have to be for the staff of course, yet many low security prisoners are keen gardeners within their system. Why not alpines too?) At the most recent meeting of Otago Alpine Garden Group 7 new people attended a workshop after posters were handed round at my market. Not sure how many joined but they were all very enthused and asking questions so obviously interested.
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As an afterthought maybe if our various groups were to put up posters in ...HM Prisons or wherever
Lesley - Precisely. That's how we got our Executive?* ;)
johnw
*locally - not SRGC!
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Thanks all, but really it is the exhibitors who travel far and wide and share their expertise with us that are to be thanked. Last session for tonight...
Class 49 Alan & Janet Cook Lewisia rediviva
Class 50 Lewisia ‘Ben Chace’ Dave Mountfort
Class 51 Cecilia Coller Saxifraga ‘Snow Cap’
Class 52 Ray Drew Cypripedium ‘Maria’
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Class 53 Cecilia Coller Allium nevskianum, Tulbaghia conninsii, Allium crispum sown 15 - 7 - 08
Class 54 Ivor Betteridge Allium shelkovnikovii
Class 55 Ivor Betteridge Allium nevskianum
Class 56 Cecilia Coller Pelargonium havlas
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Class 57 Alan Newton Cypripedium tibeticum
Class 58 Ruth & Alan Jones Daphne jasminea
Class 59 Alan & Janet Cook Lewisia rediviva
Class 60 Martin & Anna Sheader Rebutia minuscula (mountains of N Argentina), Esterhuysenia alpina, Gymnocalycium bruchii (high mountains of Cordoba, N. Argentina)
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Class 61 Brian & Shelagh Smethurst Anisotome imbricata
Class 62 Ivor Betteridge Cheilanthes microphylla
Class 63 Nassauvia abbreviata var abbreviata, Calceolaria laguria-blancae, Nototriche macleanii x N. aretioidesexhibitor card not snapped!
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Class 64 Briggsia aurantiaca xAnclostemon humilis Alan Newton
Class 65 Nototriche macleanii Martin & Anna Sheader
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Class 66 Cecilia Coller Campanula oreadum own seed sown 28-7-09, Androsace studiosorum ex Dorsa 8-1-2004, Gentiana syringea own seed sown 25-8-09
Class 67 Dave Mountfort Ramonda myconii
Class 68 Ray Drew Iris barnumae ssp barnumae fm urumiense x Iris paradoxa ssp mirabilis
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Brian - fabulous photos - why did I bother taking any? :) If you can do so well with you little credit card just how good are the pics from the guy with the tripod and the huge flashy camera?
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Brian - fabulous photos - why did I bother taking any? :) If you can do so well with you little credit card just how good are the pics from the guy with the tripod and the huge flashy camera?
Thanks Tony, no doubt you will see in a few months time ;) ;D ;)
Last session as i am afraid I didn't take any of the beautiful Botanical illustrations :-\
Class 72 Michael Sullivan Saxifraga cotyledon ’Southside seedling’
Class 74 Tony Hale
Class 76 Robert Amos Rhodohypoxis deflexa
Class 78 Ruth & Allan Jones Daphne jasminea
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Class 79 Clive Dart Gaultheria ‘Mulberry Wine’ (female)
Class 81 Clive Dart Larix Blue Dwarf
Class 82 Ray Taylor Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Nanum’
Class 83 Georgina Instone Helichrysum orentalis
Class 84 Robert Amos Asplenium trichomanes
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Class 85 Tony Hale Jovibarba sobolifera
Class 86 Tony Hale Rosularia serpentinica
Class 87 Georgina Instone Silene Mount Snowdon
Class 91 Brian Sulman Saxifraga ‘Letchworth Gem’, Saxifraga ‘Emile Burnatt’, Saxifraga ‘Snowcap’ (S.pubescens)
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Class 92 Michael Sullivan Saxifraga cotyledon ’Southside seedling’
Class 93 Primula sieboldii Georgina Instone - sorry about the photo
Class 95 Brian Sulman Saxifraga ‘Nicholas’
Class 96 Georgina Instone Lewisia columbiana
Class 98 Neil Hubbard Allium peninsulare
Class 100 Robert Amos Ozothamnus selago
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Class 101 Tony Hale Saxifraga x Ihommei ‘Silver Dome’
Class 106 Brian Sulman Saxifraga ‘Knapton Pink’, Saxifraga paniculata, Saxifraga ‘Ex Millstream’ (S.paniculata)
Class 107 Michael Sullivan Saxifraga cotyledon ’Southside seedling’
Class 110 Brian Sulman Saxifraga ‘Tumbling Waters’ (S.ligulate)
Class 113 Brian Sulman Saxifraga ‘Elliott’s Variety (S.umbrosa)
FINIS
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Wonderful show Brian. Now you really can't leave us hanging without a cultivar name on the Disporum smithii, it would be too cruel. What a plant!
Sorry John, should have guessed you'd like that one...Disporum smithii 'Rick' - I've modified the original post ;D
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As my other half has already put his happy snaps up (I am the man with the tripod class 98, alias the man up stairs) these are Just a few general pics from the show with a couple of ultra wide angle views.
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Brilliant pictures, thanks Brian really enjoyed these wonderful pic,
Angie :)
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Class 23 Dave Mountfort Rhododendron kusianum, Gaultheria pyroloides (Sikkim form), Rhododendron trichostomum
Brian - Behind the R. trichostomum there's a white. Do you recall if it was another trichostomum or 'Artic Tern'?
Smashing pink trichostomum.
johnw
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Wonderful show Brian. Now you really can't leave us hanging without a cultivar name on the Disporum smithii, it would be too cruel. What a plant!
Sorry John, should have guessed you'd like that one...Disporum smithii 'Rick' - I've modified the original post ;D
Such an unassuming name for such a stunner, with apologies to all Ricks.
johnw
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As an afterthought maybe if our various groups were to put up posters in ...HM Prisons or wherever
Lesley - Precisely. That's how we got our Executive?* ;)
johnw
*locally - not SRGC!
Well we're always being encouraged to think laterally. Are you one of the Executive John? :D
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Does anyone know what species is/are involved with Gaultheria 'Mulberry Wine?' Labelled as a female, presumably it will have mulberry coloured fruit but if this is a female plant it implies a male is needed for pollination and fruit set. This is true of the NZ species but the Australian and, I think, the South American species are monoecious. i.e. hermaphrodite so both male and female in the one plant, in which case, little point in labelling it female. This plant has a South American look to it.
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Class 23 Dave Mountfort Rhododendron kusianum, Gaultheria pyroloides (Sikkim form), Rhododendron trichostomum
Brian - Behind the R. trichostomum there's a white. Do you recall if it was another trichostomum or 'Artic Tern'?
Smashing pink trichostomum.
johnw
John I think you will find that is on the 'other side' of the show bench. I'm afraid my mind is not up to doing the contortions of working out which class that might have been in :-\
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Does anyone know what species is/are involved with Gaultheria 'Mulberry Wine?' Labelled as a female, presumably it will have mulberry coloured fruit but if this is a female plant it implies a male is needed for pollination and fruit set. This is true of the NZ species but the Australian and, I think, the South American species are monoecious. i.e. hermaphrodite so both male and female in the one plant, in which case, little point in labelling it female. This plant has a South American look to it.
It's a selection from Gaultheria mucronata, so you are correct in that it is S American, Lesley, but it is dioecious and needs a male to pollinate.
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What a fabulous show report Brian, you can't have missed many.
Thanks.
JohnnyD
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Class 23 Dave Mountfort Rhododendron kusianum, Gaultheria pyroloides (Sikkim form), Rhododendron trichostomum
Brian - Behind the R. trichostomum there's a white. Do you recall if it was another trichostomum or 'Artic Tern'? johnw
John I think you will find that is on the 'other side' of the show bench. I'm afraid my mind is not up to doing the contortions of working out which class that might have been in :-\
Behind Dave Mountfort's Rhododendron trichostomum (yes, on the other side of the bench) was Ian Instone's Rhododendron trichostomum as photographed by Brian in class 25
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A few more pics from yesterdays show.
1. Trillium Grandiflorum 'Flore pleno'
2. Thalictum Orientale
3. Fritillaria Camschatcensis Alpina Aurea
4. Cypripedium Pubescens
5. Petunia patagonica
6. Petunia patagonica
7. Campanula Carpatha
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A few more:
1. Gentiana Syringea
2. Rebutia miniscula (N Argentina)
3. Nototriche macleansi (S Peru)
4. Nototriche macleansi (S Peru)
5. Campanula Oreadum
6. Iris I barnumae fm urmiensis x paradoxa ssp mirabilis
7. Iris I barnumae fm urmiensis x paradoxa ssp mirabilis
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John I think you will find that is on the 'other side' of the show bench. I'm afraid my mind is not up to doing the contortions of working out which class that might have been in :-\
Brian - Indeed it was on the opposite side of the bench and had I been awake I would have deduced it was the Smethursts' Leiophyllum which was the next pic you posted.
johnw
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Brian
Thanks for a very complete show report. Will try to make it next year.
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My goodness, what magnificent pictures from the show... and with all those plant AND exhibitor names.... a huge amount of work.... thanks indeed! :-* :-* 8)
Those of us who have tried to cover a show will know the effort involved.. :-X
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Many thanks for your reports Brian and Dave lovely sets of pics both.
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Thanks for that Diane. I hope there's a suitable and willing male around somewhere because that female, pollinated would have a fantastic crop of fruit.
Welcome to the Forum David (KING, there are lots of others ;D) and many thanks for your super pictures. The Gentiana is a stunner and so too, the Nototriche. I have just killed my single plant of this species, rain, rain and more rain over recent weeks. The sun is shining at the moment, BUT IT IS STILL RAINING!
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Magnificent show report folks ... many thanks for all your efforts.
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Thanks for that Diane. I hope there's a suitable and willing male around somewhere because that female, pollinated would have a fantastic crop of fruit.
There was a suitable male also on the show bench, it was in the three pan Ericaceae, he was not as pretty as the female. Hopefully it was willing as it went to the same home as the female ;D
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Brian, what stunning photos! Aren't there regulations against exhibiting plants plundered from the wild? Cactuses, in this case.
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My favourite plant was Nototriche macleanii x aretioides, perhaps you can see why? ;)
I was also captivated by several large pans of sempervivums, I find the repeated patterns soothing.
Cecilia Coller is supported by husband Mervyn, seen here relaxing they hosted a kind of chat show as various folk came by and stopped for a while.
Lionel has a nose for a good plant while Jim MacGregor is in a hurry.
Doug Joyce might be preparing for the post show entertainment ;D
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I have no qualms about sharing pictures of our first class show reporter(s) Brian (and David) since before the show opened David was stalking us all with his new video camera. (The Norfolk Group will be selling advance tickets for their Christmas members evening from September - it should be a sell-out going on past performances!)
Brian might be taking a secret cutting while David is clearly pleased about something.
At 355 time was called .... by 435 you'd hardly know we had been there. ???
Special thanks to John & Brenda Foster who co-ordinate our efforts. Everything went very smoothly, a testament to John's planning and everyone's hard work.
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Thanks for that Diane. I hope there's a suitable and willing male around somewhere because that female, pollinated would have a fantastic crop of fruit.
There was a suitable male also on the show bench, it was in the three pan Ericaceae, he was not as pretty as the female. Hopefully it was willing as it went to the same home as the female ;D
Do the flowers on the male differ much from those on the female? Or is it just a matter of similar flowers but f with stigmas and m with stamens?
Nice little piano left over there at the end of the Show. :)
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Brian might be taking a secret cutting
Moi? 8)
...and not forgetting thanks to the stalwarts in the kitchen ;D
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Class 31 Cecilia Coller , Jovibarba arenaria from Murtal,
I just love to see these big pans of Sempervivum!
What a great show of beautiful plants there in East Anglia. Thank you all for showing the pictures.
My eye fell at the Jovibarba from Murtal.
Near the house where my wife was born in the forest near the river Mur there are some enormous rocks where almost never is sun.
These rocks are covered with mosses and since longtime there are mats of this Jovibarba. It's really the last place where one expect these plants ???
It was almost to dark to make proper pictures there but I have some reasonable ones from last year and I hope you don't mind when I show these here in this thread together with a copy of the show plant?
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in the forest near the river Mur there are some enormous rocks where almost never is sun.
These rocks are covered with mosses and since longtime there are mats of this Jovibarba. It's really the last place where one expect these plants ???
It was almost to dark to make proper pictures there but I have some reasonable ones from last year and I hope you don't mind when I show these here in this thread together with a copy of the show plant?
Not at all, good to see them in the wild Luit. :D