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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #45 on: April 30, 2007, 10:19:26 PM »
Hello, Peter! Nice to have more pix, you know we appreciate it.

About the Pleione, posted by both Cliff and Diane, surely this should be not P. aureata but Pleione aurita ?
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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #46 on: April 30, 2007, 10:21:57 PM »
Further Harrogate plants:

Gentiana dinarica
Lewisia 'Ashwod Ruby' and detail (you will need dark glasses for these!)

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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #47 on: April 30, 2007, 10:27:20 PM »
About the Pleione, posted by both Cliff and Diane, surely this should be not P. aureata but Pleione aurita ?

Of course it's Pleione aurita.  Gone brain dead here, with an image and confusion of Primula aureata from elsewhere.  I'll tweak mine to change it.
« Last Edit: May 01, 2007, 08:32:16 AM by Diane Clement »
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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #48 on: April 30, 2007, 10:33:29 PM »
A final plant from Harrogate (one of mine, so I photographed it at home yesterday). This is a picture of Aciphylla dissecta which I grew from Steve Newall seed sown in 1997. Each of my plants has flowered and then died, each in different years which prevents any possibltity of pollination, and this is the last one. As it is going out in a blaze of glory (it manged a third prize against stiff competition in the seed raised class), I thought I would share it with a wider audience.

Aciphylla dissecta (1997-2007, R.I.P.)

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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #49 on: April 30, 2007, 10:37:15 PM »
A sad loss expected there, Peter. I do hope this is not a fate which befalls any of the other plants we have seen! Maybe you need a spare fridge to store pollen from these plants, so unobliging as to flower in different years??  Who  out there knows how long pollen will remain viable?
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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #50 on: April 30, 2007, 10:45:52 PM »
I wonder if Lesley has seen the "cakes " in this  Harrogate posting yet? Very cleverly done indeed, but I confess to liking the real thing better... these fabulous flower arrangements are sure to be fewer in calories, though!
From another thread, with  Lesley's Australian travels.... how interesting to find that the plantsman Otto Fauser is an accomplished patissier, also.... now there's a man with multiple useful talents!
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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #51 on: April 30, 2007, 10:48:05 PM »
Beautiful shots Diane and Peter. Many thanks for your postings.
Diane, I can see from the image below why we were tempted to name it Pleione aureata.......!!

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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #52 on: April 30, 2007, 10:51:12 PM »
And this from a former (nameless) show secretary too, he should know better.

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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #53 on: April 30, 2007, 10:54:20 PM »
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I can see from the image below why we were tempted to name it Pleione aureata

I do say there's always a clue but sometimes the clue is a red-herring!
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Re: HARROGATE AGS SHOW 28TH APRIL 2007
« Reply #54 on: May 01, 2007, 12:40:54 AM »
Thank you Peter for the suggestion about Verbascum dumulosum. But I'm pretty sure the one in Cliff's pic ISN'T that, which has thick, white to grey felted foliage. I have a couple of plants. In the pic the foliage appears green and also a bit scalloped at the edges, which dumulosum isn't. I wish there were a pic of CC's larger plant for comparison.
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