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Title: November Downunder
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 15, 2006, 10:25:10 PM
If you make it, they will come......
So, here's the re-starting of the Downunder topic!
This is a western Australian native shrug which is dwarf enough in our conditions to keep in the rock garden without even pruning it (though it probably would look better if it was pruned!).

cheers
fermi
Redesdale, Victoria, Australia
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Maggi Young on November 15, 2006, 10:28:59 PM
Hi, Fermi, great to have you back with us, especially since our weather is getting more miserable!
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 16, 2006, 10:37:51 PM
Thanks, Maggi.
November in Victoria has turned quite bizarre! We had a blast of cold air from Antarctica which brought snow to parts of the state on Wednesday! Unfortunately not a lot of rain to these parts. We should be back into 30C temps by the same time next week!
cheers
fermi
Redesdale, Victoria, Australia
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 16, 2006, 11:02:43 PM
So, another blunder I think. I posted 5 mins ago here but it hasn't appeared, though there's a message sayingWarning - while you were reading a new reply ....... so maybe that's mine. I need to see it because I don't know if the pics are there. There was a note somewhere else about being able to see one's post after posting it. Can't find that either, but I have found the New Topic button. I was looking in the wrong place.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 16, 2006, 11:04:30 PM
So there's the pic I posted (one of two, the other the same but with 284KBs) but where's the text that went with it?
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Martin Baxendale on November 16, 2006, 11:52:58 PM
Lesley, if you want to immediately see your post in the thread after you've posted, I found that you need to do this: Click 'profile' to go to your profile section, under 'modify profile' click 'look and layout', then tick the box that says 'return to topics after posting by default' then click 'change profile'.

Then, when you've posted, your screen immediately goes back to the thread and you can see your post, check photos have appeared etc.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: John Forrest on November 17, 2006, 08:43:32 PM
Hi Fermi

I've heard of a Gallic Shrug but not an Aussie one   ;D
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 17, 2006, 11:15:35 PM
One for Lesley--Asteranthera ovata seemingly enjoying the cool wet conditions of late.Only had 3 or 4 flowers last year however multiple blooms currently.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 17, 2006, 11:21:19 PM
I can see this is going to be a slow process until i figure out how to send multiple pics in the one posting.In the meantime it will increase my posting stats.(Smile).

An Iris species grown from seed but label missing .Any ideas please.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 17, 2006, 11:26:07 PM
Weldenia candida.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 17, 2006, 11:33:10 PM
Next a couple of South Africans--While weeding in this plot recently i came across this Moraea flowering for the first time.Although the label is missing,(again!),i remember planting a few bulbs of M.papilionacea i had raised from seed so that's what it could be.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 17, 2006, 11:47:23 PM
Gladiolus brevitubus purchased earlier this year from suplus bulbs x Christchurch Botanical Gardens.While it's now planted in the alpine house was outside all winter uncovered.Might try a few more species if i can lay my mitts on 'em' as they seem hardier down here than what i previously thought.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 17, 2006, 11:57:22 PM
Fritillaria lanceolata a member of the affinis group?.As this one always flowers here late when other plants i have as affinis are well over, i've never been able to compare them.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 18, 2006, 12:02:21 AM
Finally Calceolaria fothergillii?.Thanks for all your patience .Cheers Dave
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 18, 2006, 04:48:59 AM
Had a look at my reference book on cape bulbs ,(Manning, Goldblatt and Snijman), and it appears the Moraea i posted above is more likely to be M.ramoissima.You all knew that didn't you ?. :-\
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 19, 2006, 09:30:45 PM
Hi Dave, nice to have you back again.

I think the iris looks like another Pacific coaster and that the frit is just F. affinis, lanceolata being an old synonym.

The asteranthera cuttings you gave me are looking good so far but the layered bits are not so maybe cuttings are the way to go. I hope they'll root well.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: David Lyttle on November 20, 2006, 10:37:51 AM
Greetings All. Now I am registered and logged in lets try a test run. Lesley- Here is a picture of the mis-labelled Nomocharis I told you about. I have come to the conclusion it is Lilium lophophorum which was what you suggested. The flower is not as yellow as the picture in the book which initially mislead me.
David Lyttle
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 20, 2006, 09:13:17 PM
That looks really nice David. I have Lilium lophophrum v. linarioides from OAGG seed, as supplied by Dick King. It has its first two buds (still in seed pot!) at present so I'll be able to compare with yours in a couple or three days.

Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: David Lyttle on November 21, 2006, 10:46:58 AM
Okia Flats with Lupinus arboreus  (California) and Sambucus nigra (Europe)  happily flowering away. This photo was obtained at considerable risk of my falling into Urtic ferox the host plant of the NZ red admiral butterfly.

Hope this post works
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: mark smyth on November 21, 2006, 11:04:26 AM
T00lie I think your Gladiolus brevitubus is Tritonia unless they have had a name change. I bought mine as Tritonia
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Anthony Darby on November 21, 2006, 11:24:10 AM
Stunning photo of the New Zealand Red Admiral [Bassaris gonerilla]. I wonder if Urtica ferox would grow in the UK?
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: SueG on November 21, 2006, 01:33:16 PM
Hi Anthony - who don't you like????

I've just been 'googling' and discovered the New Zealand Tree Nettle can get to 3m, 10ft in old money and the stings can kill. This web site has a rather good pic - impressive, but maybe 12,000 miles is a good distance to view it from. http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Oceania/New_Zealand/photo9924.htm (http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Oceania/New_Zealand/photo9924.htm)

On the other hand it might keep those neighbours you don't like away . . . .

Sue
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: John Forrest on November 21, 2006, 02:19:28 PM
Lovely picture of the Red Admiral, David. Is it a coincidence or do all the insects fly upside down in the antipodes?   ;D
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: David Lyttle on November 21, 2006, 08:53:09 PM
There has been one recorded  human fatality from Urtica ferox poisoning in 1961. Horses and dogs have also suffered fatal poisonings. I can vouch from personal eperience that an Urtica ferox sting feels like having a red-hot needle stuck into you. For those of you who are interested in these matters the red admiral is happy with a diet of Urtica urens which no doubt is a familiar plant to many of you.

The red admiral ( Bassaris gonerilla) is the most common butterfly round here with the yellow admiral (Bassaris itea) being less common. The particular specimen in the photo was resting upside down on a hebe. Hebes are amongst the few NZ plants with brightly coloured flowers that are thought have evolved specifically for butterfly pollination. The butterflies are also attracted to Buddleia and Sedum floweres.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 21, 2006, 10:20:10 PM
I can endorse David's comment re Urtica ferox. Don't even think about it Anthony.

John, did you not realize that EVERYTHING is upside down here? You only have to look at a globe to see that. All people, animals and every object has a built-in magnet thing in either feet or base, and we are born with this. It keeps us thoroughly grounded. Only birds, insects and airplanes have a mechanism where they can turn it off from time to time.  ;)
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Maggi Young on November 21, 2006, 10:26:19 PM
Shudder to think what might become of the younger Darbys if their Dad introduces Urtica ferox to feed his butterflies!
Good evening, Lesley, or should I say, good morning? See the dog's not getting taken out again!

I'm so pleased we are all getting the hang of the new forum... I am preparing a list of the  forum queries posted so far, with a view to making a sort of duffer's guide to posting! I hope that will make life easier for any new members having difficulty.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Susan on November 22, 2006, 12:13:41 AM
Well here goes.  Some photos may follow.  This has got to be my favourite plant flowering at present.
Ranunculus lyalli which is finally happy in my garden.  I have had it planted in quite a few places and was told that when it started to creep around it was happy.  I still have another one that is obviously not happy, although it is only about a metre away. It does not creep and does not flower.  Then Celmisia bellidiodes and C. semicordata.

Susan.



Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Susan on November 22, 2006, 12:18:35 AM
Shock, horror.  It actually worked first time.  That was easier than the old Forum, so congratulations to "our leaders". 

Susan, from sunny Dunedin, with icebergs our latest tourist attraction.  That's right for $500 you can helicopter out and see them.(That's about 160 pound or Euro250).
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Maggi Young on November 22, 2006, 12:40:06 AM
Hi, Susan, well done on your fine posting and even finer photos! does me good to see them, though it is hard to imagine such flowers at a time of passing icebergs! I knew about that because my sister Ann and her husband, Bill Cranfield, also from Dunedin, had emailed us with photos from the local paper about the iceberg and the helicopter landing on it.  Not my idea of a day out, but I can see some would like the idea! Bill said " No wonder this spring has not been very tropical, the first time for about 100 years that an iceberg has been seen off the Dunedin coast.Flights are being organised to go & see them but apparently, they are now visible from Mount Cargill up above Campbells Road, so if the sky clears  I will go up with my binoculars to have a look.Cannot hang about though as they are melting fast."

Cheers,
Maggi
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Susan on November 22, 2006, 02:48:09 AM
Do you never sleep, Maggi?  My son and I spent most of last Friday afternoon "iceberg spotting".  Didn't see any though.  These ones, there are 4 more, are around 50kms off the coast.  Still waiting for them to come a little closer to shore.  Anyone who is interested can go onto the Otago Daily Times site, www.odt.co.nz  and see one in today's paper.  It has a pretty turquoise lake on it.   Waiting to get a little bit for the whisky.

Susan
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on November 22, 2006, 09:40:58 AM
Great Ranunculus lyally Susan - beautiful !
Maybe you should try R. glacialis now with all these icebergs around... ;)
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Andrew on November 22, 2006, 04:52:08 PM
Lesley, is the magnet operation painful when us 'up here' come to visit 'down there'. ::)
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 22, 2006, 07:13:21 PM
Maggi, I believe 1931 was the last time icebergs were seen from mainland NZ. I wasn't (quite) here then so missed that lot. But from the road above our house the first in a series was visible at the beginning of the week. Several more, some enormous (Ikm long) are on their way. Far from extreme cold, global warming is the factor here.  A huge chunk broke away from the continental ice shelf and circled round and started heading up towards NZ. And wouldn't you know it, after flying out from Dunedin in a helicopter, some darned Aussies went and stuck their flag in OUR iceberg!  An idiot couple are planning to be married on one shortly. They'll have to go equipped with crampons.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 22, 2006, 07:16:58 PM
Andrew, it's something MAF do as you arrive in the country and you'll hardly feel a thing, unless you have undeclared seeds in your pocket in which case it's not only very painful but VERY expensive! 8)
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 22, 2006, 11:24:57 PM
Mark--If i can go back a day or two to your comment on my posting of the Glady. above.

There doesn't appear to have been a name change to my knowledge.Unfortunately my reference book doesn't show a pic of the said plant.
Maybe as you say it's wrongly named, (another one --sigh!.).

It certainly looks like a Tritonia and if i can use an old addage,(slightly amended ofcourse)--------------If it grows like a rat--smells like a rat--and looks like a rat, then it must be a rat.(big smile). ;D
Have a good day mate.
Cheers Dave.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 22, 2006, 11:52:53 PM
Mark and Dave, I have exactly the same bulb as Tritonia species. I think it came from Agnes Sutherland in the first place.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 23, 2006, 12:14:05 AM
Lesley --i presume when you say our above you are refering to Otago .If so i'd like to point out it is a well known fact that the icebergs in question just didn't arrive up your way by chance.They first drifted through Southland ,(my home province) ,waters and once we were finished with them we sent them on their way.So they are ours not yours. ;D

Your comment is just another example of the injustices /greviences/mistruths stretching back many many years that this province has suffered from areas futher north.It's bad enough the *Aussies refusing to acknowledge that money was loaned from NZ ,(and Southland --because we've always been a wealthy province.) ,to build the Sydney harbour bridge ,(other wise it would never have been built),and that the famous racehorse Far Lap was a NZer ,without having to cop it repeatedly from just over the border. :o

We,(i) ,will not accept a verbal apology .Actions only, not words will help heal the hurt we (i) are /am feeling.
May i suggest a courier bag full of some of your plant treasures be forwarded forthwith priority delivery.
Ps *Please make it a big bag as i no doubt will have to smooth matters across the ditch.
Cheers Dave --Iceberg Commissioner Southland (Aka muck stirrer.).  ;)[/i][/i][/i][/i]
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 23, 2006, 01:36:11 AM
Well really, Dave. There I was having a gentle dig at our friends across the ditch and I get it in the neck from you! As it happens I was referring to NZ rather than just Otago when I said "our" icebergs and I fully accept that you had first crack at them and let's face it, Southland being at the bottom of the country, it is much colder there and I'm sure the bergs felt very much at home. They only come north looking for warmer hearts and climes. I'm perfectly happy to acknowledge that you have everything before we do, ESPECIALLY the filthy weather and if you were nice people - as nice as we are in Otago - you'd keep it there and not dump it on us. We in turn, only occasionally send it up the road to Canterbury.

As for courier bags of plants - you know you can have anything you want, if not always when you want it.

Cheers Lesley

PS My AGS seedlist arrived today too and I haven't even opened it yet. Can't get to fill in either until I finish a darned Newsletter for Saturday's Market, and I shouldn't be wasting time HERE! So there!
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Susan on November 23, 2006, 01:42:35 AM
Dave, looking at your avatar, I'd be a bit careful.  In that outfit you could find yourself kidnapped and left on one of those icebergs. As self styled Iceberg Commissioner Southland, your photo does you justice  and  I  have to say it is a very good likeness of you.

Susan
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: t00lie on November 23, 2006, 08:38:49 PM
Message to Susan from the avatar--------"To (g)no-me is to love me".
Right enough of this sillyness.

A few of the geraniums are out.I wouldn't have a clue to the specific names of the following 3 plants.


Pic 4--Calochortus uniflorus is such a good doer here .It rapidly increases by underground stylons.

Pics 5 and 6--A different Nomocharis species from the ones i posted on the old forum which has opened up in the last few days.

Finally-- Lesley you mentioned recently of your acquisition of Sarracenia Sps.
These are hardy down this end of the country.The secret is to ensure a constant moisture level by growing them in a holeless concrete tub ,(or similar).They will grow in shade but to get the best flowering need full sun.I have found the best growing medium to be peat mixed with pineneedles/leafmould and spag. moss.
Mine always look very tatty at this time of the year until the new grow comes up.
I read somewhere fertilisers are to be avoided? so i,ve never tried feeding them.Interestingly although the Venus Fly Trap is normally seen as a house plant this has survived outside in the tub with the other plants.
PIC 7 -Concrete tub of Sarracenias

Cheers Dave.

Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 24, 2006, 05:09:06 AM
Hi Dave, thanks for the advice re Sarracenias. Ray has his in a pond so I guessed water was essential. I think your No 3 pic above is Geranium dalmaticum. couldn't say about the others though.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 24, 2006, 05:51:09 AM
I don't know, Lesley, if the colour is true I'd suspect that Geranium to be G macrorhizum, possibly "Ingwersen's Variety"; if the foliage is strongly scented ("pongy") it most likely is.

Dave, we've just created a peat bog in full sun and have planted out Sarracenia which are currently in flower; it remains to be seen if they survive the summer but we're prepared to top up the water level daily to give them a chance!
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 24, 2006, 07:32:00 AM
Well, G. dalmaticum is strongly scented too, sort of spicy with a bit of citrus, but I don't knopw G. macrorhizum so can't argue about that.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 29, 2006, 03:12:22 AM
I see I'm now a junior member. Someone has stripped 45 years off me. I like that!

Our current climate doesn't know whether to be spring or summer so by and large is opting for winter. 25degC one day, 11 the next. I'm surprised anything is showing its nose at all.

But a few things are toughing it out so here we go.

I can't resist a final picture of Crambe maritima, it has been so good, though well past its best now. In other years I've had some seed but not this year. The seeds are very large and round and light so that as they get caught in the tide they can be bounced along the beaches without sinking, and come to rest on another beach and so start a colony there. But you know all this. It's a British native.


Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 29, 2006, 03:22:16 AM
I forgot to do the attachthumb bit so it didn't turn out quite as intended. Trying again.

Saxifraga `Snowdrift' would, I would have thought, have a thicker-looking flowering than this. Perhaps it's wrongly named though the clump looks right. It's very pretty with red stems and there are lots of seedlings about from last year's bloom.
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I just love the fluffy blueness of Paedorota bonarota. It's beginning to creep about considerably but I'm happy with that. It's in a raised bed, very warm and gritty but with a thick topping of mixed gravel to keep the compost cool.
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I think the genus Saponaria is badly under-rated. It contains super plants which are easy, showy but classy enough to be "choice" to my mind. Two favourites here are S. `Olivana' and it's offspring S. `Gala Day,' my own seedling whose other parent (Dad) was S. ocymoides. Said to be sterile, I find a little seed on `Olivana' most years and it has given very interesting and worthwhile seedlings.
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And a firm favourite with me, Weldenia candida. This year it's giving a few flowers here, a few there instead of the usual mass which I especially wanted for the AGS online photo competition. The best laid plans.....
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Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 29, 2006, 04:14:32 AM
Now a few bulby things. A few days ago David showed Lilium lophophorum so here is mine, I suspect from the same seed source, our chum Dick King who grows many fine plants here in Dunedin. I have mine as v. linarifolium (or do I mean linarioides?) This one is a little past its best due to a couple of hot, dry, windy days. There's another coming though and I'm hoping for seed.
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Lilium oxypetalum has big flowers for the size of the plant whereas L. nanum has small, very stiff flowers in a nice plummy shade. The pods are beautiful too, being fat, bright green but with black ribs.
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I am thrilled to have 2 seed pods on Oxalis laciniata, the blue form which I posted on the old Forum a month or so ago. So one for me and one for friend Otto. A careful watch is needed as they mature, pop and disperse with almost no notice or visible browning.
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Rhodohypoxis `Knockdolian Red' is a fine patch of colour through late spring and summer, only needing ample water, like them all, to keep it blooming continuously. I find red very difficult to portray with a digital camera. They always seem washed out and paler.
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Always I return to irises, perhaps my favourite of all genera. Here is a dwarf form of the NW American species, Iris douglasiana. It is just a fraction of the usual size and has lovely dark green glossy foliage to set off quite large, mid purple flowers. What's more, it come's true from seed, a bonus in the Pacific Coast group of the genus. These are first flowers on a young plant.
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And finally, the little ephemeral Iris barbatula, whose flowers are stemless and only last a day, so not one of the great showpieces of the iris world, but charming and not difficult. It is related to the tuberous species such as I. decora.
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Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 29, 2006, 04:23:14 AM
Well, that was supposed to be it but I see there are a couple of pics out of order. A small warning. This is what happens when you forget to attach the pic before going on to the next text. If you go back to the relevant place then attach the pic you missed, it comes in the wrong sequence. I could fix it by removing the lot and starting over or probably by deleting this and adding that, but.....never mind!
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 29, 2006, 06:45:32 AM
Lesley
I also think that the Saponaria clan is a bit neglected! I'm quite impressed with your seedling "Gala Day", it seems to marry the two parents nicely. Perhaps you can slip a piece into the next importation one of our group does! Would it survive the methyl bromide?
cheers
fermi
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: mark smyth on November 29, 2006, 10:42:16 AM
David your first two Geraniums are nodosum and pratense white form
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Maggi Young on November 29, 2006, 12:35:19 PM
 Lesley, you are really getting the hang of the picture posting stuff... I knew you would, even after your initial howls of anguish!!  Funny you should mention the Saponaria... last night in a super talk for the Aberdeen Group, the supreme grower and exhibitor, Fred Hunt, showed a super plant of Saponaria, (though, being me, I forget which) it was a compact mat, just full of  big flowers, looking at its peak. If anyone is in doubt, I would say, if it's good enough for Fred........
It is a shame that there can often be a tendency to overlook or undervalue excellent garden plants, simply because they are widely grown/available.
Pity that Weldenia candida isn't more readily obtainable, isn't it? Such a gorgeous plant and your photo is a beauty, Lesley, the flowers are perfect!
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 29, 2006, 07:22:32 PM
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.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Lesley Cox on November 30, 2006, 12:37:04 AM
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.

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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.
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: fermi de Sousa on November 30, 2006, 06:37:40 AM
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
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: Maggi Young on November 30, 2006, 01:52:37 PM
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!
Title: Re: November Downunder
Post by: David Nicholson on November 30, 2006, 06:16:20 PM
Lesley, really enjoyed your pictures of the icebergs-magnificent
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