Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: admin on November 14, 2006, 10:23:55 AM
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Well, 900 feet up in Aberdeenshire there is not much in flower on a raw November day. However, just to get the new forum started I took a few photos – so here they are
Cyclamen coum is plant no one should be without. I got 2 plants from Ian Christie many years ago and now I have hundreds. They even grow out of the road, spread by ants I beleive, and never fail to flower their hearts out every year in late January / February no matter what the weather.
The hollies are nice right now too
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This is different :)
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No doubt in a week's time this will all be familiar once again, but for the moment, feels like I'm typing with my toes!!
Cheers and good luck with the new forum.
John H
In drizzly Hampshire
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By the look of things, we can post pics with larger file sizes than before. Can anyone tell me what the maximum file size is for uploading pics on this new system?
I just love it when familiar things change! Like when they move everything around in the supermarket! I expect we'll get used to it and find it's better in the long run. I just popped back into the old forum for a minute, and it feels nice and comfy in there.
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hellooo, hellooo, it's good to be back! it's good to be back!, hellooo ....
Just realised my nearly 3000 pots are now a big fat 0
Martin I'm sure your answer will come soon enough. I dont even know how to add images
and we can can kind of tell when lurkers are about. Admin's images have been viewed alot
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By the look of things, we can post pics with larger file sizes than before. Can anyone tell me what the maximum file size is for uploading pics on this new system?
I have set the max size for an image (for any type of attachment in fact) at 300K and a max of 10 attachments / post. Members are encouraged to make the attachment file sizes smaller though for practical reasons
You can attach the following file types
doc
gif
jpg
pdf
png
txt
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Admin's images have been viewed alot
I guess that's why I now have a Karma reading of +1 :D
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It will take a bit of getting used to. Am just trying to get postings to turn up in my email again. Have printed off the User help and have now found the notify button, so shall see if replies get sent to Spam!
Susan
Sunny Dunedin, New Zealand
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Testingtestingtesting.
If this works - well glad to be back and thanks for the efforts of everyone involved to get the forum back up on its feet. I bet that caused some headaches.
;D
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Mark, when you click 'reply' at the top of the thread and get the 'post reply' box up for typing into, the 'additional options' button just below to the left opens up a browse and attach facility for uploading pics etc. (where I now see the very info I asked for - max file size - is clearly set out; if only I'd looked more carefully. Anyway, thanks admin for the reply. 300kb max should make things easier for people who have probs resizing pics to very small files and keeping the quality).
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:o Shock of the new. Hi all.
Thought I'd use my proud moment winning the ForrestMedal. OK so it was 2001 and the ravages of time have taken their toll!!
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The Daphne stems sprouting from the main stems of my Daphne 'Jacqueline Postill' now have ripening fruit
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This is fun, really... apart from having to get one's exhausted grey cells round a new system... and it must be said, most of the answers to your/ my/ our questions are already around us, if we just read through well and keep looking....email us if you get really stuck! I likethe way we can show fab fotos of our gorgeous selves and I like the thumbnails that whizz in a a good speed and then click up to make a bigger size for viewing. All thanks and credit to Fred the Admin for his powerful amount of work to get this show on the road at such short notice and impressively high speed.
All hail, Fred!
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Looks like we are all Newbies now. Anyhow, this is no. 1 for me.
Hope the pics will be bigger without having to click on them. Not sure how to select boards that I want to be advised of in my e-mail inbox.
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Ah, THAT'S how you do it! Obvious really.
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O.K. folks.....Neanderthal man has rejoined the party! The Booker returns (or not if my fingers press the wrong keys).
This is simply a trial posting....and I will probably be found guilty!
Just wanted to let everyone know how good our guest speaker was for our Alpine Garden Society East Lancashire Group meeting last evening. Peter Cunnington presented 'Himalayan Extremes' and 75 members were enthralled, captivated and greatly amused in equal measures. Many thanks Peter.
Greetings to all the forum members and best wishes for a speedy return to the wonderful postings we became used to.
Cheers,
Cliff
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Yes, Heather, I was a bit stumped too,but I'm learning fast!
Emails of posts can be activated by the "Notification" button at the top of each page/thread.
If you look at the buttons at the top of each board (when opened) there is a notify button. Click that and you will be notified of all posts to topics on the board. You can also do it with individual topics.
We are on broadband now, so I may have life easier than those on dial-up, but I find the pages come in pretty fast and when I click a photo to see it full size, it is very quick to display.
Cliff, nice to have you with us again! Sounds like a good talk your Group has just had. I do enjoy the programme of Talks each season....we are fortunate to have so many talented Speakers.
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Huh? I like playing with the icons, but haven't figured that one out yet. :-\
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Aaah! Thanks, Maggi.
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As all the 'old' hands are now classified as 'newbies' I thought it might be a good time to register and become an official member rather than a 'lurker'.
Many thanks for the pleasure I have had visiting the site and perhaps I might even get to post a photograph at some stage.
Paddy Tobin, Waterford, Ireland.
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Can I have a little help with posting pics, please?
What is the 'best' image size? I presume it is no longer quite as small as it used to be.
I have got as far as downloading the images but they did not show up in the preview and there is no indication that I can see as to why. They are indicated below this box as I type this but do not show in the posting.
Help!!.
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Pictures / attachments don’t show in the preview – that's just a limitation of the software. I would suggest re-sizing all your pics to a max width / height of 640 px. This means that in standard landscape format most will be 640 x 480 or thereabouts
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Ah, they are there this time. I expect this sort of thing will reduce as I get used to the new format.
What I wanted to say with these pics was that there are 2 things in flower when thet should be over though the Eccremocarpus will flower all year round if the weather premits. There are other things that have ventured a flower or two due to the continuing mildness, such as Erinus alpinus, poppies, roses, phlox, potentilla, geranium etc, but not many flowers.
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Well I must admit I like the profile pictures. I'll have to find one which does me justice.
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Paddy, a very warm welcome to you!
Heather, do you know, we don't grow that Cerinthe. Don't know why ! Strange how some plants that are well enough known seem to pass one by, isn't it? Our garden is full of glaring omissions!
Something must be done!
I'll think about it!
Click to see me deep in thought!
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It's a pity we can't click on the posters' personal photos to make them larger too. Then we could all see even better just how gorgeous we all are!
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Just in case anyone is wondering where Moderator Ian is at this momentous time .... He's been kidnapped by Aliens!
BTW - I think I'm going to enjoy this new 'toy' :)
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Martin B(axendale)? You've changed since I last saw you
Hello Paddy. I hope you are among a whole new crew to join the fun.
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No, no. That's me all right, Mark. I just checked in the mirror.
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Martin, funny you should say that... my first though was that a bigger mugshot would just be TOO much information then I looked at yours and thought it was the new James Bond! Is that really you, or are you "having a giraffe " ?? ???
Tony, your daughters haven't eaten him, have they??
I thought he was safe chez Borrill!!
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I can see a slight resemblance. But I'm better looking I think.
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Martin have you booked for the Gala?
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Okay Maggi and Mark, you got me. Just messing around with the new system. Here's the real (much more dashing than Craig Daniel) me with a glass of white wine, shaken not stirred (actually a publicity pic taken for the German edition of a recent book, The Hangover Survival Guide (entirely based on long and exhaustive personal research).
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I can see a slight resemblance. But I'm better looking I think.
Yes, I've given my specs a polish and I can see that you are right! You and I have much in common, you know.... my modesty is one of MY most endearing features.
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Oops! That should be Daniel Craig, not Craig Daniel! Too much well-shaken chardonnay. No Mark, I'm not booked. I have to go to Germany that week for a book launch.
What's this 'applaud' and 'smite' stuff by the posters' info? I guess it's to rate the post, but I'm afraid to touch it in case I unleash a thunderbolt on someone!
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I'll have to get a magnifying glass to look at you properly. LOL
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Martin, you'll have to post the 007 pic so that everyone can see it, now your ID shot has changed in all your posts! Otherwise folk'll think we're daft... god forbid!
Craig Daniel, Daniel Craig... whatever, we knew what you meant. Good luck with book launch at Snowdrippy Gala time... it'll be that time before we know it.
Mark: that could be a very hurtful suggestion. Why not just buy the book, you'll like it.
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No Maggi - He is fine chez Borrill. It was his idea to draw a face on the paper bag .... and we have often wondered if Amy was delivered by aliens!
As this is supposed to be Flowering Now thread here are some flowers
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Okeydokey Maggi. I prefer the earlier pic anyway.
Oops! I just tried out the 'smite' button on Mark and gave him minus 2 for Karma. Tried to change it back but the system says I can't change it for an hour! Sorry Mark. My fault if you end up as a dung beetle in your next incarnation!
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Tony: Mark has begun a "proper" flowering now page: see http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=9.0
I hope everyone will excuse the "even chattier than usual" nature of the Forum as we all get to know each other in this new arena!
Happy Days!
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sorry didnt notice. Maybe we should have a mug shot page?
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Mark, why would we need a mug shot page when we can have our mug shot with each post?
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to look at the finer details warts 'n all
Do you know you, Maggi, are already the posting super hero?
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Mugshots, warts and all? Yikes, aren't some of us scary enough in a thumbnail!!
Me, posting super hero, eh? Actually, I prefer the term, housewife superstar, like Dame Edna Everage !
Others may see me differently, I suppose.....
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Maggi, for my profile I've reverted to the mugshot of me in the latext ugly-mask that I have to wear to avoid being mobbed in the street because of my uncanny resemblance to the new James Bond (only more handsome).
Just for the record, here's what I really look like without the ugly-mask.
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awa & pull the other aine!
I'll have to try & get a pic of myself for you all to remember me by. Get Carol busy with the digi.
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Finally had a good read of the instructions and now posting a mug shot of moi,(me) as a test run.Hopefully there are no gremlins ,(aka gnomes), in the system.(smile)
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Cheers dave
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Here's a few pictures of my Cimifuga racemosa that was flowering in my yard at the end of September. It really is a late flower here in central Canada and this is really the first time that I've managed to get it to throw up more than one flower stake. The bees really flocked to these flowers just like honey, although I'm not sure yet if I managed to get any seed. We've had some light frosts and all the plant has dropped all it's leaves but I haven't yet got around to see if it managed to grow some healthy seed in the mean time. I'll have to check tomorrow.
I've attached the following pictures to this message, but they don't appear on the preview. Hopefully they will on the actual post. If they don't I'm not sure how to proceed. If anyone whose posted pictures would help I'd certainly appreciate it. If the pictures show up then I guess I've figured it out.
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@ Maggi, thanks for helping me out (or I should say "in") at the new forum.
I ordered some Narcissus from Paul Christian, which are coming into bloom now:
N. albidus zaianicus (its correct name should be N. romieuxii ssp. albidus var. zaianicus?)
Isoplexis canariensis keeps on blooming once the autumn temperatures stay high. Although less colour than in summer
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hi all! I'm back from the best AGS Dublin Group discussion weekend since the Young's vist. Today we had a tour of the bulb house in Gothenberg and a trip to Greece with Wol Staines