Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on June 05, 2007, 03:52:13 AM
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Well, it looks like it's up to me to start the new thread for the Sthn hemisphere again!
Haven't really started taking pics here but just to show that we do grow some rare things, here's a pic of the way we deal with plant thieves!
cheers
fermi
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Fermi,
Given there were only a few postings in May I was just going to add to that one and perhaps get the subject changed or something? But this works as well. Hopefully will post some more pics in the next few days.
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Nice wee lad (or lass?) but are you sure that's not the thief?
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Lesley
"Tag" is a lad and a good guard dog while his dads were putting up a structure we bought from them!
Here's something he was protecting, a ledebouria species we recently got from Geoff Wilson a bulb collector/seller in Lilydale.
cheers
fermi
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Fabulous foliage, Fermi.
Re the dog - a Jack Russell terrier? Said to be all heart and no brains!
Paddy
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Looks like a fox terrier to me, longer legs than a JR, but otherwise similar. Certainly all heart. Not so sure about the brains but loves to take part in EVERYTHING. Very officious and busy little dog. I love'em.
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I'll go with fox terrier Tag, too. Longer legs, longer tail held straight, long face, square muzzle, more thoughtful expression.... which means he'll think before he bites... not because he might NOT bite, but because he's thinking of where to bite that will cause most damage! Yes, great little dog. Ian has fond memories of having one as a pet when he was little.
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I had a smile when i read your comment about the Foxy biting----Maggie. :)
My brother is employed as a rabbiter further down the coast a bit.He breeds/sells Jacks and Foxys and runs about 18 to 20 dogs in a pack.
Rabbits on the run don't stand a chance ,(in my observations while out in the field there seems to be no thought at all of where to bite--such is the pack mentality i guess--just a mass of bums up ,tails wagging and fur flying-- :'((apologies to all animal lovers).Those rabbits that go to ground have a precarious future when the ferrets are released from their holding box......
Cheers Dave .
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Our Woody was fearless in the chase for a rabbit. He'd go down any hole and dig and dig until he unearthed the inhabitant. Then he'd wriggle out backwards, bunny in his mouth and shake it until it was dead. He'd be covered in dirt, his poor eyes full of it but very happy. Sometimes he even got gorse roots stuck into his body as he ripped and tore them in the process so that he'd be bloodied too. He did bite me once, when deeply asleep on the sofa and I was silly enough to stroke his nose. Still asleep, he bit, quick as a flash but seems sorry afterwards as soon as he realised I wasn't an enemy.
Cain, the lovely dog, is all bark and no bite. Well not much bark either.
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Here's the lovely South African Lachenalia viridiflora, grown from Silverhill seed many years ago. The leaf damage is not from slugs or snails but a blasted pasture-pest called "red-legged earth mite" which is active in the colder months. They work together like thrips to rasp away at the leaf and flower surface till they make a hole right through to the other side!
cheers
fermi
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Talking of dogs, Maggi, how is yours that had a injured eye? And what great foliage on that Ledebouria - the markings are so regular it doesn't look real.
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Anne, Lily's eye is making terrific progress, thank goodness. She has some sight in it, it may never be 100% but she will have some use of it and, best of all, it is not hampering her or hurting at all. The council has removed the papmpas grass that she heurt her eye on and has given me forms to fill in for compensation... we'll see if anything comes of that. I think they acted so quickly to get rid of the trimmed pampas because they realised how dangerous it was to children. I imagine the photos i provided of the poor dog's eye must have concentrated their minds... the thought of a child with that injury is too horrible to contemplate really. Miss Lily thanks you for your kind enquiry, by the way!
The neat markings on the Ledebouria reminds me of some Aloes.
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It's the middle of winter here but the nerines are still flowering!
Well, at three types are still in full bloom. The main one is a pink version of what we call N. flexuosa "Alba" but I've never been sure about its name.
The second is one I got a long time ago as N."Splendens" and it certainly is!
The third is a light pink with small, crinkly flowers on a tall scape, so not N. masonorum or filifolia as far as I can tell; I seem to remember someone calling it N. crispa but I stand to be corrected!
cheers
fermi
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Very nice Fermi. They've certainly hung on this year. I still have a few in flower too.
Thanks to the Far Flung Friendly Fizzyo (or Fyzzio)- with Face Fungus ;D
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Winter has really bitten now. The south of the country is in the grip of some really horrid stuff, most roads closed, Dunedin and Queenstown airports closed and my own road out of home and into towm closed as well, not officially but the idiots who tried to negotiate it are now safely tucked up at their homes while their abandoned vehicles are strewing the road up Saddle Hill. I awoke to these this morning. We've had a clearish but bitterly cold day (0degC) and it's now snowing heavily agian, there having been no melt in between times. Thank heavens for a large wood stack. I couldn't go to work this morning, and in fact, the Otago Farmers' Market which has around 55-60 vendors at this time of year, had 10, so I'm told, and about as many customers instead of our usual 5000. Happy days ::) ::)
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Roll on Spring! ;D
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Are wy worrying too much about global warming ???? ???
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It certainly seems we are Luc, this weekend :-\
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Well, not quite out yet, but here are the first of the Galanthus elwesii coming into bloom in the rock garden. These are grown in almost full sun with virtually no water during the summer and definitely not in a woodland!
cheers
fermi
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Also in flower is a patch of Potentilla alba and a Narcissus romiuexii hybrid.
cheers
fermi
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First signs of your Spring Fermi ?? 8)
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Still very much in winter here, Luc! Wind and rain lashing the window as I type!
The narcissus are delightful in the garden or in pots and survive our frosts which usually only drop down to around -7C! Only -2C so far this year.
The galanthus are starting to open but the light was too poor to get a pic before work this morning!
cheers
fermi
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It's the middle of winter here but the nerines are still flowering!
Well, at three types are still in full bloom. The main one is a pink version of what we call N. flexuosa "Alba" but I've never been sure about its name.
The second is one I got a long time ago as N."Splendens" and it certainly is!
The third is a light pink with small, crinkly flowers on a tall scape, so not N. masonorum or filifolia as far as I can tell; I seem to remember someone calling it N. crispa but I stand to be corrected!
cheers
fermi
Fermi,
The first one looks like some form of Nerine bowdenii, perhaps 'Winter Cheer' given how late it is? The last one is Nerine undulata. There has been discussion about Nerine flexuosa alba becoming Nerine undulata alba but to me there is really no comparison. The proportions between the two are totally different, with the undulata being tall and slim, with rather delicate flowers, unlike the much larger proportions of the flexuosa alba. The leaves and different as well, so I don't understand why they would shift it, unless of course they've found genetic links that we can't "see". I mention this only because you commented on your first one being a pink form of the flexuosa alba...... which sort of shows as well just how different the undulata is too! ;) I hope this is a help.