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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Maggi Young on February 02, 2022, 05:29:46 PM
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DUNBLANE EARLY BULB DAY 2022 - Saturday 19th February 2022 - this event has been cancelled in view of continuing Covid difficulties - however, Zoom meetings in lieu of the physical event are planned.
In view of the pandemic, we have decided that there will be no physical meeting in February. Instead, we shall go ahead with lectures delivered online using Zoom. The details are as follows (all timings in GMT):
10.30 am - Virtual Doors open for chat between members.
11.00 am - ‘Bulbs Later in the Year’ - Sandy LEVEN (Dunblane)
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12 noon - Break for coffee/lunch/chat.
12.30 pm - ‘The Woodland Garden Throughout the Year’ - Colin CROSBIE (SRGC President)
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1.30 pm - Thanks and final chat.
The clickable Zoom link will be made available on the SRGC website 24 hours beforehand under Shows & Events > Club Events >2022 Early Bulb Day.
Full details and for actual Zoom link in due course: https://www.srgc.net/add-event-20220219-early-bulb.asp
ALL WELCOME !
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The forecast for Saturday is much better than today so I may miss the very good talks to take an opportunity to look for mosses with some expert friends. Unlke most flowering plants mosses and liverworts look good in winter. Here are some snaps of my bulbs currently in flower. No rarities. All apart from the three dwarf daffodils are grown outside thus the trademark dirty pots. I think they all have legible labels.
first batch wth histrioides/winogradowii parentage
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mainly reticulata types
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Two more Iris then three dwarf daffs -these last were under cold glass
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Some crocus
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More crocus. Last pic is of some of the bulbs en route to Auchtermuchty garden club yesterday. Nice to get to an actual not virtual event but it does mean I have to clean the pots!
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Thanks, Stan for posting these cheery pictures of spring bulbs. Snowing here since 9am. It turned to sleet for a while but is back to snow. I am trying to get most bof my bulbs out into the garden and am neglecting those still in pots. I don't know how you manage to produce so many pots for shows and still have time for so many other activities. I did manage to photograph a few pots a couple of days ago.
Crocus sieberi sublimis
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Eranthis 'Guinea Gold' I hadn't noticed before what a strong scent it has
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Narcissus romieuxii FS 126/1
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Of course I have to post a few Cyclamen - 1alpinum and a few coum
Cyclamen alpinum
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Cyclamen coum
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Good you have added some nice plants esp cyclamen as I've none in flower just now. Snow here has turned to rain.
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I don't have any nice bulbs in pots, but I do have a nice wee 36 cm pot of Primula arduaine coming into flower. Looking forward to the zoom day.
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Lovely plants for the virtual display! Thanks!!
Link for these talks now online here: https://srgc.net/add-event-20220219-early-bulb.asp Hope many #NewZealanders #Australians will be joing us "this evening, their time!! - #USA and #Canada, #Continentals, #Scandanavians et al will be able to join us tomorrow !
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This iris is blooming now, as it did in February five years ago, when it had caught the remains of a leaf (Magnolia 'Elisabeth') as protection against cold winter winds. It reminds me of a haiku attributed to Ome Shushiki; 'Dead my old fine hopes And dry my dreaming but still… Iris, blue each spring'.
I look forward to interesting talks in a wee while.
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What a lovely picture, Knud! :)
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Nice to see all the potted colour .
Looking forward to the presentations although it will be a late night ...2.30 am NZ when all done and dusted.
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I think this is Allium beesianum.
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The wonderful variation from seed of ex Arisaema consanguineum 'The Perfect Wave'
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Great presentations!
So good to see so many SRGC friends again!
Here's the Gladdie I showed at the start of the get-together ,
Gladiolus saundersii grown from SRGC Seedex 2018
cheers
fermi
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The super plants shown here, more shown "live" on Zoom and two terrific talks from Sandy Leven and Colin Crosbie - what a success this virtual Dunblane Day has been!
Well done to the Australians and New Zealanders for staying awake into the night!
Many thanks to all those who attended, and those sending donations in thanks to the SRGC.
If you want to send a donation, there's a link on any SRGC webpage ..... no need for a paypal account!
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What a lovely picture, Knud! :)
Thank you, Roma, it was a lucky find. In a fit of 'monkey see, monkey do', I picked up a large, 'more perfectly' disintegrated leaf and placed it over an Eranthis, pictured below. A nice enough picture, but Nature wins, hands down. The picture does however show well the incredible lacy structure of the leaf.
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What a treat on a Saturday morning/afternoon to have two interesting and inspiring lectures 'delivered to your home'. Thank you to the organizers, and to the presenters for enjoyable talks with beautiful pictures and informative comments. I went out into the garden right after the meeting, only to find it snowed under......must have been all the talk of snow in the meeting :). It makes for nice pictures, though, and here are few from our garden today.
First two for the presenters, a Cyclamen and a Hamamelis. Then some early bulbs, Iris Katharine Hodgkin, Crocus Prince Klaus, and what I got as Crocus gargaricus herbertii and which is now renamed Crocus thirkeanus (?).