Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on January 12, 2014, 11:45:25 AM
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The weather was kind to us at Ferny Creek in the lead-up to this weekend (we're expecting 5 days around 40oC from tomorrow!) and we had a great Summer Show!
Here are a few images, starting with the Liliums,
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fermi
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More of the Bench,
Serrano
Triumphator
Lilium henryi hybrid
Albany
green backed Trumpet
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fermi
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An unlabelled L-A Lilium - possibly Eyeliner
Golden trumpet liliums
unlabelled "brush-mark" Asiatic Lilium
single blooms on the Bench
Asiatic Lilium Jennifer
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fermi
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More of the single blooms
-more of the bench
-A nicely flecked Asiatic Lilium x 2
-a soft pink Oriental Lilium
-a very dark pink Trimpet Lilium, 'Mabeline'
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fermi
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My word- that's quite some display of lilies! I have to admire the exhibitors who were brave enough to cut them for the show.
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Yes, Maggi, I'd never be brave enough!
You'll have to wait for the Vireya pics - it's taking a long time to re-size pics as I'm at home and I have to do them one at a time!
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fermi
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Potted Liliums (Cynthia Sladen's L.leichtlinii won first prize)
A couple of O-T. stems
trumpet stems
Lilium wilsoni flavum
Lilium callosum
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fermi
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Lilium concolor
an Aurelian type - maybe 'X-Phi'? x 2
Lilium henryi type in the CCBF display
Lilium lilianjangse var kaichen - this one set a certain crocus-lover's heart aflutter! ;D
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fermi
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Adrian from Club Creek Bulb Farm put on a tremendous Display!
And a teaser for Maggi - part of the bench of Vireya Rhododendron exhibits,
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fermi
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I can hear Maggi sighing from here!
It's past my bedtime but I'll post some more Vireya pics before heading off,
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fermi
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Truly, I don't know whether to sigh or sniff! The fragrance in the hall must have been fantastic- even without a scent button or a scratch and sniff card I can just imagine the scent - lovely!
I must go back to look at previous year's pictures from the show fermi - but it gives me the impression of being a really "vintage" show - flowers in even greater profusion than before !
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Gorgeous 8)
Angie :)
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Yes indeed Fermi, a great show. Lilies are good this year in NZ too, we've had so much rain (another inch, 26mm last night and this morning. THIS IS NOT SUMMER! 40 deg C??? Our predicted high for today is 14 C and it's so far managed to crawl up to 7C, a bitter day.
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Lesley,
I'd trade you our 40 for your 14 if I could!!!
Here are a few more pics of the Vireyas on the bench
Jazz Band
Samba (?Simba) Sunset
Saxon Blush and Saxon Glow
unlabelled pink
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fermi
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unlabelled deep pink/red
unlabelled white/pale pink
The Blue Ribbon winner with undecipherable name x2
mac x (not sure what Mac was cross about....)
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fermi
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Sweet Mac (no longer cross?)
Rh laetum
rare lepidotum
Vireya.bench. with potted plants
Rh carringtoniae
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fermi
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I do try not to be out and out jealous - but I cannot control the envy I feel when I see these glorious Vireyas. I would love to be able to have a collection of these stunners. It's just not going to happen but I am still reduced to desperate aquisitiveness when I see them.
Thanks for providing this "fix" fermi!
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If it's any consolation I can't grow them here either, Maggi!
But I get to see them at the Show ;D
More from the benches
long tubular pink
Rh retusum
illegible (Rarelepidotum again???)
close up of above
different speciemen - same name!
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fermi
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Fantastic, Fermi! Like Maggi, I'd like to smell them ( mind you that many lilies in one room would probably knock me out).
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Some other exhibits
2 x Masdevallia Machu Picchu 'Crown Point'. (Masdevallia ayabacana x Masdevallia coccinea)
Haemanthus carneus (looked similar to the H. hirsutus on sale elsewhere)
2 x Allium beesianum
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fermi
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Hydrangeas were the other main focus of the Show
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fermi
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Wow Fermi that is a huge show.
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Hydrangeas were the other main focus of the Show
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fermi
My goodness - what a large range - impressive .
The Ferny Creek Hort. Society's connection/ communications with the SRGC goes back decades - it is wonderful to see how the society is maintaining its vigour as is evidenced so well by fermi's photos from this truly super show.
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Fermi - Can you post a better pic of the name tag on the illegible one? I've forwarded the link to Bovees Nursery for an i.d.
johnw
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My late friend June Keeley, well known in NZ for her gentiana, nerine and other hybrids, grew about a dozen vireyas in Timaru, (half way between Dunedin and Christchurch), in a climate definitely not to their liking, with quite bad frosts in winter and hot, dry winds through spring and summer which often continued until March/April. However, June grew them in large pots in a sun porch, like a little gallery, where they were sheltered but warm. They had to be watered of course. She reckoned that they flowered not seasonally, but after heavy watering. That is, it was the applied conditions that brought on blooming, not the seasons per se. So when she wanted them in bloom for a particular occasion, such as her daughter's wedding, they were well watered and perhaps fertilized, about 3 months beforehand, and on time, the flowers appeared and performed. They seemed always to be bloom when I saw them which would have been several times through the year. So they CAN be grown in apparently impossible gardens. Maggi you could try if you really wanted to. Your kitchen near the dining table end would be ideal I should think. Of course you might have to throw out Ian and the little girls, in order to have enough room. :-\