Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on November 04, 2013, 07:40:46 AM
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There's a lot going on in the Rock garden - yesterday we saw our first snake of the season!!!
Fortunately also a lot of flowers.
Calochortus splendens about to open
Delosperma sutherlandii
what used to be called Albuca maxima
Triteleia - maybe - hyacinthina
cheers
fermi
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Off to NZIS Convention in Timaru in a few minutes, home late Monday night. It will be great to catch up with friends from way back and of course Tony Hall is guest speaker so good to catch up with him again too.
I have quite a lot of iris pics on my camera at present but the last two weeks have been hectic without a minute to spare and then I've had to water like crazy yesterday and this morning and cover to protect from sun and rabbits and throw some slug pellets about too. 2 only seedlings of Genista aetnensis are eaten off!. Insert the B word here. I hope I've persuaded Roger to water my cuttings but who knows. We had 28C here yesterday but cooler today thank heaven.
Anyway, I expect a super weekend and will report with some pics next week.
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I am sure the NZIS weekend will be a great event, Lesley. Have a wonderful time and please give our long-distance regards to Tony!
Hard to imagine how hot your weather is - just a far-away memory here in frosty Aberdeen.
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Hi, I'll keep the ball rolling for the southerners.
Calochortus amoenus (JCA seed)
Calochortus amabilis (North West Natives seed)
Tulipa linifolia (the Dutch)
Allium nevskianum (Janis Ruksans seed)
Cistus salviifolius prostrate form (odd one out but what little beauty!)
Dank, miserable, mizzling weather here - a bit like Scotland ;D
Cheers, Marcus
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Hello and nice lot of Calochortus Fermi and Marcus.
heres one from me lilium rubellum..thanks Marcus.
Smells like sherbert. Very dry here, 30c and much wanted rain coming..cant wait
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Hi Stephen,
Thanks YOU for growing it so well!
Cheers, Marcus
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I've posted more Calochortus pics in the Calochortus thread (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9802.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9802.0) ) - reply#13;
Some other flowers in the garden:
Thalictrum tuberosum
Ixia rouxii
Dichelostemma ida-maia
Golden Pennants, Glischrocaryon behrii, a native of southern parts of Australia - first time for it to survive into its second year!
cheers
fermi
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Golden Pennants, Glischrocaryon behrii, a native of southern parts of Australia - first time for it to survive into its second year!
cheers
fermi
Wondered what family that came from - found this - http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glischrocaryon~behrii (http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glischrocaryon~behrii) - seems it's in the Family Haloragaceae :o
Sigh! I'm none the wiser! ::)
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Hi all,
No Golden Pennants here. Where does it grow Fermi?
I'll keep it running for the Down Underers. No bulbs, just a few little things that I love dearly.
Ewartia catipes - originally from Ken Gillanders' nursery though I have seen it many times now around Mt Anne.
Campanula tridentata or aucheri - I can't tell the difference.
Lomelosia hymettia - a scabiosa-type plant that I have only seen at Mt Kouchera on the road to Lambokambos in the central east of the Peloponnese. Brilliant thing.
Thymus longicaulis - excellent thyme - wouldn't be without it.
Euphorbia rigida - collected as seed near Sparta. All the euphorbias are great in Tasmanian conditions.
Cheers, Marcus
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My Sisyrhinchium palmifolium is flowering. Seed sown Dec 2012 and the flowering stem is 20" tall. The flowers open at 4 p.m. and close before dusk.
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Nice one Anthony, good pic too.
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Very pretty Anthony, never seen it before, Cheers, Marcus
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I'll see if it sets seed, but there's a goodly number of corms in the pot Marcus so I should have some spare.
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'Tis the season to be yellow...
Sooo well known, yet totally irresistible - Sandersonia aurantiaca:
I'm not great with orchids, but this is one of my favourites - Dendrobium densiflorum:
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Greatly enjoying these new flowers. Thanks for your kind offer Anthony. However it will have to be seeds. Way too expensive to bring in corms. Cheers, Marcus
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I'll get busy with the paint brush Marcus. 8)
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The corms must be something else. This Sisyrinchium is no bulb, just a common perennial root wise. As a mater of fact only one Chilean species could claim being a "bulb". Palmifolium is a favorite of one Brian Mathew.
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Not checked what is in the pot, so if it's rhizomes fair enough. This was the only illustration I could find of the roots. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sisyrinchium_palmifolium_Blanco1.100-original.png (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sisyrinchium_palmifolium_Blanco1.100-original.png)
Update: curiosity got the better of me and I tipped the pot out and washed some compost off the roots. Rhizome would be flattering it. There are just roots coming straight from the centre of the base. The Wiki entry is totally wrong.
Here is a pic of the whole clump.
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First flower on the weekend from Weldenia candida (a kind gift from Otto)
cheers
fermi
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Hi folks,
The Bookeroos have come to the end of their month long lecture tour of wonderful South Island, New Zealand. We are sitting in a motel room in beautiful Christchurch with a beer in our hands and a suntan on our brows after the most amazing final day on sun drenched Mount Hutt, where the flocks of vegetable sheep were temporarily outshone by the glorious blooms of the accommodating buttercups. Our thanks to our guides today who conveyed us to such giddy heights - our final day in this alpine paradise could not have been bettered.
We fly home in the morning via Singapore and Munich with our hearts, our heads and our memory cards full of recollections of superb hospitality, warm and appreciative audiences, new and renewed friendships and landscapes, gardens and plants of the highest order.
We send our love, our undying gratitude and our heartfelt thanks to everyone we met, encountered or shook hands with on this tour and we reserve our warmest thanks for Steve Newall who arranged, organised and oversaw our trip from inception to completion. Steve kindly sponsored and part financed our visit as a very generous personal contribution to the various garden clubs and societies on the South Island and our tour would not have been possible without his enthusiasm and involvement.
We will be contacting all our incredibly welcoming hosts, the relevant group officials and the owners of all the gardens we were thrilled and honoured to visit as soon as the jet lag wears off but until then may we pass on our love, our thanks and our very best wishes to you all - you couldn't have been kinder, more welcoming or more memorable if you had tried - and now to sleep to count the vegetable sheep to enhance our dreams of beautiful New Zealand.
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Safe home Cliff and Sue.
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No surprise that you have been so warmly welcomed by those generous Kiwis, Cliff and Sue. I think you have been lucky with the amount of flowers you seem to have seen on the mountains - seems like it is a good season for them- judging by Doug's pix, for sure.
Have a horrible feeling all you might see in - and of- the Scottish Mountains in February is ice and snow - but heigh ho- we'll be just as pleased to see you here!
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Cliff, I guess you and Sue are safely home by now. I am so sorry I couldn't come to your presentation last Thursday night and the meal beforehand. I was looking forward to seeing you both again but whatever was wrong with me - I think and ear infection probably - made it impossible. I couldn't stand properly without falling, was sick and dizzy for 3 days and couldn't have driven the car to save myself. Roger had to go in the opposite direction that night of all nights. So please accept my regrets and apologies and hopefully I may have another chance some day.
So pleased you enjoyed New Zealand. From the reports I've had, NZ certainly loved having you both with us. I'm please you saw some buttercups. Maybe next time we can take you south to see the best of the "lush" species, RR. lyallii, buchananii etc.
Keep well, both of you, and continue to dream of those beautiful buttercups.
With love to you both.
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Flowering now in our garden,
Triteleia bridgesii (from NARGS Seedex seed)
Gladiolus wilsonii (also from NARGS as G. permeabilis)
Triteleia laxa 'Allure' (as corms from Lambley Nursery)
Triteleia laxa 'Silver Queen'(ditto)
Sisyrinchium palmifolium (from seed from Forumist Santiago)
cheers
fermi
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Some lovely plants there Fermi. The range and diversity of your collection never ceases to amaze me. Cheers, Marcus
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Anthony, the old time illustration is of Eleurtherine latifolia, a tigridioid, subtropical, with beetroot red bulb tunics.
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Fermi, your S. palmifolium has the flower stalks as tall as Anthony's?
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Fermi, your S. palmifolium has the flower stalks as tall as Anthony's?
Hi Alberto,
this one is in the garden in full sun and the foliage is about 30cm tall and the flower stem 5 cm taller;
cheers
fermi
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Hi Alberto,
this one is in the garden in full sun and the foliage is about 30cm tall and the flower stem 5 cm taller;
cheers
fermi
My seed came from the same source.
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Flowering now in our garden,
Triteleia bridgesii (from NARGS Seedex seed)
Gladiolus wilsonii (also from NARGS as G. permeabilis)
Triteleia laxa 'Allure' (as corms from Lambley Nursery)
Triteleia laxa 'Silver Queen'(ditto)
Sisyrinchium palmifolium (from seed from Forumist Santiago)
cheers
fermi
Trying again, so hopefully these pics will expand properly,
cheers
fermi
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Must pop in here tomorrow: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/229429/giant-flower-begins-to-bloom (http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/229429/giant-flower-begins-to-bloom)
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Thank you, Fermi and Anthony. There is a S. macrocarpum and another macrocephalum (this is supposed to be S. palmifolium now).
Maggi, do you have at hand Brian's article on S. palmifolium in The Plantsman, there was an illustration there.
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Thank you, Fermi and Anthony. There is a S. macrocarpum and another macrocephalum (this is supposed to be S. palmifolium now).
Maggi, do you have at hand Brian's article on S. palmifolium in The Plantsman, there was an illustration there.
Sorry Alberto, I do not have that article here.
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Thank you, Maggi, I can not find it either.