Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on April 26, 2014, 12:54:47 PM
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I got to the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society's Autumn Show late this afternoon and got a few pics to post;
First some items from the Rock Garden Section:
Blue Ribbon in cut-flowers won by Lois Lucas with a posy laced with Nerine filifolia
Blue ribbon in the potted plants won by Andrew Van Rennes with Cyclamen mirabile (possibly ex Tilebarn Nicholas?)
Helene Hodgskiss' Cyclamen graecum
Oxalis massoniana
Narcissus viridiflorus - obviously someone who grows it better than I do and can bear to sacrifice so many blooms!!
cheers
fermi
PS don't worry, Maggi, I haven't forgotten the Rhodie-fanatics Ravers!
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Some more from the show,
Hydrangea display
Banksia table arrangement
Inge Hammer's Lilium primulinum
Lois' Nerine pudica
Ruth Thierry's Blue Ribbon Aeoniums
cheers
fermi
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Bench with nerines
Nerines en masse
massed nerines
composites and camellias
...hmmm seems the only pics left are of rhodies! ;D
cheers
fermi
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Okay, Ravers, here are some Rhodie pics!
bench of vireyas
single stems of small vireyas
stems of larger vireyas
vireyas
more vireyas!
cheers
fermi
(more individual stems next!)
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Rh laetum
pink hybrid
Pondi (?) Peach
Irian Jaya
pale pink hybrid
cheers
fermi
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A rather leggy plant of Rh kochii
cheers
fermi
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Rh multinervium x Rh truncicola (2 pics)
Rh ericoides
Andrew Rouse's Blue Ribbom hybrid - Rh kochii x 'Simbu Sunset'
'Highland Bonsai'
cheers
fermi
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This one was stunning but the label was indecipherable! so I'll show the label as well - maybe someone can work it out?
third pic is Rh jasminiflorum ssp heusseri
Rh tuba
2 long tubular types together
cheers
fermi
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Wonderful vireyas Fermi. That indecipherable is rhododendron radians.
johnw
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They are wonderful, aren't they.
Unfortunately I've seen very few in real life so greatly appreciate your photos Fermi.
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Enjoyed your pictures Fermi, many thanks.
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The whole show is spectacular - can't imagine ever having that many Narcissus viridiflora to be able to cut them :o - but the rhodos, especially the Vireyas are simply breath-taking. The long- tubed ones are stunning - pretty special humming bird needed to pollinate those eh?
Given the very long connection between the Ferny Creek Hort. Society and the SRGC, I really had to make new topic for this. 8)
Thanks, Fermi!
P.S. Have changed the link in the rhodo thread to this one.
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John,
Thanks for the ID!
Ashley,
We can't even grow Rh. ponticum here, let alone Vireyas ;D So I do enjoy seeing them at the Shows.
Maggi,
Quite a few FCHS members belong to SRGC and it was the first international club that I joined.
Thanks for setting up the new thread and changing the link,
cheers
fermi
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Fantastic pictures thank you for sharing them
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Maggi,
Quite a few FCHS members belong to SRGC and it was the first international club that I joined.
Thanks for setting up the new thread and changing the link,
cheers
fermi
Ferny Creek /SRGC connections do go back a long way 8) - with articles from B. Watson appearing in the Journal from 1959 ........
From the Journal Index :
WATSON, B.: A Letter from Australia, 26/73
Early May at Ferny Creek, Victoria, 25/349
Ferny Creek, Victoria, 25/355
In Quiet Appreciation. 27/125
Leaves from Ferny Creek. Victoria. 26/29
All these journals are available to read online HERE (http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/journal) , of course.
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What a wonderful show. Really enjoyed the pics Fermi. Did you exhibit any? My Tassie friend talked about Vireyas when she was here last summer and I couldn't understand her enthusiasm, now I will! So many shapes sizes and colours they must look amazing in the garden. She told me there was a special garden in Tasmania that people visited during flowering season. Great pics thanks for sharing.
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Apart from the crazy colours and shapes of the flowers, there are two really great features of Vireyas for me - they are often highly scented and some can repeat flower, or even flower pretty much steadily through the year. Fantastic! There is a super vireya collection at RBG Edinburgh and some years ago RBGE worked with Glasnevin Botanic Gardens in Dublin to give them a great collection too. I've heard of a truly amazing collection in Hawaii, too, I think... there will be others, but Edinburgh is closest for you to visit. ;)
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Well, I learn something new every day. I had assumed they were tender. Next trip to RBG I shall look for them!
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Sorry, yes they are mostly quite tender - they live in glass-houses at RBGE and Dublin.
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Aha, I don't think I've ever ventured in there. Do they bloom here Spring or Autumn?
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Do they bloom here Spring or Autumn?
That's the great thing about them - some can repeat flower and some even flower pretty much steadily through the year.
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They are garden favourites here in Auckland.
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Such a shame they're tender....