Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Diane Whitehead on February 16, 2015, 03:15:11 AM
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edit by maggi to explain new thread.....
In the South African Bulbs 2015 thread, SJW posted this pic of Massonia ( Whiteheadii) bifolia
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to which Diane replied ......... .............
If it weren't my namesake plant, I wouldn't bother growing it.
It stays in flower for a very long time - I didn't take note of exactly when mine first
flowered, but it was before Christmas, and is still looking the same.
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If it weren't my namesake plant, I wouldn't bother growing it.
Harsh but fair!
I have a choice of either a legume (Polhillia waltersii) or a bacterium (Legionella waltersii)... ;D
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Carpenteria californica for me! And it grows well here.
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I hit the money with Crocus mathewi! ;D
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I don't know if the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer has an interest in plants but if he has then the obvious horticultural gift for him would be Bolax gummifera!
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Who would you give Epimedium x youngianum to? ;) It's cultivar 'Niveum' is a wonderful plant.
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I hit the money with Crocus mathewi! ;D
You really did!
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Who would you give Epimedium x youngianum to? ;) It's cultivar 'Niveum' is a wonderful plant.
Referring back to SJW's post .... if we received it, we'd have to give a receipt...... ::) ;D
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Diane - Don't feel bad I got Weigela, a shrub I despise. :( Well middendorfiana might be tolerable.
Yesterday we nearly washed away and now the vast puddles are frozen.
johnw
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Having seen pictures of it I'd love to grow Scilla leepii (S leepii) but have never been able to obtain it!
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Having seen pictures of it I'd love to grow Scilla leepii (S leepii) but have never been able to obtain it!
Both Jānis and Paul Christian appear to list it.
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Having seen pictures of it I'd love to grow Scilla leepii (S leepii) but have never been able to obtain it!
Darren - if you allow synonyms you could always grow some of the restios!
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I would go for Galanthus 'Daviden' but only because I'm possibly the only person in the World who doesn't have a Snaedreep named after them :P It doesn't matter which one though.
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I keep scanning the seed lists for Lewisia maguirei but I've never seen it.
Come to think of it, I've never seen a picture either. It's proably a scruffy little thing like its namesake. ;)
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You're usually pretty dapper when I see you, Peter!
Found a pic for you here (http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/Rare_Plants/profiles/Critically_Imperiled/lewisia_maguirei/index.shtml) - here is the photo from that page, by Margaret Williams
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Plants named for you can be a real trial though - our pal, local SRGC member Wilf Holmes, had a orchid GENUS named for him after he found plants in Africa - Holmesia sp. etc .... but they have since been reclassified as Angraecopis ..... e.g. Holmesia parva P.J.Cribb Kew Bull. 32: 175 1977 is a synonym of Angraecopsis parva (P.J.Cribb) P.J.Cribb Fl. Trop. E. Afr. Orchid.(3): 601 1989. :'(
other synonyms - with dates .....
Microholmesia parva (P.J.Cribb) P.J.Cribb Plant-book 371 1987.
Mystacidium parvum (P.J.Cribb) R.Rice Oasis 3: 13 2006. :'(
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Lewisia maguirei is definitely more attractive than its namesake.
It's also critically endangered (8 sites within an 8km radius in Nevada) so I'll have to be content with pictures. At least I'm not critically endangered. ::)
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I have the Mexican Aloysia wrightii which has the fabulous common name of Wright's beebrush. How great is that?! ;D
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That's a bit fab - you need a son named Aloysius Wright too - I'm told changing a name by Deed Poll only costs around £30 ......
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Did I mention that I also grow Lophomyrtus x ralphii?
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Do journals about plants count?
http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/ (http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/)
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Woohoo! Playing a great trump card there, Arnold! 8) 8)
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What not satisfied with Rafflesia arnoldii, the biggest of them all? You need a whole arboretum? ;)
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And nose plugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Yw5tWVrYA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Yw5tWVrYA)
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It stands to reason that a bulb despot would have a birch: https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/92990/Betula-pendula-Youngii/Details (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/92990/Betula-pendula-Youngii/Details) ;D
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It stands to reason that a bulb despot would have a birch: https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/92990/Betula-pendula-Youngii/Details (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/92990/Betula-pendula-Youngii/Details) ;D
;D ;D ;D
And it's a good tree - but I'd like to claim something smaller and pretty - Incarvillea younghusbandii :)
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I obviously grow Allium christophii, a real thug in the garden seeding everywhere. :o :o :o
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I obviously grow Allium christophii, a real thug in the garden seeding everywhere. :o :o :o
There's no answer to that........ :-X ;)