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SRGC Shows and Events => SRGC Shows Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Roma on August 23, 2015, 03:55:50 PM
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Did nobody else take pictures yesterday? Stan?
It was a good day. Interesting talks by Susann and a good display of plants and cut flowers. The nurserymen all had laden tables of temptation but I resisted apart from three herbaceous plants from Macplants.
Antirrhinum molle
Succulent trough x 2
Silene acaulis
Ferns and Heuchera
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A few more
Conifers and Gentiana saxosa
Pink Eucryphia - I did not take a note of cultivar names :-[
Blue Hydrangea
Cyclamen
Cyclamen
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Roscoea 'Harvington?'
Stella and David Rankin of Kevock Plants had a few interesting plants on display including
Parnassia and
Orostachys 'Chinese Hat'
I'm not sure if Eucomis montana was theirs
Disa
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The rest
Some cut flowers
ID was requested for the Tropaeolum but I do not know if they got a name for it
A lovely selection of Clematis
I do not usually take pictures of people but you can just see Gavin of Macplants hiding behind the herbaceous border
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Roma, did you get the full name of the Parnassia? Doesn't look like P palustris
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I think that's a Rankin collection : Parnassia gansuensis SDR5128
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I think you're right, Maggi. I didn't take notes and memory is a bit short these days ;D
It's a most attractive plant, anyway.
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Maureen, the succulent your friend was asking about is Crassula sarcocaulis.
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It was an excellent day with three great talks from Susann, who is a knowledgeable and really engaging speaker. I hope she enjoys her trips up some Scottish mountains this week.
I got a few snaps, but mostly the same as Roma's. One plant that hasn't been shown is a Swertia perfoliata grown by Richard Green. The nectaries were glistening like jewels.
- edit to correct : Swertia petiolata rather than Swertia perfoliata.
Here's another pic of the mystery Trop.
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Here's another pic of the mystery Trop.
I wonder if it might be T. smithii?
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Cyclamen
I believe the plant pictured was C. africanum x C. hederifolium = C. x hildebrandii? Certainly not short on flower power.
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Pink Eucryphia - I did not take a note of cultivar names :-[
This one was Eucryphia lucida 'Ballerina'.
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Matt I think the Eucryphia lucida 'Ballerina' was discovered by one Ken Gillanders from Tasmania. I had a beautiful specimen in my last garden from Ken and Leslie and had to leave it behind, I may have to get a new one.
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Very nice to see these pictures - just a bit too far from Kent to come this year :( but it would have been great to listen to Susann's talks.
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I wonder if it might be T. smithii?
Yes it looks like it.
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John (Stephen ) MacFarlane must not have been at Dunblane ?
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1463.msg88355#msg88355 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1463.msg88355#msg88355) and http://www.growingwithplants.com/2011/08/bored-with-everyday-nasturtium-hello.html (http://www.growingwithplants.com/2011/08/bored-with-everyday-nasturtium-hello.html) :)
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Thanks for the names, Matt.
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No worries, Roma. However, I can't claim any great feat of memory or diligence in note-taking. I just ensure I get a photo of the labels too when I snap a plant that catches my eye. Luckily I was drawn to the same plants as you.
I forgot to say a thank you to the kindness and generosity that was extended me by a number of folk over the weekend. I returned home feeling a very special part of the SRGC family.
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Matt, I heard that you and the sweet furry Zoe were perfect houseguests !
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Matt, I heard that you and the sweet furry Zoe were perfect houseguests !
We try :)
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Maureen, the succulent your friend was asking about is Crassula sarcocaulis.
Thanks, Roma, I will pass the info. on
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Sandy Leven's report of the 2015 SRGC Summer Event is online :
http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/SRGCsummerevent2015.pdf (http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/SRGCsummerevent2015.pdf)
and you can see all his show reports here : http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/shows/sample-menu (http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/shows/sample-menu)
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Thank you everyone for a very nice day that contained many nice meetings with friends and new acquaintancies and a big and interesting flower display.
Lots of plants from the nurseries represented somehow slipped into plastic bags that had my name written on them. I wonder how that happened? Anyway, they are now all planted and Sweden is giving them a nice and heavy rain so they feel just like home.
I would like to give a special thank you for sharing your homes and time to Jean with family, the Christies, the Lafongs and Margaret Chapman. And thank you, Sandy, for organizing my stay.
I gave a very short talk about native Swedish plants from the north. You kept telling me that yes, you got most of the species growing in northern Scotland too, although it is only as far north as southern Sweden. But, I forgot to ask you if you have got the mosquitos and midgies too? Now, too late, I know! The first day in the Highlands I already looked as having German measels. But, it was all worht it of course. Your "mountains" are very beautiful. And although very late in season there were surprisingly many species in flower.
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For the sake of accuracy, I have just reallised that my Swertia pictured beautifully by Matt earlier in this thread was actually "Swertia petiolata" rather than Swertia perfoliata. Sorry, my mistake in writing out the label!
It was grown from Chris Chadwell wild-collected seed under number CC7335 collected in the Borderlands of West Tibet (in the Ladakh/Lahoul/Chamba/Kulu area) in 2012. Sown at Christmas 2012, germinated in 2013, and first flowered this summer.