Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Maggi Young on October 30, 2017, 01:53:01 PM
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Julia Corden, SRGC stalwart and manager of the Explorers' Garden at Pitlochry in Perthshire is a busy soul. As well as all the voluntary work she does for SRGC and her "day job" at PItlochry, she is also a tour leader for several lovely locations around the world. At the moment she is in New Zealand - not leading a tour this time but on a speaking tour in the South Island - giving talks, among other things, about her work as a tour leader. You may sense the involvement of "Jandals", the wonderful Steve Newall, in this enterprise!
Julia will also be enjoying some holiday time down south too - though this is hampered somewhat by a bad knee, which I hope she is taking some care to protect on the mountains. :-\
Julia has also enjoyed the New Zealand Trillium Event, where as well as meetings the group visited several fabulous garden .... I am happy to present a selection of her photos here.
As she flew into Christchurch last week ......
"Flying into Christchurch over the Southern Alps - fantastic flight!
Now a walk in the fresh air!!"
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"Great visit to the International Antarctic Centre, near the airport in Christchurch. Little Blue Penguins and White-tipped Penguins - so much fun!"
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1st garden visited at Trillium weekend ......
"New Zealand Trillium Weekend - 1st Garden at Millers Flat.
And amazing sunshine ! "
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"New Zealand Trillium Weekend 2nd garden - Pat and Marcelle Garden’s beautiful garden near Millers Flat."
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3rd garden NZ Trillium weekend
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The third garden seemed to be a refuge for some ancient New Zealand natives.....
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In the mountains .....
"Fantastic morning up on The Old Man Range, New Zealand".
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still on the Old Man range
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proof that Julia is saving the knee when possible!!
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Fantastic pictures. Completely after my taste. Thanks Maggi. I still wish Julia a nice time... and us all even other great pictures.
Thomas
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Nice report, thanks Maggi :D
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Thanks Maggi for putting these super photos up on the Forum. It is wonderful indeed to have Julia with us, a most delightful lady. :) Her first talk at the TW was excellent and so well presented. I was right at the back of the hall and yet heard every single word she said. That's rare! Meeting her next morning and having a good chat was great too and the weather was so hot it demanded we sit in the shade and relax for a time. I'm lucky that I'll be able to hear her twice more, on different subjects.
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How many Wows can I fit in this post, absolutely gorgeous.
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Latest photos from Julia.....
"Today’s little trip. Wanaka, The Remarkables and Alexandra.
Flowers Ranunculus sp. (yellow) and Ourisia caespitosa (white)"
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Here is our heroine.....
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Maggi thank you so much for posting these pictures.
As you can see the Weather is fantastic. The TW was lovely meeting lots of interesting people and so much fun meeting up with people that I only knew through FB or the Forum. They all made me feel so welcome.
Yes Maggi I am being very careful when out on the mountains and driving - hope you like the road sign 😂😂
The lecture tour has been organised by Steve Newall, Hamish Brown and The New Zealand Alpine Garden Club. A BIG THANK YOU.
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"Today’s drive Alexandra to nr. Christchurch.
Moeraki Boulders looking great in the sea......"
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"Today’s drive Alexandra to nr. Christchurch.
Moeraki Boulders looking great in the sea......"
I had to look twice . I thought it was something dead :o :)
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Fantastic set of pictures! Thanks both to the photographer and to the one who posted them :)
I had to google about the Moeraki boulders; the one cracked, showing the interior looks ready to be filled with mix and planted.
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Plenty people would like to do just that Gabriela but alas they are strictly protected by law from damage or removal. Well, not alas. They are unique after all and we treasure them.
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http://www.moerakiboulders.com/ (http://www.moerakiboulders.com/)
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Just catching up with these, fascinating set of pictures Julia, it must have been the trip of a lifetime.
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Julia's adventures continue .....
" Island Pass, Lake Tennison. beautiful Raoulia bryoides and Argyrotegium nitidulum (syn. Gnaphalium nitidulum).
Thank you Hamish Brown President NZAGS. "
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Lake Tennison...
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Christchurch Botanic Gardens. New Zealand
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On seeing the photos, George Anderson ( from RBGE, Hon. President RCHS and Beechgrove Garden Presenter) has commented he thinks the Christchurch Rock Garden looks a lot like Edinburgh's .
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Michael Midgley's beautiful Crevice garden
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last few from Michael Midgely's garden - including Clematis
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NZAGS Christchurch monthly meeting and show, a few familiar faces. Joe and Anne Cartman. Doug Logan.
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"Botanising up The Godley River nr Tekapo. Driving through rivers, Raoulia australis, R.tenuacaulis. Myosotis uniflora, Clematis marata
Amazing scenery thank you Michael Midgley, W Dave Toole "
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Julia's adventures continue .....
" Island Pass, Lake Tennison. beautiful Raoulia bryoides and Argyrotegium nitidulum (syn. Gnaphalium nitidulum).
Thank you Hamish Brown President NZAGS. "
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wonderful Raoulia bryoides and interesting footwear. 😆
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From Julia today .... and she says, yes, it is as cold as it looks!
"Fantastic day out looking at Ranunculus crithmifolius - thank you very much Michael Midgley and Dave Toole "
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Fantastic pictures. For such a meeting I would also freeze with pleasure. I love this Ranunculus. The combination of the yellow blossom with the brown foliage is breathtaking nice. I have some seeds of it in the pot for one year. I give one more season Time to the seeds. Maybe they still, nevertheless, germinate.
Thanks for the nice pictures. With pleasure more of it.
Thomas
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Julia in the native rock garden at Queens Park Invercargill this afternoon.
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Lovely photo of the newly elected President in waiting for the SRGC! Next year Julia will become SRGC President.
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Lovely photo of the newly elected President in waiting for the SRGC! Next year Julia will become SRGC President.
Thanks Maggi
Jules is currently having a sleep in ,(7.22 am), having completed the last of her wonderful presentations throughout the South Island. She's on holiday now ;D for a couple of weeks .
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Thanks Maggi
Jules is currently having a sleep in ,(7.22 am), having completed the last of her wonderful presentations throughout the South Island. She's on holiday now ;D for a couple of weeks .
Hope that doesn’t mean the wonderful pictures will stop, we need cheery pictures to brighten up the cold days here.
Angie :)
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As it happens, I have a few pix from Julia in the last few days..... may not be in the order of her seeing these places!
A chill out day in Picton
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Queen Charlotte Sound ..... and dusky dolphins
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Now just arrived on Stewart Island and I flew over in a plane that takes 9 people plus the pilot- guess who sat next to the pilot? Views were amazing 😃
Also just completed my ambition for this trip to Stewart Island - to see a kiwi and in fact we saw 2
Just arrived back at the accommodation at 1am - so exciting
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Julia flies to Stewart Island...... "The start of another adventure 😮 beautiful weather for flying to Stewart Island - New Zealand’s third Island.
I last visited the island 30 years ago in search of Raoulia govenii which we saw on Mt Anglem, this time I’m hoping to see a kiwi (bird)!"
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"The view from my accommodation - thank you Deborah Horsfall."
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"Oban Bay a little different to Oban, Scotland!"
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Last week Julia visiited Blue Mountain Nursery in West Otago .....
"A lovely visit to Blue Mountain Nursery last week. It was great to meet the owner Denis Hughes - thank you for a great visit.
So many lovely unusual plants and his own breeding. Azalea ‘Pavlova’ and Francoea ‘White Bouquet‘ fantastic garden plants."
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Roads and signs in NZ..... single track road through a bridge, along with the railway line
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"Road near Nelson Lakes, so beautiful and so many greens"
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Once again Thank you Maggi and Julia for the wonderful reportage.
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Going back to last week...." Spoonbills, yellow horned Poppy, convolvulus, compostiae, euphorbia all on the Wairau Bay"
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Dorothy and Ian Rennie's beautiful garden
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Next sets, Fox Glacier to Haast Pass
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From a visit to Susan and David More's Garden last week......
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The Shoe Pixie herself, and her lovely husband , David.
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Thank you Maggi for posting my pictures and to everyone for your nice comments about my pictures.
The lecture tour was fantastic and THANK YOU Steve Newel for organising such an awesome tour.
Next week off to Fiordland with Steve botanising and then a few places on my own before the BIG Party up in the mountains near Hamner Springs. We are going up to Mt St. Patrick to stay in the mountain Lodge - the aim is to go and see Haastia pulvinaris and Haastia pulvinaris Minor plus the “Pen Wiper” so exciting
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Never mind all that posing in beautiful places the question I want to ask is whose doing the weeding in Pitlochry :P
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Hello, Julia.
What for wonderful pictures. I envy you and thanks to you that you allow to participate to us up here in it. The garden of Susan and David is a dream. I still wish you a nice time and am glad about other pictures. Particularly on the Haastia pulvinaris I am curious. It is one of my absolute darling NZ. Structure please so many photos like you is able... except from the root. 😊
Cheers
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My Volunteers at the garden are working hard clearing leaves etc
That’s what they are telling me 😀 and I know that will be true as they will try and have all the jobs done before I ge5 home😀
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I've been following your trip here Julia, thanks to you and Maggi for sharing the NZ landscapes and plants with everyone.
Like Thomas said, I am eager to see more, especially from the mountains :)
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Just amazing scenery.
Nice to see the pictures of Susan and her lovely garden, really lovely lady .
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Yes Susan and David are so lovely great hosts ❤️❤️
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"Tonight's dinner in Oban, Stewart Island. Crayfish fresh from Stewart Island" - How Julia is suffering on this trip!! :-X
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"Sunset over Stewart Island just before we landed and went look for Kiwi - and we saw 2 so exciting!"
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More from Julia when she was in Dunedin - at the Botanic Garden .....
"Dunedin Botanic Garden with Robyn who has looked after the rock garden for the last 24 yrs. great job "
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"Last week we visited Blueskin Nursery north of Dunedin fabulous Nursery growing many natives. Excellent YOUNG propagator and fabulous tractor that I drove"
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Congratulations on your new appointment to start soon Julia. Great that you are seeing something of our nurseries too, as well as the touristy things and the mountains. You'll admit we do do quite a good blue sky. :) :)
I guess that's as close as I'll ever get to seeing Steve on his knees! ;D
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I guess that's as close as I'll ever get to seeing Steve on his knees! ;D
I thought he was genuflecting out of respect for that magnificent Lilium mackliniae
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Congrats to Madam-Prez-elect, too! And thanks, Maggi, for re-posting Julia's pics for us to enjoy,
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Femi
Cheeky as ever ;D
I’m been working hard driving over 6200 km in 3 weeks
Amazing scenery. Plants, people and weather.
Only 2 morning with cloud and a little rain!
Now sitting on Stewart Island after an amazing morning kayaking - what fun looking for star fish, cucumbers and water tulips ❤️❤️
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Yesterday, Julia went kayaking ...... "What an amazing morning paddling around a bay in Stewart Island - kayaking what a buzz with little blue penguins swimming in the sea nearby"
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Now back to last week as we catch up with some more of Julia's visits ... starting with this marvelous nursery, of which I have heard so much - all good - great to see Julia's photos....
"A visit last week to an amazing place Hokonui Alpines run by Peter and Lou Salmon"
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"Another visit last week - Bannerman Park, Gore. A real plantsman’s garden."
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Another visit last week - this was to ..."Maple Glen. What a beautiful garden. Thank you Rob for the guided tour - amazing job! "
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"Last Friday I visited Queen Park at Invercargill- tour guide Toolie! Thanks very much"
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Naturally, Julia also visited the home of Dave Toole - "toolie" as we know him here - in his "Trillium Haven"
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So pleased Julia that you've been able to visit parks and gardens as well as the mountains, and meet some of our alpine gardeners as well as those who take you mountaineering. So often the overseas visitors come and go quickly and we, the rest of us, never get to meet them.
It is worth saying here that the wonderful rock walls and other rock work at Hokonui Alpines has all been done by Louise herself, with no help even from Peter. She is a very clever lady (and strong!) with a wonderful eye for the right angle to lay a rock or chose the exact right spot for a special plant. I have learned a lot from her over the years.
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What a pleasure to see all these beautiful places. We still have good memories of the landscape
and the plants we saw during the Southern Alpine Conference 1996. NZ alpine plants are simply
beautiful, but our local climate is not so suitable for them at all.
It is nice to see Steve Newall with his jandals in good health.
Many thanks for this fine report.
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Today, a photo from Steve Newall of Julia .... he says
" Looks like Julia Corden has swapped blue poppies for white buttercups . Great day out and about in Fiordland today."
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Photos from Julia of her trip near the Homer Tunnel with Steve ....
"awesome day near the Homer Tunnel.
Ranunculus lyallii by the thousands, Celmisia hectori, Ourisia caespitosa by the square metre and much more
Thank you Steve Newall for being my tour guide!"
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" Kayaking in Doubtful Sound!
Lots of Celmisia, Ourisia and orchids in flower on the amazing cliffs."
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"A tick from my bucket list a take off and landing on water. What amazing fun buzzing Mountain sides of Ranunculus lyalii in full flower
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Our intrepid explorer and the float plane :)
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oh man New Zealand is my biggest dream. Thank you for the pictures - a little glimpse of the country from an insider :) Everything is so green and bright and buoyant - hope I'll get to see it with my own eyes one day
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25 nov "A few pictures from today’s trip up onto The Pisa Range between Queenstown and Wanaka. Cotula sp. Ourisia x 2 species, Celmisia’s x 3 species, Raoulia x 3 species and many more delights.
please note the cloud and it even started to rain!!"
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26 nov "Pat and Keith Stuart’s garden in Wanaka - looking so beautiful !"
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Haastia pulvinaris var. minor
Thank you NZ AGS and Steve Newall for organising this amazing lecture tour and trip to New Zealand.
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Indescribably nicely. So one does not get an opportunity every day. I would solidify before reverence to salt. 😊
I question me like old these gigantic copies are. The rear Haastia is even bigger. Insanity. What is this for a silver plant in the lower edge of the Haastia? If I see what for spectacular things you already everything there have seen and have experienced. You make us up here a lot of joy with your fantastic pictures, dear Julia . And to me particularly.😊
The best greetings to your skilled company and you...
Thomas
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Hi Thomas,
I have been so very lucky to travel to NZ and to have perfect weather for nearly 5 weeks.
I am so pleased that you have enjoyed the pictures - THANK YOU Maggi for reposting them for me.
The Haastia I would guess would be a 100 + years old. But it was great to see many of them in many sizes even very new ones with single rosettes. As Ann Cartman said “many new lambs”
As the large ones are called sheep due to the fact from a distance they look like a heard of sheep on the side of a mountain.
Hopefully I will write an article for the IRG on Mt St Patrick - well pictures etc
My Christmas holiday project - fingers crossed Maggi 😮🤗
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