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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on March 01, 2018, 05:52:35 AM
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It's officially autumn here and we have a few bulbs which can be considered as autumn flowerers:
1) Brunsvigia marginata;
2) Lycoris aff radiata;
3) Zephyranthes candida
cheers
fermi
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Nice bulbs Fermi. Lots of colour.
Here is Cyclamen cilicium, usually the first autumn species for me though hederifolium is poking through now that we've had some decent rain. Nerines are just starting too but only in bud so far. I'm a bit peeved though that two 100mm pots of Cyc. cilicium seed sown from last year's flowering and literally sown on the day I harvested it, so could hardly be fresher, still shows no sign of germination.
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Good news here regarding seed imports into Australia. From 3 March 2018 we can import seed (on the allowed list) from organisations, not just commercial entities. The last SRGC seed exchange complies with the new regulation (include the botanical name(s), dated, signed and on letterhead). Sellers sending seed to Australia need to include their company name on the letter. It needs to show that it's a paid order, not just one individual sending seed to another.
Details: https://bicon.agriculture.gov.au/BiconWeb4.0/ViewElement/Element/Alert?elementPk=823443 (https://bicon.agriculture.gov.au/BiconWeb4.0/ViewElement/Element/Alert?elementPk=823443)
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Great news, Jon!
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We have a number of colchicums flowering now:
!-3) Colchicum grown from seed as C. bivonae, including a very pale pink(3);
4) Colchicum "Atropurpureum" - possibly a form of C. cilicium;
5) Colchicum byzantium - a bit "moth eaten" (but I suspect slugs!)
cheers
fermi
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Some more autumn blooms:
1) Lycoris radiata
2) Lycoris x elsae
3) Cyclamen hederifolium
4) Rhodophiala bifida
5) Sternbergia lutea
cheers
fermi
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...Colchicum byzantium - a bit "moth eaten" (but I suspect slugs!)
1) Colchicum byzantium looking a lot better after a few days!
2) Cyclamen mirabile ex Tilebarn Nicholas - not a patch on Viv's as shown on the Vic Group's Blog http://agsvicgroup.blogspot.com.au/ (http://agsvicgroup.blogspot.com.au/)
3) Sternbergia sicula originally from seed from Rannweig Wallis in 1998 - first flowers in 2003
4) Zauschneria cana (syn Epilobium canum) ex"Solidarity Pink" NARGS Seedex 2016
5) more Rhodophiala bifida seedlings are in bloom
cheers
fermi
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Crocus speciosus
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I've not abandoned the Forum, but recently have had no access to the laptop which takes me there. I've had my cell phone but with less than perfect eyesight now, the screen and text are too small to bother with though I've still tried to keep in touch with friends on Facebook by way of my phone.
The fact is, on March 13th, 2 days after my 75th birthday, I was taking a small parcel to the courier I use and lost my balance on a concrete step going up to the office and fell heavily onto my right shoulder. As I look at it now, had I fallen onto my head I would likely have died because the fall totally destroyed my shoulder, splitting the ball part of the joint from top to bottom (my surgeon said it looked as if someone had split it with an axe) and splintering the socket part into many small pieces. To add further insult to the injuries, the whole thing was dislocated.
To cut a long story short, I was carted off to Dunedin Public Hospital by ambulance and on March 18th had a new shoulder put in, of stainless steel, the other beyond repair.The 5 day delay was to ensure my surgeon would be a very good specialist in such injuries but he had to get back from a holiday overseas. So I waited, quite heavily drugged in the meantime. So far, from how the recovery is going I think the wait was worth it to have the specialist, a very nice man recently in NZ from the Rep. of Ireland. I have a reverse replacement which means that the socket part is now the ball and vice verse.
I'm home now with some home help but the right arm is in a heavy sling and I'm not to use it for 6 weeks though I can wiggle my fingers and even write a little. I can't drive of course so am very much at the mercy of others.
So there we are. Not much more to say really. Trying to stay positive but sometimes it's a bit difficult.
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Hi Lesley
I read about your accident and I'm glad you made it through this complicated operation. I (and probably all of us here) wish you the best of recovery.
Best regards
Thomas
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Glad that you are home, Lesley.
I'm sure you'll be fine with all your gardening (watering, sowing seeds, transplanting) as I'm sure I heard you say that you ran your nursery single handed!
;D ;D ;D
Get well soon,
cheers
fermi
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All the very best Lesley.
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Lesley
So sorry to hear of your very nasty fall and the resultant damage. Our very best wishes from Nova Scotia for a hasty recovery.
Best
john & ken
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Sorry to hear that Lesley. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Kris
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Good to know you are on the mend, Lesley - we were worried!
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16157.msg389751#msg389751 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=16157.msg389751#msg389751)
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1) Colchicum byzantium looking a lot better after a few days!
2) Cyclamen mirabile ex Tilebarn Nicholas - not a patch on Viv's as shown on the Vic Group's Blog http://agsvicgroup.blogspot.com.au/ (http://agsvicgroup.blogspot.com.au/)
3) Sternbergia sicula originally from seed from Rannweig Wallis in 1998 - first flowers in 2003
4) Zauschneria cana (syn Epilobium canum) ex"Solidarity Pink" NARGS Seedex 2016
5) more Rhodophiala bifida seedlings are in bloom
cheers
fermi
Lovely stuff Fermi, all they're short of is a bit of yellow tape, I here it's freely available over there? ;D
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..............................I'm home now with some home help but the right arm is in a heavy sling and I'm not to use it for 6 weeks though I can wiggle my fingers and even write a little. I can't drive of course so am very much at the mercy of others..................
You managing to lift a glass with your left Lesley? All the best and look after yourself, no more throwing yourself around the garden.
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My warm thanks to everyone for your best wishes and I'll keep them all in mind during the down times.The shoe pixie Susan, has been wonderful always, my most frequent visitor and loyal friend that she is.
I usually phone Otto on his birthday then he on mine 2 days later but somehow missed him this time. Perhaps he was in the garden as I certainly was as the weather has been lovely in between tropical cyclones and storms.
I know what you mean John about the time and that darned extra day caused by the Int. Date Line. In my 4 bed room was an American woman from Chicago who was tramping/travelling alone around the South Island and actually left hospital the day before I did. She was to go back to Seattle with her daughter who had come out to collect her and by the time they'd arranged their flights with a stopover in Honalulu, they really had no idea of what day they'd be back home at all and were totally confused. She has been driving a small car alone on one of Central Otago's beautiful but unforgiving roads and it's thought she went to sleep. The car went down a bank but it was on cruise control and didn't stop until it eventually piled up in rocks and Phormium bushes. She came into Dn hosp by helicopter a couple of days before my accident and had a hip fracture mended but still had terrible bruising. Like many Americans she was tremendously positive about it all and mentioned how lovely the newly snowy mountains were as her helicopter lifted off though she must have been in terrible pain.
My own surgeon wasn't due i found out later to be back until the Wednesday and then with a full schedule but was asked to come early which he did so I was tremendously lucky I think, especially as i was bumped up to the top of his list.
But to more important things, while I've not been on the end of any cameras for a while, I am really pleased to report excellent germination conditions over these last two or three weeks and since there's nothing wrong with my legs I'm making frequent trips to see my seed pots which are greening up rapidly witjh some real treasures coming through. I was given a little seed of the furry flowered Lamium armenum after last October's Trillium weekend and this has germinated well (slug pellets applied) as have several from the SRGC seedex including Iris collettii a little tuberous rooted species, Pulsatilla vernalis, 2 collections and several more. As well there are many from my own seed so by golly I'd better get my shoulder sorted soon.
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Lovely stuff Fermi, all they're short of is a bit of yellow tape, I here it's freely available over there? ;D
I'm carefully avoiding THAT subject knowing what a great cricket fan Fermi is and how delicate his sensibilities are. I'm concentrating more on a certain test in which England were cleaned out in what was three days, once the weather had had its say. One of our better wins and of course we are hoping for a repeat this coming weekend. ;D
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I'm carefully avoiding THAT subject knowing what a great cricket fan Fermi is
I don't tend to waste time watching the cricket - though we do have to keep an eye on the grasshoppers as they do more damage to plants ;D ;D ;D
At our meeting last Saturday Palmiro and Verity brought an amazing pot of Bessera elegans for the bench.
It was also our Plant Swap and they brought a few pots of the bessera and I got one which is now flowering - it'll take a few years to match theirs!
cheers
fermi
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A sunny break this Easter!
1) Sternbergia sicula enjoying the sun;
2) Cyclamen graecum album;
3) Zephyranthes 'Grandjax';
4) Zephyranthes candida;
5) Cochicum 'Conquest' from Otto but a bit damaged before emerging (the flower, not Otto!)
cheers
fermi
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its lovely to have an easter break, seems so long since i have posted - partly because of the tired, scorched, mess that the garden has been after a long dry summer. Partly because its been so busy.
sorry to hear of your accident leslie, and hope you are on well on the road to a complete mend.
thank you fermi for keeping the side up by showing your flowers - especially taken with the dark colchicum you posted last.
And Jamus, what a crocus.
here is a small offering...
1. Colchicum autumnalis album - a new one for me
2. Paeonia seedpods after harvesting - my first decent crop - are they not spectacular?
3. A saxifraga fortunei hybrid
4. A collection of saxifraga species gifted by Otto last week, unbelievably generous, and bedded in a beautiful aged pot.
5. My clump of crocus goulimyi gets a little bigger each year and is trouble-free.
Happy Easter to all.
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Jacqui, if you are not going to keep those paeonia capsules for yourself, you really ought to find a flower-arranging pal to give them too- I can just see those wired up and used in floral art. 8)