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General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: fermi de Sousa on September 01, 2018, 09:37:44 AM
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The first day of spring!
The weather may not be very spring like but the flowers don't care!
1) first flowers on Hesperantha latifolia
2) Narcissus 'Decoy x Swagger'
3) Narcissus 'Miti Moto'
cheers
fermi
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1. Cyp. formosanum (Thank you Otto, it's beautiful)
2. Choice Helleborus from Marcus
3. Iris tuberosa
4. Ferraria crispa
5. Narcissus jonquilla (Thanks fermi for the seed).
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Nice to see the flowers, Fermi and Jamus, as we slide closer to winter.... close to 0 this morning.. though mid 20's highs later in the week..
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I remember when you first showed us the jade coloured Iris (Hermodactylus) tuberosa - it is just lovely.
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I remember when you first showed us the jade coloured Iris (Hermodactylus) tuberosa - it is just lovely.
And lovely against the other flowers it is with..
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Spring is springing slowly here this year... but slowly and surely things are getting going.
1. Iris magnifica alba - so pure and graceful.
2. Babiana nana
3. Anemone blanda
4. Hybrid oncocyclus PT0426
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Spring is springing slowly here this year... but slowly and surely things are getting going.
1. Iris magnifica alba - so pure and graceful.
2. Babiana nana
3. Anemone blanda
4. Hybrid oncocyclus PT0426
interesting the cues plants take in different places... A blanda is later in spring here..
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Elsewhere Michael B showed a pic of his haul of trilliums, some bought at the FCHS Spring Show.
It was nice to meet him finally! And he also got to meet Otto and Jon B and Cynthia.
The Show was not huge but there were some nice plants exhibited and the plant stall was well patronised ;D
Here are a few highlights from the rock garden section:
1) a look at the main bench
2) Jon B's prize winning Narcissus triandrus hybrid
3) Viv's Heloniopsis orientalis
4) Lois' heuchera foliage
5) Loraine's double primrose
cheers
fermi
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Otto entered his saxifraga trough
1) the saxifraga trough
2) list of saxifraga
3 & 4) close up of saxifraga in flower
cheers
fermi
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More from the Show:
1) Viv's Anemone pavonina alba
2) Viv's Mertensia virginica
3) Otto's Soldanella montana
4) Otto's Soldanella montana alba
5) Otto's Hepatica
cheers
fermi
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Some of the curflowers:
1) posies and daffs
2) mixed posy: muscari, erythronium, hyacinths
3) cardamine, chionodoxa, pachysandra
4) yellow epimedium
cheers
fermi
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Some of the mini-daffs on the bench
cheers
fermi
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Some lovely plants there Fermi.
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Hi David,
sadly none are mine as I was judging the Rock Garden section!
Here are some rhododendron pics
1) Best exhibit Rhodo _ Rh cyliicalix
2) Blue Ribbon - Vireya
3) first prize Grandia subsection
4) Rh spinuliferum
5) Rh Little Lotsky
cheers
fermi
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Back to the show!
More vireya rhodies
cheers
fermi
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Still in the Rhododendron Section at FCHS Spring Show
1 -4) more vireya rhodies
5) other rhodies!
cheers
fermi
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1) nice yellows
2) big and blowsy
3) Grandia section
cheers
fermi
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Some individually named vireyas
1) Rh christi
2) Rh loranthiflorum
3) Rh macgregoriae
4) Rh 'Pink Organdy'
5) Rh aquabile and Rh praetervissum?
cheers
fermi
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Thanks for sharing Fermi. So nice to see the diversity and quality of plants on show at FCHS.
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FCHS show gives us another great spectacle. The Rhodos are just fabulous - I can only dream about being able to grow those vireyas! ( And I do just that!)
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Maggi,
I have to admit to have failed dismally with rhododendrons here :-[
So they don't interest me as prospective purchases :o
However knowing that they are a favourite of yours I always try to get pics of them for the Forum :-*
There were also some daffs!
cheers
fermi
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Our friends Will and Christine Ashburner are the current owners of "Hancocks Daffodils" a major retailer of new daffs in Victoria.
Each year they put on a display at many Flower Shows and I don't think they've missed a FCHS Spring Show since I've been involved.
Here's a look at their display and a couple of close-up pics
cheers
fermi
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Wow - pretty grand daffs, too! I'm darn sure I'm not the only one enjoying the FCHS show report every year! Thanks, fermi!
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Seems to be a good year in RSA
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-45449388 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-45449388)
Although not sure the models improve the pics ;-)
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Fine wildflower displays, so why the need for such gratuitously sexist & racist 'packaging' ???
Bizarre editorial decision by someone at the BBC :P
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Thanks for sharing Fermi. So nice to see the diversity and quality of plants on show at FCHS.
Hi Jamus,
there are 3 shows a year! Maybe you can one day co-incide a holiday over here with one of the shows :)
This year the show also included the National Camellia Championships so here are some of the winners
cheers
fermi
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More camellias at the FCHS Spring Show and National Camellia Championships
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fermi
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More camellias, mostly Camellia japonica hybrids
cheers
fermi
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A great spring show as always at Ferny Creek Fermi. Maybe I'll get over there again some time to see another. The NZAGS Spring Show was on this last Saturday and yesterday but i wasn't able to get up there this time, I hope some of the local people will have taken plenty of photographs for here and elsewhere. Nothing on Facebook that I've been able to find.
The Otago Alpine Garden Group's Spring show will be on Sept 29th, just the one day this year and the season has been so odd that it's very hard to predict what will be out and what not. All my own little daffodils are coming towards their end, fritillarias aren't much better and my primulas have suffered through this winter so I'm finding it difficult to find pots that will be in good condition on the day. Similar results for my stall plants. Some things aren't even through the pot surfaces yet (it's very hard to sell a plant which can't be seen, even with a decent photograph. ;D) while others are going over too soon. But there always seems to be something, even if it's a plant totally ignored in the past or not performing at its more usual time so no doubt all will be well.
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From our members, Amarlie and Lesley Crowden in Tasmania ..... at the lovely Kaydale Lodge Gardens
"The ultimate refrigeration unit is on! This mornings snow will certainly make the flowers last longer❄️😉❄️ Gracie's not sure if she's a fan of snow❄️ "
www.kaydalelodge.com.au (http://www.kaydalelodge.com.au)
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Next month Kaydale hosts some open days for spring flowers .....
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From our members, Amarlie and Lesley Crowden in Tasmania ..... at the lovely Kaydale Lodge Gardens
"The ultimate refrigeration unit is on! This mornings snow will certainly make the flowers last longer❄️😉❄️ Gracie's not sure if she's a fan of snow❄️ "
Just like us at the opposite end of the world and season!
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A cold and slightly wet day here, so the pics are from earlier on.
1) Trillium chloropetalum has flowered again this year!
2) Daphne genkwa
3) Banksia blechnifolia coming into flower
4) Narcissus KB-7YW-1-15 reverse bicolour hybrid jonquil from Keira Bulbs in Canberra
5) Gold-lace primula - not easy in our garden (we've kept it in a pot)
cheers
fermi
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We've had a shrubby white Hardenbergia violacea in one of the raised sand-beds for a number of years (pic 1)
Last year a couple of seedlings came up and the one that we kept also was white.
However we didn't notice another seedling had come up under the nearby gum-tree until the weekend (pic 2) but this one is pink!
cheers
fermi
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Primula kisoana from Jon B at our Plant Swap last year
Lachenalia mutabilis
Cyclamen persicum in the garden
Geranium macrostyllum 'Talish' from Hillview 2018
Olearia pimeleoides
cheers
fermi
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We got this pink form of Dampiera rosmarinifolia at Goldfields Revegetation Nursery which is about 30 minutes away.
I was a bit concerned when the main plant died! However it is a suckering shrub and is now quietly spreading through its bed
cheers
fermi