Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: mark smyth on June 08, 2008, 02:05:21 PM
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Tomorrow a.m the Ulster Group heads for Cumbria and Scotland (Dumfries & Galloway) for our annual outing to take in 20 gardens in 5 days. It's a trip I could do without going on because when I get back there will be no job waiting for me. My brother has decided to call it a day after 14 years in business. The spiralling costs are to blame.
Anyway on my return there should be lots of photos to show.
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Sorry to hear about your job loss Mark and I hope you get fixed up with something else fairly quickly. These must be trying times for anyone running a business.
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Best of luck Mark, with your job search. Roger was made redundant when his firm went under recently and it's a frightening time for household still with major commitments. Fortunately he's back in work again, in a better job as it happens. I hope it goes well for you.
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Keep the spirits up Mark !
I hope the garden visits will inspire you to find an even better job !
Best of luck and have fun anyway !
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Mark,
As one who was made redundant twice, it is indeed a very worrying time, but I'm sure you have the resilience & drive to overcome this.
Best of luck for the future.
Alan
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thanks!
Garden one -Dunsky Garden in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Clematis montana 'Broughton Star' - sadly no longer commercially available
Duetzia 'Mont Rose'
Geranium maderense 'Guernsey White'
Iris selection - can anyone name them?
Pelargonium 'Gazelle'
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Garden two - Logan Botanics
Arctotis auriculata
Geranium?
Impatiens ugandense
Osteospermum 'Bodega's Pink'
Iris x5 - can you name them?
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Logan part two
Rhemania elata
Rhododrendron fragrantissima
Rosa cooperi
sphaeralcea munroana var subrhomboides pink form
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Garden three - Broughton House
Dactylorhiza
Geranium
Hosta 'Moonlight'
Iris - can you name them?
Iris sibirica - named?
Papaver
Peony
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Broughton House part two
Rosa ?
Spirea ?
Trifolium
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Irises, most in the Sibirica group, i.e. probably hybrids of I. sibirica. The first group may have some I. clarkei in them. Second group - the white is another siberian hybrid while the second is possibly a hybrid of II. forrestii or wilsonii (also in Sibirica Grp), but could be either species. Hard to tell what the standards are doing. The third is perhaps a forrestii hyb. Fourth is a very old tall beared iris. Most iris growers would have chucked it out by now. The fifth is I. graminea. Last group 2 more old TBs and 2 pics of another Siberian hyb.
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Day Two - Holehird
Cirsium
Delosperma brunthalleri
Erigeron borealis
Helichrysum?
Salvia albimaculata
Sax
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Holehird - part two
Sax 'Southside Seedling'
Sax 'Tumbling Waters'
Tufa house
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Mark
Thanks for posting some excellent plants. I particularly liked the Helichrysum and Trifolium.
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Mark,
All great pics as always. I love that veined Iis sibirica. I concur with Lesley's I. graminea (not that you need any concuring of course). The Trifolium is fascinating... must look out for that with the wonderful leaves (is it a particular type?). And Oh those Dactylorhizas!! :o
A lovely tours of the gardens. Thanks!! 8)
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Beautiful show Mark !
Marvelous gardens.
I think the Helichrysum is H. milfordiae.
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I don't!
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Great pictures Mark. Beautiful plants there in the gardens and this Tufa house.... marvellous!
I think the Helichrysum is H. milfordiae.
I second Lesley Luc. The leaves are different and the flowers bigger, I think.
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I humbly bow confronted with all this knowledge !
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Day two Windy Hall
Aesculus pavia 'Rosea Nana'
Aesculus pavia 'Rosea Nana'
pre hinge gate posts - originally round holes and then square
Iris
Magnolia - not wilsonii
Peony
Peony
Peony
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Windy Hll part two
rosa 'Vicomtesse Pierre de Fou'
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Day Three garden one 'Winderath'
Cistus?
Dianthus
Geranium pratense seedling
Iris - various
Pied Wagtail nesting in a swallow nest
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I have enjoyed the pics very much, Thank you :)
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Now that I'm home I'll get the best online. The wireless connection at the hotel was quite slow.
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Day Three - Larch Cottage Nursery
An unbelievable collection of plants. If you need dwarf conifers get there and buy some. They are expensive but it's the best collection I have ever seen
Only two photos here. Two new Geraniums ibericum 'Ushguli Grey' and ibericum 'White Zigani'
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Nice flowers on both counts Mark.
Great pics throughout this thread!! Excellent! 8)
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Day three garden three 'Beauhill' - 3rd attempt to post. The site keeps saying the photos have already been posted
Acer in a fibre clay pot
unknown composite
Eriophyllum lanatum
Dactylorhiza seedling - the photos doesnt do the plant justice
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Day three garden 4 'Chapelside'
Two illegal photos - against the law to photograph birds nests
Song Thrush nest
Chiffchaff/Willow warbler nest - Phylloscopus collybita/trochilus
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I love that cistus, and the magnolia looks glorious.
Was it one of the scented ones? I love the smell of magnolias.
I have never been able to grow them that well in Huntly, rhodos and Pieris no problem but I just can't get Magnolias to flower.
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Day three garden 4 'Chapelside'
Two illegal photos - against the law to photograph birds nests
Song Thrush nest
Chiffchaff/Willow warbler nest - Phylloscopus collybita/trochilus
well, not exactly, and in certain circumstances.... see here: http://www.birdimages.co.uk/images/BIRDPHOT_tcm5-43180.pdf
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Day three garden three 'Beauhill' -
unknown composite
unknown composite
The first one might be Helichrysum thianschanicum or a cultivar of it and the
second one is Eriophyllum lanatum, which I have not seen for ages.
A very easy and rich flowering plant which comes on my wants list again after seeing it here.
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The plant in the picture cannot be Delosperma brunnthaleri.
(http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1874.0;attach=71904;image)