Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Gwenblack on October 24, 2009, 11:17:37 AM
-
What a year for autumn colours, even in the north of Scotland. It is an amazing year too for Sorbus aucuparia both in the wild and in the gardens The birds are unable to make any inroads on the crop and fallen clusters of berries litter the ground. A few examples here Acer tschonoskii Subsp komarovii from Japan, a three year old shrub in full display, Sorbus aucuparia Autumn Sunrise a fastigiate tree, and Acer palmatum Trompenberg changes its burgundy livery for fiery red
-
What incredible colour Gwen. I love the Sorbus cultivar and I have just been offered seed of the Acer tschonoskii. It is permitted into NZ but I have to get a (very expensive) import permit for all maples, even seed, so have had to say "no thanks." My heart bleeds. :'( :'( :'(
-
Glad you like the Acer it is a real beauty , even when the leaves are green, the petioles are bright red.
I know how NZ is about imports but your flora is worth keeping pure and your ecosystems are worth fighting for. I recall the embarrassment in Auckland Airport when the official spent twenty minutes rifling my one overstuffed large suitcase seeking illicit organic material which finally turned out to be an oval bar of olive oil soap. It was allowed entry but it took ages to repack the suitcase and everyone had moved on leaving me alone and red faced.
-
Oh dear, Gwen. I feel I should apologise for the local Customs people. Organic matter such as plants is one thing, but I wouldn't have expected soap to be a problem. The main thing is to declare everything that could be a problem, but soap??? ??? Of course you're right about protecting our flora/fauna etc but there come a time when a little common sense applied would be a grand thing.
-
What a year for autumn colours, even in the north of Scotland. It is an amazing year too for Sorbus aucuparia both in the wild and in the gardens The birds are unable to make any inroads on the crop and fallen clusters of berries litter the ground. A few examples here Acer tschonoskii Subsp komarovii from Japan, a three year old shrub in full display, Sorbus aucuparia Autumn Sunrise a fastigiate tree, and Acer palmatum Trompenberg changes its burgundy livery for fiery red
great colour! that sorbus is really nice!i like the lighter orange berries; my one tree doesnt fruit really heavily, but it has been stripped clean by birds for some time..
i do see really laden trees in the towns around here..
-
An Acer from my garden today.
Edit by maggi : please forgive me, Eric.... I have tweaked your photo... it was a smidgeon dark to see the fabulous Acer!ric
-
Hello Gwen, welcome back. Here's a little something for you. Back in to growth and about to flower.
-
Magnificent colour Eric. I love the "fire" that autumn gives us. Who'd want to live somewhere tropical and not have this stunning display? :D I shocked my post office lady on Friday who was saying she was soon going to Bali for a holiday. I told her I'd rather go to Siberia. I would too.
-
i'll take the subtropical, thanks very much, and have a colourful display of flowering trees and growing plants all year ;)
some of those trees from brasil in marcondes' thread will do fine;
if i'm really craving fall, i have thousands of photos from when i lived in toronto to look back on.. ditto for picturesque snow scenes--i'm building up enough to last a lifetime ...
-
For Mark so glad to be back and know that someone somewhere still loves a celandine!!! I send as reward a picture from Spring 2009 of a new seedling I am nurturing and building up christened El Dorado.an open pollinated specimen from a selected large flowered form of B Hussy but please note the fringed petals
-
:o :o Wow, that is excellent!! I love the fringing, and the lovely clean yellow against the dark foliage. Congratulations!! 8)
-
Congratulations from me too Gwen, such lovely fringing on your El Dorado celendine - just a burst of sunshine in the undergrowth!
-
Very nice Gwen. Not only fringed but semi double. How long to you have enough to share? :D
I have a seedling with black leaves and a wild find that has a flash of red down the middle of the leaf.
-
Not quite colours from leaves but look at the berries on this Sorbus Joseph Rock.
I've had the upright Yew standishii for about 6 years and this year is the first it has set lots of berries.
-
Magnificent Mark! A real Autumn statement!
-
I should say the Sorbus isnt mine.
-
The golden fruit is superb Mark. Is 'Joseph Rock' a hybrid or just a good form of a species (which?) Does the seed come true or fairly true?
-
S. acuparia, Lesley.
-
That surprises me a little as I though 'JR' was a plant from China (no, I'm not confusing it with the paeony :)) whereas isn't S. aucuparia the European mountain ash and Scotland too?
-
I asked someone and that was the answer but looking up Plant Finder it is listed without a species name
-
Re Sorbus Joseph Rock
According to Hugh McAllister sorbus expert and author of the Botanical Magazine Monograph on the genus, S.Joseph Rock is likely to be a hybrid of S commixta which it resembles, in being fastigiate with smallish fruits and finely toothed tapered leaflets . The other parent is possibly . he writes, S monbeigii . It is said to be very susceptible to fireblight [ Envynia amylovora a bacterium ] in the south of England. The specimen I grew in Cumbria was at least 30 years old and healthy and huge so sadly it was too big to transplant when we came north to Ross- shire so we have had to buy a young one and start over again.
-
Re Ranunculus ficaria El Dorado
In answer to Mark's query about sharing this celandine I have a good stock plant in the open garden and two small potted offsets . There are seven celandine collectors already recorded as being on the waiting list!!!!!!! I'm trying hard to cultivate it to its optimum.
-
More about Sorbus Joseph Rock Most seedlings from isolated specimens are very similar to the parent according to McAllister but a few that I grew from seed were of a more orangey yellow not the pale primrose. Of course the garden was full of other rowans so my seedlings were likely to be crosses
-
Am I number 8 :-*
-
Sure Mark Why not, if you think you will last that long. Hope so !
-
Gwen, thanks for that about Sorbus 'JR.' I think I may be able to buy it at a local tree nursery, so will try for that as I love these plants. Having red, orange, pink and white species, it would be good to have a yellow as well.
-
I'll swap you for a bit of this one. No name yet and I'm open to suggestions. These photo were taken yesterday
-
No name yet and I'm open to suggestions
'Top Marks' ::)
-
An excellent suggestion Robin, or just 'Top Mark.'
-
Or 'ReMARKable.' :D
-
........ 'Lawn weed' :-X
-
Or 'ReMARKable.' :D
Yes, Lesley, I really like that one ;)
Anything with Mark in it hits the mark ;D
-
Robin & Lesley
Your brains are working well today ;D
Angie :)
-
I like Ranunculus ficaria 'Lawn Weed' :(
-
How perverse of you Mark. ;D It might get back to bite you and BECOME a lawn weed. Though I was saying to Roger jsut yesterday what a fine display of buttercups we had in own lawn at present, Ranunculus acraeus. It was intended as a reminder that we need a man in, with a sythe. No, not THAT man, not yet, but someone to take down the long grass to a level where it can be mowed again.
-
I forgot to add R. f. 'Lawn Weed' not!
-
I forgot to add R. f. 'Lawn Weed' not!
I'm so sad you didn't like my suggestion Mark..... But impressed your eyesight is good enough to read that tiny script!! Couldn't help teasing about the bttercup.... I tend to be less enthusiatic about these than I do about snowies, though, since I no longer have a lawn, it shouldn't trouble me that much! ;D :P
-
So you dont want one Maggi?
-
So you dont want one Maggi?
Kind offer....... let me consider it carefully.......... nah!
Now, that wee Geranium you gave me.... I can never remember its name ( quite deep pink veined flowers, good bronzey foliage??) now THAT was a lovely gift... it's flowering even now.
-
That's great Maggi - the Geranium. It's name is Tanya Randall
-
That's great Maggi - the Geranium. It's name is Tanya Randall
YES! thank you.... I don't know why I have such a block with the name of it :-\ I'm thinking now I should have taken cuttings earlier.... bit late now.... must remember next year, I'd like to try it in other places in the garden. Just got it in one trough and a raised bed meantime.
-
A local nursery buys it in as plugs. I can ask her to keep a couple aside
-
A local nursery buys it in as plugs. I can ask her to keep a couple aside
Ach, no, Mark, no need for that.... I should have had my act in gear for the cuttings sooner.... also I never remembered to check if it was setting any seed! Silly me! :-[
-
You could always call it "Marketable". ;D ;)
-
Then he'd have to be selling it. :)
-
Lesley,
I'm sure he'd be happy to be selling it! ;D
-
Maggi the Geranium doesnt set seeds.
Any names for the celandine?
-
Maggi the Geranium doesnt set seeds.
Aha! That explains a good deal! :-[
-
I have one for you.