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Title: Log 50
Post by: james willis on December 16, 2009, 08:45:12 PM: Another super log Ian and I shall be going to and fro through your pictures to get on board the points of difference you are making.

I have helleborus niger in flower in the garden and when my daughter arrives to give me the necessary tutorial on how to make attachments will try to send some pictures.

The weather has turned really cold for the moment and as we drove home tonight the outside thermometer on the car was registering -4Celsius - small beer I suspect for many forumists but still damn cold.
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: Maggi Young on December 16, 2009, 09:14:39 PM: James, it is extraordinary how sometimes a small feature suddenly becomes clear and one wonders why one did not spot it before..... the flange was something I had never registered before...... :'(

Go safe in the cold!
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: ashley on December 17, 2009, 12:18:25 PM: Ian, what’s that in the background of your Narcissus albidus portrait on page 6? A bit early for Gethyum/Solaria I suppose ???

What a great mix, and picture, of cyclamen seedlings 8)
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: Maggi Young on December 17, 2009, 01:08:50 PM: My goodness, you Folks really do pay close attention!

Here's the photo.....
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Here is the mystery bit....
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from this BulbLog Diary....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2009Dec161260983089BULB_LOG__5009.pdf

Now, can you tell what it is?? ::)
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: ashley on December 17, 2009, 04:09:05 PM: Not Gethyum atropurpureum then?
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: Maggi Young on December 17, 2009, 05:40:01 PM: No......... anyone else care to have a guess?
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: angie on December 17, 2009, 05:51:41 PM: maybe some kind of tropaeolum.
Angie :)
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: David Nicholson on December 17, 2009, 07:26:56 PM: Ian, congratulations on the Iris vartannii.
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: tonyg on December 17, 2009, 11:37:23 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on December 17, 2009, 05:40:01 PM
No......... anyone else care to have a guess?
Just for a moment I thought I saw Narcissus viridiflorus ... but then I thought Aberdeen? not even the BD can work that miracle ;D
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: Maggi Young on December 17, 2009, 11:44:56 PM: Tony, did you not see Narcissus viridiflorus a few logs back? :o

Angie got it right first time: it is the unfolding leaf of a young Tropaeolum azureum seedling!
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: tonyg on December 18, 2009, 09:02:28 AM: Quote from: Maggi Young on December 17, 2009, 11:44:56 PM
Tony, did you not see Narcissus viridiflorus a few logs back? :o
I bow down before a demi-god ::)
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: ashley on December 18, 2009, 12:57:48 PM: Wow Angie, well done 8)
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: tonyg on December 18, 2009, 01:09:46 PM: Quote from: Maggi Young on December 17, 2009, 11:44:56 PM
Angie got it right first time: it is the unfolding leaf of a young Tropaeolum azureum seedling!
AND .... no doubt this trop azureum is just a chance seedling, almost a weedling, in the plunge? For us mere mortals this would be a fine thing :D

... although I am very hopeful of flowers on Trop azureum this winter as the baby I have been raising seems to have matured. No prizes for guessing where this little one came from ;D
Title: Re: Log 50
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 26, 2009, 04:00:18 PM: Quote from: tonyg on December 18, 2009, 01:09:46 PM

... although I am very hopeful of flowers on Trop azureum this winter as the baby I have been raising seems to have matured. No prizes for guessing where this little one came from ;D

Aberdeen - aka Côte d'Azureum no doubt? ;D