Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: johnw on July 03, 2010, 12:57:48 PM
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Here's a plant worth taking a look at. It reminds me of a giant white Cremanthodium and grows in cloud forests. I wonder if it might be a subject here on our spring / summer / early autumn fog-bound coast as an annual or a tub plant. Why do I also think whitelfy on those leaves?
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2010/07/rojasianthe_superba.php (http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2010/07/rojasianthe_superba.php)
More pictures on the second link via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/rojasianthesuperba/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/rojasianthesuperba/).
johnw
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The photo of the day from the University of British Columbia is always a cracker, isn't it?
great flower with amazing petal patterns... some great links also from that Flickr list.... I liked this guy's selection http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim-sf/ .... plus he has some really cute doggy portraits from a San Francisco Dog Show... bored, beautiful dogs, laying around.... just waiting......including an Irish Terrier that put me right in mind of Matt Matthus' Margaret and Fergus.Wonderful how seemingly unconnected things can bring us back to another gardener, isn't it?!!
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And how just a couple of words can remind one of something quite different.
We have a TV programme on at present - I think it's a repeated series - called "I Shouldn't be Alive" about people in hugely dangerous situations which would kill anyone else off in seconds, somehow these (usually)guys manage to defy all odds and come through to a happy ending. Usually I've found it a programme good for great laughs, as the situations are just SO crazily impossible that I have to take it all as a send up of sorts.
Anyway, last week there was an episode about two guys called Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, kidnapped by drug people as they tried to travel on foot through an area between Panama and Columbia, called the Darien Gap (shades of stout Cortez?). The names seemed slightly familiar to me and then as it progressed a little and I learned that the Tom person was a gardener from the UK, I remembered that I had read a very interesting book called "The Cloud Garden." (John's cloud forests reminded me.) The TV episode I was watching was actually the story of the book. There were some references to orchids and such in the book much not much else bonical, a good yarn though.