Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: angie on August 23, 2011, 02:54:39 PM
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I found a packet of seeds a few months ago. I had collected them and forgot to write on the packet ::) :-X
Is it impossible to identify at this stage.
Angie :)
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Angie, small spots on leaves remind me Nicandra physaloides :-\
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http://theseedsite.co.uk/profile331.html shows more about this plant and the seedlings, Angela.... may help......
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Angie, small spots on leaves remind me Nicandra physaloides :-\
I really can't believe that you have identified the seedlings. I had to google Nicandra physaloides and it solved the mystery.
When I was in Ireland last year I admired this plant in a nursery and the owner didn't have any plants for sale so he told me to help myself to the pods, which I did. I put them in my carrier bag. The man wrote the name on my receipt but I forgot all about them.
Thanks for identifying them for me, well done :D
Maggi thanks for the link.
I still can't get over getting it identified so fast. We have the best FORUM IN THE WORLD.
Angie :)
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I like this annual which reseeds freely each year in my garden. Glad to have been of help to you ;)
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Here I go again. Put the plant label down and cant find it. Anybody any idea, leaves are quite fleshy. Must be a easy plant if I have got them to this stage :D
Angie :)
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Nobody any ideas :-\ I shall pot them up today. Because they have fleshy leaves I will pot them up in a sandy soil just in case they are some kind of succulent. I have nothing similar in the greenhouse so must have received it from a forum member.
Hans my massonia seedlings are shooting up. I am so happy. When should I prick them out, or should I leave them where they are for this season. See I am worrying about them already. I never had family god knows what I would have been like bringing up children.
Angie :)
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Hello Angie
They almost have the look of seedlings of the Chatham Island forget me not 'Myosotidium hortensia' .
Cheers Dave
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Hi Angie ,
I can only tell you ...those seeds for this seedlings are not from me !
Maybe you should have a book for all your records if you get new seeds or plants - this is my way ;)
Also I have a folder in my PC with a record of all seeds and when they are sown and when germinatet ...
Great with your Massonia seedlings - let them where they are - you can repotting in next rest season .
Here also a lot of Massonia came up - many with buds ...so I will have a rich flowering season
All the best
Hans
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Hello Angie
They almost have the look of seedlings of the Chatham Island forget me not 'Myosotidium hortensia' .
Cheers Dave
Hi Dave
Perfect, that's what they are. They are my own seeds and I do have a large plant of Myosotidum hortensia ( what a name ) in my greenhouse. I only did them last month. Please don't laugh. I have told you how hopeless I am. Really pleased that I have baby plants. I just thought it was a succulent as the leaves were thick. A bit like me then :-X thanks Dave, worth keeping them now.
Hans I am logging everything that I get now. I log the plant, the person I got it from and where I have it. I have a good teacher ;) This one slipped through. I think I shall put a notepad in my greenhouse as if I don't do it straight away I forget, scary to think what like I will be in a few years time.
Looking forward to seeing some wonderful pictures of your Massonia. I only have one showing leaves. I look everyday.
Thanks
Angie :)
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Angie ,
yes ...I know that we germans are always called the most pedantic people ( sorry )
I'm really not in all parts of my life so pedantic ( you can ask my wife ) ::)
But after a lot of years with plants I have realized it is impossibly to store all in my memory ....so I have always to write a lot of records - shure the writing work is more and more ...but a plant without a name or source is a big problem
Hans 8)
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Angie is not alone. Every New Year resolution for about ten years has been to 'keep better records this year'. It usually lasts until february.. ;)
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Hans I wish I had have the brain that you have. My worry is I have seen the difference in the last ten years in my ability to remember things. I am 55 well nearly so in another ten years what will l be like. This is one of the reasons I keep on this forum, keeps me busy and away from watching all these silly television programmes.
See I am sitting out in the sun having a coffee and a nice chocolate biscuit and speaking to a friend miles away from me. Who cares what I will like in another ten years
I am proud to be half German ;D ;D ;D
Darren I think you are more organised than you think ;D
Angie :)
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Angie + Darren :
We say :
"The way to hell is paved with good intentions"
;)
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;D ;D ;D
Angie :)
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Angie, I have two Myosotidium three years old from seeds and not yet flowers ; how do you grow your plant, please ?
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My worry is I have seen the difference in the last ten years in my ability to remember things. I am 55 well nearly so in another ten years what will l be like.
As I'm ten years younger than you Angie this does not fill me with optimism... ;D
You should be proud to be half German Angie - I've worked with lots of people from Germany over the years and can honestly say I've never met one I didn't like. And I have pretty high standards! I even started to learn the language about 15 years ago but the class was canceled after a few months and I never got around to joining another. As Hans says - the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions! I can however remember enough to book a room and order 'Bier' and 'Apfelstrudel mit Sahne' which pretty much covers everything I'd need to keep me happy. ;D
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Angie + Darren ,
I think the only really well organisized person + a fantastic memory is our :
MAGGI
:D
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Angie + Darren ,
I think the only really well organisized person + a fantastic memory is our :
MAGGI
:D
Now that really is funny! If only you could see me now, Hans..... I am surrounded by masses of paper and envelopes... I am tryingto get the printer to print the local SRGC group newsletters.... following a computer problem I have to wirte the names and addresses on envelopes by hand... I have to check whether the names are on my email list or not, all the inof is tied up in the pc, which is not working well...... I have to finalise my talk for the Discussion weekend... print lists for it for Ann Sinclair, who has been chasing me for weeks..... I hacve a book to review that I have onlty read a couple of dozen pages off, my house is full of gas bolier parts and tools, because the gas man was ill and is only just out of hospital and will not be able to continue for quite some time.... this means I will likely not be able to welcome Stan when he comes to talk to the Aberdeen Group on the 27th September. The garden needs work but it'stoo windy, even if I were not tied to this machine........I have no stamps for the envelopes...... I never make resolutions like Darren's to be more organised because I do not have the time.... need I go on? ;D ;D ;D ;D
However disorganised my life might be, especially at this time, your saying that has cheered me up a lot! thank you!
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;D ;D ;D
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Dear Maggi ,
please read this ( your german is good enough ):
... und eine Stimme kam aus dem Chaos und sagte :
"Sei froh und lächle denn es könnte noch schlimmer kommen"
und ich lächelte und war froh.....
und es kam noch schlimmer !!!
;D ;D ;D
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Hans, I've been to feed the dogs and get a coffee.... you have it exactly as my life goes!
.......and a voice came out of the chaos and said:
"Be happy and smile because it could get worse"
and I smiled and was happy .....
and it got even worse!
:) :) There are two little dogs here, wondering why I am laughing!
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My worry is I have seen the difference in the last ten years in my ability to remember things. I am 55 well nearly so in another ten years what will l be like.
As I'm ten years younger than you Angie this does not fill me with optimism... ;D
You should be proud to be half German Angie
Darren you have something to look forward to ::) ;D I am proud to be half german but ashamed that I never learnt German. Still come to think of it if I had I probally would have forgotten it by now ;D
Angie :)
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Angie, I have two Myosotidium three years old from seeds and not yet flowers ; how do you grow your plant, please ?
Mine is just happy sitting on my greenhouse floor. its in a corner so it doesn't get much sun. I keep forgetting to water it and many times its leaves are hanging on the floor. It does seem to need a lot of water. Hope you get it to flower soon. it is lovely.
Angie :)
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Yes, it is ::) Thank you Angie