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Title: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: kiwi on December 10, 2011, 08:59:37 AM

A day in the mountains with future members of the NZAGS and SRGC!

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Maggi Young on December 10, 2011, 11:24:42 AM

Goodness me! A sight to gladden our hearts for all sorts of reasons   8) 8)

I hope Sue is at hand to give the Bookeroo smelling salts - those buttercups are a real treat, but may be too much for his nerves...... ;)

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: ranunculus on December 10, 2011, 08:39:13 PM

Start them off as you mean them to proceed, Doug ... with UNBELIEVABLE buttercups ... oh for a plant like that in my apology for a garden! So many thanks for posting.

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: kiwi on December 11, 2011, 07:44:30 AM

Cheers, if I didn't have the kids with me I would probley have been up there photographing them into the night!
Other than the buttercups, there was only a few other things flowering...
Chionohebe pulvinaris
Psychrophila obtusa
Raoulia australis

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: David Lyttle on December 11, 2011, 07:54:26 AM

Doug,

Very envious of your Ranunculus haastii, Psychrophila looks very lush as well and Rauolia australis is flowering magnificently. After last season I was not sure if it would even be worthwhile going out this season. You have convinced me that it is.

regards,

David

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 11, 2011, 08:07:08 AM

Stunning place and gorgeous plants.

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: jandals on December 22, 2011, 09:32:14 AM

Went for a walk with my daughter over the weekend . Ended up in a bog in the lower Hollyford with one boot coming apart . Not a lot flowering but beautiful weather (26C at Milford Sound)

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Aciphylla horrida

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Bulbinella gibbsii balanifera

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Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 22, 2011, 06:56:40 PM

Beautiful pictures as always Steve. Surely the Bulbinella would make a good garden plant?

You forgot to point out, for those lucky people with a scent button on their computers, ;D that the Psychrophila (still Caltha to me) has a wonderful sweet honey perfume. :)

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: jandals on December 23, 2011, 07:02:49 AM

Thanks Lesley . I don't grow Bulbinella gibbsii balanifera but I do grow Bulbinella rossii and they flowered well this year . Flies appear to be the main pollinators . They also appear to be common pollinators on Anisotome latifolia . I have been told that flies are prolific on the subantarctic islands and any woollen socks left out to dry are quickly fly blown .
Anyway , they have done a marvellous job on the B.rossii and I have a lot of seed coming on ( all spoken for I'm afraid )

Bulbinella rossii

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and Anisotome latifolia

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Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 23, 2011, 09:44:51 AM

Awesome plants. 8)

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: ranunculus on December 23, 2011, 09:54:35 AM

The Anisotome border is magnificent Steve ... who needs to travel to the subantarctic islands when they could 'Go Jandals'?

All best wishes for Christmas and New Year to every one of our wonderful forum friends in the Southern Hemisphere and only two requests for 2012 ... keep safe (problems in Christchurch again today) and please keep posting.  Love to you all.

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: jandals on December 24, 2011, 09:05:20 AM

Cheers Cliff . Have fun tomorrow with the family .

Santa is bringing me 36 000 litres of water . Might slow him down a bit

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: David Lyttle on December 24, 2011, 09:29:43 AM

Thank you Cliff for your kind sentiments.

I have just been to the Ida Range and Mt Kyeburn looking for Ranunculus acraeus. We found a few plants but none in flower so here is a small Ranunculus gracilipes for you in lieu if a Christmas card.

For all those of you that are still confused here is Myosotis cheesemanii. (the genuine plant in the wild) It is quite rare and this record extends its known range.

I will post some more when i have more time

Merry Christmas and the best for 2012 to all our northen hemisphere friends.

PS Steve, I hope Santa remembers to bring you some beer as well - these dry summer days can make a man thirsty.

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 24, 2011, 11:12:04 PM

Ahhhhh...MEGAHERBS! The only possible advantage I can think of, in living in Balclutha. ;D Merry Christmas Steve. :-*

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Tim Ingram on December 25, 2011, 11:09:36 AM

That picture of Ranunculus haastii is extraordinarily beautiful! A great Christmas present from the other side of the world. As an umbel lover I also really like Anisotome latifolia.....

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 25, 2011, 09:04:34 PM

I may be wrong here but seem to remember that Anisotome latifolia requires separate male and female plants for seed. The ones at Dunedin Bot Gardens always flowered but never had seed because they were all one sex. This plant Tim comes from the sub-Antarctic Islands as does Bulbinella rossii.

Title: Re: NZ Field trips - December
Post by: Hoy on December 26, 2011, 08:26:26 PM

Many plants are self sterile! Unfortunately I have more than one species that never set seed although I have several specimens - they are all one clone seemingly.

And Bulbinella is on my wish list together with several others ;)