Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Michael on September 17, 2007, 10:43:50 AM
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Hi folks :)
I am happy to show you my place. I dont have a garden properly, everything is just potted up, but i am trying to convince my dad of cutting some banana plants to open me some space in the ground. We'll see ;D
Sorry about the quality of some pictures :-\
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(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o38/Jindegales/Stuff%202/-Platyceriumbifurcatum.jpg)
(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o38/Jindegales/Stuff%202/-Vriesea.jpg)
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In the third photo it is me with my cousin Yanna from venezuela:
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For last, here you have some pictures of the last levada i did this summer. But no bulbs!!! Like i said (besides our Dactylorhiza foliosa) no more colours at any time of the year = very monotonous... :'( :'(
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Thanks for watching 8)
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Thanks, Mike, this is great... I see you are already completely plant -addicted.......surely this means you will be happy always! There will be many of us seeing these pictures who would be delighted to be able to have the climate to grow these warmth-loving plants, so we are all tempted by something different, eh? 8)
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Yes Maggi, i am a plant-obcessed person... I just realized that we highly desire those things that we can't have! Why things have to be this way? Oh btw, i would like to ask you one thing. What is the right name of you beautifull scotish bluebell. Is it Endymion nonscriptus? Or Endymion nonsripta?
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Mike, I call it Hyacinthoides non-scipta and this is also the British bluebell : but, to confuse things, we also have the Harebell, which is called the Scottish bluebell.... that is Campanula rotundifolia !!!! A great example of why the Latin names are easiest in the long run!
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Oh you've got it BAD....
You're in great company here...
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There are some great plants, Mike.
Maybe we could have another competition, Lesley bakes a virtual cake for the forumist who can name them all :).
I have just looked up Mike's profile and see that he lives in Madera which explains his growing conditions. I would cost me the whole years salary to heat a house to grow these plants in Scotland.
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I've seen such water canals in your neighborhood on the Canary Island of La Palma in 1996!
Found your request for Fritillaria in another thread and I still have some F. meleagris and pallidiflora
seeds here - the only thing I want in return is the e-mail adress of your cousin 8)
You will need 4 or 5 years to grow them to flowering size, contact me privately if you want them !
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Yes Maggi, Hyacinthoides non-scripta! I also like the campanula, but i was refering to the Hyacinthoides. Have you checked the photo that they have on wikipedia? An ENTIRE woods covered in blue! It is a pity that plant is hybridising with other one, i really like the hanging habit of the flowers. Where can i find a store with those? Is it true that the bulb cannot dry out?
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Ok David, it would be fun trying to name them all (except the pics who have many plant involved). An i also want to try a piece of that virtual cake! Can't you grow these plants at home?
Thomas, yes i am interested in the seeds ;D ;D. It certainly will be a nice experience to grow them that way, but i never tried to grow bulbs like that, because i usually propagate by bulbils. I hope you help me with their culture
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Yes Mike (where does "Mike" come from? I don't see it anywhere, or in the profile). You certainly do need a garden, and a large one at that. I can just hear the conversation here. "Roger, I need to grow more primulas and crocuses. Would you go and cut down a few bananas please." ;D ;D ;D
I know only a couple of what for me are entirely tropical plants. But I really like the Pinguicula.
So far as a cake is concerned, for a complete list of correct names, I think I'm pretty safe. ;D
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I'm also wondering how there can be 48 (I think) pics in a single post ???
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Hi Lesley,
Mike comes from the first post i wrote, but if you want i can change my nickname to my real name :)
Yes i really want to have a garden like all of you do, but the banana plants give too much shade to most bulbs i presume... But i will never give up!
The pinguicula is setting seed for it's very first time, if you want i cand send some for you when they get ripe. I have just checked you profile and i saw you live in New Zealand! Forgive me my ignorance, but isnt New Zealand subtropical (at least near the sea)??
Few years ago i was searching for a plant that comes from the three Kings Islands called Tecomanthe speciosa, it's a tropical plant, and if it comes from there, i thought New Zealand was also tropical...
About the amount of photos, i use a site on the internet that hosts my photos and then i just have to put the image link on the post. If you allow publicity here, can say the name of that site
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Yes, Mike, you may name the site. If you look at other forumists profiles or signatures, they often show similar information for their sites.
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Ok thanks Maggi ;D
Here is the link for that website:
www.photobucket.com
You can have an acount for free, and then start to upload and post new photos!
The correct link for posting photos is the forth one (the one who has [img] at the begining )
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The site has many more photos of the same type of plants that Mike showed in his first posting. Great pictures, Mike, and the warm atmosphere that they suggest is a treat during our 'summer'.
Carol and I have visited Madeira just once and greatly enjoyed the gardens and the walking. It is on the list of places for 'must return' or, maybe, a nicer alternative for the retirement home than Costa del Sol :P.
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Mike nice plants :)
You grow a lot :o 8)
David Maderira is nice in the summer as well and I think many people will have problems with the 35C and more in Costa del Sol unless they go back home up North for the Summer. I for one think it is a bit hard with those temperatures in continental Portugal and then see the weather forcast where Maderira have 25-30 C That is really great.
I visited twice and liked the island a lot. Definately a place one can visit many times.
But next Portuguse island will be one in Azores.
Take care
Joakim
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Mike, New Zealand though such a small country in physical size (and population, only 4 million) has a huge climatic variety. In the far north, it is indeed, subtropical and commerial tropical fruits are grown. Also bananas, mangoes and pawpaws etc, though perhaps not commercially, though they are offered at the Farmers' Markets in the area. But where I live at (almost) the other end of the country, we have a hot, dry summer, mild dryish autumn and a pretty cool, damp winter then a coolish but beautifully sunny spring. We have frosts to about -4 or 5C in my area on the coast, though to -18 inland. So our climate here is similar to or perhaps a little milder than that of the southern parts of the UK or the Republic of Ireland. I have just 500-800mm of rain per year. Not nearly enough. The Three Kings Islands are tropical I guess, in that they certainly don't have frosts but they are probably drier than what I think of as tropical, such as Fiji or Hawaii.
Did you find your Tecomanthe? All the plants in cultivation have come from a single plant found in the wild on one of the islands.
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I've just picked up a couple of small Tecomanthe dendrophylla along with some other tropical vines. Can't wait to see what happens.
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Thanks for your kind comments!
Joakim, yes i grow a lot of plants, but my interest in bulbs is as ancient as the interest i have in growing carnivorous or orchids. Those i can find easier, but finding different bulbs of the few i have, is an headache. On 2005 i went onto a SPECIALIZED nursery and asked about fritillaria imperialis, and showed them a picture. They told me they had bulbs already last year, and they will order some more soon. I remember that i got sooo happy that day... A few weks latter, when i arrived they had Lilium for sale, and they said those were the Fritillarias! How can this happen? Even with the latin name! It's useless...
Yes our climate is mild and very humid, in summer the average is 20-26 (32º on the hottest week of August), winters 10-18 (7º at the coldest week). Azores is a little bit more cold, but it's very nice too. I also never been there...
Lesley, so i think NEw Zealand might be very similar to my island. Warm near the sea and cold on the mountains. On the hottest part we also grow tropical fruit, and on the colder areas, other kinds of plants (like Kiwi fruit ;) It's my fav. fruit and animal BTW...)
No i didnt find that Tecomanthe. The only two places where i found seeds for sale (Oratia Native Plant Nursery and TradeMe (the New Zealand "ebay") but those places only send them within New Zealand. Do you have that plant Lesley? To me it's similar to Worsleya, the Holy grail of the Bignoniaceae ;D ;D
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Tecomanthe dendrophylla is grown in some of the UK Botanic gardens, though I don't know of anyone who has it privately......I'm told care should be taken in pruning the plant, since it flowers on old wood.
see this page from St. Andrews Botanic Garden site: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~gdk/stabotanic/Jan05pom.htm
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Yes! That is what i found more interesting on the Tecomanthe genus. I grow T. venusta. That plant, i got it as a rooted cutting on July, but it's growing now fast. I hope to see flowers in 2-3 years! But T. speciosa is the only one in yellow (as far as i know).
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Mike, maybe if Tecomanthe speciosa is offered as seed here, I could get some for you. I'll have a look on the two websites you mention. It will certainly be hardier than the one in the RBG website in Maggi's link. I know there is (or was) a huge flowering plant in a garden on Otago Peninsula (technically within Dunedin city) but that was some years ago and the then owner is no longer alive, so anything could have happened to it since. I remember seeing it in full bloom, sprawled all over the top of a large garage. The peninsula has a little less frost than in the city proper but gets apalling winds right up the harbour.
T. speciosais not really yellow, a creamy shade, even greenish white, as I recall.
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Thanks Lesley! I dont know if those places still have seeds, because it has been a long time since i made a search of that plant. But as far as i remember, it's a very widespread vine at local gardens (at least is what they say...)
If you have news, please contact me
M
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Olá Mike,
Welcome! (better late than never ...). You have a wonderful collection of plants. Don't forget to consider yourself lucky to live on such a wonderful island! A bit crazy, but definitely wonderful - with interesting local plants and amazing conditions for growing other plants. If there is one thing that plant growers have in common it is the desire to grow "inappropriate" plants! ;D I am sure that you can find plenty of excellent "candidates" for the climate in Madeira.
um abraço
Chloë
looking forward to going to Madeira again one day ...
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Hi Chloe!
Thanks for your nice comments :)