Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: shelagh on May 21, 2012, 10:02:13 AM
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Sorry these have taken so long to post but if you follow other pages of the forum you will know I have been having problems with my computer.
We had a quick 2 hours here whilst on a coaching holiday in Scotland. If the pictures are not labelled it is because I couldn't find a label and in the case of the Ramonda I think it was a sss(Brian speak for a self sown seedling) at the base of a wall.
Acer
Aciphylla glaucescens
Alyssum diffusum
Anemone obtusiloba
Anemone obtusiloba 'Pradesh'
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OK it wouldn't let me post 10 so I tried 5 and it worked.
I'll try again.
Anthemis cretica var. cretica
arty rhodo
Aurinia saxatile 'Double Form'
Campanula bellidifolia var. saxifraga
Carthamnus rhaponticoides
Celmisia
Celmisia verbascifolia
Corydalis flexuosa
Draba korabensis
erinacea anthyllis
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There's more.
Last one is the saddest sign you will ever see.
Esterhuysenia
fern fronds uncurling
Gaultheria procumbens macrocarpa
Haberlea rhodopensis
Headless sculpture
Helichrysum
Helichrysum sessiloides
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IMGP1056
IMGP1059
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And more.
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IMGP1070
IMGP1075
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IMGP1126
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Iris reichenbachii
Iris ruthenica
Iris turkoman
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Another tranche.
Including a stone found in the Japanese section, and a Podocarpus like the one Sandy Leven exhibited at Glasgow where he got a lot of stick because people said it was dead ::)
Incarvillea mairei var. mairei
Japanese stone
Lewisia cotyledon hybrid
Lithadora zahnii
Lunaria rediviva
Moonwalk tree
ornithogalum montanum
Paeony obovata
Paris
Podocarpus nivalis
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I have a few more.
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And more. The Relhania acerosa looks incredibly like what we show as Rosenia humilis perhaps some knowledgeable person out there will tell me if they are the same.
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And the last tranche, you wouldn't believe how quickly we raced round EBG. Unfortunately we had missed HRH Prince of Wales and Camilla as they were there earlier in the morning.
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You certainly well-filled your two hours Shelagh and the above pics are much more interesting than HRH and his lady. :)
Are you now saying (above) that Carduncellus has been renamed as Carthamnus? ???
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Are you now saying (above) that Carduncellus has been renamed as Carthamnus?
Not sure I can answer that one Lesley, this particular plant had no label but a similar rosette nearby was entitled Carthamnus so I think it may be. No doubt the experts will put us right ::)
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Wow, Shelagh, you certainly packed plants into your time at the Botanics, thankfully there is so much to see apart from the Alpine House, but what a disappointment that must have been. Last time we were there we spent about twice as long and got no further than the glasshouses and lunch! Thanks for sharing them.
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I can't find a Google reference to Carthamnus, but there is Carthamus, Asteraceae, and Safflower from which, presumably safflower oil is extracted. It does seem to have a thistly-type flower but in reds, oranges, yellows. When I Google the Carduncellus, there's no suggestion of a name change or it being put into a different genus. I'll stick with the latter name I think, having known it for so many years. :)