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Gail

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« on: October 22, 2014, 09:05:28 PM »
I was in Syracuse last week, chiefly to see Caravaggio's painting there, but walking from our hotel to the bus stop I was delighted to encounter an area of limestone pavement with hundreds of autumn-flowering narcissi - presumably N. elegans?? They were growing among ?Scilla autumnalis and further up I found a few flowering plants of ?Mandragora autumnalis.
Very happy to be corrected if I've misidentified these...

My Italian is even worse than my plant identification skills but I think the carved stone commemorates a visit by pope John Paul II in 1994.

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Gail Harland
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Re: Syracuse
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2014, 09:07:19 PM »
Not rock garden plants, but just down the road was the Santuaro Madonna delle lacrame which had some wonderful silk floss trees in the grounds and a link fence smothered with Thunbergia grandiflora.
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Re: Syracuse
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2014, 08:28:09 AM »
How we would treasure those narcissus Gail & there they are flourishing with no attention at all.
Thanks for posting.
Mike
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Mike
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Re: Syracuse
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2014, 09:22:31 AM »
Syracuse is one of my top  10 favourite cities.
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David Nicholson
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Re: Syracuse
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2014, 08:45:57 AM »
I have always been a bit puzzled by the fact that we have autumn-flowering snowdrops that are hardy in the UK and can be grown outdoors and yet the same is not true for autumn-flowering narcissi.  Such a pity we cannot have them in our gardens.
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