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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #30 on: December 29, 2015, 06:47:51 AM »
Perhaps someone would be able to provide a name for this purple ("blue") rhododendron,
(JohnW has written "the rhodo is most likely the old British hybrid or grex 'Russatinii' (russatum x augustinii)" -thanks!)
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #31 on: December 29, 2015, 06:52:53 AM »
Some of the sweeping lawns (we would never be able to have grass like this at home!)
and more beds of Rhodies,
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #32 on: December 29, 2015, 07:04:55 AM »
A large clump of Smilacina racemosa (syn Maianthemum racemosum);
A small tree that is possibly Azara serrata
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #33 on: December 29, 2015, 07:19:20 AM »
More Bluebells!
Mainly Trilliums (paeonies yet to flower);
A fine stand of Polygonatum;
A "Parson Bird" or Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2015, 06:22:21 AM »
More rhodies!
This time one of the large leaf types,
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #35 on: December 30, 2015, 06:28:15 AM »
A lovely pink Pulsatilla (?P. vulgaris)
A view across;
a closer view;
a view down;
a mixed border;
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015
« Reply #36 on: December 30, 2015, 07:43:56 PM »
Fermi,

What lovely and lush gardens!

We have nothing like that here in our dry part of California.

Even the Maianthemum racemosum is so lush. I never see anything like that in the wild around here. They are not even that lush in our garden here at the farm.

Thank you for sharing your photographs with all of us.
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #37 on: December 30, 2015, 11:32:30 PM »
Hi Robert,
yes they were very lush and green and nothing like what we have here!
Some more pics:
Trillum with a Vancouveria "living mulch"!
A sales area to make us weep as we couldn't take anything home :'(
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Maple Glen
« Reply #38 on: December 30, 2015, 11:39:52 PM »
There was an aviary in the sales area and Muriel has a fascinating range of exotic birds including Indian Ringneck parrots!
They love walnuts and Muriel always has a pocketful to share with them,
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Trillium Haven
« Reply #39 on: December 31, 2015, 01:32:09 AM »
Our next stop was "Trillium Haven" - AKA the home of Hilda and Dave Toole:
front and back gardens
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Trillium Haven
« Reply #40 on: December 31, 2015, 06:01:27 AM »
More from Dave's:
It seems he likes trilliums! ;D Most of these he'll have posted himself and I won't hazard a guess to their full names!
-reflexed trillium
-yellow one
-clump of stemless types
-white one (might be T.grandiflorum)
-frog and friends
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Trillium Haven
« Reply #41 on: December 31, 2015, 06:27:33 AM »
A double white trillium
White trillium in the shade
Maroon trillium
Nodding white and nodding purple trilliums
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Trillium Haven
« Reply #42 on: January 01, 2016, 11:30:55 AM »
In case you thought trillums were all Dave grows:
Paris sp
3WW daffodil
Paraquilegia in bud
Soldanella sp
Iris cultivar
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Trillium Haven
« Reply #43 on: January 03, 2016, 08:55:49 AM »
Here are a few more from Dave's:
Pleione in a trough
Clintonia andrewsiana in bud
Dicentra and other shade-lovers
Rhodies
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Re: New Zealand, South Island October 2015 - Trillium Haven
« Reply #44 on: January 03, 2016, 09:03:00 AM »
More from Dave's:
Could this be Fritillaria pyrenaica?
Nice 2-WP daffodil
Dwarf Daffodil in trough
10WW daffodil
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