September 2008 - definitely Spring - in the Southern Hemisphere

[Lesley Cox]

The final group from Viv's garden, just three.

Firstly, Otto, pretending to be an old man.


As a group, on the Sunday morning after Gay's and my talks, we went to Viv's first then to a native plant nursery. Those pics later. This little group included Tim, Gay, Otto, Viv, Paul and Yvonne.


And finally, the visiting speakers

 

[Lvandelft]

I really hope you can show the pictures which did not show up Lesley!
Good luck next time!

Mukdenia something, which is in the Saxifraga family

Mukdenia rossii (formerly Aceriphyllum rossii)

[Maggi Young]

thank you for persevering, Lesley, it looks like all the pix are in place now 

[Lvandelft]

Lesley, the white crucifer might be Pachyphragma macrophyllum.
Glad your pictures came through.

Would like to know why at most pictures one can see how many times was looked at it?
In your posting and in several other posts I've noticed the same???

[Maggi Young]

Luit, if photos are added at the end of post, they come with a chance to see how many people have clicked on each photo to enlarge it .... if pix are included in the body of a post, then that facility is not available.

I do hope that all new readers realise that they can enlarge the thumbnail pix to enjoy bigger photos.....

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Thanks for taking the trouble Lesley !
Great pix - I hope you have some more left...   
It's rapidly becoming autumn here you know.... we can do with a bit of colour and light from the SH !! 

[Lvandelft]

Luit, if photos are added at the end of post, they come with a chance to see how many people have clicked on each photo to enlarge it .... if pix are included in the body of a post, then that facility is not available.

Thanks Maggi! But... I would not even know how to include pictures in a post.
Sometimes it would be of help, mostly when people do make a list of the plants shown,
but then the pictures have no names, which means scrolling several times to see what
name the plants have. 
Or is this only the matter for people with "senior brains"?

I do hope that all new readers realise that they can enlarge the thumbnail pix to enjoy bigger photos..... 

This I have heard of  when I send a page to a friend to have a look at it.
Often I get a mail where they write that the pics are so small.

Maybe there is a clue?

[hadacekf]

Fantastic pics Lesley !!!! Thanks

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks everyone. I had to delete the attachthumb bit, then do it again and relocate the pic files. But eventually it worked.

There are a lot more to come, from the native plant nursery (I'll need Paul's and Fermi's help there as I omitted to write down any names) and from Don Schofield's garden at Mt Tomah. Some wonderful things there, but I've yet to resize etc. Filthy day today so I may get some done this afternoon. We are now in summer time, 3 hours ahead of Oz for the time bring.

[art600]

Lesley

Glad there are a lot more to come.

[Otto Fauser]

Lesley, your nearly yellow form of Frit.rhodokanakis is just stunning!!, please, please handpollinate, I would love to get a few seeds .It was great to have you here, and thanks for posting all the photos from our gardens, but you should not have included the one of the old invalid. The charming prostrate australian shrub with the tiny white flowers is Cryptandra amara nana, and the blue Juno Iris is I. 'Skyline' from Ruksans.
     Otto.

[fermi de Sousa]

Fermi,

Excellent.  Are the other two Trilliums flowering as well?  I think they were both white?  Can't remember exactly.  Thanks for looking after them.... if Elizabeth hasn't been in contact yet she will be at some point, but otherwise let me know and I'll hassle her to contact you.

Thanks again for looking after them for me.

Hi Paul,
the white one has only a small flower so I didn't include it in the pic. Please ask Elizabeth to contact me, you have my details.
Flowering for me for the first time is Fritillaria carica, grown from seed from Marcus Harvey in 2003 (I think!)



Flowering well in the Rock garden is Paeonia cambessedesii,

For those who like Aussie native plants, here are a few more from the Rock garden,
Pimelea glauca

and, Lesley, in answer to your yet to be asked question, "no I haven't sniffed it to see if it's scented like your NZ ones"!

One of my favourites is Eutaxia microphylla, because in spring it is covered in "egg & bacon" flowers like this

but after the seedpods fall off it looks for all the world like a prostrate conifer.
Orthrosanthus laxus is a soft blue

and attracts hoverflies

cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for the Cryptandra name. I think it is a lovely little plant. Thanks too, for the correction. I thought Sunshine didn't sound quite right and I should have remembered 'Skyline' from Don's road. In fact I remember thinking at the time that I WOULD remember because of Don's road. Then I forgot!

The Frit. rhodokanakis are all seedlings, not a single clone and I assure you I have hand-pollinated every flower with every other flower and this morning I even found an extra flowering plant, in my spent compost heap, where I must have tipped stuff from pots when I planted out these and others a couple of years ago, in their raised bed so it does seem to be an obliging frit. One way or another we'll get it across the ditch.

Fermi, here's my F. carica, also a first flower from Marcus' seed, 2004.
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F. stribrynii, another first flower from Marcus
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F. lusitanica, seedling from Pilous
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One of my favourites, F. whittallii, because of its soft, misted colouring
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And 2 of F. meleagris, in pale colours. One is a dumpy seedling in a pot of F. michailovskyi sdlgs and the second I found in rough grass yesterday. I'll rescue it later. I very much like these pale, almost pink forms of F. meleagris
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[David Nicholson]

Looks like you've been having problems Lesley?