AGS NORTH MIDLAND SHOW at Chesterfield on 14th April 2007

[SueG]

love the pictures. think I may have to print them out and show my plants what they could look like if only they tried!
Must go home tonigh and sniff my Sebaea ( ) I didn't realise it was scented. None of my books make mention of it, can anyone point out a source of good info on keeping it alive?
Sue

[Anthony Darby]

Big breaths Cliff, big breaths. I can still see Dirk Bogard in that scene .

[ranunculus]

My thanks to Jozef Lemmens for spotting the less than deliberate mistake in my North Midland Show posting.....the Solmslaubachia is in fact an impostor and the true identity of the plant is illustrated below.
You remain 'top of the class' in my eyes Jozef.
Greetings from sunny East Lancashire.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Stunning plant Cliff - whatever its name...

[Diane Clement]

Stunning plant Cliff - whatever its name...

I presume its name is Viola "True Identity"   

But do you actually have a picture of Solmslaubachia??  I've just germinated it from Holubec seed but I missed it on the showbench at Chesterfield, would love to see it in the flesh

[Diane Clement]

Must go home tonigh and sniff my Sebaea ( ) I didn't realise it was scented. None of my books make mention of it, can anyone point out a source of good info on keeping it alive?
Sue

Sue, the best information on cultivation of Sebaea is on Jim Almond's website: http://freespace.virgin.net/almond.jim/index.htm

click on Plant Portraits on the left menu and then scroll down to Sebaea (alphabetical).  I haven't found it easy, it's one of those I keep trying and keep killing .... 

[ranunculus]

My apologies everyone...please don't ask your local nursery to find you a plant of Viola 'True identity', they may struggle!
I did not jot down the name of this super little plant and my photographs omitted to include the label. I just assumed that Diane (with her photographic memory) or Martin would post the appropriate title......?!!!? 

...I do believe that I have posted images of Solmsaubachia in the past (perhaps in the old forum), but possibly on the wonderful but now sadly defunct 'old' AlpenPix.

[Andrew]

No crocus at the show, but I managed to stay (mostly) in the same family .

Firstly a correction to Cliff's otherwise excellent posts (I know he was just copying the label). Iris milleta is I believe correct spelled as Iris mellita and should now be called Iris suaveolens.

The unamed Iris I think was Iris taurica which should now be called Iris pumila. The photo I took is different as there were two separate entries of the same plant.

(Iris experts please correct me if I am wrong.)

A correctly named, stuningly dark Iris suaveolens.




Iris stolonifera with a wonderful blue beard.




Who could resist Iris iberica ssp. iberica.


Iris aff. uniflora.


A very rare juno, Iris magnifica 'Sunny Side Up', only two places have this in cultivation, so the notes said.


Finally, I could not resist Fritillaria gentneri.

[Maggi Young]

More lovely Iris, who could resist any.. ........that I. aff. uniflora makes a good show, doesn't it?
It's not often that a blue beard is so atttractive, is it?

And, Frit. gentneri.....I just love the colour ,  everything !

I realise with every new post of pictures just what a hopeless plant addict I am, desperate for my next fix to top up my daily needs from our own garden! Luckily all the rest of you out there are just as hopelessly affected, so I am in excellent company and part of a strong self-help group.....
"My name is Margaret and I am a gardener........"

[Diane Clement]

correctly named, stuningly dark Iris suaveolens.

There was a bit of discussion on Saturday about this plant labelled as Iris suaveolens, shown by Tommy Anderson.  Several of us thought it was too tall and not the right form for I suaveolens and more likely to be Iris babadagica or I reichenbachii.  Any more thoughts gratefully received! 

[Diane Clement]

Sorry, I meant to post this link with my last post on the iris, labelled as I suaveolens.  I think it is probably I reichenbachii, compare with my plant on
http://alpineenthusiast.atspace.com/EC06.htm
and scroll down, third from the bottom. 

[Martinr]

Excuse slow response. I'm pretty sure the mystery Viola is Viola pedata, shown by Lionel Clarkson and it won the 1 pan N America class.

But I could be wrong

Martin

[Lesley Cox]

Martin, I'm sure you're right about Viola pedata, maybe a compact growing form though. I'm coming late to this new thread but do want to say "Blast you" to Anthony because having noted Maggi's "joke" about the "yeth....", I was all set to complete it and give provenance (Doctor in the House) when on page 2, Anthony pipped me to the post. Unfortunately I'll almost certainly connect the joke now, with R. crithmifolius

I also agree that the lovely reddish iris is too tall for I. suaveolens (I. mellita, in Cliff's first post is an old synonym), so probably I. reichenbachii or a form of the larger I. pumila relative, I. chamaeiris from which the more heat tolerant "dwarf bearded" vars are bred.

But such super pics from everyone, thanks for a late (for me) showing.

[Lesley Cox]

Sebaea thomasii used to be called S. jasminiflora or jasminoides due to its heavy jasmine-like perfume. Even a couple of flowers will scent a large area and a plant with many flowers is almost over-powering, so Sue, like John F in Liverpool, I think you must be olfactorily challenged