SRGC Late Summer Event 22 August 2015

[Maggi Young]

John (Stephen ) MacFarlane  must not have been at Dunblane ?   
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=1463.msg88355#msg88355    and  http://www.growingwithplants.com/2011/08/bored-with-everyday-nasturtium-hello.html     

[Roma]

Thanks for the names, Matt. 

[Matt T]

No worries, Roma. However, I can't claim any great feat of memory or diligence in note-taking. I just ensure I get a photo of the labels too when I snap a plant that catches my eye. Luckily I was drawn to the same plants as you.

I forgot to say a thank you to the kindness and generosity that was extended me by a number of folk over the weekend. I returned home feeling a very special part of the SRGC family.

[Maggi Young]

Matt, I heard that you and the sweet furry Zoe were perfect houseguests !

[Matt T]

Matt, I heard that you and the sweet furry Zoe were perfect houseguests !

We try 

[jomowi]

Maureen, the succulent your friend was asking about is Crassula sarcocaulis.

Thanks, Roma, I will pass the info. on

[Maggi Young]

Sandy Leven's report of the 2015 SRGC Summer Event is online : 

http://files.srgc.net/Showreports/SRGCsummerevent2015.pdf

 and you can see all his show reports here :   http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/shows/sample-menu

[Susann]

Thank you everyone for a very nice day that contained many nice meetings with friends and new acquaintancies and a big and interesting flower display.

Lots of plants from the nurseries represented somehow slipped into plastic bags that had my name written on them. I wonder how that happened? Anyway, they are now all planted and Sweden is giving them a nice and heavy rain so they feel just like home.

I would like to give a special thank you for sharing your homes and time to Jean with family, the Christies, the Lafongs and Margaret Chapman. And thank you, Sandy, for organizing my stay.

I gave a very short talk about native Swedish plants from the north. You kept telling me that yes, you got most of the species growing in northern Scotland too, although it is only as far north as southern Sweden.  But, I forgot to ask you if you have got the mosquitos and midgies too? Now, too late, I know! The first day in the Highlands I already looked as having German measels. But, it was all worht it of course. Your "mountains" are very beautiful. And although very late in season there were surprisingly many species in flower.

[Richard Green]

For the sake of accuracy, I have just reallised that my Swertia pictured beautifully by Matt earlier in this thread was actually "Swertia petiolata" rather than Swertia perfoliata.  Sorry, my mistake in writing out the label!

It was grown from Chris Chadwell wild-collected seed under number CC7335 collected in the Borderlands of West Tibet (in the Ladakh/Lahoul/Chamba/Kulu area) in 2012.  Sown at Christmas 2012, germinated in 2013, and first flowered this summer.