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Hendrik Van Bogaert

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Re: February 2010 Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #105 on: March 01, 2010, 06:54:04 PM »
Hi Hendrik,
Somebody told me that Asarum were pollinated by slugs entering in flowers  ??? Do you know if it's true ?  :)

I have never heard that slugs are the pollinators; slugs are a real nuisance when you grow asarums;
that's the reason I grow them in pots, above ground level; if not all leaves and flowers will be eaten ....
I think that rather beetles and other crawling (soil) insects are responsible for the pollination.
Don't forget that this plants grows in woods and that their flowers are often burried by leaflitter.
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Re: February 2010 Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #106 on: March 02, 2010, 03:54:15 AM »
- the Rhododendron fulvum is fantastic - how big will the plant grow?

Our R. fulvum is about 3 m high.  According to Cox (Encyclopaedia of Rhododendron Species) it can grow to 9 m.  The foliage is dark green with dark brown indumentum underneath and the flowers are exquisite.  Here is a close-up.
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Re: February 2010 Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #107 on: March 02, 2010, 09:31:31 AM »
Glorious in close up too, David, thanks for your description.
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Re: February 2010 Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #108 on: March 02, 2010, 12:43:37 PM »
Thank you Hendrik  ;) I thought there was something the matter  ::)
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Re: February 2010 Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #109 on: March 03, 2010, 04:21:20 PM »
Please note folks.... some posts moved to the new March thread

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=5093.0     :D
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Re: February 2010 Northern Hemisphere
« Reply #110 on: March 25, 2010, 12:22:29 PM »
I don't think any of the green ones smell, Robin.
I've got laureola, pontica, albowiana,arisanensis and none of them smell.
Some clones of laureola are said to be fragrant, but I think they need to be fed with rocking horse manure......

My plant of D. laureola 'Margaret Mathew' is fragrant - it doesn't hit you in the same way as D. odora etc but is definitely pleasantly scented.  We have wild D. laureola in the hedge just up the lane from us.  I haven't walked that way since we lost the dog but used to enjoy the walk at this time of year because of the fragrance - sometimes elusive but on a warm day it was wonderful.  As an aside it was noticeable that those plants growing actually in the hedge which was regularly flayed each year generally looked sick whilst those growing in the ditch alongside which would have escaped the flayer were much healthier.
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