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shelagh

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Rulingia hermannifolia
« on: July 08, 2012, 05:03:21 PM »
Does anyone know of a source for this plant in the UK?  It's from down under and Google has failed me.
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Re: Rulingia hermannifolia
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2012, 05:29:06 PM »
Rulingia hermannifolia,  Shelagh. Not one that Paul T. has shown in his ANBG threads.

Plant Finder lists two stockists in UK:
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www.countyparknursery.co.uk
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Re: Rulingia hermannifolia
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2012, 02:40:45 PM »
Thanks for those links Maggi.  The first doesn't list Rulingia at present.  Unfortunately when I rang County Park Nursery his daughter told me that Graham Hutchins died last week.  The good news is that her son will be taking over the nursery.
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Re: Rulingia hermannifolia
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2012, 03:52:33 PM »
Oh dear, sad news that Graham Hutchins has passed away but it is good to hear that this old nursery will continue.

Graham in his own words from February 2010: http://www.provarplants.co.uk/pdfs/webgrahamhutchins.pdf
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Re: Rulingia hermannifolia
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2012, 08:31:49 PM »
It is sad to hear about Graham; he was a complete one-off and County Park also a nursery absolutely like no other - no room to move and extraordinary plants wherever you looked! I must have first visited when a student in London and bought, amongst others, Chordospartium stevensonii, partly because Graham said it looked dead for the first few years of its life (!), and eventually made a weeping tree with purple pea- flowers. In his 1980 price-list it is £2.50 in a 4" pot - now it is 2.5metres in the garden! A very unusual and fascinating gentleman.
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