Summer Show 2014 at Ferny Creek Horticultural Society

[fermi de Sousa]

Sweet Mac (no longer cross?)
Rh laetum
rare lepidotum
Vireya.bench. with potted plants
Rh carringtoniae

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fermi

[Maggi Young]

I do try not to be out and out jealous - but I cannot control the envy I feel when I see these glorious Vireyas.  I would love to be able to have a collection of these stunners. It's just not going to happen but I  am still  reduced to desperate aquisitiveness when I see them.

Thanks for providing this "fix" fermi!

[fermi de Sousa]

If it's any consolation I can't grow them here either, Maggi!
But I get to see them at the Show
More from the benches

long tubular pink
Rh retusum
illegible (Rarelepidotum again???)
close up of above
different speciemen - same name!

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fermi

[annew]

Fantastic, Fermi! Like Maggi, I'd like to smell them ( mind you that many lilies in one room would probably knock me out).

[fermi de Sousa]

Some other exhibits

2 x Masdevallia Machu Picchu 'Crown Point'. (Masdevallia ayabacana x Masdevallia coccinea)
Haemanthus carneus (looked similar to the H. hirsutus on sale elsewhere)
2 x Allium beesianum

cheers
fermi

[fermi de Sousa]

Hydrangeas were the other main focus of the Show
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fermi

[arillady]

Wow Fermi that is a huge show.

[Maggi Young]

Hydrangeas were the other main focus of the Show
cheers
fermi

    My goodness - what a large range - impressive .

The Ferny Creek Hort. Society's connection/ communications with the SRGC goes back decades - it is wonderful to see how the society  is maintaining its vigour  as is evidenced so well by fermi's photos from this truly super show.

[johnw]

Fermi - Can you post a better pic of the name tag on the illegible one?  I've forwarded the link to Bovees Nursery for an i.d.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

My late friend June Keeley, well known in NZ for her gentiana, nerine and other hybrids, grew about a dozen vireyas in Timaru, (half way between Dunedin and Christchurch), in a climate definitely not to their liking, with quite bad frosts in winter and hot, dry winds through spring and summer which often continued until March/April. However, June grew them in large pots in a sun porch, like a little gallery, where they were sheltered but warm. They had to be watered of course. She reckoned that they flowered not seasonally, but after heavy watering. That is, it was the applied conditions that brought on blooming, not the seasons per se. So when she wanted them in bloom for a particular occasion, such as her daughter's wedding, they were well watered and perhaps fertilized, about 3 months beforehand, and on time, the flowers appeared and performed. They seemed always to be bloom when I saw them which would have been several times through the year. So they CAN be grown in apparently impossible gardens. Maggi you could try if you really wanted to. Your kitchen near the dining table end would be ideal I should think. Of course you might have to throw out Ian and the little girls, in order to have enough room.