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David Nicholson

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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #270 on: July 29, 2008, 08:27:17 PM »
Best wishes from me too Maggi, keep your chin up!
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #271 on: July 29, 2008, 09:30:07 PM »
Maggi,a bit late from Germany,but take my best wishes for a
quick recovery and greetings to Ian.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #272 on: July 29, 2008, 09:53:20 PM »
Wow, had to look that illness up on google, Maggie.  Hope you are improving by now, best wishes..... Christine
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #273 on: July 29, 2008, 09:57:15 PM »
David Nicholson sent me seed of Lewisia cotyledon hybrids about a year ago.  I sowed half in the autumn, the rest in the spring under his tutilage and I swear they all germinated.  Many are now awaiting the N Northumberland AGM and grant plant sale and I'm sure some will be in bloom by the time it happens.  This one was the first of the bunch to bloom for me.  Many thanks David, I doubt I would ever have tried growing them without that kindness from you.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #274 on: July 29, 2008, 09:58:24 PM »
Paul, the Gaulnettya is actually x Gaulnettya x wisleyensis a bigeneric hybrid, (Gaultheria x Pernettya) and probably raised at Wisley but as they're all gaultherias now anyway, it is probably just a gaultheria hybrid. Can't remember which two species were involved but someone will know. The fruit are black and edible. There are various selected forms, given cultivar names. 'Wisley Pearl' is one and 'Pink Pixie' another. Sometimes it's listed as x Gaulthettya.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2008, 10:14:09 PM by Lesley Cox »
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #275 on: July 30, 2008, 12:05:01 AM »
Thanks Lesley.  So only relatively recent a plant?  Likely to be in Aus you think?

Get well too from me Maggi.!!
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #276 on: July 30, 2008, 12:27:54 AM »
Paul,

Don't know if the Gaulnettya is in Aus, but down here in Tassie we do have a black-fruited Gaultheria species brought back by Ken from SA.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #277 on: July 30, 2008, 12:38:02 AM »
Interesting Rob.  What does the plant actually look like?  I've only ever come across Gaultheria procumbens to be honest, so only know the genus as a groundcover.  ::)  It's related to Arbutus (Irish Strawberry Tree) I assume?
« Last Edit: July 30, 2008, 12:42:27 AM by tyerman »
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #278 on: July 30, 2008, 01:26:58 AM »
A rather open shrub (to 1m), with white flowers and leaves a little smaller than Shelagh's plant
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #279 on: July 30, 2008, 01:38:33 AM »
Sounds nice Rob.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #280 on: July 30, 2008, 03:15:43 AM »
Thanks Lesley.  So only relatively recent a plant?  Likely to be in Aus you think?

Not at all recent Paul, I lost mine perhaps 30 years ago during a garden shift. Ken had quite a lot of different species when I was there last year. Some were black fruited, some red, some pinkish. Then there are white fruited and blue and purple fruited species as well. All worth trying.
« Last Edit: July 30, 2008, 03:17:44 AM by Lesley Cox »
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #281 on: July 30, 2008, 03:20:11 AM »
I like the idea of the purple fruit.  Keep meaning to get a Calliocarpa for that reason.... just love purple.  OK, so I can be shallow when it comes to plants.  ;D
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #282 on: July 30, 2008, 06:10:08 AM »
For 40 years I've been intending to plant an alpine lawn made up of berrying plants, instead of the more usual thymes. There are so many prostrate fruiting plants and I always thought it would be an amazing sight in autumn. Gaultheria/Pernettya, Myrsine, Mitchella, Cornus canadensis, Coprosma, Nertera.......One day.......
Lesley Cox - near Dunedin, lower east coast, South Island of New Zealand - Zone 9

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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #283 on: July 30, 2008, 08:32:13 AM »
Dear Maggi,
 all my very best wishes for a quick recovery,
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #284 on: July 30, 2008, 05:06:03 PM »
Dear Friends, many heartfelt thanks for your good wishes :-* :-* I am trying a short spell at the computer to catch up with all your lovely virtual bunches of flowers and kind thoughts, as well, of course, as all the wonderful plants in  your gardens.....at the moment though, they are all still too much on the psychedelic side of virtual, since the spinning is still severe  :o :P :-X An improvement is certainly happening though, I am delighted to say. 

Otto, you are more in need of good wishes than I  :'(.... I wish most sincerely that your back would be magically better in the twinkling of an eye :-*
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