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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #300 on: July 31, 2008, 12:36:14 PM »
Wow, thanks Lesley, and salvia seeds usually germinate ok for me too.  I don't think I've had the one you mention.  Can you import seed from salvias?  If so I could try to collect some and send them to you.  S. chamadryiodes especially is a lovely thing, likes dry dry dry conditions.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #301 on: July 31, 2008, 01:25:30 PM »
David, Pinkie was in Shelagh's posting, 3 pages back.
And that one looks like a normal L. cotyledon.
Pinkie has very different leaves, not so broad as in cotyledon and the flowers are
a real Pink, not reddish.

You've got some nice colours for a nice price!  ;D

Thanks Luit, I had missed that one, yes it does look very much like a normal pink cotyledon. Just had a look at what Roy Davidson had to say about 'Pinkie' in his monograph, 'Lewisias', as it was published some 11 years after Brian Mathew published his.
     '........ Lewisia longipetala has become rather famous in cultivation, not so much for it's own merits as for it's charming child 'Pinkie', raised by Ingwerson in the early 1960s and honoured with the Award of merit in June 1965............... 'Pinkie' itself is a vigorous plant, making a cushion of almost grasslike, channeled and pointed leaves each about 2 inches long-a pleasing base for it's many flowers. Each of many stalks bears as many as six flowers; each flower has about eight petals, opening to about 2.5cm across, coloured persian rose. The colour is subtle: on first opening the petals are suffused with rose over an opalescent buff ground, except at the clear butter-yellow base, and they seem to grow rosier as the buff pales during the day............'
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #302 on: July 31, 2008, 01:32:35 PM »
You find Lewisia Pinkie in the Old Forum, Flowers and Foliage now on May 19,
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/31721.html?1149027347

It's remarkable to see the beautiful plants already show in these pages! :D
« Last Edit: July 31, 2008, 01:37:40 PM by Lvandelft »
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #303 on: July 31, 2008, 02:22:54 PM »
Oh well, you can only go off the label it came with.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #304 on: July 31, 2008, 06:43:16 PM »
It's still a lovely little plant Shelagh whatever it's called.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #305 on: July 31, 2008, 08:40:53 PM »
Hi All,

I have some 70 photographs in my on-line album from plants which flowered this year, including July. Most of them are wild-collected from seed or cuttings. If you're interested please drop me a PM. From some i have some cuttings or seed available.

Cheers, Hans
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #306 on: July 31, 2008, 09:01:48 PM »
Hans,

Why not put your on-line album's URL here so that we might visit?

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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #307 on: July 31, 2008, 09:21:32 PM »
Hi Paddy, if I only knew how...the URL-link is not working..

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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #308 on: July 31, 2008, 09:52:13 PM »
Thanks for the info re 'Pinkie.' I thought it was an Ingwersen plant but he doesn't mention it in the "Manual of Alpine Plants." Odd. It has some similarities to the larger (and fertile) `Little Plum' which suggest a relationship with L. longipetala.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #309 on: July 31, 2008, 10:09:47 PM »
We can import some salvias Chris, but as it happens, S. chamaedryoides is one which grows well for me. I love its particular shade of blue, with the silver foliage.
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #310 on: July 31, 2008, 10:21:51 PM »
You find Lewisia Pinkie in the Old Forum, Flowers and Foliage now on May 19,
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/31721.html?1149027347

Utterly glorious pictures posted on this single page alone. What sharpness and detail. I was especially pleased to see the two pics of Laurence Moon's Salvia cyanescens, because he sent me seed of this a couple of months afterwards and I've been trying to find his pics recently. Several seeds germinated then damped off but one more came, and this is still alive (though very damp and sorry for itself at present) with 4 or 5 rosettes, in a trough. No flowers yet. It is the only plant I've covered as protection from all the rain we're having so I hope that does the trick.
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 #311 on: July 31, 2008, 10:37:28 PM »
Some more plants which like the high temps. Today ca. 28º C.
   
Eriogonum umbellatum           
Jovibarba arenarium     
Daphne jasminea   
Luit van Delft, right in the heart of the beautiful flowerbulb district, Noordwijkerhout, Holland.

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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #312 on: August 01, 2008, 12:04:03 AM »
Thank you Otto,

I should have looked through the old catalogues. I saw the Gaultheria I mentioned before for sale at Ted Cutlan's place recently. I think it was the one originally listed as G. myrsinites, though the ID is apprently less than certain.

Paul,

Do you want me to enquire?
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #313 on: August 01, 2008, 12:29:53 AM »
Hi All,

I have some 70 photographs in my on-line album from plants which flowered this year, including July. Most of them are wild-collected from seed or cuttings. If you're interested please drop me a PM. From some i have some cuttings or seed available.

Cheers, Hans
Hans
How do we access your on-line album?
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Re: Flowers and Foliage July 2008
« Reply #314 on: August 01, 2008, 07:17:13 AM »
Hi Arthur,

Please try if the following link works:

http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk64/jeepeebee1/

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