Flowers and Foliage September 2008

[Tony Willis]

Here is a flower,seed collected in China by a german friend. Very late flowering but is managing to grow outside in a raised bed

[johnw]

Here is a flower,seed collected in China by a german friend. Very late flowering but is managing to grow outside in a raised bed

Nice one Tony. We find most autumn-blooming gentians are flower-floppers. That one is so nice and rigid it appears it could weather wind and rain - both common here in the autumn.

johnw

[johnw]

Kristl - I have never seen a Ginkgo fruit here in Nova Scotia - not even old ones with a male nearby. Is this non-fruiting a common occurrence in the cooler parts of the UK?

johnw

[Anthony Darby]

Here is a flower,seed collected in China by a german friend. Very late flowering but is managing to grow outside in a raised bed

Very nice Tony. Mine are still small. I do have Gentiana acaulis flowering now!

[Lesley Cox]

Here is a flower,seed collected in China by a german friend. Very late flowering but is managing to grow outside in a raised bed

If you can find a picture of mine on the OLD Forum, of Gentiana depressa, you may be Gentiana IMpressa!

[ruweiss]

Maggi,you asked about the scent of Magnolia tripetala: scratching or injuring the bark and pruning results in a pleasant spicy scent, unlike the scent of the flowers which is not too pleasant to my nose.

[Maggi Young]

Rudi, thank you for your help with the scent of the magnolia. 

 Friends:  I intend to remove the posts about names and their pronounciation.... good bad and indifferent, to a new thread , to be called ( and this IS definitive)  Latin names and how we say them.       

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Good idea Maggi !! 
At least it will save us from looking for it in a couple of months time...

[Lesley Cox]

Yes, I agree with Luc, a good idea. It is bound to involve some hilarity somewhere/sometime.