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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #45 on: June 10, 2009, 10:38:09 PM »
Quote from: Lvandelft on June 10, 2009, 10:01:03 PM
Excellent series about this Harlow Carr event Cliff, and super pictures as usual.
You showed in one of the first series a Syringa. Do you by accident know if this is a S chinensis?

Quote from: Lesley Cox on June 10, 2009, 09:39:58 PM
I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
A variety of Veronica austriaca ?

 Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker.  Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #46 on: June 10, 2009, 10:40:16 PM »
Quote from: Diane Clement on June 10, 2009, 10:34:55 PM
Quote from: ranunculus on June 10, 2009, 03:14:53 PM
There is ALWAYS a place kept at the table for you, Maggi ... usually between Diane and her sister Carol ... nothing like a bit of competition, eh? 
(And please don't try the punchline; 'And that is nothing like a bit of competition') ... I've seen those girls eat! 

The cheek of it, Mr Bookeroo -  if it wasn't your birthday ......    :o  :o  :o
And there's me, been living on lettuce leaves since the last Pudsey pig competition.   8) 
Bless you , Diane, for berating Cliff and letting me off with my cheeky comment..... I was only doing it to get  a laugh for  the Bookeroo's birthday;  honest!  :-[
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #47 on: June 10, 2009, 10:46:50 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on June 10, 2009, 10:40:16 PM
Bless you , Diane, for berating Cliff and letting me off with my cheeky comment.....

yeah..... I've seen those girls.  :-X  

That's OK, Maggi, I've also seen you ...    :-*
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #48 on: June 10, 2009, 11:06:37 PM »
Ha! Ha! So you have!!  ;D
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #49 on: June 10, 2009, 11:11:35 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on June 10, 2009, 10:38:09 PM

 Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker.  Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
Maggi, one of those varieties like Knallblau, Royal Blue, Kapitän or Crater Lake Blue. Difficult to say on a picture.
They all look rather the same, one a bit higher or earlier than the other.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #50 on: June 10, 2009, 11:22:24 PM »
Quote from: Lvandelft on June 10, 2009, 11:11:35 PM
Quote from: Maggi Young on June 10, 2009, 10:38:09 PM

 Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker.  Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
Maggi, one of those varieties like Knallblau, Royal Blue, Kapitän or Crater Lake Blue. Difficult to say on a picture.
They all look rather the same, one a bit higher or earlier than the other.
Yes, and this one is grown under glass so may be not the same as one grown outside. These gentian-blue varieties are rather pretty.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #51 on: June 10, 2009, 11:44:59 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on June 10, 2009, 10:38:09 PM

 Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker.  Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
Not in New Zealand, alas. :'(
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #52 on: June 11, 2009, 02:33:29 AM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on June 10, 2009, 10:38:09 PM
I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
A variety of Veronica austriaca ?
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 Luit, you're a genius! What about Veronica austriaca 'Crater Lake Blue' ...... Beth Chatto sells this, it's a cracker.  Just had a look at the RHS Plantfinder.... quite a few places stock it.
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Well done Luit and Maggi ... 'Crater Lake Blue' jumps out at me now that you have stirred the memory cell(s).

A few more images seeing as I can't sleep .... back out into the gardens now ...
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #53 on: June 11, 2009, 02:50:02 AM »
More from the beautiful Harlow Carr Gardens ...
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #54 on: June 11, 2009, 08:48:20 AM »
What a luxury to be able to sit back comfortably and enjoy the beauties of these gardens through these wonderful images... my thoughts go to the poor photographer who was jumping around trying to stay in front of the rain showers...   8)

Thank you VERY much Cliff !!  ;)
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #55 on: June 11, 2009, 08:51:25 AM »
Ah shucks, Luc ... many thanks ... but JUMPING AROUND?  My zimmer frame doesn't allow MUCH jumping!   :D

Next batch ... not many more to come ... lovely meadows feature in this posting.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #56 on: June 11, 2009, 09:12:14 AM »
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Excellent series about this Harlow Carr event Cliff, and super pictures as usual.
You showed in one of the first series a Syringa. Do you by accident know if this is a S chinensis?


Luit,

it is not a Syringa x chinensis. I have a look in one of the "big books" to check the colour of the flowers. Syringa chinensis has lilac flowers. So I look for other Syringa with this type of flowers. It is not S. reflexa, S. wolfii and S. swegiflexa. Sorry no idea what Lilac Cliff show.  :'(
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #57 on: June 11, 2009, 09:26:31 AM »
Quote from: Onion on June 11, 2009, 09:12:14 AM

Luit,

it is not a Syringa x chinensis. I have a look in one of the "big books" to check the colour of the flowers. Syringa chinensis has lilac flowers. So I look for other Syringa with this type of flowers. It is not S. reflexa, S. wolfii and S. swegiflexa. Sorry no idea what Lilac Cliff show.  :'(
Uli, my brains mixed S. chinensis with S. x persica  ??? Must have something to do with age... ::) :'(
I have a white form of S. x persica and it looks a bit like that??
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #58 on: June 11, 2009, 09:47:00 AM »
Luit,

Cliff show not a Syringa x persica and it is not the white form. We have Syringa persica in the nursery and the white form. They have both only some flowers on the tips of the branches. And the leafs are not so large.
A friend of mine at the botanical institute in Dresden do some field work about the genus Syringa. In his opinion we do not grow Syringa x persica in Europe. Because S. afghanica (one of parents) never excist.
The name come from a herbarium sheet, that show a hybrid with slit leafs.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #59 on: June 11, 2009, 10:12:08 AM »
Quote from: ranunculus on June 11, 2009, 08:51:25 AM
Ah shucks, Luc ... many thanks ... but JUMPING AROUND?  My zimmer frame doesn't allow MUCH jumping!   :D

Actually Cliff, I had been doubting wether to use "jumping around" or "ferociously sprinting about in purest Usain Bolt style"...
don't know why, but I opted for the first..  ::)
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