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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #30 on: June 09, 2009, 09:52:49 PM »
Thanks for this look at Harlow Carr Cliff. Long time since I was there and I remember it chiefly because it was there that a pushy American, who couldn't wait to get to the front of the queue, shoved my brand new, expensive camera from my hands and smashed it. Spoilt my day, for some reason.  Good to see a few NZers doing well in the alpine house.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #31 on: June 10, 2009, 12:58:06 PM »
Many thanks, Lesley.  Some more images from Harlow Carr ... inside and outside the new alpine house ...
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #32 on: June 10, 2009, 01:03:16 PM »
... And there's more ...
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #33 on: June 10, 2009, 01:09:03 PM »
Super visit to Harlow Carr, Cliff.
Many Happy Returns of the Day: kind of you to keep sharing with us when you could be off scoffing birthday cake.... or did Ollie get to it already?!!  ;D ;)  :-*
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #34 on: June 10, 2009, 01:29:18 PM »
Thanks Maggi ... you know that I would never eat anything that might affect my cholesterol levels?

Not long until Pudsey Show, my little piglets!!!
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #35 on: June 10, 2009, 02:36:12 PM »
Ah, Pudsey Piggery..... how I would love to be involved in that illustrious event......I keep myself in rigorous training, you know........ just in case.......... ::)
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #36 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!
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #37 on: June 10, 2009, 03:51:02 PM »
yeah..... I've seen those girls.  :-X
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #38 on: June 10, 2009, 07:18:28 PM »
Wrong thread I know but many Happies Cliff.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #39 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?
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #40 on: June 10, 2009, 09:47:25 PM »
I MUST know what that wonderful blue is please, between the Incarvillea and the Epipactis? Pretty please?
Veronica spicata form?
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #41 on: June 10, 2009, 09:57:39 PM »
Mmmm, I suppose it could be, a veronica certainly but such an excruciating blue. Much better than my form of it.
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #42 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?

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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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #43 on: June 10, 2009, 10:21:13 PM »
So sorry, Lesley ... even the 'pretty please' won't stir my memory or produce an image with the label on it.  The colour is pretty accurate though ... perhaps our friend in charge of the new alpine house is reading this?  

Apologies Luit, as the rain was imminent I decided to collect images instead of labels ... and then the rain fortuitously stayed away.  Can anyone assist dear Luit please?
« Last Edit: June 10, 2009, 10:25:30 PM by ranunculus »
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Re: Harlow Carr- Alpine Event in June 2009- a date for your diary
« Reply #44 on: June 10, 2009, 10:34:55 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) 
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