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Paddy Tobin

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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #225 on: June 14, 2009, 09:41:39 AM »
Is it just me but have we seen an extraordinary selection of plants over the past few days?

It just strikes me that members have shown some quite unusual and beautiful plants recently.

Enjoyed them all even if the number which were new to me caused some confusion/brain overload.

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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #226 on: June 14, 2009, 09:51:32 AM »
Paddy,

I can only echo your comment.  This has turned into an absolutely amazing forum.  Wonderful plants with the wonderful people the grow and share them.  It really boosts the heart.

Maggi,  thanks for making this all possible! :-* :-* :-*
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #227 on: June 14, 2009, 10:31:01 AM »
Paddy,

I can only echo your comment.  This has turned into an absolutely amazing forum.  Wonderful plants with the wonderful people the grow and share them.  It really boosts the heart.

Maggi,  thanks for making this all possible! :-* :-* :-*

I'll echo that too, so many outstandingly interesting plants in the garden and the wild and it's wonderful to see them side by side and reflect on their origins and diversity....thanks to each and everyone in the Forum and the hardworking people who make it all possible  :)
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #228 on: June 14, 2009, 11:44:47 AM »

Enjoyed them all even if the number which were new to me caused some confusion/brain overload.

Paddy

Paddy - you could try this (though it doesn't seem to help with spelling).
« Last Edit: June 14, 2009, 11:47:05 AM by Gerry Webster »
Gerry passed away  at home  on 25th February 2021 - his posts are  left  in the  forum in memory of him.
His was a long life - lived well.

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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #229 on: June 14, 2009, 12:07:37 PM »
Took me a while to find the spelling mistake.  ::)  Obviously I need some as well.  :o
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #230 on: June 14, 2009, 12:31:01 PM »
The first Kniphofia is opening.  Just a seedling that poped up, but a nice colour combination.  I used to have lots of seedlings, but have parred back to a handful.  The rest are in other garden, brightening the late Spring.
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #231 on: June 14, 2009, 12:34:33 PM »
Nice red and white combo.  :)
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #232 on: June 14, 2009, 01:32:49 PM »
I agree- a great colour combination.
Flowering here:
Salvia viscosa in closeup and also in a general shot across the main xeric bed with Verbascum and Eremurus behind.
Scabiosa cinerea- a happy memory plant, as its grandparent was won at an SRGC meeting in Aberdeen)
Antirrhinum hybrids. The original plants were grown from seed bougt as A.braun-blanquetii, but I wasn't sure if they were true. The plants started out yellow flowered, about 1m tall, shrubby and quite perennial. Over the next few years the bees brought in genes from elsewhere, and more colours appeared in the self sown seedlings. This was about 20 years ago so the plants in the picture are now several generations on from the first plants. I would be interested to know if anybody has ever seen or grown pure A.braun-blanquetii.
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #233 on: June 14, 2009, 02:35:58 PM »
Gerry,

I am certainly in need of some brain tonic though something stronger than Coca Cola would be far more welcome.

Paddy
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #234 on: June 14, 2009, 04:01:45 PM »
Common as muck, but quite pretty ...
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #235 on: June 14, 2009, 04:28:12 PM »
Starting a nursery Cliff  ???  ;D
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #236 on: June 14, 2009, 06:05:32 PM »
Here in Spain we have many endemic snapdragons, this is Antirrhinum pertegasii

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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #237 on: June 14, 2009, 06:21:14 PM »
and this is A. barrelieri, they are just starting to bloom.

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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #238 on: June 14, 2009, 07:04:22 PM »
Starting a nursery Cliff  ???  ;D

No Luit ... but I did visit one with my camera yesterday!   ;D

It is difficult to start a nursery in an area 35 feet x 15 feet ... in fact it is difficult to swing a kitten.   :D
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Re: Flowering Now - June 2009
« Reply #239 on: June 14, 2009, 07:09:22 PM »
Took me a while to find the spelling mistake.  ::)  Obviously I need some as well.  :o

Maybe you're fizzically exhausted Paul  ;D
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