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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #225 on: June 23, 2010, 07:55:50 AM »
I missed a lot of interesting plants shown here while being in Prague. Now back to the garden to find this clump of Clematis integrifolia in full bloom (1)
2. Delphinium brunonianum grown from SRGS seed
3. Gladiolus palustris
4. Edrianthus dalmaticus (SRGS seed)
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #226 on: June 23, 2010, 07:57:50 AM »
Sorry, this picture is a bit better
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #227 on: June 23, 2010, 08:11:08 AM »
Hi Angie,
              I think Susan has plans to make more appearances on the forum, though not perhaps in picture form!

Cohan,

 Ferula is the giant fennel of the mediterranean and is a classic feature of the landscape in Crete during the spring. This year the Cretan plants were quite short & stocky, probably due to a dry season. Our garden is stony and all the stone was dug from the soil too - none of it was imported. I might post more pics later.

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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #228 on: June 23, 2010, 08:21:59 AM »
Hi John,
Another delavayi ;D
Do you want to see a picture of how big my Philadelphus delavayi is?

Graham


Hi John,
You can rest easy. I was only joking I don't have a Philadelphus delavayi.  ;)
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #229 on: June 23, 2010, 10:21:40 AM »
A couple of things pleasing me this week:

1) Roscoea Jeoffrey Thomas

2) A white Dactylorhiza that my brother found in one of his fields (and rescued before the cattle were let in).
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #230 on: June 23, 2010, 10:56:15 AM »
Wow, John.  Thats a cracker of a white!!  8)
Cheers.

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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #231 on: June 23, 2010, 12:19:57 PM »
Thanks Paul.  I was gobsmacked when my brother gave it to me in 2008 - this is its first flower in my garden.

A couple more hardy orchids that are looking pretty today.

1) Bletilla ochracea

2) Bletilla 'Penway Imperial x ochracea'

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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #232 on: June 23, 2010, 01:06:02 PM »
Excellent Bletillas.  Other than various striata forms I don't think any of the other Bletillas are here in Aus, or I have never seen them mentioned anywhere anyway.  Some of the pics that have been posted on these forums over the years are absolutely smashing!!  I do like the colouration of your last one in particular.  Thanks for posting.
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #233 on: June 23, 2010, 03:50:17 PM »
John i agree with Paul the Dactylorhiza is a belter,is the foliage unspotted ?
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #234 on: June 23, 2010, 04:07:46 PM »
...Dactylorhiza is a belter,is the foliage unspotted ?

Pure green. 
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #235 on: June 23, 2010, 05:42:11 PM »
John that is really nice,I have never seen any colour variation in the wild.
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #236 on: June 23, 2010, 07:26:50 PM »
Very nice orchids John.
That white really is a white. 8)


This is new to me this year.

Eucomis "Octopussy"
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #237 on: June 23, 2010, 07:32:05 PM »
degree. So in my opinion it it a hardy plant.
I meant to ask: Does anyone grow Philadelphus delavayi itself? Some sites say P. delavayi is very hardy but I somehow doubt that.  We have a standing joke that nothing with the species name delavayi will grow here, too tender.  

Another point, the leaves on the new growth of P. 'Starbright' is purple but leaves on stems ending in flower buds are green.  I am wondering if the same is true of P. delavayi.

johnw

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I grow P. delavayi var. calvescens (=P. purpurascens (Koehne) Rehd. ( = P. delavayi var. clavescens Rehd.). Plants are from Yunnan. The new growth of the stems is purple, the leaves are not so intensive in the colour. The sepals are dark red. I get two plants from a friend in 2003. One of them I grow in my mothers garden. These plant survived minus  -25 degree. So in my opinion it is a hary plant.

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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #238 on: June 23, 2010, 08:30:39 PM »

John,
I grow P. delavayi var. calvescens (=P. purpurascens (Koehne) Rehd. ( = P. delavayi var. clavescens Rehd.). Plants are from Yunnan. The new growth of the stems is purple, the leaves are not so intensive in the colour. The sepals are dark red. I get two plants from a friend in 2003. One of them I grow in my mothers garden. These plant survived minus  -25 degree. So in my opinion it is a hary plant.
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Uli - Very interesting. I have tried to find out where and what altitude P. delavayi was collected but have not been able to find out anything other than this from the Flora of China  - "Mixed forests, thickets, mountain slopes; 700-3800 m. Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Myanmar]".

Well that makes 2 delavayis we can / could grow.  Now if only Omphalogramma delavayi!  :o

johnw
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Re: Northern hemisphere June 2010
« Reply #239 on: June 23, 2010, 08:49:54 PM »
I grow Philadelphus purpurascens which has a purple calyx which fits the description in Hillier and is in fact a cutting from the plant illustrated in Phillips and Rix 'Shrubs'. Hillier gives P. delavayi var calvescens as a separate species. I am supposedly growing this as well but it does not fit the description.
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