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adrian young

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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #75 on: April 28, 2011, 09:40:41 AM »
Adrian, kettle and porridge always at the ready, shortbread ingredients to hand and a cosy bed available.... see you in October!
Maggie
Appreciate your offer, all though I am not sure about the Shortbread, on a diet.
I will have Rex Murfitt with me so may need to find a Premier Inn
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #76 on: April 28, 2011, 10:26:39 AM »
No problem to accommodate Rex too.... but please do not use four letter words like "diet" around me... I am of a very sensitive nature!
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #77 on: April 28, 2011, 11:49:58 AM »
No problem to accommodate Rex too.... but please do not use four letter words like "diet" around me... I am of a very sensitive nature!
Cheers Maggie, only four letter word from now on begins with "F"...............................food
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #78 on: April 28, 2011, 09:54:52 PM »
I've found one picture, not the one I wanted which showed a single flowering rosette in profile, but one with several flowering rosettes and a number of baby rosettes where older flowering ones have died off. As they do. :) I'll have to get it scanned in town as my scanner software isn't up to much and botches everything. Will do that today and hopefully post it early next week.
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #79 on: April 28, 2011, 10:18:26 PM »
Adrian, kettle and porridge always at the ready, shortbread ingredients to hand and a cosy bed available.... see you in October!
Maggie
Appreciate your offer, all though I am not sure about the Shortbread, on a diet.
I will have Rex Murfitt with me so may need to find a Premier Inn

Premier Inn?  ::)  The last time we dined with Father Murfitt he wanted to go to Denny's. :o :o :o

I'm still recuperating.  http://www.dennys.com/

Give him our best.

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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #80 on: April 28, 2011, 10:48:24 PM »
Adrian, kettle and porridge always at the ready, shortbread ingredients to hand and a cosy bed available.... see you in October!
Maggie
Appreciate your offer, all though I am not sure about the Shortbread, on a diet.
I will have Rex Murfitt with me so may need to find a Premier Inn

Premier Inn?  ::)  The last time we dined with Father Murfitt he wanted to go to Denny's. :o :o :o

I'm still recuperating.  http://www.dennys.com/

Give him our best.

johnw
I will do John, what is your name?
I have suffered at Dennys in Vancouver with Rex a couple of times!
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #81 on: April 29, 2011, 01:36:07 AM »
{quote}I will do John, what is your name?
I have suffered at Dennys in Vancouver with Rex a couple of times!
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re: Denny's You have my condolences!  Rex is always entertaining.

Will PM you.
 
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #82 on: April 29, 2011, 02:57:00 AM »
The last time we dined with Father Murfitt he wanted to go to Denny's. :o :o :o

I'm still recuperating.  http://www.dennys.com/

How COULD you???
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #83 on: May 02, 2011, 04:48:23 AM »
I'm annoyed that the photo shop has just scanned a print I found onto a disk and made a print but not scanned to disk, the much better slide of the same plant so I'll have to get that done (Wednesday) as it shows much better, the way the rosettes flower and the shape of the whole plant. I see on the slide I have the name S. cot. var platyphylla but I don't know where that comes from, certainly not the original plant as it came to me from (then) Czechoslovakia.

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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #84 on: May 02, 2011, 10:01:24 AM »
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Lesley Cox link=topic=6559.msg199883#msg199883 date=1304308103]
I'm annoyed that the photo shop has just scanned a print I found onto a disk and made a print but not scanned to disk, the much better slide of the same plant so I'll have to get that done (Wednesday) as it shows much better, the way the rosettes flower and the shape of the whole plant. I see on the slide I have the name S. cot. var platyphylla but I don't know where that comes from, certainly not the original plant as it came to me from (then) Czechoslovakia.

Lesley, thats a nice form of S.cotyledon, years ago they gave var. names to many clones, var.platyphylla had
wider than normal rosette leaves and a pyramid shaped inflorescence. It should be treated as a cultivar,
S.cotyledon 'Platyphylla'
Below is a pic of S.cotyledon 'Pyramidalis' growing in the French Pyrenees, this has a larger inflorescence, but narrower leaves.
Also S.cotyledon 'Norvegica' a very attractive clone.
Plus a pic of typical S.cotyledon rosettes.
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #85 on: May 02, 2011, 10:15:04 PM »
Thanks Adrian, nice to be sure about the name even if too late! I'll post the other when I have it scanned tomorrow. Is it likely that forms such as 'Playtphylla' and 'Pyramidalis' might turn up in collected seed of S. cotyledon? In other words, if I had some coll seed from the exchanges or someone commercial, would I maybe chance on some of these forms? Presumably the 'Norvegica' form comes from Norway.
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #86 on: May 06, 2011, 07:59:44 PM »
A few Saxes, all fairly common but nice. Bit like me really! :P

Saxifraga 'White Star'
S. 'Mossy Pink'
S. collosa var. australis
S. Clarence Elliott'

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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #87 on: May 07, 2011, 03:41:36 PM »
 
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A few Saxes, all fairly common but nice. Bit like me really! :P

Saxifraga 'White Star'
S. 'Mossy Pink'
S. collosa var. australis
S. Clarence Elliott'


Nice, happy to see some common ones, good plants are good plants,
Keep them coming David
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #88 on: May 07, 2011, 04:46:26 PM »



Nice, happy to see some common ones, good plants are good plants,
Keep them coming David

Apart from Saxifraga 'Peach Melba' which I forgot to photograph whilst it was in flower that's my lot Adrian. There will be more though in the future ;D
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Re: Saxifraga 2011
« Reply #89 on: May 11, 2011, 07:37:44 PM »
A better pic, I think, than I posted the other day of my Saifraga collosa var. australis

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