Flowering Now October 2007

[Anthony Darby]

Mmmm. Isn't Conophytum barnaculoides some sort of wild goose - perhaps of the barnacle variety (Lepas sp.)?    

[Casalima]

Mmmm. Isn't Conophytum barnaculoides some sort of wild goose - perhaps of the barnacle variety (Lepas sp.)?    

Hmm ... I prefer Lepadomorpha - yum yum 

Chloë

[Gerdk]

Gerd ,

Be carefull about speaking about Bavarians .....as you know : I'm a Bavarian too !!!
And dont forget : The name is STOIBER !
If anybody is interestet so I will send the talk from E.Stoiber about the train from Head rail station and the Airport ....

Servus
Hans

Hans,
Sorry - you are correct - he is written Stoiber. I know, you are of Bavarian origin, but -  after you spent most of your life outside the region where you grew up you have lost your local dialect and so you are  able  to speak and write German nearly as well as we in the north do. 
Gerd 

[Maggi Young]

Hello, Hans,
 I have returned from a walk with the dogs to find the mp3 file waiting.

So, hier ist Herr Stoiber  : er erklärt uns den Transrapid !!

Sadly, we have politicians like this in Britain, also!
Thank you,
 Maggi

[Maggi Young]

Isn't Conophytum barnaculoides some sort of wild goose

More of a red herring, I think

With this talk of barnacles, I must tell you about this seaside tale: You know how barnacles make a sort of hissing sound as the tide recedes from them ? Well, maybe you don't know this, but they do........
anyway, two little boys were playing in the rock pools being exposed by the retreating tide..... "what's that noise?" said the little brother..... his older brother, so much wiser in the ways of nature, replies with .... "that is the sound of the barnacles waving their testicles to get food"

Yes, every day is a school day!

[Hans J]

Hans,
Sorry - you are correct - he is written Stoiber. I know, you are of Bavarian origin, but -  after you spent most of your life outside the region where you grew up you have lost your local dialect and so you are  able  to speak and write German nearly as well as we in the north do. 
Gerd 

Gerd :
As we say in Bavaria :
"It is nice to be a Preuss
but it's higher to be a Bayer"

 

[Otto Fauser]

"Herr Lederhosen mit Computer" has gone- long live Bavaria- but don't be alarmed Lesley, I will teach you High German
      Otto.

[Rogan]

I have a little 'sea creature' of my own flowering at the moment - isn't it cute? The flower is quite striking, but not quite as green as this - my digital camera seems to exaggerate green tints somewhat.

Notocactus graessneri albisetus

[Maggi Young]

I believe those flowers are bright enough to glow in the dark, Rogan!
I am fascinated by the wonderful symmetry of the hairs and spines.... perfectly aligned all round.

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for the lovely pic of the little "barnacles" and for the first lesson in German. A long, long way to go, but Otto I'll look forward to learning from you next spring. All this talk of barnacles, geese, pronunciation in different parts of Germany etc, has left me totally confused on what has been a stressful day anyway. But at least the power has come back on and only 2 of our big gum trees down, not near house or plants thank goodness.

[Joakim B]

Lesley sorry about Your trees hopfully this mean more place to plant so that there comes something good out of that.
Regarding German lessons
The Swedes in my school (me amongst them) did not have to learn about the SZ and only used ss as it is easier. I do not know if that is the case in Germany these days as well to make the language more "internetish"
Barnicle, goose all of that made me hungry and it is soon Goose time in Sweden, atleast in south of Sweden. That is a dish to show of here!!!!
Kind regards
Joakim

[Michael]

Wow! Green flowers on a cactus? How amazing. They combinate very nice with the white hairy thorns. Congrats!

[shelagh]

Hi there, thought you might like to see this colourful little trio that Brian brought in this morning to form an autumn display. It consist of Sax. fortunei 'Autumn Tribute', Cyclamen cilicium (smells heavenly too) and Gentiana sino-ornata.

[Maggi Young]

How pretty, Shelagh. The Saxifraga flowers on neat stems, doesn't it? I always think of them as tending to be a bit leggy.

[Kenneth K]

There is not many flowers in the garden of our summer house just south of Gothenburg Sweden right now. No frost yet but most of the plants have decided it's autumn anyway! But some flowers I found on my visit there today.
1. Aster lateriflorus horizontalis is one of the latest to flower. I have it in an northern slope and that makes it even later to flower. I believe it would be wise to move it to a warmer place! It's a very healthy an highly recommendable autumne flower.
2. Aster lateriflorus horizontalis, a closer look.
3. Tricyrtis formosana
4. Tricyrtis Tojen looking up between autumn leaves of corylopsis platypetala.

(Sorry the two first pictures in wrong order)