Loughborough Autumn show 2007

[Mick McLoughlin]

We went to the Loughborough Autumn show at the weekend. I have been waiting for somebody else to post as my pics have a colour cast due to the lighting. (The removal of which in Paint shop pro could be another topic. Anybody?)
So I'll post my pics with apologies for quality beforehand.
First a couple of general shots of the benches. Sempervivum classes, Cyclamen and Ferns.
A piece of Tufa planted as a rock garden. Does anybody know a good source for tufa in Yorkshire? Mandy has an inkling to plant one of these up.
Lastly for this post four lots of threesomes.
Bulbous, Gentians, Dionysia and cushion plants.

[Mick McLoughlin]

Next onto some specific plants that happened to catch my eye.
Allium thunbergii.
Colchicums.
Crocus banaticus 'snowdrift'.
Sternbergia grueteriana.
Nerine undulata.
Nerine humilis ssp. humilis
Nerine humilis close up.
One for the white fevers Galanthus peshmanii.

[Mick McLoughlin]

MY last batch of pics:
Erigeron 'canary bird'
Melicytus alpina.
Oxalis versicolor.
Petrocosmea minor.
Polyxena corymbosa.
Primula boothi ssp. autumnalis.
Saxifrage fortunei 'cherry pie'.
Wahlenbergia stricta.
Wahlenbergia close up.

[Maggi Young]

Super virtual show visit for us, Mick from Loogabarooga! When the hall lighting is like that, there is precious little you can do but just thole it. Doesn't stop me enjoying the pix, anyway.
Mandy might have a bit of a problem with her tufa garden...... unless you can find someone with the odd bit to spare, there is no more coming out of Wales, I don't think, and any other stuff available tends to be much harder and less easy to use for a planted garden/pot like the one shown. A friend who wants to make a tufa wall is being quoted anything from £500 to £700 per tonne for it. Yikes!

[David Nicholson]

.......A piece of Tufa planted as a rock garden. Does anybody know a good source for tufa in Yorkshire? Mandy has an inkling to plant one of these up.

I'm a bit out of touch Mick but I would have thought perhaps nurseries around the Matlock area would be worth a try, and maybe Malham.

Nice range of plants on view at Loughborough.

[mark smyth]

interesting how well advanced the leaves are on the second Galanthus peshmenii. I had a conversation tonight with an expert about the old debate - flowering with leaves is and flowering without is. The answer is the plants do what they want so flowering with leaves doesnt indicate the species. The only way to tell is to cut across a leaf and look at it's cut edge under a microscope. I've forgotten already but one has hole/s visible

[Maggi Young]

about the ols debate - flowering with leaves is and flowering without is.

Sorry, I may be dim but what does this mean, please?

[mark smyth]

some people say reginae-olgae flowers without leaves showing and peshmenii has leaves present or only tips showing or vice versa

[Maggi Young]

Yes, okay, but where does the "ols" come from?
And PS, did you get my email about the Daff name?

[mark smyth]

typo ols = old. When did you send the email?

[Maggi Young]

Oh, "old debate", yes , I see now!
 Can't remember whether it was an email or a PM, but it was within minutes of the other daff one you replied to the other night!

[afw]

Re: Tufa

You could try: derbyshiretufa.co.uk or chrispattison.co.uk but as Maggi says it is expensive.

Regards

afw

[David Nicholson]

Re: Tufa

You could try: derbyshiretufa.co.uk or chrispattison.co.uk but as Maggi says it is expensive.

Regards

afw

Chris Pattison's URL is:-  http://www.chris-pattison.co.uk/ but his nursery is in the villiage of Pendock, just inside the Gloucestershire border with Herefordshire-so a bit of a way for Mick to lug pieces of Tufa. The last time I was at his nursery, a couple of months ago, he told me he was scaling down on Alpines because 'few people wanted them these days'!!!!! He did have a few pieces of Tufa about the place though.

[Anthony Darby]

Do shops selling marine tropical fish still sell tufa? That's where I got mine many years ago.

[mark smyth]

tropical fish shops over here do. Maybe I should sell my three boulders $$$ $$$ that have been sitting in the garden for 18 months now