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Current Photographs / Re: May 2024
Last post by Too Many Plants! - Today at 10:28:51 AMQuote from: Carlos on Today at 12:17:26 AMHi, as Rimmer recently taught me, the pink flower could be Zephyranthes x floryi 'Green Base'.Hi Carlos.
The lizard is amazing, is this that one that shoots blood from the eyes?
Yes, that's them. The California Horned lizard. There are different locale types (species maybe?). I'm born and lived my whole life here, always been a reptile fan, caught and released so many snakes and lizards I couldn't count. caught many of these guys over the years too, and never once seen one squirt blood, but they're said to do that.
I bought the pink flowered bulb as Habranthus Robustus. I think the flower is quit nice, and bigger than my other Habranthus for sure.
#2
General Discussion / Re: Plants in the News
Last post by David Pilling - Today at 03:33:36 AMExtinct 'mountain jewel' plant returned to wild - in secret location
A plant that went extinct in the wild has been re-introduced to the UK mainland. We were there the moment pioneering horticulturist Robbie Blackhall-Miles returned it to its native soil.
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I first met Robbie at his nursery for threatened plants - tucked away in a quiet part of North Wales.
He asks me to be careful how much we reveal - there is still a lucrative market for rare and special plants, often picked illegally, often fetching thousands of pounds.
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The last time the rosy saxifrage was seen in the wild in the UK was in 1962, somewhere in the Cwm Idwal nature reserve in Eryri.
It is part of a family of mountain plants that thrived when northern Britain was frozen over during the Ice Age. When the glaciers melted, the saxifrages stayed, thriving in the mountain environment.
But their delicate appearance and beautiful flowers eventually made them a magnet for plant collectors - particularly Victorians who picked them for private collections.
The next part of the story has the quality of folklore - in 1962 a teacher and conservationist called Dick Roberts was in Cwm Idawl on a school trip.
He picked up a piece of a plant that had washed down a path, and put it in his pocket. Unsure of what it was, he took it home and grew it in his garden.
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Some scientists talk about "plant blindness" - the idea that people don't see plants around them as important living things - instead, they're more like wallpaper in our natural environment, despite everything they do for our eco-systems and their role in producing medicine.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjkkm4re518o
A plant that went extinct in the wild has been re-introduced to the UK mainland. We were there the moment pioneering horticulturist Robbie Blackhall-Miles returned it to its native soil.
...
I first met Robbie at his nursery for threatened plants - tucked away in a quiet part of North Wales.
He asks me to be careful how much we reveal - there is still a lucrative market for rare and special plants, often picked illegally, often fetching thousands of pounds.
...
The last time the rosy saxifrage was seen in the wild in the UK was in 1962, somewhere in the Cwm Idwal nature reserve in Eryri.
It is part of a family of mountain plants that thrived when northern Britain was frozen over during the Ice Age. When the glaciers melted, the saxifrages stayed, thriving in the mountain environment.
But their delicate appearance and beautiful flowers eventually made them a magnet for plant collectors - particularly Victorians who picked them for private collections.
The next part of the story has the quality of folklore - in 1962 a teacher and conservationist called Dick Roberts was in Cwm Idawl on a school trip.
He picked up a piece of a plant that had washed down a path, and put it in his pocket. Unsure of what it was, he took it home and grew it in his garden.
...
Some scientists talk about "plant blindness" - the idea that people don't see plants around them as important living things - instead, they're more like wallpaper in our natural environment, despite everything they do for our eco-systems and their role in producing medicine.
...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjkkm4re518o
#3
Current Photographs / Re: May 2024
Last post by Carlos - Today at 12:17:26 AMHi, as Rimmer recently taught me, the pink flower could be Zephyranthes x floryi 'Green Base'.
The lizard is amazing, is this that one that shoots blood from the eyes?
The lizard is amazing, is this that one that shoots blood from the eyes?
#4
Current Photographs / Re: May 2024
Last post by Too Many Plants! - Yesterday at 06:25:17 PMThis will about wrap it up for May...I have a Gladiolus that may flower in May. We'll see...
1- Watsonia Meriana
2- And, I'll have to find my info on the pink flower...Ok, bought it as Habranthus Robustus.
3- well...not a bulb, or a flower. But, a wonderful Garden encounter today right near that pink flower! Cali Horny Toad!! This is a young little guy, that was SO DARN CUTE! Like a tiny Dinosaur 🦖...
1- Watsonia Meriana
2- And, I'll have to find my info on the pink flower...Ok, bought it as Habranthus Robustus.
3- well...not a bulb, or a flower. But, a wonderful Garden encounter today right near that pink flower! Cali Horny Toad!! This is a young little guy, that was SO DARN CUTE! Like a tiny Dinosaur 🦖...
#5
Current Photographs / Re: May 2024
Last post by Arnold - May 23, 2024, 04:07:09 AMA mysterious appearance.
Ornithogalum magnum
Ornithogalum magnum
#6
General Discussion / Re: Cameron McMaster's Farmer'...
Last post by David Pilling - May 22, 2024, 03:52:30 AMThese latest additions are valuable because they're good material that is not available anywhere else.
As a child I would have run bare foot through fields of corn, these days I worry why is it "Farmer's Weekly" but "Gardeners' World" (apostrophe position).
As a child I would have run bare foot through fields of corn, these days I worry why is it "Farmer's Weekly" but "Gardeners' World" (apostrophe position).
#7
General Discussion / Re: Cameron McMaster's Farmer'...
Last post by Uli - May 21, 2024, 11:56:29 PMHello Mary Sue,
Thank you very much for this work. I have corresponded in the past with Cameron and am growing bulbs which I received from him as seed or seedling bulbs, all of them of outstanding beauty and quality. I have no time right now to read through his articles but I looked at two of them: excellent.
Another valuable addition to the WIKI
Thank you very much for this work. I have corresponded in the past with Cameron and am growing bulbs which I received from him as seed or seedling bulbs, all of them of outstanding beauty and quality. I have no time right now to read through his articles but I looked at two of them: excellent.
Another valuable addition to the WIKI
#8
General Discussion / Re: Cameron McMaster's Farmer'...
Last post by Carlos - May 21, 2024, 10:45:55 AMMany thanks!!
#9
General Discussion / Cameron McMaster's Farmer's We...
Last post by David Pilling - May 21, 2024, 08:39:00 AMQuoting a post by Mary Sue to the PBS list...
Rhoda McMaster has kindly shared with us the articles Cameron wrote between 2007 and 2009 for Farmer's Weekly about many South African bulbs so we could archive them and they would be available to download. I've spent a lot of time adding them to the wiki and linking them to the wiki pages of the genera, family, or species he was writing about. The pdf files are really good quality since they are the originals and the information is informative and interesting and the photos spectacular. Cameron hoped to educate farmers about the wonderful bulbs they might find on their properties in the hope that they would be protected and conserved. You can find these articles here:
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/FarmersWeekly
And there is a link too on the archive page.
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Archive
David has informed me that some people have already found them. We are grateful that these articles can have wider distribution.
Mary Sue
Rhoda McMaster has kindly shared with us the articles Cameron wrote between 2007 and 2009 for Farmer's Weekly about many South African bulbs so we could archive them and they would be available to download. I've spent a lot of time adding them to the wiki and linking them to the wiki pages of the genera, family, or species he was writing about. The pdf files are really good quality since they are the originals and the information is informative and interesting and the photos spectacular. Cameron hoped to educate farmers about the wonderful bulbs they might find on their properties in the hope that they would be protected and conserved. You can find these articles here:
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/FarmersWeekly
And there is a link too on the archive page.
https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Archive
David has informed me that some people have already found them. We are grateful that these articles can have wider distribution.
Mary Sue
#10
Current Photographs / Re: May 2024
Last post by Martin Bohnet - May 19, 2024, 01:49:34 PMLets start off-classic, with Phlomoides tuberosa - glorious detail, far less impressive as whole plant - I may need more of them for an effect, but they are actually quite popular with the slugs...
Third is Luzuriaga radicans from the Altroemeriaceae,as the twisted leaves hint at. Smallish plant, evergreen and so maybe not too tuberous...
On the orchid front it's Dactylorhiza time, with the pale Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. ochroleuca and a purple one I can't really put a label on since most species are hellish difficult to tell apart. On the sphagnum I seem to start to get seedlings of Dactylorhiza, guess there are worse things than a weedy orchid...
On the classical iris front we have Iris sibirica "Butter and Sugar" and Iris fulva
. Staying within Iridoideae, last one is Moraea huttonii
, which flowered 1.5 years after planting - last spring, half-grown stalks were aborted. I hope that's just a temporal effect during establishing, they are too nice to be erratic. Hardy to at least -11°C
Third is Luzuriaga radicans from the Altroemeriaceae,as the twisted leaves hint at. Smallish plant, evergreen and so maybe not too tuberous...
On the orchid front it's Dactylorhiza time, with the pale Dactylorhiza incarnata subsp. ochroleuca and a purple one I can't really put a label on since most species are hellish difficult to tell apart. On the sphagnum I seem to start to get seedlings of Dactylorhiza, guess there are worse things than a weedy orchid...
On the classical iris front we have Iris sibirica "Butter and Sugar" and Iris fulva