One last shot of great foliage!

Tim Harvey zigur@hotmail.com
Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:23:20 PST
Hey, that was my plant. It was in a plant show not a pottery exhibition.

It beat its clay-constrained pseuds too.

 T

> From: j.grimshaw@virgin.net
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> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:11:21 +0000
> Subject: Re: [pbs] One last shot of great foliage!
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> From: "James Waddick" <jwaddick@kc.rr.com>
> >
> > What is that pot of violet purple flowers just to the right
> > of the Haemanthus and in front of the Gethyllis?
> >
> 
> It looks like Lapeirousia oreogena to me - a distinctive plant with those 
> 'flat', radially symmetric flowers with conspicuous white eyes. It is 
> famously pollinated by an extremely long-tongued fly.
> 
> In these pictures by Ken it is interesting to see how plants are staged for 
> showing: the Lapeirousia is in a grubby commercial square black pot: if such 
> a gem appeared on a show bench here it would have the dignity of a clean 
> clay pot and fresh topdressing of washed chippings (with the grubby pot 
> concealed beneath it!).
> 
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