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DUNBLANE EARLY BULB SHOW 2006

A DAY WITH JANIS RUKSANS becomes A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS by Sandy Leven Year on year the display gets better and better SRGC members like the non-competitive setting As show secretary I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the success of the whole day Our usual exhibitors supported the show with their usual alacrity and we attracted new exhibitors

The central bench was full of plants and each complimented the other As usual they were grouped by Genus and arranged so that the big genuses [ geni] were strategically placed near the corners

Crocus had its usual tables by the South window Here they revelled in the warm sunlight

Some like C malyi are true exhibitionists in these conditions

C cvijicii is one of the best yellows but is still quite uncommon

C tommasinianus comes in a increasing range of colours from pure white through pale and dark lilacs to the definite pink of Lyns pink Outer petals can differ from inner petals and some have different shades in the same petal

Crocus vernus is one of my favourites and today we had the subspecies heuffelianus and the selection from it Dark Wonder

Crocus abantensis I liked the wee Spaniard Crocus nevadensis but it was difficult to see its buff coloured back

Crocus corsicus and Crocus etruscus never fail to give a fabulous show

We had a bigger than usual selection of Cyclamen thanks to Davids contribution Two especially fine large C coum took pride of place and were surrounded by smaller and in Davids view finer plants David is trying to breed plants with good flower power but with smaller leaves than the big plants had

I took along about 35 different Galanthus [all white by the way They did have varying amounts of green and yellow marks and many were doubles I tried to select plants which were different from each other to give an idea of the variability in the genus My favourite was one which I grow as Galanthus caucasicus The snowdrop book relegates this species to a form of Galanthus elwesii monostictus It has big wide glaucous leaves and great big flowers I keep the name by which it came to me but it must have been selected by someone and given a clonal name

I grow bulbs of Galanthus Jonathan which intrigue me because the inner petals are cream coloured instead of being white They have an apical and basal green mark but the rest of the petal is cream I dont think this is a transient feature as the flowers have been the same for the last 6 years Nowhere have I read about these cream petals in Jonathan or any other Galanthus so I am just a bit excited that they may be something special

Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I didnt know Although labelled Magnet [which I do know by the way] Tonys bulbs all had two flowers on each stem A case of double your money or at least double his money

Iris reticulata forms abound and I always expect to see more of them at the bulb display We had some pans of I X Katharine Hodgkin as well as one of its parents Iris winogradowii Its other parent I histriodes major was represented by the form Lady Beatrix Stanley

Iris kolpakowskiana is a wee stunner from the Tien Shan in Kyrgistan The form in the display had nice light purple standards and very dark tips to the falls Research on the internet shows it comes in a range of shades none of which is easy in Scotland

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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C tommasinianus comes in a increasing range of colours from pure white through pale and dark lilacs to the definite pink of Lyns pink Outer petals can differ from inner petals and some have different shades in the same petal

Crocus vernus is one of my favourites and today we had the subspecies heuffelianus and the selection from it Dark Wonder

Crocus abantensis I liked the wee Spaniard Crocus nevadensis but it was difficult to see its buff coloured back

Crocus corsicus and Crocus etruscus never fail to give a fabulous show

We had a bigger than usual selection of Cyclamen thanks to Davids contribution Two especially fine large C coum took pride of place and were surrounded by smaller and in Davids view finer plants David is trying to breed plants with good flower power but with smaller leaves than the big plants had

I took along about 35 different Galanthus [all white by the way They did have varying amounts of green and yellow marks and many were doubles I tried to select plants which were different from each other to give an idea of the variability in the genus My favourite was one which I grow as Galanthus caucasicus The snowdrop book relegates this species to a form of Galanthus elwesii monostictus It has big wide glaucous leaves and great big flowers I keep the name by which it came to me but it must have been selected by someone and given a clonal name

I grow bulbs of Galanthus Jonathan which intrigue me because the inner petals are cream coloured instead of being white They have an apical and basal green mark but the rest of the petal is cream I dont think this is a transient feature as the flowers have been the same for the last 6 years Nowhere have I read about these cream petals in Jonathan or any other Galanthus so I am just a bit excited that they may be something special

Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I didnt know Although labelled Magnet [which I do know by the way] Tonys bulbs all had two flowers on each stem A case of double your money or at least double his money

Iris reticulata forms abound and I always expect to see more of them at the bulb display We had some pans of I X Katharine Hodgkin as well as one of its parents Iris winogradowii Its other parent I histriodes major was represented by the form Lady Beatrix Stanley

Iris kolpakowskiana is a wee stunner from the Tien Shan in Kyrgistan The form in the display had nice light purple standards and very dark tips to the falls Research on the internet shows it comes in a range of shades none of which is easy in Scotland

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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Crocus abantensis I liked the wee Spaniard Crocus nevadensis but it was difficult to see its buff coloured back

Crocus corsicus and Crocus etruscus never fail to give a fabulous show

We had a bigger than usual selection of Cyclamen thanks to Davids contribution Two especially fine large C coum took pride of place and were surrounded by smaller and in Davids view finer plants David is trying to breed plants with good flower power but with smaller leaves than the big plants had

I took along about 35 different Galanthus [all white by the way They did have varying amounts of green and yellow marks and many were doubles I tried to select plants which were different from each other to give an idea of the variability in the genus My favourite was one which I grow as Galanthus caucasicus The snowdrop book relegates this species to a form of Galanthus elwesii monostictus It has big wide glaucous leaves and great big flowers I keep the name by which it came to me but it must have been selected by someone and given a clonal name

I grow bulbs of Galanthus Jonathan which intrigue me because the inner petals are cream coloured instead of being white They have an apical and basal green mark but the rest of the petal is cream I dont think this is a transient feature as the flowers have been the same for the last 6 years Nowhere have I read about these cream petals in Jonathan or any other Galanthus so I am just a bit excited that they may be something special

Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I didnt know Although labelled Magnet [which I do know by the way] Tonys bulbs all had two flowers on each stem A case of double your money or at least double his money

Iris reticulata forms abound and I always expect to see more of them at the bulb display We had some pans of I X Katharine Hodgkin as well as one of its parents Iris winogradowii Its other parent I histriodes major was represented by the form Lady Beatrix Stanley

Iris kolpakowskiana is a wee stunner from the Tien Shan in Kyrgistan The form in the display had nice light purple standards and very dark tips to the falls Research on the internet shows it comes in a range of shades none of which is easy in Scotland

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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We had a bigger than usual selection of Cyclamen thanks to Davids contribution Two especially fine large C coum took pride of place and were surrounded by smaller and in Davids view finer plants David is trying to breed plants with good flower power but with smaller leaves than the big plants had

I took along about 35 different Galanthus [all white by the way They did have varying amounts of green and yellow marks and many were doubles I tried to select plants which were different from each other to give an idea of the variability in the genus My favourite was one which I grow as Galanthus caucasicus The snowdrop book relegates this species to a form of Galanthus elwesii monostictus It has big wide glaucous leaves and great big flowers I keep the name by which it came to me but it must have been selected by someone and given a clonal name

I grow bulbs of Galanthus Jonathan which intrigue me because the inner petals are cream coloured instead of being white They have an apical and basal green mark but the rest of the petal is cream I dont think this is a transient feature as the flowers have been the same for the last 6 years Nowhere have I read about these cream petals in Jonathan or any other Galanthus so I am just a bit excited that they may be something special

Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I didnt know Although labelled Magnet [which I do know by the way] Tonys bulbs all had two flowers on each stem A case of double your money or at least double his money

Iris reticulata forms abound and I always expect to see more of them at the bulb display We had some pans of I X Katharine Hodgkin as well as one of its parents Iris winogradowii Its other parent I histriodes major was represented by the form Lady Beatrix Stanley

Iris kolpakowskiana is a wee stunner from the Tien Shan in Kyrgistan The form in the display had nice light purple standards and very dark tips to the falls Research on the internet shows it comes in a range of shades none of which is easy in Scotland

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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I took along about 35 different Galanthus [all white by the way They did have varying amounts of green and yellow marks and many were doubles I tried to select plants which were different from each other to give an idea of the variability in the genus My favourite was one which I grow as Galanthus caucasicus The snowdrop book relegates this species to a form of Galanthus elwesii monostictus It has big wide glaucous leaves and great big flowers I keep the name by which it came to me but it must have been selected by someone and given a clonal name

I grow bulbs of Galanthus Jonathan which intrigue me because the inner petals are cream coloured instead of being white They have an apical and basal green mark but the rest of the petal is cream I dont think this is a transient feature as the flowers have been the same for the last 6 years Nowhere have I read about these cream petals in Jonathan or any other Galanthus so I am just a bit excited that they may be something special

Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I didnt know Although labelled Magnet [which I do know by the way] Tonys bulbs all had two flowers on each stem A case of double your money or at least double his money

Iris reticulata forms abound and I always expect to see more of them at the bulb display We had some pans of I X Katharine Hodgkin as well as one of its parents Iris winogradowii Its other parent I histriodes major was represented by the form Lady Beatrix Stanley

Iris kolpakowskiana is a wee stunner from the Tien Shan in Kyrgistan The form in the display had nice light purple standards and very dark tips to the falls Research on the internet shows it comes in a range of shades none of which is easy in Scotland

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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Tony Darby had a snowdrop which I didnt know Although labelled Magnet [which I do know by the way] Tonys bulbs all had two flowers on each stem A case of double your money or at least double his money

Iris reticulata forms abound and I always expect to see more of them at the bulb display We had some pans of I X Katharine Hodgkin as well as one of its parents Iris winogradowii Its other parent I histriodes major was represented by the form Lady Beatrix Stanley

Iris kolpakowskiana is a wee stunner from the Tien Shan in Kyrgistan The form in the display had nice light purple standards and very dark tips to the falls Research on the internet shows it comes in a range of shades none of which is easy in Scotland

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

^ back to the top ^

Iris kolpakowskiana is a wee stunner from the Tien Shan in Kyrgistan The form in the display had nice light purple standards and very dark tips to the falls Research on the internet shows it comes in a range of shades none of which is easy in Scotland

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

^ back to the top ^

Narcissus varied in height from a tall pan of February Gold [I think] and a wonderful pan of Narcissus romieuxii from a Jim Archibald collection These flowers have large flat faces Narcissus bulbocodium has more tubular flowers with no flat face

Two bulbocodium hybrids on show have inherited the bulbocodium shaped flowers Sometimes the latter is over before this show The first was a pale yellow hybrid N romieuxii x bulbocodium and the other which is paler was the N cantabricus x bulbocodium hybrid named Don Stead You might still se this listed as Don Steads Hybrid

Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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Cathy Caudwell stirred the imagination with her wee hybrid Narcissus which was growing in the same pot as a little Cyclamen hederifolium It is tempting to look on this as the true Narcissus cyclamineus

Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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Jean Wyllies Fritillaria alburyana always flowers for this date in February proving that it is a snow melt plant which just cant wait for warm weather

Among the non bulbous plants was a fine Helleborus purpurascens exhibited by AGS President John Richards

This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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This plant was recommended for a preliminary Commendation by the Joint Rock Garden Plant Committee According to GrahamRice in his fine book on Hellebores Helleborus purpurascens is Centred on Romania the distribution of H purpurascens follows the Carpathian mountains through western Ukraine into south eastern Poland and eastern Czechoslovakia and also extends west of Romania into central and northern Hungary It is a fine short plant and the fine specimen on show was greatly admired Helleborus tibetanus comes from even further away Tibet would you believe T has delightful shell pink flowers There must be a pan of seedlings somewhere of a putative hybrid between these two

Several interesting Corydalis made their way across the forth from the RBG in Edinburgh I am sure they enjoyed their outing to Perthshire

Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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Primula nana and Primula whitei delighted primrose aficionados The amazing Oxalis versicolor the candy striped flower is almost hardy It might be fully hardy in a mild winter It has to be grown under glass buu t when the sun shines and the temperature rises then it opens it super shamrock flowers white with red outlined petals

We had two very different looking Colchicums Colchicum luteum and Colchicum regnum

Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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Our celebrity guest speaker from Latvia broke his leg just one week before he was due to fly to Scotland The success of the reorganised day now named A DAY WITHOUT JANIS RUKSANS was due to Ian Young Fred Hunt and John Amand who joined me in giving 30 minute talks Ian - Crocus Fred - special bulbs and a trip to Turkey John - Arisaema and woodland plants Sandy - A trip to

see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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see bulbs in Latvia I think we should strike and present special medals for Hero of the SRGC Thank you to all you SRGC heroes After the show it was back to the serious business of packing up all the plants into their trays and loading up the car My thanks to my wife and family for laying on a nice party with lots of SRGC friends to round off the evening

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