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Sierra Nevada flower
On 25/4/08 21:47, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote: In article , Sacha writes: | | It's stunning, Nick. Did you not bring a few bits home with you?! Tsk! In | a way it reminds me of an Eryngium that we saw growing in the Trodos | mountains of Cyprus. The blue was so intense that they looked just as if | they'd been spray-painted. I have never before, or since, seen anything | like them. I am not good with cuttings, but I did spend some time looking for seed-pods. No joy, unfortunately. The ones in the Sierra Nevada weren't as intense a blue as the picture, but were still a good blue. The plants are sufficiently distinctive that an autumn visitor should be able to collect seeds - it looks as if the Portugese variant may have the best colour. There was also a Cistus that I failed to find any full seed pods of, but it wasn't all that exciting. Nice, but just another Cistus with small white flowers. I got some seeds from two street trees in Granada, which I can't offhand identify. I will chase up a bit and try to grow them. We find that foreign travel seems to fall into two categories; there is the frustration of finding unidentified seed pods and there is the mither of seeing beautiful but unknown flowering shrubs and trees with no seed pods. Perhaps we should organise an urg sortie that involves one lots going out when everything is in bloom and the next lot going out when it's seeding! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon 'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' |
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Sierra Nevada flower
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In article , Charlie Pridham writes: | | Like a small gorse, except blue. No seeds at this time of year, | unfortunately :-( | | But what is it? It looked an excellent plant for a dry, sunny | bank? Obviously cold-hardy, deer resistant, yada yada .... | | had you meant to give a picture link? No. My wife took one, and I will do so when she unloads it and if I can find somewhere to put it. But I can't believe that there are many such plants. Regards, Nick Maclaren. I think I saw this yesterday and Sacha et al may well be correct, Coronilla but not C.valentina possibly C.emerus which does indeed look rather genista like but was doing well at Rosemoor this weekend -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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