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Tag: Plant Collections

Achimenes

November 4, 2007

A line-up of Achimenes showing the variety and diversity between various species and named varietites available. Isn’t it funny how even though one may…

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Summer Bulbs in Containers

August 27, 2007

Surely not very exciting to most growers unless you are a collector, I share with you a collection of summer-growing South African bulbs. Relatively…

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Hot Plant Trend alert- Welcome to Crocosmia

August 8, 2007

Crocosmia – the Gladioli of the millenium. Well, more acurately, the Irid of the Millenium. These members of the Iris family are the South…

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Sakurasoh – The Other Japanese Primose, Primula sieboldii

May 29, 2007

A selection of some of my Japanese forms of Primula sieboldii The Japanese are passionate about thier native woodland primrose, rarely grown in America,…

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The Collectors Species Narcissus

March 27, 2007

Narcissus triandrus ssp. triandrus A parent of many of the triadrus hybrids that one finds at garden centers like Thalia, this precious rare bulb…

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New Years Eve Clivia

January 1, 2007

Our first seedlings are blooming that are crosses between Clivia miniata and Clivia gardenii. Many of these are F2 crosses from seeds that we…

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Now for the rare stuff…

December 3, 2006

Cyrtanthus species (most likely C. elatus X) This unknown species, or most likely a cross between two species of Cyrtanthus blooms regularly for me…

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More Fall Mums

November 15, 2006

Seizan is a yellow, small flowered Mum known as a cascade type, the plants are planted in June as cuttings, and then trained along…

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Fancy Chrysanthemums

November 11, 2006

Like so many traditions, the art of fine Chrysanthemum growing is long forgotten in most of the world, replaced with growth-retardent hyper-pinched and fertilized…

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Peak Nerine sarniensis bloom

November 5, 2006

A selection of Nerine sarniensis crosses, most from the United Kingdom’s National Collection, kept by Ken Hall at Springbank Nursery on the Isle of…

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