@Nollie Little Brown Jobbies... I'll leave that to your imagination Nollie..
Looking again at Soul, it's very Tantau isn't it? people might think it's an Austin but no, the glossy foliage and upright sturdy stems,.. all Tantau ..
Ah, same in the northwest then Marlorena, any small brown bird. I was imagining all sorts of far more salacious meanings in Scotland!
Yes Tantau do tend to have upright blooms, a sturdy habit, thick glossy leaves and a certain ‘look’ that sets them apart from Austins don’t they? My Delbard’s are very similar so I would struggle to tell those two breeders apart if I didn’t already know what they were. This type of foliage does seem much more disease and heat resistant, and far less prone to chlorosis in my soil but Austins often have rather prettier foliage I must say. You win some..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
@WhereAreMySecateurs aah, but we do grow lots of NZ plants, especially Pittosporums, which are trees really, and I've also grown Sophora japonica Pendula, which is a form of Kowhai.. I think there are named varieties available of the yellow flowering tree.. I've also had one of NZ rarest plants, a leafless Chordospartium, very few left in the wild.. I don't think we could grow Pohutakawa's though.. as much as I'd like to see them..
I know what you mean about the Cordyline's.. they used to get the name wrong and called them 'Dracaenas'.. still do in some places..
Styles roses also offer a range of NZ bred roses, so all is not lost WAMS..
It made me beam, this post- especially that you knew of the NZ Christmas tree i.e. the pohutukawa. Thank you!
Life has exploded here and I hope my Beales order... still soaking in a bucket... will be OK. I brought it in just before the awful weather so it didn't get frozen, fortunately.
Feel quite bereft that the rose season is now over over.
Yes you don't want the water to get frozen in the bucket.. I've been to NZ twice, family in Wellington... done road, coach and air trips.. mainly the tourist spots and a few places in between.
I'm massively cheating because this is an indoor posy from Ab Fab vs a picture in situ , but as we had frost this morning I thought I'd rescue what was sort-of-in-bloom. Blush noisette has lots of buds, but I can't see any of them making it to open with teh expected temps for the next few days.
Ah yes, jobbies, I recall the other meaning of that term now.
No cheating involved there Desi, all rescued blooms count.
I was up at 5am this morning to run OH to the station for her onward journey to the UK and it was 10c with a warm wind, most odd. Due -3 tonight though so I got my Loubert booty planted up and protected. Still no sign of my much delayed Lens order, hope they make it to me alive after yet another weekend in a warehouse somewhere. We don’t have a house number or street name so witless couriers can’t put the address in their satnav. You would think the national road number, exact KM mark, my mobile number and instructions to call would be enough but not always..
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
No birds at the moment - we only get them mid spring
And @purplerallim - I love spiders, especially jumping spiders, they have such expressive faces and movements. Look at those cute eyes! not to mention the fine job it was doing catching pests.
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I’m intrigued to know what LBJ means in Scotland now..
Little Brown Jobbies... I'll leave that to your imagination Nollie..
Looking again at Soul, it's very Tantau isn't it? people might think it's an Austin but no, the glossy foliage and upright sturdy stems,.. all Tantau ..
Yes Tantau do tend to have upright blooms, a sturdy habit, thick glossy leaves and a certain ‘look’ that sets them apart from Austins don’t they? My Delbard’s are very similar so I would struggle to tell those two breeders apart if I didn’t already know what they were. This type of foliage does seem much more disease and heat resistant, and far less prone to chlorosis in my soil but Austins often have rather prettier foliage I must say. You win some..
It made me beam, this post- especially that you knew of the NZ Christmas tree i.e. the pohutukawa. Thank you!
Life has exploded here and I hope my Beales order... still soaking in a bucket... will be OK. I brought it in just before the awful weather so it didn't get frozen, fortunately.
Feel quite bereft that the rose season is now over over.
Gabriel Oak
It does, not salacious, but definitely below the belt..
https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/4757
@WhereAreMySecateurs
Yes you don't want the water to get frozen in the bucket..
I've been to NZ twice, family in Wellington... done road, coach and air trips.. mainly the tourist spots and a few places in between.
I'm familiar with Wetas.. lol..
No cheating involved there Desi, all rescued blooms count.
I was up at 5am this morning to run OH to the station for her onward journey to the UK and it was 10c with a warm wind, most odd. Due -3 tonight though so I got my Loubert booty planted up and protected. Still no sign of my much delayed Lens order, hope they make it to me alive after yet another weekend in a warehouse somewhere. We don’t have a house number or street name so witless couriers can’t put the address in their satnav. You would think the national road number, exact KM mark, my mobile number and instructions to call would be enough but not always..