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 > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:11:21 +0000 > Subject: Re: [pbs] One last shot of great foliage! > > 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!). > > John Grimshaw > > Snowdrops at Colesbourne Park 2010 > Every Saturday and Sunday from 30 January to 28 February > http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ > > Visit John Grimshaw's Garden Diary > http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.com/ > > Dr. John M. Grimshaw > Sycamore Cottage > Colesbourne > Cheltenham > Gloucestershire > GL53 9NP > > Tel. 01242 870567 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/