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06-19-2008, 03:26 PM
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I like the Crinum too! The Aristolochia grows in my garden but I never bothered to look up the genus. Came to us just as Dutchman's Pipe.
Great Photos! I wish that's where I hung out! Just, wow.
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06-19-2008, 03:33 PM
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If so, I may have talked to you that day. (Unless it wasn't on a Saturday)
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Can't remember whether it was a Saturday or Sunday.
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Almost everyone thinks that the Aristolochia is really cool, unless you have grown one in your yard. Can you say INVASIVE?
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Bummer. Is it even hardy in our zone? Does it spread more via seed or runners?
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If I'm there, I will give you a personally guided tour of the place (Besides doing the orchid display, I'm also one of their docents) and may even be able to take you behind the scenes to visit greenhouse #3 where the orchid collection is kept.
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Wish I had known that before I went! I would have loved a backroom tour! You'll have to email me later so I can keep your address around for whenever I eventually get back there again. Doesn't happen too often now as I live over in Novi
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This should be in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Is that right, Paul?
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Nope, as Sucuz mentioned, it is in Grand Rapids. 
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06-19-2008, 03:52 PM
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So worth the wait 
That Nep and Aristolochia grandiflora are out of this world
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06-19-2008, 04:17 PM
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Great shots Paul!
What is that huge vine type plant with the great purpley flowers?
These would be great in a 'Paul' album in the Gallery. Then we could easily enjoy them over and over! |
06-19-2008, 05:03 PM
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This should be in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Is that right, Paul?
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Bit further north to Grand Rapids. |
06-19-2008, 05:07 PM
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Paul, that was wonderful...thank you  |
06-19-2008, 05:22 PM
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Bummer. Is it even hardy in our zone? Does it spread more via seed or runners?
Try both! I met a guy who had one in his garden. He proclaimed it 'northern kudzu'.  Actually I couldn't repeat some of the things that he called it. He said that it looked great on his chain link fence. Then it spread via underground rhizomes. Birds spread the seeds by droppings. It was all over his garden. It got onto one of his ornamental trees and pulled it down!  He had been trying for about 3-4 years to get rid of the stuff and it was still coming up. Wow!  I would have to look up the botanical name, but you can find it in garden catalogs under Dutchman's Pipe. And yes, it is hardy here in zone 5.
Wish I had known that before I went! I would have loved a backroom tour! You'll have to email me later so I can keep your address around for whenever I eventually get back there again. Doesn't happen too often now as I live over in Novi
Hey, Novi is only a couple of hours away. Visit again when you have a chance. Tour remains an open invitation.
Nope, as Sucuz mentioned, it is in Grand Rapids. |
Come see us. 
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06-19-2008, 07:48 PM
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Wow love to visit there , how did you get so lucky ?
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06-21-2008, 11:16 PM
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Crinums are my favorite plants...well, after orchids and ficus. Eh, bromeliads and epiphytic ferns are pretty high up on my favorites list as well.
sucuz, do you know if the crinum pictured is Crinum asiaticum var. procerum or Crinum amabile?
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Neither. It is a Crinum augustum. Sorry that it took me so long to answer your question, but I had to wait until today when I go in to vounteer so I could check the label on the crinum. Yes, I had to go find the plant, and check the id tag. I am not Dorothy. I could study really hard to even try to approach her ability for id-ing plants, but she will go on accumulating knowledge and still be so far above me, that if I sneezed, it would probably be 3 days before she even heard the sound.  |
06-21-2008, 11:27 PM
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GAD, I would love to have that for my HOUSE! Cause, you know, I am a delicate hot house flower myself! LOLOLOL
It would be so much fun to have to check my jacket pockets for frogs and feeding the quail each morning before heading off to work.
Thanks so much for the pics, Paul! *I am in dreamland just thinking about the possibilities*
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