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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">This one of the best ground orchids you can grow in your own garden in ordinary garden soil. It produces up to 14 beautiful amethyst-purple flowers on long spikes each year and is best grown in a woodland garden.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">This is the most well-known species of the 9 species that are known of this small eastern genus found in China, Japan, Taiwan, Myanmar and possibly North India. B. striata was one of the first ground orchids introduced to the UK in 1794.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">It is a deciduous terrestrial orchid which is quite hardy everywhere. Its pseudobulbs (false bulbs) are quite hard, knoblike, grayish white in colour, with concentric rings and brown roots. However protection from spring frosts is necessary to prevent the leaves and flower spike being damaged.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">The leaves appear in spring with each having a pleated pattern and grow to about 400mm high and deciduous.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Upright racemes (spikes with alternate flowers) of emerge from the centre of the leaves in early summer and carry up to 9 purple flowers which open sequentially up the stem.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">There are several varieties including Bletilla striata var alba which has white flowers, Bletilla striata var albostricta has leaves striped white, Bletilla striata var gebina, has whitish flowers with a suffused faint blush. Recently new blue forms have been described including Bletilla striata ‘</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; position: relative;">‘Mursaki Shikibu’</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">, named after the famous ancient Japanese novelist and was first collected in Oita Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The flower segments are a bit “fatter” than a typical flower and the flowers tend to remain more cupped. It is said that plants come true from seed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">Perhaps the most unique form is the fascinating peloric flower form, Bletilla striata </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: small; position: relative;">‘Trilips’</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;">. It has three lips and the flower is quite small, perhaps half the size of a normal one, the flower color is a very deep, saturated purple/pink and the flowers produce no pollen.</span><br />
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<br />Alan Jolliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124266990635665551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719294991043449873.post-58970775354187434152016-01-03T16:17:00.001+13:002016-01-04T22:37:42.588+13:00Peel Forest - Near Geraldine Mid South Canterbury.<div class="p1">
There are many walks in the area. Two that can be completed in an afternoon are Emily Falls Walk and Dennistoun Bush Walk. Both very different.</div>
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<span class="s1">After driving through the small (tiny) picturesque village of Peel Forest at the base of the Southern Alps foothills turn left onto Blandswood Road and then at the end of the seal turn right onto Lookout Road and onto the car park.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Emily Falls Walk. </b>Lovely bush and listen to the bellbirds singing.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Walking up the road to the track entrance the air is filled with the ringing sound of the Bellbirds singing in the trees. Starting on the track is easy but soon winds its way upwards for about 15 minutes to the top of the ridge. On the way large 'old man' Fuchsia (Fuchsia excorticata) hang over the track and at this time of year are in full flower. Many ferns line the walking track along the way. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">At the top of the ridge the track divides to go to Emily Falls or Rata Falls.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Taking the Emily Falls track defend to the steam and walk up stream for about 100 metres. With little recent rain you wont get your feet wet but with gentle and careful rock hopping rejoin the track to the Falls. Lovely bush area and nice stands of South Island Kowhai ( Sophora microphylla).</span></div>
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<b>Dennistoun Bush Walk.</b> Spectacular 1000 year old trees.<span class="s1"></span></div>
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<span class="s1">This excellent flat bush walk is found on Blandwood Road before heading up to the Emily Falls car park. A large sign on the side of the rad with a nice mown grease picnic area makes it easy to spot.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">A wide waking track leaves the panic area and forks into a circular track around the area.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Within a few metres of entering the track gigantic Totara, Kahikatea and Matai trees are encountered. These extra large trees are remnants for the extensive logging carried out in the 1800’s. Now about 1000 years old these are spectacular in size, form and structure. Not just one or two but many trees are scattered through this reserve.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Apart from the walk and trees take a very short side trip to the saw pit area and imagine to work that early foresters undertook to fell these large trees and hand mill them into usable timber.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">To help with identifying the trees the short description below will make it easy. The leaves of these trees are all different but as they are large stand back and look up at them and identify the leaves against the sky.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Totara, Podocarpus totara.</b> Easily recognises by its tough green spiked leaves about 25mm long and 4mm wide and its stringy bark totara grow into very large diameter trees up to 30m high. Here on this walk are excellent examples of very large specimens. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">"One of the largest trees in the forest, its timber was prized by Maori as being the best for building their massive war canoes, and was also the main timber used for carving. Until more recent times it was also valued for bridge and wharf construction, as well as a wide variety of other uses ... Ancient Maori custom demanded that when a totara tree was felled for timber a young seedling had to he planted in its place in order to appease Tane, the god of the forest, for removing one of his 'children' " (Metcalf 2002).</span></div>
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<a href="http://maoriplantuse.landcareresearch.co.nz/WebForms/PeoplePlantsDetails.aspx?firstcome=firstcome&PKey=fb454c7e-cb0c-4d98-9f97-1e9d14d3a080&theSearchString=totara&SearchType=1&SearchPage=0&SearchDB=1&SearchGroup=&FieldSearch1=&FieldSearch2=&FieldSearch3=&Field1=1&Field2=1&Field3=1&FromSearch=true" target="_blank">Maori Plant use database - Totara</a><br />
<a href="http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/trees-native-botanical-names-m-to-q/totara.html" target="_blank">Terrain.net - Totara </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.projectkahikatea.net.nz/history.html" target="_blank">Project Kahikatea</a><br />
<a href="http://www.terrain.net.nz/friends-of-te-henui-group/table-1/white-pine.html" target="_blank">Terrain.net - Kahikatea</a></div>
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Alan Jolliffehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01124266990635665551noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719294991043449873.post-55826208440563552402015-12-01T07:45:00.000+13:002015-12-01T07:45:58.932+13:00Incarvillea delavayi<div class="p1">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This beautiful clump-forming perennial is excellent for rock gardens and borders. It has handsome foliage and upright stems bearing large, trumpet-shaped, usually bright pink, flowers in early summer. It grows to a height of 60 cm with a spread of 30 cm, but dies down early in autumn. It is frost hardy, but should be protected with mulch during cold winters. It makes an excellent talking point in the garden.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Incarvillea is a beautiful flowering plant with low growing clumps of glossy, deeply divided leaves from which arise 25cm - 50cm leafless stems topped by clusters of flowers, each flower may be up to 75mm across. The first few blooms on each plant often appear before the rosettes of mid-green leaflets have fully developed. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blooming from late spring to midsummer, the large terminal heads of exotic trumpet-shaped flowers are a bright magenta to rosy-pink, with yellow throats and are held well above the rosette of dark green foliage on stout stems. ‘Alba’ and 'Snowtop', are white-flowering varieties.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The fleshy taproot must have excellent drainage as they do not tolerate wet or waterlogged soil in winter and grows best in a rock garden or raised bed in a position that receives some sun every day. Remove faded flowers to encourage more buds. Excellent for cut flowers.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometimes it is best to treat them as short-lived perennials but it is well worth the extra effort to grow these plants.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The crowns are easily damaged and plants are very late to emerge in the spring, Do not disturb them and you will be rewarded with exotic looking flowers each spring. Grow Incarvillea in deep, sandy soil that has been liberally enriched with compost. They need consistent moisture while in bloom. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Protect the young growth from slugs but otherwise no major problems.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crowns should be buried 75-150mm below soil level in a area with full to part sun that is protected. Plants should be mulched in autumn with dry straw or some other mulch, to protect the crowns from winter damage.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seeds may be sown in the spring or autumn in sandy soil in a cold frame or they may be sown in trays of soil outdoors and covered with sheets of glass. Seeds need no pretreatment but need light to germinate. Do not cover them with soil. Seeds take about 14 days to germinate with soil temp at 10-15° C. Propagation can also be by very careful division in spring but mature plants do not like disturbance.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The genus Incarvillea belongs to the family Bignoniaceae and consists of 17 species native to central and East Asia, including the Himalayas. All are suitable for rock gardens and borders. Some species are annuals, although those in cultivation are usually perennial. Some of the shorter growing species from higher altitudes of the Himalaya’s, Tibet, India and Turkestan have the largest and most exotic flowers. Most species flower in shades of magenta and deep rose-pink although one or two species come in shades of yellow or white. Unlike most other members of Bignoniaceae, which are mainly tropical woody plants, species of Incarvillea are herbs from temperate regions. Incarvillea is named after the French Jesuit missionary and botanist Pierre Nicholas Le Chéron d’Incarville.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The most commonly grown species is Incarvillea delavayi.</span></span><br />
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