Unsung Heroes, Journal 100, April 2020

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Hilary

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Unsung Heroes, Journal 100, April 2020
« on: November 13, 2021, 08:19:30 AM »
From the President
THE 100TH EDITION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN

As always, each journal has an introduction by the President, in this case Caroline Davies

On the page opposite the letter from the President there is always a full-page drawing, here it is of ‘A Freesia hybrid’ by Freda Cox

I am posting a scan of this drawing and a photo of a freesia hybrid

This article can be read in full in THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN issue number 100 available as a free download
https://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/journal100.pdf
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Unsung Heroes, Journal 100, April 2020
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2021, 06:35:10 AM »
A FAVOURITE TREE:
CUSSONIA PANICULATA
By Margot Tobin
THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 100, April 2020

This issue of THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN is available as a free download
https://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/journal100.pdf

I found some photos and interesting information at this link
http://pza.sanbi.org/cussonia-paniculata
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Unsung Heroes, Journal 100, April 2020
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2021, 07:23:43 AM »
 A FIRST LOOK AT GREECE:
A BOTANICAL TOUR AT 80 KILOMETERS PER HOUR
By Cheryl Renshaw

THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 100, April 2020
This issue of THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN is available as a free download
https://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/journal100.pdf

Now to find flowery photos of some of the eleven places she visited. Since we are only allowed to post ten photos, I will miss out Epidavrus
1 Athens, the view from the Acropolis and Tree tobacco, Nicotiana glauca
2 Corinth, the columns seen through a pine tree
3 Mycenae, wild flowers near the Lion Gate
4 Olympia and Judas trees, Cercis siliquastrum
5 Delphi and wildflowers
6 The Meteora in the mist in May 1994
7 Mykonos, the Aegean and Poppies, Papaver rhoeas
8 Patmos, the Monastery on the hill
9 Heraklion, Crete, Knossos and more pine trees
10 Santorini and grape vines

The photos were taken over thirty years, several with indifferent cameras, mostly in the spring and summer.
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

Hilary

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Re: Unsung Heroes, Journal 100, April 2020
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2021, 07:03:44 AM »

THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN number 100, April 2020
This issue of THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN is available as a free download
https://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/journal100.pdf

In this issue of the journal there are drawings by  Christine Cresswell, one of the unsung heroes.
On page seven
Spherical seed heads of Lomelosia minoana
On page 18
Lilium longiflorum
and on page 53
Romneya coulterri
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care

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Charithea

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Re: Unsung Heroes, Journal 100, April 2020
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2021, 05:30:07 PM »
Hilary thank you for posting all those photos of A First look At Greece. Lucky lady to have visited them all. We were in Athens Friday 19th November, and we were lucky to be able to see 'An ancient Athenian neighbourhood' that stretches underneath the Acropolis Museum which was opened to the public in 2019 but due to the Covid restrictions this was our first chance to walk around it.  Of course I went and said Hello to the 'Caryatides'
and hummed the song I learned when I was a child.
I garden in Cyprus, in a flat old farming field, alt. approx. 30 m asl.

Hilary

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Re: Unsung Heroes, Journal 100, April 2020
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2021, 09:07:31 AM »
We have yet to visit the 'new 'part of the Acropolis Museum
At the moment it is too far, too difficult and too dangerous
How our world has shrunk!
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Living in Korinthos, Greece.
No garden but two balconies, one facing south and the other north.
Most of my plants are succulents which need little care