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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
15 Dec '06 7:26 pm
Anna, great to meet you and your lovely children in your latest pics! Of course, that includes your Scruffy and viewing those lovely garden scenes/plants too! 
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Pusslil
honoured member
Matamata NZ
Hamilton Gardens7 Jan '07 12:49 pm
Yes everybody, the Hamilton gardens are amazing. I went there in 2005...taken by my children to celebrate my 65th birthday. I was in a wheelchair at the time and was pushed everywhere! It was during the winter, no roses or many flowers to see, but the various 'themed' gardens made up for that! The Italian garden is popular for weddings!
I've not yet found the time to go back and see the rose garden!
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Jay Bee
honoured helper
Re: Lovely tour, Anna!8 Jan '07 12:12 pm
| Jack Holloway wrote: |
About the plant in pic 008: it is Melianthus major - indigenous to South Africa. (see http://www.plantzafrica.com/plantklm/melianthusmajor.htm ) In my post on Namibia in July I wrote of finding it in the Waterberg, much to my surprise. It is considered rather weed-like here, and I have never seen a really good speciman, but some English writer - I think no less than Penelope Hobhouse - has described it as the most beautiful of all foliage plants... Perhaps African insects like to munch it??? |
Well, when it's grown here in Britain nothing munches it (probably because we havent got any African insects!). The elegant leaves grow extra large in our relatively damp cool climate and really are beautiful.
The website you gave above mentions the awful pong. This really intrigues me as some people can't smell melianthus at all and I'm one of them! Yet a gardening colleague can't bear to even work near the same plant when its wet, because it smells so terrible to her.
I didn't know it's toxic (but so are so many plants in my garden.)
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
Hamilton rose gardens16 Jan '07 7:58 am
They are set out as in a giant amphitheatre - with rose beds of masses of the same variety in crescent shapes .Okay I suppose for spectacle .However in one area there is a space for old fashioned roses and you can smell their delicious fragrance before you see them .They are in front of flowering shrubs ,and are fairly informal which is how the majority of us would like to see them I think .
Dixie.
Hamilton roses.jpg
Looking across the rose lawn from a bank of Iceberg .On the left of the distant steps are the old roses.
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Dixie
garden enthusiast
Waikato-New Zealand
rose gardens16 Jan '07 8:02 am
From the left of the previous scene .Bright sunlight means the photo is a bit 'washed out' .
Dixie
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
16 Jan '07 9:22 pm
Dixie, you captured some tiny sea of Roses here! Lovely!
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