Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012 - (Page 166)

foot of the Me Li glacier in northwest Yunnan and two seedlings germinated in 2001. It shocked and delighted me last year when it developed speckled variegation – just like that. It has proved stable. My abiding interest in this genus has sparked a relationship with the world’s leading authority on the genus, Jeanette Fryer. She has sent me seed of many new species and I have placed them in plastic zip lock bags to began the slow process of germination. Even with the aid Speckled foliage of Cotoneaster 'Straight Up' of her wonderful book (with coauthor Bertil Hylmö), Cotoneasters: A Comprehensive Guide to Shrubs for Flowers, Fruit and Foliage, I have been unable to identify what species I have in C. ‘Straight Up’. She is going to get some seed and grow it to see for herself. As you likely guessed, it is fastigiate and simply an unofficial "working" cultivar name that I gave to it. Aconitum ‘Red Wine’ I received the seed of this cultivar from Jonas Bengtsson, in Sweden, who in turn had received it (via Göteburg Botanic Garden) from Shanghai Botanical Garden. Individual flower of Aconitum 'Red Wine' I had come into contact with him as a result of my article in the RHS The Plantsman in 2006 about the climbing Aconitum, and he was kind enough to send me seed and I was able to start off about 20 seedlings. They never did anything dramatic in the North Okanagan but at least they lived. The rhizomes are slow to build size anyway but finally this year one of the plants flowered and, oh, what a show it was. I was able to collect a little of my own seed. This after 6 years. I would expect to have 166 Rock Garden Quarterly Vol. 70 (2)

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012

Geoffrey Charlesworth Writing Prize
2011 Photo Contest Winners
2012 Photo Contest Announcement
Seven Unheralded Axioms of Rock Gardening
Rock Gardening from Scratch: Vegetative Propagation - Understanding Cuttings
Newfoundland's Southern Limestone Barrens
William J. Dress, 1918-2011
DNA and the Changing Names of Plants ... and Making Sense of the Dicots
Jennings Prairie
Carl Gehenio, 1922-2011
Rock Gardening Roots
Plants that Dazzled me in 2011
Phipps Conservatory
Rock and Ink Struck into Flowers - A Response
Bulletin Board
2012 - Eastern Study Weekend: October, Pittsburgh - Registration form and details

Rock Garden Quarterly Spring 2012