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Accentuation, Punuctuation, Exclamation, San Franc

Monday, 17th March 2008

New Plants, New Ideas
Presented for the San Francisco Flower Show
    On behalf of Monrovia Growers
By Daniel J Hinkley, plantsman



Slide Lists

1. Introduction
2-4.  Windcliff, Indianola, WA
5-6.  The world of plants
7. Chanticleer in spring.
8-9.  The ephemeral charms of flowers.  Lilium nepalense

Importance of Foliage

10-11. Scenes from nature, Mt. Roberts, Alaska
12. Foliage effects in the garden
13. Foliage over time; Phormium, Rhododendron yakusimanum, Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
14-15. Novel combination ideas; Ophiopogon planiscapuss ‘Nigrescens’

Boldness of Leaf

16. Gunnera insignis, Costa Rica
17-19. Darmera peltata
20-21. Rheum australe
22. Ensette maurellii
23-24. Musa basjoo

Colorful foliage

25. Mukdenia rossii Red Fan
26. Asarum splendens ‘Quicksilver’
27. Dryopteris erythrosora ‘Brilliant’
28 Athyrium ‘Ghost’
29-31. Asparagus densifloruss ‘Myers’


Repetition in the landscape, drawing the eye.

32.  Xerophyllum tenax, Olympic Mts, Washington State
33-34. Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
35-36.  Heuchera ‘Peach Flambe’
37-38. Heuchera ‘Midnight Rose’
39-40. Repeition of color and texture; Cornus Ivory Halo and Iris pallida Variegata
41-42. Dianthus ‘Winky’

Exclamation

43. Cupressus sempervirens
44. Chamaecyparis pisifera
45-46. Ilex crenata ‘Pyrimidalis’
47. Cupressocyparis x leylandii.  Moncal, Emerald Island
48.  Tsuga Canadensis ‘Emerald King’
49-52.  Phormium tenax
53. Cordyline australis  ‘Cabernett’
54. Cordyline australis  ‘Burgundy Spire’
55-56. Water Fountains

Briefly, Vines.

57. Actinidia kolomitka
58-61. Actinidia polygama
62. Clematis Cezzanne
63. Clematiss Parisienne

Seasonality; Suturing the Gardening Calendar

64-67.  The dangers of gardening for summer
68-69.  Helleborus Ivory Prince
70-72. Helleborus x hybridus ( seedlings!)
73-75. Edgeworthia chrysantha
76-78. Viburnum furcatum
79-81. Viburnum plicatum ‘Summer Snowflake’
82-84. Hydrangea aspera ‘Sargentiana’
85-86. Hydrangea ‘Mini Penny’
87-88. Hydrangea ‘Midnight Duchess’
89-90. Helwingia japonica
91. Helwingia aff. chinensis
92. Aster novii belgii Balco
93-94. Symphoricarpos albus Fantasy Series
95-96. Conclusion.





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