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Echeveria elegans |
I paid a long overdue visit to Nick Macer at Pan-Global Plants, Frampton-on-Severn, this afternoon and enjoyed a good long chatter about plants, especially the good ones with which his nursery is so abundantly stocked. Here are a few leaves that caught my attention.
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Rhus succedanea, from seed collected by Nick Macer in Vietnam. Although it is now past its peak the colour in the leaves is amazing. |
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Phlomis angustifolia: perhaps a dubious name, but a superb foliage plant |
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Quercus kelloggii |
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Magnolia macrophylla |
Kellog's oat flakes? But I guess this Kellog was a botanist.
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