Winter Catalogue 2016 Welcome to Pen-Lan ’ This season the nursery will again be open winter list for 2016 written in on the last Sunday in the month from 12.30- the howling gales of early winter 3.30. The larger potted hellebores in flower and overseen by a snow-covered will be available for sale and prior orders may be collected to save postage. Opening dates Mt Wellington. Only a few weeks will be June 26th, July 31st, August 28th and ago we were complaining about September 25th. We are at 636 Summerleas the long dry period but the first Road, Fern Tree. 10 days of May have provided over 100mm rain – lucky the Here’s hoping you enjoy our little list and we lilies were cleaned and repotted look forward to hearing from you. before. Sue Wallbank www.auricula.net.au Some new lilies on offer this year to tempt but you may notice that the primula and hellebore PO Box 342 South Hobart TAS 7004 sections of the catalogue are diminished. 0418 883 583 or 03 62391678 (evenings) Increasing time taken with breeding new colours and forms into the auriculas means that some other areas need to be reduced. Good plants are still available here for those who would like to visit. lankongense Another Chinese native, this LILIUM time from the province of . Similar in form and growth habit to L. duchartrei but with flowers of delicate light to dark pink with bulbiferum var. croceum The only lily copious darker spots. $6.00 native to the Netherlands and was painted by the Dutch masters. Easily grown in any well-drained soil and with orange-red upward leichtlinii var. maximowiczii A new facing flowers. offering from us and readily distinguished $6.00 by woolly hairs coating the buds. Pendant flowers of cinnabar-orange with scattered brown-purple spots. Very few. $8.00 canadense A graceful lily bearing yellow/ peach turk’s-cap flowers which are heavily spotted in dark purple. Rarely available. leucanthemum var. centifolium A $8.00 spectacular large white lily boasting a pale gold throat and streaked outside brownish- purple. $9.00 davidii var. unicolor A Chinese lily named after its discoverer, the missionary Pere David. maculatum var. flavum From Japan where Pale orange with indistinct reddish spotting. it grows in acidic soil. Previously known in the $5.00 West under the name L. wilsonii var. flavum. Ours is a late yellow form heavily overlaid with red spots. $6.00 davidii var. wilmottiae Flower colour orange-red with fine chestnut brown spots. martagon Early rose-pink blooms and $6.00 trouble free culture ensure the Turk’s-cap lily’s continuing popularity. Spreads well in the garden here. duchartrei One of our favourite lilies here at $7.00 Pen-Lan. It is hard to believe that something so beautiful and originally from the alpine meadows of and other similar Chinese martagon var. album White form of the habitats grows so well under such harsh above with bright green stems and pure Australian conditions. The stoloniferous white unspotted flowers. flowering stems are 30-45 cm and carry up to 6 nodding, martagon-like flowers in $8.00 early summer. The flowers are marble-white, dotted and splashed with violet-purple. $7.00 martagon var. cattaniae An extraordinary stately lily with deep wine-coloured large hansonii An easily grown eastern Asiatic unspotted flowers. Only few on offer. species with very fragrant pale orange turk’s- $12.00 cap flowers spotted purple/brown. $7.00 martagon ‘Sunny Morning’ Bred from L. martagon this lily has golden tones lancifolium Used as a food in Asia with mahogany overlay. Very attractive to but we prefer to see the long-lasting post- butterflies. Christmas flowers in the garden. Strongly $8.00 reflexed tepals of orange/cinnamon are heavily spotted in chocolate brown. This lily has the added bonus of producing stem medeoloides A refined native of Japan and bulbils which is a much quicker method of Korea bearing orange to apricot coloured reproduction than seed. $6.00 flowers spotted dark red or black. Appreciates good gritty soil. Only few on offer. $10.00

lancifolium var. flaviflorum A most attractive tiger lily bearing multiple soft regale var. album We rarely have enough lemon darker spotted turk’s-cap blooms. of this pure white beauty to share but a few $7.00 ready to go to new homes this season.

$8.00 Lankon Some of you may have seen this one at the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show and rosthornii We are thrilled to be able to list marvelled at its beauty and vigour, both of this Chinese rarity for the first time. Originally these seem to have translated well to the discovered in 1891 but thought to be extinct southern hemisphere. A cross between L. our seed came from the RHS Lily Group some longiflorum and L. lankongense the large years ago incorrectly labeled. The large vivid white trumpets are a mass of purple specks orange flowers are strongly recurved and the and dots. $7.00 open throat bears a distinctive bright green star. $15.00 taliense A very tall perfumed lily with 10 or more flowers per stem. Similar to L. duchartrei double darks from several strains with but the white flowers have a distinct soft darker lines and spots as well as picotee yellow flush and purple spots. edges, tube size only. $10.00 $6.00

trumpet hybrids A mixed bag of goodies in various shades of cream, pink and green, double picotee lilac Fully double white most will be tall and vigorous. flowers delicately lilac spotted and veined and with lilac picotee edge. $6.00 $7.00

tsingtauense Unusual small Chinese species experimental hybrids Some real treats in with thickly textured blooms of orange-red store here. A number of our best crosses yield $5.00 spotted maroon. too few plants to list separately so we offer each $7.00 them here for you to try out. or 3 for $12.00

Wildfire A wonderful Australian bred hybrid. Large white flowers with reddish-pink rays green spotted A single apple green flower and spotting and beautifully perfumed. spotted red, tube size only. $5.00 $5.00

HELLEBORES picotees The picotee group have white or cream flowers with a light or dark pink rim. They may also have darker pink stripes, A few of the more interesting and useful species on offer webbing or spots. Very pretty. this year as well as a small range of our own hybrid crosses. $5.00 One of the most useful plants for dry shade in our cooler areas, hellebores will cope with a degree of neglect once established but we recommend planting in a nutritious, slates Single blooms in smoky grey hues. humus-rich mix to start. Annual late winter mulching is beneficial for the hybrid types. $7.00

argutifolius ‘Pacific Frost’ strain produces short stems with heavy cream speckles and AURICULAS pink to rose tinted new growth. This valuable and little seen group of plants require well- $6.00 drained good loam or clay-based soils to thrive. Even though they are in the Primula family they do not need much water and are happiest with morning sun and plenty of air cyclophyllus A native of Greece producing big soft green flowers. movement (good for those of you in windy areas!). If they are grown in pots or troughs a good quality potting mix with $5.00 slow-release fertilizer is recommended. Here at Pen-Lan we also use a product like Perlite to add extra drainage (at the lividus A remarkable native of Majorca ratio of 1:6). cultivated mainly for its striking foliage of greyish green netted cream or silver on the All named plants listed here (with the exception of a couple upper surface and purplish on the underside. The blooms are pink to purple. Limit of 1 per of our own crosses) are divisions from named varieties customer. $8.00 imported from the best English growers. This has been a long, slow process but it has given the plants time to adjust to the idiosyncrasies of the Australian climate. Not all our collection niger double forms Pure white and neatly is listed here as some are in very limited numbers, please double and semi-double. Smaller plants this year so only. enquire about these.

$6.00 If you are new to growing auriculas we recommend the book The auricula : history, cultivation and varieties by Allan Guest HELLEBORE X HYBRIDUS as well as websites maintained by the National Auricula and Primula Society (U.K.) These are all seedlings raised from our own crossing of best selected imported and local plants. Most will be true to their parents and some even better. Larger potted plants in flower and at higher prices are available here at Pen-Lan from July onwards. SHOW EDGES Frosty A striking Show Fancy of purple/red Mary Robinson (in Auriculas for everyone) describes the with grey edge. Edges as the aristocrats of the auricula world and as such are challenging to grow. They are characterised by the black $10.00 body and distinctive green, grey or white edge. While we have a number of these beauties growing here, only a few are available for sale as most are slow to form offsets. Rajah First introduced in the 1950s this has a stunning pip of bright scarlet-red and green edge. $9.00 Beechen Green Quite a small plant but strong green flower. Scorcher Sport Something totally new for us. The original ‘Scorcher’ was a scarlet Self. $10.00 Some years ago one of the offsets flowered as a cross between a Fancy and Alpine Gold Centre. Cherry pink shades out to peachy apricot and the strong yellow paste is farina Benny Green Another good green Edge. speckled. $10.00

$10.00 Star Wars A vigorous purple/dark red and grey Fancy. Dovedale Named after a Derbyshire scenic spot, not sure what this has to do with the $10.00 flower colour but it is lovely grey/white Edge. $10.00 Wellington Sunset Raised from English seed and displaying true sunset colours of soft orange and red, good white paste to the eye John Woolf A variety raised by Kath Dryden and a smattering of farina on the petal edges. of alpine plant fame. May be grey or white $10.00 edged depending on the season. $9.00 SHOW SELFS

This group of Show auriculas has a solid body colour from Jorvik Large pips on this lovely grey edged the white ring of paste around the central eye to the petal Show. margin, thus are very eye-catching. Most have heavy farina $9.00 (dense white meal) on the leaves and stems. They are arranged in Red, Yellow, Blue, Dark and Any Other Colour groups.

Maggie An older free-flowering variety.

$10.00 Blue Ridge Light blue Self with good farina.

$10.00 Sherwood One of the easier Edges from the House of Douglas. Brazil First bred in 1981 by the famous $9.00 English grower, Derek Telford. Neat well- mealed foliage sets off the clear yellow body. $9.00 Snowy Owl Good white Edge.

$10.00 Chaffinch Soft red-orange as the breast of the bird of the same name.

SHOW FANCIES $10.00

Traditionally the auriculas in this group were those that didn’t meet the standard for other Show groups. A number look Joel An old favourite of deep violet-blue. similar to the Edges but the body is red rather than black. $10.00 Cameo Beauty A beautiful Double with Neat and Tidy Very dark red Self. folded petals in cream and yellow.

$9.00 $10.00

Pen-Lan Reds Specially selected for easy Crimson Glow A bright red which offsets growing, some light, some dark, some with easily. farina to the leaves. $9.00 $10.00

Philly A new release for this season, a strong Doublet Vigorous enough for the garden, clear yellow with good farina on the leaves dark reddish-purple. and large upright flower. $10.00 $10.00

Excalibur Very dark pink and raised by Les Simply Red A clear red Self. Allen in Wales.

$10.00 $10.00

SHOW STRIPES Forest Bordeaux Smallish flowers in rich claret shades. Popular until the second half of the eighteenth century, striped auriculas then went into decline until the 1960s. $9.00 In England, Allen Hawkes and Derek Parsons have been responsible for bringing into being much of the exotic range Funny Valentine Wins every time it appears available today. on the show bench with its upright fully double flowers of a plummy wine colour. $12.00

Ferntree Stripe New, red and grey stripes. Marie Crousse Not to be confused with the primula of the same name, this rich $10.00 purple Double from Field House Nursery in Nottingham has hints of yellow in its depths. $10.00

Orwell Tiger Red and white stripes. Prima First time listed by us and only named in the UK in 1999. This deep yellow Double $10.00 has been winning prizes ever since it first appeared. $10.00

Pinstripe Red and pale green stripes.

Robinette A neat red Double. $9.00

$9.00 DOUBLES

Sword A curious all-green Double, a Doubles were among the very early novelties grown by the challenge to paint for the botanical artists early florists and appear in gardening books and artworks of amongst you. the seventeenth century. As with the Stripes, much work has $9.00 been done in recent years (notably by Derek Salt and Richard Austin) to extend the colour range and quality of blooms and we are the beneficiaries. This group seem to do particularly Walton Heath A blue-purple Double which well in Australia. manages to be both refined and vigorous.

$10.00

Baltic Amber A neat Double in soft amber shades. Easy.

$9.00 Wanda’s Moonlight Another Les Allen Gwen Fine proportions and blue-purple special in ethereal creamy-yellow shades.

$10.00 $9.00

ALPINES Ian Greville It has taken a number of years to build up stocks of this one and still only a few on offer. Small plant and flowers of pink. This group is highly recommended for the grower new to auriculas. There are wonderful colour contrasts to be found $10.00 and they are less demanding in their ways than the Shows. The Light Centred Alpines (ALC) have a white or off-white centre and the petals are usually in two-tone shades of red, Naniconan Neat gold centre, body of deep red shading out to soft brown. pink, purple and blue. $9.00 The Gold Centred Alpine (AGC) is as it says, a gold centre, and with the petals a different colour shading from darker at the centre to a lighter edge. Reds, browns and oranges are Roxburgh Old variety now (c1905). Deep generally the colours of this group. violet shading to light violet.

$9.00

Argus One of the oldest named auriculas still in existence and dating from the late 1800s, BORDERS large pips and lovely. $10.00 The garden or Border auricula is the one many of us are familiar with. Often fragrant and not demanding, they remind Bilbo Baggins One of the Lord of the Rings us of childhood years spent in grandparents’ gardens. Many series raised by the late John Radford. Deep of the old named varieties are still around but beware of apricot tones. imposters. I am slowly increasing my stocks of imported $9.00 named plants but as well can offer a range of less expensive unnamed ones grouped by colour. Please inquire about these. Most Borders are fragrant and easy. Blue Yodeler Shades of blue in an amazingly large flower for a small plant.

$9.00 Old Clove Red A rich dark red with a mealy centre.

$10.00 Chelsea Bridge Small plant with flowers in blue-purple shades.

$9.00 Ferntree Border A great new Border, white flowers tinged pale pink.

$10.00 Cherry Picker Another smaller plant but with flowers of a rich cherry pink. Willi’s Pink A large vigorous plant originally $9.00 from the collection of Willi Rea. A delicate shade of pink with pale yellow eye. Very suitable for the garden. Cherry Picker x Blyth Spirit New and one $9.00 of our own breeding. Large flowers of deep pink. AURICULA COLLECTION SPECIAL OFFER If you are new to growing auriculas and $9.00 find selection difficult, allow us to make the choice for you. Offer includes 6 plants of different varieties. $45.00 Douglas Bader Pretty blue-purple shades.

$9.00 PRIMULAS

A huge group of plants that include primroses, cowslips, Gollum Another of the Lord of the Rings oxlips, and polyanthus, found throughout the temperate series, a large flower which always impresses in shades of gold and brown. northern hemisphere and south into the tropical mountains as far as South America. Nearly all flower in the spring and $9.00 summer in a vast array of colours and forms. This will probably be the last year we have these on offer. alpicola A daintier form of P. sikkimensis OTHER GARDEN PLANTS with charming perfumed blooms of violet around December. Last year their perfume filled the entire primula growing area here. Arisaema candidissimum Known as the $5.00 Striped Cobra Lily this is a really good garden plant. Large, upright, chalice-shaped flowers in the palest pink striped white appear mid- summer. $12.00 alpicola var. alba A white form of the above.

Astrantia major Our offerings are raised $6.00 from seed produced by the famed English breeder of astrantias, Bob Taylor. Expect shades of white, dark and light pink and Barnhaven x polyanthus Cowichan green. Easy to grow, winter dormant. yellow Another Cowichan gem - the deep $6.00 bronze foliage provides a perfect foil for the creamy yellow flowers. $6.00 cordatum A native of Japan growing in moist woods, fragrant and the individual flowers seem smaller than those flaccida Another Chinese beauty having of other . Probably another 3 mealy stems topped by a pyramidal cone of years to flower for these. $7.00 pendant lavender-blue mealy-faced flowers. $6.00 Cardiocrinum giganteum A spectacular plant known as the ‘Giant Lily of the japonica ‘Postford White’ strain Crisp ’. Large heart shaped leaves on a white form of the Japanese Primrose bearing stem up to 3m. tall and fragrant creamy white candelabras of scalloped-edge, yellow- trumpet shaped flowers. $7.00 eyed flowers on stout 50cm stems. Prefers woodland or moist soil in part sun. Late spring. $6.00 Daphne oleoides Very slow growing and small but well worth the wait for the fragrant white flowers and subsequent showy orange fruits. Here we succeed with the species x juliae double form New and only few to daphnes by planting in a free draining soil go. Soft purple flowers. and keep the roots cool by a few well placed stones. $8.00 $8.00

Dodecatheon meadii Also known as polyneura Robust tufted habit, round ‘Shooting Star’. A woodland plant with indented leaves are generally densely felted striking cyclamen pink flowers in spring. on the undersides. Flowers bright pink. $8.00 $6.00

Eryngium bourgatii Spectacular thistle-like pulverulenta One of the large candelabra- plant with deeply-cut, variegated foliage and type primulas which form biggish clumps intense blue flowers. A much more refined given a damp home with good soils. Flowers plant than E. giganteum ‘Miss Wilmott’s usually carmine-red with a darker eye. Ghost’. $6.00 $6.00 sieboldii Often requested in the past we are Iris forrestii RHS AGM recipient. A dainty delighted to list P. sieboldii grown from seed Siberian iris with scented clear yellow flowers sourced from Japan and some of the best UK and interrupted brown lines on the falls. growers, some from the ‘Dancing Ladies’ and $7.00 ‘Winter Dreams’ series so expect colours in the blue/purple/white range. $7.00 Hepatica maxima x nobilis Raised from seed sourced from New Zealand and originally from the late Severin Schlyter, an veris ssp. macrocalyx Reputedly the largest ardent Hepatica enthusiast in Lund, Sweden, form of the Cowslip with dark yellow/orange these slow-growing plants are truly delightful. flowers. Some have plain leaves, others various $6.00 degrees of spotting and staining, flowers white, blue or pink. Best grown on cool, well- vulgaris doubles Cultivated since the drained slope in light ‘fluffy’ soil. $8.00 sixteenth century and are renowned for their fragrance and velvety beauty. Here at Nomocharis x finlayorum A plant closely Pen-Lan we have been building up our stocks related to the lilies and needing a free root from English imports over a number of years run and good drainage. Our offerings vary and are delighted to offer a limited number, from plain pink to spotted white and most are mostly whites and pink/purples. $8.00 daintily fringed. $10.00 Paeonia cambessedissii An RHS AGM Delivery recipient and hailing from Majorca this paeony enjoys rock garden conditions. Very early single bowl-shaped pink flowers have By Australia Post. Plants will be carefully packed in a bright yellow stamens with red filaments. suitable medium. Small plants only, at least another 2 years to flowering size. $8.00 Packing and Freight Costs

SEED Within Tasmania $10.00 Victoria $13.00 This season we are able to supply a limited range of seed for any of our valued cusomers who would like to ‘give it a To other states (excl. WA) $16.00 go’. Explanatory notes will be supplied with each order and packets will contain a minimum of 10 seeds. For orders over 15 plants PLEASE add $4.00 extra to final amount. (20 seeds) Lilium canadense Naming Lilium japonicum Lilium rubellum $5.00 These bulbs and plants are from a high quality col- Lilium speciosum var. clivorum per lection derived from personal hybridization, seed Nomocharis x finlayorum packet exchanges and commercial suppliers world wide so a high degree of confidence is placed on their identifi- Ordering cation and provenance. If by some remote chance you receive the wrong plant immediate steps will be taken Please make cheque payments out to Pen-Lan to rectify the mistake. Plants and forward orders via letter with cheque or money order enclosed. Orders also welcome via the online order form at http://www.auricula.net.au/ order-online/

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