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| P.O. Box 578668, Modesto | Garden tours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host: Gordon and Lorraine Nicholson
The Nicholson family is now a full time proposition! After ten years as a part-time 'hobby', they now have a full time 'retirement'. The convention beds have received exactly the same special treatment as the rest of their gardens... California climate and eucalyptus shade. Lucille welcomes the bloom season. Watch for the roses, Christmas trees, and the Koi. Highly personal observations: a) The neighbours were plowing the days of the convention. The black iris weren't diamond-dusted today! b) The eucalyptus provided a wonderful relief for all. |
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| The following seedlings were not at the convention and are of interest only because both the pod parent (Sergeant Preston) and the pollen parent (Sea Power) are both shown here. Why of interest? The cross yielded 21 seedlings and three had variagated foliage. SPSP-1 and SPSP-2, with an added headshot of both. While neither parent has VF in their background, Keith Keppel recently discovered a VF seedling in his seedling beds whose pollen parent was also 'Sea Power'. Shouldn't happen. |
