just watching this on iview, a short way in a woman is descibing her childhood garden, what are the yellow and orange flowers that can be seen? I like orange flowers :)
perhaps Rhododenderon, but i don’t think all of them were

a bit further on the tea party garden is British influenced,

Can you tell us the time the flowers come into view? There’s some orange flowers, very blurred, in a family scene on that bloke’s laptop…but that’s in the first minute…

trichome said:

just watching this on iview, a short way in a woman is descibing her childhood garden, what are the yellow and orange flowers that can be seen? I like orange flowers :)
perhaps Rhododenderon, but i don’t think all of them were

iview doesn’t give me a good time line, but it is a short way in and it is a woman describing her childhood garden, yes she has a laptop but we see the garden from the old movie, yes a bit blurred.

trichome said:

trichome said:

just watching this on iview, a short way in a woman is descibing her childhood garden, what are the yellow and orange flowers that can be seen? I like orange flowers :)
perhaps Rhododenderon, but i don’t think all of them were

iview doesn’t give me a good time line, but it is a short way in and it is a woman describing her childhood garden, yes she has a laptop but we see the garden from the old movie, yes a bit blurred.

1 minute, 5 minutes? An approximation will do…

11:43 minutes :)

trichome said:

11:43 minutes :)

That’s better…my definition of “short time in” was 2 – 3 minutes!

considering the length of the doco. i think that time is a short way in :)

Fairy nuff…I’ll bump for when the more expert of the folk come in…

Hard to see…but the general shape of the bushes might give a clue…

i was wondeing if some were roses?

I did a quick google after my previous post: rhododenrons (F7) figure prominently in Tibetan flora…apparently the altitude brings out the vibrant colour…this is a movie going back about what, 30 – 40 years by the look of it, when Tibet was still reasonably unspoiled…roses might not be a good guess…

Dinetta said:

when Tibet was still reasonably unspoiled…roses might not be a good guess…

they had been trading via the Silk Road, and, considering that Rose gardening/propogation probably began in china a long, long, long time ago (maybe 5000 years), i think that roses do stand a very good chance :)

at the time of those old movies the British had been there and the clip that features the tea party garden, in that doco, shows a British influence in cottage gardening

trichome said:

Dinetta said:

when Tibet was still reasonably unspoiled…roses might not be a good guess…

they had been trading via the Silk Road, and, considering that Rose gardening/propogation probably began in china a long, long, long time ago (maybe 5000 years), i think that roses do stand a very good chance :)

I guess they do :)

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any ideas?

I have researched and have found only one rose associated with Tibet…a white “peace” rose…rhododendrons (F7) feature largely…

You will need to go into iView on ABC TV, go to the 11th minute, and the orange flowers come up in the background…very blurred but the general shape of the bushes is there….

the peace rose was developed in those same years, but i wonder how it came to Tibet from France?
Peace rose does turn to an apricoty colour, amongst others, but not the bright vivid orange colour of the flowers shown in the film.
I think the flowers on the rigt hand side of the screen may be Rhododendrons, but i wonder what the rest are? Maybe local flowers, maybe from China?
Just love orange flowers :)

maybe Paonia lulowii ?

Here

From

Paonia lulowii

sort of orange, sort of yellow :)

Did the lady say what area the movie was shot in? Good work finding that endemic plants site, by the way.

Haven’t come across anybody so keen on orange flowers before…

Orange calendula struck me when I saw the vid, or orange lillies.
Orange rhodys tend to be paler and rarely that bright orange

Happy Potter said:

Orange calendula struck me when I saw the vid, or orange lillies.
Orange rhodys tend to be paler and rarely that bright orange

Yes, but the thing with Tibet is, because of the altitude the colours grow more vibrant and deeper…so a pale orange down here becomes sunglasses-worthy up there…

Were the bushes about the right shape for rhodys (given up on full spelling)? And do calendulas grow so tall? :o!!

Happy Potter said:

Orange rhodys tend to be paler and rarely that bright orange

i beg to differ there, i have seem rhoddies that bright orange :)

Dinetta said:

And do calendulas grow so tall? :o!!

i don’t think so :)

Hemerocallis fulva

Nice site for flower pics

those last two links to tibet wild flowers, the site has weird vetical links to the flower catagories, but it works :)

Meconopsis betonicifolia
this is a lovely flower, i wish the pics were better :)

Lovely delicate flower

Dinetta said:

bump

any ideas?

I have researched and have found only one rose associated with Tibet…a white “peace” rose…rhododendrons (F7) feature largely…

You will need to go into iView on ABC TV, go to the 11th minute, and the orange flowers come up in the background…very blurred but the general shape of the bushes is there….

i see the flowers and they do look like standards. but the blurriness makes it difficult to ID – that and my lack of knowledge.

trichome said:

Meconopsis betonicifolia
this is a lovely flower, i wish the pics were better :)

Delicate!

trichome said:

Lovely delicate flower

Must be part of the acclimatisation…

trichome said:

Just love orange flowers :)

I don’t know if it was orange marigolds or the abundance of hot orange in the 70s that caused me to absolutely hate the colour orange …. I’m not fond of pink as a colour, but would rather have pink flowers than orange any day.

Yeehah said:

trichome said:

Just love orange flowers :)

I don’t know if it was orange marigolds or the abundance of hot orange in the 70s that caused me to absolutely hate the colour orange …. I’m not fond of pink as a colour, but would rather have pink flowers than orange any day.

I’m not a great fan of orange either.

Yeehah said:

trichome said:

Just love orange flowers :)

I don’t know if it was orange marigolds or the abundance of hot orange in the 70s that caused me to absolutely hate the colour orange …. I’m not fond of pink as a colour, but would rather have pink flowers than orange any day.

orange is my favourite colour, but that doesn’t mean all orange flowers appeal to me.

bubba louie said:

Yeehah said:

trichome said:

Just love orange flowers :)

I don’t know if it was orange marigolds or the abundance of hot orange in the 70s that caused me to absolutely hate the colour orange …. I’m not fond of pink as a colour, but would rather have pink flowers than orange any day.

I’m not a great fan of orange either.

well lets not get negative all over the place, did you see some of the lovely flowes that grow there, links provided already :)

Yeehah said:

I don’t know if it was orange marigolds or the abundance of hot orange in the 70s that caused me to absolutely hate the colour orange …. I’m not fond of pink as a colour, but would rather have pink flowers than orange any day.

I quite like orange and hot, psychedelic pink together…

Dinetta said:

Yeehah said:

I don’t know if it was orange marigolds or the abundance of hot orange in the 70s that caused me to absolutely hate the colour orange …. I’m not fond of pink as a colour, but would rather have pink flowers than orange any day.

I quite like orange and hot, psychedelic pink together…

Would rather have a huuge vegie patch ;)

White potato flowers, purple borage flowers, purple beans … all in a green foliage setting. Pink nectarine flowers …

Ah, bliss.