Month: November 2008

bulbs for Cape May, NJ area

I want to purchase some bulbs for a friend in Cape May, NJ. She wants multiples of single colored daffs and, if possible, some that would have been found in MS. in the past for her “Mississippi garden” (in Cape…

when does n. cantabricus usually bloom?

Hi, About two months ago, I received my first batch of n. cantabricus bulbs and planted them outdoors. We live in Braunschweig, which is roughly between Hannover and Berlin. Outside temps are now around 5 to 15 degrees C. To…

Snow in the Waikato

Hello All,   Snow in our region is unheard of – yet this is what we woke to this morning.  You can see from the roses blooming in the background that we are in early summer.  Even more amazing is…

Plant lectins

From a 2007 article: Multiplicity of carbohydrate-binding sites in â-prism fold lectins: occurrence and possible evolutionary implications ALOK SHARMA, DIVYA CHANDRAN, DESH D SINGH and M VIJAYAN* Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India *Corresponding author…