Hello Everyone, Last weekend I attended an Alpine GS study weekend. It was interesting in a talk on trilliums of America’s West Coast the speaker noted that many trilliums didn’t appear this year. I must say that as Leitha and…
Month: June 2010
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Bulbs in pots and other info
To all you wonderful, knowlegeable “Daffneters” I always love the daffodil pics and news about the various judgings but the recent discussions about the actual growing in pots , ants disbursing seeds and other planting information have been even more…
some thoughts about students and their judging collection ribbons
I’ve been reading all the comments, questions, and suggestions for two weeks, and have been trying to collect my thoughts. Of course it is a good thing for student judges to learn how to judge collections. The rule requiring a…
Growing in pots
Dear All When our bulbs have finished flowering we tend to move the pots out of the greenhouse or the outside covered beds. Terry returns her miniatures back into the sand plunges. These are used to keep the pots at a constant temperature…
Sad news from the UK
Dear All Yesterday evening I learned of the death of Jack Wood, whose funeral took place last Friday. Jack was 89 Jack wrote for many, many years for Garden News here in the UK and using public transport only (He…