Day: February 9, 2009

Australian fires

All,   I’ve sent e-mails to Australia and got no response. I checked Google and found that the fires seemed to be NE of Melbourne whereas most of our daffodil friends reside NW of the city.   I’ve just had…

Satellite photos: SE Australia fires

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36979 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=36976 Satellite photos of brushfires in Southeast Australia are found at the links above. Twice-daily images of southeastern Australia are available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. We send prayers for the safety of our Australian daffodil friends in…

First flowers of spring!

Dear All,   First flowers today!  Two of them.  A Galanthus whose bulb divided into two.  The first opened late morning, the second mid-afternoon.  The second hasn’t nodded yet, but it opened.  Don’t know which it is, but it isn’t…

“galloshes”

Here ( The Netherlands) Narcissi are sold in two kinds: those with leaves that have longer scapes and fetch prices twice as high ( 2-3 Euro the 10) and those without leaves. These are shorter and sold for half the…

“galloshes”

Do any of you get the impression. as I did, that the stems were cut at the bulb with some mechanical device- by stems I mean ALL of the green. I expect that these bulbs would not have much chance…