Author: Henry Shejbal, Italy

Henry J. Shejbal, near Rome Italy

BUON NATALE

  To everyone on Daffnet   MERRY CHRISTMAS    AND VERY MANY GOOD WISHES   FOR THE YEAR 2010   Henry (Rome)

that time of the year again…

Hello John,   An excellent source, although limited in quantities, is the Hortus Bulborum in Limmen, Holland. Due to the colder climate, winter flowering tazettas are however scarcely represented. In Italy in the Region of Apulia (Puglia in Italian) a…

that time of the year again…

Hello Sara, Paperwhites are now grown mostly in Israel and also the bulbs sold in Italy come from there, albeit via Holland. Small quantities of N. tazetta tazetta and N. tazetta ‘Italicus’ are available from stock grown in Italy. Export…

Wren

Hello Melissa and Brian,   In German this bird is called Zaunkoenig (King of the hedges). When I was a small boy I was told the story of how it got its name.   All birds came together and thought…

R: to nomenclature problems

Sorry, I did not express myself well:     I just meant to say that I also understood that pants included in  Amaryllidaceae have normally an inferior ovary while Liliaceae have a superior one.   Henry (Rome) Da: [mailto:; Oggetto: Re:…