Wow Jim-are you related to Methusalah? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim McKenney" <jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com> To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 4:46 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Wiki Additions- Narcissus, Romulea, Trillium, Freesia > Thanks Mary Sue and Jay for this latest batch of pictures. > > My little plant of Freesia viridis is about to bloom in the protected cold > frame. This was received in 2005 and has been outside since; I think it's > time to move it from the "problematic" column over to the "success" > column. > Several other freesias were trialed in the cold frame this year and they, > too, are doing well. > > Jay's daffodil pictures brought back some memories. Plants are important > to > me, of course, but so too are books. A gardening life led without books is > not for me. I enjoy my plants through my books, and books as much as > anything help to keep it all together. One of the daffodils Jay shows, > 'Snipe', is one I've known about for nearly fifty years. It was > illustrated > on plate XVIII of Patrick Synge's Collins Guide to Bulbs, published in > 1961. > Back in those days, I never saw it on the daffodil lists from which I > bought, although the similar-in-name and somewhat similar-in-appearance > 'Jack Snipe' eventually became widely available. Both are cyclamineus > hybrids and they have a similar color pattern, but the similarity ends > there. 'Snipe' began to appear on the list of one of the big suppliers > recently; maybe this year it will finally find its way into this garden. > > On that same plate XVIII is shown Narcissus cantabricus var petunioides. A > plant answering to that description is about to flower in one of the cold > frames now. My gosh, it's taken nearly fifty years for this to happen. > > I'm very happy now, happy as only someone who has known such long denial > can > understand. > > Thanks to all who have helped me realize this. > > > Jim McKenney > jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com > Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where I'm still waiting for > the Romulea to bloom. > My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ > BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ > > Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS > Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ > > Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >