UK bulbs on the wiki
Mary Sue Ittner (Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:58:41 PDT)

Dear All,

Sorry about misspelling Anemone in my url. I thought I had corrected it
before I sent it out.

Jim McKenney asked about the relationship of the Allium I saw in the UK to
one he grows. There are two common names for Allium ursinum, Wood Garlic
and Ramsons. I don't know why Ramsons, but it does seem close to "Ramps"
the common name Jim gave for his Allium. So perhaps he can tell us the
origin of that common name too. I appreciated hearing about the idea behind
lords-and-ladies.

I forgot to say that something else we appreciated while hiking and not
something that I had associated with UK flowers in the wild were the
orchids. We have some nice pictures of them too, but weren't always certain
of the identification since there were so many choices in the best field
guide we had (and that wasn't the one we carried with us when we were hiking.)

Mary Sue