UK bulbs - anemone nem.
Christine Council (Fri, 11 Jun 2004 19:35:25 PDT)

Hi Diane and everyone:
I am not asking about plants but must say you are quite interesting
and interested. I don't have much to say as yet because I am playing
around with all of the cool Oxalis plants, you know digging around.
For some reason I must look in the bottom of the pots to see how or
why the plants are growing, especially since I dug up some sort of wild
strawberry with yellow flowers. That is a long story but at least I was
curious. Any how... my original question is, are you from the United
States?
several years ago I worked with some one by the name Diane Whitehead.

Can any one tell me what my oxalis will be called if the wild strawberry
plant
with the yellow flowers is cross pollinated? I have just learned that this
berry
is worthless. Yuk, another weed.
Thanks All,
Chris

[Original Message]
From: Diane Whitehead <voltaire@islandnet.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: 6/11/2004 1:32:24 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] UK bulbs - anemone nem.

I saw Diane's photo of her new Anemone nemorosa variant.
There are two flowers in that picture. The one on the right is her new
variant, right? But what is the one on the left? If that is Vestal, it is
not like the Vestal I grow. Mine has a much shorter, tidier central tuft.
I've heard that there are more than one Vestal making the rounds.

Evidently

Vestal broke her vows once or twice.

Jim,

The anemone I grow with the tufted centre is one that gets passed
around here. I've had it about 35 years and I can't remember who
gave it to me. It was not growing in my grandparents' gardens,
though, so probably isn't really old.

No one ever had a name for it, unless someone called it "the double
anemone", but when we saw some pictures of 'Vestal', Victoria
gardeners decided that might be its name.
--
Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
maritime zone 8
cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually)
sandy soil
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