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 > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php