Welcome to the group, Lola. I'm sure you will enjoy it and we will enjoy having you as a member. Shirley Meneice Lola L Horwitz wrote: >Hi All: J.E. Shields' description of the many blooms in his Indiana >garden has prompted me to introduce myself, recently joined through >friendship with Arnold Trachtenberg. > I'm chairpersonof the Manhattan Chapter of NARGS (North American >Rock Garden Society) and have mostly focused on alpines and small plants, >but owning a small alpine house attached to a Brooklyn brownstone, I have >greatly increased my collection of bulbs in recent years. Arisaemas, >Arums, Trilliums, Eranthis, species tulips, Scadoxus, Gloriosa, and >Allium are some of the genera that I grow and try to squeeze into my >backyard, but am lucky enough to have a larger garden 2 hours upstate >that begs for more of my attention. In any case, all the messages that I >have ready in my mere 1 week's membership of pbs indicate that I have >much to learn. > I extend my invitation to all of you to attend the Eastern Winter >Study Weekend that will be hosted by the Manhattan Chapter from Jan. 27th >to Jan. 29th '06. Amongst many reasons to attend is the fact that pbs >member John Lonsdale will be speaking on "Frits, Junos and Daphnes". The >linked website will up up shortly at http://www.nargs.org/ . Best, Lola Horwitz >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.13/78 - Release Date: 8/19/05