winter activity
Jane McGary (Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:30:17 PST)

Arnold wrote,

With the snow covering the ground and only a couple of South African
bulbs flowering it is the time to do a little research into bulbs.

I had acquired a colchicum szovitsii 'Vardaovit'. Well I searched for the
place know as Vardaovit and couldn't find it. The correct name is
Vardahovit located in Armenia.
Do you think that the catalogs will be corrected next year?

Place names in lists from the area formerly controlled by Russia (such as
Latvia, whence this Colchicum comes to us) are often spelled differently
than the forms in English-language reference books because they've been
transliterated from Cyrillic alphabet references.

Jane McGary