Hi Julia , I dont know the book of Gerald Durell - but I know from friends that in Corfu grows only Cyc. hederifolium . I know Crete well and there growing : Cyc. persicum Cyc. creticum Cyc. graecum Cyc. graecum ssp. candidum Cyc. hederifolium ssp. confusum Youre website with flowers of Crete is really wonderful - but I missing pictures of Paeonia clusii and all the Tulips . With best wishes Hans -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]Im Auftrag von julia feise Gesendet: Freitag, 4. November 2005 10:10 An: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Betreff: [pbs] Gerald Durrell's Corfu I was interested to read a reference to cyclamen growing wild on Corfu as described in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals. This was the very passage that hooked me on the notion of living in Crete and made me (many years later) sell up and retire (joke) here. Spurred on by the delightfully exotic and humorous books, I visited Greece - Corfu - first in the 1960s and was entranced to find a woodland dell full of Cyclamen persicum(?) - I didn't know one Cyclamen from the other in those days. To add to the adventure, tortoises were rumaging amongst the leaves - very exciting for a girl brought up in Birmingham, England. Now, all these years later I am still excited to find Cyclamen growing wild and particularly love Cyclamen creticum. Julia _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php