Weekend at Diana Chapman's/Pictures
Mary Sue Ittner (Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:52:36 PST)

Hi Andrew,

This is a late response to your question about whether anyone took
pictures. I'm sure many of us took pictures of the plants, the greenhouses,
and the people. Some of the plants in bloom were plants we already have
pictures of on the wiki. Susan has promised to add pictures of Diana's
plants to the wiki as she takes pictures for Diana's website if those
plants are not already pictured. We have a good picture of Oxalis
palmifrons with the fake bloom, but I'm afraid that would just be confusing
to people who did not read carefully. I took a number of pictures of some
of the nice color varieties Diana has of Oxalis purpurea but I assume Susan
will be adding them to the wiki one of these days. Also I took a number of
pictures of Oxalis comosa, a plant I got at the IBS auction which was
supposed to be one of Michael Vassar's favorites from his collection. It
has not liked Northern California or maybe just Gualala and therefore has
not been a favorite of mine. Plants this year haven't even appeared. I
heard Diana, Ron, and Harold suggesting that Michael's O. comosa plants
might really just be Oxalis obtusa. The ones at Diana's were really
wonderful. Also she told me one of the Oxalis purpureas of hers that I was
admiring that only occasionally blooms for me is much happier in greenhouse
conditions. Her plants were covered with blooms.

I have a number of pictures of people leaning over pots to get a better
look, but am not sure how interesting they would be to anyone.

Mary Sue