Time travel and ancient plants-Pink muscari
aaron floden (Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:57:48 PST)
Hello,
The pink Muscari exist again. The Archibalds offer
seed from a collection of M.armenaicum that is pink,
dubbed "Gul." Pink in Turkish? The one seed that
germinated has bloomed for two years now and
multiplied like armenaicum should, but not like the
typical purple forms. The pink is really outstanding
even though the flowers start white. Ruksans writes of
at least one other one that he grows.
I agree its sad to know that so many are lost
forever. Just think how many never get noticed by
those who have no desire to really look at things.
Aaron Floden
Knoxville, TN
--- Mark BROWN <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
How I wish time travel was really available! Imagine
going back to see Bowles garden in the heyday of
snowdrops in the early years of the twentieth
century or earlier still,and visiting James Allen or
even Ewebank and his fabulous collection of
fascinating seedlings some of which are still
questionably grown.Imagine all thoses wonderful lost
plants being available again through twin scaling
and other modern methods.They had pink snowdrops
then!And just a mention of the plants grown even
earlier Red and pink muscari of the baroque
gardens,all those wondeful narcissi,the double
cyclamineus ,;pink convallaria.The mind
boggles!
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