Swedish doggy / bulbs
info@auchgourishbotanicgarden.org (Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:17:46 PDT)

Thomas I am inclined to think you have been offered some good advice
already by others as to the suitability of what you are proposing,
Roger in Canada's only mild mistake is on the subject of language. To
my personal knowledge and experience virtually all the Swedish people
with whom I have had dealings, either from here in Scotland or when
working and travelling in Scandinavia invariably speak and read
English often much better than those for whom it is claimed as their
first language, a few of them in Scotland and a lot more in England.

The idea of mixing a website proposing to deal with geophytes amongst
a wide range of gardener interests, including some high level
professionals along with, lets be brutally frank, some of the truly
ugliest of man made dogs ever to appear in Creation seems very odd,
perhaps even weird. As a Scot I am all too familar with the subject
of cost appreciation and sharing but with all due respect, at a risk
of mixing metaphors, [I am sorry and no offence meant] however, this
is one duck which won't quack far less fly. I also think it is
somewhat bad mannered to try to introduce your project via the
courtesy of the PBS folks, tolerant as they no doubt are, it comes
across as bad form given the efforts and energies put into PBS by
volounteers giving so much of their time, so freely. I find that I am
able to learn much from the sidelines about what interests folks in
western and some other parts of North America............. a very
wide 'church' ......... both geographically and in range of
interests.....while I doubt if they can advance their interests much
by what happens in Sweden some of which may be on a similar latitude
to mine here in northern Scotland but where only the most southern
counties of Sweden can expect to grow out of doors a tiny fraction of
the same range of genera and taxa.

Iain