I wrote a series of posts on Nerine on my blog last week, which members might find interesting. Matt Mattus's beautiful pictures of cut stems remind me that at the Nerine & Amaryllid Society meeting last Saturday the subject of virus - often a problem in Nerine - was raised. It was suggested that a principle method of transmission was through cutting the flowers and passing it on in the sap from plant to plant, so it may be wise to clean the knife with spirit between each plant while cutting stems. John Grimshaw Visit John Grimshaw's Garden Diary http://johngrimshawsgardendiary.blogspot.com/ Dr. John M. Grimshaw Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Mattus" <mmattus@charter.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Nerine notes in MA > Well, as long as we are all chatting about Nerine, I might as well share > my > images on my Flickr page from last week. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/exploraculture/page2/ > >