I can trade, or give you some! Contact me offline. mmattus@charter.net On 11/3/10 8:49 PM, "santoury@aol.com" <santoury@aol.com> wrote: > I am in MA too - do you know where I might be able to get some - perhaps > through a trade? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Mattus <mmattus@charter.net> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 8:31 pm > 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/ > > I also posted some on my blog Growing with plants.com, where there are more. > I planted some N. sarniensis ten years ago along the foundation of the > greenhouse in the alpine garden, and although they send up foliage every > autumn, never a bloom. I may have planted them too deeply ( I think I buried > them about a foot deep). > > I tried photographing all of my collection this year, since most bloomed, so > that I could have an image with the name tag, and the blossom, but they are > so challenging to photograph. I spent three days shooting each stem with a > label, but they looked nothing like the real, live, blossom. > > I finally decided to just pick them all, and arrange them on a board in the > garden, arranged in floral foam by color. I figured that a nice photoshoot > was worth a few seeds! > > Matt Mattus > Worcester, MA USA > Zone 5b > > > On 11/3/10 5:26 PM, "Ellen Hornig" <hornig@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> I put a group of N. bowdenii in the garden this year, near the south-facing >> wall of the garage, and they're all in full bloom now, seemingly unperturbed >> by the fairly significant freeze we had last night (down to at least 28F). >> This clone, which I confess I got on eBay years ago, has always been quite >> frost-tolerant in containers (I'd bring them onto the deck to admire when >> they came in bloom). It's also free-blooming, and multiplies like crazy. >> I'll be interested to see whether the ones I planted out reappear in spring. >> >> Ellen >> >> Ellen Hornig >> Seneca Hill Perennials >> 3712 County Route 57 >> Oswego NY 13126 USA >> http://www.senecahillperennials.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/