I was wondering when someone would pick up on my typo, thanks Rodger
"Carpathian Wonder" is in bloom in the frames too
Rimmer in SE Michigan
--- On Sun, 3/6/11, totototo@telus.net <totototo@telus.net> wrote:
From: totototo@telus.net <totototo@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Spring flowering in Oregon
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, March 6, 2011, 5:30 PM
On 4 Mar 2011, at 13:39, r de vries wrote:
> Crocus sieberi 'Bowls White'
Recte, 'Bowles White', named after the great English gardener E. A. Bowles. The
earliest of the spring crocuses in my garden, and a durable plant.
Consciousness of Bowles is now receding into the mists of the past, to the
detriment of modern gardening (imho). Among other plants named after this great
man are Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve', and Ranunculus ficaria 'Bowles Double'.
He wrote a number of books: one on Narcissus, one on Crocus and Colchicum, and
three marvelous accounts of his garden, "My Garden in Spring", "My Garden in
Summer", and "My Garden in Autumn and Winter." While the two on geophytic
genera are now technically obsolete (but still worth reading), his "My Garden"
books are perfect for a dark winter evening when the garden is a soggy/snowy
mess.
Bowles also contributed profusely to the horticultural (and, I think,
botanical) periodical literature but alas! no one has ever gotten moving on
publishing a "collected works".
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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada