Ditto! I once heard a garden talk where the lecturer suggested no one ever plants for the long term "who would plant Rhododendron sinograndes and probably not live to see it flower" he said. We had a fine specemin which flowerd and set seed, we both planted and sold seedlings, some people really do plant for the future, and some times get to see the results too! Peter (UK) On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Mark BROWN <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > Bravo!! > > > > > > > Message du 03/10/12 21:57 > > De : "Robert Pries" > > A : "Pacific Bulb Society" > > Objet : Re: [pbs] The Future > > > I just bought more Lycoris thinking about a hybridizing program I had > started about 14 years ago and then loosing everything when I moved to > North Carolina. I had nine year old seedlings when I moved, the time it > takes to first bloom. Starting over means I believe I will make it another > ten years but I think I am realistic that I will never see that second > generation. But maybe there is an outside chance. I hope if so I will be > able to show them off to PBS." > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >