Sorry to all, that ramble was just meant to go to Jim McKenny Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Nov 2013, at 2:30 pm, "Randall P. Linke" <randysgarden@gmail.com> wrote: > > Here in the US at least, if not internationally, we have the on-line > "Darwin Awards" for those stupid enough to be done in by nature or other > acts of their own stupidity. > > > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Ceridwen Lloyd <ceridwen@internode.on.net>wrote: > >> Already wrote too much that wasn't bulb-related! So I won't reply to the >> list at large. >> But yes, red-bellies in particular are bad for dogs, dead in 20 minutes >> and with antivenene about $1100 a shot at the vet and often more than one >> needed, you'd better really love your pooch. Witless terrier was growling >> at me from under the roses a couple of Christmases back and I thought "oh, >> she's got a rat" but when I hauled her out I thought "oh she's killed a >> snake" then realised "oh she hasn't yet quite killed a snake". So my >> christmas present of a ladies 410 shotgun was used to despatch the mortally >> wounded but still very dangerous creature, only a two-footer but when we >> lived closer to a national park we had a resident as thick as my forearm. >> The browns are deadly from day one and they love to lay eggs in mulch, so >> late summer is a time to avoid poking around in it. Normally you leave them >> alone (it is illegal to kill one actually) and there are a few >> snake-catching businesses who charge more for a home visit than I'm allowed >> to! (Though I guess Australian medical cos >> ts are lower than the US, different system and all that) >> No human deaths for a long time - and the last few have involved alcohol >> so I guess that's just evolution in action. >> But they do give me the heebie-jeebies a bit - it's not just sun >> protection that always has me in long pants. >> >> On a bulb-related note, I have been thrilled with the germination rates >> from my bulb exchange seeds, even ones not planted for a few seasons. >> Mostly I have liliums and even the more picky US ones have at least poked a >> few seedlings up. I have just potted up the survivors from I think my very >> first received seed, SIGNA, alophia lahue and cypella coelestis, though >> when the plant stand was blown over in a gale and I had to rescue what I >> could things became jumbled - there's a pot called "viridis" that is either >> lachenalia or ixia, have to wait and see. >> The only part of the US I've visited was Baltimore - for a few days just >> after Christmas on the way home from eloping to France - enough years ago >> that all the young black kids on the train had pagers!! >> We visited the Smithsonian to see the moon landing crafts and the >> supermarkets to see a cross section of the real life, but wrong time of >> year for flora. >> Now when I think of travel anywhere it's not really for the culture, it's >> to see the trees! (I had expressed a desire to go to Sakhalin island to a >> Russian patient, who just have me a look and remarked drily "you like >> bears?") >> >> Best >> >> Ceridwen >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On 2 Nov 2013, at 10:15 am, Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Ceridwen, I wonder how many non-Australians know what the Australian red >> bellied snake and the brown snake are. Your casual references to them gives >> no indication. Both are members of the same family as cobras, mambas, >> kraits and coral snakes among others. According to the wikipedia entry for >> the brown snake, it is the world's second most venomous land snake. >>> >>> Your poor dogs! >>> >>> Jim McKenney >>> Montgomery County, Maryland, USA where we have local snake species >> called red bellied snake and brown snake - ours are strictly of the >> harmless garden variety. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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/