Thanks Lee I will definitely be joining the club. Karl On Sep 12, 2014 11:06 AM, "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> wrote: > Some of you may have visited Mauro Peixoto's Brazilplant website < > http://www.brazilplants.com/menu.html> or even ordered seeds from him > from that website. He has an amazing set of plants growing in his > shadehouses and greenhouses and on his property as well. He also goes on > many botanizing trips looking for new species and tries to produce as much > seed of all of his selections as possible. He is also very good friends > with Harri Lorenzi who has opened an amazing botanical garden in Nova > Odessa called Jardim Botânico Plantarum which also supports looking for new > species, including bulbs. If you ever get a chance to visit Brazil, > especially around São Paulo, you should contact Mauro and ask to go see his > place. It is a plant wonderland. He also is in the business of taking > people on botanical tours and birding tours but you'll have to get in touch > with him for details about that. > > In any case, I was asking/teasing him about why he has so many Gesneriads > and not as many bulb species, and he told me it was because he had so many > supporters who were Gesneriad lovers and Gesneriad-related clubs, and not > as many who were bulb lovers or amaryllid lovers, and if more people were > egging him on to look for bulb species or produce more bulb seeds (and > buying them), he would spend more time doing so. So I asked him to put > together a web page explaining his support club that he has had going for > several years now, so I could point people to that page so as not to break > the PBS list rules. If you're interested in supporting his efforts, take a > look at <http://www.brazilplants.com/club.html>. It's a really good deal. > > (Now if we could just get local people to set up a similar kind of thing > in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador!) > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a > Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > > _______________________________________________ > 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/