All the Chileflora links are broken. Sue H. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Shelley Gage <s.gage100@hotmail.com> wrote: > I had an amazing two weeks with Mauro. His brief was to show me as many > Hippeastrums in the wild as possible and this he did. It was a fantastic > trip and of course I saw many other amazing plants too. I hope to do the > trip again in the next couple of years. I also spent some time at Lorenzi's > Plantarum which was a wonderful experience. I thoroughly recommend a trip > to see both. > Shelley Gage Queensland. > > > From: wpoulsen@pacbell.net > > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:06:34 -0700 > > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > Subject: [pbs] Mauro Peixoto's BRAZILPLANTS Support Club > > > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/