I’d bet the seller could also offer you a special deal on some bright blue or multi-colored roses. Surely you’ve seen those on Ebay before? Jan > On Jan 15, 2017, at 2:53 PM, Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com> wrote: > > I understand that CHAD can be difficult for family harmony. I have a PTSD from having lived with a collector many years ago--not a plant collector, but in the extreme case, the symptoms are probably the same. My situation had a happy ending when I traded him my half-interest in the collection, for the house and full custody of the kids. > I have a few hippeastrums in the garden in Mexic/o./ Here in Massachusetts, I am considering getting one to put indoors on the bright, cool windowsill. There was a website offering them, > http://dhgate.com/product/… > First of all, it says they are blue, and this seems questionable to me. Are there really blue ones? > Secondly, he says he ships them from China. Is it possible to mail bulbs here from China? Or even seeds? > If this isn´t a proper hippeastrum source, could you tell me what would be? > January seems a bad time for a bulb to be in a Fedex truck in Massachusetts. It´s cold. > The reasons I´m not afraid that I´ll get CHAD: > I can quit whenever I want to. > Other people have more hippeastrums than I do. > I´m not hurting other people. > I´m not even hurting myself. > It´s not illegal. > It actually improves my performance. > I deserve it. > Everybody does it. > You do it, too. > It´s a disease, not a moral failing. > One day at a time. > Jane > > _______________________________________________ > 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/