On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com>

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/…
rum-rutilum/381632910.html
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

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