Ah yes. Back in the day when I was a very new member of the Connecticut Chapter I made a serious faux pas. I used a common name. And Norman Singer, Geoffrey's partner, said with a twinkle in his eye, "What, Judy? Using baby talk?" Clearly is made a lasting impression on me. On 11/1/2021 5:02 PM, Mark Mazer via pbs wrote: > " Howard Porter, dear man in the Connecticut chapter of rock garden > society, had a fascinating, rather high raised bed, square if memory > serves." > > Judy.... He called it a pavilion.... maybe the Turkish Pavilion. Another > fascinating individual from back in the day in CT. Like Geoffrey > Charlesworth, he was involved in the teams that broke the German codes > during WW2 and was a professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia and Yale. > > "We stand on the shoulders of giants." > > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 4:06 PM Jane McGary via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> Another book popped up as I was arranging some give-away volumes: "Fall >> and winter bloom in the solar greenhouse" by James Jones. The author was >> once president of NARGS and self-published this book; he gardened near >> Boston, Massachusetts. Probably hard to find, but practical and clearly >> experience-based. >> >> Jane McGary >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>