Giorgio, The farthest north I have been is Venice - but I know all about the famous lakes near you. We have an arisaema growing wild here called Jack in the Pulpit - I have no idea what the species name is. I love Amorphophallus. For some reason my A. Konjak disappeared. I could stick my hand in the ground outside where the dormant tuber was over wintering and it was just an empty space. Maybe a squirril found it. Pinellia is interesting, but I really don't have a place to put a collection of those interesting aroids. BUT, the cypripedium - WOW. Too expensive for me though. The first time I saw that one was in the wild in a bog - huge pink flower C. regina I think the name is. Do you go to the botanic garden in Rome much? It is right on the way to trestivere from the vatican, before you get to the prison. Right at the end of that street - but I can't remember the name of the street. I love that place, the view from the Japanese garden is great and there is a really nice almost a hedge of Bletilla striata. That land in Rome is the most primal natural area - and spaces there have never been cultivated so it is a good way to see how the ianiculum hill looked in its natural state. They had some Gloxinia italica growing - interesting but not too showy. Fun to see though. Not to mention the opium in the medical garden - three varieties of Digitalis, purpurea, flavescens and lanata. You are so luck to be Italian! I am in love with Italy and Rome, especially. Mark > From: studio.pozzitaubert@tiscali.it > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:50:58 +0200 > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: Re: [pbs] I am a new member > > Hi Mark, > Varese is in northern Italy near Milano, > we have many lakes from small to very small here, > hills near Alps mountains and a soil which helps with many species of > flowers and trees. > I grow Aroids expecially Arisaema and Pinellia and some Amorphophallus. > You will find a page with my Arisaema plants in PBS, > I love Lilium, Crinum, Hellebore, Hemerocallis and wild flowers also, > the last interest is now for cypripedium ( another page in PBS ). > I usually sell my seeds from arisaema in late Autumn and if I collect > many from the same species I'll send to the PBx. > > Hoping to hear from you soon > best wishes > Giorgio > > Il giorno 24/giu/09, alle ore 20:40, mark zukaitis ha scritto: > > > > > Hi Georgio > > > > > > > > Thanks for the e-mail. I am writing from Baltimore, Maryland USDA > > Zone 7. > > > > > > > > Where is Varese? I have been to Italy and love it. I am most > > familiar with Rome though. What do you grow? I would be very > > interested to hear. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Mark > > > >> From: studio.pozzitaubert@tiscali.it > >> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:20:24 +0200 > >> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > >> Subject: Re: [pbs] I am a new member > >> > >> > >> Il giorno 23/giu/09, alle ore 22:24, mark zukaitis ha scritto: > >> > >>> Hello fellow geophyte enthusiasts. > >> > >> > >> Hello Mark, > >> welcome in PBS !! > >> from where ??? > >> maybe you wrote your country and I lost that mail > >> > >> Giorgio Pozzi > >> Varese, Italy zone 7/8 > >> studio.pozzitaubert@tiscali.it > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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/ > > Giorgio Pozzi > Travedona (Varese) > Italy zone 7/8 > > studio.pozzitaubert@tiscali.it > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/