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There is private messaging on this forum... right at the top, towards the left.

Hi Mark, I have taken the liberty of cross posting your message to the PBS list, where it will meet with a larger audience. I notice that the PBS wiki does not have anything about Melica...

Rare moonflower set to bloom again in Cambridge

Cameras are poised on a rare Amazonian cactus that blooms once a year and for only 12 hours before its flowers die.

The moonflower, or Strophocactus wittii, is part of the collection at Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-68131271

Quote from: CG100 on January 27, 2024, 09:22:43 AMWhere did my post in answer to Carlos go?

Hmm which post in reply to Carlos? The one with you saying "You still need permission to be there, but you can collect seeds" is there. But there is not one post Carlos saying "I have my passport.".

Right to roam... " 8% of England is covered by the "right to roam"," seemingly I am not alone in thinking one can walk through a field of corn.

Carlos, you may like this web page:

https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/S/Squill(Autumn)/Squill(Autumn).htm

There really is a "right to roam" in England - terms and conditions apply.

UK law has not diverged much from EU law - and we should leave it at that.

Quote from: CG100 on January 26, 2024, 02:53:22 AMIn the UK, we are free to collect seed of anything.

Combined with my "right to roam" (England), I'll be the strange bloke wandering around your garden this afternoon.

There's satisfaction collecting your own seed from the urban environment and getting it to grow. A lot of people don't understand what you're up to or indeed why. I've also had a lot of pleasure from finding plants growing in the garden, seed having been spread by birds etc.

Another technique I have perfected is bumping into plants growing over people's walls, "oops I have bumped into that plant and a piece has fallen on the ground, in the interest of tidiness I will public spiritedly pick up the piece and take it home" - once home it becomes a cutting, and then a garden landmark "which I got from XXX".

More flagrant practitioners of the art arrive with loppers and claim to be 'hikers' keeping public footpaths clear.
 

People left 'mind blown' after learning what paprika is actually made of

"Learning that paprika is just dried and crushed red bell peppers was really shocking. Like I dunno why I thought there was a Paprika tree somewhere."

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/opinion/lifestyle/people-left-mind-blown-after-31967460

OK, I've done a new version of the software with a bit more blank space at the bottom of both scrolling areas.

The next question, how do you force a page load on devices where Ctrl+F5 is not an option. You need to do that to get the new software.

One answer is wait until tomorrow, after 24 hours the browser will download a new copy. The only other technique I have found is to use incognito mode, which is probably a Chrome speciality, at any rate every page view in that mode downloads a new copy of everything.

I have an idea - I'll do a new version and let you know.

Until then, as a work around, you can get to the last message for the month on display by using the button for that (right arrow going into a bar). Or by infinite scroll on the message on display, keep scrolling the current message text up and it will step to the next message. Or by stepping to the next message with the single arrow buttons.

Phones and so on are in a state of sin, they implement "over scroll", by design you can scroll beyond the contents, and its all a bit of a mess as regards standards.

Hi Ron - thanks for noticing the new interface to the list archive - try scrolling the entire screen contents. Find a bit of page that is not an active component and drag it upwards.

The page is designed so that it is the right size with the URL bar off screen which is what all the phones/tablets I tried do. Maybe this is something you can configure.

Hardware beyond me was always going to be a problem.

Arnold - interesting plant details.

The first 19 volumes of "The Bulb Garden", newsletter of the Pacific Bulb Society are available online for free download.

New is a page giving the contents of all issues, this makes it easier to discover things of interest. You can find the contents here:

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php?page=Newsletter


Downloads are linked to the contents. A table showing all the downloads is here:

https://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/TheBulbGarden


Volumes 18 and 19 have been added recently. In addition volume 2 issue 4 was missing, thanks to Bob Rutemoeller for scanning it for me.

If you know of any other missing issues, let me know.

Love the original site (flowingdata) and the plant program.

Going to be a cold few days in the UK - but it will probably stay above 0C here on the coast. Talk is of snow. By the end of the week the weather should start to come from the South-West again and temperatures are predicted to rise to 10C.

Kew Gardens reveals its top 10 plants and fungi discovered in 2023

Last year, the Botanic Garden's researchers named 74 new plants and 15 fungi, but these 10 discoveries are the strangest by far.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12950627/Kew-Gardens-reveals-10-plants-fungi-discovered-2023-orchid-dormant-volcano-carnivorous-flower-devours-insects.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67930823

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-ten-fungal-species-science.html