Nerine notes in MA

Matt Mattus mmattus@charter.net
Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:59:30 PDT
I can trade, or give you some!
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On 11/3/10 8:49 PM, "santoury@aol.com" <santoury@aol.com> wrote:

> I am in MA too - do you know where I might be able to get some - perhaps
> through a trade? 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Mattus <mmattus@charter.net>
> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Wed, Nov 3, 2010 8:31 pm
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Nerine notes in MA
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> Well, as long as we are all chatting about Nerine, I might as well share my
> images on my Flickr page from last week.
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/exploraculture/page2/
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> I also posted some on my blog Growing with plants.com, where there are more.
> I planted some N. sarniensis ten years ago along the foundation of the
> greenhouse in the alpine garden, and although they send up foliage every
> autumn, never a bloom. I may have planted them too deeply ( I think I buried
> them about a foot deep).
> 
> I tried photographing all of my collection this year, since most bloomed, so
> that I could have an image with the name tag, and the blossom, but they are
> so challenging to photograph. I spent three days shooting each stem with a
> label, but they looked nothing like the real, live, blossom.
> 
> I finally decided to just pick them all, and arrange them on a board in the
> garden, arranged in floral foam by color. I figured that a nice photoshoot
> was worth a few seeds!
> 
> Matt Mattus
> Worcester, MA USA
> Zone 5b
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> On 11/3/10 5:26 PM, "Ellen Hornig" <hornig@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> I put a group of N. bowdenii in the garden this year, near the south-facing
>> wall of the garage, and they're all in full bloom now, seemingly unperturbed
>> by the fairly significant freeze we had last night (down to at least 28F).
>> This clone, which I confess I got on eBay years ago, has always been quite
>> frost-tolerant in containers (I'd bring them onto the deck to admire when
>> they came in bloom).  It's also free-blooming, and multiplies like crazy.
>> I'll be interested to see whether the ones I planted out reappear in spring.
>> 
>> Ellen
>> 
>> Ellen Hornig
>> Seneca Hill Perennials
>> 3712 County Route 57
>> Oswego NY 13126 USA
>> http://www.senecahillperennials.com/
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