Rod and Rachel Saunders

Randall P. Linke randysgarden@gmail.com
Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:18:47 PDT
Much the same here.  I started my now defunct nursery with much
encouragement and seed from Rod and Rachel and very much enjoyed my
correspondence with her.  There has not been a day since I first heard of
the sad news that I have not thought of them, several times a day.


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On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Diana Chapman <rarebulbs@suddenlink.net>
wrote:

> Like others, I am in a state of shock over this.  I am at an age when I am
> losing friends and family, and I am comforted when I feel bad by working
> with my bulbs.  Now when I enter the greenhouses I am reminded of Rachel
> everywhere I look.
>
> I started growing South African bulbs from seed in 1989 and by the early
> 90's was ordering seed from Silverhill.  Without a computer or the
> internet, Rachel and I corresponded by mail, and I still have her
> delightful letters.  I decided to start a bulb nursery, it was supposed to
> be a small hobby type business to keep me busy when I retired from
> medicine.  Rachel gave me so much encouragement, supporting my decision to
> leave the medical profession since she had done something similar, leaving
> her prior profession in research to start Silverhill with her husband.  I
> can't say how important her encouragement and support was back then, so for
> about thirty years she has been a constant presence in my life, although I
> only met her and Rod once.  I can say without hesitation, that without
> Rachel and Silverhill, Telos Rare Bulbs would probably never have come
> about. I feel as though I have taken them for granted in recent years,
> expecting them to always be there.  I am devastated by this loss.  I can't
> begin to imagine what the people close to them are feeling.
>
> Diana Chapman
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