Hi Mary wonderful How long does it take from seed to flower for Cyrtanthus sanguineus? Il giorno dom 2 set 2018 alle ore 00:40 Mary Sue Ittner <msittner@mcn.org> ha scritto: > After not flowering for years after being taken down by the Narcissus > Bulb Fly and then probably not getting the care it needed, today I was > thrilled to see a single flower in my greenhouse. We were fortunate to > go on a trip led by Cameron McMaster to the Eastern Cape in 2010. > Labeled the "Friends Trip" there were five of us from California > including my husband and Bob and Marlene Werra, and five from South > Africa including Rhoda McMaster, Rod and Rachel Saunders, John Manning > and Ted Oliver, an Erica expert. You can imagine how lucky we were. > Every night we'd look at Cameron's photos of what we saw that day and > listen to the experts discuss what they were. And then we would vote for > the flower of the day. On my birthday, a particularly wonderful day for > orchids and Proteas, Cameron let me extend that to four favorites. At > the end of the trip we voted for the flower of the trip and it was > Cyrtanthus sanguineus. Rod wrote a nice piece in the IBSA bulletin about > what a find it was and how excited he had been at the discovery. I added > some photos to the wiki at the time, but maybe some day I'll replace > them with larger ones. We had a size limit at the time. > > > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > It has special meaning to me for it to flower again, especially as I > hear another suspect has been arrested in Holland. It brought back a > good memory of a very special day and an exciting find. > > Attached is a photo of Cameron, Rod, and Rachel surveying the scene. > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: Rachel-Rod-CameronCyrtanthus.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 364077 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
