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/…
