Guys, I am crying and kind of speechless in the same time, check his memorial: https://youtu.be/bjWnhLGpyCo/ We will miss you all, Bill. Sent from my iPhone XS > On 3. Mar 2020, at 03:06, linny@cruzio.com wrote: > > Michael, I wish I'd met you at the bulb farm, but I was there early in > the morning. I was impressed with Jamie's experience and knowledge; it > seems that Bill left his farm in very good hands. I, too, admired his > "forethoughtfullness" in planning for the transition. What a huge loss > this is, but not what it could have been without his perceptive > planning. > Jamie says it's possible they may begin to have some retail sales at the > farm. That would be lovely. And didn't the Narcissus smell divine? > Lin > >> On 2020-03-01 23:33, michaelcmace@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I went to the memorial get-together at Bill the Bulb Baron's farm today. I >> was very happy to hear that the business will continue -- Bill left the farm >> to the couple who had been working with him. >> As I'm sure most of you know, there are far too many stories of bulb >> businesses that either disappeared completely or were subject to desperate >> last-minute rescue operations after the owner died. Bill planned ahead to >> prevent that from happening, and I really respect it. >> I hadn't realized how prominent Bill was in the breeding of Tazetta >> narcissus. The American Daffodil Society gave him its gold medal last year. >> The majority of plants at Bill's farm are Narcissus (past peak bloom, >> unfortunately), but tucked away in various spots were all sorts of goodies: >> Freesias scattered around in ones and twos, a few vivid yellow >> Zantedeschias, a row of Watsonias in bud, a little bright purple patch of >> Scilla peruviana (or whatever the heck we call them these days), and so on. >> Plus I think about an acre of Amaryllis, with a few plants that looked like >> Crinums at the edges. The plants all looked very vigorous and well cared for. >> I'm told that Bill died peacefully at the bulb farm, taking a nap in his >> truck. Not a bad way to go. >> Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…