I'm a REALLY happy camper now
Jan. 11th, 2006 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinDonna just ordered seed for nicotiana 'Perfume Deep Purple'. Be still, my beating heart. (No, that's not sarcasm, it really is a fine, fine thing. And it's purple, which is fine all by itself.)
While I'm plant geeking, I've got a few piccies for folks to take a gander at. These are all things we're trying to justify spending the greenhouse budget on:
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius and Amorphophallus titanum (a superstar in the plant geek world)--Donna already has Amorphophallus konjac, so we need these, too.
Alocasia 'Portodora' and Colocasia gigantea 'Thailand Giant Strain. I direct the viewer's attention to the potential heights as noted in the descriptions. Oooooo, really big plants.
And, because I am both perverse, and easily amused, Hosta 'Little Stiffy. Go read the blurb. I'll wait.
Funny, no? That was written by the morning speaker from the conference/trade show yesterday morning.
While I'm plant geeking, I've got a few piccies for folks to take a gander at. These are all things we're trying to justify spending the greenhouse budget on:
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius and Amorphophallus titanum (a superstar in the plant geek world)--Donna already has Amorphophallus konjac, so we need these, too.
Alocasia 'Portodora' and Colocasia gigantea 'Thailand Giant Strain. I direct the viewer's attention to the potential heights as noted in the descriptions. Oooooo, really big plants.
And, because I am both perverse, and easily amused, Hosta 'Little Stiffy. Go read the blurb. I'll wait.
Funny, no? That was written by the morning speaker from the conference/trade show yesterday morning.
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Date: 2006-01-11 08:41 pm (UTC)And also Hosta "Little Stiffy". :D
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Date: 2006-01-11 10:17 pm (UTC)I'm definitely getting the Canna musafolia (http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/Detail/03777.html) this coming season for the deck. One of the greenhouse groupies gave Donna a pair of them, and they'll need divided this spring.
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Date: 2006-01-12 07:19 pm (UTC)http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925343.700
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Date: 2006-01-13 01:54 pm (UTC)There's a company in New Mexico that's doing something similar, on a regional basis--they're gathering all the locally grown, traditional crop varieties, and preserving them by growing them out in isolated fields where the strains stay pure. Native Seed/SEARCH (I forget what the rest of the name stands for) is the company. If I remember right, their main interests are the regional types of maize and chiles.