Visit to PDN...

From: Al Wootten awootten at NRAO.EDU> on 2001.05.08 at 19:11:41(6388) Thanks Craig for the updates...I only wish I were passing through Miami sometime soon. I was lucky enough to pass by Raleigh this weekend past on my way from recovering my son's college stuff back to home. Lucky because it was open house at Plant Delights. Several A. konjac were in stately bloom in the Juniper Level garden by the gazebo--a thoroughly delightful garden I might add. I didn't think the smell bad at all, though my mother, traveling with me, disagreed. Numerous Arisaemae dotted the woodland floor. In the nursery I found out how well the name fits--each house held a new collection of treasures. I picked up as many as I could carry--blooming A. sikokianum and kiusianum Makino and several non-aroids. The real treasure, however, was a Dracunculus vulgaris in bud. I worried for the remaining 7 hours of the trip that it would bloom in the car and get me in real trouble with my mother. Every little scent of a passing paper factory got us worried. However, it is now safely in the garden where I only have to worry that it will bloom while I am traveling this next week and asphyxiate my wife and sons. I'm not sure how long the bloom lasts, but it appears a few days from opening; perhaps I can pollinate it and get some seed... Great show, Tony! +More Clear skies, Al

From: Paul Tyerman ptyerman at ozemail.com.au> on 2001.05.09 at 02:25:16(6394) Al, >and sons. I'm not sure how long the bloom lasts, but it appears a few >days from opening; perhaps I can pollinate it and get some seed... > Every year I think that my Dracunculus are "just about to open" and they wait at least another week. They seem to get to the point of looking like they'll open and then wait for a week before doing it (perhaps they're just a tease?). So.... you may be home to see the flower open? Cheers. Paul Tyerman +More Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Lilium, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!! *************************************************** P.S. Please note the change in my email address. ***************************************************

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2001.05.09 at 15:44:07(6401) Paul! It's getting rather late in the Fetish Season for the upside down Antipodes. I hope your Dracunculus will stop and you'll make them start doing it. +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 3:25 AM Subject: Re: Visit to PDN... | Al, | | >and sons. I'm not sure how long the bloom lasts, but it appears a few | >days from opening; perhaps I can pollinate it and get some seed... | > | | Every year I think that my Dracunculus are "just about to open" and they | wait at least another week. They seem to get to the point of looking like | they'll open and then wait for a week before doing it (perhaps they're just | a tease?). | | So.... you may be home to see the flower open? | | | Cheers. | | Paul Tyerman | Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8 | mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au | | Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Lilium, Aroids, Irises | plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!! | | | *************************************************** | P.S. Please note the change in my email address. | *************************************************** |

From: "Petra Schmidt" petra at plantdelights.com> on 2001.05.09 at 15:48:35(6403) Dang...Al...you should've let us know you were on the property - it would have been so nice to meet and for us to meet you...did you see the Arisaema trial bed? Petra +More petra@plantdel.com ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 3:11 PM Subject: Visit to PDN... > Thanks Craig for the updates...I only wish I were passing through Miami > sometime soon. I was lucky enough to pass by Raleigh this weekend past > on my way from recovering my son's college stuff back to home. Lucky because > it was open house at Plant Delights. Several A. konjac were in stately bloom > in the Juniper Level garden by the gazebo--a thoroughly delightful garden > I might add. I didn't think the smell bad at all, though my mother, traveling > with me, disagreed. Numerous Arisaemae dotted the woodland floor. In the > nursery I found out how well the name fits--each house held a new collection > of treasures. I picked up as many as I could carry--blooming A. sikokianum > and kiusianum Makino and several non-aroids. The real treasure, however, > was a Dracunculus vulgaris in bud. I worried for the remaining 7 hours > of the trip that it would bloom in the car and get me in real trouble with > my mother. Every little scent of a passing paper factory got us worried. > However, it is now safely in the garden where I only have to worry that > it will bloom while I am traveling this next week and asphyxiate my wife > and sons. I'm not sure how long the bloom lasts, but it appears a few > days from opening; perhaps I can pollinate it and get some seed... > > Great show, Tony! > > Clear skies, > Al > >

From: magrysbo at shu.edu on 2001.05.14 at 20:01:40(6440) They're building up the stink... Paul Tyerman @mobot.org on 05/08/2001 10:26:01 PM Please respond to aroid-l@mobot.org Sent by: aroid-l@mobot.org +More To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L cc: Subject: Re: Visit to PDN... Al, >and sons. I'm not sure how long the bloom lasts, but it appears a few >days from opening; perhaps I can pollinate it and get some seed... > Every year I think that my Dracunculus are "just about to open" and they wait at least another week. They seem to get to the point of looking like they'll open and then wait for a week before doing it (perhaps they're just a tease?). So.... you may be home to see the flower open? Cheers. Paul Tyerman Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Lilium, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!! *************************************************** P.S. Please note the change in my email address. ***************************************************

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