plant magic award

From: Tony Avent <tony at plantdel.com> on 1998.01.22 at 00:19:39(1859) In case you missed it: The new K. Van Bourgondien & Sons catalog, have some amazing color photos, but my favorite is the Arum italicum picture. The great seed stalk picture was missing foliage, so they magically sprouted zantedeschia foliage around the base to take the place of the missing arum foliage. Perhaps we should have a contest to see how many of the pictures have foliage of a different plant. Tony Avent +More Plant Delights Nursery 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, NC 27603 USA ph 919 772-4794 fx 919 662-0370 email tony@plantdel.com http://www.plantdel.com USDA zone 7, 0F-100F "I Consider Every Plant Hardy Until I Have Killed It Myself...Three Times" - Avent

From: Al Wootten <awootten at NRAO.EDU> on 1998.01.22 at 17:14:57(1860) Tony Avent writes: > In case you missed it: > > The new K. Van Bourgondien & Sons catalog, have some amazing color > photos, but my favorite is the Arum italicum picture. The great seed stalk > picture was missing foliage, so they magically sprouted zantedeschia foliage > around the base to take the place of the missing arum foliage. Perhaps we > should have a contest to see how many of the pictures have foliage of a > different plant. +More In fact, I obtained my A. italicum from them and had wondered why the foliage on my plant looked so different from theirs. Older and wiser now and having grown both species last summer, I don't know why I missed this in their catalog! Thanks for the morning giggle, Tony. Clear skies, Al +---------------------------------------------------------+ |Al Wootten, Slacktide, Sturgeon Creek at the Rappahannock| |Astronomer (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | |genealogy homepage http://members.tripod.com/~astral | |Deltaville, Virginia (804)776-6369 | +---------------------------------------------------------+

From: Don Martinson <dmartin at post.its.mcw.edu> on 1998.01.22 at 18:26:21(1861) >Tony Avent writes: > > In case you missed it: > > > > The new K. Van Bourgondien & Sons catalog, have some amazing color > > photos, but my favorite is the Arum italicum picture. The great seed stalk > > picture was missing foliage, so they magically sprouted zantedeschia >foliage > > around the base to take the place of the missing arum foliage. Perhaps we > > should have a contest to see how many of the pictures have foliage of a > > different plant. I've another "award" story, altho not aroidally inclined. Last year, Spring Hill Nursery offered a Buddleia collection, all supposedly B.davidii, but one which included a bright yellow variety. Now to my knowledge, the only even remotely yellow buddleia is B.globosa, which has a very different flower form than davidii, but what they did was to take a picture of a white B.davidii, flip the photo about the vertical axis, and color the flower color yellow. You could hold up the pictures side by side and see that they were of the same plant! Caveat emptor! Don Martinson +More dmartin@post.its.mcw.edu "Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies. Objective truth and individual reason are feared above all." Jimmy Johnson - "Arlo & Janis"

From: Clarence Hester <hesterc at leguin.acpub.duke.edu> on 1998.01.22 at 20:49:49(1862) Tony Avent wrote: > > In case you missed it: > > The new K. Van Bourgondien & Sons catalog, have some amazing color > photos, Tony, Now that you mention it, what about the variegated Canna? Do you think that's for real (the picture representation)? When I first saw it, I was shocked thinking it might be Canna Stuttgart at the amazing price of 4 for $13.25. Obviously it is not, but it sure got my attention. Clarence Hester

From: stacy holtzman <sholtzma at sunflower.bio.indiana.edu> on 1998.01.22 at 20:56:34(1863) >>Tony Avent writes: >> > In case you missed it: >> > +More >> > The new K. Van Bourgondien & Sons catalog, have some amazing color >> > photos, but my favorite is the Arum italicum picture. The great seed >>stalk >> > picture was missing foliage, so they magically sprouted zantedeschia >>foliage >> > around the base to take the place of the missing arum foliage. Perhaps we >> > should have a contest to see how many of the pictures have foliage of a >> > different plant. > They did that last year too with the A. italicum photo. Stacy ---Stacy Holtzman sholtzma@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu--- ---Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Biology Dept., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405---

From: Duane Campbell <dcamp at epix.net> on 1998.01.22 at 21:04:33(1864) At 12:28 PM 1/22/98 -0600, you wrote: > >I've another "award" story, altho not aroidally inclined. Last year, >Spring Hill Nursery offered a Buddleia collection, all supposedly >B.davidii, but one which included a bright yellow variety. I was suckered in by the "yellow" lilac from Wayside a few years ago. It takes a powerful imagination to see yellow. It is white, and not a very good white at that. I cut it down last year. But the photo shows primrose blossoms and some very sick looking grass in the background. They altered the color balance of the photo to help it out. Duane Campbell dcamp@epix.net +More http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/

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