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Bulbs => Ian Young's Bulb Log - Feedback Forum => Topic started by: Calvin Becker on October 29, 2009, 10:42:07 AM
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Ian
Is the Eucomis you mention and picture in the log not Eucomis 'Sparkling Burgundy'?
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Hi, Calvin...
Maggi here... yes,you ... and Trevor and Angie who phoned last night.... are quite correct... it is 'Sparkling Burgundy'.....neither of us could remember the name!
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Do you harvest and distribute the seed from all those Arisaema heads? If so, how do you manage to clean such a huge number of berries? I find it a chore to do the few heads that I put to the exchange, etc.
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Sadly, no, David, we don't clean or distribute the berries.It would indeed be a huge chore that no-one here is willing to undertake! :-\ :-[ :-X ( What a bit of luck the Seed Guys don't read this, eh? !! ::) :-[
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Here's one method, just don't come for dinner at my house for a while :)
Susan
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The spider was particularly creepy, no wonder Maggi screamed!
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Here's one method, just don't come for dinner at my house for a while
A messy operation Susan, I have just used a similar method to clean seed of Cornus capitata. yuck.
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The spider was particularly creepy, no wonder Maggi screamed!
Not just creepy, Martin... he was HUGE! Nearly three inches across those loooonnngggg legs.... the body was about three quarters of an inch...Yikes! I wrestled him into a tupperware box ...showing considerable intestinal fortitude, I thought. ( Me, not the spider! :P ) Anthony tells me that it is some sort of Tegenaria species..... he cheered me up by telling me that there can be specimens with 4 to 5 inch leg spans..... yes, Anthony, that was a great comfort.... NOT! I "know" it was a "he" because he had the "boxing glove" palp wotsits that Anthony told us about in the wildlife thread. I suppose for the sake of modernity I should say that the spider's body was about 2cms long and his leg span around 10cms.
Have had to arm self with extra large handbags in all rooms plus a nearby travelling trunk, to be ready for meeting with one of the larger varieties.
In a brief spell of good weather today , I ventured into the garden ... where the spiders are generally less terrifying.... only to jump several feet in the air when a woodcock Scolopax rusticola flew up from under an Acer. What on earth such a bird was doing in our garden I have no idea. Resting perhaps after being blown in last night? It's another wild and stormy night now, so goodness knows where he'll end up tomorrow. I have never seen a Woodcock in town before; it was a shock, as well as a fright!
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Maggi, there is a story of a Policeman stopping traffic on London Bridge (before the Americans bought it by mistake) to let one of these huge 'Cardinal' spiders cross the road.
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Ian
I have seed set on Sternbergia lutea and they are bending over to bury themselves in the gravel
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Ian
I have seed set on Sternbergia lutea and they are bending over to bury themselves in the gravel
Likewise on the plant I have as S. lutea angustifolia (after cross pollination with S.sicula).
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I have seed set on Sternbergia lutea and they are bending over to bury themselves in the gravel
Likewise on the plant I have as S. lutea angustifolia (after cross pollination with S.sicula).
Thanks Tonny and Gerry for that information I think if we can all pool our observations of the Sternbergias like this it will help us to make sense of them- if that is possible.