Flowering now September 2007

[Paul T]

Maggi,

Pray tell what the rare bulb was?  You can't do THAT to us..... brag about a new rare bulb and then not tell us what it is we should be jealous about you now having!! 

[mark smyth]

Yes forget Green Gauges what's the bulb? Is it for you/Ian or is she showing it off? Maybe she will tell us herself

[Maggi Young]

Maggi take a pic for us to see what it is You are so fond of.
Enjoy them
Joakim

PS plums have a tendency of cleaning the system if You eat to many, so do not hurry to much or You will really need to hurry

Of course, Joakim, that is true, but I will have exercise and a clean system! 

[Maggi Young]

Jean can't tell you, she's gone fishin' !
Here you are, then, pix of the handful of greengages I have beside me, plus the rare bulb:


perhaps you can see the bulb better here:

[mark smyth]

I know!!! jumps and and down!! N.B.M. Can I be first in line?

[Joakim B]

Maggi nice mouse carpet You have
A comment like that in Swedish would get me in bigger troubles than I could dig my self out of even with a bulldozer so I take the chce to say it in English insted. I do not think it can be missunderstood in English.
They look like they (plums) need to be a bit more mature before they are enjoyable or am I wrong?

My son pics physalis of the bush and it always results in me needing to change his diper, so every one has there own tricks to get the system clean.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Maggi Young]

Joakim, that is how these plums look, they are ripe and very delicious....as to your comment, I think you might get into some bother, even in English, but the mouse carpet was a present from a friend who knows we have a collection of real carpets and nomadic textiles ( textiles from nomads, the textiles stay where you put them!) and thought this mouse carpet appropriate!


Mark, oh no it isn't! and anyway, it'll take ages!

[Brian Ellis]

Don't they look plumptious!  As it is over an hour since you posted the message I guess there are not many left of the two and a half pounds Enjoy

[Maggi Young]

Mark has made a wrong guess, though I reckon I get extra points for knowing that he was referring to Narcissus 'Betty Mae' with his N.B.M. !

Brian, given that I bought a few pounds of Victoria plums and some beautiful figs on Wednesday, I am actually astounding myself by only having a greengage every second time I pass the plate.

Off now to get some virtual exrecise, watching La Vuelta on TV for an hour. Yes, it's a hard life here without the Bulb Despot but I just have to muddle through!

[David Nicholson]

Brian, each time you post shots from your garden I am utterly envious of your obvious plant knowledge. You always have something beautiful and different. By the way was that the reflection in your window of the famous photographer David Bailey on the Campsis on house wall shot?

[Brian Ellis]

You are very kind David, I wish my "knowledge" was as good with alpines!  Yes it is I in the window rather a flattering slimmed down version too

Any greengages left Maggi?

[Maggi Young]

Just a few, Brian... I am munching the odd one as I return to admire your Campsis, what a pretty thing it is. You don't see many of those ( well, any of those, actually) in Aberdeen gardens 

[Brian Ellis]

I've got to have something as I cannot grow rhodos!

[Maggi Young]

That makes me feel a little better!

[Paul T]

Mark,

I would be surprised if thta was a Narcissus.  The bulb looks more like something along the lines of a Tulip perhaps, although even then doesn't look quite right.  I'm thinking perhaps something in the South African genera?

Brian...... Do Campsis have a stoloniferous habit for you, or does that particular named one behave better.  Here, they can almost invade a garden...... I saw once when the lid was taken off a septic tank that the whole of the inside of the tank was choked with white shoots (no light) from runners of a Campsis about 3 or 4 metres away.  I'm guessing it was after the water.  Then again I have also seen quite well behaved ones elsewhere that are glorious in summer, but don't seem to be trying to extend their estate to any real extent.  I think they like our conditions here!!