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Title: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: ashley on December 17, 2024, 02:51:16 PM

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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Maggi Young on December 17, 2024, 06:29:57 PM

Dear Forumists, Ian and Maggi Young have sent you a Jacquie Lawson ecard.

You can view your card here. (https://www.jacquielawson.com/ecard/pickup/r517a92d58c5844e7a5905ebc8cc222ca?source=jl999&utm_medium=pickup&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=receivercontent)
 Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings to all!

Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: ian mcdonald on December 18, 2024, 12:46:32 PM

Best wishes to all for the coming season and good gardening.

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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Rick R. on December 20, 2024, 03:21:24 PM

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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Robert on December 20, 2024, 03:53:09 PM

Hi Rick,

Nice Lily! Does it have a name? or any other interesting information regarding this lily?

Yes, indeed season's greetings.  :)

Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: fermi de Sousa on December 21, 2024, 11:24:10 PM

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Best wishes, Everyone!
Here's hoping for a wonderful 2025,
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Rick R. on December 22, 2024, 12:25:44 AM

Hi Robert,
About my lily, thank you, and that is the million dollar question: what is that lily?

With certainty, I can only tell you that it is my own creation, hybridized about ten years ago.  It's an aurelian of some type, and even that is shrouded in mystery, as its parentage has been lost.  That was very early in my hybridizing ventures when I didn't know that much.  Funny, even back then I tried to be so careful with my records, and it had to be this one that I goofed up on! 

Anyway, while the flowers are exquisite, the inflorescence structure has a bit of wonkiness to it.  Seems to be settling down with age now, showing more constancy in its growth pattern. 

This is one time that I can say the photo does do it justice.  I'm getting better at photography; this was taken at dusk.

Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Véronique Macrelle on December 22, 2024, 06:45:35 AM

best wishes for 2025 to everyone...
just a photo of a calm, sunny garden to help us through these winter months, which we've never had so grey!
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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Anders on December 22, 2024, 09:10:10 AM

Visitors in the garden today. Merry Christmas to all, and thanks for the many interesting posts in 2024.

Anders

Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Robert on December 22, 2024, 03:45:39 PM

Hi Rick,

I have been a devoted record/note keeper for decades. Some of my records have been lost or were of poor quality. In the end everything seems to work out well. Your exquisite lily is a good example of things working out well. Thank you for sharing. Good eye! The lily is definitely a keeper.

Season’s Greetings from California

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Calochortus venustus at 4,102 feet elevation on ridge above the North Fork of the Mokelumne River, Amador County California.

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Calochortus venustus at ~ 2,000 feet elevation in the canyon of the South Fork of the Stanisaus River, Tuolumne County, California.

Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Herman Mylemans on December 23, 2024, 03:14:47 PM

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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Mariette on December 23, 2024, 10:24:26 PM

Herman, what a beautiful assembly of roscoeas! May You and all other forumists enjoy peaceful and happy festive days and a successful New Year!

Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Leena on December 24, 2024, 09:10:41 AM

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all forumists from Finland.
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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Maggi Young on December 31, 2024, 12:43:03 AM

Wishing you all -------
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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Yann on January 01, 2025, 09:50:40 AM

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Title: Re: Season's Greetings 2024
Post by: Knud on January 11, 2025, 11:50:50 AM

We are in the mid-winter week so ‘Good Yule’ to all. Many in Northern Europe seem to enjoy appropriate weather, too.

For Christmas I was given a delightful little book, The Amateur Rock Gardener, written by H.B. Kay and published in 1934. While some of its advice may now be dated, much of it is still relevant and definitely ‘Useful’, and the historical perspective is interesting. Also interesting is that being a member of the Scottish Rock Garden Club was considered an ‘asset’ already a year after the club was started.

So, Congratulations members, and best wishes to all for a good new year in the rockery.

Knud

Picture of front and title pages of H.B. Kay’s book.