Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Bulbs Wanted => Topic started by: Gerry on October 29, 2009, 08:01:50 AM
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I saw this at HPS meeting last week, and I've got to have some! ;D
Anyone out there got spare bulbs?
Gerry
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You forgot to add the photo.
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I don't have one. Does it make a difference?
Gerry
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Sorry I thought you had seen something and you were going to show a photo. Remind me in June.
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I've noted my diary already. Thanks Mark ;D
Gerry
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Is there not already a thread for this species?
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Is there not already a thread for this species?
Yes, Lesley, but this is in the "wanted" section :)
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Is there not already a thread for this species?
I posted in both sections, and notice that 'someone' has tidied up. Its like being at home ;D
Gerry
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Is there not already a thread for this species?
I posted in both sections, and notice that 'someone' has tidied up. Its like being at home ;D
Gerry
That has really made me chuckle, Gerry! ;D
If only there were someone doing the tidying in our home....we are both pretty good at accumulating piles of "stuff".... and it's getting worse.... I foresee a time when we become like "Mr Trebus", the old chap who featured in a UK TV documentary about a council "Grime" department.... up to his ears in assoted "stuff" .....Ian says it'll never happen to him but I'm not so sure.... and I really fear it for myself..... cannot help myself..... spend too much time on this machine, for a start... and this is so much more entertaining and educationl than house work! :-[
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I saw it also
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That's the very man, Mark. Bless him.... I am going the :-X same way, I know it!
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I saw this at HPS meeting last week, and I've got to have some! ;D
Anyone out there got spare bulbs?
It's fairly easy to grow from seed, and the seed is usually offered by the various exchanges.
If you go this route, however, order seed from as many different sources as you can. I have two very distinct forms of G. r-o grown from seed, one with rather narrow petals, the other with nice fat proper-snowdrop petals.
Both of my seedling groups have the pleasant characteristic of multiplying well vegetatively, so careful lifting and division every two or three years allows rapid spread of the colonies. As soon as our weather stops raining, I'll be out there with my trowel once again dividing these snowdrops.
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Gosh, I was wishing the "someone" lived in this household. I hate housework and the horticultural activities are always more important and rewarding. But if the "someone" has the same problem as I, she may as well stay home. Roger bought a new vacuum cleaner recently. He said it was to make my life easier but since it's a large commercial version, I refuse to use it. He will never learn that he shouldn't buy things for ME to use, without talking to me about it first. So the damn thing sits there, unloved and unused. Yesterday when I was at the Market however, he did run it over the kitchen/dining/living rooms and it certainly sucked up the accumulated dogs' hair very well. If I could encourage him to use it weekly.......
Sorry, back to G. reginae-olgae.
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We have SEPs all over the place - that is 'somebody else's problem' (ex Hitchhiker's Guide I think). It makes things invisible. ::)
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Alas the dog hair is far from invisible. It covers the floor like a low, rolling cloud and has to be waded through to get anywhere. NEVER AGAIN, a hairy dog. >:(
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Roger bought a new vacuum cleaner recently. He said it was to make my life easier but since it's a large commercial version, I refuse to use it. ... So the damn thing sits there, unloved and unused. Yesterday when I was at the Market however, he did run it over the kitchen/dining/living rooms and it certainly sucked up the accumulated dogs' hair very well. If I could encourage him to use it weekly.......
You need to read some basic psychology texts on the subject of conditioned training. With animals, who don't understand you if you nag ("Sit up and beg, Bazalgette¹" to a cat, e.g.), patiently wait until the animal accidentally approximates the behavior you want, then give it an immediate reward. Once the desired behavior is becoming routine and Bazalgette sits up and begs (or Lesley's Roger vacuums the house), then switch to sporadic reinforcement, where a reward is given proper behavior only once in a while. Sporadic reinforcement is the strongest reinforcement you can give, better than always being rewarded.
Just keep at your nearest and dearest, Lesley, and you'll soon have him vacuuming night and day, and that cloud of dog hair will be a thing of the past. As food is the path to a man's heart, I suggest delectable goodies that Roger-without-a-D is always nagging you to make but seldom gets. [Is it possible that he's training you to make goodies with the reward being a clean house?]
¹Bazalgette: what a friend calls the fatter of the two new cats that I adopted last week. He calls the skinny one Brunel.
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Far from seldom getting the delectable goodies, Roger gets them all the time. He has no need to train me in that respect. I probably need to withdraw many in order to have him seeking a reason why and acting accordingly. :-X
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I have some reginae olgae if you are still looking for this sp, but i have very very few
you can e mail me at pontus.wallsten@bluewin.ch for details
kind regards
Pontus
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Thanks for the offer mate, but a couple of people have already sent me some ;D