Thanks to the SRGC from Luit van Delft --from the "I'm so happy" thread

[Lvandelft]

On Monday when I am every week looking if there are some interesting flowers for the Weekly Lisse Show, I meet every week several interesting and very knowledgeable people in the horticultural scene too. One of them is Mr. Breed  of the Connoisseur Collection and this Monday he was awaiting me with a big smile on his face and a mailing tube in his hands.

After opening, a beautiful poster of Paraquilegia came out, which was accompanied by a letter from the SRGC internet team  recording the gratitude of the SRGC for donating his surplus bulbs.

Today Wednesday I for myself was mostly surprised to receive a mailing tube too from the same sender. I really did not expect this, because donating the bulbs was totally a great pleasure from my side. But of course I want to thank here for this very generous gift.  
Very interesting was that the linear distance to Mr. Breed’s home is about 500 m. from my place. He received the tube on Saturday and it makes me curious where the postman lost his way from Saturday till today  

THANKS VERY MUCH SRGC!!!

[Maggi Young]

Luit, good to know the postman found his way to both Mr Breed and yourself in the end....... the prints were posted here in Aberdeen on the 27th November...... I thought they had got lost!!    
Your gifts would have got to the Netherlands faster if I had tied them to the leg of a passing pigeon!

 We are so pleased to hear that the SRGC gifts to you and to Cees Breed have been a good surprise.... the Web Team and our Presidents, Past and Present, wanted to give you a token of our appreciation of your kind and generous gift to the Club.

The Paraquilegia anemonoides prints were made in Aberdeen, at Peacock Printmakers' Workshop by the famous printmaker Arthur Watson,helped by Ian, from the original artwork of our friend Lawrence Greenwood (now deceased) who agreed to the project to make an edition of fine art prints of his watercolour painting to celebrate the  SRGC Golden Jubilee. We thought it an appropriate gift!

[Lesley Cox]

Lucky you and Mr Breed Luit. I think Dutch postmen must be similar to NZ postmen and from other countries as well. Posted in Scotland or England on the same day, a package reaches two Dunedin members a week apart, or more! It happens time and time again.

[ranunculus]

Many congratulations Luit and Cees.  Very well deserved.  Your prints are by one of the nation's leading botanical artists, who was a lovely man who lived quite near to us (his widow still lives in Todmorden).  It is a long-held ambition of mine to own a Lawrence Greenwood original.  One day ...

[Lvandelft]

Thanks for the compliments, I understand that now I belong to the few privileged people who possess a print made by a
gifted artist and by a famous printmaker too. What a combination..   
So far so good, but is making a special topic for this not a little overdone?

[Maggi Young]

So far so good, but is making a special topic for this not a little overdone?

 I did not think so, Luit : the "I'm so happy thread" has so many pages, so diverse in subject and since the generosity of yourself and Mr Breed resulted in the very large donation of over £1100 for the SRGC, I thought that bringing this item into the limelight, so to speak, was a good idea.

[Ian Y]

bringing this item into the limelight, so to speak, was a good idea.

Luit, I agree, for once  with our daffodil  saleswoman 

[art600]

As someone who attended the Discussion Weekend for the first time, your generosity made a truly wonderful weekend even more special.

So of course we needed to make this recognition special. 

[mark smyth]

Thanks Luit for the time and effort to take and post photos from the show.