YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread. 2009

[Maggi Young]

Worth the effort of getting into the wet suit and flippers then David!
Give Wol our regards, please.

[Paddy Tobin]

David,

Just back from a swim, in the rain, waves of about two metres with a difference between high and low at the steps into the water of about three metres, big rise and fall. No trouble while in the water but difficult enought to get out again.

I'd risk it.

Paddy

[Rodger Whitlock]

I'm so happy!

My decision to contribute seeds to the exchanges this year, for the first time in quite a long while, has led me to keep on eye on plants that otherwise get ignored. Today I was able to harvest ripe berries from Arum nigrum, Caulophyllum thalictroides and, surprisingly, Viburnum opulus 'Nana'.

The arum is one of those garden mysteries never planted but thriving nonetheless. I suspect it arrived either in the pot with, or in lieu of, a pinellia I planted in that area some 12 years ago. It is thanks to these forums that I finally have its identity nailed down: ever since it started to flower, it was my "very stinky small aroid".

I've had the caulophyllum the same length of time, having bought all sorts of treasures from Thimble Farms in 1997 when I began to visit Saltspring Island regularly. Somewhere I have a rather funny picture of myself waiting at the ferry dock with two large paper shopping bags (the kind with handles) full of plants, the leaves of Rheum tanguticum 'Red Select' poking out and looking like some Swiss chard on steroids.

The viburnum berries are a total surprise as that cultivar is notoriously sterile. It remains to be seen if the seeds are viable.

Sadly, only the arum is going to the exchange; there were only nine berries left on the caulophyllum, and I'm too interested in whether the virburnum seeds will grow to spare any - and there aren't many anyway,

Fun and games! I'm so happy!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Our local AGS Group meeting tonight if I can swim there (see Weather thread!!) and Wol Staines is speaking. I have it on good authority that he is bringing some snowdrops to sell as well

I hope you were careful David 
You might be spared from the swine flue, but don't forget, white fever is never far away... 

[Arykana]

    I am ready for my exhibiton!!!!!!!!!  now, I can paint somthing for my pleasure 

[Maggi Young]

Erika, there is a great sense of relief when one has finished all the preparations for any task, isn't there?
 Good that you can now relax and make your paintings purely for your own pleasure!
Hope the exhibition is well received 

[Ragged Robin]

Good luck Erika, I hope the exhibition goes well - are you selling as well as exhibiting?

[Arykana]

Thank you for the good wishes!!
Yes, I am selling, indeed 4 already sold

[David Nicholson]

Our local AGS Group meeting tonight if I can swim there (see Weather thread!!) and Wol Staines is speaking. I have it on good authority that he is bringing some snowdrops to sell as well

You might be spared from the swine flue, but don't forget, white fever is never far away... 

I have a slight touch of the white fever Luc!

[Brian Ellis]

I have a slight touch of the white fever Luc!

Don't be concerned David, we all survive the effects

[Arykana]

hi, I just cannot found the right place!!
I take up some Hungarian poems in English on my site
and here is some ladscape to know better my place

[Maggi Young]

Now, I know we're all familiar with the postings of our President, Ian, the Christie kind, but I am sometimes asked if our esteemed, and very popular Honorary President, Mrs Bette Ivey, follows the Forum.

Bette spends so much time out and about around the country, promoting the SRGC at every opportunity, that she has little time to spend on her computer. I am pleased to tell you that she does manage to snatch the odd day in her garden when she is at home. Our H.P. is very much a hands-on gardener; not for her the habit of only pottering daintily amongst her bulb frames, no, Bette is happy to get her hands dirty and get down to the nitty gritty of garden tasks... and to prove it, here is a photo.................................



( click the pic to enlarge)

This charming picture was just smuggled to me by a dear mutual friend, Anne Baxter. I'm naming Anne as the go-between because Bette will get to Anne to beat her with a handbag before she gets to me !!

[Lesley Cox]

That's a wildly exciting hair do she has Maggi.

[Maggi Young]

That's a wildly exciting hair do she has Maggi.

 No, No, Lesley.... that's a hat ! 

[Anthony Darby]

Bucks the current trend.