Let me introduce myself ...

[dominique]

Wellcome Renate in this magic Forum where everyone takes his proper place friendly and where we read experiences of all of those who accept to tell all what happens in their garden. Wonderfull trip for every day in the countries as in the hearths

[Anthony Darby]

Susan ,

I did not know for the high costs for a parcel in England .....but I get a lot of parcels from England ( small packets ) and they are always cheeep -so I dont understand it why I have to pay 25 GBP for a small parcel !

But I think you will understand me if I hesitate to order from such nurseries ....for 25 GBP can I buy some plants ....

With the money is it a other problem -if the nurseries give the prices also in Euro so we could send a money transfer in Euro with no costs !( and we need the IBAN and BIC numbers )

What is with the costs for you if we pay with credit card from Germany ?

...I'm so fortunate to have nice friends in England so they order somtimes for me - send me the plants and I send my friends later the money ( in Euro or in GBP )

Hans, you should be able to work out the cost on the Royal Mail website?

[Hans J]

Excellent idea Anthony !
Here is the link to german post :
http://www.deutschepost.de/dpag?tab=1&skin=hi&check=yes&lang=de_DE&xmlFile=828

[Armin]

Hi to everyone,
I am glad to be a member of this great forum now and want to tell you something about myself.
I am 43 years old, married and live in the north of Germany, near the Dutch border. I am especially interested in bulbs and own a small nursery for rare plants, and bulbs offcorse. As I only have a small greenhouse with 20m² which is full with Amaryllidaceae like Clivia, Hippeastrum, a.s.o. I try to cultivate more hardy bulbs like Eranthis, Cyclamen and last year I started to grow Crocus.
Beneath the plants and ourselfs are two Border Collies, two cats, some fishes and rabbits living in our garden - so live is colourful.

Renate,
a warm welcome from me, too.
I'm pleased to read you started to grow crocus.
I hope you will get soon the crocus fever infection
brgds

[Renate Brinkers]

Thanks to you all who gave me a warm welcome, I am sure I will enjoy this forum.

[Renate Brinkers]

Hello paul, on the other side of the world,
my avatar picture was made in Toowoomba!

[Renate Brinkers]

Hans, Thomas, Gerd and Armin,

now the north of Germany also is here.

Armin, thanks a lot for the Pulsatilla seed, could grow to another fever.

[Renate Brinkers]

dominique,
hmm, another bulbmaniac...

[Anthony Darby]

The same from the western part - near Düsseldorf and Köln (Cologne),
today everything out of control because of ' Weiberfastnacht'

Gerd

Gerd, I hope you managed not to have any of your favourite ties cut in half today?

[Farang9]

I am John Gosden.  For 30 years (1967-97) I lived and worked in Edinburgh, where I was a keen member of SRGC.  When I retired I moved here to tropical Phuket, Thailand, where I still garden, but in a very different way - almost none of the genera are the same (except Rhododendron, represented by Vireyas) but I still get enormous pleasure out of the garden.

Now, just as in Scotland we were continually trying to push the boundaries of what we could grow, so it is here, where such genera as lilies provide a challenge to flower (although they grow happily, they have no resting period).  Now I am wondering if Hellebores (just orientalis hybrids) might be worth trying.  I used to have a large collection, mostly Eric Smith selections, from when he was with Jim Archibald as The Plantsmen, and they were among my favourite non-bulbous herbaceous perennials.

[Anthony Darby]

A warm welcome from windy, cold, wet Dunblane John. Good luck with your quest. I'm sure there will be of help from our happy family. Cheers.

[Casalima]

Welcome, Renate!

Welcome, John! I think we have already coincided elsewhere on the internet 

Chloë

[Maggi Young]

Welcome "home", John !!  Good to hear that even a move to glorious Thailand has not dimmed your gardeners' capacity to be difficult.... yes, liliums, hellebores... why not!  I am just sitting here in very cold very wet and unbelievably windy Aberdeen, dreaming of Vireya rhododendrons..... ah! BLISS!

[Paul T]

Welcome John.  Thialand would be a bit of a shock after Scotland I'd imagine. 

[Farang9]

Welcome John.  Thialand would be a bit of a shock after Scotland I'd imagine. 

Well, I spent the first 8 years of my working life in Malaya, so I already knew and loved this part of the world, and after 30 years in Scotland I was determined NEVER TO BE COLD AGAIN!