Let me introduce myself ...

[Jo]

Will do Mark,

I suppose I'll need to recognise you all from the tiny little photos. Means dragging my eyes off the plants !

If I can find a respectable pic of me I'll put it on my profile 

[mark smyth]

All the sellers should know me if you get a chance to ask

[Jo]

Will Do Mark,

sounds ominous when all the sellers know you, I hope its not cupboard love,   

[art600]

Jo

He is like a little leprechaun - and could make all your wishes come true 

[Maggi Young]

Arthur, have you been on the port again.... leprechauns are little, magical creatures..........what are you thinking?

[Jo]

Excellent Arthur,

at the moment I could do with a few dreams coming true,  I'll look out for a little leprechaun.   Can they stop varmints eating my hellebore buds 

[mark smyth]

Next year's Gala will be my 7th or 9th. It will be easier to meet me at the CGS day

[Paul T]

People really do know Mark.... a month or so ago I was talking to a Northern Irish couple who were visiting Australia.  They are actually in a garden club with Mark.  Talk about a small world!!  What are the odds of a couple visiting Australia happening to know one of the very few people I know from their country.

So.... it just goes to show that everyone DOES know mark. 

[Joakim B]

Mark is a bit tall for a little leprechaun is he not?

Just to tell You how bad it is the counter stops counting time if You are not active on the forum during 15 minutes so it really is that amount of active time. But I would not tell Your partners that it is better to say it is when You forgot to log out that the number went up.

All the best to the newcomers
Kind regards
Joakim

[sippa]

Hi,
My name is Marianne and I live in Vermont, USA, zone 4-5.  I am originally from Sweden so the climate suits me here.  I grow all sorts of things but am specially interested in primula, hepatica, androsace, arisaema and daphne.  I have also started a rockgarden and am trying out a variety of alpines.  Most of the plants I grow from seed, so I love seed exchanges.
I remember some of the people who post on the Forum, from the Czech rockgarden conference 2 years ago.

Marianne Kuchel
Vermont

[ranunculus]

Welcome Marianne and Jo to this wonderful forum.

[mark smyth]

Paul I just thought who you might have met. Was it Liam and Joan McCaughy?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Welcome Marianne ! You should enjoy it here - another fabulous Hepatica thread will soon get started I guess !!

[KentGardener]

Hi Jo

it's not often I get over to this part of the forum - I spend my summer months growing 'hardy' exotics and winter months drooling over on the Galanthus bit.

Just wanted to say welcome to another Galanthophile (and I personally think you have chosen a GREAT photo for your avatar.  I look at your thoughtful happy smilling face in it and feel that I already know you.)

With kind regards

John x

[Jo]

Thanks John

I love all the Galanthus stuff, but now I've joined I might spend more time on all the other stuff during the rest of the year.

I think my son had to do some serious 'red eye' stuff on the pic 

Jo