Let me introduce myself ...

[Paddy Tobin]

This place is beginning to sound more like an AA meeting: "Hi, my name is Bryan. I have an obsession with orchids".

I suppose it's a change from snowdrops.

Paddy

[Brian Ellis]

This place is beginning to sound more like an AA meeting: "Hi, my name is Bryan. I have an obsession with orchids".

I suppose it's a change from snowdrops.

Paddy

 

[Lesley Cox]

Perhaps we need a thread for those among us with serious addictions, to give help and advice about how to overcome them. My bank manager would be a starter when it comes to avoiding seed lists.

[razvan chisu]

My orchid collection is only around 1600 or so....    then there is the Agave collection, and the bulb collection.

I'm sure if we all started counting the plants in our gardens we would soon match Bryan's numbers.
There are only 100 pots in my appartment and I wont start counting things in the garden.
Ups should I consider myself addicted too? (I guess I should not mention I have a certain sense of ownership over my clients plants as well - me being a gardener by profession).
I never pondered upon this until now.

[Arykana]

Did I introduced myself? Should be do it?

[Maggi Young]

No need to, really, Erika.... new folks can see by your posts that you have a wonderful garden.... visit marvelous historic places and are far and away the best baker on the Forum...... what more could an introduction say?! 

[Arykana]

  So, you all know me   as a bad money  

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Erika... a real bad penny, as we say! With books and paintings and recipes and flowers and .... and.... and.....  you are a typical example of the multi-talented Forumist! Such clever folks .... bad pennies every one! 

[Arykana]

Thank you Maggi, it is a honor to be one of those bad pennies :-)

[Maggi Young]

Now, I hope everyone knows I am  joking about the members being "bad pennies that always turn up".. I think of you more as prodigies than prodigals, truly!  


There may be some who think we are a hopeless gang... and  in another thread, you could be forgiven for thinking this really is a drinking club with a plant problem.....
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8253.0   

[cohan]

what kind of Madagascar stuff you looking for??? I have a bunch from there too.... maybe I do have a problem...

B

I'd have to look them up again...lol-- I saw them on a bulb group on Facebook --some Japanese growers with really stellar collections! what I recall offhand is terrestrial orchids with lanceolate leaves with some great colours/markings..

[Sibylle H]

Hi,

Until now I was only a silent member but I think it's time to introduce myself.
My name is Sibylle and I live in Germany.
Our garden is a little bit jungel style because I don't have much time.
Besides this I have 4 soccer playing kids who kill now and than a (quince) tree.
The conditions are with 6b (6a?) and a high ground water level slightly suboptimal for the plants I would like to grow.

Mostly I have perennial edible plants, fruits and  berries especially unusual ones. I try to grow exotic plants (punica, figs, kiwi) too.
And I have lots of pot plants.
On our sunny terrace there are mostly plants from NZ (Carmichaelia).
But my absolute favourite are Aspidistra, Peliosanthes and some Rohdea.

I hope I will have much fun in this forum.

[David Nicholson]

Welcome Sibylle. Four boys, WOW

[Sibylle H]

Hi David,

no, three boys and a girl.
But she plays in the boys soccer team and is better than her brothers.
She is my best tree climber too.

[David Nicholson]

Ah. That is good. Every family should have at least one girl