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Happy New Year to all from Olinda Marcus , your vivid recollections of your friendship with Essie in her garden and in the mountains of Tasmania also bring back fond memories of my encounter with Essie . As far as I can remember she only came across to Melbourne on three occasions and staying with me on two . She was extremely generous sharing her most treasured plants with me and there are still some of these growing here : some Petiolaris Primulas and the bigeneric hybrid x Brigandra caliantha 'Salisbury'. Marcus do you remember her two large pots filled with extremely happy plants of Shortia uniflora ? She gave me small plants of it on several occasions which grew here for a number of years . But every few years we get a few days in summer when the temperature climbs to 40 degrees or above which was the end of my Shortia .