Colchicums February 2008

[Tony Willis]

Mark that tivi is a beautiful plant and very desirable but I find it difficult to believe it is a szovitsii. can you say what its origin is?

[mark smyth]

Where I bought? Pass. I used to keep all my bulb invoices and got scared one day so I shredded them. It could be Janis?

[Jim McKenney]

Shred your invoices?    Good one, Mark. I'm waiting for the day when a family member stumbles on one of my bulb invoices and hits the roof. 

I have saved my invoices (I save everything!). If my executors don't trash my garden journals, they and the invoices might be of interest to someone in the future. But as long as I'm alive, they're embarrassing.

Here's my Colchicum szovitsii 'Tivi' (and yes, it appears on an invoice a year or two ago).

[dominique]

one of the last ones

[mark smyth]

Jim is 'Tivi' growing in a glass container?

Dom that's a great pink

[Jim McKenney]

Mark, 'Tivi' is in a cut-down plastic soft drink bottle. Very elegant, right?

[Maggi Young]

Mark, 'Tivi' is in a cut-down plastic soft drink bottle. Very elegant, right?

Quote from Jim re name McKenney:
The family is from Scotland via Northern Ireland

There's often a clue, huh? 

[Jim McKenney]

I figured someone would pick up on that right away.

I know I'm among friends here!

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Jim, we can recognise someone else born with our Celtic thrifty genes quite easily   

Just had some more emails saying how much fun these jokey asides are: Glad that they are amusing folks... I believe this friendly chat and banter to be a real key to this forum's popularity and your feedback confirms this........ I sometimes hear ( though not first hand , I regret to say) that some regard the informal ripostes and comments as being " too much"... I can only say that I regard such conversations as being part and parcel of a normal social intercourse ....... and part of what makes the SRGC the success it is.

[Paul T]

To add some more Scottish blood....... I have a set of Grandparents on each side of my parents that were Scottish.  I don't know how "pure" they were (i.e I don't know the generations before that), but effectively at that level I am of "half" Scottish descent.  Also worthwhile noting that I have English, Irish and West Indian ancestors as well.    And my father was a New Zealander.

So I really should fit in quite well here on the forums shouldn't I?