Reticulate Iris - 2016

[johnw]

Hi yes I did miss those, but I didn't do too bad did I?.

No not so bad at all unless I were to tell you the square kilometrage of the missed area including the north.

Who can resist?  3.166 million km˛.  Worse was the missing é second time round.

john
   

[johnralphcarpenter]

Thanks Gabriela, a thousand apologies Quebec for missing you out.

You'll have to say that in French. They have strict language laws.

[ashley]

No not so bad at all unless I were to tell you the square kilometrage of the missed area including the north.
Who can resist?  3.166 million km˛. 

There really is quite a lot of Canada.  We'll be in Newfoundland this summer, a 4˝ hour flight from Dublin, but it would take our son living in Vancouver about 10 hours (with one connection) to join us

[johnw]

John - Gabriela and I should be blushing because we both didn't catch the fact you missed Labrador, it's Newfoundland AND Labrador and a mere 294,330 km˛. A missing accent could land one in the clinker.

Ashley will you do the west coast of Newfoundland up to St. Anthony?  Incredible flora compared to the east coast and highly recommended.  A 7 hour drive from St. John's to Rocky Harbour on the west coast.  Not a tiny island and plan on NO nighttime or very early morning driving, they are everywhere!

john

[ashley]

Well Saint Barbe anyway John, en route (no accents) to Labrador.  We'll see how the time goes. 
I'm less concerned about fender-bending than being eaten alive but it can hardly be much worse than Skye

[johnstephen29]

Hi Ralph, it's been 25 years since I spoke fluent French, so I'll pass on that, that's a lot of km John, I thought Labrador was just a district of newfoundland that's why i didn't mention it. Have a great holiday Ashley.

[Gabriela]

John - Gabriela and I should be blushing because we both didn't catch the fact you missed Labrador, it's Newfoundland AND Labrador and a mere 294,330 km˛. A missing accent could land one in the clinker.
john

I am not blushing because - I noticed it was missing, and I also didn’t use the accent on Q on purpose I thought John did very well, why point out every little error? We should be more indulgent on Sunday afternoons 

[Gabriela]

There really is quite a lot of Canada.  We'll be in Newfoundland this summer, a 4˝ hour flight from Dublin, but it would take our son living in Vancouver about 10 hours (with one connection) to join us

Ashley –indeed there is a lot of Canada! For someone that spent time in Europe it is even more striking. A trip for one side to the other is akin to flying to Eastern Europe, time and money wise!
I wish you a great time in NF; I didn't make it there yet, but I understand Gros Morne is the place to be! As wild as it goes...

Since we are in the Iris thread - I found a survivor today (we've been 'polar vortexed' lately)

[johnstephen29]

Loverly little plant Gabriela.

[ashley]

Thanks John and Gabriela.  Yes we're looking forward to the trip.
Good to see a nice reticulata still in flower

[johnw]

Ashley  - Just wait till you see east coast Labrador - the willows, rhododendron, Diapensias, Vacciniums and Loiseleuria!  Phyllodoce and Cassiope too.   It's like western Nfld. x 1000.

Just a sample from Cape Norman on The Great Northern Peninsula, in massive barren sheets of rock we'd see scenes like this in small depressed areas maybe 2' x 2'.

john

[Maggi Young]

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[Alan McMurtrie]

I personally often simply think of the whole U.K. as "England."  Yes, I know that's not technically correct.

The catch is what do people normally use.  I like to call The Netherlands "Holland" -- should I actually use "Nederlands."  North and South Holland are of course the bulb growing provinces in The Netherlands.  I think more people would understand "Holland" than "The Netherlands."

Here where I live in Canada, we were in the postal district known as Willowdale.  The area grew in population density and we became the city of North York.  Now we are part of the city of Toronto.  I always told people I'm from Toronto simply because they were/are like to know where that is -- I did that even when we weren't part of the city of Toronto.  It is still correct to use North York or Willowdale.

I tend to think if I tell someone I'm going to England they'll know immediately where I'm headed, where as if I say I'm going to the U.K. they might not know.

Your perspective is different depending on where you are from.



The last of the Reticulatas are blooming here, which means White Caucasus and it's hybrids.

At a friend's house 20 minutes north they are not quite at peak.

Here's a couple of nice ones that are in bloom there.  I plant bulbs there specifically for hybridizing.  It's nice when they are finished here, to still be able to enjoy them there.

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[Maggi Young]

A lot of people think of Canadians as Americans - never yet met a Canadian who was happy with that idea!

[Alan McMurtrie]

There is a clear difference.  We say "Eh" and apologize a lot.

Americans know we Canadians live in igloos and use dog sleds to get around.  After all, Canada is a big wilderness -- the great white north.