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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #180 on: April 30, 2008, 08:57:22 PM »
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I think, like the SRGC itself, the band would play a wide range of styles..

Maggi, I think you will have to count me out as I play bagpipes,(well I used to ) would never do in a rock band. I still play a tin whistle, would that do?

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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #181 on: April 30, 2008, 09:02:25 PM »
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #182 on: April 30, 2008, 09:05:19 PM »
Ed - glad to see you are back because I want to raise again the question of E.oregonum 'Sulphur Form'. Brian Mathew (in AGS Bull. 66 (3) 1998) describes this as having "very soft pale yellow flowers" & "although of unrecorded origin" says he has seen "similar plants in the Leach Garden, Portland, and these were of wild source from Northern Oregon". Does this ring any bells?
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #183 on: April 30, 2008, 09:58:14 PM »
Ian, i'm more folky than rocker, (i play a melodeon as well).  There again I could plobably manage 'Take it easy'.
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So not Les Brown and his Band of Renown then? Thank God for that! :-X Rather have Michael and his bagpipes any day.
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #184 on: April 30, 2008, 10:14:53 PM »
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I think you will have to count me out as I play bagpipes,(well I used to ) would never do in a rock band. I still play a tin whistle, would that do?
we have a great band in Scotland called the "Red Hot Chilli Pipers"... I kid you not... they really rock!
see this:

This will end up more of an orchestra than a band at this rate......though Ian says he can only come to practice out of Erythronium season  :-X


Back to the Erys... I too incline to the dutchman's breech shape of filament for E. oregonum..... I cite Elmer Applegate !
« Last Edit: April 30, 2008, 10:18:33 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #185 on: April 30, 2008, 10:33:03 PM »
Maggi, I just had a look at the Red Hot Chilli Pipers"...  theres hope for me yet,although I think I might be past my sell-by date.

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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #186 on: April 30, 2008, 11:03:47 PM »
we have a great band in Scotland called the "Red Hot Chilli Pipers"... I kid you not... they really rock!
see this:

Great stuff!  and while you are in mood for U-tube AND erythroniums, try this to calm you down (you may need to turn the volume up after the Red Hot Chilli Pipers)



It just shows you can get anything on U-tube, even erythroniums


« Last Edit: April 30, 2008, 11:05:27 PM by Diane Clement »
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #187 on: April 30, 2008, 11:59:23 PM »
Ian,  it was purchased as a bulb & I can't remember where from.
I've thought of a couple of numbers we could do. "Rocking all over the world", "Rock Island Line", "15 tons". "Lily the Pink".
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #188 on: May 01, 2008, 09:12:44 PM »
My first Erythroniums this year opened up today.


E. sibiricum altaicum


E. sibiricum


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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #189 on: May 01, 2008, 10:41:48 PM »
I actually have a CD of Salsa Celtica  8) ... but no erythroniums  :'( (yet ... looking forward to having dens-canis one day).

All your photos of erythroniums are very, very much appreciated!!!!

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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #190 on: May 01, 2008, 11:09:54 PM »
Great link to the Red Hot Chilli Pipers. Thanks for that. My mother, who took her love of the pipes VERY SERIOUSLY, would have been deeply shocked. But then, she couldn't even cope with Amazing Grace. :o
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #191 on: May 02, 2008, 06:56:16 AM »
Magnar,

Those sibiricum are lovely.  I really must find that species at some point.  Lovely!! 8)
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #192 on: May 02, 2008, 07:15:25 AM »
Magnar,
I see that your sibiricums have extended and opened out properly. I think it must be due to you being cold then suddenly turning bright and warm. As noted previously when anyone with a mild but dull climate trys to grow them they open out at ground level. I think it must be the good light you have up there.
Nice to see them in their full glory
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #193 on: May 02, 2008, 08:18:14 AM »
Magnar,
I see that your sibiricums have extended and opened out properly. I think it must be due to you being cold then suddenly turning bright and warm. As noted previously when anyone with a mild but dull climate trys to grow them they open out at ground level. I think it must be the good light you have up there.
Nice to see them in their full glory
Susan

May be you are right, I never thought of that. After a cold April we got some good temperatures this week. The plants flowered only 4 days after the snow had gone. Actually they had started to grow up through the snow, even if the ground was partly frozen still. And we have lots of light, no more darkness here now until the middle of August, and in 3 weeks we have the midnight sun.  :)
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Re: Erythronium 2008
« Reply #194 on: May 02, 2008, 09:10:32 AM »
 Susan up to now I have had that problem with all my E. sibericum which were all got as bulbs that is why I mostly grow them in pots so I can take them under glass and give them some quick heat.
Now the first of my seed raised ones are flowering and they are performing perfectly by them selves.
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