Excellent New Resource: A Midland Alpine Gardener's Diary

[ranunculus]

I just love Hepaticas.
Now I can give Maggi a bit of the plant I don't feel so bad.

Angie

I wondered if this was the one you out-bid Maggi for at the Conference auction!
cheers
fermi

Fermi did you have to say outbid    Yes I managed to split it.
I can see you still take great delight bringing this episode to my attention   

Angie

Imagine outbidding Maggi!!!   That's akin to insulting the Queen.  Folk have been drummed out of this great club for far less than that.   

[Maggi Young]

I just love Hepaticas.
Now I can give Maggi a bit of the plant I don't feel so bad.

Angie

I wondered if this was the one you out-bid Maggi for at the Conference auction!
cheers
fermi

Fermi did you have to say outbid    Yes I managed to split it.
I can see you still take great delight bringing this episode to my attention  

Angie

Imagine outbidding Maggi!!!   That's akin to insulting the Queen.  Folk have been drummed out of this great club for far less than that.  

Stuff and nonsense.... no one has ever been drummed out of the club for that reason... they may have had their legs broken after an  auction, but nothing worse than that 

[Maggi Young]

At this time of year many plants are setting seed and so Diane's recent diary features some handy hints....
http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/diaries/Midland/+June+/361/
and it must also be a good time to remind you all that seed collected and sent to the exchanges of the AGS, for which Diane works tirelessly ( an over used phrase, but most appropriate in this instance) or  and/or the SRGC or to the local Seed Exes for the Clubs where you live... NZAGS, NARGS etc. will be greatly appreciated.
Support the Seed Exes and keep the plants growing and spreading to all the folks keen to grow these great plants   

[angie]

I just love Hepaticas.
Now I can give Maggi a bit of the plant I don't feel so bad.

Angie

I wondered if this was the one you out-bid Maggi for at the Conference auction!
cheers
fermi

Fermi did you have to say outbid    Yes I managed to split it.
I can see you still take great delight bringing this episode to my attention   

Angie

Imagine outbidding Maggi!!!   That's akin to insulting the Queen.  Folk have been drummed out of this great club for far less than that.   

Thanks cliff  Maggi was right at the back and I never knew I was bidding against a friend, would never do that even if i really had to have the plant, friends are more important    Don't believe Maggi she wouldn't hurt a fly 

Angie

[ranunculus]

Maggi was right at the back and I never knew I was bidding against a friend, would never do that even if i really had to have the plant, friends are more important.

Angie

You are obviously too nice to be a 'keen' plantswoman, Angie ... some would exchange their first born for an exceptional form.  

[Maggi Young]

I was going to do just that, Cliff, when I remembered I have no children......... just about the same time as I spotted Angie, lurking at the front...... little devil that she is!  I had already pushed the price up for her before I noticed.... but still she is good enough to share... now THAT's a nice person!

I was half expecting Mme Clement to be on the hunt for that plant too, but I think she'd collapsed in the bar by then gone off to bed by that time 

[Diane Clement]

I was half expecting Mme Clement to be on the hunt for that plant too, but I think she'd collapsed in the bar by then gone off to bed by that time     

Oh no she hadn't    
She was keeping quiet waiting for everyone else to collapse in the bar or go to bed, thereby leaving the lecture room almost empty at the end of the evening.  So I actually got a bargain with the very last lot - a bumper bag of meconopsis. 

I can't remember what the hepatica was, anyway?  Possibly I'd already got it   

[angie]

Cliff , friends first and because I have made so many friends here my plant collection has blossomed
Just got my copy of The Alpine Gardener and there is a good looking photographer in one of the pictures 

Diane nice to hear that you got some great meconopsis 
Angie

[ranunculus]

Just got my copy of The Alpine Gardener and there is a good looking photographer in one of the pictures 

Angie

He's called Jon Evans!   

[Peter Maguire]

Jon will be delighted (and more than a little amused) to learn of this complement. Could you put in a good word for other photographers? 

[ranunculus]

Jon will be delighted (and more than a little amused) to learn of this complement. Could you put in a good word for other photographers? 

Could have applied to any of such a stunning bunch.   

[Roma]

Angie, did you mean the chap with the camera in bottom left of the following picture (p 217)?

[ranunculus]

Angie, did you mean the chap with the camera in bottom left of the following picture (p 217)?

That's no photographer ... that's ME!!!   

[angie]

Hi Roma,

Yes page 217 is what I was referring to, it's the professional good looking photographer that I was pointing out 

Peter you are right it could have applied to any one of you, like you say what a stunning bunch 

Angie 

[ranunculus]

Hi Roma,

Yes page 217 is what I was referring to, it's the professional good looking photographer that I was pointing out 

Peter you are right it could have applied to any one of you, like you say what a stunning bunch 

Angie 

... And I thought I had bad eyes ... !!!