Genus Arisaema

[Ian Minty]

That would be great Carol, when is Gardening Scotland?
I won't be home until at least the 10th of June.
If he has some reasonably priced cardinocrinums too that would be great.
Drop me an e-mail and we can discuss.
The plants that I got from you were growing really well when I left.
I just hope it has not been too dry at home, Irene's not too great at watering the garden.
She has enough on her plate looking after the girls and keeping the grass cut!

[Maggi Young]

Gardening Scotland is on at Ingliston from 1st to 3rd June. The Beechgrove Potting Shed Radio programme is recording a session on the Saturday, plus there will be a live broadcast on the Sunday. Ian is to appear on that programme. There'll be lots of plants to buy, Ian M... just as well you will still be offshore, methinks!

[Ian Minty]

I was just looking at the Jacques Amand website and I think that I may be giving Carol a wee bit of an order.
I liked the look of that one that grows up to 6 feet.
And there were quite a few others coming in at the 3-5 popund mark that I like the look of.
I hope Irene is not reading this.

[Carol Shaw]

Just let us know what you fancy and I promise we will not tell Irene Seriously if any of you are looking for specific plants and can get to Gardening Scotland you will usually find they are on sale there at reasonable prices. In addition you will, if you go looking, find the SRGC stand and can hang about and blether to us and the rest of 'Jo public' and entice them to join the SRGC! At any given time you will find the Bainbridges, the Shaws, the Levens and various other Scottish Rockers! Come along and say hello - the worst thing that is likely to happen is we will send you off to buy a mug of tea for us all at our expense!

[Ian Minty]

Thanks, Carol, unfortunately I definitely won't be able to make the show this year as I'll still be bobbing about in the north sea.
I would definitely like some tortuosum, grffithi and tryphillum.
I like the taller ones with the coloured stems.
If he has any cardinocrinum and corydalis I would also like some of them.
I was looking to spend around 40 - 50 pounds.
If you could get me some of those mentioned in sets of 3 that would be great.
Any surprises are welcome,
I'll be looking forward to coming up to Dyke for a surprise once I finally get home.
Thanks again Carol, your genorosity knows no bounds.

[Carol Shaw]

Hi Ian

We will do our best, the Arisaemas will need planting pretty quickly - how soon after GS can you visit us, or should we pot up for you?

[Ian Minty]

I'm not sure at the moment, this job is project based and as we are working so close to 2 platforms a lot of the work is weather dependant. If the wind is blowing in the wrong direction we can't work as we would be blown on to the platform.
Hopefully I'll be home around the 6th, but we'll wait and see how the weather holds out. I'll definitely be able to get to Dyke by 10th, If this changes I'll get back to you.

[Ian Minty]

I managed to find a pic of the boat that I'm on.
I know it's not exactly a flower, but it is a nice blue colour.

[Lesley Cox]

I'm really thrilled to think that someone who works on this boat, often in appalling conditions and with men who are no doubt nice people but would perhaps be seen by us landlubbers as hard-drinking, macho and rough types, is interested in gardening and plants and can get excited by Arisaema and Meconopsis and the like. As it sometimes said, we're all brothers (and sisters) under the skin. Take care out there Ian.

[Ian Minty]

Cheers Lesley.
I am very interested in gardening, Irene thinks that I am obsessed.
But to keep your stereotype right I am also your typical macho, rugby playing, hard drinking, tough type (I haven't shaved for over 2 weeks) but I still have a soft spot for good plants.
I also take care of everyone on the ship, I'm the safety coach.
It's a bit like gardening I suppose really, I have to nurture them, some need a wee bit of training and the weeds can be weeded out.

[Lesley Cox]

That's all good Ian. I guess that if you play rugby, much else can be forgiven

[Anthony Darby]

Jings.  Here's my Arisaema (remember them? ) griffithii, which I bought last year at Gardening Scotland (big John had left them in the fridge too long, so he was selling them off at £1 each .

[Lesley Cox]

I hope you bought a dozen Anthony

[Anthony Darby]

I bought 6, but only two made it. I think many people had sifted through them and picked the best before I got there.

[Anthony Darby]

Arisaema flavum tibeticum. This clone doesn't seem to want to set seed.