2010 YES!!! The "I'm so happy" thread.

[angie]

Well Martin I cant wait to see all your Lewisias in there new home... they will be so happy just like you are.

Angie

[David Nicholson]

Magnificent, Martin ... and I am INCREDIBLY envious.

Moi aussi!

[Lesley Cox]

Yeah, me too!

A wonderful transformation from boxes to glasshouses. Wonder if I said the right words over that pile of cardboard at the back of the garage.....

[ranunculus]

Yeah, me too!

A wonderful transformation from boxes to glasshouses. Wonder if I said the right words over that pile of cardboard at the back of the garage.....

I would end up with a corrugated shed ... !!!   

[Lesley Cox]

I'd end up with a heap of wet cardboard.

[Ragged Robin]

Wonderful Martin, how long did they take to put up?  I think the doormat suggests the conservatory option was in mind...but it would be a perfect space 'decorated' with your Lewisias    Your new greenhouse is very smart

[Lesley Cox]

Yesterday (Saturday) I came home from my job - aching back, sore knees and tired feet - to find a wonderful gift in my letter box. It is a magazine sent by Olga in Moscow, with many garden articles (2 by Olga herself) and with excellent photos. There are super Epimediums (one of Olga's articles), gorgeous lilies, many trees and shrubs and an article about Trollius, notes about subjects from seeds to snowdrops, roses to radishes. My one regret is that other than Olga's name (with photo I can't recognise a word of Russian. But the gardens and plants speak for themselves and it is very interesting to see that similar products, seeds, tools etc appear in the advertisements, as do in our own gardening magazines. If  (after seeing so many Forum pictures) I ever still had the idea that Russia was a dour and grey place, I certainly don't think so now. My current mindset has been the result of reading "The Gulag Archipeligo" so it's great to have this new vision of Russia from the gardener's point of view. I am very grateful to Olga for that.                                                                                                                                               

[Tony Willis]

finding Lewisia tweedyi,no other words needed

[TheOnionMan]

finding Lewisia tweedyi,no other words needed

Congratulations Tony, was this in the Wenatchee Mountains, one of my favorite haunts when I lived in the Seattle, Washinton USA area.  Not far away, one can find L. rediviva too.

[Tony Willis]

Mark we are in Wenatchee,they were on the Blewit Pass growing with what we think was L columbiana. We live in hope of L rediviva tomorrow.

[Rodger Whitlock]

This past winter I received three packets of seed of Myrteola nummularia. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm happy to report that we have germination!

At the moment I count 20-25 tiny seedlings spread over the three pots. The earliest to emerge (just a few weeks ago) have already formed their first pair of true leaves, but it will probably be a good year before these seedlings are big enough to pot on.

Remembering that when I had a mature plant, it enjoyed sitting in a saucer of water so the soil was constantly damp, I have these three seed pots sitting in saucers of water too.

Now if I can just convince other local gardeners that their lives are horrid horticultural wastelands without Myrteola nummularia!

PS: Seed from the AGS arrived in December and was sown immediately, and that pot seems to be giving the best germination. This suggests that nanny berry seeds need a fair bit of winter cold to germinate.

[Lesley Cox]

Congrats Rodger. It's always a thrill when something REALLY wanted, germinates.
And there's nothing at all quite to match the thrill of seeing a well known and loved plant one has grown for years, growing in its natural habitat. I'll never forget the moment when I topped a little hill and found a boggy basin of peaty soil filled with flowering Geum uniflorum. Well, no I hadn't been growing it for years; I'd struggled with a couple of plants but seeing it so fine and in such quantity was a sight (almost) to make me believe in God.

[Maggi Young]

I thought some of you might like to be made happy with this nice stamp showing Myrteola nummularia - it's a 17pence stamp that was issued in the Falkland Islands......

[Lesley Cox]

I'm almost tempted to regress 55 years and start collecting stamps again Maggi. Floral ones, obviously. That's a beauty.

[ranunculus]

I'm almost tempted to regress 55 years and start collecting stamps again Maggi. Floral ones, obviously. That's a beauty.

If you could collect a few of the scarce ones for me please, Lesley ... ?