Books

[galahad]

Hi All
I am moving to Auckland and having a clear out of books.  I have the following plant books available if anyone wants them:

The Genus Cyclamen (Kew Magazine Monograph) - NZD$30.00
Trilliums (Case and Case) - NZD$40.00
The Gardeners Guide To Growing Fritillaries (Pratt and Jefferson-Brown) - NZD$20.00

I've got the Kew Genus Pleione and Genus Paphiopedilum here somewhere as well

Postage - $5.00 NZ and $10.00 international

No takers and they go to the local library

[Maggi Young]

Ross, best of luck with the move, which I hope will prove a good one for you. 

[galahad]

Ross, best of luck with the move, which I hope will prove a good one for you. 

Thanks.  I can't take my plants with me which breaks my heart :-(

[Lesley Cox]

Whyever would you want to live in Auckland? Well Anthony's there of course.

[galahad]

Whyever would you want to live in Auckland? Well Anthony's there of course.

Well the hotel is being demolished and bugger all else in Canterbury at the moment

[fermi de Sousa]

Ross, best of luck with the move, which I hope will prove a good one for you. 

Thanks.  I can't take my plants with me which breaks my heart :-( 

Why can't you take them? Is there restriction on movement of plants or are they unsuited to Auckland? Or just no room where you'll be living?
cheers
fermi

[galahad]

Ross, best of luck with the move, which I hope will prove a good one for you. 

Thanks.  I can't take my plants with me which breaks my heart :-( 

Why can't you take them? Is there restriction on movement of plants or are they unsuited to Auckland? Or just no room where you'll be living?
cheers
fermi

Auckland climate unsuitable and no space

[Lesley Cox]

Did you work at the Grand Chancellor then Ross? I hope you have a new job in Auckland.

[galahad]

Did you work at the Grand Chancellor then Ross? I hope you have a new job in Auckland.

The Crowne Plaza.  Yes transferred within the company

[Lesley Cox]

I guess that's not SO bad then, with so many people whose jobs have disappeared altogether. And Auckland has a few good points - I suppose.

[fermi de Sousa]

Well, now we know where we can get a room if we get as far as the North Island next year after the Daffodil Convention!
Best of luck with the move, Ross - having had to move overseas for a change of employment once, I hope you find where you "are meant to be".
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

I guess Ross thought he was "meant to be" in Chch but so many have had to move away for work or just to preserve their sanity. It's so easy from even the short distance away that I am, to think the shaking is all over and it's just a matter of getting everything put together again and rebuilt but a Dunedin friend who went up for the show last weekend said there were aftershocks as they were setting up their exhibits. They seem to be almost all the time. And with banks, insurance, local and national politicians all involved what may have seemed a matter of getting on with it at the beginning, now seems to be getting harder and harder. I admire the courage and strength, and sheer determination to make the best of it, of Christchurch people, tremendously.

[galahad]

Well, now we know where we can get a room if we get as far as the North Island next year after the Daffodil Convention!
Best of luck with the move, Ross - having had to move overseas for a change of employment once, I hope you find where you "are meant to be".
cheers
fermi

I'l see you in Dunedin in 2012.  Have just staged my daffs for the South Island show.  At least I know my daffodil bulbs can stay where they are for the moment

[Lesley Cox]

What's happening in Dunedin in 2012? (I can hear the rude people saying "nothing at all" but this is a very vibrant and exciting city).

[fermi de Sousa]

I'm presuming Ross means the World Daffodil Convention, Lesley.
We "spoke" about it in one of the Narcissus threads earlier,
cheers
fermi