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Comments (24)Thank you Brooke. I was not aware that they finally fell in line with the rest of the world. Since there was a previously awarded B speisii mine will not be the first one. Both of them and all other subsequent ones can now be labled fletcherianum. Can't wait to see Christenson again, have been arguing with him over this for many years. Funny, the power in a name. I bought that plant in 1997 from Kawamoto Orchids in Honolulu. $250 for a goood sized plant, OUCH. It had 2 labels, Bulbo phaelanopsis and Bulbo fletcherianum. Lester Kawamoto told me that when it blooms if the flowers have yellow hairs on them it's the more common phaelanopsis, if on the other hand the flowers are devoid of hairs it's the almost never seen (at that time) fletcherianum. When it finally bloomed 4 or 5 years later after growing a 36" long leaf, the flowers were devoid of hairs. I drove 250 miles to get to a judging place and got the award. THE FIRST BULBOPHYLLUM FLETCHERIANUM AWARDED IN THE USA! I was thrilled until Emly Siegrist threw cold water on me. Over the next year I talked and emailed Bulbo experts around the world from New Guinea, Signapor, Australia to London. All agreed it should be called fletcherianum. I submitted all this to the AOS but between Siegrist and Christenson they would not budge. I just love that name 'fletcherianum', it rolls of your tongue, speisii sounds like an intestinal problem. I sharpened a wooden stake however never got close enough to Siegrist to use it on her and decided the stake was to short for Eric as he has too much protective padding on his chest. I feel vindicated, think I will get drunk tonight to celebrate. It is good. Nick...See MoreIntroduce or re-introduce yourself
Comments (54)Its so nice to see faces with the names, and even nicer to see roses with the faces. Im Renee, 49, a history professor married to Mike, an archaeologist. We live in Simi Valley on a semi-rural half-acre lot in the house grandpa built (I use the term "built" loosely), which we have slowly rebuilt over the last ten years. No kids. We have a twenty-eight-toed orange cat, named Sam; a yellow lab named Sam; two Wyandotte chickens named Quasimodo and Blanche; and a pond full of goldfish of which only a few have been graced with identities. Mike also feeds an assortment of finches, scrub jays, and fence lizards, the last of which now run up to people with sandals on and bite the toes to make the toes cough up mealworms. My mother gave me the gardening bug and shes still my main enabler. I spent my years in college planting seeds in dry, narrow, dark apartment "beds" or balcony pots, shuffling pitchers of water to them from the kitchen sink. Since then, I have remained an astonishingly ignorant and lazy gardener with no foresight or sense of planning. My garden has grown in an entirely haphazard fashion over the years and makes no sense in terms of high-water/low water needs, design principles, shade/sun needs, color combos, irrigation systems I never cared for roses. The roses I knew as a kid were left to their own devices on the edges of unkempt Bermuda lawns, so that the grass would grow up through the rose and the lone juniper or zonal geranium next to it. Ick. Then I started looking at the photos in the Rose Gallery. Yeah. I dug a new bed and planted it with roses; Mike built new arbors for roses, I am talking my both neighbors into planting roses in the middle of a drought. This forum has saved me from making several serious mistakes, and I thank all of you for your suggestions and wisdom. I am also heartened by your stories of how to cope with disability and continue to garden. Hooray for the Rose Forum! Me and the Girls (RIP, Audrey Hepburn) New Rose Bed with Julia Child and Marmalade Skies: Showbiz Bed: When my "Pinkie" climber gets a bit bigger, I'll post a photo of the arbor....See Moretoday, my name is AGAVEgirl!
Comments (32)Yes Greg, It was in your neck of the woods. We visited the L. A. area around 1985. We went on all the tours and stayed a whole week. Not knowing the area, we stayed in Englewood. It was a nice hotel but the desk man would not let my wife and I out past the doors in the evening to just walk around. Said we were crazy and we would get killed. We did go out and walked down one block to a nice restaurant only to almost get stocked and attacked. Lucky we were able to duck into a nearby hotel lobby for safety. 5 men in a old car that turned around mid traffic and came up behind us. Lucky I talked my wife out of hurting them. Met some of the nicest people while there and had a very nice time....See MoreMy kid is a brat: College-aged kids and manners?
Comments (75)So happy for you judithn...took me back to when my kids were in college in our city, but living on campus. Sounds like a great conversation, and something she needed to hear, and you were able to do it in such a way that she really listened, and matured enough to apologize. You obviously have a great daughter, there, and now you have practice for when your son leaves home...heh heh!! We Moms have to support one another...our kids are in their early 40's, so a lot of this type of thing is behind us, but there are always things to work out. We do have very thoughtful children now...they just weren't so much at your daughter's age!!...See MoreKswl
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