Re: NE roll call- check/weather/orchid

hmmm sorta makes sense
Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathy Carpenter" <cathy.c@insightbb.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] NE roll call- check/weather/orchid


> From latin, meaning flock or belonging to a flock.
>
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Jan 22, 2006, at 1:51 PM, james singer wrote:
>
> > So, Cathy, did the dictionary give the root of the word? Sounds/
> > looks like something Bill the Cat would've said.
> >
> > On Jan 22, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:
> >
> >> Finally went to my dictionary - it said it is a botanical name for
> >> cultivars derived from the same hybrid. Not sure I get it, but....
> >>
> >> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
> >>
> >> On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:18 PM, James R. Fisher wrote:
> >>
> >>> kmrsy wrote:
> >>>> OK, the Lumina series of Lychnis is a hybrid of two Lychnis
> >>>> species, so that
> >>>> would be a grex?
> >>>> Kitty
> >>>> neIN, Z5
> >>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>> Yes, and I must confess that I don't know how or if a grex name
> >>> differs from a hybrid name.
> >>> -jrf
> >>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James R. Fisher"
> >>>> <garrideb@well.com>
> >>>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:08 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] NE roll call- check/weather/orchid
> >>>>> Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Grex?  Wow, that's new to me.  So it is a cultivar within a
> >>>>>> cultivar, so
> >>>> to
> >>>>>> speak?
> >>>>>> sort of like Lychnis Lumina 'Bronze Leaf Red" is the red entry
> >>>>>> in the
> >>>> Lumina
> >>>>>> series?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Kitty
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>> ++++++++
> >>>>> Not exactly; a grex name *is* a hybrid name, and Fuchs' Mandarin
> >>>>> is a
> >>>> cultivar.
> >>>>> Just like your Lychnis Lumina 'Bronze Leaf Red', provided Lumina
> >>>>> is a
> >>>> hybrid
> >>>>> within Lychnis, and Bronze Leaf Red is one of Lumina's cultivars.
> >>>>> -jrf
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -- 
> >>> Jim Fisher
> >>> Vienna, Virginia USA
> >>> 38.9 N 77.2 W
> >>> USDA Zone 7
> >>> Max. 95 F [36 C], Min. 10 F [-12 C]
> >>>
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> > Island Jim
> > Southwest Florida
> > 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> > Hardiness Zone 10
> > Heat Zone 10
> > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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