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Re: [SANS] Seasons greetings and a plaintive cry for help

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>First of all congratulations to Stephen Jankalski on such a fine bit of
>research. It would make a good basis for the genus revision which is so
>badly needed. Although we are far away in England, please bear in mind we
>hold the UK  National Collection of Sansevierias, and may be able to help
>with information.

I, Hermine, would never forget this!
>
>Here in England it is fairly mild but very wet and overcast, not good for
>the plants, although everything is grown on heating cables, and we maintain
>15C (about 60F) in the greenhouse. Generally plants come through OK apart
>from the odd variegate, which sometimes collapses without warning.

Those odd variegates, were the ones i moved into my bathrooms and kitchen
and have them growing under lamps or on heating mats...our cold spell,
about which I will bleat a bit, will be reflected in the price of food,
very shortly. Even local indigenous landscape plants here look "greyed out".
>
>Some Sansevierias are trying to flower even now - bacularis/sulcata, and
>'Fernwood' for example. We had a lot of flowers this year on the various
>clones of S.forskaoliana from Yemen, and have set seeds. We are growing
>more & more from seed these days, and as Hermine (I think it was) pointed
>out, they are very attractive as seedlings.

In the days before i moved the nursery, winter was the big flowering
season. I still have seed forming on my tougher plants.
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>We look forward to 1999 and the new season. Our next Sansevieria Convention
>will be in 2000 and we are working on it to ensure lots of interest.
>Sansevierias are definately getting more popular thanks I think to the
>various articles being written by people like Juan. How about a new book
>someone??

HOW ABOUT IT?

now for the plaintive part. i am going to be needful of obtaining some
plants which have ...they are not here...they seem to have..i mean, when
the freeze came in overnight, and before we got our heating system fired
up..THEY CROAKED. I am a diminished, bereft woman. I will be needing to
restock on some things. Here! (holds up fistful of dollars) I can pay! I
seek not charity but the  availability of certain species, a sad list I
will be posting soon. with ominous drum roll for each name, and bag pipes
weeping a sad lament in the background.
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>Happy New Year to you all!

I second this emotion!

hermine, (highly) Endangered Species Nursery
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>Alan Butler, Brookside Nursery, Horsham, England
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