Re: SIB:Korean guests

Lorraine

If you get the chance to go, do so. I've just come back from 4 days in Seoul
(mostly work). It's wonderfully easy to get around, great fun, very helpful
people, and very safe. I wandered alone through all sorts of little back
alleys away from the main tourist areas and always felt conpletely safe. If
your interested in gardens I wouldn't recommend winter, extremely
cold and bare. I'd love to visit in April. I had to mentally paint in the
azalea and wisteria blooms etc.

Colleen Modra
Adelaide Hills
South Australia  Zone 8/9

www.impressiveirises.com.au
colleen@impressiveirises.com.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Nicholson" <iris4u@pacbell.net>
To: "iris chat" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 9:21 AM
Subject: [iris] SIB:Korean guests


> Just spent a wonderful two hours with a father and son visiting from
> Korea.  Jackson the son  spoke fluent english, father did not, lots of
> translating went on.  They are here in the states or maybe California
> for 12 days.  The father is a retired landscaper and the son (24 yrs)
> has finished his second year of college in Australia, it is mandatory
> for all males to spend 4 years in their army (reserves till age 35) and
> he has that out of the way now.  The father grows mostly siberians, they
> had photos of their farm (10 acres if I understood correctly.)  He
> wanted to know about growing tall bearded and was beside himself with
> joy when he looked thru my photo albums because of all the wonderful
> colors that their are.  He also was interested in moving pollen for new
> colors. We do still have some sorry looking bloom out here and we
> discussed my procedure for getting new colors.  Gordon has been thinning
> the show garden so there is a very large trailer loaded with discarded
> plants, when the father realized that they were "trash" he wanted to
> fill his pockets up!!  There growing season is somewhat shorter then
> ours and they get many typhoons during the summer months with lots of
> rain and flooding.  The nearest large city to them is Soeul (sole),
> sorry about that spelling boo-boo.  The father also collects oil-burning
> lamps. We touched very lightly on politics, they mentioned that
> thousands of north Koreans are starving to death.  Jackson and and his
> father warmly invited us to visit their country and mentioned that they
> hope to be back here in a few years. I will continue to email with them
> and will share info with anyone else who might be interested. Lorraine
> in Modesto California, resting!! (catalog is finally at printers).
>
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