Re: coming out

> paul spracklin wrote:
> 
> Thank you all for the emails and advice, I may even have it sorted
> now.  I thought I would try to cancel out the negative message with a
> better 'Hello' and bore you all with a kind of introduction.  At least
> you will be warned to hit the delete button when my name appears!
> 
> I live and work in the southeast of England, allegedly the hottest and
> driest part of the country with an average of 20" of rainfall
> annually.  Frosts are moderate but not usually severe with an average
> of -6C (20F?).  These facts gave me the bizarre notion that I should
> try to grow as many cacti and succulents outside as the climate
> permits.
> 
> I will go off on a slight tangent here for a moment. There is no
> historical precedent whatsoever for growing cacti and succulents
> outside at all in the UK.   Maybe a handful of opuntias outside at Kew
> gardens, a few agaves in the mildest southwestern areas but really
> that is about it.  
> 
Paul
Welcome to the list. We don't have many folks from the UK and it's
always nice to get a variety of points of view. Your passion for growing
the exotic and climatically challenged plants is very definitly shared
by two of your countrymen who are already keen contributors and who
continue to amaze the more pedestrian among us with the wildness of
their fancies <G>

I would question, though if you are the only person in Essex who has any
interest in outdoor succulents. I have before me an old book (1978) by
Beth Chatto entitled "The Dry Garden"and on the cover is a patch of
nerines with an underplanting of what is very obviously a clump of
Echevera. The Echevera has a subtile edging of deep pink on its leaves
which very nicely echos the colour of the nerine (possibly N filifera).

Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
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