Re: Dull or Delightful?

David -

Many thanks for characteristically thorough and fascinating reply. You won't
be surprised to learn that absolutely none of those cultivars are, to the
best of my knowledge, available in the UK. Query to genuine 100% 'Original
Mediterranean' members: are they available in Europe? I suspect not.

(No photographs of them among the many handsome photographs in Jan's book,
either - at least, not that I spotted/remember.)

Tiny triumph: at least inkspot didn't trouble them here. Poor Knight's Lily
has been the only real antipodean inkspot sufferer. Indeed, so badly that in
the end it just dern laid down an' died. I didn't regret it, since I never
got it to flower and probably never would have done, however long I'd
managed to keep it sort-of-alive...

Tim

PS Reverting to a previous subject, the Sri Lankan Taprobane garden . I
discover that a man named Seweryn Chomet has written a book on the garden's
creator, Count de Mauny, which is at the publishers now. He promises to send
me a copy once it's out and I'll report here if it contains anything of
(horticultural) interest, though I doubt it: S.C.'s real interest is in
Mauny as a pseudo-aristocratic con-man.
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