Re: July 10

tnottle@picknowl.com.au wrote:
> 
> Dear Medit Planters,
> 
> Mid-winter here but a fine sunny day with a wind cold enough to deter
> prolonged outdoor activity, but comfortable enough for short forays
> into the garden to check this and that, to plant those pots of urgent
> plants whose roots are already moving strongly. I guess we are over
> what is so uncomely called 'the hump'; almond trees on the hillsides
> are pink and white with flowers and the buds of Formosan cherry are
> fit to burst. Spring is about to be sprung.

Trevor
Loved your two postings on your winter garden. I was especially taken by
the idea of establishing Cyclamen coum in a lawn. I think I have just
the place and, as we cut our grass extra-high to encourage a good root
system, they should have no difficulty ducking under the blades. There
is no trouble any time finding seedlings, especially of album.

I am becoming keeneer yearly on Hellebores. Among the species, I
particularly like sternii, but when I see all the species and varieties 
you list I obviously have a long way to go before I amass a
representative collection.

Moira.
-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, 
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
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