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Re: I'm moving

Nick,
Many thanks for your wonderful descriptive letters!  Get settled fast so
we can share your adventures again.
With best wishes for your new job,
Elly Bade


On Fri, 2 May 1997, Nick Turland wrote:

> Dear Meditophiles,
> 
> I've been lurking for a while, mainly because I've been frantically getting
> things sorted out ready to move to a new job. This will be in the United
> States, at the Missouri Botanical Garden, so I will have the chance to build
> up a new collection of Mediterranean plants in the not entirely
> Mediterranean climate of St. Louis, Missouri. All my existing Greek and
> Cretan plants are now at London's Chelsea Physic Garden, but I have many
> little packs of seeds which I'll be trying to raise when I find somewhere
> suitable to live.
> 
> I'll be leaving the U.K. on May 19, and will temporarily unsubscribe from
> medit-plants on 12 May, my last day in this job at the Natural History
> Museum in London. When I get back online, at mobot.org, I'll re-subscribe.
> 
> Incidentally, my parents' garden this week has several beautiful flowering
> species peonies, all grown from seeds sown in 1988 and 1989: white P. clusii
> subsp. clusii & subsp. rhodia, yellow P. mlokosewitschii and the tree-peony
> P. lutea subsp. ludlowii, and also deep pink P. mascula. The Cretan P.
> clusii subsp. clusii is deliciously scented of nutmeg and cinnamon!
> 
> There is also a stunning patch of Cretan Tulipa doerfleri, which spreads by
> underground stolons and exists in Crete as a cornfield weed. Each stem is
> about a foot high with large, deep red flowers, particularly sumptuous when
> backlit by the sun. The Turkish T. armena var. lycica has just finished:
> this is also red but much smaller, with wavy-edged leaves.
> 
> Best wishes to everyone, Nick.
> 
> Nick Turland,
> Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
> Telephone/voicemail: + 44 171 938 8803  Fax: + 44 171 938 9260  Email:
> n.turland@nhm.ac.uk
> 
>
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