Re: True Confessions - Part Deux

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>
><<<<The bloodline (or maybe I should say "sapline") of this tree is
>  interesting.  The original seeds were given to me over 40 years ago
>  by an elderly Czechoslovakian woman who had worked in her younger
>  days as a tightrope walker in the circus.>>>>
>
>Geez, Don, we have you into true confession on the perennial line now.  What
>else do you have to tell us?
>
>Claire Peplowski
>NYS z4
>


The year was 1971 - Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.  I was on a 
Caribbean cruise with a person with whom I was very much in love with 
at the time.  The ship, the Norwegian Prince, had put in on the 
island of Barbados.  We took a day trip to a place called Runaway 
Beach.  Growing along side of the restaurant on the beach was one of 
the most gorgeous plants I had ever seen ( at least up until that 
time), a Chalice Vine (a clambering shrub, really), Solandra maxima, 
covered with dozens of blooms, and smelling of coconut.

I took a cutting (with permission of the owner, I'll have you know) 
and have the plant to this very day.  It blooms reliably each year 
between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and perfumes the entire room with 
its fragrance.  It takes me back.  The sun, the beach, the pina 
coladas...

http://www.execpc.com/~llmen/solandra.jpg



-- 
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com


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