Re: True Confessions - Part Deux
- Subject: Re: True Confessions - Part Deux
- From: c* k*
- Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 09:30:02 -0600
Aw,Don you read as good as any romance novel......
Thanks for the uplifting moment,even I could smell the coconut..
NOW I want one of your plants..See what you've done.
C.
Don Martinson wrote:
> >
> >
> ><<<<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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