Phrag shipped - below freezing

[The Mutant]

@ PaphMadMan- You're right! Yes! The light is returning AND it's snowing right now. Happiness.

@ Secundino - Happy solstice! How long are the days in Spain right now? In Sweden the sun rises at 9 A.M. and sets at 3 P.M., so 6 hours of daylight.

 

[Secundino]

rise at 7:49
set at 18:10

sunny right now, 19ºC. BUT wind from east, loaden with saharian dust. Not nice. How was that beginning of a famous film... "I had a white car in Africa." :rollhappy:

 

[The Mutant]

@ Secun: You get almost 3½ hours more daylight than we do! Sometimes it sucks living so far up north.

 

[Bjorn]

Update; finally home, five venustums from Thailand. 17days. Quite desiccated but no rot. Guess they will be ok, but probaly forget blooming this year. Nice plants btw.

 

[Secundino]

Mutant, thats why I went back to here... Going to work in the dark, when you get at home, night again, ... It was not the cold, it was the darkness which made me feel sick and miserable. Ok, may, june and july are an explosion of flowers and growth, and I spent most of the time outside, knowing the summer possibly would not arrive at all. Though I miss my Erythroniums, Corydalis elata and old rose bushes, the one thing I miss most - and I can't get here, even frosted - is black currant. I love black currants. Call me crazy, but that is my 'taste of beginning summer' lying in the sun and eating fresh black currants....:rollhappy:

You are happy Björn, today I spoke to the postman ... day thirteen now ... and he doesn't expect the packet arriving before next monday.

 

[cnycharles]

the one thing I miss most - and I can't get here, even frosted - is black currant. I love black currants. Call me crazy, but that is my 'taste of beginning summer' lying in the sun and eating fresh black currants....:rollhappy:
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Back in upstate ny growing up we had bushes of red currants in the driveway turnaround and it was the same. Grab strings of bright red berries and strip them off into your mouth -tart!



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[The Mutant]

Update; finally home, five venustums from Thailand. 17days. Quite desiccated but no rot. Guess they will be ok, but probaly forget blooming this year. Nice plants btw.

I hope they'll all make it. 17 days is not great for Paphs to wait, no matter what the temperature. Which plants are you taking about. Your venustums?

Mutant, thats why I went back to here... Going to work in the dark, when you get at home, night again, ... It was not the cold, it was the darkness which made me feel sick and miserable. Ok, may, june and july are an explosion of flowers and growth, and I spent most of the time outside, knowing the summer possibly would not arrive at all. Though I miss my Erythroniums, Corydalis elata and old rose bushes, the one thing I miss most - and I can't get here, even frosted - is black currant. I love black currants. Call me crazy, but that is my 'taste of beginning summer' lying in the sun and eating fresh black currants....:rollhappy:

You are happy Björn, today I spoke to the postman ... day thirteen now ... and he doesn't expect the packet arriving before next monday.

Ugh, yup. Winter is horrible that way. The few daylight hours we have are mostly spent indoors working.

You can't get black currants in Spain? Is it too warm for them? We have black and red currants growing in the flower beds in my neighborhood. My favourite has to be white currants, though. They're really tasty.

Back in upstate ny growing up we had bushes of red currants in the driveway turnaround and it was the same. Grab strings of bright red berries and strip them off into your mouth -tart!



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Sounds very much like the summer days of my childhood. Raspberries, blackberries, black/red/white currant, wild strawberries... I think I turned into a frutarian during summer...

 

[Bjorn]

Secun, strange you do not get black currants there? With so many scandinavians, there must be special shops for them, have you tried? Sorry to hear that you are worse off than I was with the plants, though. Never thought that you had it more difficult than we have.
Mutant, the parcel was five venustums from our friend paph_mania. I like that species, nice leaves and flowers. Those from Thailand had even nicer leaves than those I already had. And I have four or five different breeds, all different. Total it should be some. Sixty-seventy, most of them not flowering because they are too young. However there is a bunch like five or six opening now, just in time for christmas!:clap:

merry Christmans all of you!

 

[The Mutant]

Mutant, the parcel was five venustums from our friend paph_mania. I like that species, nice leaves and flowers. Those from Thailand had even nicer leaves than those I already had. And I have four or five different breeds, all different. Total it should be some. Sixty-seventy, most of them not flowering because they are too young. However there is a bunch like five or six opening now, just in time for christmas!:clap:

merry Christmans all of you!

Ooo, you'll have to post pictures of them then. I love venustum, especially their foliage.

 

[Secundino]

eighteen days now...

 

[The Mutant]

We will keep our fingers crossed here, Secun.

 

[Secundino]

Twist ahand shouhout!!!!
Got them! And they are all looking pretty good, let alone a little noid Phal that arrived nearly dead. Even the spike on the Paphiopedilum looks like it could just simply grow on....
Now - very shady day today - they get all the light they didn't have the last three weeks. Lots of fresh air, and waterless love!
My first Eulophia and my first Galeandra (no, it's not a lookalike contest)
Relaxed fingers now ... !
Happy New Year to all!

 

[Linus_Cello]

Yah! Post pics of the new plants when you get a chance.

 

[Bjorn]

Good to see that all eventually arrives in good condition, albeit the frustrations along the road.

 

[The Mutant]

Twist ahand shouhout!!!!
Got them! And they are all looking pretty good, let alone a little noid Phal that arrived nearly dead. Even the spike on the Paphiopedilum looks like it could just simply grow on....
Now - very shady day today - they get all the light they didn't have the last three weeks. Lots of fresh air, and waterless love!
My first Eulophia and my first Galeandra (no, it's not a lookalike contest)
Relaxed fingers now ... !
Happy New Year to all!

Great to hear, Secun! :clap: It's amazing that they survived for that long, but I guess the temperatures are pretty good in Spain right now (not too hot or cold).

I'll keep my fingers crossed that the spike survives!

 

[Lmpgs]

Good news!! Enjoy your haul.

 

[Secundino]

Thanks!

 

[Linus_Cello]

what is that root/cottony thing at the bottom of the picture?

 

[NYEric]

I only see one Paph! Looking OK!

 

[Secundino]

I only see one Paph! Looking OK!

That is because I'm a man of many loves. :wink:

And the cottony stolons are from Tradescantia sillamontana, a gift that arrived on top and competely rotten, I thought, until I unwrapped it completely.
All plants except for Eulophia have already flowered. So I should have a few different flowers next year.