Comments on: The New Ornamentals Society

By: eliz

eliz — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:17:55 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up! To be honest, I don’t much envy other climates even at this time, as long as I can get away now and then, but a huge database of plants sounds like so much fun!

To be honest, Elizabeth, I usually don’t envy them either. I tend to think that my little corner of PA is pretty near perfect – most of the time.
-Nan

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:37:13 +0000

Well, if nothing else it is pleasant for this plant addict to be able to make the day of another addicted soul. Unlike certain other more noxious addictions, this particular obsession does not make me feel the need to seek recovery. I only wish there weren’t so many temptations continually making me disgard all my best “resolutions” to spend less on plants/spend less time reading about and researching plants/spend less time fantasizing about gardens to come, etc., etc., etc. It all becomes just too distracting (though heaven knows, looking at the grey landscape, I feel the need for distraction or a good stiff shot of obsessing right at this moment. Maybe I’ll go check out the arisaemas at Asiatica . . .)

Stay warm!!

Obsession isn’t all bad, is it? Enjoy it while you can, anyway. At this time of year, when we don’t have to worry about watering or bugs or having a million other things to do outdoors, anything seems possible.
-Nan

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:40:34 +0000

Re NOS: ohmygod!! What an amazing Website. Given that the temperature today in Connecticut is hovering around 10 degrees at the moment (up from a depressing low of minus 4 earlier — I spent the whole of last night lying awake fretting over the anticipated survival rates of some of my more borderline botanical children!!) and I missed a much anticipated lecture on South African plants in Manhattan yesterday morning as the result of paniced NYC/Westchester County drivers who apparently don’t know how to deal with a dusting of snow, I needed to see green today!

How nice of you to pass it along so that now I have one more place to spend my hard earned wages.

You made my day, Nancy. It’s always heart-warming to enable another plant geek to part with their money, especially to support such a resource as this.
-Nan