Comments on: Janis Ruksans’ bulbs

By: Visit Snowdrop Heaven: The Temple Nursery | Cold Climate Gardening

Visit Snowdrop Heaven: The Temple Nursery | Cold Climate Gardening — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:41:56 +0000

[...] Society, on April 19th. I attended my first Adirondack chapter meeting last October, when I heard Janis Ruksans (and met Craig in person for the first time). Mr. Lyman and I wound up walking back to our parked [...]

By: Ellis Hollow » Janis Ruksansâ€™ bulb catalog

Ellis Hollow » Janis Ruksansâ€™ bulb catalog — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:39:35 +0000

[...] fall, I wrote about the eye-popping presentation Latvian bulb expert Janis Ruksans gave to our local Adirondack Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society. I haven’t yet [...]

By: Ellis Hollow » 2007 Year in Review

Ellis Hollow » 2007 Year in Review — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:04:46 +0000

[...] frost came the 16th. We discovered that the beavers had been busy. Fall colors were only mediocre. Janis Ruksans shared his bulb expertise with our rock garden [...]

By: The County Clerk

The County Clerk — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:49:18 +0000

Great post. Thank you.

Looks like I’ll be sending an envelope withy $5 to Latvia… and buying another book.

By: kate

kate — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:46:50 +0000

That must have been a wonderful talk. The Anemone photograph was frightening, as is the reading about what has happened to the people living near Chernobyl.

I have linked to your blog in my ‘playing in the dirt’ links!

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:02:49 +0000

I think traveling in the U.S. is a piece of cake compared with plant exploration in the former Soviet Union. Possibly even easier than daily life in Latvia.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:32:38 +0000

It was a great talk, but what impressed me the most was how much he smiled. Having just done some traveling myself, I was surprised he didn’t look more exhausted. I guess these plant explorers are made out of hardy stuff.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:46:32 +0000

Ki: No. I donâ€™t recall where the scilla were shot. But they look like that without the help of radiation.

By: Mr. McGregor's Daughter

Mr. McGregor's Daughter — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:51:30 +0000

See, nuclear radiation is good, right? :^) The pic of the Anemones scares the heck out of me.

By: Ki

Ki — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:36:27 +0000

Was the Scilla also from Chernobyl? Quite amazing what the radiation has done to the Anemone. The variations are quite lovely though I hate to think of the mutations it causes in human cells.