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From: Herman van Beusekom <hvanbeusekom at HETNET.NL>
Subject: Re: Arisaema in the Floriade NL? FLOWERS!
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If bulbs are your life than you should be in the Keukenhof area and the
bulbs fields in the north. I trust you are in the good hands of you
bulb-connections here who can guide you around. But for Arisaema you shou=ld
be at the Botanic Gardens in Utrecht that is for sure.
Herman van Beusekom
GROENLO.
Netherlands
Zone 7a
http://home.hetnet.nl/~herman38/genealogy.htm
http://thevbwindmill.homestead.com/windmillpage1.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.E. Shields" <jshields104 at INSIGHTBB.COM>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Arisaema in the Floriade NL? FLOWERS!


> I sort of assumed your would assume I wanted to see flowering plants --
> aroids, bulbs, etc. <VBG>   I'm interested in almost all bulbs, tender =as
> well as hardy.  Sorry to be so vague the first time.
>
> At any rate that is what I am interested in seeing:  flowering bulbs
> ("geophytes") including but not exclusively aroids.  My travel time is
> controlled by my nursery season here.  We can't get away from the
daylilies
> in June and July, and I have to attend the IBS Bulb Symposium at
Huntington
> Gardens (San Marino, California) the last weekend in this month.
>
> I am trying to arrange a couple of visits to bulb growers, one in North
> Holland and one around Lisse.  We'll also take in Keuckenhof, although =I
> suppose the tulips will be gone by then.  We will stay the first night =in
> Amsterdam, Hotel Beethoven, and maybe the rest of our nights too.  I'm =not
> sure how long it takes to drive to the various places.  We will rent a =car
> in the Netherlands.
>
> I am also getting a new camera this week:  a Mamiya 645E, larger format
> than 35-mm.  It seems editors don't like 35-mm slides for illustrations
> (now she tells me!)   I plan to use it there, along with my trusty old
> Nikon.  So I hope to see lots of flowers in bloom.
>
>  From the Netherlands, we'll go by train to Switzerland and do some mor=e
> garden visiting there for a week, then fly home from Zurich.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Shields
> in central Indiana, USA
>
> At 06:37 AM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Arnhild,
> >No doubt that the dutch knows most about their country but how can we
answer
> >on a question so broad like this one:
> >'Hi folks,
> >
> >I'm going to be in the Netherlands ca. 6 to 12 May, 2002.  Is there
> >anything else I should make it a point to see while we are there?
> >
> >Jim Shields
> >in central Indiana, USA'
> >
> >What wants Jim to see. Paintings ? Cheese ? The sea ? Or what ?
> >Only if he is more precize I can try and send him an answer.
> >Herman van Beusekom
> >GROENLO.
> >Netherlands
> >Zone 7a
> >http://home.hetnet.nl/~herman38/genealogy.htm
> >http://thevbwindmill.homestead.com/windmillpage1.html
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Arnhild Bleie" <abbl at ONLINE.NO>
> >To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
> >Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:52 PM
> >Subject: Re: Arisaema in the Floriade NL?
> >
> >
> > > At 08:05 AM 9.4.02 -0500, J.E. Shields wrote:
> > > >I'm going to be in the Netherlands ca. 6 to 12 May, 2002.  Is ther=e
> > > >anything else I should make it a point to see while we are there?
> > > >
> > >         > hi Jim  .. Dutch people are friendly and funny and very
clever
> > > horticulturists - talk with them when you come there .. any way I w=as
once
> > > visiting Flevoland in the northern part of NL - if is such a small
country
> > > though you can travel across it with car in one day I would think  =..
> >lots
> > > of horticulture there in Flevoland .. but guess some Dutch in the l=ist
> > > might be able to answer this better than me?
> > >
> > > Arnhild - z7/8 winters and chilly summers in Hardanger - Norway
> > >
>
> *************************************************
> Jim Shields             USDA Zone 5             Shields Gardens, Ltd.
> P.O. Box 92              WWW:    http://www.shieldsgardens.com/
> Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA                   Tel. +1-317-896-3925
>