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Leftwood said:
I'm afraid sacrificial pods pods would be the only way to provide the necessary experience. Words can only convey so much.

True.

But now that I'm friends with Berry Francis (he spoke at the 2014 NALS Lily convention and we talked quite a bit), perhaps I can bend his ear. He complains (!) that he can do ER and grow things in vitro just fine, but can't grow them in the garden!

I'll swap him some green thumb for some lab work!

the Balkans are the epicenter of hellebores. The old Sunrise and Sunset strains came from the east and west sides of the Triglav (Slovenia).

This is the big botanical drawcard for me - the hellebores and the Balkan lilium species ...and the trees! When you live in Australia, most everything that gets substantially over head height is a eucalypt or an Acacia, or some close relative of... (ok, there's the proteaceae too and they're more interesting but also more infrequent), and it gets just so monotonous.