[pbs] [SPAM] Re: Source of Eremurus spp.
John Grimshaw
j.grimshaw at virgin.net
Tue Oct 30 00:27:53 EST 2007
Jim McKenney wrote:
> Somewhere around the house I have photos of the blooming Eremurus
> robustus
> and E. elwesii obtained from the Scheepers company back in the mid '60s.
Has anyone seen anything labelled Eremurus elwesii more recently than the
mid-'60s? It was a race of Eremurus robustus developed here at Colesbourne
by Henry John Elwes. There is a wonderful photograph of him inspecting his
Eremurus bed, with the inflorescences towering over him. It would be great
to restore "E. elwesii" to the garden here, but I fear that it is no more.
John Grimshaw
Dr John M. Grimshaw
Sycamore Cottage
Colesbourne
Nr Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL53 9NP
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