Hi Lynn;

nice to meet you

It is so nice to meet you Peter.

You both look great!!! Nice photos kids!

And so do you Greg.

aw thanks Lynn!

You've been gone so much this summer, and I have missed you. It is so good to see you posting again.

Aw thanks Lynn, I so enjoy catching up on here!!! And Peter's photos in the database have me drooling - even though I know many of them won't be stateside any time soon Its when my idea of clothes and jewelry made from baby semps will come in handy whenever I make it to Germany and England

Hi Greg;

your nice photo had activated me to change my avatar

Oh good!! It is nice to see what people look like isn't it! Several folks on here prompted me to do this!

Yea, isn't it better to see real people instead of flowers, butterflies, cats...
I'm sick of flowers!

Calin no wonder you're spending more time in the succulent section of ATP! less blooms!

Ooops, Calin, my avatar just turned into a flower!!

I got tired of seeing myself!!!

Calin,

I was in Romania in 1975 as part of a symphony tour. We spent almost a month and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Really enjoyed the wonderful stuffed cabbage although I have yet to replicate it exactly here.

After one of our concerts we spent the night in a beautiful resort in the Transylvanian Alps. The gardener there was very clever and used semps to "write" the day in the flower bed. That is, he used hundreds of semps that were moved so that the date was written in semps. Very clever. Of course the "July" and "1975" didn't require anything to be moved daily, just the numbers of the day.

I did see some semps growing in the wild but they were well out of reach trying to get to them

Have you been able to collect any interesting semps from the wild?

Kevin

Wow. Coincidence.
I was born in 75. March.
Stuffed cabbage... well, when someone asks "what's a traditional Romanian dish" we all say stuffed cabbage. Though, I am not sure it's a Romanian invention :)
I'm not good yet with semps, but when I went hiking, I usually encountered the "plain green" ones so I let them be.
And yea, some are out of reach...

Calin, Depending on the season, those 'plain green' ones can be most colorful as the year rolls by. So don't discount what they can transition to:

Maigret at winter's 'Plain Green":


Maigret at spring:

Some give no indication of the vivid color to come at the right season.

Calin, actually I'm glad you leave them alone in the wild! (I know you said because you don't fancy them) but if everyone went out and picked the wild plants they'd very quickly be gone Just my 2 cents...I always get emotional when I hear people talk about picking/collecting plants from the wild

Just one....Greg...please...

But where would all of our hybrid semps be today if some had not been collected?
Same with sedum, and many other types of plants.

Lynn if a conservationist or biologist goes to collect plants they are probably doing so with utmost care, most of us layfolk won't take that type of care (or really know the best way to take plants from the wild) And the result for many plants is extinction. Buy plants from reputable nurseries
2 cents here! haha I'm free with my opinions!