I'm Rick, and thank you, all that invited me. I can thank the big snowstorm in the upper Midwest for my presence here now, as I had had a speaking engagement tonight that was canceled. I now have some time to explore this new site, and hours pasted quickly. It's not hard to imagine that my first post would be here. But I won't be leaving DG.
I live near Minneapolis, MN, where I grew up, and have always had a love for the natural plant world, but really, anything in the plant kingdom.
Lilium species are my focus on this cubit, but I dabble with hybrids too, and fiddle with hybridizing.
I, too, started my lily fascination with a box of unknown lily bulblets when I was just a lad, given to me by a Cajun member of the (Minnesota) North Star Lily Society. I still have some of my favorites from back then. My other hobby that looms large in my life is all things language - how, what, why, where - and this includes Botanical Latin.
tggfisk (Bev), don't forget to post pics when your seedlings from my seed bloom! Ramona (Mainiac) has beat you to the punch (I mean pic): she recently dmailed me some resulting blooms, and I am so excited! As Pard has said too, it is so fun to see what comes of your own crosses.
Ticker, I'd like to mention here that NARGS has begun a Rock Garden related forum similar to SRGC, and I am one of the moderators, along with Todd. Feel free to pop in.
Glad to be here,
Rick
P.S. I do have one other fetish:
