"I felt somewhat pensive on the drive home . . ."

[emmarytz]

By no other theory can I explain, for example, my own total failure to grow alstroemerias, the lovely Persian lilies that flower in July. On the packet--or rather on the bulb bag--it tells you that they "resent lime." Not a speck of lime did they get. It wasn't the lime they resented, it was me. Again it said that they "succeed best in half shade

Comments

[gwyn_r]

That actually sounds kind of delightful. I too have failed alstromerias somehow, they don't like me. I might have to check that book out!

Maybe alstromerias just have a deceptive publicist

[emmarytz]

Have you not read Beverley Nichols? I suspect that he's either a love him or hate him but I seriously fall into the "love him" camp. -em.

[webcowgirl]

That quote about growing alstroemerias is HYSTERICAL. "Better death than to see that face again." I know that feeling!