[OGD] walking in England

The CRoW Act provides an outstanding opportunity for walkers to explore England's fantastic wildlife habitats. For example, Old Winchester Hill, a spotlight reserve, supports superb downland with seven species of orchid... from a news release :

Re: [OGD] ... Jesus himself often quoted from the Old Testament, therefore I believe it is safe to assume that he believed it, literally!

QUOTE: The Being (I think it much, much to limiting to say He or She and especially It) posses(ed)(es) - all at the same time - perfect/whole/complete Knowledge. The Being gifted this created but formless universe with a set of rules. Some choose to call them the Natural Law but I like to think

[OGD] RE: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 46

That means we have to toss out the Bible, Kant, Hegel, Dickens, Darwin, Freud, Vasari, (even Mr. Brown) An excellent suggestion Marianne, since this is supposed to be an orchid discussion group and those authors/books are aptly covered in various philosophical/religious discussion groups. With

Re: [OGD] RE: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 46

Dear Mike, For Freud: In the form of memories, thought splinters, retained dream images, associations of ideas and other mental states, the world of a person was visualized in the setting and put into words that Freud, who was sitting outside of the field of vision of his analysand, registered

[OGD] RE: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 48

Dear list members, Marianne (from France) made an interesting comment. ... That makes the discussion very easy, since most of the fuel for disagreement would be eliminated and discarded. Yes, I agree. Why spend a lot of lines to create a source of disagreement?

Re: [OGD] RE: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 46

Marianne You have provided proof positive that this contributes nothing significant to the OGD forum. This would be good on a literary forum, not a horticultural forum. Positive contributions are queries and replies like the recent thread on Paph pollinating. Mike

[OGD] Re: Hillerman-90

In a message dated 12/10/04 8:00:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.theunion.com/article/20041210/TODAYSFEATURE/112100080 Thank you Viatur! That was worth reading/scrolling the last several days of drivel! Kathy in cold MN ___ the

[OGD] Encyclia tripunctata (Lindl.) Dressler

corradoerina... wrote : Encyclia tripunctata. It lost all the leaves recently... Is it normal? The plants of E. tripunctata usually lose their leaves during the winter months, an unusual feature in Encyclia. source: Dressler Pollard, The Genus Encyclia in Mexico, page 52. * additional

[OGD] Re: Paphiopedilum pollinating

Hi All. Many thanks for the info supplied. Troy Meyers had a lovely page with photos. the other sites were all very helpfull Ron Is there a web site avaible that shows with photographs, how to pollinated Paphiopedilum orchids. Thanks in advance. Ron Boyd in sunny NSW Austrailia

[OGD] Re: Gods Goddesses

In a message dated 12/15/04 11:36:25 AM, Marianne writes: Ok... lets have it once and for all: what about Goddess? According to the great Medieval philosopher Maimonides, G-d is neither male nor female, since He has no corporeal form. We use the masculine gender simply as a grammatical

[OGD] Evolution of Ludisia

I have to agree with one of my colleagues when he said, I agree that religion is important in society but I reject the underlying premises. Go Darwin. Speaking of the evolution of orchids, I am familiar with the co-evolutionary pollination strategies which account for the structures of many

Re: [OGD] Evolution of Ludisia

At 03:37 PM 12/15/2004 -0600, you wrote: I have to agree with one of my colleagues when he said, I agree that religion is important in society but I reject the underlying premises. Go Darwin. Speaking of the evolution of orchids, I am familiar with the co-evolutionary pollination strategies

[OGD] Orchids and literature

Thanks Marianna for your post with quotes by Kant, Freud and Proust about orchids. If I was familiar with Proust's La Memoire du Temps Perdu / Un amour de Swann, the other authors' quotes are new to me. Did you find them with a Google query ? You could find additional quotes by Colette and

[OGD] RE: Orchids Digest, Vol 6, Issue 49 (Encyclia tripunctata)

Encyclia tripunctata. This Mexican species does lose all of its leaves. Please don't worry as this is normal. Should flower when bulbs are leafless. Flowers are perfumed slightly. Peter Fowler, Alton, UK. ___ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL

[OGD] Encyclia tripunctata

Dear friend, we are growing for the first time an Encyclia tripunctata. It lost all the leaves recently. The pseudobulbs look fine. We know it is deciduous, but did not know was SO deciduous. Is it normal? Does anyone have photograph of encyclia tripunctata in the same situation? Thanks in

[OGD] Re: twisted flowers (was Evolution of Ludisia)

Prem wrote: Also, Tipularia discolor, native to the eastern United States, has asymmetrical flowers with the lip askew one direction and the dorsal sepal and petals skewed the other direction. I seem to recall reading that T. discolor is pollinated by moths, and the skewed flower ensures that