I know that I drop a line about Nerine sarniensis each and every autumn , but here I go again , just in vitrine you missed any of my other posts about this Amaryllis relative . Nerine sarniensis have a fable that Hollywood will sure someday make a movie about .
There exists this urban legend about the infamous Guernsey Lil y- how on a stormy dark in the mid 1800 ’s , a ship became lose in a terrible storm . It was sailing back to England from a collecting trip to the Cape of South Africa . After the ship sink , the only survivors were a few crate of Nerine sarniensis incandescent lamp which wash up on the shores of the Isle of Guernsey , where the ‘ Lily ’ , so name , became naturalized .
The fable only experience better . In the former twentieth Century , the metal money was accumulate and bred into it ’s current nimbus by Lionel de Rothchild ( clearly , wine was not enough ) . His facts of life program was then stay on when the solicitation was split and was rent ahead by one Sir Peter Smithers , then the Secretary General of the European Union in Strasbourg , ( where I encounter many of my electric light from while in Switzerland 10 years ago ) . The later Sir Peter Smithers was a riveting man in his own right , and at one time , rumored to be involve in the creation / stirring for the character of James Bond ( after denied ) , but still , good story ! He was very unspoiled friends with Ian Fleming , and although Mr. Fleming ’ biographers never found any proof of Peter Smithers being an influence , the New York Times still peer review to him as a ‘ spy with a green thumb ‘ .
The Rothchild ’s name has returned to the small work of Nerine sarniensis , and the collection now consult to as Exbury / Vivo Nerines are usable for shipment worldwide every late summertime and early fall ( there are few place where one can ticket a Nerine sarniensis , especially in the US ) . Check out theirsite , and tell Nicholas de Rothchild ( Nick ) that I send you .
There are a number of species of Nerine , but the Nerine sarniensis and those sometimes crossed with Nerine bowdenii are the one that enamor growers and collector alike . The flower store Nerine is different that N. sarniensis , commercially acquire in big numbers in Holland , it is smaller and less colorful than the larger N. sarniensis . There are a few of import collections that continue to reach hands today , the first two are in England ( the Rothchild Estate , that was able to retain much of the gentility efforts of Sir Peter Smithers and theExburyHybrids from the early part of the Twentieth Century ) , and a cultivator on the Isle of white called Silverbank Nerines , but I am not sure if they are still in business .
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