Just how many AV are there? Is it hundreds, thousands or?
Can Someone Tell Me
The FC database currently has 15,060 named AVs in it, and there are many more unregistered varieties as well as lots of unnamed AVs.
Critter,
I don't have enough room or money. Makes my head spin. Please tell me what the FC base is?
First Class is a computer program with a database of descriptions and photos... that's where Allison & I et al have been getting those descriptions for the most part. I think there's a link in the sticky, but check it out at http://www.firstclass2.com
If you join AVSA, you can save on the purchase price for FC by purchasing on the AVSA site.
There are well over 30 thousand named African Violets !
Hmmmm...... i only need 30.035 to complete my collection...
What a hoot!! Too funny, Spider. I think we are all thinking the same thing.
Oh my my head is spinning. I need 29,070 or so.
Thanks for the info. critter. I can't get now but hope I can in the near future.
Uh Oh! Wrong maths there. 29035.
Spidy,
I need a bigger house or someone to send me a greenhouse. Greenhouse, I would love one of those even a small one.
Somebody needs to win the lottery and build a huge conservatory, just for AVs & gessies! With guest quarters, of course, LOL.
That sounds like a winner. A huge conservatory with room for all of us. Thats the ticket.
I happened to be looking at the Smithsonian Inst. web and want you to know that there is an entire research project dedicated to gesnariads- see if we'd gone to school, gotten our phd and loved AVs we could be getting paid big bucks for our addiction!
April,
Darn that would have been nice money and AVs.
Oh, yes, everybody knows that all researchers with PhD's make the big bucks.... hahahahahaha!
You are right Jill, but come on the guy works for the Smithsonian, he's got to be making money and if he isn't I bet Rob gives him a break on those 20.00 plants! LOL.
Ummm.... nobody works for the Smithsonian in order to make big bucks. If you want to find a high paying job with a PhD in the biological sciences, you go into something like microbiology or biomedical engineering... and even then it's not a certainty. Those big research grants don't necessarily mean big salaries for the researchers.
But you may be right about the plant discounts!
Yeah and the Smithsonian pays the shipping! Probably even pays Rob's winter shipping rates!