Comments on: Pink Flower and Green Canal http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-24/467 Not a photo blog, but sometimes I play one on TV Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:01:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Peter http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-24/467#comment-4694 Thu, 24 May 2007 13:11:37 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2007-05-24/467#comment-4694 Come, come, Jeffrey - pansies? They're petunias, originally from South America, but cultivated almost everywhere else. I think Japan is probably the epicentre of breeding new petunias and the related callibrachoas. One very popular group in the UK, and no doubt in the US, is called Million Bells, and anyone looking at a label in a garden centre will see in small print "Breeding product of Suntory" - so now we know why Japanese whisky is so expensive. <span class='jfriedl'>Hah, you have no idea.... the medicine I take to quell the occasional heart arrhythmia that I develop is called "Sunrythm," by Suntory. <i>Now</i> you know :-) —Jeffrey</span> Come, come, Jeffrey - pansies? They’re petunias, originally from South America, but cultivated almost everywhere else.

I think Japan is probably the epicentre of breeding new petunias and the related callibrachoas. One very popular group in the UK, and no doubt in the US, is called Million Bells, and anyone looking at a label in a garden centre will see in small print “Breeding product of Suntory” - so now we know why Japanese whisky is so expensive.

Hah, you have no idea…. the medicine I take to quell the occasional heart arrhythmia that I develop is called “Sunrythm,” by Suntory. Now you know :-) —Jeffrey

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