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I need to get some information on hardy cyclamen, from those of you who grow/grown them. I've decided that I've got to have this plant in my shade garden. First of all, did you buy seeds, plants or corms? Second, where did you get your hardy cyclamen from? It seem that none of the local nurseries in Winston-Salem carry them. I was told by one of the nursery in town that they are very hard to grow (what do you think about that?) and come by. I looked on the internet and saw where several nurseries sell them, but not to sure who to purchase from. Any any info would be appreciated. Happy Holidays! Judy |
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- Posted by nckvilledudes 7a (My Page) on Tue, Dec 8, 09 at 20:22
I have grown them at my previous house since I had some shade there for them to grow in a semi-woodland setting. The four years I had them, they returned faithfully and bloomed for me. Mine were tubers (that is what the packaging said anyways) that were purchased from a seller at the Charlotte Christmas show. The biggest problem for me with them was that I had a hard time telling what was the top and what was the bottom of the tubers so I solved the issue by planting them on their side. |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 8, 09 at 20:44
Thanks for your info. It sounds like they're pretty easy to grow. I'm going to purchase them through a mail order nursery. Is now a good planting time? |
Timely query - I was just thinking about these myself! Another question, do the squirrels like to dig them up and eat them like many other tubers? |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 8, 09 at 21:16
Hi ZigZag, Where are you planning on getting your cyclamen from? I was just on an Auction website and noticed where someone had some seeds on Buy it Now. Are you going to get the seeds or the tubers/corms? Judy |
They are easy to grow from seeds...just slow. I used winter sowing, and you need to cover the containers for a few weeks as they "like" darkness initially. Some types are not hardy around here. I like C. coum as it blooms in January or so. You can find all of this on a website. Gethsemane Gardens in Brown Summitt near Greensboro almost always has some. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Cyclamen Growing Tips
I have them growing in my yard no problem.I ended up with them when my husband went to the landfill for mulch and it was full of cyclamen bulbs,they are up and going strong now.My yard smelled awful for months from that mulch, but i have cyclamen....free....I grow them with the Hellebore plants... |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 8, 09 at 22:01
NCrescue, Thanks for the info. I would love to try winter sowing these. So, I'm going to buy some seed. I just called Gethsemane Gardens. The lady I spoke with told me that they're closed for the Winter but that she has a couple of 3" pots left. I'm planning a field trip to purchase a pot this weekend. In a year or two, I'm going to have more cyclamen than what I know to do with it. I'll bring them to the Plant Swaps. |
Judy, I'm just in the early thinking stage so hadn't thought about where or how to get any - and I'm still concerned about my gazillions of squirrels viewing them as lunch. Will keep reading. Meanwhile, I just dug up an old thread from nearly two years ago w/lots of info. (and despite the disclaimer top of page, the Search worked fine!) |
Here is a link that might be useful: cyclamen from seed Feb. '08
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 9, 09 at 8:46
ZigZag, Thanks for the info. I went back and read the link from February 2008. Alot of good info there. I'm planning on getting/purchasing the seeds, as well, and doing as a winter-sowing project. I did post on the exchange to see if anyone had cyclamen seeds for sharing. Susie - What a prize you got in your mulch!! I usually get trash. But I love the city mulch. It's the best mulch you can get or atleast the mulch from Winston-Salem is very good. I recommend it to all of my gardening buddies. |
Zigzag- no i've never had the squirrels bother mine. I'm starting to get nice clusters of them now. They've been in the ground years and it took a while before they started seeding in- the babies are incredibly tiny for a couple years, which is why those bulbs cost so much. The bulbs will just keep getting bigger and bigger though, and can bloom for an incredibly long time! I only have a few coum and hope they multiply and do as well as the hederifolium have done for me. |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (email@example.com) on Wed, Dec 9, 09 at 16:21
Keep your eye out for those small bagged bulbs that often show up at garden centers. Sometimes they will include cyclamen. The bulbs are the quickest way to get blooms, seeds can take a few years to get to blooming size. Bulbs aren't cheap and that is most likely due to how long it takes them to size up. Plant Delights used to have them and so did Pine Knot Farms up on the Virginia border. A lot of places that have hellebore festivals have cyclamen for sale since they bloom at the same time (some of them). The are easy bulbs for those extra dry and harsh places like at the base of oak trees - but they are not big lush plants so they rarely fill in the whole area. They also like stone walls and gravel beds for cactus or succulents. Extremely hardy, don't worry about winter cold just keep them dry and they'll be fine. |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Wed, Dec 9, 09 at 19:41
John, Thanks for the info and also for the Garden Center tip. When you say Garden Center, are you talking about L. & H. D.? Anyhow, the next time I'm in L. & H.D. I'll check out their bulb center. Gethsemane Gardens sells a 3" pot for, I think she said, $12.00. Judy |
Thanks, Tammy & John - think I'm going to have to read up more, but would definitely go the tuber route since I have the patience of a gnat, so trying from seed would drive me batty. |
We sell them at BB's. I've got some naturalizing in a shady area under oaks, holly and pine. I noticed a couple of my favorite customers buying bunches of them and asked why and they said "dry shade". That was all I needed to hear. One tuber has spread into a nice little grove of tubers about a foot and a half wide in two years. I'm talking dry, dead, sandy soil. I have the coum and the hederifolium, the later being the most vigorous and spreading. Adele |
- Posted by squirrelspur z7a NC (My Page) on Thu, Dec 10, 09 at 6:30
Judy, J.L.Hudson Seeds has cyclamen seeds for sale (under their Supplement). Their shipping is very reasonable and I have been happy with their seeds in the past. |
Here is a link that might be useful: J L Hudson
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 10, 09 at 8:24
Adele, Just curious, How much do they cost at BB? Judy |
- Posted by trianglejohn z7b NC (email@example.com) on Thu, Dec 10, 09 at 10:30
Judy - no, I did not mean HD or Low's. Though they have the same sort of rackfull of bagged bulbs. It seems that the more unusual show up at real garden centers. If you haven't been to Sanford (where Adele works) then it will be worth the trip, plants are cheap and the selection is endless. |
Sometimes campbell road carries the plants, and when they do they are around $4. Often they are blooming so you can pick colors- both coum and hederifolium come in range from deep cerise through white. The bare bulbs are typically in the $4-6 range so i wouldn't pay 12 bucks (logan's carries them- that's where i got mine years ago). I've heard that brent & becky's carries huge bulbs but i'm not sure of the price. I don't know that i've ever seen them in the big boxes, but it sure wouldn't hurt to look. |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 10, 09 at 12:07
John & tamelask, Thanks for the info. I called BB. Their price, I think he said, 3.50 a pot. That's more like what I would like to pay. Anyhow, I let you guys know what I find this weekend. |
I've got a bunch of C. coum from BB -- they've done very well and for a very good price. I've also bought cyclamen at the Duke Gardens plant sale, Montrose, and Pine Knot. Over the past few years I've branched out into many different species, with C. coum, hederifolium, and intaminatum seeding around in the garden at this point. This winter I'm going to try starting from seed from a European source. The cyclamen.org site mentioned above is a good source of info, and I also like this link for info. |
Here is a link that might be useful: cyclamen
- Posted by brenda_near_eno Z7a (My Page) on Sat, Dec 12, 09 at 6:56
I started some seed 3-4 years ago. It's not easy. Between wet paper towels in the dark in a ziploc for a certain number of days. I can't remember all the details, but it's on the web. I had two sprout and get transfered to wet sand. They are now really big plants in a bed outside - two enormous bulbs with leaves spreading a foot diameter around bulb. It would sure be quicker to start with bulbs. For me the flowers are way small. I love the leaves though. Much prettier and more beautifully marked than the tender houseplants you can buy. |
- Posted by brenda_near_eno Z7a (My Page) on Sat, Dec 12, 09 at 7:11
Found the instructions: Hardy Cyclamen have been found to germinate best in total darkness at around 55-60'F. We have had good results with the following method. Place the seeds between two pieces of damp filter paper, Kleenex tissue, etc., then put into a polythene bag and place this into an opaque container in order to exclude all light. Inspect the seeds after a month and remove and prick out as the seedlings appear, returning the ungerminated seeds to total darkness. |
Here is a link that might be useful: out of print Thompson & Morgan Successful Seed Raising Guide
Thanks Brenda, I'm getting a bunch of cyclamen seed from Europe so your instructions are timely. I have a friend whose husband is a pilot on an International route so it made getting them easy (for me anyway). I'm growing a lot of different species now, but I'm breaking new ground here with the seed. It always seems weird to have trouble starting plants from seed when they seed around without apparent trouble in the ground, but it's not like I haven't experienced that before. |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Sat, Dec 12, 09 at 18:04
Hi All, I got my potted cyclamens from BB today. I bought 2 different varieties - coum & hederifolium. Not to mention all the other great plants I got there as well. BB is definitely worth the trip!!! Adele - Thanks for all of your help at BB. My friends and I will be back. Squirrelspur - Thanks for telling me about J. L. Hudson Seed. I've contacted them and have a catalog on the way. I'm getting my cyclamen seed from them. And Brenda - Thanks for the instruction on How to Plant Cyclamen seed. I'm going to need all the help I can get on growing seeds. Not an expert in that area. |
Just found some seeds in a lot that came too late last year for WS. Email me directly if you want some of the C. hederifoliums. I have two pks. I can share. I hope to get more with my NARGS order again this year. And, I don't use the paper towel method; I just soaked, planted, covered the container and put outside. I left them in darkness for about six weeks. Some of the seeds did not germinate until late this summer, but all six containers from last year germinated, finally. I have left them outside for another winter (covered in their milkjugs) and will plant out this coming season. As I said earlier, I think they are easy but SLOW. I had blooms this fall from the first batch I tried three seasons ago. |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7 (My Page) on Fri, Dec 18, 09 at 18:37
Hi ncrescue, I would love some of your seeds. I have sent you an e-mail with my mailing address. If you don't get it, let me know. When I get the seeds, I'm going to stop what I'm doing and winter sow them. I'll let you know how they come out this Spring. Thanks for sharing. |
Read to mail ASAP, when the snow clears. About six inches here, and there are still a few flurries. |
I was at New garden Landscaping on Old Oak Ridge Rd. yesterday. They have several packages of the C. coum tubers , two per pack, at 75% off while they last. Brings it down to about $2 per package. Lots of other nice bulbs discounted as well (in fact, all the plant material except houseplants is 75% off). |
- Posted by jdbheartease 7-NC (My Page) on Tue, Jan 19, 10 at 12:08
Thanks so much for the info. I just may have to go. I've always heard good things about New Garden. It's only 30 minutes away. Thank you again for the info. |
- Posted by nckvilledudes 7a NC (My Page) on Tue, Jan 19, 10 at 19:07
Just got the latest catalog from Brent and Becky and they have both the coum and hederifolium tubers for sale. |
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Amherst, MA (Sports Network) - Ricky Harris knocked down 5-of-8 three-pointers and finished with 19 points, leading the Massachusetts Minutemen to a 77-62 win over the George Washington Colonials in a pivotal Atlantic 10 matchup at the Mullins Center.
Chris Lowe scored 14 points and dished out eight assists for the Minutemen (11-17, 6-9 A-10), who entered the game needing a win to qualify for the upcoming A-10 tourney. Anthony Gurley added 12 points off the bench, while Tony Gaffney had 11 points and 10 rebounds in the win.
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eclairs are easy....they are just cream puffs in a different shape with a vanilla pudding filling and a chocolate glaze. |
Here is a link that might be useful: eclaire video
I have collected some recipes for eclairs (even eclair cake or crepe!) Check out my blog! |
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Our annual Chickam is up and running with our flock live with sound! Right now it's just showing the flock and nests (depending on where we set it) so we can test things, and will be running most days during daylight hours, PST. Click here and scroll to the bottom for more info:
http://jackshenhouse.com/VSChickLinksCHICKAM.htm There will be two sites hosting the cam in case one goes down. The actual hatching of the baby chick eggs will begin on March 22nd, with the hatch scheduled for March 23rd. After the hatch the cam will be placed in the brooder box for baby chick action! :) It started raining just in time to muck everything up and right in the middle of my yard work, so pardon the mess! :) Velvet ~:> |
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Hi Velvet, Do you use webcams to keep an eye on your animals or is this just for kicks? |
- Posted by velvet_sparrow z10 So. Calif. (My Page) on Thu, Mar 5, 09 at 4:41
Just for kicks, and to share with others how cool chickens are. :) Also, we make no money off of it...as a matter of fact it COST us money in order to buy the equipment, etc. But the response we had to it last year was amazing--high drama during the hatch with hundreds of people worrying about and cheering on the chicks, and the experience was a lot of fun! :) Velvet ~:> |
velvet just a little feedback. It would be helpful if you also posted the hours you will have the webcam running. I enjoyed the hatching last year. |
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It's in the OP. :) I'm not running it today, I just got home from a surgical procedure so I'm crawling into bed. If my husband gets home before dark he'll start it, though. Once it starts pointing at the incubator & brooder box, it'll be on 24/7, yay! Velvet ~:> |
Hope you are feeling better soon, Velvet! I'll have to check out the chicken cam, that is such a cool idea! |
It didn't work for me. Must be kinda neat to be able to check them out without going out in the cold! Chickam, that's be a cool name for a rooster. Hope you're feeling better soon too. Brendasue |
Hey Velvet, Hope you are feeling better. I will check the cam out in a few days. |
My post should have read: It didn't work for me. Must be kinda neat to be able to check them out without going out in the cold! Chickam sounds kinda neat, I think I'll name one of my roosters Chickam! Hope you're feeling better soon too. Brendasue |
- Posted by velvet_sparrow z10 So. Calif. (My Page) on Sat, Mar 7, 09 at 0:13
Thanks everyone! :) The cam will be up tomorrow, Saturday, weather permitting (we have to put the camera itself outside), it's been raining off and on. Velvet ~:> |
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OK, the cam is up and running! It will continue until dark...around 6PM PST (Pacific Standard Time), it's 3:15PM now. We'll run it again tomorrow from around 7AM till dark. The view is from outside my sliding glass back door, looking across part of the patio to the back fence. The coop & run is off to the right side, behind the garage which is out of frame on the right. That's why you don't see the run right now. Some of the hens are still laying this time of day, so you may hear them cackling. I'm going to go out and toss some goodies to the chickens right now. Any play-by-play you hear is provided by my 9 year old daughter. :) Velvet ~:> |
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Curtis Malone, the co-founder of the DC Assault, a successful Washington, D.C.-based AAU team, was arrested last Friday and charged in a federal drug investigation.
According to a charging document submitted to U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay, law enforcement officers arrested Malone at his home in Upper Marlboro, Md., after finding cocaine and a substance believed to be heroin, along with assorted drug paraphenalia. According to the document, the arrest followed a yearlong investigation that included drug buys by an informant and phone taps of Malone's residence. The Washington City Paper first reported the filing.
"It's unfortunate," said Chris Lawson, whose company, DMVelite, promotes basketball events in the Washington, D.C. area. "That's really all I can say. I support the kids. At the end of the day, our mission is to promote and create opportunites beyond what the major methodology of basketball does."
Malone co-founded DC Assault in 1993 with Troy Weaver, who is now the assistant general manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder. DC Assault has had nine McDonald's All-Americans and sent several players to the NBA, including Nolan Smith and Keith Bogans of the Boston Celtics and Michael Beasley of the Phoenix Suns. Beasley named Malone in a lawsuit he filed against his former agent, Joel Bell, in 2011.
Former Niagara player and DC Assault alumnus Malcolm Lemmons expressed his support for Malone on Twitter.
Regardless Of What Ppl Say Curtis Malone Always Looked Out! Helped Too Many Kids Get Out Of This Area! ��
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Last summer, Malone was acquitted of assaulting another AAU coach. In 1991, he served three months in jail after pleading guilty to one count of cocaine possession. In 1994, he pleaded guilty to reckless driving and attempting to elude a police officer and received six months of unsupervised probation.
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Last week I was fortunate enough to taste an upcoming release from The Glenlivet, the second best selling single malt Scotch whisky in the world. It's a limited edition 50 year old vintage release - the first in a series of 50 year olds (!) that are to be called The Winchester Collection.
Matured in a single American oak hogshead (as far as I understand from my chat with Brand Ambassador Phil Huckle) this whisky was laid down back in 1964 by none other than Captain Bill Smith-Grant, the final distilling descendant of the distillery's founder, George Smith. The Winchester Collection therefore represents a special piece of history for The Glenlivet, a final liquid link with the family that started it all back in 1824.
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It always means an awful lot to us when we win retailer awards at Icons of Whisky (Whisky Mag), or indeed the eCommerce Awards (that one wasn't even limited to the drinks industry!), and when we do win awards like these, we always make sure to thank all of you, our beautiful customers, for making it possible. We really do love you all.
Fortunately for us, you seem to rather like us too, as we get to see every single day as we read through your amazing feedback! It makes the jobs we all do here at MoM all the more rewarding to see just how much you enjoy using the site for your delicious drinks purchases. Now, if you are of the opinion that we're a rather good retailer (one worthy of awards, perhaps) then there is one little thing you could do for us...
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I like a bit of Irish whiskey me. That's why I made a point of writing a big ol' three-part blog post about it earlier in the year. So, bearing that in mind, when I received an invitation to attend the Irish Whiskey Academy at Midleton distillery over in County Cork I didn't really need to think about it for too long. The Academy opened in February 2013 and along with a new still house and archive became a focus for the Irish Distillers' Housewarming celebrations last year.
The Academy is a state of the art training facility whose courses have been attended by many of the leading whisk(e)y writers, journalists and bartenders. There's a nice Dave Broom quote on their site that sums it up quite nicely: "I can honestly say that this is the finest training facility I have ever been in, and some of the finest training I have ever had". That.
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Back in the 1950s, when George Grant's daddy was quite literally still in nappies, George's grandfather was busy laying down stock for the future and to this day the family-run independent distillery and its followers have been reaping the rewards of this policy with some incredible releases.
In 2007 they launched The Family Casks range showcasing some of the best single casks in their warehouses with vintages ranging from 1952 (!) to 1994 on release. Glenfarclas' envious inventory of maturing stock then saw them able to add a 40 Year Old to their core range in 2010. How many distilleries can boast that?
Following a couple of 1953 vintage releases over the last couple of years taken from casks that were the very oldest in the inventory (like this and this), the inevitable has now happened. Glenfarclas have released an official 60 Year Old bottling for the first time ever.
Tags: glenfarclas, 60 year old, cask 1672, first fill sherry, limited edition, george grant, nappies
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Ah, Dramboree. A truly fantastic event, and one that's difficult to convey in all its glory within a blog post. (One of the many reasons it's taken me a little while to get round to this write-up.) For those who don't know, Dramboree is a whisky weekend held in Scotland in early July that's simply getting better and better with age. Next year it will be three years old. The requisite age for it to be referred to as the real deal? Well, based on the taste we had this time around, we think it's getting pretty close to perfect already.
The second ever Dramboree was attended by 64 people (that's about double the number from the first year), most of which first descended upon Glasgow in order to hop aboard the Dramboree coach for a magical mystery tour the hour or so long journey to the shores of stunning Loch Lomond.
Tags: dramboree, whisky weekend, tastings, distillery trip, glengoyne, dewars, highland park, loch lomond, thermally bonded polyurethane
Categories : Whisky | News | Blended
We're a little late to this one (busy 'n' that), but yet another footballm'n has in fact entered the whisky world. Following Haig Club's signing of 'Sir' David Beckham, SPEY have now snapped up his old England team-mate Michael Owen! (Meanwhile, Sven has wine covered - surely it's only a matter of time before we're hit with a Rio Ferdinand Cognac...)
I'll cover the interesting history of SPEY whisky below, but first allow this to sink in for a second: Michael Owen is the Global Brand Ambassador for a single malt Scotch whisky.
Tags: whisky, michael owen, john harvey mcdonough, spey whisky, speyside distillers, the speyside distillery, drumguish, harvey's of edinburgh, prohibition, seaham hall, county durham, al capone, lord byron, get to da choppa
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Tuesday night saw the first ever Chivas Master announced in New York following the conclusion of The Chivas Masters global final. You can read all about the UK leg of the competition here, with Hawksmoor's Ali Reynolds coming through the heats and a fantastic UK final to take his place in the international showdown of Chivas Regal's first ever global cocktail competition!
Before we tell you who won the big prize though, here's your chance for your very own whisky cocktail win: We're giving away this rather handsome Chivas Masters Cocktail Set to one of you lovely folk. Keep reading to find out how you could get your hands on this cheeky little prize, including a full 70cl bottle of Chivas Regal 12 Year Old, a stylish Cocktail Shaker and Bar Spoon, plus Recipes for 4 classic cocktails (one from each 'age')!
Tags: chivas regal, the chivas masters, whisky cocktails, chivas 12 year old, cocktail set, ali reynolds, masahiro urushido, the dead rabbit, competitions, bars
Categories : Cocktails | Competitions | News | Whisky
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I've done quite well at not boring "the crap out of you" about this "kickball tourney" as Ben suggested I would, haven't I? I've not done quite so well at keeping those who do have some interest "entertained" though. So, without going too far off the topic of drinks (I don't think...) I bring to you: The World Cup Final of Digestifs!!!
There is some logic to this, I promise.
Argentina, you see, have reached the World Cup final for the first time since Italia '90 (which is quite apt, as you'll see in a sec) so Sunday's match is going to be quite the event for La Albiceleste. And no Argentinian event is complete without fernet!
Tags: argentina, germany, brazil, world cup, football, fernet, fernet-branca, underberg, amaro, digestif, digestivo, caipirinhas, cocktails, kickball tourney
Categories : Bitters | Cocktails
Back in October we heard that there was to be an exciting, new, secret product from William Grant & Sons and our thoughts immediately turned to a long-anticipated Kininvie single malt release. On that occasion we quickly realised that the imminent launch was in fact for Girvan single grain, but not this time folks. This time it's the real malty deal!
Kininvie has been William Grant's slightly mysterious, almost secret distillery for almost 24 years now, and I'm sure Brian Kinsman has lost count of the times people have asked him whether they'll ever release an official Kininvie single malt. Well last year they did just that - with an exclusive release in one country - and now it's the rest of the world's turn...
If you've ever visited Balvenie, then you may well have seen Kininvie distillery, it's that corrugated iron shed in its more famous brother's back garden.
Tags: whisky, single malt, kininvie, william grant and sons, balvenie, glenfiddich
Categories : News | Tasting Notes | Whisky
When we received an invite to the launch of a new core Highland Park expression, we were naturally quite excited. The invite said that we were to be taken into the darkness for a whisky "dark by nature and character". Having recently released our own Darkness! range we had a pretty good idea what this meant. (Hint: yummy Sherry!)
What amused us about the invite, however, was that there was a hooded chap printed in the background that looked suspiciously like the protagonist from the '90s computer game 'Thief: The Dark Project' (emphasis added). Apparently it's actually supposed to be Magnus Eunson, the butcher/church official by day, legendary whisky smuggler/illicit distiller by night of Highland Park foundation myth (dating back to 1798). Indeed, whilst other whiskies may have adopted the dark, we're told that the Orkney single malt was very much born in it. BaneCat would be suitably impressed.
Tags: highland park, highland park dark origins, island whisky, highland park 12, no age statement, sherry cask, darkness!, thief, croquet mallet
Categories : Barrel | News | Review | Tasting Notes | Whisky
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traci in training
So I had a great first week back on track! I ate well everyday with only one day of off plan stuff and even that day was under 1900 calories total. Did eight miles on the treadmill. Lost four pounds. Can I just tell you there's nothing better than a good week to start another good week? I know I won't lose that much every week, but it sure does pump me up for week two! Woohoo!!!:carrot::carrot::carrot: