2018年秋天，这被证明是他的最后一次探险，在返回后，他感到浑身乏力，他认为这是因为在旅途中染上了寄生虫。当地医生花了将近8个月的时间才最终诊断出他患有晚期骨癌，在这段时间里，艾伦已经做好了下一次探险的计划并购买了机票。我应该补充一点，他的旅行计划是在被一辆发短信的小卡车司机碾过之后制定的，卡车下的毒品穿过附近Lowes Home Improvement的停车场行驶了100英尺，这破坏了他的肾功能。
早在2004年，我被botanizing农村比尔维安教区，路易斯安那州，在那里我碰到这个迷人的窄叶莎草本地人，一小片，其中用于试验回家跑。After six years of trialing, we named it Carex retroflexa ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (alluding to the location where the famous pair met their demise) and added it to our catalog offerings, where it sold a whopping 150 plants over a four year span, ending in 2013. The term “whopping” is used here as a point of sarcastical understatement. Not wanting to discard all of the unsold plants, we planted them around our new patio, where they were interspersed with Heuchera ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ and Penstemon ‘Blackbeard’. Here are a few images from that planting, taken this week. Maybe as the interest in carex increases, we can afford to offer this again.
