User:Ptelea

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Ptelea is Anglo-Saxon, lives near Portsmouth, UK, and is not many years away from his free bus pass. Became interested to the point of obsession in elm trees after invitation to organize trials of hybrids and exotics as potential Larval Host Plants for the White-letter Hairstreak butterfly, Satyrium w-album, and now manages the largest collection of modern (post 1980) hybrid cultivars in Europe. Other obsessions include France (notably la Provence Verte whither he would remove tomorrow but for ball and chain), butterflies, and boating around the Isle of Wight. Contributes far too much to global warming driving Ford item to escape the south Hants megalopolis at every opportunity. Is fairly widely travelled in the northern hemisphere, detests cigarette smoke and chavs. Heroes include Debussy, Winston Churchill, Monet, and Max Ehrmann, and has recently emerged from spiritual wilderness to join Unitarian Church (creed: Freedom, Respect, Tolerance).