Well Pam had to pick a day , and as she hadn't heard anything she just went for it .Quite understandable - some events are announced very late and so the race is to the speediest. Remember the distress last year when it wasn't known whether the Gala was going ahead at all until almost the last minute- at least now we know when the Shaftesbury Day is going to be.
Well Pam had to pick a day , and as she hadn't heard anything she just went for it .
uh oh, clashes with the Gala
Hi what's this gala everyone is talking about? Is it some sort of galanthus show?
Hi what's this gala everyone is talking about?
The bestest for buying snowdrops
...the show at diss .... only an hour or so in the car.
The is a coach load of Dutch people going to the Shaftesbury event next year 8)YaY! 8) 8) 8)
Mark
Shaftesbury was excellent
We shall Emma................................pre booked B&B
We shall Emma................................pre booked B&B
Will be making a weekend of it as well, hopefully we can meet up for a meal/few pints somewhere.
We shall Emma................................pre booked B&B
I have too :)This is making me wonder if I should abandon the BD and the Small White Furries to enjoy a weekend of Snow-white flowers.........
I see Welford Park Snowdrop Plant Fair has been listed as Thursday 26th February 11 am to 4 pm. A well attended event last year including Avon Bulbs, Foxgrove and Mike Collins! And a small snowdrop presence from ourselves!
This is making me wonder if I should abandon the BD and the Small White Furries to enjoy a weekend of Snow-white flowers.........
I have that delegated! ;D
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I have that delegated! ;D
Ah. The art of good management ;D
Will it be possible for SRGC members on this forum to meet up at Shaftesbury for a group hug?? ;D
Well if not a hug :-* a good, firm & friendly handshake. ;D
Byzantine complexity!is not such a big deal :)
I suspect snowdrops will figure more and more in years to come in our garden.
Well having made a big fuss, my CGS Snowdrop Group newsletter arrived in the post today.
However if it does not arrive soon I can copy the form and email it to you, if you wish.
.... if anyone is interested .
Oh, Emma, how could you say that!
Thank you for the offer Alan, but it has arrived this morning.
All undercover and frost free(although as it's a public advertised sale so I think they mean under cover rather than "undercover")
I obviously want to make the most of my trip and the £500 spending money that goes with it. Sadly I just made that last bit up! ;D
No mention yet that Margaret Owen's Patch will be open at the end of Feb for the last time? I haven't heard what day or time yet
Snowdrops by Starlight Festival 11-15th Feb at Cambo http://www.camboestate.com/ (http://www.camboestate.com/)
Cambo 'drops there are in snow today
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and there is another place nearby you might also like to visit : The newly opened Kingsbarns Distillery (http://www.kingsbarnsdistillery.com) 8)
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Maggi have Cambo stopped doing their snowdrop lectures and lunches?
Here is the official announcement about the Winterthur [Delaware, US] snowdrop event on March 7. Carolyn's Shade Gardens will be there selling snowdrops, cyclamen, hellebores, and other early bloomers:
Bank to Bend: Andrew Turvey of Myddelton House
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Lecture, 11:00 am to 12:00 noon, in Copeland Lecture Hall
Tour, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, begins at Visitor Center
Plant Sales, 10:00 am to 3:30 pm, at Visitor Center
Self-guided Tours, throughout the day beginning at Visitor Center
Celebrate the early bulb display of the March Bank at Winterthur with a lecture, tour, and sales of rare and unusual plants. This year’s featured speaker is Andrew Turvey, head gardener at Myddelton House Gardens the garden of the horticulturally famous EA Bowles. Bowles had a keen interest in bulbs, authoring books on crocus narcissus and is widely credited with coining the term ‘galanthophile’ for passionate collectors of snowdrops. Registration for lecture required. $10 members, $20 non-members, free for Winterthur Garden and Landscape Society and Garden Associate Members.
Here is the official announcement about the Winterthur [Delaware, US] snowdrop event on March 7. Carolyn's Shade Gardens will be there selling snowdrops, cyclamen, hellebores, and other early bloomers:
Bank to Bend: Andrew Turvey of Myddelton House
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Lecture, 11:00 am to 12:00 noon, in Copeland Lecture Hall
Tour, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, begins at Visitor Center
Plant Sales, 10:00 am to 3:30 pm, at Visitor Center
Self-guided Tours, throughout the day beginning at Visitor Center
Celebrate the early bulb display of the March Bank at Winterthur with a lecture, tour, and sales of rare and unusual plants. This year’s featured speaker is Andrew Turvey, head gardener at Myddelton House Gardens the garden of the horticulturally famous EA Bowles. Bowles had a keen interest in bulbs, authoring books on crocus narcissus and is widely credited with coining the term ‘galanthophile’ for passionate collectors of snowdrops. Registration for lecture required. $10 members, $20 non-members, free for Winterthur Garden and Landscape Society and Garden Associate Members.
... my attention was brought to this on Blacksmiths Cottage Facebook page.. not good news!
I am going to cancel the Snowdrop Day as our meadow is waterlogged and do not have an alternative parking option.
Name badges would be an excellent idea. Has SRGC considered this?
I am happy to supply a template for them.
Hi Maggi, many thanks for my template, I was hoping for a 'cake motif' but...
I will certainly use mine on the day!
Evenley Wood Garden, Evenley, Northamptonshire NN13 5SH will be having several open days to view the snowdrops...
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http://www.evenleywoodgarden.co.uk (http://www.evenleywoodgarden.co.uk)
snowdrops Part 1 on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/118893751) - link to Video from January with Tim Whiteley
Thank you for the SRGC friendly forumnist template Maggi.
I'll be wearing it with pride on Saturday.
Who else could there be at Kalmthout on St Valentine's Day, Mariette- but Valentin Wijnen?? A perfect choice for the day! Did you find some new plants, Mariette?Valentin Wijnen showed some new Belgian selections, alas not offered for sale. ´Aragnee´was as unusual as the name suggests, but ´Grake´s Silver Spoon´ and ´Green Epaulet´ were simply very beautiful and much to my taste. The latter not only of perfect form, but coulored most effectively in two shades of green.
Maggi, That photo is from 2013, and I thought you would like it. We will actually be very lucky if snow crocus are in bloom on March 7.Aha! You know me too well :D
Good to see you (and other forumists) there Mark. An interesting day.
OMG Carolyn - those Tommies look incredible! Mine just do not seed around much :(
I bet they don't let the dog run on that lawn at crocus time ;)
Naughty lady at the Hardy Plant snowdrop event on Sunday used many of my photos in her lecture with not one mention of me or my web site. She photoshoped them to make them look like paintings
2. Speaker Richard Hobbs (pink shirt) talking to Mark Smythe (good to see you looking so well Mark)
Crocus tommasinianus at Winterthur
I think the lady virtually in the centre of David's first picture is Debbie Horsman who was the owner of one of the delightful gardens we visited that afternoon.
I asked the hormone specialist at the hospital about it. She said "your body wants to be that weight". I asked if I could cut down on the steroid and she said no so I did it anyway :o :o
1, The Avon Display which was excellent
That is good to know, Alan was really concerned about whether they would be able to keep enough back, looks like all his fears were for nothing. Hope you got what you were after with your personal shopper's help ;D
A very sad notice from Avon Bulbs - but has Foxgrove Plants really met its demise or just ceased attending this show?Simply ceased attending the London Show - http://www.foxgroveplants.co.uk/ (http://www.foxgroveplants.co.uk/) - they had an open day last week "So, as we shall not see familiar faces at the RHS in London, call down to us on 14th February instead."
The Avon display is stunning as have been many displays from specialist nurseries (especially alpine ones) over the years at the RHS Halls - think of John Massey's hepaticas, Blackthorn on several occasions, Pottertons, Edrom... plenty more. These displays make the Shows, not design, because they come from growers who know so much about plants and grow them so well. Design comes after not before.Tim, I agree with you wholeheartedly - I despair of the proliferation of "design" in the world of horticulture - it seems the world and his wife has a "design qualification" ( I remember when flavour of the month was taking a cordon bleu cookery course- now it seems everyone is a garden designer ) but where are the plantsmen and women in all the hype around the RHS events. For Chelsea et al the bulk of the publicity and coverage is for the "Designer Gardens" - which to my mind have as much relevance to real life as private jets have to the average commute to work :'(
Tim, I agree with you wholeheartedly - I despair of the proliferation of "design" in the world of horticulture - it seems the world and his wife has a "design qualification" ( I remember when flavour of the month was taking a cordon bleu cookery course- now it seems everyone is a garden designer ) but where are the plantsmen and women in all the hype around the RHS events. For Chelsea et al the bulk of the publicity and coverage is for the "Designer Gardens" - which to my mind have as much relevance to real life as private jets have to the average commute to work :'(Teaching in horticulture I would definitely agree that garden design is a very popular subject. The trouble is that there is a basic lack of understanding of plants, plant growth and plant needs, both with the public and dare I say it some 'garden designers'. I suppose the recent financial restraints people have been suffering has had an affect on garden makeovers slowing them down a bit but people are still fascinated by the instant gardening phenomenon.
I enjoyed the show... and seeing the stands (especially the excellent Avon, Ashwood, Trewidden (oh for more greenhouse space... or to live in Cornwall) and the irises on JA).
I'm only a relative newcomer, but it has gone downhill just in the few years I've been going. It had a different feel to the event yesterday...
I grow potatoes, but I didn't even go in the potato hall (so thanks Emma for showing me what I 'missed'...) I only really went to chat to people (and it was nice to see a few of you) and look at a small number of stands.
It does seem a little ironic that gardening is supposed to be increasing in popularity yet things seem to be increasingly dumbed-down... as for what has caused this... and whether the RHS should follow the trend or resist it...?
Today I put in my holiday request for the Norfolk snowdrop weekend and Shaftesbury 2016!Tickets reserved ;)
I had not attended any of the London Shows for a number of years and whilst I think it is 'a good thing' that the RHS are trying to engage 'the gardeners of the future', I think that they are going about it in the wrong way. The Shows and the magazine are suffering from the dumbed down, mass market, instant gratification phenomena. Yesterday was a sad experience.
The RHS seems to have fallen victim to the same malaise as many organisations, which is to rely on 22 year old 'Marketing graduates from new universities' to determine their target market and thus strategy. Their 'demographic analysis' is lifted from the current marketing textbook du jour instead of actual experience in gardening. 'Plants person' is not in their demographic jargon.
A great show used to be at Cottesbrooke, plenty of plants people and lots of chance to discus gardening and plants. Sadly, marketing consultants were employed and decided it could be 'improved' by aiming it at 'Bowden man and Waitrose woman'...unsurprisingly it then had to close as it was not making money!
At Shaftesbury last weekend I gave the example of Longnor Hall Double as a Land of Beyond snowdrop. So I was astonished and delighted to find that Margaret Owen had been growing it in her garden, and that I was able to come away from a very cold, wet and muddy Acton Pigott today with that particular snowdrop.
That find prompted me to go back to the "Where are they Now?" thread which had its last outing three years ago. The current list of snowdrops listed in Snowdrops 1 but apparently not grown anywhere is now as follows;
Armistice Day Longfellow
Barguest Mafangza
Ceri Roberts Maid Marian
Crimea Matt-adors
Diana Broughton Missenden Slender
Earliest Molly
Eleanor’s Double Pat Mackenzie
Ellen Minnet Pelican
Ermine Lace Proliferation
Ermine Oddity Quintet
Ermine Ruby Robert Berkeley
Halo Ryton Ruth (in Devon somewhere?)
Ispahan Scissors
Joan Weighell Six Leaves
Julia Shadow Slim Jim
Krabat Squib
Lanarth Watts
Lady Mary Grey Yuletide
Linnetts Green Tips
Long Tall Sally
Any sightings by anyone of these mislaid treasures?
The terrible weather in Shropshire today defeated even the hardiest snowdroppers. Only about a quarter of the varieties on the Sales list made it onto the sales table. Still it was good to have the chance to get another remembrance of Margaret.
And another one bites the dust...
The Sunday event is at Blacksmiths. The Saturday event is in East Tuddenham. Lumping the tow together as a 'Norfolk Snowdrop Weekend' is just a neat bit of marketing.
As you say, the hope is to attract people to travel a fair distance by staging two events on the one weekend
Brian, I was upset to find that of the very few snowdrop events ever held in East Anglia, two are scheduled to be on the same day in 2016 (being the Norfolk Plant Heritage Snowdrop Day, and the snowdrop sale at Harvey's Garden Plants). Ben Potterton holds an event every year; the Plant Heritage day is a one-off. I corresponded with Ben Potterton and Kathy Gray to try to understand their scheduling rationale. As you say, the hope is to attract people to travel a fair distance by staging two events on the one weekend and advertising them together (even though they are being held about 30 miles apart). I think we must understand different things by the term 'marketing' because this seems to me to be good effective marketing. But the consequence is an unfortunate clash of two snowdrop events in the same area.
I presume the event will be open to all Plant Heritage members on equal terms, not just those from Norfolk.
What a lovely snowdroppy weekend I had.
Perhaps you should consider taking up the cudgel and become pro active and organise an East Anglian event, in the same way as Emma T and others have been so in the birth of the Shaftesbury event.
Someone like you with, I assume, plenty of contacts should be able to create a hugely successful day.
What a lovely snowdroppy weekend I had.
... possibly the last time.
Before the event there was a rumour circulating that they would sell-off all their snowdrops. Nobody that visited has indicated if that was true (and, if so, whether the intention was accomplished). Is there anything left to see in the way of snowdrops?Alan
Is it just me or would others rather not see exposed lattice pots? When mine were in lattice pots the pots were about a fingers depth under ground
Not too sure how the depth of a lattice pot will stop a "burrowing insect" , Alan? ...
Also, Blacksmiths Cottage Nursery have an Autumn Snowdrop Day scheduled for 10th October http://www.blackcottnursery.co.uk/autumn_snowdrop.html (http://www.blackcottnursery.co.uk/autumn_snowdrop.html)