ANOTHER book on snowdrops

[mark smyth]

A Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1847974759/ref=pe_221811_35683261_pd_re_dt_dt1

[Darren]

The same as all the others but with microscopically different markings on the pages? 

[Alan_b]

Lol, Darren; I really did laugh out loud at your comment.

I was rather hoping somebody else would read this book and then post to say if it was worth buying.   

[Maggi Young]

Not yet published, but the "blurb" says :

Publication Date: 22 April 2013 | ISBN-10: 1847974759 | ISBN-13: 978-1847974754
Snowdrops are one of the best loved, most popular and widely grown of all bulbous plants. A "Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops" celebrates their beauty and magical annual resurrection, and describes the twenty known species and more than fifteen hundred named snowdrops that are available to gardeners.

   Really? It  describes fifteen hundred cultivars?  A bit unlikely, methinks, when the galanthus gurus haven't managed to get into print with their book yet  and they've had a head start...
 

[Anthony Darby]

White with green bits. That describes most of them? White with yellow bits. That covers most of the rest.

[Alan_b]

You're forgetting the hugely fashionable green with white bits.

[Anthony Darby]

Yes Alan, they seem to be on the rise.

[bulborum]

And you forgot the blue-lined Ebay ones 

[Anthony Darby]

 

[johnw]

And the more frequently seen green with staggy bits.   

[Tim Ingram]

Oh dear! There was I thinking of writing a book on Umbellifers which are also mostly white and green, with some yellow one's and an occasional blue amongst them. What a lot of cynics - it can only be good to celebrate such a beautiful plant and can you see the Snowdrop bible selling at W. H. Smith's? Everyone must wish they wrote the book themselves. Now what about a few books on alpine gardening of the same ilk?

[Alan_b]

I'm sure the world would welcome a book on Umbellifers, Tim.  It's just that there has been a bit of a rush of snowdrop books lately so that (apart from an update on the 'Snowdrop Bible' listing new cultivars) it's hard to imagine what else there is to be said.

[Anthony Darby]

And the more frequently seen green with staggy bits.   

When I saw that I was thinking Stagonospora, but they would be brown staggy bits.

[Tim Ingram]

I see what you mean Alan - but what about all those gardeners, there must be a few, whose snowdrop addiction is just beginning? I am a bit biased because I love collecting books as much as plants but at the moment I only have Aaron Davis's and 'The' Snowdrop Book (and the latter gets looked at all the time). I do admit, I am not sure I could cope with 1500 cultivars!

[Alan_b]

It's hard to beat 'Snowdrops: A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus' by Bishop, Davis & Grimshaw, which we usually refer to as the 'Snowdrop Bible'.  It's an expensive book for a beginner but there's a lot of content for the money.