Yellow and yellowish G. nivalis

[Matt Bishop]

Dear All,

Most if not all of you now know that I'm working on Snowdrops 2 and so now after moving house, garden and all the madnesses that life has to offer - and with one or two well known octogenarian galanthophiles snapping at my heels of late to hurry up, I'm now actively working on the text again.

As I write this I'm very conscious of the fact that between you all there are answers to an awful lot of questions that I'm going to need to ask in order that Snowdrops 2 is as complete and accurate as possible. And so from time to time I'm going to be asking for your help by sharing this information.
 
At present I'm working on the division which contains cultivars where the inner segment marking is yellow (in which I'm including plants where the mark could be described yellowish and pale yellow regardless of the ovary colour. I'm wondering if any forumists could shoot me a quick response especially if they themselves have selected and named cultivars which would fall in this division - or if they know cultivars that I would not be aware of so that I can include them in the text.

Thank you in anticipation!

Matt

[Maggi Young]

Hello Matt!
There seems to be tremendous interest in the yellow 'drops so I hope you get a good response from forumists.
You must  be up to your ears with work on the "New Testament" so we likely won't see much of you around here ( those waiting for the book want you working full time on it!!)  but it'll be good if forumists can keep you up to speed with their new 'drops.

[mark smyth]

Hagen comes to mind first

[Matt Bishop]

Thanks Maggi,

The end is very definitely not in sight. !!!

[Hagen Engelmann]

Matt, welcome here on this basal plate for galanthus.
I heard there is an inner circle of galanthus friends in UK.
But this here is the European stage of snowdrop friends (and do not forget the antipodes).

We will do our best to help you and there are several ways to send informations to you.

My collection is an open book for you. No real news, I think.
But I will try to get a lot of  background informations.

[johnw]

And Valentin Wijnen should be contacted as well, best through the VRV or via one or our forumists.

johnw

[Alan_b]

Anne Wright has a whole collection of yellow crosses between Sandersii & Wendy's Gold but they are all very new; possibly not yet at the stage of selecting out those that might be worthy of propagation. 

[Mavers]

My goodness what a responsibility Matt.

Those octogenarian galanthophiles must be a force to be reckoned with!

[Marcia M]

Hello Matt,

Lovely to here that there is progress.  However I am rather fearful that doing an in depth(further) discourse with all the waits for photos, comment, etc. could stall this once again for another long period.  Perhaps addenda paper volumes would work?
Current illness which totally keeps me chairbound and out of the gardens, with no diagnosis yet in sight,  shows me that, in life, time is of the essence...smile.
So looking forward to the BOOK.
Best always, Marcia in the US

[Maggi Young]

Dear Marcia,
I am so sorry to hear of your illness - I will hope  for a recovery for you as soon as possible so you can properly enjoy your flowers again.

And we must all wish Matt  a smooth voyage with the book!

Kindest regards,

 Maggi

[Brian Ellis]

Perhaps addenda paper volumes would work?

Hope your health is better soon Marcia, in the meantime your brain is in top condition!  What an excellent idea, addendas for various sections would keep us all happy and itching to get our hands on the next one.  But would the publishers go for it?

[Maggi Young]

Or "extras " could be "published" here - on the website that probably has more galanthophiles around than any other..........     anything is possible as far as the SRGC site is concerned.

If you read Matt's comments on his website,  you will see that he is asking for help  from all growers to arrange photographs of as many plants as possible - he asks for bulbs to be sent to him so that he can grow and flower them to get the best possible comparative photography for the book.

He will then send you back the bulb, plus any increase- you lose nothing except the "company" of the bulb for a season ( ...or so, depending on good flowering, I imagine) and you will be participating in the collation of the best possible info for the book.

Matt, while running his online bulb site with Ebay sales ( he needs to eat just like the rest of us) will be concentrating on writing for the next while, with a view to getting the book to the waiting galanthophiles  in a few years -  seems reasonable - to me - Rome wasn't built in a day and all that!

I think it's great that forumists will be able to help out with  their contributions to knowledge of new 'drops and so on. The Forum is the obvious place, too,  for Matt to be able to see your comments and reply with any useful  info he may have.

Of course time will not stand still when the book is published -  new finds are bound to arise - but Matt is striving to make the content as thorough as possible- and he is welcoming the help of  all  snowdrop lovers here -  I wish him all the best and hope that forumists will rally round.

[Wim Snoeijer]

Dear Matt,

Included you find the list of Galanthus Gold Group cultivars as an extract from our "Galanthus, a list of cultivar names" publication.
We have requested the publisher to include A-Z list per Cultivar Group too but unfortunately this was not possible.
Please note that the description of the Galanthus Gold Group differs from your request for only cultivars with a yellow inner mark.

Hope this is of help.

Wim

[mark smyth]

wow so many yellows 

[Matt Bishop]

Hello Wim,

Many thanks for this!

Matt