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.......My view would be that the primary driver here is not the snowdrop itself, but some sort of deep yearning for immortality. It seems to be a part of the human condition.......Tim DH
Just tried it, and you do need to have a facebook account to see the facebook snowdrop group page. For people with a facebook account, click the link below while signed in to facebook or sign in and search for Snowdrops and Galanthophiles to find the page.https://www.facebook.com/groups/160399837333841/?fref=ts
I will take the liberty of repeating Tom's facebook post here -Galanthus reginae-olgae subsp. vernalis 'Peter Gooding'Tom writes: "Shall I let you into a little secret? I loathe Valentine's Day. In fact, truth be told, I dislike birthdays, Christmas, Mother's Day, New Year's Eve and every other occasion on which it is decreed that I must be in love/the centre of attention/eating turkey/grateful for having survived childhood, etc.So it was with some misgivings that I entered the Valentine's business by auctioning the right to name a new snowdrop cultivar. Needs must, however, and I hoped to draw attention to Evolution Plants and to the genus Galanthus, with which I am so besotted. I am really thrilled, therefore, that the winning bid was placed by a lady, Caroline Mabbs, for the most romantic of all possible reasons. She has graciously agreed that her name and story can be revealed.Caroline's father, Peter Gooding is 79 years old. His father died when Peter was a boy and was buried on Peter's 13th birthday. The family had no money to buy flowers for the funeral and all that Peter now remembers about that sad day is the snowdrops growing in the graveyard. In recent years Peter has taken to planting a new snowdrop in his garden each year, in memory of his lamented father. Caroline wanted to give her dad a plant that will forever be in flower on the anniversary of her grandfather's death.Caroline concluded her story with these words: 'So the purchase is not about romance but it is about love - my love for my dad and his love for his dad ...'. If you ask me, that's about the most romantic sentence ever written, without any of the saccharine faux-romance of Valentine's Day.I hope that Galanthus 'Peter Gooding' will enter the select list of must-have snowdrops. It certainly deserves to."