Avon Resting Bulb List

[Brian Ellis]

Sent an hour looking at the list with head gardener deciding what we should recommend big boss man to order for the collection ....happy days .

...and you get paid for it too, what joy

[steve owen]

Sent an hour looking at the list with head gardener deciding what we should recommend big boss man to order for the collection ....happy days .

All of them?

[emma T]

All of them?

Not quite ! 

[emma T]

I have passed on to him any dormant list I had , hopefully there will be new snowdrops for his collection 

[Leena]

You'll love that Leena, it's a super snowdrop

Thanks, I'm sure I will and I hope it will like it here as I ordered only one bulb of 'Trymming' (and 'Fieldgate Forte').
I have read old galanthus threads to decide what to want (I don't have money for everything), and it is so good to read others opinions of different snowdrops, it makes decisions easier.
On Avon list there were  many temptations, many of which I didn't even know.

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks, I'm sure I will and I hope it will like it here as I ordered only one bulb of 'Trymming' (and 'Fieldgate Forte').
I have read old galanthus threads to decide what to want (I don't have money for everything), and it is so good to read others opinions of different snowdrops, it makes decisions easier.
On Avon list there were  many temptations, many of which I didn't even know.

It should bulk up reasonably fast Leena, unfortunately many of the new snowdrops are unknown to a lot of us and it is sometimes a stab in the dark to know what to have.  I always think it might be a good idea for Avon to publish pictures here so we know what we are getting!

[emma T]

Pictures would be an excellent addition

[MR GRUMPY]

'Snowdrops' by Gunter Waldorf has some pictures of Avon's snowdrops.
Big Eyes , page 76
Chthonic-: page 82
 There's more too.........



 

[emma T]

The Dutch book Galanthomania has a picture of 'simply glowing'

[Lesley Cox]

...and you get paid for it too, what joy

And pay for 'drops with someone else's money. Even better.

[Mavers]

Thank the 'Lord' eh Emma?.....

[jamouatt]

For those who purchased G. Phillipe Andre Meyer‏ please note that the correct spelling should be  'Philippe André Meyer'.

Pterugiform galanthus
 Mark BROWN (Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:40:49 PST)

 Dear John,
 as publisher of the new volume on cultivars, if you are? You are in a unique position to publish this wonderful term.
 I am sure that some will prefer to go the road of pocs instead of poculiforms and thus terries instead of pterugiforms...
 There is need for a precise term for this group which has grown exponentially over the last few years.
 It is odd that this plant grown for about forty years has only recently started to show its potential as a parent.
 Is it because os us all dead-heading our collections?
 I only leave seed on those that I would like to seed and do very little deliberate hybridising.
 I have one good seedling of 'Trym' here which is like a prolific and dwarf 'South Hayes'.
 Last week after appraisal and after growing on for over four years We decided it merited a name.
 It is to be called 'Philippe André Meyer'. It has and will be again twin-scaled!
 Kind regards,
 Mark


I have informed Chris at Avon Bulbs.

Regards

John(M)

P. S.  The bulbs I had from them today were second to none.

[Maggi Young]

For those innocents wondering what on earth pterugiform means - see the posts on  the PBS archive of February 2013 starting here :
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/2013-February/ohtia4qkj0kpdt0gudj58olba5.html

 Follow the posts on  "Reverse poculiform snowdrops and roman legionnaires "    There are quite a number starting from the 21st February 2013.

[David Nicholson]

There's a lot to be said for blissful ignorance

[Maggi Young]

There's a lot to be said for blissful ignorance

Well, that can be true - but my Dad always said knowledge is power. Besides, no point in letting you be too blissful, David!