Snowdrop events 2015

[Maggi Young]

How pretty are those "tommies"? Love it!

Pity they might be over by the time Andrew gets there - I know how much he is looking forward to the trip and he would enjoy that scene I'm sure.

[Carolyn Walker]

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.  the mid-Atlantic US is experiencing temperatures in the low 20s F at best during the day and single digits to subzero temperatures at night down to I believe -10 F (-23 C) this past Sunday.  And unfortunately, unlike Boston, we had no snow cover to protect the plants until last night.  This will continue through this week when it will start to climb into the 30s during the day/teens at night and then suddenly jump to the high 50s F on February 28.  Who knows what will actually happen and what will be blooming March 7.  It will be a fun day no matter what.

Another photo from Winterthur, Eranthis hyemalis.

[Maggi Young]

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   
 Learning about the amount of snow many areas are experiencing, it's a pity those places can't share a little of their 8 feet of the stuff to cover your plants safely.
 You're right - whatever the weather the Winterthur Day will be great

[mark smyth]

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

[Brian Ellis]

Good to see you (and other forumists) there Mark.  An interesting day.

[mark smyth]

Good to see you (and other forumists) there Mark.  An interesting day.

And you two.

My regret was not buying the two pots of very curly Galanthus gracilis

[kentish_lass]

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

[Carolyn Walker]

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

Jennie, Tommies seed all over my garden too, they seem to really like this climate.  Of course Henry Francis du Pont got a hundred year start on me so there are a lot more at  Winterthur along with masses and masses or snowdrops, leucojum, and eranthis.

[David Nicholson]

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

Did you take it up with her?

[David King]

Have got rather behind with processing photos so here are a few from the HPS Snowdrop day mentioned in earlier posts.

1.  Intensive buying
2.  Speaker Richard Hobbs (pink shirt) talking to Mark Smythe (good to see you looking so well Mark)
3.  More buying
5.  Brian Ellis and Margaret Bumpus discussing the merits of a snowdrop

[David King]

Three more from the HPS day.

1.  Val Bourne taking a photo of Brian Eliis but not realising I am taking one of her.
2.  Cliff Curtis and David Way.
3.  Jo Hynes and Mark after the talks.

[Brian Ellis]

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.

[David Nicholson]

2.  Speaker Richard Hobbs (pink shirt) talking to Mark Smythe (good to see you looking so well Mark)

I'll echo that and you seem to have put a bit on the round the middle Mark, good to see. Not as pronounced in the pic with Jo though, so maybe it was the jumper

[David King]

These are pictures from The Folly the first garden on the HPS day

0989 shows Mark Smythe, Brian Ellis and Jo Hynes.

[David King]

First picture is Richard Hobbs talking to Jo Hynes at The Folly others taken at The Knoll.

1001 shows Brian Ellis talking to Joan Curtis and there are several forumists and lurkers in 1004