Snowdrop Gardens visited during 2008

[KentGardener]

Any one going to the Galanthus Gala this weekend - I am relying on you to take lots of photos to show me.  - not just close ups of flowers.  A couple of pictures to give a feel of the event would be great (how crowded?  What the rugby scrum for the sales tables is like!  etc)

  PLEASE 

Many thanks

John

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi John, sorry we haven`t a gala here in germany, but some good pics for you.
THE PERL

[Hagen Engelmann]

Some more

KILDARE klein
 KARLA E klein
 SAVILL GOLD

[Hagen Engelmann]

last but not least
GRÜNE OSTERN left TILL E right

[KentGardener]

Hi Hagen

thank you for th pictures - is the last one taken in a churchyard?  It seems to have a big lump of stone next to it - a gravestone perhaps?

I think Kildare is such a lovely snowdrop.

regards

John

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Chris, I posted here some pics from kultivars you know from my list. I hope their names aren`t doubled?!

[Hagen Engelmann]

No John, it`s in my garden. I use the complanate upright stones to bring shadow to the foot of the plants. The ground/soil should be cool. And between the stones I can place special soil.

[KentGardener]

Hagan

that sounds interesting - I would like to see a photograph that is not a close up, so that it will show your garden and stones.

with many thanks

John

[Brian Ellis]

Hagen, some nice photos, I particularly like the mark on that Till E.  I'm with John, could we see more photos of your garden please?
Brian

[ashley]

Lovely pictures Hagen.  Is Kildare an Irish cultivar?

[Martin Baxendale]

Very nice, Hagen! I especially like The Perl and Karla. And your Kildare seem to be doing well. It doesn't seem to like me very much - both Kildare bulbs I have bought stayed very small and wouldn't flower, so I chipped both to try to get it going better, but all the new bulblets also seem to want to stay small. I think I need to feed my snowdrops more!

[Martin Baxendale]

Lovely pictures Hagen.  Is Kildare an Irish cultivar?

Yes. Found in Co. Kildare, Ireland, by Ruby and David Baker.

[ashley]

Thanks Martin.

[Martin Baxendale]

Any one going to the Galanthus Gala this weekend - I am relying on you to take lots of photos to show me.
John

I think I'm going to cry! I couldn't book for the Gala (and couldn't give a talk on snowdrop breeding that Joe asked me to give) because of a book launch in Germany - which my German publishers recently cancelled (for reasons they have yet to explain to me)!!! Boo-hoo! And I was hoping to visit Thomas while I was in Germany.

Next year I'm just booking the gala weekend and that's that. I'm fed up with never getting to any snowdrop events because of work!   

[Maggi Young]

Then you'd better jump on a train and come to Scotland, instead, Martin! Dunblane and all that......