Snowdrop Gardens visited during 2008

[Thomas Huber]

So Martin you have lots of time now - your invitation is still valid!!

[Martin Baxendale]

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

As soon as the work thing in Germany was cancelled, I got roped into fun half-term family stuff instead.

[Martin Baxendale]

So Martin you have lots of time now - your invitation is still valid!!

Thanks Thomas. If my German publishers ever start publishing my books in Germany again (or I find another publisher(!), I'll be seeing you - count on it!     This weekend I now have some lovely long family walks on the Malvern Hills and the Brecon Beacons to look forward too (very nice, but a long way from any snowdrops!)

[Maggi Young]

At least you will have a good weekend with the family... it may even be nice weather! Have fun!

[Anthony Darby]

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

 As soon as the work thing in Germany was cancelled, I got roped into fun half-term family stuff instead.

Don't talk to me about half term. Something we don't have in Scotland. Worse still, my wife teaches in Dunblane and her local authority had last Monday and Tuesday off. I have this Monday coming! Gone are the days when we could drop the children at Grandma's and have a long weekend in Paris!

[Dunblane is in Perthshire but is administered by Stirling Council. Falkirk, where I teach, is in Stirlingshire but is administered by Falkirk Council. Both used to belong to the now defunct Central Region, when at least holidays were coincidental.]

[KentGardener]

[This weekend I now have some lovely long family walks on the Malvern Hills and the Brecon Beacons to look forward too (very nice, but a long way from any snowdrops!)

Martin

look on the map to see if you can spot any Churches in the area - I have seen some wonderful drifts of drops in the graveyards I have visited over the last few weeks.

John

[David Nicholson]

So Martin you have lots of time now - your invitation is still valid!!

Thanks Thomas. If my German publishers ever start publishing my books in Germany again (or I find another publisher(!), I'll be seeing you - count on it!     This weekend I now have some lovely long family walks on the Malvern Hills and the Brecon Beacons to look forward too (very nice, but a long way from any snowdrops!)

Loads of 'Snowies' in the grass verges in the lanes around The Malverns Martin.

[ichristie]

SRGC Snowdrop Walk, Brechin Castle 17th February 2008

Hi to all here are the first set of pictures from the Snowdrop walk on Sunday, we had a superb day with good sunshine and 46 brave souls who were very energatic and completely mad. I am showing some group pictures ( I do not have a list of names but you will recognise some people)plus a few snowdrops the next will be more snowdrops. I am very pleased to tell you all that Galanthus plicatus x nivalis 'Lady Dalhousie' was given a P.C. by the Joint Rock at Dunblane show. I do agree that it may look like others but in the flesh flowering on the day this was just superb so the first pic is Lady Dalhousie with Lady Dalhousie I am sure you will know which is which.?? cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

Hi again next set of pictures, Ian.

[KentGardener]

Hi Ian

I so wish I could have made it up there for the first group visit to Brechin.  We are intending to try and come 'up north' next spring - so I hope you will be planning a return trip in 2009.

Thank you for posting the pictures from this years explorations.

best wishes

John

[Brian Ellis]

Today a morning visit to Ann Borrills Wymondham garden which is also open tomorrow.  I just love the way the spring bulbs are all interspersed and hope you enjoy these images.  There were many more snowdrops open but I restricted myself to a few photos, sadly one of the ones that didn't come out (it was windy and a bad workman always blames his tools) was Galanthus Yashmak which twin marks at the base of the inners looks like a lady's eyes peeping over her Yashmak.  I'll see if I can get a photo next time I am over there.

Firstly a general view of the back garden with another visitor.



I think she is looking at Wandelbury Ring.



Nearby Norfolk Blonde was in flower, I showed you the emerging shoots in January:
Re: Galanthus January 2008
« Reply #684 on: January 22, 2008, 10:33:05 PM »
and here it is,


named after Rosie Steele (please note Tony!)


Quite different as it is a much bigger flower was a new one to me (there always is in Ann's garden Aurelia, so big that it is trying to flower as it emerges,



one of those big snowdrops on short scapes that almost touches the ground with the weight of the flower.






Also in the same bed was Margery Fish,


one snowdrop which I cannot really decide on whether I like it or not, which may of course come as a surprise to some people  


Nearby in the same bed is Sandhill Gate, quite a smart nivalis poculiform.



Whereas elsewhere in the garden was a nivalis with splendid green leaves.

[Brian Ellis]

Around the rest of the back garden were all sorts of snowdrops including a very tall Hunton Giant (see next post)




There was quite a nice clump of Armine (annoying that mine has decided to disappear this year)





Near one of the glasshouses were two troughs, in one of which was the dainty little Elfin





Whilst a new acquisition was Greenfinch, found by Richard Hobbs in the Greatorex garden






Two more large flowered snowdrops that caught my eye were Helen Tomlinson






and Percy Picton





lastly one which appeared in the garden and Ann has called Wishbone for obvious reasons!






As you can see there is a whole variety of corydalis, cyclamen, hellebores etc interplanted with the snowdrops, it is a very pretty spring garden I hope you will agree.

[Jane]

Hello Brian,
What an inspiring spring garden! I wish mine was as packed as that!
Jane

[Brian Ellis]

Whoops sorry missed the Hunton Giant

[Brian Ellis]

Me too Jane, still I can but try