Galanthus February 2008

[Maggi Young]

Ian has commented that " it's a flocon 'ell of a price to pay for a bulb" 

[Anthony Darby]

Ian has commented that " it's a flocon 'ell of a price to pay for a bulb" 

 

that's more than I have paid for two return airline tickets to Madeira next month!

Ludicrous price!

John

Don't talk to me about airline prices John. Try booking flights during the school holidays.

[johnw]

Maggi said  "£236....after all, a few at that price and your heating bills would be paid for the year"

What? I wondered how you grew Primula whitei as a houseplant!

johnw
canada!

[Maggi Young]

Ah, John, if you'd been here  in the Forum some time back, you'd have had to read of my garb for sitting here.... sweaters, coats, possum and merino wool socks, fingerless gloves.... ... it's a scary sight and no mistake, though nothing like as frightening as the alternative
Fermi came to visit and brought a pashmina out of sympathy, bless him

[Anthony Darby]

 

[KentGardener]

I've just used the fantastic 'SRGC search' facility (easy to use - follow the link at the top of the page) and we had the same discussion last year. 

Fortunately Mark quoted the 2007 selling price of 'Floccon de Neige'  at £55.00

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=300.msg7640#msg7640

And perhaps we should call him 'Mystic Mark' as he predicted that prices would be even higher this year!

regards

John 

[ichristie]

Hi Maggie, we would be very happy to see you and if the wee dogs can stay in the back of my 4x4 as the Pheasants are starting to nest (no not the peasants) we can go for walkies on another area later. I think the weather I hope will be sunny look forward to seeing you and see if you look different with the white fever, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Hans J]

Hi all,

here is a nice plant :

G. 'Bohemia White'

[Martin Baxendale]

Nice clump, Hans.

[Brian Ellis]

Lovely Hans, one for the wants list.

[art600]

Hans

Google gives no details of this excellent snowdrop.  Can you please provide us with some.

[Tony Willis]

 wonder if they could fancy a little fat woman from Scotland? 

They could have one from Chorley for that price which is probably nearer ,its almost a weeks  supply of wine (I was just trying to sound sophisticated there)

[Brian Ellis]

Arthur you really need the book!

It was found in the Czech republic and selected in 1990 by Wolfgang Kletzing.  The difference between this and other albino snowdrops is the length of the green lines on the inner face of the inner segments.

[Hans J]

Hans

Google gives no details of this excellent snowdrop.  Can you please provide us with some.

Arthur :
please look in the snowdropbook ( page 97 )

[David Nicholson]

I'm going to whisper this so the 'galanthophiles' don't hear, but I bought a 'snowie' today from an NCCPRG Pant Sale in Totnes where Monksilver had a stand. Well strictly speaking Maureen bought it on the grounds that we had seen it on our visit to East Lambrook Manor a couple of weeks ago. So Tubby Merlin joins our small collection which includes:-

Lady E, thanks to Anne Wright, which is in my bulb bed and has been in bud for a couple of weeks but on very (very!) short stems but I can't get it to open.
hippolyta, thanks to Sue Gee, also in my bulb bed, again has been in bud for ages but will not open for me.
a small clump of nivalis I have had for years, never seems to multiply but flowers like mad every year.