Myddleton House - 23rd January 2016

[Maggi Young]

Lovely portrait  of the usually  unseen "Eye "   ( - as opposed to his cousin, the unseeing Eye!!)

[Hagen Engelmann]

Yes, Maggi it is always good to see the man behind (the camera) also .... and in best society.
Thanks to David and Brian ...

[snowdropcollector]

Was a great day in Myddleton, thank you all for this lovely day ! Seems that I have missed you again Brian !!

I was lucky and was able to bring some lovely snowdrops home with me.

Dainty Maid - Glenchantry
Elw Jesse Jane - Glenchantry
Kathleen Beddington - Glenchantry
Pl Ben Warwick, for it leaves... - Glenchantry
Miss Willmott - Glenchantry

[Alan_b]

Courtesy of David MacLennan, here's his good version of Emma Thick holding Galanthus 'Emma Thick'

[Josh Nelson]

My first Myddleton and (if I'm still in gainful employment) unlikely to be my last!   Great day and really good to meet lots of like-minded people. 

Thanks to Arthur Nicholls, who gave me a lift - turns out he is from the next door village - and kindly lent me some cash (as, luckily for my bank balance, I had forgotten my cheque book...).  The ones I took home that are in flower now are below:

1  Glenorma - this was top of my list and I was lucky enough to bag a nice one with a good daughter and two scapes from the main bulb - outer of larger flower measured at 45mm

2  Miss Willmott - 4 scapes from the one bulb; no visible daughter but must be a good mature bulb to chuck out four flowers!

3  Mr Blobby - with an extra outer and an extra aberrant inner

4  Two Eyes - outers just shy of 40mm with very good green at tips (which was what tempted me - will have to see how much green next year)

[Josh Nelson]

It was also great to see the gardens for the first time - I love plicatus and its inherent variability - I could spend many hours looking for interesting drops amongst the many there!  One such is in the fourth photo below - nice large rounded shape but too far out of reach to examine closely alas

[Josh Nelson]

couple more from Myddleton garden including a good plicatus with large, rounded outers, a sad face clump and yellow tommies - never seen this colour before and to say I'd quite like them in my garden would be a tad of an understatement!

[WimB]

couple more from Myddleton garden including a good plicatus with large, rounded outers, a sad face clump and yellow tommies - never seen this colour before and to say I'd quite like them in my garden would be a tad of an understatement!

That wonderfull yellow-backed tommie caught our eye too...I told it to the lady responsible for the Crocus-frames (where a big pan of Crocus 'Midas Touch' was THE eye-catcher), she'll have a look!

[Maggi Young]

Great to hear you enjoyed yourself, Josh  - hope you negotiated a good interest rate with Arthur!

[Dean C]

Great photos here! Disappointed I still missed out on meeting and saying hello to some other forumists. Name badges were a good idea. If any of you see me at any other events and I don't recognise you please say hello!

[Alan_b]

If any of you see me at any other events and I don't recognise you please say hello!

Ditto.  I'm not very good at recognising people until I have met them several times.  I did not spot Dean at all and only spotted Ingrid because somebody said: "There goes Ingrid".  All I saw was a  fancy coat disappearing off into the distance. 

[Mavers]

I have some face blindness problems too Alan.
Combine this with a memory that seems to be getting ever more forgetful & I can see it could make me seem at times a little reserved or even aloof, it's not intentional.

[shelagh]

 Not knowing about Myddleton House I didn't realise that  it had anything particular to do with anyone special.  Thank you so much for the Blue Plaque picture it has increased my little store of knowledge. We have grown several plants with Bowles name attached.

[emma T]

Photos from Myddelton

[loes]

Just for Maggie...

If you want to know how I look, I'm buying in post 77 pointing my finger