Galanthus: January 2008

[Hans J]

Alan B.... Shame on you, could you not have given your poor mud-spattered little snowie a quick wash before you took her photo? 

I was in the garden and in a hurry so the photo was more in the way of a candid shot by a paparazzi than a carefully staged photo shoot.

Alan B:
Please be careful ......Maggi like to gives all members special names.......so your name could be :
Snowdrop -Papazzi

[Paddy Tobin]

Juat for you, Maggi.

A chocolate creation of Ben Hur from the Museu de la Xocolata in Barcelona.

Paddy

[ian mcenery]

Paddy can't wait till the next hot day 

[Maggi Young]

Such a kind thought, Paddy.  I've always had a problem with chocolate creations though... they are so pretty, I could not eat them.... even when I was little, I could not bear to eat my choclate Snata or easter Bunny.... and Lindt make such good ones.... they would grow old and white and never be eaten.... now I enjoy my chocolale in nice blocks, no art to destroy!

Apologies to all you white fever sufferes... and even you, Alan the Paparrazo, for hijacking your thread like this!

[Tony Willis]

here is an elwesii from greece,sorry its dark but we do not seem to have had daylight today.Two pictures,one to show its small stature and tho other its markings.it is producing two flower scapes

[Anthony Darby]

Very neat and beautifully marked.

[ian mcenery]

Interesting Elwesii Tony.  Here is a favourite of mine not yet at its best - and the photo does not show how tall it is - Mrs Macnammara

[Maggi Young]

Mrs Mac is a fine big goodlooking woman, Ian 
Just loving the small fat perfection of your small Greek chap, though, Tony!

[ian mcenery]

Maggi

It was named after Dillan Thomas's mother in law from whose garden it came. Perhaps she too was a fine woman of outstanding proportions

[Maggi Young]

Ian, you amaze me! Dylan Thomas is a favourite poet of mine! I'm sure the lady in question was formidable, her daughter had considerable fortitude, I reckon, anyway!

Perhaps she too was a fine woman of outstanding proportions

She may also have liked chocolate!!

[ian mcenery]

This wouldn't be the guy who wrote Under Mylkwood would it 

[Maggi Young]

That's the fellow, Ian.... I have heard there is a new, updated film version coming out from Yakult Studios with added lacto-bacillus and omega 3oils included   

[mark smyth]

Tony I could be wrong but I think your snowdrop could be a hybrid with gracilis. One leaf shows a slight twist

[ian mcenery]

Maggi could be a boat bobbing pain in the 

[Maggi Young]

Maggi could be a boat bobbing pain in the 

Ian, would you care to rephrase that? I maybe about to take umbrage 
It's not something I've been called before, I must say..... you'd better have been meaning to bad mouth the dear departed Mrs Macnamara  ( She must be dead by now??)