No news on the snowdropfront.

[Gerard Oud]

We want to wish all the snowdropenthusiasts good luck, and patience for the next 6 months that we have to do without them.
For now a photo from me and Sam digging up the most precious one's ( flore pleno and viridapice)

regards,
Gerard and Sam

[Maggi Young]

Gerard, I would have recommended that you white fever sufferers might get some relief in your long wait by enjoying some white Iris, white Rhododendron, white Paeonia... all sorts of lovely white flowers to keep you happy .... but I see that you and Sam have plenty to do to keep you busy in your field.
Good that the weather is kind to you, eh?  Do you think your bulbs have done well as you lift them?  Have they grown a lot?

[Paul T]

Or viewing the southern hemisphere postings during your summer and our winter. 

[Maggi Young]

Or viewing the southern hemisphere postings during your summer and our winter. 

well, yes, there is that, Paul, but I was trying to wean them off their addiction, not feed it 

[Martin Baxendale]

The snowdrop year never ends for me. I'm busy checking seed pods every day to see if they're starting to yellow, so I can catch them before they split, then  they have to be sown, and then there's lifting the bulbs that need chipping, cleaning them up ready for chopping up, then there's the pots of chips from two years ago to be found homes in the garden, then the seedlings from the last two years and last year's chips to be repotted, then it'll be time for the autumn snowdrops...   

[Maggi Young]

The snowdrop year never ends for me. I'm busy checking seed pods every day to see if they're starting to yellow, so I can catch them before they split, then  they have to be sown, and then there's lifting the bulbs that need chipping, cleaning them up ready for chopping up, then there's the pots of chips from two years ago to be found homes in the garden, then the seedlings from the last two years and last year's chips to be repotted, then it'll be time for the autumn snowdrops...   

Good grief... there is no hope.... I'm off for a night cap, all this snowie talk in May is wearing me down 
Sleep well, oh white fevered ones!

[KentGardener]

I'm looking forward to seeing Paul's pics - it may help to keep my jungle fever at bay.

[Paul T]

Well there are more shoots pushing through on the elwesii at the moment, so won't be too long.  A bit earlier than usual this year, but given how strange everything is it isn't really that surprising.  One elwesii is already in flower (I posted a pic of it the other day) and will bear watching in the future to see if it IS normally fairly early or whether this was just a complete abberation. 

[Gerard Oud]

All the snowdrops have grown rather well, because of the soft winter we had. And Maggi you forgot the various Leucojum and Ornithogalum.
Martin it's true snowdrop's take the whole year, it wonders me that you still have time to write books!

[Hagen Engelmann]

No news? No good news. the galanthus have to go the last meters before dormant. And now here are a lot of narcissus-flies. I`m able to catch them(?) with a brailer. They like warm places on big leaves, and they start always into the high, into my web. Who has other effective know-how?

[Gerard Oud]

I think they take the fresh one's only Hagen, but  most of the snowdrop's are gone now. Narcisses are still fresh, you do eat only fresh vegetable's don't you? And what thing did you catch them?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hello Gerard,

yesterday 5 flies and today only 2. I catch them with a "Fischkescher". You can also catch Butterflies with it. .
Here we believe, that the narcissusfly find the way to the galanthus by the fragrance of the moribund leaves.

[Gerard Oud]

Hello Hagen,

I have never seen a narcissusfly here, maybe its because of the seeclimate.
But if i catch one i let you know, you know that when you kill it, about 5 will come on its funeral!

[Martin Baxendale]

I saw (and killed) my first 2 narcissus fly yesterday.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Oh, Gerard, look what was done this day. This is the new kick for the galanthophile. Catch the other group of  galanthus-lovers. I catched these flies, put them in a net and then in a freezer. But if I haven`t right and the insect is a bee or a wasp or a bumblebee I get swollen fingers.
Martin, how is your method of catching the flies?
Hans, here you can see, that my world isn`t ok. But when I think about it, my world is still ok because I had furtune in hunting.
If someone want to listen to the sound of the flies, I can post it.