Galanthus Events 2024

[Ding Dong]

Does anyone have any confirmed dates for Events in 2024 yet?

[FrazerHenderson]

It's always worth checking the following website for snowdrop events:

https://www.pumpkinbeth.com/2021/09/snowdrop-gardens/

[Ding Dong]

Indeed, but nothing there for 2024 yet!

[Maggi Young]

Alpine Garden Society Snowdrop Day, Saturday 3rd February 2024  9.30 am to 4 pm, at Pershore college, Avonbank, Pershore worcestershire WR10 3JP( near AGS HQ )  
Tickets for lectures, plant sales, tea, coffee and buffet lunch:
 AGS members £35, non-members £42

Tickets can be obtained from AGS Centre or online.  More details later from AGS.

Venue returned to Lillieshall:Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, Shropshire, TF10 9AT  it seems!

[Maggi Young]

Plant Heritage has announced that they are delighted that a new  National Plant Collection of  Galanthus is now registered at the  Thenford Arboretum & Gardens  in Oxfordshire.
Under the care of Emma Thick.  There will be  open days in February 2024.

Find out more:https://www.plantheritage.org.uk/national-plant-collections/search-the-national-plant-collections/collection/6106/galanthus

[Robert]

Hi Maggi

Thank you so very much for posting this link.            When I read the mission statement on the Plant Heritage – National Plant Collection web site I felt like I found something that I truly believe in, have passion, and can support. Stewardship for future generations – stewardship of genetic diversity for cultural, medical, culinary and aesthetic use is absolutely the underlying driving force and inspiration behind our garden. I will be looking into this much more. Maybe there is a miracle and something similar exists in the U.S.A. This is something I will be exploring too.
Thank you again.

[Maggi Young]

Shaftesbury Snowdrop festival week 2024 will run from 10th-17th February.

They'll be hosting guest lecturers and the "Best in the West" sale of rare and unusual snowdrops on Sunday 11th.

https://shaftesburysnowdrops.org/

[Maggi Young]

Shaftesbury Snowdrop festival week 2024 will run from 10th-17th February.

They'll be hosting guest lecturers and the "Best in the West" sale of rare and unusual snowdrops on Sunday 11th.

https://shaftesburysnowdrops.org/

   Early Bird ticket sales  HERE at Eventbrite.

[Maggi Young]

"A garden for all to enjoy; a garden in which to learn"

From :  The Garden House, Buckland Monachorum, Yelverton, Dartmoor, Devon PL20 7LQ

www.thegardenhouse.org.uk
01822 854769

Snowdrop Festival 2024
By Pat Eaton for The Garden House.

The Garden House is the custodian of significant collections of Galanthus.  First introduced by Keith Wiley and Matt Bishop, with the more recent legacy of Colin Mason’s collection which was moved from Warwickshire by head gardener Nick Haworth and David Milburn in 2020. This collection widened the gene pool significantly. One of the more challenging aspects was to work out the correct placing of some of the rarely cultivated species. This has proved to be an experimental challenge.

The species Galanthus reginae olgae, flowering here, as they do in the Mediterranean in September, have appreciated full sun and good drainage.  The flowering takes place before the leaves emerge.
G. reginae olgae Subsp.r.o. prefer some dappled shade and tend to flower slightly later from October to December, when in leaf.

Galanthus peshmenii, also autumn flowering, from small pockets of the Turkish mainland, has proved much more challenging, flowering October to November, disliking high temperatures and wet or cold conditions. We have tried to grow it in an alpine plunge bed under protection. Last autumn Galanthus peshmenii ‘Green Flight’ bulked up quite well and flowered most attractively.

Galanthus platyphyllus, from the Caucasus, is a snow melt plant, with wide glossy leaves, preferring damp sunny alpine meadows, has proved difficult. Flowering well in its first two quite wet springs here, the very dry spring of last year was a very disappointing ‘no show’. Another bulb planted in damp shade produces leaves, but no flower.
 
Galanthus krasnovii from N.E Turkey and the Black Sea coastal regions, also having broad glossy leaves, and similar in flower to Galanthus platyphyllus, flowered for the first time following the move, last March.

The Colin Mason Collection also contains significant colonies of Galanthus ikariae, G. rizehensis, and G. lagodechianus. Generally these have settled well, and are bulking up.

Right snowdrop, right place is certainly important for success.
Galanthus woronowii thrives best in damp semi shade, with its green glossy leaves, whereas Galanthus elwessiii, specially the Autumn flowering clones, appear to do best in good light.

As well as the species groups and drifts the collections at The Garden House contains over 500 different named cultivars.  These include G. elwesii varieties ‘Fly Fishing’, ‘Smaragdsplitter’, ‘Godfrey Owen’; viridescent G. ‘Rosemary Burnham’ and ‘Andrea’s Fault’, G. x ‘Fieldgate Sophie’, ‘Franz Josef’, ‘Long John Silver’, ‘Blewbury Tart’; G. plicatus ‘Madelaine’ and ‘Blue Trym’: G.woronowii ‘Elizabeth Harrison’, double ‘Ophelia’and the unusual G.nivalis (Poculiformis Group) ‘Angelique’ among many others.

The Snowdrop Festival opens of 12th January with free entry for RHS members. Specialist West Country Nurseries will be selling plants (see website for dates and details www.thegardenhouse.org.uk or Galanthusuk).

[Wim Snoeijer]

Sneeuwklokjesfeest / Snowdrop festival
De Boschhoeve
The Netherlands
Thursday 8th February 10.00 - 16.00 hr
Friday 9th February 10.00 - 16.00 hr
Saturday 10th February 10.00 - 16.00 hr
https://www.boschhoeve.nl/activiteiten/sneeuwklokjesfeest/


SNEEUWKLOKJESVERZAMELAARSDAG / Snowdrop collectors day
Arboretum Kalmthout
Belgium
Saturday 10th February 10.00 - 17.00 hr
https://www.arboretumkalmthout.be/kalender.masterdetail.html/p_detail_url/nl/dvt/arboretum/kalender/sneeuwklokjesverzamelaarsdag-2024.period_1.html

[Maggi Young]

A very popular Irish event ....


edited 10th January : "Gala numbers are very near capacity and the Early Bird Offer of €110 closes on January 13th.
Final date for tickets is January 20th. 
Tom Coward is giving the after dinner talk on the Friday night as an added treat for people staying the night before, the lecture title is  "How I fell in Love with Snowdrops".
Wishing all our members a very Happy New Year in the garden in 2024."

[Maggi Young]

In 2024:  Snowdrop Days in Luisenpark - the special plant market  24th -25th February 2024

Schneeglöckchentage im Luisenpark - Der besondere Pflanzenmarkt

    "The snow bell days at Luisenpark are taking shape! We are looking forward to the following national and international exhibitors who have already pledged:
    - Alpine Staudengärtnerei Peters
    - Farmer's Green Room
    - Gardening at the Nassachtal
    - Bergalp nursery, Netherlands
    - Gardening Blossom Rich
    - GdS - Society of perennial friends
    - Hertha Werner - Beautiful around snowflakes
    - Maria Mail-Brandt - Antiques
    - Gardening Martina Härtl
    - Monksilver Nursery, Joe Sharman, GB
    - Old Times Eye Catch, Peter Menzel
    - Petra Wagner
    - Plant and Co., Renate Brinkers
    - Plantworld Holland, Koos and Marja van Dijk
    - Wilhelm Niewöhner, bulbs"
    - Perennial Gardening Aidmann
    - Be Stiebritz
    - Gerhard Raschun, Austria
    - Mr Hepatica - Andeas Handel
    - Gardening perennial fan
    - Lilium Division IX - Matthias Knoll, Austria
    - My camel garden - Anke Koschitz


    The lectures are also fixed in the meantime:
    Saturday the 24th February
    1:00 pm - Tom Coward: Wild Gardening - Tom is the Head Gardener of Gravetye Manor, the home of William Robinson (1838 - 1935), the famous gardener and author of The Wild Garden.
    15:00 Uhr – Anne Repnow: Snowdrops- Old acquaintances and new treasures
    Sunday the 25th February 2024
    11:00 am - Susanne Peters: Christ roses, lentils and other garden beauties for the cold season
    13:00 Uhr – Anne Repnow: Snowdrops- Old acquaintances and new treasures


Anne Repnow speaking on Snowdrops- Old acquaintances and new treasures...... as well as other talks and many plant stalls.

[Maggi Young]

Kalmthout Arboretum : Snowdrop Days
 from 10 February 2024 until 29 February 2024

Arboretum Kalmthout
Adres
Kalmthout
Belgium

Price
Garden entrance € 9 | online ticket € 8 (includes snowdrop fair on Feb. 10th). Free admission for annual pass or museumpass holders, RHS members and children up to age 12


Saturday February 10th 2024 - Snowdrop Collector's Day

The annual snowdrop sale in Arboretum Kalmthout brings together specialist nurseries and growers together with snowdrop enthusiasts, fanciers and collectors – known as galanthophiles after the Latin name for snowdrops, Galanthus. The Snowdrop Festival’s highlight this year will be a talk by expert Anne Repnow.

Tickets sale starts from 2024 on. ..... https://webshop.arboretumkalmthout.be/Exhibitions/Overview

[Maggi Young]

From the National Garden Scheme ..... news and a video to excite you for the coming snowdrop season!

 "Head to the NGS  website for a walkthrough of the garden at Slade filmed in Feb '23 for a taste of what to expect at the next February opening"

https://ngs.org.uk/an-early-spring-garden-walk-in-wales/

[FrazerHenderson]

Zoom talk


On Thursday 25 January 1830hrs (UK)

'You spent how much?…living with a galanthophile’ by Helen Rushton, the UK National Collection Holder of Galanthus

The talk is free to members of Plant Heritage or £5 to all others

Book here - https://www.plantheritage.org.uk/events/national/you-spent-how-much-living-with-a-galanthophile-by-helen-rushton/