The ebay season begins....... ( includes ikariae/ woronowii comparisons)

[Jo]

Haha, snowdrops could never grow like weeds !,   like bluebells maybe

[Jo]

More seriously though, its because they set seed that they give the bluebell effect.

 S Arnott and Magnet make huge clumps here but because they don't set seed they maintain a clump

appearance and have to be divided and spread to give a 'seeding around' effect.

The snowdrops that seed around for me are plicatus, ikariae and the common nivalis. I'm hoping that gracilis

 will one day take off like they have at Highdown and I keep putting likely combinations together.

[Maggi Young]

Is it not the case that, in addition to natural spread by seeding, that some of the fabulous snowdrop woods one sees are actually more the product of many hours work over the years by the gardeners of old estates who worked year on year to spread the snowies about to achieve tha glorious scenes we so enjoy today?

 Nowadays, when some of these woods are no longer managed in that way  I think we are inclined to see such a sight and assume that it is all natural, when, in fact, therehas been a lot of human intervention to achieve it .....I am speaking of woods in the UK.

[mark smyth]

Or pigs as in Catherine Cambo's woods

[Martin Baxendale]

Or b***** blackbirds in my garden!!!   

[Hans A.]

...having said that if you see one you want the Fever takes hold and you bid hundreds for one with the face of Fidel Castro

Any offer? 

[mark smyth]

Hans is stable? If it is I'll take it, arrange twinscaling and in 4 years we'll be rich, rich, rich

[Hans A.]

  - not really - last year it resembled Abraham Lincoln. 

[Brian Ellis]

 

[Anthony Darby]

- not really - last year it resembled Abraham Lincoln. 

So it's more healthy as the inner petals are broader.

[Maggi Young]

             

                  

Hans, your photo of Galanthus 'Fidel ' and your follow up comment about Abraham Lincoln are just the funniest things we've seen for AGES!

               Just       ....... thank you!

[Hans A.]

Thanks  - but I think it was a good example for a Norfolk-Northern Ireland-Majorcan-Coproduction 

[Maggi Young]

Thanks  - but I think it was a good example for a Norfolk-Northern Ireland-Majorcan-Coproduction 

OH! An intercontinental hybrid !    Even better!

[Paul T]

What was that Maggi... and incontinent hybrid?  Ewwwwwww! 

[Gerdk]

What was that Maggi... and incontinent hybrid?  Ewwwwwww! 

Paul,
That must be a cross with Galanthus koenenianus, famous to smell of urine

Gerd