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

[Maggi Young]

I'm not sure that this Wurzelwurm wants to grow the  snowies... I think he may want to eat them......
Wurzelwurm translates as   root-worm...which I suppose is an eelworm or nematode.... those expensive snowies could be in for a horrible death.....or a good life in the garden of a collector with a sense of humour! 

[Hans J]

Maggi ,

I hope there is not "Nomen est Omen" ....with Wurzelwurm ....

[Anthony Darby]

Amen to that.

[Anthony Darby]

Or when it comes to snowdrops "sulum sumptus parco est", if I can help it.

[steve owen]

I have Clovis, obtained from Joe Sharman. Correction; I am waiting for Clovis to put in an appearance.

[Maggi Young]

Or when it comes to snowdrops "sulum sumptus parco est", if I can help it.

"Sumptus censum ne superet" , Anthony..... always good advice........ perhapswe should send it to the ebayer buying all those snowdrops at great expense?

[Maggi Young]

I have Clovis, obtained from Joe Sharman. Correction; I am waiting for Clovis to put in an appearance.

Are you worried yet that your 'Clovis' is not showing, Steve? Up here in Aberdeen we have hardly any drops through the soil at all so far , so I won't be anxious about any "missing" for quite some time yet.

[steve owen]

Maggie
85% of my varieties are through. I'm relaxed about the 15% because the cold snap kept everything back, and because one variety has to be first and one last. But among the 15% are some that cost a certain amount of money and one doesn't cheerfully contemplate spending again if a replacement proves necessary.
Other contributors have talked about losing certain varieties and trying unsuccessfully to grow them again.  I tell myself that I won't have that problem but that's probably the optimism of youth. The one I most wanted to see peeping above ground is "Trumps" and thank heavens it's back.

[Brian Ellis]

I have to agree Steve, I have been waiting with baited breath to see 'Wasp' emerge, thankfully it put in an appearance yesterday, as Ann Borrill had just told me hers was in flower ten minutes down the road!

[Anthony Darby]

Ah 'Wasp'. I think I'm on a promise for that one.

[David Nicholson]

I see

[ArneM]

Maybe Arne ?

What do you say about me?

[Hans J]

Arne :

  are you not Wurzelwurm ?  

[Brian Ellis]

So how many of us have bought snowdrops on ebay ??

Were there only the three of us putting up our hands?

[ArneM]

Arne :

  are you not Wurzelwurm ?  

No, I am not as I would not buy any of those snowdrops for such high prices (especially not for bulbils...). I am not stupid.