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

[Maggi Young]

Note back from the flogger of the fake flocon............
"it isnt a good photo but its a flokon i checked google encyclopeida" ...... well, that'll be alright then, eh?!!

[Jo]

That's a very nice ?nivalis fl pl. Are they all neat?

I've just been over to a friend to help identify her snowdrops. The garden had a plantsman owner 20 years ago and his wife gave my friend a list of the snowdrops in the garden.
This flocon type is a nivalis, its all over the garden and is very nearly always as neat as the photos. The only doubles that we did'nt identify/ find were Hill Poe which its not and Wisley Double which I haven't looked up yet.

[Diane Clement]

Note back from the flogger of the fake flocon............
"it isnt a good photo but its a flokon i checked google encyclopeida" ...... well, that'll be alright then, eh?!!

It's now at £97. 
I also had a reply back from the flocon flogger:
"it is the flokon it isnt a good pic"   (s)he said it  (true, I say)  
Google gives five entries for floccon, 3 are Mark's site and two are this forum.  Mark's picture is nothing remotely like the giraffe, except it has some white bits and is a double, so the checking was clearly thorough. 

[mark smyth]

What drug is Jimlad on? eh, Jimlad? Starting nivalis Sandersii Group at £21!! I really need to get the finger out for the 2010 season.

[mark smyth]

What does a giraffe have to do with this? Have I missed something?

[Maggi Young]

The fake flocon looks like a giraffe!

[Diane Clement]

What does a giraffe have to do with this? Have I missed something? 

I sort of started it, reply 534 on this thread, John fueled it reply 544. 
Am I allowed to post it here (legal advice needed  )

[mark smyth]

Is someone from SRGC taking the P with the listing on Ebay?

[Maggi Young]

Is someone from SRGC taking the P with the listing on Ebay?

What? On Ebay? Surely not... that would be cruel as well as illegal.

[mark smyth]

You never know. It is after all white fever silly season

[Anthony Darby]

Mark, you need to keep up. If you search 'snowdrop' on EBay you come across the pic Daine has copied onto the forum, which looks like a giraffe. It is being used to sell a bulb of 'Flocon de Neige'. Clearly the person who is selling it is at it, or is clueless. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear! They have obviously found a clump of 'Flore Pleno' and, no matter what you tell them, they won't be told they are conning the bidders by selling a plant worth 25p. The seller comes from 'Edinbyrgh' [sic] and tells us it is 'rair' [sic].

[mark smyth]

Yes I followed the story and understand it except for the giraffe. I can now see the giraffe but actually thought everyone was having a giraffe

[KentGardener]

May be this will help people to picture it?....

John   

(it only works if you enlarge it.   )

[Jo]

 

[mark smyth]

John did you make that?