Re: Winter snowdrops

[mark smyth]

John do you buy from Hitch Lyman? $3 for the catalogue
'The Temple Nursery'
PO BOX 591
Trumansburg
NY 14886
USA

[maggiepie]

Thanks for the information John, I don't think I will be too unhappy if I manage to find just a few.
Am wondering when they would flower here, hellebore flowering time?

[johnw]

Mark - I've never heard of Temple.  Some nurseries in certain NY counties are not allowed to ship to California or Canada due to golden nematode or potato root knot nematodes. I will have to find out which county they are in and whether they can do a phyto.

re: time zones. Newfoundland is in the middle of one and they are 1/2 hour ahead of us. It makes for an interesting time trying to catch the CBC news.

Helen  - If you flower Hellebores then the snowdrops will flower about the same time or slightly in advance. Getting rid of your great heaps of snow will be the first step in Spring. We will make sure you get a starter.

Blizzard warning in effect for tonight here. 10-25cm. Argh.

johnw

[mark smyth]

Here's items on Hitch if you want to go through them
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=temple+nursery+trumansburg&meta=

[maggiepie]

John, we don't have much snow cover at the moment, the rain took most of it, although we are supposed to have light snow this evening.
We were supposed to get 15-20 cms on Saturday, but the forecast has changed,  so who knows.
Currently -12C here.
This year I had some snowflakes flowering with hellebores. Next year I am hoping some of my hellebore seedlings will flower for the first time.

[johnw]

Mark - I just googled Trumansburg, New York and it appears the nursery is outside the nematode zones. Now I will have to check to see if he is in a Japanese Beetle zone.  It would be great if I could arrange something with this fellow.

400 varieties! One has to wonder how he managed to amass such a collection given the import restrictions from the UK and the general unwillingness to ship beyond the EU.

I will dash off a request for a catalogue or two.  Unfortunately they are not on the internet and do not have a phone number.

johnw

[johnw]

This year I had some snowflakes flowering with hellebores. Next year I am hoping some of my hellebore seedlings will flower for the first time.

Helen  - Which Hellebores are you growing?  I have mainly recuperated from that disease.

johnw

[maggiepie]

John, I have a few I bought when we moved here which sadly to say are pretty ugly, except for one.
My oldest seedlings are mixed orientalis ,  and some argutifolias, some of which flowered this year which was fantastic.
My seedlings this year are a variety of mostly double types from Elizabethown Hellebores in Tasmania.
Also have some Sternii and Sternii X Boughton Beauty, plus some picotee, and some New anemone hybrid.
I bought 15 different types of seed.
Hopefully these will flower in 2010.

[mark smyth]

Write him a letter, he has no email or computer, and you will get back a letter written with ye olde fountain pen. That's his writing on the front of his catalogue

[Jo]

Hi, frost is keeping my snowdrops faces flat to the ground. I would like to post a picture here for ident/suggestions but am a complete novice. Is there a link on how to do it ?
I have Three Ships, Mrs Macnamara, The Pearl, Diggory  Jo and an interesting one with basal and apical outer perianth segment markings of plicatus type in flower at the moment. I'm in Devon.

[Jo]

Hi,

why did my name, Jo,  end up in the sentence ?

Jo 

[Brian Ellis]

Try this link Jo, there are plenty of us who will offer to help

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=help;page=post

[mark smyth]

Hi Jo. Posting photos is very easy. At the bottom of the text box we write in it say additional options. Click it and a menu drops down. You will see attach and browse. When you click on browse a window opens allowing to search for images on your computer. Posted photos shouldnt be bigger than 800 pixels wide

[Diane Clement]

why did my name, Jo,  end up in the sentence

Hi Jo  and welcome to the forum.  Don't know why that happened, but you can easily edit your posts.  At the top right of your own posts, you will see "Modify" - click on this and you can delete, edit, or whatever. 

[Jo]

OK,

 nearly there but how do I know if my photo is 800 pixels wide ?

  Its definately too many megapixels !     Jo