Snowdrop Events 2010

[steve owen]

 :)September 1, an unmistakeable autumn feel in the air, prompts me into print after the summer break to enquire whether anyone has heard on the grapevine about dates and venues for snowdrop do's after Christmas?

[Brian Ellis]

Nice to see you again Steve!  The leaves are falling here.  Strong rumour has it that the Gala garden will be Glen Chantry.

[mark smyth]

Saturday Feb 13th for the Gala. Wol told me the open garden will be his and Sue's. I havent heard where the venue for the lectures will be

[mark smyth]

Margaret Owen's garden should be open on Sunday February 28th

[mark smyth]

The AGS Ulster Group have a snowdrop day on February 20th starting at mine around 10am and moving on to Margaret Glynn, Bob Gordon and finishing at June Dougherty's who has posssibly millions of nivalis and Crocus tomm.

[KentGardener]

London RHS halls - 16/17 Feb 2010

Dunblane Early Bulb show - 20 Feb 2010

I will be at both.   

[Anthony Darby]

Great; another weel-kent face at Dunblane. (http://www.britannia.org/scotland/scotsdictionary/k.shtml)

[steve owen]

Thanks Mark + KentGardener, I can start getting the diary marked up.

[ichristie]

Hi all, we have plans for a Snowdrop day at Brechin castle on 21st February which is a Sunday. ( The day after Dunblane show)We will see millions of Galanthus nivalis and an area with Galanthus plicatus where a few really good hybrids between the two grow. I will post further details later but the usual format is a digital show about snowdrops then lunch in the castle a superb setting wine etc then a tour round the snowdrops cost are £25 maybe sounds expensive but it really is a good day,Anyone interested please contact me direct,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Andy Emery]

Greetings.

I'd like to inform galanthophiles that the Wisley Plant Centre's 'Snowdrop Splendour' event will take place on the weekend of January 30^th & 31^st 2010. There will be talks by Donald Palmer, snowdrop enthusiast, and many varieties to buy. Our snowdrop list will be released shortly, when it has been finalised. I will post a link on the forum.

I'd also like to mention that we currently have in stock a limited number of plants of a new reginae-olgae x elwesii monostictus hiemalis hybrid, raised by our suppliers Cambridge Alpines, called 'Autumn Beauty'. Said to be very similar in habit to elwesii, but flowering through October. One bulb per pot at £3.99 each. You can reserve them by calling 01483 211113, but they have to be picked up from the Plant Centre, we don't do mail order.


Thanks & regards,

Andy

[Andy Emery]

Sorry, correction to my previous post: the phone number is 01483 211113.

Thanks,

Andy

[Gerard Oud]

Our SnowdropGala will be held on the 20th of February 2010 near the Zaanse Schans. There will be this time a nice display of several snowdrops and some really rare ones. Besides the snowdrops there will be also Helleborus, Rhodohypoxis and some other springflowering flowerbulbs.
Free entrance and lots of parkingspace, address kalverringdijk 40 Shipyard Claasen, for a roadmap see website www.snowdrop.nl
The website is undergoing a update so i hope it will be soon readable.

[Maggi Young]

Best to remind us of the website address, Gerard: there are many new readers here all the time!

Hmmmm... Gerard has gone offline, so I will give the website address: http://www.sneeuwklokjes.info/index_gb.html   ..... the map is not there yet, only the info from the 2009 event!  


 By the way.... RHODOHYPOXIS??  In February??   In Aberdeen at this time these beautiful plants are still fast asleep!  

[Martijn]

Dear friends,

There is a new event in Germany: a “schneeglockchenspecial“ in Hamburg on 6 and 7 March 2010 at the “Garten von Ehren Markttage“.
It is a special plantsale with many rare springflowers, like Hepatica, Helleborus, Galanthus, alpines, auriculas, etc.

More info will be available soon on www.gartenve.de

Greetings,

Martijn

[mark smyth]

Someone called Mark Smyth - who ever he is - is one of the Gala speakers next year