Snowdrop Events 2010

[steve owen]

Anglesey Abbey quite wonderful today in warm sunshine, insects buzzing, lonicera fragrantissima and daphne Jacqueline Postill utterly intoxicating. A good to be alive day. Here are some pics including a remarkable colour break snowdrop. Enjoy.

[Alan_b]

...Here are some pics including a remarkable colour break snowdrop. Enjoy.

Good pictures, Steve, but let's not get too carried away here.   A "remarkable colour break snowdrop" would be daffodil yellow or poppy red or bluebell blue.  This one is slightly off-white - but at least I can see it in this instance.  There was one featured at the Gala where I was left scratching my head about what the colour difference was supposed to be.

[Anthony Darby]

I like the way it changes from white to cream it the tips.

[mark smyth]

elwesii Orange Tip?

[Maggi Young]

I think it is truly hideous.... looks like someone dunked the poor thing in coffee.... it's horrible........ bring back the white ones!!

[Anthony Darby]

Calling it 'Orange Tip' is stretching it a bit.

[KentGardener]

I think it is truly hideous.... looks like someone dunked the poor thing in coffee.... it's horrible........

   

[Alan_b]

Even the Dulux Natural Hints range of paints http://www.dulux.co.uk/products/info/natural_hints_silk.jsp look like incredibly strong colours compared to the Anglesey Abbey snowdrop.  In my opinion, you know that galloping galanthophilia has finally driven you over the edge into madness when you start seeing a slightly off-white snowdrop as orange.     

[RichardW]

can't see the appeal at all, looks "sick" if I saw something like that here I would be chucking it out  

[KentGardener]

I would like to see it 'in the flesh' - I often find that photographs don't do justice to yellow snowdrops - perhaps the camera has not been kind to this orange snowdrop?

[steve owen]

Good, everybody likes it.

Seriously, where does it say that snowdrop outers must be purest white or with added green only? Is the white outer ok with delicate green tips but not a virescent marking? True eranthis yellow is ok but the lemon yellow of Eranthis hiemalis "Pauline" isn't? No black tulips or hyacinths? I mean, COME ON guys! And it isn't even my snowdrop.

Alan, its not a question of "getting carried away". Apart from the aforesaid white and green, this is the first galanthus I know of (apart from the fabled and unseen Chadwick's Cream and Creme Anglaise, verdict suspended pending some flowers to look at) that is actually a different colour. Isn't gardening a bit about the excitement of the unusual? To quote Robert Kennedy : "some men see things as they are and just ask why? I dream of things that never were and ask "why not?"

I am tempted to widen the discussion with a proposition about feeding the worlds's hungry with Genetically Modified Wheat but maybe this audience is a bit too conservative for such revolutionary ideas.

[KentGardener]

...Alan, its not a question of "getting carried away". Apart from the aforesaid white and green, this is the first galanthus I know of (apart from the fabled and unseen Chadwick's Cream ....

Hi Steve

'Chadwicks Cream' is not fabled.  I, and Brian Ellis, have seen it in the flesh and it is gorgeous.  I think I posted a photo last year but a picture really didn't do Justice to the wonderful buttermilk outers and yellowy inners.  Once again, I think that before making decisions on these flowers from photographs one really does need to see them growing 'live' in a group for a real idea.  I would love to see the 'orange' Galanthus for real rather than a photograph before I pass my personal judgement.

'Chadwicks Cream' is very rare - but definitely not fabled. We can keep our fingers crossed that one day it can be made available to others.  #fingers crossed icon#

[Gail]

I think you'll find that this audience has a wide diversity of views; I personally enjoy my snowdrops snow white but I think there is room in the world for one in barbie pink and another with turquoise and purple stripes and good luck to anyone who finds such delights!

[Brian Ellis]

Well I like it, not as much as Chadwick's Cream which was lovely, but I like it so there!

[Maggi Young]

I am tempted to widen the discussion with a proposition about feeding the worlds's hungry with Genetically Modified Wheat but maybe this audience is a bit too conservative for such revolutionary ideas.

 This GM wheat.... it won't be blue, will it?