Snowdrop Events 2010

[steve owen]

As long as it fills tums I don't think hungry kids will mind what colour it is.

I like the idea of a pink snowdrop. Pity the name "Rosie" has been used already...

[emma T]

I had thought about watering a clump of  my snowdrops with some food dye to get a pink snowdrop .

[johnw]

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? 

Not blue, just a tad more glyphosate in your cake.

BTW I hear the GM canola genes have jumped into neighboring fields in a big way out west.  Wonder where that leaves the patent.

johnw

[Gail]

I had thought about watering a clump of  my snowdrops with some food dye to get a pink snowdrop .

That would be fun - particularly if you were hosting a galanthus gala!

[Maggi Young]

Somewhere in the Forum we have photos of flowers turned crazy colours by sitting them in dye..... wonder where....... perhaps an April Fool...
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1584.msg39408#msg39408  from Ola Persson
and here :  http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=209.msg5442#msg5442 from Paddy with his comments here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=209.msg5510#msg5510

[emma T]

I used to dye white daffodils blue with ink . They looked quite stunning

[KentGardener]

Somewhere in the Forum we have photos of flowers turned crazy colours by sitting them in dye..... wonder where.......

I think this is one of the posts:

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3322.msg84824#msg84824

I am sure Paddy did one with the kids at school to make a blue snowdrop, if my memory serves me right - but I can't find it with a search.

[steve owen]

Alors mes petites choufleurs...
heureusement J'ai ici des photos des perces-neiges blancs de Colesbourne prendu cette jour.... Sante.

[Paddy Tobin]

What a beautiful setting for snowdrops, Steve.

Paddy

[steve owen]

Sacre bleu - j'ai oublie les noms.....

G. Don Armstrong
    Cryptonite
    Carolyn Elwes
    Le pont du College de Rendcomb.

[steve owen]

What a beautiful setting for snowdrops, Steve.

Paddy

Yes Paddy, just perfick even in the freezing rain.

[johnw]

Alors mes petites choufleurs...
heureusement J'ai ici des photos des perces-neiges blancs de Colesbourne prendu cette jour.... Sante.

And green with envy Steve...


johnw - ton petit brocoli

[Martin Baxendale]

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.

Bit of an unnecessarily prickly comment there, Steve, assuming that the rest of us forumists have conservative, closed minds, surely?

GM foods are a complex issue. It's not just about feeding the world's hungry kids. If only it was. Unfortunately it's very much about huge "agribusinesses" wanting to dominate world markets with their products at the expense of traditional local crops and local farmers, which may end up drastically reducing the biodiversity of crops worldwide, leading to increasing monocultures of just a few genetically identical crops, putting the world at increased risk of famine as such a situation is much more prone to lead to disasterous worldwide crop failures than having many, many genetically diverse food crops. And that's just one of the problems thrown up by GM.

[KentGardener]

Sacre bleu - j'ai oublie les noms.....

G. Don Armstrong
    Cryptonite
    Carolyn Elwes
    Le pont du College de Rendcomb.

I haven't seen 'Cryptonite' before and rather like what I see.   

(Do you happen to know if it was spelt as above or in the proper superman kind of way?.... 'Kryptonite')

[snowdropman]

I haven't seen 'Cryptonite' before and rather like what I see.    (Do you happen to know if it was spelt as above or in the proper superman kind of way?.... 'Kryptonite')

John - it is indeed 'Cryptonite' and is an elwesii found and named by Jörg Lebsa