RHS Halls feb 2010

[Jane]

Thanks for posting the photos Steve and John. I wish I could of gone!

[snowdropman]

The plants put before the joint rock were VERY late in being displayed to the public this year, so I hope I have managed to get a photo of everything before they were wisked away to their homes.

Hi John - many thanks for posting the snowdrops that were put up for award - much appreciated.

[KentGardener]

Nice to see 'Hambutts Orchard'. Haven't seen it in  a long time. Found in the garden of and named after the house in Painswick where my family lived when we first moved down from Scotland in the 1960s.

As we were moving out after renting the house for a year or so, who should be moving in (arriving with vans full of snowdrops in huge pots) but Brigadier and Mrs Matthias who had just sold Hyde Lodge, a couple of valleys over from Painswick, the home of their famous Giant Snowdrop Company, and were renting Hambutts Orchard while they looked for a house to buy in Painswick.

Didn't take long for my parents, both keen gardeners, to get to know the Matthias's and their gardener, Mr Ransome and start swopping snowdrops.

Great history Martin.  I have enjoyed reading that.  Thank you.  

[RichardW]

got a couple of very weak Hambutt's Orchard but they've yet to flower & had to be rescued last year, thanks for the info, always nice to know a little history.

[loes]

great photos,thanks for posting!
don`t you all get greedy looking at those beauties?
I like fuzz,reminds me of Irish Green

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks all for the great photos.

I can now see why John is looking for Mordred!  Some of the others are really interesting too.

Is that really Ecusson d'Or, I thought the whole thing about it was it had yellow tips to the outers.  If it is it's a very poor example isn't it?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Great pics John and Steve.

[Brian Ellis]

I believe that's David Quinton hiding behind the foliage with his camera, any photos David?

[David Quinton]

Well spotted Brian. I thought that I'd got away with it as I tried to blend in to the background.

I do have some photos but haven't downloaded them yet. Will see if I can do it tomorrow as no time tonight.

[Brian Ellis]

Cheers David, it's nice for those of us who did not get there   Otherwise we would not see some of the newly to be available cultivars.

[mark smyth]

Thanks. Wish I was there

[Paddy Tobin]

I have suffered/endured/enjoyed two days of intensive shopping - our son's wedding next month and his  mother had to be kitted out appropriately - and the display of lovely snowdrops from the London show was a most welcome relief.

There was certainly a lovely selection on display and  many thanks to all who posted such wonderful photographs.

Mark mentioned this already - does anybody recognise the lady in black, second from left, pearl necklace in the first photograph of the thread and posted by John Finch?

Paddy

[mark smyth]

Paddy do you know her also?

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark,

I've looked again and I think it is just that she resembles Susan Tindall.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Mark,

I've looked again and I think it is just that she resembles Susan Tindall.

Paddy

Away ye go! Nothing like her!