Galanthus Autumn 2010

[Brian Ellis]

Nice to see a start to the snowdrop season.

Indeed it is, all that waiting is now over

[hadacekf]

Galanthus reginae-olgae self seedlings in my meadow.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Nein Franz, nicht das noch! Ich müh mich hier redlich in Topfen ab, es allen Pflanzen recht zu tun und bei Dir stehn sie einfach auf so der Wiese und gedeihen und gedeihen.
Sorry to all English speaking folks. Franz is able to grow all the fantastic plants "only in his meadow" and I try and try to give them best conditions in pots with fishy results .

Here is a nice new autumn galanthus.

[Anthony Darby]

That's lovely Hagen.

[annew]

Very nice, Hagen.
It seems there are cyclamen and primroses also in Franz's meadow. I think I too would like to live there.

[Maggi Young]

'Drop alert, folks..... large pan of G. peshmenii to be seen here :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6108.msg169059#msg169059
 at the recent Ponteland Show. 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you Maggi, it`s the biggest pot I ever saw (with peshmeniis).

[hadacekf]

Hagen,
Unfortunately I cannot show the many plants, which died in my meadow!
Very nice Galanthus

[KentGardener]

That's a nice un-named one Hagen.

I got two nice surprises yesterday. 

1 - I moved a pot of Ensete ventricosum and found a snowdrop struggling to flower underneath it    I think in about 7 days it will perk up and I should have G elwesii Hiemalis grp 'Rainbow Farm Early' being my first flower of the season     I also spotted a few other noses breaking through the soil when I started looking.

2 - a copy of the 2010 Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip yearbook dropped through my letterbox.     I've not had a chance to read it in detail - but on a very quick flick through I spotted the writings of our very own
Hagan, David Q, and Anthony D among many others. 

Hagan - a beautiful photograph of G nivalis 'Angelina'.  Horrible that someone stole it from Oirlich during the night.  Was this the only clump or had it been shared with other gardens before the theft?

Yeah!....   The season begins.   

[Brian Ellis]

Hagan - a beautiful photograph of G nivalis 'Angelina'.  Horrible that someone stole it from Oirlich during the night. 

Is this in the Snowdrop Yearbook John? I have searched in vain on this site.

[KentGardener]

Hi Brian

Yes - sorry - it's in the year book.

Here is a picture of it on Gunter's website.

http://www.oirlicher-blumengarten.de/seiten/galanthus/sammlung_galanthus/angelina.html

Lovely looking thing.

[annew]

I usually get a  cheap offer on the yearbook from the daffodil society, but not this year. Where can we get it from?

[Brian Ellis]

Here is a picture of it on Gunter's website.

http://www.oirlicher-blumengarten.de/seiten/galanthus/sammlung_galanthus/angelina.html

Lovely looking thing.

Wow, indeed it is

[Maggi Young]

Pains me to say this, but there are some very unsavoury types involved in  galanthus mania - there seems to be an awful lot of theft and skulduggery of various sorts - I'm glad that some of you are respectable.

[snowdropman]

I usually get a  cheap offer on the yearbook from the daffodil society, but not this year. Where can we get it from?

Anne - The 2010 Yearbook is available from the Distributor

John Gibson
Dept M
14 Waverley Road
Kettering
Northants
NN15 6NT

Cost to UK addresses is £9.00 (postage & packing included) - cheque payable to RHS Enterprises Ltd.

Cost to other EU addresses is £9.00 or 15 Euro's (P&P included).

Cost to addresses outside the EU is £13.35 (p&p included).