Galanthus January 2011

[emma T]

I dont like the Daily Mail     , my auntie does read the rag so i will ask her to look out for the article.

[Brian Ellis]

Hope they paid well.

The only consolation Martin 

[annew]

Perhaps we should rename this thread 'Milk flowers January 2011'.

[steve owen]

I've always wanted to meet someone who admitted reading the Daily Mail, but my joy at discovering someone who actually WRITES for it knows no bounds...

[Martin Baxendale]

I have to say in my defence that I don't make a habit of writing for the Mail, Steve. In fact I've never written anything for them before. But they asked because someone on the Weekend mag had a copy of my novel, The Snowdrop Garden, and it was a chance to get a half-decent factually correct and reasonably knowledgeable story about snowdrops into a national newspaper's weekend magazine for once instead of the half-witted hack jobs that the nationals tend to publish about snowdrops (Always, always, always plant in the green, must, must, must be divided every three years, need wet soil, etc, bloody etc).

And yes, Rob, that's exactly what I thought - surely SNOW is nature's "own white carpet"!!! And where they got "milk flowers" from I have no idea - though I suspect it may have been Wikipedia! Really! I went to Wikipedia to have a look, as I wondered where they'd got their half-arsed info from and the first line about galanthus gives the literal meaning of the botanical name as milk flower, so what's the betting that's what they did? Plus that rambling mish-mash of an intro they came up with is just badly written. I mean BAD!!! Aaaargh!!!
  

[Martin Baxendale]

I completely re-wrote their rubbish bits for them, using correcting the incorrect bits as my cover, trying (vomit, vomit!) to keep a hint of their flowery house style but make it readable so it wouldn't make me look like a complete idiot. But who knows whether they'll just change it back? If they do, the editor will be getting a very angry and expletive-filled email from me.  

[ian mcenery]

 

Hello Diane ,

this name ( G. fosteri v. antepensis ) is descriptet from N.Zeybek and E.Sauer
Please look in the Galanthus book from A.Davis ( page 159 )
This plants was found in the Gaziantep area .

I hope this helps a bit
Hans

Diane and Hans

Interesting wiki states that "Gaziantep was originally called Aïntap (from Arabic عين تاب) but after some centuries the name shifted to Antep" which is in SE Turkey hence presumably its ssp name

[steve owen]

Martin, don't beat yourself up. We'll do that.

[Martin Baxendale]

Thanks, Steve. 

[Hans J]

"Diane and Hans

Interesting wiki states that "Gaziantep was originally called Aïntap (from Arabic عين تاب) but after some centuries the name shifted to Antep" which is in SE Turkey hence presumably its ssp name"

Hello Ian ,

Thank you for this information .
One of the both authors ( N. Zeybek ) is from Turkey and so he use this older name

Hans

[Hans J]

Before some years I have bought from Joe Sharman a bulb of "Wendy's Gold" ...it grows OK ....but I have not a quick multiplication .

In one year was some seedpods on this plant and so I put this fruits near the motherplant in the soil - my hope was that maybe more yellow flowering plants came up ....in this year those seedlings have flowered - but to my big dissapoitment they looks all "normal" ...

The same thing is happend for me with a other nice plicatus cultivar ( Warley Belles) ....all the seedlings looks normal ....

Have any other members similar expieriences ?

Hans

[ian mcenery]

Hans I have the same experience . Here is a Photo I posted a couple of years ago as Son of Wendy  Someone mentioned that if this were back crossed with Wendy it might produce Yellow children

[loes]

Joy Cozens really looking orange in bud

[mark smyth]

looking good!

[chasw]

Very nice,please post another picture when it is in flower