Galanthus February 2011

[RichardW]

it is depressing, but I suppose that's the downside of keeping stock of valuable plants, it must be heart breaking to see years of work destroyed by thieves.

it is something always in the back of my mind when I label mine each Feb, but I dont have anything very rare, and the things I do treasure aren't labelled.

when he said A Abbey tagged theirs, was he talking about security tags??

Interview with Joe Sharman from 25/2/11  in the FT online.....
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9f7f5c2-3ef2-11e0-834e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1F4gM8YBB

My goodness, what horrible people there are in the world that they would come and steal from other people's garden and how uncomfortable for Joe Sharman that he has to be so secretive.

Paddy

[johnw]

Maggie i've had the same,ive also been sold Galanthus ikariae which turned out to be woronowii

Davey / Maggi

Dittto here, all surviving ikariae are in fact woronowii!

johnw

[Paddy Tobin]

Richard,

I can well imagine that the security of your plants could be a major worry for you with such a large garden and such high numbers of visitors. Some people regard large gardens as free plant centres. On an Irish gardening website recently one person was showing off a plant he had stolen from a garden he had visited. There was a long series of, almost, congratulations for him. I found it unbelievable and despicable.

Paddy

[Hans J]

John W and all ,

I have offered in last year a lot of seeds from my true G.ikariae ....sorry to say but there was not so a big interest ....

Hans

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4311.msg154055#msg154055

[RichardW]

Paddy, I try not to worry about it too much, although I do, short of standing over the plants with a torch there's no way to be sure the plants are completely safe, the alternative is no labels but that's not an option for me, I want visitors to enjoy seeing the different ones growing together.

I have lost plants, including some nice Agapanthus in quite large pots last year, there are some things I have decided to bring home during Feb.

[daveyp1970]

Hans will you have any in the future?

[Paddy Tobin]

Richard,

How can someone walk out of a garden with an agapanthus in a pot? Big pockets?

Our local garden clubs visit our garden every few years and, on one occasion, a lady went around taking cuttings of loads of plants. I shot her and she stopped.

Paddy

[Hans J]

Hans will you have any in the future?

Dave ,

I think this is not a problem -I have really a lot of G.ikariae
I startet my stock with 3 little bulbs in year 1999 ....I have given so many plants away and I still have a lot ....and a lot of seedlings comes up 

Hans

[annew]

I shot her and she stopped.

Paddy

Crumbs!

[Paddy Tobin]

Direct action, Anne!

I shot her a dirty look!

Paddy

[mark smyth]

I shot her a dirty look!

LOL LMAO

[scatigaz]

A big lol from me too Paddy.

A better way of labelling a rare plant collection might be putting numbers rather than the name of the plant on the labels. As long as you have a reference to these numbers in a book or computer, your plants ought to be a little safer.

[Anthony Darby]

John, I found both krasnovii and platyphyllus easy to accommodate. Needless to say, I don't have them now otherwise I'd send you some!

I have the address of the man who was selling krasnovii at the Gala. He must grow from seed?

I bough a platyphyllus at the Gala. When I knocked it out of its pot guess how many roots it had - 0 - if I had known at the time .....

If you could PM me the address that would be great.

Rootless platyphyllus? Argh.   I guess this is when you want to see roots coming out the drainage holes! Is platyphyllus difficult to grow in the UK including Scotland.   I'm trying to find species that don't require a good dry summer or baking.  How do ikariae and reginae-olgae do in the cool and mist of Scotland's summer?

johnw

[snowdropman]

A better way of labelling a rare plant collection might be putting numbers rather than the name of the plant on the labels. As long as you have a reference to these numbers in a book or computer, your plants ought to be a little safer.

Very sad when it comes to this - one of my great pleasures during the snowdrop season is to wander around the snowdrops at will, seeing what is emerging, what is flowering etc - with the best will in the world I cannot remember/recognise all of them and I find the thought of having to carry around with me some means of id'ing the snowdrops quite depressing!

[RichardW]

really don't know, it was in an 8" pot, which is why I thought it was safe.

someone was found digging up snowdrops from the moat years ago, apparently that was our fault for not having anything for sale

the annoying thing is if I can I'm more than happy to give/send plants to people, I think some just like to know they've got something for free, that also includes getting into the garden, people trying to avoid paying is an increasing problem.

Richard,

How can someone walk out of a garden with an agapanthus in a pot? Big pockets?

Our local garden clubs visit our garden every few years and, on one occasion, a lady went around taking cuttings of loads of plants. I shot her and she stopped.

Paddy