Galanthus March 2011

[GoodGrief]

You might have opened a new thread for farewells, of course.

Could be the makings of an epilogue !?   

Malcolm.

[Paddy Tobin]

Martina,

Great to see your beautiful garden and snowdrops.

Paddy

[Hagen Engelmann]

Yes Brian, now I loose myself in the white, wide world (www.) of galanthus, but Maggie will help me to find the way back .

Mark, you saw DICKERCHEN; GRÜNER SPLITTER and SCHORBUSER IRRLICHT.

Here they are open much better.

[Rob]

Apologies for this non-galanthus-related post (well, sort of galanthus-related) but there is no-where on the forum to say goodbye to fellow forumists when leaving the forum. Since many of my forum friends and acquaintances read the galanthus threads, however, I'm posting my goodbye here. I've enjoyed being on the forum and exchanging views with you all over the years, but following recent exchanges on and off the forum with the forum moderator I feel that I should leave. I'm sure I won't be able to resist lurking occasionally, but I won't in future be joining in any discussions.

I saw the last two posts on the galanthus registration thread, before Maggi deleted them & locked the thread. There is no need for you to say goodbye to the forum, if you wait a day or two, you'll realise you put words in Maggis mouth and personalised what should have been a polite discussion.

The mention of the RHS not having ever started a snowdrop register is just something that has always puzzled me. It was not meant to be a high-handed, nationalistic comment. 

I hope you continue to contribute.

[Paddy Tobin]

Hagen,

The warmth and light of noon has certainly displayed these beautiful snowdrops perfectly. Three beauties!

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

Martin,

I think you should reconsider this decision and continue to post on the forum. Your contributions have always been well-informed and of great benefit.

Paddy

[kentish_lass]

Don't go Martin ......
I enjoy your posts and learning from you 
Jennie

[mark smyth]

Hagen SCHORBUSER IRRLICHT is very good looking. Please put me on the waiting list

[Maggi Young]

Friends, I am very hopeful that Martin will reconsider his decision to leave and continue as a valued Forum member as we would all wish.


 

[Brian Ellis]

I do hope you do reconsider Martin, you will be sorely missed

Hagen, I am pleased you will enjoy your wonderful snowdrops. Schorbuser Irrlicht is delightful, I have very few snowdrops still in good condition in the garden, a few days and the season will be over

[Gerdk]

Here is one of the few snowdrops that I cultivate (more or less
successfully, but unfortunately not multiplying)

Gerd

[Roma]

My latest snowdrops to flower - Galanthus platyphyllus and Galanthus plicatus 'Warham Group'
They are usually later than the other snowdrops but this year and last the earlier blooming snowdrops have been late, so they are still in flower when most years they are over by this time.

[kentish_lass]

Jennie - it's not fair!  You still have flowers on some of my favourites (Ding Dong is still in my top of the drops) and I won't see them in my garden now until 2012

I think your season started much earlier than mine John.  I am surprised how late mine are carrying on for    All the potted plants are over now (except Hugh, Galadriel, Charlotte and a few others) but still some nice flowers in the garden.  I noticed your spikies are lasting well - I have no spikies now - all got eaten  

John, is your 'top of the drops' a top 10 or a top 20?  I would love to hear what they were this year.

Hagen - beautiful flowers as always
Gerd - I love the simplicity of your flowers - I really like snowdrops with tiny little markings.  Very nice

Jennie

[Martin Baxendale]

I would like to apologise for the abrupt way that I left the forum and the perhaps melodramatic "farewell dear friends" message I posted on this thread, and would like to thank Maggi for keeping my deactivated account going and sending me a new password so that I could reactivate it and post this apology.

I now realise that the way I did it could have been misinterpreted as my having been told to leave. That wasn't the case and I'm sorry if I gave the impression that Maggi or anyone else gave me my marching orders. It was entirely my own decision to leave the forum.

On reflection, I feel that I may have become overly combative and argumentative in my posts on the now closed galanthus registration thread. I do get outspoken when discussing things I care a lot about, and perhaps sometimes I care too much and get carried away. So I would like to apologise to anyone who was upset by any of my comments in that thread about snowdrop selection, naming and registration. However, I would like to say that my motivations were never anything to do with personal animosity, just the principles of how I felt certain things are best done. I feel that I now need to take some time out from the forum and regain my perspective, and I also feel quite embarrassed about the fuss, so I won't be joining in any further discussions for quite a while. Sorry again if I came across in that thread as in any way arrogant or feeling superior to anyone else.

[Maggi Young]

Martin, thank you.
Onwards and upwards, eh?!!