Galanthus March 2011

[kentish_lass]

Hello Martina
What gorgeous photos.  Your house is lovely.  The last picture of your garden in summer is beautiful - such a nice balanced border with lots of interest.  That is a pretty flowering shrub at the back setting everything off nicely.  Thanks for sharing your garden with us
Jennie

[KentGardener]

Dear Martina

Thank you for the photographs from your garden and home.  I have looked on the internet and see that Naturpark Ebbegebirge looks a lovely part of Germany to be in.

The yellow you have shown is not 'Wandlebury Ring' - it would be nice to see the leaves (perhaps it reminds me of a gracilis flower?).

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

[Hagen Engelmann]

Morning Jennie, PERCY PICTON looks very fine with the long pedicel. My type lies only on the ground by frost.
Morgen Martina, you WENDLEBURY RING must be RON MACKENZIE, like Kentgardener said.If you have often such  a lot of snow, so you should have also a lot of snowDROPS.

[Hagen Engelmann]

A galanthophile day begins

[Hoy]

I can't say I am a galanthophile but I like them but I like too many other plants too! Can't decide what to consentrate on......
Here's how my day began yesterday. Luckily all the snow receded during the day and this morning looks promising

[Brian Ellis]

Three lovely starts to the day Hagen, does this mean you are now in the main season?

[Maren]

Hi,

this snowdrop just popped up in my garden and I have to admit to my shame that I don't know what it is. Sorry about the picture quality, I couldn't look through the lens to focus properly and we have quite a breeze this morning. Your help with id would be much appreciated, then I can put a label next to it.

[Alan_b]

Maren, it looks similar to Galanthus nivalis "Blewbury Tart", shown here http://www.judyssnowdrops.co.uk/Plant_Profiles/nivalis/blewbury_tart/blewbury_tart.htm

But it would be wrong to label the plant as such unless you have other reasons for thinking it might be that particular cultivar.

[KentGardener]

Maren, it looks similar to Galanthus nivalis "Blewbury Tart"....

There was me thinking it looked like it could be one of the Greatorex doubles.   

Definitely wrong to label it.  

[Martin Baxendale]

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.

[Martin Baxendale]

Now my only problem is, if I close my forum profile and leave immediately, will this goodbye posting disappear? Perhaps Maggi could advise me? I'd like to shut my profile as soon as possible, but would also like to leave my goodbye post on as long as possible so forum friends can see it, rather than just going without a goodbye.

[Maggi Young]

Martin, I feel I know you well enough to say I think you are being daft.

I have contacted you now several times to say that you are taking personally comments which are meant in general and I cannot understand why you cannot see that.
I am deeply saddened by the tenor of many of the exchanges in the galanthus pages and I know from Forumists' comments to me that they are too. If you choose to regard this as a personal matter then I can only say you are mistaken.


There is no question of your Farewell disappearing , Martin.

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

[mark smyth]

following recent exchanges on and off the forum with the forum moderator I feel that I should leave.

That means I should have left many years ago 

[Maggi Young]

following recent exchanges on and off the forum with the forum moderator I feel that I should leave.

That means I should have left many years ago  

Well Mark, it is true that I have had occasion to "handbag" you many times over the years- with good reason, I think, eh?

 But in this instance I was merely trying to explain to Martin that I felt there had been a misunderstanding and what the basis of that was. Sadly he has taken that as a persoanl affront. I am at a loss to do more to persuade him of his value in the Forum.

[mark smyth]

Hagen, what are your three snowdrops?