Flowering now September 2007

[Martin Baxendale]

Ah! I'm with you, Mark! M.O. ! Def. one drink too many! I'm inking pencil drawings for a new cartoon book on auto-pilot tonight. A bottle of good wine makes it go a lot quicker.   

[Lesley Cox]

Happily, right next to my Farmers' Market, and in the old railway staton building, there has opened today, a business called Scotia. It has a whisky bar with 300!!! different Scotch whiskies. Roger and I are going to sample a few tonight. A mad piper was around the market this morning, to mark the occasion.

[Brian Ellis]

If they have Springbank Lesley try that 

[mark smyth]

spot on Martin. I would call her Queen of Snowdrops and at the heart of Galanthophilia.

Can you do a drawing of a stereotypical Galanthophile?

[Maggi Young]

Okay, back track, please... WHO is M. O ?
I know who Lydia is; she's the tattooed lady.

[Martin Baxendale]

Margaret Owen. Mark knows her better than I do, Maggi, so he can tell you more about her than I can. In fact I don't really know her at all, just visited her garden once during a snowdrop gala in Shropshire with a load of others. She's a snowdrop grower of course.

[Lesley Cox]

If they have Springbank Lesley try that 

They have, and I shall.

[annew]

I'm glad you asked, Maggi.  The White Fever does send you mad then

[johanneshoeller]

The first Gentiana sino-ornata and Androsace villosa

Hans

[Rogan]

Wow! I've always wanted to grow Gentiana spp, but they really hate my climate and don't survive much beyond the seedling stage  However I do grow some African relatives of the gentian, Sebaea (...and some of them can be classed as alpines too!) - here is a picture of a Sebaea species growing on the muddy banks of a mountain stream in the Drakensberg mountains.

[Gerdk]

An unusual variety of Narcissus miniatus (serotinus). Maybe there is some introgression from N. viridiflorus or N. cavanillesia.

Gerd

[Hans J]

Here comes some pics more of N. serotinus

First are from a friend ( thanks Gerd )
next are from the island of Menora
and the last from Apulia

[Hans J]

Also now today startet a other Galanthus :
Gal. regiane olgae f. corcyrensis

[Hans J]

Here are some pics from a new descriptet Cacti :

Hildewinteria colademonones

Cacti  are here a bit uncommon -but as Thomas says - all from mountains are alpine......

[Maggi Young]

Gerd, Hans, do you think it is because you have warmer weather than we do here that you can get these flowers on your N. serotinus ? we have more leaves than flowers

Hans, I am not sure that this IS a cactus, I think your cat's tail is flowering  ..... and such a bright nice red, too.