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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #315 on: March 02, 2012, 07:59:27 AM »
Hello again, we left Margarets and headed South to visit Robin and Sue White at Blackthorn, Cyril has created some new Daphne hybrids which Robin is quite excited about. We had a really special tour around the garden by Robin and Sue and stayed at The Flower Pots where else would a gardener stay? a great pub and good food and beer, a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind.
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #316 on: March 02, 2012, 08:07:05 AM »
Thanks for the pics, Ian. Nice to see Robin and Sue's garden again - haven't been there since the nursery closed.
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #317 on: March 02, 2012, 10:31:04 AM »
On monday we had a lovely day with a small group, visiting eachothers garden.
We started with coffee and snowdropcake!

Lina.
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And behind the terrace I see some VERY BIG snowdrops... real giants!

Funny enough I do have the same very,very big snowdrops!

They are in the sittingroom now but they are too big,I have to find a new home for them.
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #318 on: March 02, 2012, 09:06:27 PM »
Impressions from my snowdrop lunch last Sunday:
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #319 on: March 02, 2012, 09:10:05 PM »
Great atmosphere, Thomas!
Your snowdropcake looks very tasty. And i adore the youngest member at lunch.
Is it family?

Lina.
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« Reply #320 on: March 02, 2012, 09:51:46 PM »
Not family, but a very good friend. Young Meta is 6 months old. When grown up, she eventually might dream of a garden with snowdrops and does not know why ...  :)
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #321 on: March 02, 2012, 10:26:55 PM »
To everyone posting photos and descriptions of galas, events, visits, and national collections - THANK YOU! I swing between swooning and being green tipped with envy.

Meanwhile my mind swirls at all the new snowdrops. We only need pink singles, pink doubles and pink albinos, as well as climbing forms of all sorts before it can ever stop!

May it never stop.

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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #322 on: March 03, 2012, 06:34:51 AM »
Thank you for sharing the pictures of the snowdrop lunch Thomas.  I wonder why one poor person has been banished to be outside while you all tuck into the delicious cake in picture number 5.   :D
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #323 on: March 03, 2012, 09:19:51 AM »
Now I am beginning to wonder if the 'snowdrop cakes' will make their way onto ebay! I always thought that the real reason to grow snowdrops was the warm meal inside after looking at them in the garden. What lovely pictures.
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #324 on: March 03, 2012, 06:07:53 PM »
Thank you for sharing the pictures of the snowdrop lunch Thomas.  I wonder why one poor person has been banished to be outside while you all tuck into the delicious cake in picture number 5.   :D
Sad fate of a smoker ... ;D  But it wasn't really cold outside that day ...  :D
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #325 on: March 03, 2012, 06:18:51 PM »
Thank you for sharing the pictures of the snowdrop lunch Thomas.  I wonder why one poor person has been banished to be outside while you all tuck into the delicious cake in picture number 5.   :D
Sad fate of a smoker ... ;D  But it wasn't really cold outside that day ...  :D

 ;D ;) I guessed that was it!  Poor soul... his own choice though... and the food was just as good with a great view  :) 8)
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #326 on: March 06, 2012, 10:10:00 PM »
Alan, yes we see again and again that so many of the named 'drops are not stable in the characterisitics that made them stand out. But Joe described CJ as a sharlockiischarlockii, did he not? This is a differential from "normal" nivalis. Is it not the case that most named drops have been singled out as being different from their peers?

We had a very interesting talk this evening on plant hunting in Western Turkey from Joe who had been looking at primula found at the point where the alpine variety gives way to P.sibthorpii (have I got that right) at about 900m.  I took the opportunity to ask him about 'Charlotte Jean'.  He confirmed that there are other European examples of poculiform Galanthus nivalis 'Scharlockii', however 'Charlotte Jean' is the first named.  We can argue all we like about which was found first, but this one was named first.  He confirms that I had heard him correctly at the Blacksmith's talk.
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #327 on: March 10, 2012, 05:00:14 PM »
Today, together with a group of gardenfriends, I visited a very nice snowdropgarden in the northern part of Holland.

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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #328 on: March 10, 2012, 10:16:37 PM »
Lovely to see such a mass of snowdrops Lina, thanks for showing us ;)
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Re: Snowdrop events 2012
« Reply #329 on: March 10, 2012, 10:46:16 PM »
So pretty right to the edge of the pool.  I guess there are no ducks?
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