Snowdrop events 2012

[Melvyn Jope]

Good morning John,
Sorry to miss you, I had to leave the show at 11.30 which I think is about the time that you arrived. Thanks for your blog photos, hope you have a good holiday.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for the pics of events attended.  I didn't see Melvyn at the RHS show but can see him in a picture.   Shame I didn't get the chance to say hello.

There are a lot of us looking forward to seeing Melvyn, and Martin Denny, at Dunblane this Saturday..... we can all say hello to him on your behalf 

[Paddy Tobin]

And their fame continues to spread.

http://sea-of-immeasurable-gravy.blogspot.com/2012/02/shiny-happy-people-2012.html?spref=fb

[KentGardener]

Hoorah.  A picture of Jennies new hat.  

They missed one though - I counted 4 at the show.   

[emma T]

And their fame continues to spread.

http://sea-of-immeasurable-gravy.blogspot.com/2012/02/shiny-happy-people-2012.html?spref=fb

 

[Maggi Young]

And their fame continues to spread.

http://sea-of-immeasurable-gravy.blogspot.com/2012/02/shiny-happy-people-2012.html?spref=fb

 

 Am I the only person thinking there is a business opportunity here for Emma and Mrs T. making  Elizabeth Harrison Hats? 

[David Nicholson]

I'll bet T&M have lawyers working round the clock to copyright the name!

[Tim Ingram]

Now I see what you mean about the hats - they are great, even better collectors items than the snowdrops! Does anyone remember the famous gardener Thelma Kay; she was an extremely fine gardener and also maker of hats. Maybe the two go together?

[Maggi Young]

I'll bet T&M have lawyers working round the clock to copyright the name!

I don't think they can. The snowdrop is in the market with the name already. The reason they paid 50k for that hyacinth was, I think to have the whole rights to it. Here they've bought one snowdrop.

It's a good idea for a publicity campaign from T&M's view,  though. They'll get any amount of free air time on this, though less perhaps than it might have got if a private buyer had been successful.  That alone will earn them a fortune, even if the micro-propping fails and they never get it to market in mass.  There are others with the drop, it will go on in their hands, also.

[ronm]

I say  ... so what?? T&M have paid the ( unbelievable for me ) amount of money. If they do well from it in the future, great! If not ... well that's business. I wish they would do this with many, many, many, more of the Fritillaria, Scorpiris, Oncocyclus, Scilla, Crocus, Muscari, Narcissus, etc. get the message? If they did I may be able to grow thousands of these stunners in my garden instead of one or two and hoping I live long enough to see a colony!
Hope you make £ millions T&M !!

[Maggi Young]

I'd like it if more of the affordable  stuff they (T&M) sell  would actually live long enough to grow....

[ronm]

I have no experience of that Maggi.

[Maggi Young]

Lucky you, Ron .... I have and several others have reported trouble of that nature inthe Forum over time...

[ronm]

Sorry Maggi, newbie here and hadn't caught up with those postings yet. I'm sure there have been issues, as there are with many plant purchases from whoever, ( see discussions on naming various species of many genera on many threads etc.). " Conservation though propagation and distribution". Would we rather have had a private buyer, and maybe never seen it again? I wouldn't.

[Maggi Young]

Quite so, Ron.... you make a good point.... I don't disagree with you... just smarting from some wasted cash in the past, that's all!