Snowdrop events 2012

[ichristie]

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.

[Martin Baxendale]

Thanks for the pics, Ian. Nice to see Robin and Sue's garden again - haven't been there since the nursery closed.

[loes]

On monday we had a lovely day with a small group, visiting eachothers garden.
We started with coffee and snowdropcake!

Lina.

The very best way to start, Lina! 

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.

[Thomas Seiler]

Impressions from my snowdrop lunch last Sunday:

[Lina Hesseling]

Great atmosphere, Thomas!
Your snowdropcake looks very tasty. And i adore the youngest member at lunch.
Is it family?

Lina.

[Thomas Seiler]

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 ... 

[JimF]

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.

Jim

[KentGardener]

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.   

[Tim Ingram]

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.

[Thomas Seiler]

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.   

Sad fate of a smoker ...   But it wasn't really cold outside that day ... 

[Maggi Young]

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.  

Sad fate of a smoker ...  But it wasn't really cold outside that day ...  

  I guessed that was it!  Poor soul... his own choice though... and the food was just as good with a great view  

[Brian Ellis]

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.

[Lina Hesseling]

Today, together with a group of gardenfriends, I visited a very nice snowdropgarden in the northern part of Holland.

Lina.

[Brian Ellis]

Lovely to see such a mass of snowdrops Lina, thanks for showing us

[Maggi Young]

So pretty right to the edge of the pool.  I guess there are no ducks?