Snowdrops in February 2012

[Martin Baxendale]

I was responding to Alan's jokey comment about blaming Mark's website for having the wrong spelling. I've seen it spelt with an e lots of times, in catalogues etc, obviously based on the original spelling given in "Snowdrops". That's not to say I'm advocating using an incorrect spelling. That would be stupid.

[snowdropman]

I've got the first edition of the book too Martin and have made a hand written amendment in the index and on that page as I remembered someone speaking to the man himself and posting the correct spelling of his name on here.

John, you might also want to make a note that the 2006 Reprint also contains another correction viz G. elwesii 'Howard Wheeler' was incorrectly shown as 'Harold Wheeler' in the 2001 Edition.

[mark smyth]

You would be surprised how many letters come here with the surname Smith and Smythe

[Alan_b]

I tried earlier to get a photo of my Wendy's Gold but it was just too cold.  But they look exactly like the ones in the pictures Jennie posted.

[mark smyth]

with two eyes, Alan? All my Wendy's have a large mark with two little raised extensions

[Anthony Darby]

Aren't the yellow "eyes" just the anthers showing through the translucent petals?

[Alan_b]

with two eyes, Alan? All my Wendy's have a large mark with two little raised extensions

No, Mark, pay attention.  Carolyn Walker posted photos of a "Wendy's Gold" with a wrong mark, whether or not the eyes are real.  Then Jennie ("kentish_lass") posted photos of her own Wendy's Gold.  Mine look like Jennie's.

[kentish_lass]

with two eyes, Alan? All my Wendy's have a large mark with two little raised extensions

No, Mark, pay attention.  Carolyn Walker posted photos of a "Wendy's Gold" with a wrong mark, whether or not the eyes are real.  Then Jennie ("kentish_lass") posted photos of her own Wendy's Gold.  Mine look like Jennie's.

LOL    Glad yours are the same Alan - I will sleep easy in my bed tonight now.  Well, not too easy as it is well under freezing tonight and I have lattice pots outside but surrounded with bark.  Do feel like dashing out and getting Big Boy in though but he is right up the top of the garden - so can stay there!

Jennie

[johnw]

No eyes here on Wendy's Gold.  Anthony, I too thought the anthers might be showing through the inners on Carolyn's.

johnw

[KentGardener]

I've got the first edition of the book too Martin and have made a hand written amendment in the index and on that page as I remembered someone speaking to the man himself and posting the correct spelling of his name on here.

John, you might also want to make a note that the 2006 Reprint also contqins another correction viz G. elwesii 'Howard Wheeler' was incorrectly shown as 'Harold Wheeler' in the 2001 Edition.

That's scribbled in there too along with various other stuff I have learnt along the way.   

[Maggi Young]

No eyes here on Wendy's Gold.  Anthony, I too thought the anthers might be showing through the inners on Carolyn's.

johnw

If it were the anthers showing through they'd be awfully short to be showing through that high, wouldn't they?

I expect I'll be out trying to measure anther lengths tomorrow on ordinary 'drops.  Why do I allow myself to be drawn into these things.......

[Lesley Cox]

I tried to look at the time lapse sequence but it said "not available in your area"---see they don't even allow photos of snowdrops into the US   .  

I tried too but the little YouTube circle went round and around and around but never progressed further. Waited for 5 minutes but the timelapse didn't start. I wonder why BBC is so stingy with sharing outside the UK.

[Lesley Cox]

11 ‘Long Drop’ and Iris reticulata ‘JS Dijt’

In NZ a long drop is something QUIte DIFFERENT, from the days before inside loos and modern plumbing.

[Brian Ellis]

11 ‘Long Drop’ and Iris reticulata ‘JS Dijt’

In NZ a long drop is something QUIte DIFFERENT, from the days before inside loos and modern plumbing.

Tee hee 

[mark smyth]

Sorry Alan I was blinded by yellow