Galanthus November and December 2007

[mark smyth]

I`ve got a question for the experts:
are the elwesii monostictus always flowering ahead of the elwesii elwesii and cultivars?
and:are elwesii monostictus with no cultiver names,all counted as hiemalis?

1. no
2. hiemalis only indicates early flowers

[loes]

thanks,I`m learning.

[mark smyth]

here are a couple to keep the active forum members and lurkers happy

The pre Christmas flowering G. plicatus 'Three Ships- "I saw three ships come sailing in ...."

and a very early nivalis type that isnt Castlegar or maybe it could be

[Martin Baxendale]

Mark, my Castlegar are up now. The flowers will be open in a day or two so I'll have a look and compare with your mystery snowdrop. Also get a pic if I can. Have yours already flowered?

It's certainly about the right flowering time for Castlegar, and your mystery flower isn't a million miles away from Catslegar in overall looks and mark - although the mark looks a little widely splayed and wide at the ends. I always remember my Castlegar as having quite arrow-head-shaped thin marks without much widening at the ends. But I could be wrong. Will look as soon as they're open.

[mark smyth]

well advanced and began c2 weeks ago

[Anthony Darby]

I don't have any of these early flowerers, but even the ones I do have that are supposed to be, like elwesii 'Hiemalis', are still not up.

[Brian Ellis]

to keep the forum members and lurkers happy

I thought lurkers were forum members, not second class citizens

[mark smyth]

OK the active members and lurkers

[Brian Ellis]

Phew! I'll go back to a little lurking.

[Joakim B]

Brian with 187 post You can not be considered as a lurker.
Maybe members that have not posted anything or guests that are regular guests that only looks but does not say anything can be considered to be lurking?. It is a pity since I think they would be able to give valuable comments. Not everyone is like me and have problem keeping my mouth/hands shut.  and just have to comment when I see something I think needs to be commented (even if I can be far off regarding knowledge of the subject).

Kind regards
Joakim

[mark smyth]

I've been looking at the stats for my snowdrop web site. Numbers are way up but I'll not bore you with them. A new feature is I now know where visitors come from. There are some real oddities in there showing white fever is spreading through the tropics and deserts
Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Japan, Malaysia, India, Israel, Bangladesh, Hondura, Brazil, UA Emirates, Thailand, Iran ...

[Maggi Young]

Just a random, rather cruel thought, mark... are you sure these far-flung folk are coming for the snowdrops and not because they've googled "white fever" and are actually looking for something quite other??!! 

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark,

These certainly are countries which Iwouldn't think of as the traditional sites for snowdrops. Amazing really. I presume these are the minority visitors. What are the numbers like from Ireland and the UK?

Paddy

[mark smyth]

USA is top where did I get USA from?

[mark smyth]

January '07
Great Britain
Germany
United States 
Belgium 
Netherlands 
Sweden 
Canada 
South Korea 
Ireland
Romania

December '07
Germany
Great Britain
Netherlands
United States
Belgium
Sweden
Taiwan
Belarus
Turkey
France

The top 20 phrases used on search engines were
www.snowdropinfo.com
snowdrops for sale
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mark smyth
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The top 3 words used in search engines were
Galanthus
snowdrops
snowdrop

The top 4 search engines used were
Google
Google images
Yahoo
Ask Jeeves

81% of the 43,000 visitors in January use Windows XP. Mac has 6.1%
 
I really need to get in to advertising on the web site