Galanthus November and December 2007

[Brian Ellis]

David check your personal messages.

[Anthony Darby]

I seem to remember seeing three ships being sold by three elderly gentlemen on Ebay after Christmas last year?

[David Quinton]

Thanks Brian. I have sent you a reply.

[mark smyth]

my reply from Colesbourne has been great

David you should attend the Galanthus Gala or the East Lambrook day. The former has c10 suppliers in attendance and they are always left with the best. The rarities always get snatched up by rampaging non natives  You should check the Broadleigh and Beth Chatto web sites in Late February.

[mark smyth]

Home early from work and had a look at early appearing snowdrops. I have 27 above ground

[Martin Baxendale]

I seem to remember seeing three ships being sold by three elderly gentlemen on Ebay after Christmas last year?

Ho, ho ho!

[mark smyth]

Martin you may Ho! Ho! Ho! but there are some very reliable suppliers of Galanthus on Ebay. I bought from them in 2006 and 2007. Many are going OTT with prices but many are ingnoring good 'drops

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin you may Ho! Ho! Ho! but there are some very reliable suppliers of Galanthus on Ebay. I bought from them in 2006 and 2007. Many are going OTT with prices but many are ingnoring good 'drops

Mark, I think Anthony was making a joke.

[David Quinton]

Mark,

I will be going to the snowdrop gala and have already been forewarned about the rugby like scramble for the rare varieties on sale. You'll be able to recognise me as I'll be the one with the wife who looks like she doesn't want to be there! It's not an act, she doesn't want to be there!

[Maggi Young]

David, I must offer you a little advice, this, remember, coming  from a wife of long standing... ( that reminds me, must see about getting a cushion)  do not drag your unwilling spouse to the Snowdrop Gala day... find another event in which she has a deep interest and send her off to it, preferably with one or two of her chums... in one of their cars... this will leave you free to enjoy a day's 'dropping shopping with a happy heart...... it will tend to have the effect of both of you hitting the bank balance, but hell, it's only money and most of us eat too much anyway! Had I known you  earlier, i could have advised you to chooose a gardening wife.. but maybe your good lady IS a gardener, albeit one like me, who does not see the glory in the white fever!!??!!

[ian mcenery]

I have Blewberry Tart I bought in a very weak moment because it was cheap. I p[aid more than it's worth though. Maggi I agree with you .............BLEWBERRY TART WHY ?? ?

[zephirine]

I didn't mean an offense to your eyes, Maggi  ...you had just complained that snowdrops looked all the same to you...this one is definitely different, at least!
I do like it, it's cheerful and funny! Though I prefer the pure form of the common snowdrops, nivalis and elwesii for instance.
Personnally, I don't care for doubles more than "that"...
Zephirine

[David Quinton]

Maggie,

My wife was given the option not to attend but I think that she's going to make sure that the white fever doesn't cause me to part with too much money. As far as gardening goes...she doesn't. She likes looking at nice gardens but doesn't like the effort in producing and/or maintaining them.

[Martin Baxendale]

'Blewbury Tart', by the way, is really a bit of a sexist name. As I understand it, at one point it was jokingly called Blewbury Muffin (it was found at a place caled Blewbury, hence the punnny name) but then it was changed to Blewbury Tart as a double-punny-entendre, as in "it's not a muffin, it's a bit of a tart - a Blewbury Tart" because it doesn't hang its head demurely but instead has its 'skirts' raised up for all to see (get it? - yes that kind of tart). And yes, the name was thought up by a man!

[loes]

I`ll have to agree with David it`s hard to get the special ones.galanthophiles are always swapping,not selling their special drops.so I, sometime ,buy at e-bay  or in Holland and hope to get what I ordered.
Dutch bulbs though are far less big than Brittish bulbs so my Blewbury Tart,who I really like,has already failed twice.got really bad bulbs in Holland.I don`t buy there anymore.I`ll stick to the well known nursery`s in U.K.

It`s hard to write English but I love all your comments and photo`s.