Snowdrop catalogues 2012/13

[Brian Ellis]

and I expect they still had to pay postage!

[Anthonyh]

Haha. I would wait and buy another in order to save on the combined postage!

[MR GRUMPY]

I bought 'ROSIE' from the same seller.It came in superb condition,packed with care and a double flowered bulb.I would love to get 'GREEN TEAR' but i have to eat.Please tell me where to buy hen's teeth?E-bay, perhaps.

[MR GRUMPY]

Acorn cottage snowdrops catalogue arrived today.Jennie, it has got 'ROGER'S ROUGH' in it.Hope your lucky.I've also got 'long wasp'last year.It had three noses before the snow.I'll try and post pictures when it flower's.

[chasw]

Apologies for late ..Thank You ,Jim, computer has been down,we have swapped I.P. and think previous provider was being a little awkward

[Tim Ingram]

Steve - that should be 'Roger's Rough'; its named for Richard's Bird's garden at Kilndown, near Goudhurst in Kent. I don't think they are opening this year, but Richard knows Elizabeth Strangman well and has some really interesting snowdrops that have come from Washfield Nursery.

[MR GRUMPY]

Thanks Tim.I've just changed my post.

[Paddy Tobin]

Has anybody seen G. 'Rowallane' listed in any of the catalogues?

If you spare a minute, please have a look for me as I don't have the catalogues.

G. 'Rowallane' arose in Rowallane Gardens in Northern Ireland but it no longer grows there. Averil Milligan, Head Gardener at Rowallane, would like to return it to the garden and I, with my interest in the conservation of Irish plants through the Irish Garden Plant Society, am also interested in ensuring its future at Rowallane.

Any information in tracking down this bulb would be greatly appreciated.

[JanB]

Who/where do I get the Acorn Cottage catalogue from please?

[KentGardener]

Sorry Paddy - I didn't reply to your last request as I have never seen it listed so had nothing positive to tell you.

[Paddy Tobin]

That's fine, John. Many thanks. It's proving to be an elusive one.

That bergenia you mentioned is a good one, by the way - B. 'Overture', excellent winter colour, deep plum? We have it here in the garden - a bit by  post?

[hwscot]

Being but newly and barely at all initiated into the Lesser Arcana of the Galanthus world .. being thereby innocent of many things darkly hinted at in this particular corner of the forum ... can anyone explain to me why North Green 2013 catalogues are going around a tenner a shot on ebay? For the catalogue? Is someone having a laugh, or have I already inadvertently uttered the tetragrammaton without first invoking the Graces of the First Monolith? I did try sniping a couple at a quid or so purely for the chutzpah of it, but now realise that was laughably optimistic speculation. On the other hand, I did see someone get Mrs Macnamara for about a quid a week or two ago ...

As they used say in journalism, the only dumb question is an unasked question. But that was quite a long time ago.

[Alan_b]

Maybe Thompson and Morgan want one?

This article mentions the direct route by which a copy of the catalogue may be obtained http://www.a-gardening-woman.com/snowdrops/ - at a cost of 6 first class stamps.  But I presume this year's print run is sold out. 

[colineddie1]

Thank you so much for the link for North Green catalogue - I know I am late to apply for this year as so many have tried to scramble a copy off Ebay - No idea how the seller has so many copies for sale at a huge profit. Hope you don't mind me jumping on the band wagon I am very new to this obsession (well thats what it is turning out to be in our house anyway). I know I have paid well over the odds on ebay for the drops I have got this year so any advice no matter how basic would be very very gratefully received. Thank you so much in advance

[kGarden]

Any advice no matter how basic would be very very gratefully received

My first season ... these two questions I have asked may also be of interest to you?

"Newbie just starting out ..."
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10047.0

"Good (and Bad) Doers for Beginners?"
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10065.0