Galanthus mid February to March 2007

[KentGardener]

thanks Chris

It does make me feel a bit better knowing that my stupidity at falling for this may have stopped someone else being ripped off.

I have learnt for the future that I shall only ever buy from reliable sources that know the provenance of the plants they are selling.

3 cans of lager have made me a lot more chilled out at encountering such a dishonest person.  h'Oh well.

With my best wishes

John

[David Nicholson]

Have another one John . It's a personal decision I know, but I will never use Ebay for anything too many people "on the con"!!

[KentGardener]

Hi David

doing as instructed....

I have actually got some good bargains off ebay in the past and sold a few bits that have gone to good homes too.

Unfortunately I think in this situation, with something so specialised, that buying from some novice off ebay was probably not the best course to follow - a costly lesson has been learnt - but it really doesn't seem so bad as the fridge gradually empties.....   

with my best wishes

John

[Martin Baxendale]

John, definitely not P. Warburg. She's never green-marked, never has a green ovary, and the mark on the plant you were sold is also the wrong shape, as is the ovary.

[Martin Baxendale]

Sorry, I should have given more detail on that - the mark on P. Warburg is much more of a rounded u-shape, and the ovary is much more rounded and shorter. As I said, always bright yellow (mark and ovary_ and in fact the leaves are always a bit yellowish too. So not, in my experience, a yellow that sometimes looks greenish let alone green. Certainly not what you were sent, John.

[Hans J]

Hi all ,

Today I found this picture in the web - it was taken :
24.February1926

With best wishes
Hans

[Maggi Young]

 Nothing is ever new, is it Hans? Not even the white fever!

[Hans J]

Yes Maggi ,

please look here ( also found today in the web )

[Maggi Young]

My, some of these plant hunters start very young, don't they?
She is in good preparation already for the mountains... see her strong little legs!

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin, is Zuza a chip off the old block then? 

Anne, just got the joke!    Brain obviously too worn-out after late night at the word processor to make comedy connections!

[mark smyth]

John maybe your bank can cancel the payment and withdraw the money. If you had paid for it witha  fedit card the cc company would have withdrawn the money. Paypay would have done the same. Get a solicitors letter. I assume you still have the adress?

[Diane Whitehead]

I have a few elwesii with long petals - 3.5 cm long.  Today I visited a friend
with a clump that makes my plants look puny. Hers has 5 cm petals
and a 30 cm long stem.

It is starting to shrivel, unfortunately.

[Alan_b]

Diane

5 cm long petals are indeed huge.  I suggest you beg some of these bulbs from your friend and see if they will grow to equal size in your garden. 

[mark smyth]

5cm is good. If we had known a while back I would have gone out measuring. elwesii 'Penelope Ann' has a touch over 4cm petals

[galanthophile]

My Augustus has been fantastic this year and here is a unmarked Sam Arnott in amongst an established clump.