Bulbs > Galanthus

Revolution Snowdrops

(1/2) > >>

PhilG:
Hope everyone is having a good Christmas.

I just wondered if anyone might happen to have a copy of Tom's Revolution Snowdrop site (even just some of it)?
Tom has dropped out of the snowdrop world and his blog's have now gone.

The amount of information contain in his writings was of immense value to anyone interested in snowdrops and it's loss is a great loss to all of us.
I'm really annoyed with myself, as I had a feeling this might happen and planned to back it up myself - but then forgot  >:(
I only got around to copying the words of the plicatus page.

So I was wondering if anyone else might have copied any?

Here's hoping

johnralphcarpenter:
Try the Wayback Machine.

johnralphcarpenter:
Anyone know what has happened to Tom?

Maggi Young:

--- Quote from: johnralphcarpenter on December 28, 2023, 04:09:58 PM ---Anyone know what has happened to Tom?

--- End quote ---
He seems to have "retired from public life".  Kurt Vickery may know more.

PhilG:

--- Quote from: johnralphcarpenter on December 28, 2023, 04:05:22 PM ---Try the Wayback Machine.

--- End quote ---
Thanks John,
I'd never heard of this before and had to google it to find out what it was.
I had managed to find a couple of cached pages after a lot of searching but not most of them.
This site does seem (from a quick look) to have the actual blogs saved (although not the photo's), but at least the words are there.
EDIT - It seems that the photo's on some pages have been saved. Perhaps if I search enough of the saved dates, I might find more of the photo's??

I'll get my A... in gear and get them saved while I can.

I've heard Tom's well, just not doing snowdrops anymore.
Whatever happened, he is a major loss to the snowdrop world. His insitu studies of so many locations and species and his honest documentation, was invaluable and the sort of information we can't get anywhere else.
He showed more than anyone else has, the variability within and between locations and how many of the current forms/varieties are actually just selected steps in a much wider amount of natural variation. I for one, will (do) greatly miss his input.

Thankfully, for now we can still read his words.

So thanks again John - from another kent grower.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page