A different Valentine's Gift!

[Maggi Young]

Well, this is something new -  Tom Mitchell at Evolution Plants is offering an un-named galanthus on Ebay- the winning bidder gets to name it!
 ..... "We will send a flowering-sized bulb to the highest bidder and will then formally name it for their Valentine. The plant will gradually form a clump, flowering every year around Valentine’s Day, as a perpetual reminder of the most romantic gesture you’ve ever made. "

http://www.evolution-plants.com/valentines.php

The  Ebay listing   hasn't begun yet  it is proposed to run from tens days, ending on 13th February .........  watch this space for details. 

 Edit by maggi : with the demise of Evolution Plants the website /blog has gone.

[Alan_b]

It's a nice snowdrop and I cannot think of many reginae-olgae with green on the outers.  But I wonder how Tom plans to "formally name" it?  There's a Dutch registration scheme for snowdrops but nothing equivalent in the UK and the Dutch scheme has not caught on here.  Indeed I had planned to try to register one of my own snowdrop finds but gave up because there did not seem to be a way to submit the information requested electronically.     

[Maggi Young]

The ebay auction to name the 'drop has begun now :

 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281256963907?ssPageName=STRK:MESCX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1557.l2649

[Alan_b]

I see this is now up to £720 so might beat the eBay record.  The things we do for love, eh? 

[Stefan Vidts]

Alan,
will be certainly a to late Valentine gift. Give me the 720 £, make a nice Valentine moment with it and still will have some money left to buy something in the world of snowdrops.
By the way I think my partner won't be pleased with a to late gift and knowing I spent more than 720£ for one bulb, it may be possible that I may enjoy the rest of the year without a Valentine ;-))
But I'm also very curious how high the price for this special one will raise,  ....
And who it will receive for his valentine?
In my opinion a watercolour of snowdrops seems to be more efficient as valentine present, just make some publicity for my watercolours, 
Emma I'm sure you will send us the link with the final bid for that special reginae olgeae.... to be continued

[Maggi Young]

As Thomson and Morgan made a publicity coup with their bid for G. 'Elizabeth Harrison' so Tom Mitchell of Evolution Plants is scoring a mighty goal with the free publicity this sale is generating!
It may be crazy, but it's working!

[Stefan Vidts]

Emma, I'm sure it is,
naughty business mind they have,   

[Chris Johnson]

Now £780 and counting. I anticipate a furry of bids at the end.

Very clever marketing.

[chasw]

I am sorry to say that all this publicity does not help the cause

It will just increase the number of thefts

[Uwe]

what's going on here??

          

[Maggi Young]

Lunacy is happening !  £1602 and still half an hour to go - I am very nearly speechless !

[Tim Ingram]

In an old book of Cassell's Classified Quotations:

Money is flat and meant to be piled up (Scottish proverb); (the English proverb is said to be:) Money is round and meant to roll. Personally, money is wanting.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Sold for £1602!

[Alan_b]

The sad thing is that as special snowdrops go, this is nothing out of the ordinary.  Somebody was presumably trying to immortalise the name of a loved one but they might only do so as a footnote to history.

[David Nicholson]

........................I am very nearly speechless !............................

Nah, can't be you Maggi, must be an imposter about