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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #30 on: January 22, 2008, 04:40:58 PM »
glad to put the spark in the mind. What's your planting mix?
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #31 on: January 22, 2008, 08:56:26 PM »
Nice trough Rob

However....

Here are pictures of my 'Wendy's Gold' in February 2004 and today.  Not wishing to risk providing more of a meal for some insect I moved it from my garden to a pot in 2004 just after I took the first photograph; ordinary compost, no added drainage.  In 2005 it produced some leaves and in 2006 it produced two flowers and I moved the large bulb(s) back into the garden but there were three small offsets I left behind in the pot.  Now in 2008 these have reached flowering size.  I don't think I ever changed the compost (and you can see it is getting a bit low in the pot) and I'm not sure if I ever fed it (it might have had a bit of Tomorite when I treated some nearby snowdrops).  But the bulbs seem to be doing fine.  There is a lot of superstition around growing snowdrops in pots but I have always found it very easy and very successful.  Wendy's Gold is not the only snowdrop I have saved by rescuing it from the dangers of my garden into the safety of a pot. 

P.S.  If you look carefully, you can see how much I paid for the original bulb in 2003!  
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #32 on: January 22, 2008, 09:04:32 PM »
Encouraging words, Alan and good to see your rescued bulbs doing well.

What is a trough though, if not a nice big pot?  ::) 8)
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #33 on: January 22, 2008, 10:02:16 PM »
Encouraging words, Alan and good to see your rescued bulbs doing well.

What is a trough though, if not a nice big pot?  ::) 8)

Indeed: although I stuff my pots under the climbing hydrangea to see them through the summer - might be harder to do that with a trough.
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #34 on: January 22, 2008, 10:26:02 PM »
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There is a lot of superstition around growing snowdrops in pots but I have always found it very easy and very successful.
I heard this afternoon that Ron Mackenzie grows quite a few in 12" pots although he has a new bit of garden where they are lined out like vegetables! 
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« Reply #35 on: January 22, 2008, 10:32:04 PM »
My 'Wendy's Gold' is growing well in what looks like pure clay. Clumping up nicely with 8 flowering shoots this year. I have given several away and only started with a bulb from Ian Christie 6 years ago.
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« Reply #36 on: January 22, 2008, 10:41:10 PM »
Avon's special list 2008 has Wendy for £25!!!

At the Gala in Shropshire I bought 3 Wendy in a pot for £15. At the end of the day so many good bulbs are left that no-one wants. Everyone is blinkered and wants the same thing. It's almost the higher the price tag the more desireable
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« Reply #37 on: January 22, 2008, 10:48:15 PM »
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Clumping up nicely with 8 flowering shoots this year.

I was speaking to someone this afternoon Anthony who spreads her clump every couple of years and has a decent number of spares as a consequence.
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #38 on: January 23, 2008, 12:46:23 PM »
Rob can you take a close photo of your nivalis Sandersii.

If you smile nicely I might be able to let you have a bulb of 'Wendy's Gold'
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #39 on: January 23, 2008, 12:58:04 PM »
My clumps of plicatus never look congested like nivalis.
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #40 on: January 23, 2008, 04:01:09 PM »
Panic over then Rob, I reckon it's a good'un :D
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #41 on: January 23, 2008, 04:37:38 PM »
Robin Hall confines his nivalis Sandersii to a stone trough in acid conditions. This produces very yellow blooms
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« Reply #42 on: January 24, 2008, 10:51:33 PM »
Robin Hall confines his nivalis Sandersii to a stone trough in acid conditions. This produces very yellow blooms
I wondered what happened to him after Jimmy McGregor passed away? ::)
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2008, 11:07:10 PM »
Robin Hall (Scottish Folk Singer ) died in 1998, Anthony... as far as I know, Jimmy MacGregor is still very busy, sininging less but walking the hills, making programmes about that and other such stuff! :P
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Re: mostly making troughs- but some yellow sandersii comments
« Reply #44 on: January 24, 2008, 11:08:30 PM »
I'm of course refering to Primrose Hill's Robin Hall
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