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Hans J

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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #30 on: February 02, 2008, 03:38:26 PM »
one  from Australia  : thanks  ;D
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #31 on: February 02, 2008, 03:52:07 PM »
here is one for Martin Baxendale :

I have receive this plant from a friend from USA -it is named :

MAN

this means : Migthy Atom Not

I have sown pics of these plant some big people in snowdropworld ....nobody khows the name ...
Do you have a idea ?
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #32 on: February 02, 2008, 04:11:42 PM »
Here some more from my garden :
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #33 on: February 02, 2008, 04:21:39 PM »
I like 'Beechwood' Hans.
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2008, 04:40:52 PM »
Oho Hans
some pictures can say much more then a long list. Yvonne Hay is fine (it`s a Herzchen).
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #35 on: February 02, 2008, 04:45:37 PM »
This is not VIRIDAPICE but GRÜNER PAUSBACK
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #36 on: February 02, 2008, 04:48:29 PM »
Hagen :

The earlier name of "Yvonne Hay" was "Maximus"
......a big "Herzchen"
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #37 on: February 02, 2008, 04:48:41 PM »
Can anybody tells a story about G. nivalis Lac de Balcere?
Mark, there`s a pic in your collection!
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #38 on: February 02, 2008, 04:50:40 PM »
Hagen :

I know only it is a Lake in the french part of Pyrenees.....
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #39 on: February 02, 2008, 04:50:59 PM »
Thanks Hans,  then I have it. Attention, I`ve a plant with the name MAXIMUS.
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #40 on: February 02, 2008, 04:53:09 PM »
here is one for Martin Baxendale :

I have receive this plant from a friend from USA -it is named :

MAN

this means : Migthy Atom Not

I have sown pics of these plant some big people in snowdropworld ....nobody khows the name ...
Do you have a idea ?

No, but it's a real beauty, Hans!
Martin Baxendale, Gloucestershire, UK.

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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #41 on: February 02, 2008, 04:56:47 PM »
Martin ,

-thank you !
I agree it is a beauty - I have it compered with all this old cultivars....always a bit different !

so I will save this name : MAN
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #42 on: February 02, 2008, 04:57:33 PM »
Hagan

I am not surprised that Yvonne Hay was originally called Maximus.  I was given a bulb a few years ago by a friend of Harry Hay - and it is the biggest damn bulb I have ever seen in a snowdrop!

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John

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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #43 on: February 02, 2008, 04:59:28 PM »
Thanks Hans,  then I have it. Attention, I`ve a plant with the name MAXIMUS.

Hagen : be carefull :

there exist also plants from the former DDR -they are different
my plants comes also from a friend of Harry Hay
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Re: Galanthus February 2008
« Reply #44 on: February 02, 2008, 05:02:38 PM »
Hagan

I am not surprised that Yvonne Hay was originally called Maximus.  I was given a bulb a few years ago by a friend of Harry Hay - and it is the biggest damn bulb I have ever seen in a snowdrop!

regards

John



John ,

I have seen G. elwesii populations in Turkey with bigger plants !!!
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