Snowdrop Events, 2019

[Blonde Ingrid]

Dates for the diary:

‘CELEBRATION OF SNOWDROPS’ SATURDAY 19TH JANUARY 2019 10AM-2.00PM

Roger Harvey's snowdrop day next ear will be one week ahead of Myddelton House, in common with the last few years.

Myddelton will therefore be on 26th January 209.

[Alan_b]

I had already started a topic with the same name, minus the comma.  But I might as well repeat my earlier post:

I'm told that the HPS Snowdrop Study Day and AGM will be on Sunday 10th February 2019 and the venue will be in Somerset.  That will presumably place it on the day after the Shaftesbury Snowdrop Study Day, although I don't think that event date has been formally announced yet.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Alan and Ingrid - I know you  folks like to make early plans!!

[Alan_b]

The AGS Snowdrop Day will be held on Saturday 2nd February, 2019.  The venue is the same as for the last few years, Lilleshall National Conferencing Centre near Newport in Shropshire.  Speakers will be Richard Hobbs, Jim Almond and our own regular contributor, Anne Wright.  AGS members can book now but non-members have to wait until 31st October.  I have attached a copy of the flyer, sorry about the poor scan quality.   

[Harald-Alex.]

The first Snowdrop- and springflower- Exposition in East Germany starts in the Weekend  9. and 10. march 2019 in Torgau/Elbe.
The socciety for supporting the 9. Saxonia Garden-Show LAGA 2022 in Torgau/Elbe (April till october 2022) starts with his work and one of the Projects is the Organisation of a pre-opening Weekend in march 2022 only for springflowers - SNOWDROPS, crocus, leucojum, winteraconites, chionodoxa and others! This will be first time for German Garden Shows!
In this weekend we invite to visit the natural flowering places of springflowers in and around Torgau and we organisate in saturday and sunday a "Springflower-Exposition" with flowering exemplars of professionell nurseries and hobby-gardeners! With the Exposition we start already in 9. and 10. march 2019 and plan, to organize this Exposition yearly again!
We have a fine location for this yearly exposition: the historic "Proviant Magazin" of Torgau, where we have enough place for the exposition, places for flowerplant-sellers, for cars, pubs for eating and drinking and all in the city of the wonderful renaissance-town Torgau
We invite nurseries and hobby-gardeners to take part in this Exposition with flowering Exemplars and also sellers of springflower-plants!
Please contact our Organisation Group under the email-adress: harald.alex@gmail.com.
In the attached foto You can read the Invitation in german language.

[Maggi Young]

This  is a very exciting new event in Torgau that Harald  is working hard to promote.  I'm sure it will be a great success  and popular beyond just German  galanthophiles 

[Harald-Alex.]

This  is a very exciting new event in Torgau that Harald  is working hard to promote.  I'm sure it will be a great success  and popular beyond just German  galanthophiles 

thank You, Maggi, more fotos of the existing springflower-places of our region around Torgau I have posted in the SRGC forum: travel and places to visit under: Schneeglöckchenregion Elbe-Elster.
Greetings from here (since april no rain and temperatures till 39 °C, actually 34°C)
Harald Alex

[JanB]

Dates I’ve been given so far:
Earsham: Sat 19th January
Myddleton: Saturday 26th January
AGS: Saturday 2nd February
East Rushton: Sunday 3rd February
Shaftesbury: Saturday 9th February
Knechtstrede (new venue for the Nettetal/Oirlicher event, near Düsseldorf): Saturday-Sunday 16th/17th February
Cottage Garden: Saturday 16th February
Great Comp: Sunday 17th February
Mannheim: Saturday-Sunday 23rd/24th February
Spring Thing, Monksilver: Saturday 9th March

[Harald-Alex.]

Hallo JanB, here is the link to our new internet page with the invitation to our first springflower-exposition in 9. and 10.3. 2019
https://fv-laga-torgau.de/

[Harald-Alex.]

This  is a very exciting new event in Torgau that Harald  is working hard to promote.  I'm sure it will be a great success  and popular beyond just German  galanthophiles 

Hallo Maggi, thank You for building the contact to Anna Repnow Darmstadt, yesterday we had telefoncontact and I think, this develops well! Also I have seen our invitation in the facebook - group "snowdrops and galanthophile", plomotioned by You, thank You very much!
With Cyril Lafong and Ian Christie to connection is fine, in our cruise to Iceland we have seen in the Botanical Garden of Akureyri wonderful blue Meconopsis (see Foto), there I thought in our visit to Ian Christie 2017! Greetings Harald.

[Maggi Young]

Great to hear you are making progress with this exciting project, Harald. I am sure it will be a success and add a lot to the German bulb scene. 

[Maggi Young]

 Snowdrop Gala -and other Spring Treasures

A pair of Scotsmen, both  former presidents of  SRGC  will be heading to speak at this event - Ian the Christie kind and Ian "Bulb Despot" Young!

Ballykealey Manor  Hotel, near Altamont - 2nd February 2019

[Blonde Ingrid]

Irish Snowdrop Gala -and other Spring Treasures

A pair of Scotsmen, both  former presidents of  SRGC  will be heading  to speak at this event - Ian the Christie kind and Ian "Bulb Despot" Young!

Ballykealey Manor  Hotel, near Altamont - 2nd February 2019

Good grief, after, the North Isles the Pirates are now invading Ireland!!!!

[Maggi Young]

Good grief, after, the North Isles the Pirates are now invading Ireland!!!!

  ......and I'll bet you thought it was the  Vikings who got everywhere?!!

[Maggi Young]

The Luisenpark Snowdrop Days at Mannheim are  becoming a fixture in the diary of Galanthophiles. 

Anne Repnow announces that the next snowdrops days in the Luisenpark will take place on 23rd  and 24th February 2019!

On Saturday, Joe Sharman will talk about " Galanthus reginae-olgae Autumn blooming snowdrops."

On Sunday, Jürgen Peters will talk about " the world of hepatica" -  He will also bring a small "Hepatica Landscape" that will show the magic of these little jewels.

Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Ruby's Green Dream' in Anne Repnow's garden




More info will be available here in due course : https://www.luisenpark.de/