Galanthus Events in 2020

[Gail]

The Great Comp Snowdrop Sensation plant fair on Sunday 16th February 2020 is also cancelled sadly. I was looking forward to the lecture by Andy Byfield but they have just refunded my money for the ticket price.

[Maggi Young]

And  another ...
Logan Botanic Garden   
www.rbge.org.uk/logan

"Due to the severe weather forecast for Sunday a decision has been taken to close the garden all day for this coming Snowdrop Sunday (16/2/20).
We plan to open the garden again once normal conditions return.
Hopefully 'Dennis the menace' will not leave a trail of destruction!"

[Maggi Young]

The Thenford Arboretum has  cancelled their  event  for 15th February ....
 This  notice  give  alternatives  for those  with tickets ...

[Maggi Young]

David and Gail of  Summerdale House Garden in Cumbria  have   announced this .....

"With regret we have taken the decision to cancel our @CumbriaNGS
 garden opening this weekend due to adverse weather.
Hoping our openings are back to normal after that."

summerdalegardenplants.co.uk

[Maggi Young]

This one  in Leicestershire  ....  Leicestershire NGS has  a  new  date for  this  one  ...

*** Please note, new date for postponed opening at Oak Cottage, Sunday 23rd February ***

[annew]

I do feel for everyone who has had to cancel - all the preparatory work has already been done by this late stage. Hunkering down in North Yorkshire. 

[WSGR]

A shame! We could have gone to the one near Kent!

Anybody can tell me the difference between Melanie Broughton and Merlin please? Thank you in advance.

[Maggi Young]

Anybody can tell me the difference between Melanie Broughton and Merlin please? Thank you in advance.

'Melanie  Broughton' is  said to be  a  nivalis  hybrid while  'Merlin' is  an elwesii x plicatus - so you should  see  some  differences  in the  leaves.   Merlin's inner green mark is  sort  of  shield bug shaped and covers  the  whole  inner  while  Melanie's  mark stops  short of the  top of the  segment.

[Maggi Young]

Saw  some  photos  from Helen Brown of  Littleash Garden on Twitter  of the  HPS  snowdrop event - and  saw  some  forumists  in the  pix!  Speakers there  were  Mark Brown and  Anne  Repnow - who will now  be  looking forward to her  Luisenpark, Mannheim event  this  coming  weekend  - 22nd  and  23rd February 2020
https://www.luisenpark.de/schneegloeckchen-tage-25-02-2017-10-00-26-02-2017-17-00

Luisenpark talks ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020, 1 p.m .:
"Our native snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis, at the natural site", speaker: Horst Bäuerlein

Sunday, February 23rd, 2020:
11.30 a.m .: Snowdrops for everyone! Ellen Oswald interviews Anne Repnow

"Living gardens in winter", speaker: Iris Ney
13 o'clock


Admission: € 3 (plus park admission)
Opening times: Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

There's  a  long  list  of  sellers  attending :
- Alpine Staudengärtnerei Peters - Avon Bulbs - Barnhaven Primroses - Bäuerleins Grüne Stube - Claudia Rippl - Ernst Gruber - Frühlingsblüher - Floralpin - Frank Schmidt - Freilandfarne Wouter van Driel - Gärtnerei am Nassachtal - Gärtnerei Bergalp - Gärtnerei Blütenreich - GdS - Gesellschaft der Staudenfreunde - Hertha Werner (Patchwork & Mehr) - Uwe Stiebritz Gärtnerei - In vitro Orchids Raschun - Ortenauer Staudencenter - Manuela May - Maria Mail-Brandt (Antiquarische Gartenbücher) - Gartenbau Martina Härtl - Michael Camphausen - Thymian- und Staudengärtnerei - Monksilver Nursery - Müller Lebensraum Garten - Blickfang: Alte Zeiten - Peter Menzel - Petra Wagner - Galanthus nivalis Besonderheiten - Pfingstrosen-Paradies - Stephan Tetzlaff - Pflanze und Co. - Renate Brinkers (Cyclamen) - Plantworld Holland - Koos en Marja van Dijk - Wilhelm Niewöhner - Stauden Eidmann - Stauden Stolz

A couple  of those  pix from Helen from the  Hardy  Plant  Society  event .......

[Maggi Young]

2nd Torgau Frühblüher Exhibition  on 7. and 8. March 2020

"At the same time, Harald Alex is creating a snowdrop garden in Döbrichau with now about 200 different varieties, including the TOP 25 of the most popular snowdrops in the UK. New addition to this is a garden part for the collection of the approx. 24 snowdrops of wild species, which can grow separately according to their locations."   www.fv-laga-torgau.de

[Maggi Young]

The Alpine Garden Society's Mid-Anglia Bulb Sale  is  one  where  galanthophiles  tend  to gather  each year- sadly the  decision was  taken to abandon the  event  this  year   - " because of the repercussions of the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions for outdoor events. "



Hardly surprising- most  wanting  to attend would be  unable  so to do even if the  venue  could  be  open.