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mark smyth

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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2009, 10:34:21 PM »
Do we really need another Brenda Troyle, S Arnott, ........ lookalike - Mrs EM George?
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2009, 10:37:18 PM »
John, after all this moving of posts etc, I should pause to say... welcome!!
 The Reverend Hailstone ( wonderful name!!) is afine upstanding chap....you were not kidding when you said he was tall!
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2009, 10:45:03 PM »
I said I was finished by Galanthus for the season. God help me if I see 'Ailwyn' in the UK. What a beauty!

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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2009, 10:53:56 PM »
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I said I was finished by Galanthus for the season. God help me if I see 'Ailwyn' in the UK.

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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2009, 12:17:00 AM »
Isn't that a pot of 'Magnet' in pic no. 3, labelled 'Ginn's Imerati ?'
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2009, 09:15:07 AM »
John it will be at the Galanthus Gala for £25. I can email a seller and reserve you a bulb. It is, to my eyes, the best snowdrop since sliced bread! With age it gets taller and the green marks on the inside of the inners line up perfectly towards the centre.
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2009, 10:11:37 AM »
Terrific pictures Brian, thanks for brightening up a dull day.
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2009, 10:42:47 AM »


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...and this underplanting of Ypsilandra thibetica?

The thing in flower, so the underplanting should look quite nice :), and smell good too cos it has a lovely scent . It gets caught by late frost in my garden  :(

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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2009, 01:10:05 PM »
John it will be at the Galanthus Gala for £25. I can email a seller and reserve you a bulb. It is, to my eyes, the best snowdrop since sliced bread! With age it gets taller and the green marks on the inside of the inners line up perfectly towards the centre.

Thanks for the offer Mark but I think I may have one lined up for the future.



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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2009, 01:12:03 PM »
I do not want an Ailwyn I do not want an AilwynI do not want an AilwynI do not want an AilwynI do not want an Ailwyn......... oh crikey, it must be all this snow, I'm feeling weak!  :o
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« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2009, 01:18:27 PM »
Interesting that the Cambridge Iris bakeriana differs markedly from others shown here on the Forum - rather like 'Cantab' in fact :-\
Ashley I was most careful to take pictures of the labels as well as the Iris because of that, unfortunately it does not say anything about the acquisition on the label.
Hmmm - does anyone have a digipic of Cantab?  This one does not look like my slide from 15 years ago.  The two shown look very similar (look at the falls) and it may be that neither is correctly labelled :-\

edit by M: some related posts have been moved to the Iris Reticulata pages : http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2862.165
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2009, 01:21:00 PM »
I do not want an Ailwyn I do not want an AilwynI do not want an AilwynI do not want an AilwynI do not want an Ailwyn......... oh crikey, it must be all this snow, I'm feeling weak!  :o

Look at the 'Ailwyn', Maggi...Looooook at the 'Ailwyn'...you know you want it. When I snap my fingers you will awake and there will be a credit card in your hand.   
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2009, 05:39:06 PM »
I noticed it also, Martin, when I was editing the images. Could a customer have swapped labels?
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2009, 05:49:37 PM »
I do not want an Ailwyn I do not want an AilwynI do not want an AilwynI do not want an AilwynI do not want an Ailwyn......... oh crikey, it must be all this snow, I'm feeling weak!  :o

Look at the 'Ailwyn', Maggi...Looooook at the 'Ailwyn'...you know you want it. When I snap my fingers you will awake and there will be a credit card in your hand.   
flippin' 'eck! The end must be nigh.... I Do want an Ailwyn! For goodness sake, NOBODY telll the BD! This is no weather for a middle-aged woman to find herself homeless :o ::)
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Re: Winter Trip- Anglesey Abbey /Cambridge Botanics
« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2009, 07:00:46 PM »
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Maggi, before you are swept into that white-and-green vortex   kindly tell me whether it’s possible to hyperlink words rather than use messy URLs?

Dunno, Ashley, that's a bit too high-tech for me! Sorry! :-[
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