Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Gerard Oud on August 07, 2013, 04:19:18 PM
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While i was working in got the idea to make a video about how we grade the bulbs over here.
The machines are not state of the art but they still function well! I can do easily 100.000 bulbs per hour!
This is just extra information for those who were at the Scottish Festival ;D
Here is the link Grading snowdrops at Sneeuwklokjeshof Bucaneve (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZJOhYYQmzc#) and dont get seasick ;D
cheers,
Gerard
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Great to see what you do. Are these named or species bulbs?
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These are just the single nivalis! Not all are graded this way but only where i got i lot from, you have to clean the machine after each cultivar!
Just got the idea to make a video about snowdrophunting next spring in one of my favorite woodlands. I will try to get a good quality video with probably new discoveries! I can hardly wait till next spring ;D
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It's interesting, but I think we haven't got any fields for such great number of snowdrops in Russia. We get the snowdrops from Holland.
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Hello Mila, welcome to the forum!
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Greetings, Mila!
I am pleased to welcome you!
But over the snowdrops - you're wrong - in Russia a lot of snowdrops. :)
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But in Russia are most of the snowdrops growing "wild" and not in fields to be lifted for sale?
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Thank you Gerard, for showing us how the grading is done.
Snowdrops are just about all out here and we have a brief period of time to identify them!
Susan
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natalie maybe you are right, but where have you seen them, not natural?
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natalie maybe you are right, but where have you seen them, not natural?
Welcome Mila! :)
What region are you from?
Yes this machine is not useful in Russia but we have some snowdrop lovers.
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Yes this machine is not useful in Russia but we have some snowdrop lovers.
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Maybe in a few years when they can start export from the Ucraine to the Netherlands Olga!
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Olga, I am from Arkhangelsk. There are not any snowdrops even in our forests. And I think nobody grows thousands of them for sale. One day I tried to grow some snowdrops, but unsuccessfully.
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I found your video very interesting Gerard & look forward to seeing your snowdrop hunting videos next spring.
Mike
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Yes, we still such a machine is not useful :D But it is very interesting to see such a machine, thank you, Gerard!
Mila, look in any book on the flora of Russia - or at least in popular online resources.
In Russia there are few varieties of snowdrops - but it does not matter.
But in reality, I've seen in many places snowdrops - and in the Carpathians and the Crimea, and the Caucasus :))) A North Caucasus - the territory of Russia.
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NATALIE, I live near the Polar circle and we have no snowdrops in the woods.
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I live near the Polar circle and we have no snowdrops in the woods.
Of course! Snowdrops are not native to your region.
But I am sure you can try them in the garden. Galanthus nivalis and G. plicathus should be hardy enough.
Maybe in a few years when they can start export from the Ucraine to the Netherlands Olga!
Are they going to raze Crimea? ;D Probably you are right. ;)
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Mila, as far as I know, snowdrops are in the collection of Polar-Alpine Garden-Institute in Kirovsk- and this is north of the Polar Circle :)) So the most winter-hardy species should normally grow and bloom in your region.
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Are they going to raze Crimea? ;D
I do hope not, but i can use some special ones ;D