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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: annew on January 28, 2014, 09:29:58 AM
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I just got 2 new snowdrop books for my birthday, and have had a quick look through so far. I'm looking forward to reading them properly later, but the initial response from both me and my husband to many of the photos was - "Why on earth have they named that?" So many look completely unremarkable, even given that their habit may be exceptional. In any group of seedlings there are ones similar to these, and I wouldn't dream of naming every tiny variation.
Conversation then turned to what we would call any seedlings, should we decide to. Husband suggested 'T'white'un'. This quickly degenerated into 'T'yeller'un', T'early'un, T'late'un', T'green'un' etc etc and a giggling fit.
I know this isn't going to mean much to anyone outside Yorkshire, but there are some Tykes out there who might appreciate it. Watch this space!
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This one did ;D Anne will you reserve 't'odd 'un' in the unlikely event that there is something different out there? :P
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;D ;D I've already seen a few 'T'ugly'un's. Flippin' eck - too many apostrophes!
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Should be a few on eBay labelled T'expensive un, or T'rake in the cash ::)
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T'bandwagon...
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Should be a few on eBay labelled T'expensive un, or T'rake in the cash ::)
'Appen tha's reight, Brian. But tha' wunt gerra Tyke buying owt expensive off Ebay (the Yorkshire version is presumably Eeebygumbay)!
There's a poem called 'Snowdrop' by Ted Hughes who was born in West Yorkshire. Not the cheeriest verse...
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
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Well, I feel better for that....
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T'con
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'Appen tha's reight, Brian. But tha' wunt gerra Tyke buying owt expensive off Ebay (the Yorkshire version is presumably Eeebygumbay)!
There's a poem called 'Snowdrop' by Ted Hughes who was born in West Yorkshire. Not the cheeriest verse...
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends,
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
His first missus Sylvia Plath wrote a similarly cheerful one called 'Tulips' (Which is one of my favourite poems actually). Makes you wonder what their garden was like.....
I can't get over this Yorkshire humour. As a Lancastrian I was always brought up to believe it equated to the Lady Slipper in rarity.... ;) ;D
Never believed a word of it of course. Southern humour however......
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As they say, you can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can`t tell him much!
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True Ralph, very true!
Cheerful soul old Ted was. Of course the major problem in his life was being born so close to the Lancashire border.
Now Darren, you have to take into account that we Yorkies and Lancies are really still fighting the Wars of the Roses so we haven't a lot of time for humour (and what there is is on the right-hand side of the Pennines looking up. Not one of the battles in the Wars of the Roses was actually fought in either Yorkshire or Lancashire (as far as I remember) as both parties strongly subscribe to the view that why mucky your own back-yard when you can mucky someone else's.
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;D ;D
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As they say, you can always tell a Yorkshireman, but you can`t tell him much!
Ralph -the other one is that it's easy to spot someone from Yorkshire because they'll tell you in the first two minutes. :)
Darren - I think we have to grudgingly admit that Lancashire has produced some fine comics. ;D
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Wars of the Roses always amused me. The majority of Lancashire fought for the Yorkist side and the majority of Yorkshire was Lancastrian.
Lets face it Galanthus are just white blobs to the vast majority of folks. and who wants to crawl on hands and knees in early winter trying to see minute differences betwixt these blobs?
And how about T'stolenone?
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I absolutely don't have ANY of those!!
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Darren - I think we have to grudgingly admit that Lancashire has produced some fine comics. ;D
Stan Laurel and Eric Morecambe both being unsurpassed examples. Susan worked for 20 plus years in Ulverston where Stan was born, and now we live only 4 miles from Eric's home town. Weird coincidence as I'd have liked them both wherever we lived!
I'm told even the term 'War of the Roses' was only coined a couple of centuries after the event. Yorkies and Lankies are like a family really - we might bicker but we soon stand together against outsiders!
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I meant stolen from you, not anything else.
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I know.. :-*
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It's refreshing to see our fellow forumist Matt favouring the 'Buy It Now' style of selling his snowdrops rather than the ebay auction where prices shoot heavenward.
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Ave nowt te say on this thread as can acshally be said wiart some xxx tekkin affence. Onyroad, up ere 'only white roses a fe 'jacobites. Appen al keep mi gob shut.
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Aye aye, Harry, I was wondering if this thread would make you "out" yourself! ;D
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We could do translations ...
Nowt much.
G. elwesii Think On
Sir Erbert Maxwell
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Aye aye, Harry, I was wondering if this thread would make you "out" yourself! ;D
Nay, lass, a think back wi orrer on 'fust tahm a trahd to mek missen compre'ended in Aberdeen .. not one on em talked reight
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T'bad ai hav to reed it 2 or 3 times to fully understand it and i am Dutch ;D
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It has cheered me up reading all this on a grey wet morning.
It brought back memories of when we first moved to Yorkshire about 17 years ago and my youngest son was at primary school. Walking home with him one afternoon he piped up "What's that in t'road?". I nearly fell over!
My favorite expression is 't'internet' used by locals and non-locals alike!
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One o' T'yelleruns..
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Galanthus 'Dryad Gold 5 ' is lovely, Anne. By the name it is "one you made earlier" - have I missed this being shown previously?
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It's one of the group of seedlings from Wendy's Gold x lutescens that I showed last year. As a working name, I'm using 'Dryad Gold series' with a clone number so I can put DG1, DG5 etc on the labels. Saves graphite. ;)
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Super plant Anne, and beautifully photographed.
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What a lovely pot of snowdrops Anne ;)
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It's one of the group of seedlings from Wendy's Gold x lutescens that I showed last year. As a working name, I'm using 'Dryad Gold series' with a clone number so I can put DG1, DG5 etc on the labels. Saves graphite. ;)
Aha, I remember now - and here's a link to Anne's great post with a compilation of an array of the seedlings -
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10048.msg266373#msg266373 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10048.msg266373#msg266373) - this post bears further study!!
and also these relevant posts :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6443.msg181653#msg181653 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6443.msg181653#msg181653)
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.msg264358#msg264358 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9912.msg264358#msg264358)
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That's a lovely pot of snowdrops, Anne. But judging by the number you have, it must be a minimum of 8 years since you actually made the crosses. I wish I had your foresight.
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The seeds were sown in 2006 - the ones in the pot have been chipped
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Very nice yellow Anne
Is it number 5 in the in the photo's of last year?
The others doing as good as this one?
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Very nice Anne ;)
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The seeds were sown in 2006 - the ones in the pot have been chipped
That's excellent progress, Anne. Have you thought about cross breeding some of the virescent snowdrops? A Lutescent (?) snowdrop (i.e. yellow rather than green) would be something to behold.
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Working on it... Yes, that's number 5 from last year. It just happens to be the one in a pot on its own, most of the others are keeping each other company in baskets. It's not as easy to assess them like that, though.
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T'bad ai hav to reed it 2 or 3 times to fully understand it and i am Dutch ;D
Fair point well made, Gerard, but you ARE exceptionally polyglot and Yorkshire is far and away the most important of the English dialects. I would be happy to give some private tuitiion in return for a few of your poa galanthus ;)
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One o' T'yelleruns..
It's a belter, Anne, but I thought the whole group you posted photos of last year looked good.
Does anyone still say 'Bobby Dazzler'?