Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Granite Chippings on March 05, 2008, 07:24:14 PM
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I hope you'll excuse my first posting being an offer of this nature. Last year I sold my excess snowdrops on eBay and though a profitable experience, I felt guilty at some of the ridiculous prices people were willing to pay. So in the hope of easing my conscience here goes. Hopefully I've chosen the correct forum to start my posting in.
I am splitting clumps of the following snowdrops, elwesii “Barnes”, “Atkinsii”, “Brenda Troyle”, nivalis “Lady Elphinstone”, “Maidwell L”, “Sybil Roberta”, “Nerissa”, “Merlin”, “Straffan”, “Ladt Beatrix Stanley”, nivalis “Scharlockii”, and “Ketton”.
Anybody interested in doing a swap? In addition to the ones I’m splitting I have the following :- “Augustus”, elwessi “Comet”, elwesii “David Shackleton”, elwesii “Yvonne Hay”, elwesii “Haydn”, nivalis “Sandersii Group”, nivalis “Anglesey Abbey”, nivalis “Viridapice”, nivalis “Pusey Green Tips”, nivalis “Blewberry Tart”, plicatus “Wendy’s Gold”, plicatus “ex Coton Manor”, “Sibbertoft Magnet”, “Cordelia”, “Hobson’s Choice”, “Hill Poe”, “White Dream”, “Hippolyta”, “Ophelia”, “Mighty Atom”, “S. Arnott”, “Titania”, “Benton Magnet”, woronowii, reginae olgae Sicilian form, peshmenii, byzantinus and rizehensis.
I’d be interested in swapping for any snowdrop that I don’t already own, no matter how common or otherwise.
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I know a young guy who'll be jumping for joy at this offer!
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Hello, Paul,Welcome to the Forum.
I think your offer of swaps is very reasonable, though who might have an even larger collection than your own with which to swap, I am hard pressesd to imagine :o
Your signature amuses me: Well someone has to live near Milton Keynes!
As someone once said, "I live close to Milton Keynes....... but not too close to MK because NOBODY wants to live TOO close to Milton Keynes" ;) ;D
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hi Paul!
So you say "no matter how common"! I'll dig all my nivalis for a swap!!
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Hi Maggi and Mark
I'm sure there are many people with even better collections. It was even better last year but I've had a few losses. Mark, well yes nivalis are common, perhaps I should have added ordinary nivalis and flore pleno to the ones I already own. :)
Just to make it clear, because reading my posting back it perhaps isn't, it's only the ones I'm splitting that I'm swapping this year. But perhaps a better selection next year.
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have the following available if there's anything you're interested in swapping....
plicatus Diggory (1 only)
gracilis Highdown (lots)
Mrs Backhouse No12 (2 only)
Green Necklace (1 only)
Peardrop (1 only)
would be interested in...
elwesii barnes, sybil roberta & nerissa
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Hello, Richard, welcome to the Forum and the section where White Fever reigns!
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thank you Maggi,
have been lurking & reading for some time & looking at some of the prices some drops are going for fever is the right word.
I work here...
http://www.beningtonlordship.co.uk/
not really on the Snowdrop map yet but we are working on it, our collection is growing slowly so a swapping thread was tempting ;)
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Nice place to work, Richard! A pleasant website to enjoy, too, thank you for the link. 8)
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Welcome Richard
I have heard good things about Benington Lordship from SRGC forum member David Quinton.
good luck with the swapping.
regards
John
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Your signature amuses me: Well someone has to live near Milton Keynes!
As someone once said, "I live close to Milton Keynes....... but not too close to MK because NOBODY wants to live TOO close to Milton Keynes" ;) ;D
Maggi :
Do you not understand the words :"Well someone has to live near Milton Keynes"
It is easy : this is maybe the town where John Finch Mum live .....
;D ;D ;D
He wrote : "I shall now keep quiet about where my Mum lives in case my inheritance from the house is damaged!"
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OOH! Hans!! :o :o ::) :-X :D ;) ;)
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Sorry Maggi....
I can't resist .... ::)
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Damn! The secret it out... ;)
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I just hope Mrs Finch got a really nice gift for Mothering Sunday ::)
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two hungry mouths come to visit. What more could she want? :-\
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Welcome to the forum Richard. I have enjoyed visits to BL in the past and think the double border is fantastic. Sadly have not visited in Snowdrop season - despite a bad case of the fever 8)
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And I can`t understand my fellow landsman >:( ???
Welcome Richard! Glad to see one more White-Fever-Candidate.
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:) Hagen :
Ask God ( Maggi ) :P)
Hagen, it is a long story.... bringing some jokes from another thread and this together.... please pay no attention, we are just having fun. Sorry for the confusion :-* M
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;D
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Maggi :
It seems Scotts and Bavarians have a similar sense of humour 8)
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Maggi :
It seems Scotts and Bavarians have a similar sense of humour 8)
Bavaria in the South Western part of Germany...... new to me! ??? ??? ???
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Luit :
I was born in Bavaria .....now I live since 30 years in Baden -Württemberg 8)
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I used to live near Milton Keynes (not the 'near' but not 'in' MK) ;D and it does have advantages like no traffic jams and some amazing plantings of trees and shrubs around the town - the development corporation who were responsible for building the city bought trees by the 1,000s and sometimes some rather special ones ended up in the delveries to make up the numbers. Having said that it is very flat and a long way from the sea so moving to the north east was an easy choice!
Sue
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I used to live near Milton Keynes (not the 'near' but not 'in' MK) ;D and it does have advantages like no traffic jams and some amazing plantings of trees and shrubs around the town - the development corporation who were responsible for building the city bought trees by the 1,000s and sometimes some rather special ones ended up in the delveries to make up the numbers. Having said that it is very flat and a long way from the sea so moving to the north east was an easy choice!
Sue
and of course we musn't forget the famous Milton Keynes concrete cows....
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Now I rather liked the cows, in a nice bit of park with space for kids to run around and climb all over them with out fear of damaging them.
But best of all were the redways. . .
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If there was a world championship for roundabouts Milton Keynes would win it!
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But best of all were the redways. .
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Susan
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Sorry to disillusion Sue G. but traffic jams reached Milton Keynes many years ago. Just try getting anywhere between 8am and 9am, you can't move for Chelsea tractors. They've thinned the trees quite a bit, though to be fair it was all beginning to look very Amazonian so probably needed doing. The redways are a good idea if only the bored youth didn't think it such a good idea to smash glass all over them. I suspect the red colouring could be human blood round some of the delightful estates. On travelling through some of said estates, Betjamens "Come kindly bombs etc" springs to mind.
"This has been a message on behalf of the MK Development Council" ;D
However just to prove that not everything is bleak in MK, at present there are thousand upon thousand of wild primrose blooming amongst the trees on the roadside banks.
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there are thousand upon thousand of wild primrose blooming amongst the trees on the roadside banks.
Wow! That makes up for a quite a lot, doesn't it? How lovely!
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Luit :
I was born in Bavaria .....now I live since 30 years in Baden -Württemberg 8)
Not homesick? ;)
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Luit :
I was born in Bavaria .....now I live since 30 years in Baden -Württemberg 8)
Not homesick? ;)
Shure -sometimes 8)
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What are the "redways" if they are not for smashing glass on them, and what's this got to do with swapping snowdrops anyway?
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Anyone got a pic of 'Finchal Abbey'?
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Hi Anthony
only the ones that were used when they sold on ebay for vast sums of money.
Hope I am not breaking any copyright by posting them here.
'Finchal Abbey'
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John
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Thanks John. :)
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Anthony,
Is it a poculiform? Nice long outer segments, very white overall appearance.
Paddy
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No, Paddy. It's characteristic is the shape of the petals, which curve outwards at the tips.
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But best of all were the redways. .
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Susan
Cycle tracks (that are completely separate from the roads) ?
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well, I'm not gonna get excited next year when I find mine is wrong. What I was sent is a plicatus hybrid
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Right Anthony,
I see now, looking at the flower just right of centre, that the inner segments are shorter. The outer segments do make a very good display. Nice plant.
Mark,
Sorry, don't understand what you are saying. Explain?
Paddy
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I dont think my Finchale Abbey is right
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Ah, the worries of snowdrops!
It makes a nice display in numbers, Mark, doesn't it?
Got a bit of a shock/surprise to day with G. 'Ophelia'. I felt the clump was looking a bit congested. It was last divided in March 2004. When I lifted it the bulbs filled a large trug, one of those bucket-shaped ones, and when I replanted them in clumps of three bulbs or so they covered a wedge-shaped patch of ground, 130cm long, 60cm wide at one side narrowing to about 40cm at the other. The bulbs must have been in the hundreds. It should give a good display next season. I have similar clumps of 'Magnet' and 'Warham' which were last divided also in 2004 and must tackle them tomorrow, weather permitting.
Paddy
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I felt the clump was looking a bit congested
A BIT congested ??????? I'll bet they feel a lot better for their refurbishment.
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Maggi,
This was from three bulbs purchased in 1999. Amazing increase really, isn't it!
Paddy
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Yes, Paddy, goes to show what a bulb can do when it is enjoying life. Just magic really 8)
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Did you get your 'Finchale Abbey' from the same source as the Ebay stock MarK? Mine came from the discoverer so, although I haven't seen it flower, I know it is right. On reflection, I think I will hang on to them for a few seasons because they look best as a clump.
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Mine came from the discoverer
Yes mine too, and I think, like lots of snowdrops, they show their differences better in a clump. Having been invited, I hope to go and see his garden next year.
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Will you two have a look at see what the leaves are like, please.
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Was it Barrie?
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Was it Barrie?
Yes. Leaves typical nivalis.
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:-\ mine show one plicate leaf. I'll go take a photo now
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I'm stoopid and hang my head in shame ;D Mine have two applanate leaves. The plicate leaf belonged to another recently purchased plant