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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Brian Ellis on January 10, 2017, 06:55:06 PM
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Visiting friends this afternoon to look round the garden when the delivery man arrived with some boxes!
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They will be sent out tomorrow afternoon so hopefully will be with you by the weekend.
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Look forward to it
;D ;D
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very exciting
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very exciting
I thought so!!
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I'm not going to England next month so mail order will be my way of ordering this year. The National Trust asked me to give a talk on snowdrops each Sunday in Feb. That'll pay for my snowdrops!
I am thinking about going to Joe's Spring Thing in March
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Shame we won't see you again this year Mark, but well understand the reason! Here's what got me excited in the catalogue - in no particular order:
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I want egg and star!
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I want egg and star!
Me too!
Stupid I didnt ask for the catalogue
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i had no idea such a catalogue existed. I've found the last one on their website and it's gorgeous. Will the new version be online soon ? I'd be pleased to order then... But i' pretty sure the eggs will be too expensive for my budget right now... I'll have to wait and dream
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i had no idea such a catalogue existed. I've found the last one on their website and it's gorgeous. Will the new version be online soon ? I'd be pleased to order then... But i' pretty sure the eggs will be too expensive for my budget right now... I'll have to wait and dream
I am sure it will be on the website before too long but will check for you when. Yes the eggs are not cheap but there are many more in the catalogue well worth having for less money to build a collection.
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Hopefully it will be on the website by the end of this weekend....fingers crossed ;)
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The postman has been. No post today :'(
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My catalogue did arrive today. I enjoyed the bit at the back listing all the snowdrops named by North Green Snowdrops. Of themselves these would make a good snowdrop collection.
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No catalogue here as yet but it is now on online at :
http://www.northgreensnowdrops.co.uk/Catalogue/NorthGreen2015.pdf (http://www.northgreensnowdrops.co.uk/Catalogue/NorthGreen2015.pdf)
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It is online now but at
http://www.northgreensnowdrops.co.uk/ (http://www.northgreensnowdrops.co.uk/)
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Anna's link works too, Brian - it simply has an old date attached - though it may not work in all browsers.
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Thank you for your answers.
The Catalogue is indeed online and the plants are indeed very exciting.
To tell you the truth Brian, I already have a nice collection, but I think I'll try to add to lovely woronowii 'Cider with Rosie' as the other woronowii grows well here.
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My catalogue did arrive today. I enjoyed the bit at the back listing all the snowdrops named by North Green Snowdrops. Of themselves these would make a good snowdrop collection.
If they were all available. I have never seen some of these listed for sale - perhaps they have passed through the Where Are They Now? category straight into Land of Beyond varieties!
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Good point, Steve. But since John Morley has gone to the trouble of listing them all at the back of his catalogue, surely it would be almost rude of you not to follow this up with an enquiry as to the availability of some of those ones you want?
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If they have never been listed (by anyone, not just North Green) and never been described, one can't form a view as to whether one wants them or not. My comment was prompted by an interest in the recorded history of the genus (one of my responsibilities as a National Collection-Holder). Perhaps some have been superseded by newer and better varieties. Without information it is impossible to tell.
By contrast, the varieties that are available in the current catalogue are fully and eloquently described and many are very nicely illustrated (as is always the case with NGS catalogues - indeed the catalogues are as collectable as the plants described).
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Steve, sorry to be so long in replying we have been Hardy Planters today! I am sure if you were to email John at North Green he would tell you what you wish to know about them. He is extraordinarily busy at the moment so he may not give you a quick answer and I don't think we shall see him now until mid February. I think you will find that most, if not all of those listed have been sold in the past although I am not absolutely sure.
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Thank you for posting the link to the catalogue, the descriptions and pictures are very informative. It is like reading a little book. :)
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I agree that both the photographs and the descriptions are of superb quality. Who, for example, could not want to grow Hagen Engelmann's 'Das Gelbe vom Ei' after seeing that stunning photograph?
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Well the credit for that must go to Hagen, what better photographer for that 'drop :)
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It is online now but at
http://www.northgreensnowdrops.co.uk/ (http://www.northgreensnowdrops.co.uk/)
That link takes me to last year's catalogue.
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John!
You need to be a bit more persistent!! Press on 'See More'.
Tim DH
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Depending on what browser one is using the link does go straight to the 2017 catalogue. Two different links have been given anyhow!
Hagen's 'Das Gelbe vom Ei' is a real beauty - I'm not easily convinced about a yellow other than 'Elizabeth Harrison'!
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Out of sheer curiosity does anyone else grow Margaret's Star? If it's been around since the late 90s there must be some more out there. It looks very interesting and was just wondering how different it is to Godfrey Owen. Mind you that's a fairly hefty price tag.
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Thank you for posting the link to the catalogue, the descriptions and pictures are very informative. It is like reading a little book. :)
You are very welcome Leena. At one time we also had Ron Mackenzie's catalogue to look forward too but now it is a case of events and online sales which is not quite so exciting as the printed catalogues dropping through the door and being able to ruminate on which one bulb(s) to try for. Then it was a case of waiting to see whether you were lucky enough to get what you had hoped. It many not have been quite so predictable but engendered great satisfaction when you were successful :D
Out of sheer curiosity does anyone else grow Margaret's Star? If it's been around since the late 90s there must be some more out there. It looks very interesting and was just wondering how different it is to Godfrey Owen. Mind you that's a fairly hefty price tag.
Yes Richard, it is much taller and altogether distinct from Godfrey Owen, I think we might have consider a supplement entries in the Galanthus that are truly easy to recognise! thread as there have been many new introductions which people are now growing.