Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Gerard Oud on May 10, 2008, 10:25:47 PM
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We want to wish all the snowdropenthusiasts good luck, and patience for the next 6 months that we have to do without them.
For now a photo from me and Sam digging up the most precious one's ( flore pleno and viridapice)
regards,
Gerard and Sam
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Gerard, I would have recommended that you white fever sufferers might get some relief in your long wait by enjoying some white Iris, white Rhododendron, white Paeonia... all sorts of lovely white flowers to keep you happy .... but I see that you and Sam have plenty to do to keep you busy in your field.
Good that the weather is kind to you, eh? Do you think your bulbs have done well as you lift them? Have they grown a lot?
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Or viewing the southern hemisphere postings during your summer and our winter. ;D
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Or viewing the southern hemisphere postings during your summer and our winter. ;D
well, yes, there is that, Paul, but I was trying to wean them off their addiction, not feed it ;)
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The snowdrop year never ends for me. I'm busy checking seed pods every day to see if they're starting to yellow, so I can catch them before they split, then they have to be sown, and then there's lifting the bulbs that need chipping, cleaning them up ready for chopping up, then there's the pots of chips from two years ago to be found homes in the garden, then the seedlings from the last two years and last year's chips to be repotted, then it'll be time for the autumn snowdrops... :)
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The snowdrop year never ends for me. I'm busy checking seed pods every day to see if they're starting to yellow, so I can catch them before they split, then they have to be sown, and then there's lifting the bulbs that need chipping, cleaning them up ready for chopping up, then there's the pots of chips from two years ago to be found homes in the garden, then the seedlings from the last two years and last year's chips to be repotted, then it'll be time for the autumn snowdrops... :)
Good grief... there is no hope.... I'm off for a night cap, all this snowie talk in May is wearing me down :P
Sleep well, oh white fevered ones!
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I'm looking forward to seeing Paul's pics - it may help to keep my jungle fever at bay.
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Well there are more shoots pushing through on the elwesii at the moment, so won't be too long. A bit earlier than usual this year, but given how strange everything is it isn't really that surprising. One elwesii is already in flower (I posted a pic of it the other day) and will bear watching in the future to see if it IS normally fairly early or whether this was just a complete abberation. ???
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All the snowdrops have grown rather well, because of the soft winter we had. And Maggi you forgot the various Leucojum and Ornithogalum.
Martin it's true snowdrop's take the whole year, it wonders me that you still have time to write books!
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No news? No good news. the galanthus have to go the last meters before dormant. And now here are a lot of narcissus-flies. I`m able to catch them(?) with a brailer. They like warm places on big leaves, and they start always into the high, into my web. Who has other effective know-how?
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I think they take the fresh one's only Hagen, but most of the snowdrop's are gone now. Narcisses are still fresh, you do eat only fresh vegetable's don't you? And what thing did you catch them?
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Hello Gerard,
yesterday 5 flies and today only 2. I catch them with a "Fischkescher". You can also catch Butterflies with it. :).
Here we believe, that the narcissusfly find the way to the galanthus by the fragrance of the moribund leaves.
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Hello Hagen,
I have never seen a narcissusfly here, maybe its because of the seeclimate.
But if i catch one i let you know, you know that when you kill it, about 5 will come on its funeral!
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I saw (and killed) my first 2 narcissus fly yesterday.
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Oh, Gerard, look what was done this day. This is the new kick for the galanthophile. Catch the other group of galanthus-lovers. I catched these flies, put them in a net and then in a freezer. But if I haven`t right and the insect is a bee or a wasp or a bumblebee I get swollen fingers.
Martin, how is your method of catching the flies?
Hans, here you can see, that my world isn`t ok. But when I think about it, my world is still ok because I had furtune in hunting. ;D
If someone want to listen to the sound of the flies, I can post it.
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Hagen,
Kapitale Strecke, Halali ! :D :D :D (enormous kill, Halali)
- sorry, can't translate this correctly - this is German hunter's jargon -
Gerd
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Ja Gerd, was sein muß, muß sein. What must be, must be. ;)
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Hagen, I hit the flies with a tennis racket when they sit on leaves. Why do you put your flies in the freezer? I might be sorry that I asked that question!! :)
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Martin, I thought, the living flies in the net could be hormone-traps for the other flying insects. Sadly not.
The freezer made them only sturdy for a good foto for the forum. So you can see better the differences of colour.
Today the experience is on end and the flies must die after catching.
Martin, I have seen some nice colchicum from your garden in the net. Is there a chance to swap some bulbs?
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Hagen, I think it must be Mark's garden where you have seen the colchicums. Mark grows a lot of colchicums but I have only 2 or 3 autumn colchicums.
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Like i said Hagen, if you kill one there will be at leats 5 on its funeral. I do count on your photo 23 flies x 5 is 115 flies to come. That will be a total invasion in your garden, if you need volunteers to catch them just send me a mail. Maybe its also possible to catch them with a kind of glue where you catch normal flies with, but then a glue that scents like narcissus.
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Hagen,
Kapitale Strecke, Halali ! :D :D :D (enormous kill, Halali)
- sorry, can't translate this correctly - this is German hunter's jargon -
Gerd
Hi all ,
here is a little information for our friends from England about "Halali" :
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halali_(J%C3%A4ger)
more information is here :
http://www.meutejagd.de/halali.html
Sorry Hagen -it doesn't not exist a special signal for : Narcissus fly dead .....maybe you should composed it ...
Here is Halali :
http://www.langmaack.com/jagdsignale-dateien/jagdvorbei_halali.mp3
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Hello Hagen,
impressive run down! I wish you further good luck for fly hunting, Waidmann's Heil ;) ;D
I've not seen / heard any yet in my garden but they are out there >:(
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I haven't seen any bulb flies yet. They must be late here this year?
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Hi Galanthophile,
the first run of narcissusflies is over. I believe it`s the only run, because the flies have only one generation pro/every year. We had iflies in the villages bot also in towngardens. When you plant narcissus, so you have a good magnet for narcissusflies. May be you only loose the narcissus. ;) ???
Is anyone , who remembers for the white time?
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@ Hagen
Is it a nivalis field? There is one interesting with elongated flowers. Can you remember where it was? ;D
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Is anyone , who remembers for the white time?
Hagen, and all you Snowdrop fans, snowdrop time is still here, even without going to Australia...... see the Iran page! 8)
Here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1830.new#new
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thank you Maggi,
we galanthophiles should have our eyes everywhere.
If you were still in Berlin, it would be a short trip to this galanthusparadise. We have open this weekend!
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Hagen, I wish you a sunny weekend and many happy visitors for your open days! 8)
I will spend the weekend fighting slugs and snails and caterpillars :'(
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Thank you Maggi, it was a sunny weekend. The runners were Geranium and Hosta. Nobody asked for Galanthus. Nobody missed Galanthus.