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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: mark smyth on December 09, 2008, 07:55:06 PM
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What two snowdrops, within reason, would you be very happy to find under your Christmas tree
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Mark,
an autumn flowering yellow one and an hole white g plicatus.
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platyphyllus
'Cowhouse Green'
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COWHOUSE GREEN will come from Snowdrop Company but the other???
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under my christmas tree I would like to find galanthus krasnovii and galanthus koenenianus.
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I would be ecstaticly happy if I found Galanthus koenenianus and Flocon de niege anywhere near my tree.
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A very difficult quetion Mark - I have had to think long and hard about this as there are at least a dozen that I covet.
Ok - so after a 15 minutes of scribbling the two I would like to find under my Schlumbergia (I am not bothering with a tree this year):
1) 'EA Bowles'
2) Rosemary Burnham (or Hugh Mackenzie)
I guess that is three ::)
I told you it was a hard question. :D
John
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Rob g krasnovii is OK
John would you like a cissy or a vigorous plant?
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John would you like a cissy or a vigorous plant?
Now it is your turn, Hagen: Please help a Dumb Scotswoman.... what is a cissy or a vigorous plant? ???
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Maybe next Christmas Loes!
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Perhaps Rosie is the cissy and Shug is the vigorous plant?
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I answered to his mail.
But what I would say, ROSEMARY BURNHAM is a sensitive plant. All time you must have a look to her. Hugh Mackenzie will be a charismatic plant with good blood from nivalis. I have equal plants. They do their best in the garden.
Please not the problem between feminine and masculine.
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My problem, I searched in a translate machine.
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Okay, now I understand..... so it was the choice between G. 'Rosemary Burnham'.... being of sensitive disposition and G. Hugh Mackenzie'..... being a tougher character altogether.....yes, yes, all clear now ::)
For the benefit of the non-scots speakers --- Shug or Shuggie is a Scots form of the name Hugh........I'm beginning to feel like Stanley Baxter..... a Scots comedian of impeccable timing and famous for his "Parliamo Glessca" sketches.... where he introduced the world to the esoteric world of Glasgow patois....... anyone who can't cope with parliamo and patois....... work it out!! :P ;)
Hagen, not a problem with the translation, more that I was confused with what snowdrops you meant.... if I had realised It was those two, I would have solved the mystery sooner.....
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Maggi now Stanley Baxter a maestro. I remember something about a marra and a barra
try this link for the Full Monty
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnKPnPhhYw (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnKPnPhhYw)
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I had the pleasure of seeing SB in his last panto in Glasgow. Now that was real panto! None of these 'I'm a celebrity, get me a job in panto' types that stumble and mumble thinking they are funny. Gerard Kelly, especially when he is with Elaine C. Smith, is very good too.
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Ah Mary hen
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Mary doll! ::)
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Hi ,
I have now found the secret why Mark makes so nice presents for christmas -he has now a own wineyard and make a lot of money .
Please look :
http://cave-st-marc.com/en/index.html
Sorry but I could no resist :'(
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Maggi now Stanley Baxter a maestro. I remember something about a marra and a barra
try this link for the Full Monty
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnKPnPhhYw (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnKPnPhhYw)
Or these links for the full original sketches without the later commentry:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=a0rgETg2Hoo
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JpVD5-IKAIo
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koenenianus
It doesn't need to be a bulb - a seed would do.
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That one must be as scarce as hens' teeth Diane?
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What about a chip next year Diane?
Can't promise anything jet but i am working on it!
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What about a chip next year Diane?
Can't promise anything jet but i am working on it!
Sorry Gerard ,
G. koenenianus is not a good project for twin scaling -I know it from some people which have try it -without succsess .
You can be shure if it possibly it was easier to get this plants .....
I know also thats this plants make more or less no seeds in culture ....
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Hans, only bad news ???
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Hagen ,
thats not bad news - that is the reality !
Why all people like to grow things like koenenianus,platyphyllus and other ?
they are rare and they will always be rare !
This plants are really special - and they need a spcial treatment , because they are specialist from a small areal ....if they are more common ( like elwesii )so the areals are more bigger .
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It's always the way with the ones you really would like ???
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I`m on your site Hans. And there is another information. Some German galanthophile mean, and I too, G. koenenianus is a ssp of G. alpinus.
Brian, these natural drops like nature more then gardens. For me SOUTH HAYES is a very fine drop and it likes gardens. Common is not equal to bad!
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Hagen ,
I know this theory - but I'm not shure.
Why the humas all want make in files ?
Maybe we have to accept that this is a own species ...long times separate from other species .
Why alpinus ? only because they ar grey and volute ....thats is ( for me ) to simply .
If you look on the nuclear contents of DNA so are difference between alpinus and koeneninaus :
alpinus has a value between 62,1 - 64,4
alpinus ssp. bortkewitschianus 91,6 -93,6
koenenianus 56,9 - 57,8
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Brian, these natural drops like nature more then gardens. For me SOUTH HAYES is a very fine drop and it likes gardens. Common is not equal to bad!
Hagen
I wish South Hayes was 'common'. I have not managed to find one yet. ::)
Kind regards
John
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John, SOUTHHAYES was on the Snowdrop Company list
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Thank you Hagen.
Last year, when I had spare money to spend on snowdrops, I tried and everywhere was sold out. >:(
This year I cannot buy any snowdrops as all my money is required for living. :(
Maybe next year will be different. :-\
Cheers
John
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John, the adjustment wasn`t correct. Better to say Narcissus TETE a TETE or Iris GEORGE are very fine plants but common. I hope, SOUTH HAYES will be so common too, because it increases well.
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I do see it as a challenge Hans, and i do think how i can twinscale Koenenianus. To be continued!
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'Trym' and a good green variety would be my two I think, although 'Three Ships' would spring to mind immediately as well. Those are off the top of my head. 'Trym' has been of interest to me for years. It'd be a good time to be under the Christmas Tree too, because they're all dormant here now. ;D Unlike my Crocus wishes, this one is definitely NOT going to happen. ;)
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'Trym' bulks up well and I'm hoping mine will double in number again this year?
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'Trym' bulks up well
If only Anthony, I think we are too dry for Trym :-\
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:)...and now tomorrow is the great day for St. Claus ( St. Marc ) -in Germany is "Heilig Abend" -thats the day where comes the "Chistkind" and bring the presents for the children ....
I suppose Arne ,Hagen,Thomas ,Gerd and some more will waiting .... :-[
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Hans,
You have a head start on us. St. Claus doesn't come here until the 25th.
However, as a school teacher the best part of Christmas arrived today for me - Christmas holidays, two weeks at home, yippee! The Christmas school performance was last night. Santa visited the school today with gifts for the children and we closed at lunchtime and I dashed home to a nice lunch with my family, a stroll around the garden to see how the snowdrops were doing, a few hours work outdoors, a walk with the dog, dinner and the first of several bottles of wine. Now I am sitting comfortably and dropping in on the forum.
It is Christmas. Happy Christmas to our forum friends in Germany and right round the world.
Paddy
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We finished Friday lunchtime Paddy. Vivienne and the kids go back on the 5th (Philistines) but I go back on the 6th. Changed days from being at school on Christmas Eve. I remember our first Christmas in our brand new house in Stirling back in 1963. The was a knock at the door at 10 a.m. on Christmas Day. Two workmen all tooled up were standing there. "We've come to replace your front door Mrs Darby" "On Christmas Day!?" The response was blank faces as if this was news to them. My mother's reply is not repeatable, but I think the phrase of two words she used started with a 'b' and ended with an 'f'? Needless to say the door was not replaced that day.
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Anthony ,
is your G.platyphyllus from St. Claus in last year ?
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What two snowdrops, within reason, would you be very happy to find under your Christmas tree
I know it's been a long time and this is an old thread (and no one wants to think that Christmas is only 6 weeks away ;D ::))! But!.... I have just returned from my very last 'Jungle Garden' meeting of 2010 and my mind has immediately switched into snowdrop mode. :)
I, like Mark, am now wondering (2 years later) what snowdrops are your your x-mas 2010 wishlist?
For me it is:
- 'Ronald MacKenzie', I didn't try for this in previous years as when it first became available I heard from various sources that it was an 'iffy' grower. Since seeing wonderful pot fulls in the flesh I want to give it a go and see if it likes my Kentish garden and proves to be 'non iffy'? (any feedback appreciated from previous purchasers on how it's doing in a garden environment....) - but this year it is not available anywhere :( (unless anyone can tell me different ??? )
- 'GRÜNER SPLITTER', Never seen one in the UK - only ever on the internet, but I really am loving loads of these green outer petal 'drops that are appearing in mainland Europe. (And as the name suggests it could be more available in the coming years - fingers crossed :)
(and I can't stop myself from dreaming that I would absolutely love to be growing Woronwii 'Elizabeth Harrison' ( but know from enquiries that is not going to be avaiable for a good while yet :'()
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What two snowdrops, within reason, would you be very happy to find under your Christmas tree
(and I can't stop myself from dreaming that I would absolutely love to be growing Woronwii 'Elizabeth Harrison' ( but know from enquiries that is not going to be avaiable for a good while yet :'()
really :'(
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All this extra work for 'Santa Clause' maybe explains why he is ahead of 'Remember Remember' here.
Another wish for Koenenianus.
In the meantime my 'Trym' and 'Trym' seedlings are planted near 'Saville Gold' in the hope that the bees and maybe Santa would like to leave me a Gold Trym. Perhaps I should plant the Christmas tree as well.
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Hi Carole long time no see on the forum! How are you both?
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My wish for galanthophiles is that they learn patience and understanding ;D
Some things can't be rushed and, I fervently hope, that, with patience, I will live long enough to grow 'Elizabeth Harrison' when "she" is available in large, healthy numbers.