Galanthus Gala 2013

[johnw]

In Gail's Reply#18 the second photo shows a wonderfully chubby one which appears to labelled 'Midge'.  Is that correct? New to me.

johnw

[Alan_b]

... 'Midge'

Well the photo depicts the Monksilver Nurseries sales table.  Usually Monsilver/Joe Sharman sends out a sales list with descriptions of any new varietiews he has introduced.  But this year I haven't got one and Emma said that she hadn't either.  If somebody has filed away the list for last yeaar there might be a description of 'Midge' on it. 

[KentGardener]

I happen to have last years list to hand Alan - Galanthus 'Midge' was offered for sale - 5 of them at £12 each.  But no description of it on the addendum.

On Joe's list it seems to be a hybrid/selection not associated with a species.

Mark has a pic of one on his website called plicatus 'Midge'.

[johnw]

I found Mark and Steve's pix of Midge and they are obviously not the chubby one.

A note saying Mark had it as a byzantinus.

Doesn't look like Diggory and I can't read the label to the left of that ...Marb.....

johnw

[mark smyth]

Did anyone buy Eranthis Hafop? How different was it?

[emma T]

THANK YOU Gail  for putting Mum and i up for 2 nights, you were a perfect hostess  Thank you for taking us to Ringsfield church so we could put some snowdrops on my Grandmas  grave 

Your garden is lovely ,and your ducks are funny !

[KentGardener]

THANK YOU Gail  for putting Mum and i up for 2 nights, you were a perfect hostess  Thank you for taking us to Ringsfield church so we could put some snowdrops on my Grandmas  grave 

Your garden is lovely ,and your ducks are funny !

I LOVE THIS HOBBY.     

[emma T]

I may have over done the kissy faces  lol

Its a great hobby , i love it .

I will put up photos tomorrow , to tired to sort them out tonight . We all had a lovely time. Mum is feeling a bit better 

[Gail]

THANK YOU Gail for putting Mum and i up for 2 nights

It was my very great pleasure! Glad you got home safely - very windy and sleety here now.

[Gail]

Did anyone buy Eranthis Hafop? How different was it?

I didn't buy one because it didn't look any different to the usual one to me, although on getting home and researching apparently mature bulbs will produce semi-double flowers. I did however buy four different ones from Gable House, including John's own 'Orange Pips' which is very pretty.

[emma T]

It was my very great pleasure! Glad you got home safely - very windy and sleety here now.

We had a very wet and windy drive home . 2 french bulldogs were happy to see me , which was nice 

[chasw]

Finally arrived home this evening after staying over on Saturday evening,it was good to meet up with friends old and new,and put names to faces of forum users,Apologies to Melvyn for me not introducing myself ,was too busy talking to Pattie

I must admit I did find it a little better this year without the rugby scrum to get to the sales table, perhaps the larger room helped

Was Brian carrying other people's bags I wondered?,great pictures from all ,I did think that David would photo shop the ones of me to make me appear slimmer

And the gardens we visited did not dissapoint,was lucky enough to get prermission to remove some Mistletoe berries,to try on our apple tree

[Maggi Young]

THANK YOU Gail  for putting Mum and i up for 2 nights, you were a perfect hostess  Thank you for taking us to Ringsfield church so we could put some snowdrops on my Grandmas  grave 

Your garden is lovely ,and your ducks are funny !

When forumists  meet and help each-other out like this it makes my day !

[emma T]

Yes its great isnt it !

Marge and her husband were having a bloody lovely time  Marge was grinning the whole time i saw her , i think she was in Galanthus heaven 

Thank you Maggi for your help in getting them tickets 

I will be meeting Marge tomorrow  for a walk round Kingston Lacy , then Tuesday we go and visit Angela at Snape Cottage 

[Maggi Young]

Wow, so many of you making a real expedition of the whole thing. It's a bit like a migration -trailling round all these events and gardens!

Have fun!