Galanthus February 2008

[Diane Whitehead]

The stamens glow in Mark's pale woronowii.  It's like having a light
inside.

[mark smyth]

Diane I never noticed

[Maggi Young]

The stamens glow in Mark's pale woronowii.  It's like having a light
inside.

There was another one the other day showing that effect, it is most appealing.


 By the way, Diane, I am most impressed that you have only just come to consider your knees...... mine have been making me acutely aware of them for years... they HATE hard ground, for a start!

[Alan_b]

For those snowdrop price watchers amongst you, I noted that Joe Sharman had five examples of 'Diggory' priced at £25 left on his sales table at the end of the Glen Chantry event.  Maybe the price of this one has peaked, or maybe it was just too expensive for the 'amateur' and too readily available for the 'professional'? 

[mark smyth]

well, what was Wol and Sue's garden like? Any photos? Will it be an annual event? What was Wol selling?

[Paddy Tobin]

Mark,

Lovely set of photographs.

G. 'Rosie' and G. 'Vera Trum' are both nicely marked.

The short late elwesii - it doesn't strike me as particularly distinctive. You? Worth naming at all?

Paddy

[David Quinton]

well, what was Wol and Sue's garden like? Any photos? Will it be an annual event? What was Wol selling?

Mark,

It is a fantastic garden. There were large clumps of very rare snowdrops everywhere. I did take some photos but found that I spent most of my time admiring the plants, the garden and chatting to lurkers and Forum contributors.

I'm not sure that this will be an annual event which is a shame. I did hear conversations that this was to be a one-off. If you ignore the marvellous list available for a moment, the chance just to see the garden again at this time of year would be one that I would find hard to ignore.

I don't have Wol's list with me at work but can post it this evening should you want me to?

[mark smyth]

Well, best advice just now is go buy a copy of Matt et al book

[Maggi Young]

Galanthus book by Matt Bishop and John Grimshaw, I thinK he means.... don't have it myself!
Wait till I check the SRGC booklist to see.... there are two books farily recently published on the wee white flowers........
Hmmm... not on the Club booklist.... hang on.......

[Maggi Young]

Here we go:
Snowdrops: A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus (Hardcover)
by M. Bishop (Author), A. Davis (Author), John Grimshaw (Author)
Meantime out of stock on Amazon (£42.75)
http://www.griffinpress.co.uk/snowdrop.htm

Other book I was thinking of is not that new after all, it  is out of print, I think,so second hand is the way to go. It is the botanical monograph ; The Genus Galanthus by Aaron Davis .

See this link for a review of one and opinion of the second:
http://transatlanticplantsman.typepad.com/transatlantic_plantsman/2007/02/snowdrop_galant.html
 Cheers,
 Maggi

[mark smyth]

Amazon have it. Costs two snowdrops and guaranteed more fun
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Snowdrops-Monograph-Cultivated-Galanthus-Bishop/dp/0954191609/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202400545&sr=1-1

[Maggi Young]

No, it is out of stock ! Read the page !

[Maggi Young]

AGS have it at £45 0r £40.50 for members. I have no idea how long it would take to get a reply from them though......  Pershore  is something of a black hole, and not just lately when they have been citing email/internet problems!!

[mark smyth]

Rob buy it before it goes out of print again

[art600]

Rob

You can have my Aaron Davis book  for a swap snowdrop or two.  The Matt Bishop book is easy to read and you do not need a degree in botany to understand it - unlike Aaron's book (It was his PHd thesis).

If you are interested then send me an email.