Galanthus plicatus 'Wandlebury Ring' ?

[Maggi Young]

or did you mean this snowdrop book......by Guy Smith....



"For centuries its dark shape had loomed beside a waterfall in Switzerland, the home of the evil Reichenbach family. The last of their race had been a Nazi torturer, murdered by one of his victims. Now the big house lies empty, but evil forces still surround it - and countless human skeletons are buried in the grounds. When Al Pennant, a wealthy antiques-dealer, buys the deserted mansion, his family finds it full of nameless terrors, echoing the screams of tortured victims. So Al decides to ship it back to America piece by piece, hoping thus to dispel its dark influences. But strange visitations and putrefying spectres continue to plague the living inhabitants with terror and madness and always the smell of rotting flesh. For this place belongs to the devil's henchman and a single blood-soaked snowdrop is the symbol of his sway."

Tumm..tarrumpummm....pummmm !!

[mark smyth]

Not me just referring to Rob

[jamouatt]

Also Pickabook.co.uk is listing Snowdrops for £35.55 delivered.

[Anthony Darby]

Is that the new edition? Is it worth getting it if you already have the first edition?

[Martin Baxendale]

Is that the new edition? Is it worth getting it if you already have the first edition?

Apparently the only change to the second edition is an altered index which lists snowdrop varieties differently so you don't have to know which species they're a form of (or if they're a hybrid) to find them. Apart from that, exactly the same as the first edition.

[Anthony Darby]

Thanks Martin.

[Maggi Young]

Also Pickabook.co.uk is listing Snowdrops for £35.55 delivered.

Never used this firm...do you, jamouat, or anybody else have experience of their service?

[jamouatt]

I used them last year Maggi with no problems. I have Snowdrops on order with them; it is a special order item.

[jamouatt]

Jusr checked my account at Pickabooks and it is showing estimated dispatch date of 4th March.

[Maggi Young]

jamouatt, thanks for this... I like to have a personal report before jumping in to a new site!

"jamouatt".... can't go on calling you this, so, meantime, I will rename you "Jammy Donut" 

[Michael J Campbell]

ID required.
 I found this today growing up through a rhododendron and I think that it might be Wendy's gold  as I did have it a few years ago but lost it. I am including a pic of the leaf.
 

[Martin Baxendale]

Looks like 'Wendy's Gold' to me. Amazing how a snowdrop can sometimes come back from just a scrap of a bulb when you think you've lost it all - often the remains of a bulb won't put up any leaves but make a new bulb on its basal plate (just like chipping) which comes up a year later then (when you aren't watching for it because you thought the whole thing was lost) it it builds up back to a flowering size bulb again.

[Maggi Young]

Amazing how a snowdrop can sometimes come back from just a scrap of a bulb when you think you've lost it all - often the remains of a bulb won't put up any leaves but make a new bulb on its basal plate (just like chipping) which comes up a year later then (when you aren't watching for it because you thought the whole thing was lost) it it builds up back to a flowering size bulb again.

This remarkable ability to survive is just one of the things that most intrigues me about bulbs.... extraordinary will to live in those lumpy things... who'd have thought it??!

[jamouatt]

Just had email from Pickabook to say that they have dispatched "Snowdrops".

[Paul T]

Michael,

OK, I give up.... on your ID pic of the Wendy's Gold at the end of the last page.... the second pic is entitled Galanthus and Hepatica leaves...... Other than the Gal, I can only see Rhododendron leaves in the picture?  or are there new versions of Hepaticas that are a little different to my experiences?