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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #15 on: October 31, 2008, 09:25:10 AM »
What about the one in the Midlands on the 14th Feb Mark? Ah. I see that it's not an event, it's a gala. ;D
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #16 on: October 31, 2008, 11:21:00 AM »
It says come to the great snowdrop gala day, Mark!!
 Follow this long link  ( it should show as live, so just click on it) to get a google-translated-to-English page..... you'll get the drift and also see the number of fine exhibitors who are planning to be there.... 8)
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.oirlicher-blumengarten.de/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dwww.oirlicher-blumengarten.de%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #17 on: October 31, 2008, 11:29:02 AM »
Thomas what does his invitation say?

Maggi Google  made a short but adapted translation, Mark.
I've tried to make a more detailed one - hope this helps the non-Germans:

On February 28th and March 1st from 10am to 5pm the 3rd Snowdropdays take place in Nettetal. As the biggest snowdrop event in Germany it has also found international acception. Collecting Galanthus, from which several hundred cultivars are in trade, is not only a national popularity. This passion origins from plant-enthusiastic English gardens.Günter Waldorf, Initiator of the Snowdropdays, has 280 species and cultivars in his collection. His garden can be visited during the exhibition. Handpicked exhibitors from Germany and abroad offer Galanthus and also other bulbous plants, perennials and groves. The personal atmosphere and the unforced, professional exchange of information will make the snowdropdays 2009 to the first highlight in the garden-calendar.

Also interesting for enthusiasts is the website : www.galanthus-online.de offering many informations, descriptions and photos around the precious little bulbs.

www.oirlicher-blumengarten.de
Best wishes
Günter Waldorf
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #18 on: October 31, 2008, 11:32:12 AM »
Excellent, Thomas, I am so pleased that you can translate better than the automatic google version!! :-*

Welcome home, by the way!! :D
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2008, 11:35:11 PM »
The Ryanair seat sale is back on especially for the snowdrop season. Seats are £2 return, no taxes, plus charge for credit cards making it about £8 return. For their routes see here
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/dests.php?flash=chk&culture=GB&pos=HEAD
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #20 on: November 01, 2008, 09:17:16 PM »
Well that offer didn't stay on for long  :'(
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #21 on: November 06, 2008, 01:11:32 PM »
Of course, the one Galanthus Event not mentioned on this topic is the Galanthus Gala, organised by Joe Sharman.  The reason it is not mentioned is because it has its own topic, http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2603.0 , but a newcomer to the strange world of snowdrops might not spot this, so I thought I would mention it here for the sake of completeness.
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #22 on: November 06, 2008, 02:05:17 PM »
Thanks Alan.

The last Sunday in February is Margaret Owen's garden open for MS
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #23 on: November 06, 2008, 02:10:35 PM »
MS.... I assume to be shorthand for a Multiple Sclerosis charity?
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #24 on: November 06, 2008, 02:28:50 PM »
Yes. She 'gives away' snowdrops out of the garden and raises a lot of money each February.
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #25 on: November 06, 2008, 09:06:23 PM »
Thomas what does his invitation say?

Maggi Google  made a short but adapted translation, Mark.
I've tried to make a more detailed one - hope this helps the non-Germans:

On February 28th and March 1st from 10am to 5pm the 3rd Snowdropdays take place in Nettetal. As the biggest snowdrop event in Germany it has also found international acception. Collecting Galanthus, from which several hundred cultivars are in trade, is not only a national popularity. This passion origins from plant-enthusiastic English gardens.Günter Waldorf, Initiator of the Snowdropdays, has 280 species and cultivars in his collection. His garden can be visited during the exhibition. Handpicked exhibitors from Germany and abroad offer Galanthus and also other bulbous plants, perennials and groves. The personal atmosphere and the unforced, professional exchange of information will make the snowdropdays 2009 to the first highlight in the garden-calendar.

Also interesting for enthusiasts is the website : www.galanthus-online.de offering many informations, descriptions and photos around the precious little bulbs.

www.oirlicher-blumengarten.de
Best wishes
Günter Waldorf

Today I had a phonecall with Günther Waldorf and he asked me to send the following message:
If you have a look at www.galanthus-online.de and here click 'cultivars', you will see that there are a lot of plants without an image. He is very much interested in photos of these plants . So please, if there is any help you can give to him reply here or pm me (Gerd).

Gerd
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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #26 on: November 06, 2008, 09:37:25 PM »
Hello Gerd,

I have sent you a PM.

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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2008, 03:24:28 PM »
Thank you very much David! I'll inform Günter Waldorf.

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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #28 on: November 08, 2008, 06:01:56 PM »
Thank you very much David! I'll inform Günter Waldorf.
Gerd

Also thanks to Brian Ellis for his kind help!

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Re: Galanthus Events 2009
« Reply #29 on: November 26, 2008, 11:04:20 PM »
Here is something for the German forum members and lurkers.

Galantour 2009 Programme
(subject to change)

Friday, 13 February 2009    
Early morning departure from Siegburg, ICE-Station (near Bonn)
Afternoon: Visit to a very nice private garden near Maidstone with about 170 different snowdrops. Tea and coffee served.
Evening: After dinner get-together and official welcome.

Saturday, 14 February 2009
Galanthus Gala:    9.30 – 10.00am: Reception with tea, coffee and biscuits.
10.00 – 12.00am: Introduction and a series of short talks by
Melvyn Jope: Galanthus reginae-olgae in Corfu, a look at variations present in G. reginae-olgae in Cor¬fu
Bryan Hewitt: E.A. Bowles, a life
Joe Sharman: Snowdrops at Myddelton House, from Bowles’ time to the present day
Richard Hobbs: Norfolk’s Finest, following on from his talk about Mr. Greatorex this is a look at some of the other varieties from Norfolk.
12.00 – 1.00pm: Sale of plants, from many of the leading snowdrop nurseries.
From 1.00pm: Lunch at the school
2.00 – 5.00pm: Visit to Myddelton House Gardens, Enfield. This was the garden of the famous plantsman E.A. Bowles, which, since his death has been cared for by many gardeners and is part of Lea Valley Regional Park. The snowdrops planted by Mr. Bowles have survived and spread and more recently some very interesting varieties have arisen there. Some areas will not be open.

Sunday, 15 February 2009
Morning: Visit to Beth Chatto’s Gardens.  This garden of the famous garden designer and plant expert is a real winter garden, especially the woodland garden. The attached nursery offers a good range of high-quality plants for all tastes, and prices are reasonable considering the quality.
Afternoon: Visit to a collector’s garden with many spring bulbs and drifts of rare snowdrops. Tea, coffee and biscuits.

Monday, 16 February 2009:
Morning: Visit of Anglesey Abbey and its dramatic winter-walk. It includes special plants which have been specifically brought together because of their winter appeal and a low-level snowdrop walk which is generally not open to the public.
Afternoon: Visit to Cambridge Botanical Garden with its many naturalized spring bulbs. The famous Winter Garden is a garden with special plants, arranged and combined for their specific winter effect to be as beautiful or even more beautiful in the depths of winter as any other part of the Garden would be in summer.

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Morning: Visit to RHS Spring Show in London with the opportunity to buy plants, books, arts, crafts etc. At this well-attended flower show you will meet experts and passionate collectors talking shop. Nurseries will be exhibiting their elaborately-designed stands, and prizes will be awarded for the best-presented rare plants.
Afternoon: Visit to Benington Lordship, an English Landscape Garden which also has much to offer in the winter. The manor was build around 1700. Impressive drifts of naturalized snowdrops form the start of a snowdrop collection. The head gardener will give us a guided tour.
Evening: Talk by Joe Sharman on snowdrops.

Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Departure after breakfast.

Cost: 888.00 €
This includes:
-   Travel for 35 persons in a modern long-distance coach, including ferry
Calais-Dover-Calais.
-   5 nights in a double-room or a room with twin beds in the 4-star**** Tewin Bury Farm Hotel near Welwyn (http://www.tewinbury.co.uk/). Breakfast and evening meal are included.
Single-room supplement 225.00 €.
-   The tour will be led by the plant expert Michael Dreisvogt, head of the Arboretum Park Haerle near Bonn (www.arboretum-haerle.de).
Extensive travelling library available.

Look under http://www.iris-ney.de/35/Aktuelles/Galanthour_2009.htm to find the whole programme in German and some pictures taken by myself last February in some of the gardens we are going to visit on our tour:

Please send your applications by 31st December 2008 to:

Iris Ney
Buechelstraße 40
53227 Bonn
gartenerhaltung@iris-ney.de
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When the swifts arrive empty the green house

All photos taken with a Canon 900T and 230

 


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