2010/11 catalogues

[steve owen]

Thanks Mark and Brian.

[mark smyth]

Steve aren't you on Joe's mailing list?

[Brian Ellis]

Steve aren't you on Joe's mailing list?

Mark I seem to remember on the Gala Form that Joe asked us to indicate whether if we still wanted the list.

[kentish_lass]

I would like to ask a question here regarding Monksilver mailing list.  I got an invitation to the Gala and the form indicated to let them know if you want the snowdrop list.  I am not going to the Gala (but hope to go one year) so how do I let him know I want to be on the list?  I emailed Monksilver but the email came back undelivered.  Should I send a handwritten letter?  It sure is hard work getting on these lists    Also do I need to send a stamp for next years postage as I will be too late for this year?

Received a lovely parcel from Black Smith Nursery where I bought Richard Ayers, Sentinel, Sickle, Green Necklace & Jessica.  Lovely bulbs but Jessica had here stem broke.  I put a tiny piece of selloptape around it but it just made the stem heavy - I just want to see the flower!  I almost ordered Ivy Cottage Green Tips from Harveys but read that the green tips rarely show so I plumped for Ivy Cottage Corporal.....and several others of course!  I ordered G plicatus 'Beth Chatto' and am hoping it is the real Beth Chatto as when I went on Beths snowdrop walk last year David Ward said they have stopped selling it for now as the original has got totally muddled with seedlings of the real thing.

Still got lots of 'no shows' but it is so cold I am not surprised they would want to stay underground   I am hoping to go the Wisley Garden Snowdrop Splendour tomorrow - wanted to go today but my sister turned up unexpectedly.  They were selling Green Brush but I will stand no chance of getting one on the second day.  Maybe another year....

[mark smyth]

A hand/computer typed letter would do. No need for a return envelope

[steve owen]

Steve aren't you on Joe's mailing list?

Mark
yes but the post takes longer to get here than Ireland, unless Joe posts them on different days.
Steve

[mark smyth]

Mainland Europe envelopes go one day ahead of those in the UK.

[Maggi Young]

The post , in every country, it seems, is something of a mystery! Sometimes a letter arrives almost before you've sent it, the next time it sits somewhere, or travels needlessly, to arrive weeks late. The Seed Gang were getting mail last week that was postmarked for early December!
I've got my SRGC Journal but a friend a few miles away has not..... go figure!

[GoodGrief]

>I am hoping to go the Wisley Garden Snowdrop Splendour tomorrow - wanted to go today but my sister turned up unexpectedly.
>They were selling Green Brush but I will stand no chance of getting one on the second day.  Maybe another year....


There were plenty available late on the Sunday...

[kentish_lass]

>I am hoping to go the Wisley Garden Snowdrop Splendour tomorrow - wanted to go today but my sister turned up unexpectedly.
>They were selling Green Brush but I will stand no chance of getting one on the second day.  Maybe another year....


There were plenty available late on the Sunday...

Yes I managed to get there on Sunday for the last lecture and I managed to get a Green Brush    It did not look as green tipped as I expected though from photos I have seen of it.  Good Grief - you must have been there the same time as me?  My eyes could not focus on the labels and I never had my reading glasses so I was in a right flap and had to ask Simon Lockyer to help me find the plants I was after!  How embarrassing.  I took a few photos and if any are decent I will try to post them. 

[mark smyth]

My Green Brushes had minute green tips, were very diseased and died before they went dormant

[GoodGrief]

Yes I managed to get there on Sunday for the last lecture and I managed to get a Green Brush    It did not look as green tipped as I expected though from photos I have seen of it.  Good Grief - you must have been there the same time as me?  My eyes could not focus on the labels and I never had my reading glasses so I was in a right flap and had to ask Simon Lockyer to help me find the plants I was after!  How embarrassing.  I took a few photos and if any are decent I will try to post them. 

I had been hoping to get to the afternoon talk, but the closure of the A3 put paid to that.
I had reserved some plants for the galanthus list, but there was plenty of everything left by the end of Sunday.
My Green Brush plant looks healthy but no flower yet.

They had a couple of other specimens not listed anywhere else, so I'll be curious to see whether they're of any particular interest.

Regards, Malcolm.

[Mavers]

What's the origin of 'Green Brush'?

It seems to be a lovely snowdrop that's become available without the help of the 'high priests' of the snowdrop world............ie Morley & Mackenzie.

[GoodGrief]

What's the origin of 'Green Brush'?

It seems to be a lovely snowdrop that's become available without the help of the 'high priests' of the snowdrop world............ie Morley & Mackenzie.

I wonder whether it's from our continental cousins?

I've seen it listed here...

http://www.sneeuwklokjes.info/Bestelllijst.pdf

Regards, Malcolm.

[emma T]

I have ordered a 'Green Brush' from Avon bulbs.