Galanthomania in the US

bonsaigai37@aol.com bonsaigai37@aol.com
Mon, 27 Feb 2012 05:03:12 PST
Oh those snowdrops...
	UK garden galas involving hundreds of people pouring over acres of Snow Drops as the first hint of spring breaks.

I would go, perhaps another year...
	I personally did not think there was a market in the US for single Galanthus cv bulbs for $40 or 50. 
I'm afraid, I have purchased.  It makes everything else seem more affordable, a $25/bulb lily hybrid suddenly seems like a good buy!
	I grow maybe a half dozen or 10 named cvs a couple of which I recently priced on US and UK web sites and found they sell for much more than I would ever pay.
I think, I have about 2 dozen now.  As Ellen did, I now live near Hitch.  It was through snowdrops that we first met.  I ended up here for a good job and property I could afford.
	Do you think you might be a Galanthophile ?
Oh yes.  Oh dear.  What next?
	Is the whole thing totally a fad; overblown and doomed to obscurity in the US?
Hitch says he sells out every year.  The Temple Nursery, Trumansburg, NY

  	What's the most you have ever paid for a single Galanthus bulb?
$50.  But I've also found LOVELY plants in the area, seeding colonies.
I keep hundreds of nivalis around for their simple spring pleasure.  It is one of the true harbingers of spring.  Plant them close to your most used door!
Michael
Interlaken, NY
Zone 6 (whatever...)



 



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