The Bay Area of California is not entirely hopeless for snowdrops: Wayne Roderick once took me to see a garden full of naturalised Galanthus elwesii not far from his home in Orinda. I know that this is is on a ridge-top and that Palo Alto is lower, but it was a remarkable sight. We have still got about 6 individual snowdrop flowers open here at Colesbourne, belated secondary flowers of no beauty, but still there. John Grimshaw John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Tel. 01242 870567 Mobile 07 919 840 063 Fax (Estate Office) 01242 870541 Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Merrill Jensen" <merrill@gamblegarden.org> To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:51 PM Subject: RE: [pbs] snowdrops > Hi All, > > . Eight > months ago, I relocated to the Bay Area where they don't receive enough of a > winter chill, so am forced to explore the wide, wonderful world of South > African geophytes.... Damn.... > > Merrill Jensen > Director of Horticulture > Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden > 1431 Waverley Street > Palo Alto, CA 94301 > http://www.gamblegarden.org/