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Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Alan_b on February 11, 2025, 07:09:35 PM
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You have raised them, then they strike off on their own, go out into the world and achieve success. It's very gratifying to witness.
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You have raised them, then they strike off on their own, go out into the world and achieve success. It's very gratifying to witness.
It certainly is! Well done, Alan!
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[attachimg=1]Another of the ones I discovered and raised making good; double snowdrop 'Cressida' if you can't read the label.
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Very nice, Alan! Would You like to tell us the story behind it?
The snowdrops start rather late this year in my garden, but today they looked nice. A nameless poculiform G. nivalis.
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´Greenpeace´does well in my garden.
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´Ketton´ is a favourite of mine, yet I had to try it in three different spots to find a place it likes.
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´Walrus´looks like this with me, a friend has a different clone.
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´Excelsis´
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´Myddleton Giant´
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´Gerard Parker´
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This is G. plcatus Adolphus. I thought that there was a problem with virus in this cultivar, but this looks healthy enough.
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Unless of course the label is wrong.
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You have raised them, then they strike off on their own, go out into the world and achieve success. It's very gratifying to witness.
Here they are also in my garden. :) Survived 20 days below freezing, lowest was -18 and not much snow. Ground is still frozen but they are still growing.
'Green Light'
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Mariette, how lovely views! I like all the combinations with snowdrops and other plants you have. Here snowdrops are quite alone at this time.
'Greenpeace' has been a very good doer also here, and strong big snowdrop. However 'Gerard Parker' is not doing so well, I almost lost it three years ago, but now it is slowly recovering (or was last spring), though not up yet.
'Atkinsii', always good.
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'Mrs Macnamara' which I have in several spots, and it is doing good in all of them.
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'Bambino' has grown more since the beginning of February, even though it was below freezing all the time, day and night. I had covered them with that spruce branche behind.
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Mariete, how nice to have warm weather with you, wonderful photos! My garden is covered in snow and the temperatures are below zero. That's why I decided to go shopping:)... in Mannheim, Germany, more precisely in Luisenpark, where this Saturday and Sunday the traditional snowdrop exhibition took place. I'm already in Sofia tired and satisfied with the walk.
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There were many visitors, it was a wonderful experience to be among people who share your interests.
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Huge queue!!
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Impatient galantophiles :)
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The walk in the park was very pleasant.
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@ Leena: Thank You! I´m glad that ´Greenpeace´does well with You! ´Gerard Parker´ seeds around in my garden, but from a galanthophile gardening in a harsher climate I learnt that he had problems with this variety, too. Maybe it´s less hardy than others.
@ Stefan: what an effort to travel from Bulgaria to Mannheim! I hope You thoroughly enjoyed the event! I visited it twice, and the storks are a nice and lasting memory.
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@ Stefan: what an effort to travel from Bulgaria to Mannheim! I hope You thoroughly enjoyed the event! I visited it twice, and the storks are a nice and lasting memory.
I love to travel and visit interesting places. There was also a colony of parrots in the park. :o
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Since the sixties these birds are neobiota along the Rhine - not always a delight for the residents. ;)
´Cowhouse Green´
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A seedling
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I didn't notice any bees in my garden today, but it's good that the snow is melting. We had a normal winter this winter and I like that.
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Galanthus 'Spindlestone Surprise'
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Galanthus 'Wasp'
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Galanthus trojanus
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Galanthus nivalis cv. `Green Tear`
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Galanthus 'Hill Poe'
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Galanthus from Slovenia
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Galanthus alpinus var. bortkewitschianus
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I like the sepal shape, not pointed.
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I know that light intensity can influence the depth of yellows, bugt what about pH?
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Stefan, how nice for you to go snowdrop-shopping! It looks like a super happening. And very nice to see your snowdrop pictures.
Mariette, you have a very nice seedling! And 'Cowhouse Green' seems to grow well for you. Here it is struggling, and I must move it this year so that I would increase better. Now it has had only one flower for several years. It grows in a dryish shady spot, maybe more sun or more moist would be better?
Jeff, here I haven't noticed a difference in yellows in different pH soil. Our soil is naturally maybe pH 6, someplace less, but I think yellow snowdrops are yellow also in a bed where I have added calcium.
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seeding
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Galanthus nivalis 'Viridapice'
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Galanthus 'Fly Fishing'
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Galanthus gracilis Virescent
(Galanthus gracilis 'Andreas Fault')
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Galanthus 'Lady Beatrix Stanley'
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Galanthus 'Bunch'
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And 'Cowhouse Green' seems to grow well for you. Here it is struggling, and I must move it this year so that I would increase better. Now it has had only one flower for several years. It grows in a dryish shady spot, maybe more sun or more moist would be better?
Leena, ´Cowhouse Green´ doesn´t grow well, if at all, in the heavy clay of my garden. Yet potted in the soil of my compost heap, it does very well. The conclusion may be that it likes rich and somewhat more aerated soil. Nowadays I grow it in pots into a nice clump and plant it out in the borders then. ;)
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I know that light intensity can influence the depth of yellows, bugt what about pH?
Besides sunlight, probably it´s something in the soil which makes snowdrops colour more yellow, but none of the specialists could tell me what it is.
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Leena, ´Cowhouse Green´ doesn´t grow well, if at all, in the heavy clay of my garden. Yet potted in the soil of my compost heap, it does very well. The conclusion may be that it likes rich and somewhat more aerated soil. Nowadays I grow it in pots into a nice clump and plant it out in the borders then. ;)
Mariette, thanks for the advise! :) I will have to move it to more rich soil, and maybe add grit to the soil, too.
Stefan, really nice and well growing snowdrops. :)
Some here from yesterday. Nights are mostly below freezing so development is slow, but every day something new is coming up. :) Let's hope we won't get very cold temperatures any more.
'S.Arnott'
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'Trymming'
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'Phil Davis' planted one bulb 2018, has increased well.
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'Lord Lieutenant', planted one bulb 2014 has been slower, but I like it.
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G.lagodechianus from Armenia (Augis bulbs) is the first of my lagodechianus to come up and flower. All others are later forms. This also seems to be not so hardy as I lost it in bad winter 2022 (and bought another next year). I wouldn't be surprised if this one from Armenia was earlier called something else and now lumped to lagodechianus.
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Leena, I enjoy looking at your photos. How nice that there is less snow in your garden this winter.
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Thanks Stefan. :)
It has been couple of warm days, temperatures almost +10 and nights -1C, but next week will be colder again. Hopefully not for long and not very cold.
Couple of pictures from today. I enjoy so much my snowdrops! :)
'Atkinsii' on the left and nameless elwesii on the right.
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'Chantry Dame'
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'Bambino' has become one of my favourites. So cute and very good increaser.
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This is seedling from Stefan. Really nice round petals and dark insides, I like it very much. Its leaves have suffered a bit of frost damage during the cold period in February, but I hope it is not so early next year. Almost always snowdrops from more south flower earlier the first spring here, and later they adapt to our winter/spring.
Stefan, what is the mother plant? G.elwesii? Or is this a hybrid?
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Leena and Stefan: how nice to see Your snowdrops in flower now, too!
Leena, ´Bambino´really reminds of a chubby toddler!
Stefan, Your G. trojanus looks great! Somehow this species owes a special dignity.
These last days we had spring-like temperatures up to 20°C, and the snowdrop season is nearing its end.
This is a seedling.
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´Washfield Warham´is always one of the last starting to flower with me.
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A Cowhouse Green - seedling.
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This year the green mark is much paler than in other years.
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Which reminds me of Leena´s complaint that the "green" snowdrops often are not as green with her as they should be. Maybe the stronger sunlight later in the year makes them bleach? I noticed that with several green-tipped pocs as well.
´Robyn Janey´
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A nameless G. plicatus with a long flowering season.
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Another nameless one, G. elwesii.
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"Yellow" snowdrops are my favourites! ´Amber Yellow´ comes from the garden of Susanne Zager.
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´Golden Tears ´clumps well. :)
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´Rheingold´
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A pot of young plants, seed of virescents from Anne Wright. Sown 2021 and last year I potted up 12 bulbs. This is the first one to flower. It's a small flower, for scale, from the grit to the ovary is about 4 inches (that's a 6" label in the background). It has a sturdy look to it. And no, I haven't stripped the outer petals!
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Lots of lovely snowdrops on show here!
Good deep green on that virescent, Harry.
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Mariette
Love the yellows.
Harry
Wolud you say that your green is a poc?
Jeff
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Hi, Jeff .. it certainly looks like a poc.
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Fingers crossed that it returns next year.
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Stefan, what is the mother plant? G.elwesii? Or is this a hybrid?
I'm so glad you like it. Yes, this is a G.elwesii seeding.
Stefan, Your G. trojanus looks great! Somehow this species owes a special dignity.
I agree with you, that's right!
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Stefan, thank you :)
Which reminds me of Leena´s complaint that the "green" snowdrops often are not as green with her as they should be. Maybe the stronger sunlight later in the year makes them bleach? I noticed that with several green-tipped pocs as well.
Mariette, that is a very possible reason, as at the same conditions yellow snowdrops are always very nice bright yellow. The norther you are the stronger the sunlightis at snowdrop flowering time.
Only the very green ones, like 'Green Tear' are green here, and even they are not as strong green as in more south. Inverse poculiforms are an exception, their green on the outers is as green as in the inners.
Here is 'Trumps' coming up.
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Stefan, thank you :)
Mariette, that is a very possible reason, as at the same conditions yellow snowdrops are always very nice bright yellow. The norther you are the stronger the sunlightis at snowdrop flowering time.
Only the very green ones, like 'Green Tear' are green here, and even they are not as strong green as in more south. Inverse poculiforms are an exception, their green on the outers is as green as in the inners.
Here is 'Trumps' coming up.
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This spring my green varieties are also not green enough, like other years. This spring when the snowdrops were about to bloom, they were covered in snow for a long time. When they are in bloom and they don't get enough sunlight, then the green varieties are paler, that's what I think from the modest experience I have.
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Galanthus nivalis Grünschleier
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Galanthus elwesii 'Rosemary Burnham'
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Galanthus nivalis 'Green Tear'
Sorry for the bad photos!
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Makes sesne. Plnats need sunlight to photosynthetise.
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This spring my green varieties are also not green enough, like other years.
But Stephan, the photos .. the flowers .. are just beautiful.
What you say raises a point that interests me .. I love the yellows to excess, but I've also discovered a fondness for drops that have a pale green or limey ovary and markings. They are beautiful in their own right, almost to my eye a distinct category. But the question is, when a plant that often produces clear yellow flowers produces instead a pale green flower .. is that something to be concerned about? It's not as if the pale green or yellowy green is 'wrong', it's just what it is that year.
As an aside, I wonder if anyone has a list of the 'limey' drops. I use that name because I had one from Woottens some years ago, a plicatus they called 'Woottens Limey'. I've tried Yaffle, which has that reputation, but haven't succeeded in keeping it yet. I've bought others which were described as limeys but have grown for me with a good solid green.
Anyway .. beautiful photos!
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Jeffnz, Thank you!
I'm glad 'Elizabeth Harrison' appeared this spring, I hope it manages to reproduce!
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Galanthus 'Elizabeth Harrison'
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Galanthus nivalis Sandersii Group
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Galanthus 'Midas'
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This spring my green varieties are also not green enough, like other years. This spring when the snowdrops were about to bloom, they were covered in snow for a long time. When they are in bloom and they don't get enough sunlight, then the green varieties are paler, that's what I think from the modest experience I have.
That is interesting. I have heard the opposite, that the greens here are not so green because of lot of ultraviolet they get, and I should grow them in more shade. Though I don't think it had helped. I have kind of accepted that yellows are better here than greens and I will concentrate more to them and forget (especially the expensive) greens.
'Midas' is very nice with you Stefan. :)
It also grows very well here, though it is not up properly yet.
'Wifi Big Bang'
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'Glenorma', planted in 2021 and finally it is up to it's name. :)
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