KentGardener's Galanthus Blog 2013

[kentish_lass]

What a great day you had ....you have to have a very sharp eye when they are that tiny and unopened.

The ones with two flowers are interesting as the second fllower is actually a branch on the side of the main scape ....rather like a day lily.  Could this mean they could branch more than once with more than two flowers?

Love the last one of the weird finds.  It looks rather like Clovis with a snowdrop hat on    Very unusual....hope you can find it again to see if remains stable?

Great finds - thanks for sharing.

[johnw]

John, what is the book?
I've just put Jože Bavcon in Amazon and got;

 Your search "Jože Bavcon" did not match any products. Did you mean: joke bacon
Showing Top Results for "joke bacon" in All Departments

Gail  - I will PM you his addresses.  The book is to be purchased directly from Jože.

johnw - snooooooooooooooow - 40cm on the way.

[johnw]

Picture of 'Elles Dream' ( as I have named the snowdrop ) is attached.

Richard  - Is it possible to post a large picture of nivalis Elles Dream?

thanks

johnw

[snowdropcollector]

John,

Pictures are from last year, and I have made them small with windows Gallery Player. The problem is.....I forgot to make a
copy first.. . Will make new pictures this year and post them again.

[johnw]

Richard - It will be nice to see its progress.

Thanks

johnw

[KentGardener]

Gail  - I will PM you his addresses.  The book is to be purchased directly from Jože.

johnw - snooooooooooooooow - 40cm on the way.

Thanks John - sorry I didn;t reply Gail - I've been out all day looking at snowdrops.   

[Gail]

No problem, snowdrops in the flesh should always have priority over those on screen. Thanks John & John.

[emma T]

Oh i like Weird 3 a lot     very nice   

Nice photo of my Ex too 

[daveyp1970]

John  i am so glad you included me and Emma on your weirds I love number 1,2 is quite nice,3 not so sure.

[kentish_lass]

I somehow missed the first post with Emma's snowdrop - it is beautiful Emma and I saw it in the flesh at John's last year.

Have been wondering if on a sunny day the reduced outer petals on 'Weird no. 3' would open up?  That could look be a unique and very weird look.  I really like that one.

[Alan_b]

I fear 'Weird No. 3' may be lost to us.  It's incredibly difficult to go back to find again a snowdrop you found before when it's a single amongst a mass of others, even after a short time away.  Think "Where's Wally" ("Where's Waldo" N.A) but much harder.  When I have needed to do this, I have always taken a close-up photo and then some establishing shots of the near surrounds and then the wider environs but even so it can still be very difficult.  This one John pronounced as 'eaten' so I never even took a look at it, being some metres (yards USA/UK-old-school) away.  And we didn't realise it was weird until John got home and examined his photographs so we only remember broadly where it was.     

[KentGardener]

Saturday I spent in Cambridgeshire with Alan - Sunday Alan planned to spend the day in Kent.

The day started at 09.30 with a look around my little garden - I am always surprised how it is possible to spend over an hour looking at the plants in such a small space! 

Then we set out on the 30 minute drive to see the garden of forum member Tim Ingram.  He has been garden on his 1.5 acre site for over 30 years.  The garden contain many varied and wonderful plants and I feel that I will need to visit again in the Summer as there is an area of Southern hemisphere plants that I would like to see in full growth.

Galanthus are to be seen in abundance throughout the garden - but an apple orchard area at the end is becoming the main snowdrop area.  They are looking wonderful in 2 borders along the lines of trees - and there are 2 or 3 more areas yet to be planted.  There are also loads of Cyclamen leaves to be seen so I was very happy.   

1 - Tim and Alan on one of the paths in the middle part of the garden

2 - Cyclamen 'Greville'

3 - lost label - but had a tendancy to do twin heads for every 1 out of 20 bulbs

4 - An interesting seedling of Arum italicum pictum with yellow leaves!     (my guess is a "love it or hate it plant" - I love it.)

5 - Cyclamen leaves   

[KentGardener]

The following pictures were taken in the apple orchard area - I think this planting already looks brilliant and is going to get better and better as the other apple trees are under planted.

It is not just snowdrops in these borders but many other woodland happy plants

1 - Our first view of the apple tree area

2 - A group of 'Wendys Gold' surrounded by its open crossed seedlings

3 - 'Bertrum Anderson'

4 - The first two apple tree borders

5 - woronowii - a really low leaves and sparsely flowering form - but looking lovely because of those traits

[KentGardener]

Tim also has many rather nice Hellebores all over.

1, 2, 3 Hellobore

4 - Alan and I were discussing how tall this one was.  'caucasicus late from Kath Dryden'

[Maggi Young]

My word, isn't that hellebore in pic 4414 doing a very good impression of a Sarracenia flower?

Things so much more advanced in growth than here.