Galanthus in February 2013

[ScotsmanInKent]

Martin

thank you for the info.
I like this trait of two scapes from one bulb..
can anyone recommend some varieties I can look out for that would reliably give twin scapes?

Changing the subject again. I have a mislaid label.
Can anyone help.
looks like an elwesii or hybrid with a lot elwesii, does anyone recognise?

Simon

[steve owen]

I also need to real name for one that is doing the rounds over here as Paddys Ketton. For now I've forgotten Paddys surname. No good photos because every year the flowers are damaged by wind. Steve Owen how does it compare to plants in your collection?

Mark, have a look at my post of 10 February on this thread - Steve

[mark smyth]

Sorry I missed that. Do you have anything that looks like it? Yours is lacking a 'nose' which may come back next year It came from Paddy Ryan.

Mine are multiplying fast. I now have around 15

[mark smyth]

ex Witton or is it Whitton came from Margaret Owen. It has large flowers with thick outers

[Paddy Tobin]

Your comments on this one, please. It is a G. plicatus, origins unknown, which is growing in a garden we visited yesterday with John Breen. The foliage is clearly and obviously explicative and the general habit is normal plicatus but the ovary veers towards yellow in colour and the markings on the inner segment were similarly marked with some more yellow than others; these latter being olive.

[John Breen]

I like this trait of two scapes from one bulb..
can anyone recommend some varieties I can look out for that would reliably give twin scapes?

I suggest 'Straffan' which is well known to produce two scapes.
Pictures 1, 2. Straffan

[John Breen]

Your comments on this one, please. It is a G. plicatus, origins unknown, which is growing in a garden we visited yesterday with John Breen. The foliage is clearly and obviously explicative and the general habit is normal plicatus but the ovary veers towards yellow in colour and the markings on the inner segment were similarly marked with some more yellow than others; these latter being olive.

Further information on Paddy Tobin's post. There are some isolated flowering individuals up to 1 metre from the main clump. They seem very similar or identical to the flowers in the original clump. These are probably the result of self seeding. The owner has been aware of the behaviour of this clump for a few years, at least.
Here are a few more pictures from yesterday (well Tuesday!).
Note the heart-shaped mark in the third picture.

[mark smyth]

Paddy and John has the owner been buying snowdrops in the past? It looks similar to Sarah Dumont but could very well be a new yellow
http://www.snowdropinfo.com/galanthus%20plicatus%20sarah%20dumont.html

[mark smyth]

Heart pounding ... I just found a tiny yellow with yellow tips in the garden. It's not Ecusson which is elsewhere

[John Aipassa]

Seedling Mark? Interesting find. Do you have a picture of it?

[John Breen]

Paddy and John has the owner been buying snowdrops in the past? It looks similar to Sarah Dumont but could very well be a new yellow
http://www.snowdropinfo.com/galanthus%20plicatus%20sarah%20dumont.html

Mark
The short answer to your question is no in recent decades, but ... there may have been presents of some "better" snowdrops perhaps 40 to 50 years ago. Yes it does look similar to Sarah Dumont in your link.

[Alan_b]

For Mavers, who asked, this is a picture of the small snowdrop that featured out-of-focus in a picture I posted last week.  It has outer petals that would dearly love to be inner petals but usually don't quite succeed.  This does make for small flowers on what is anyway a small snowdrop.

[Mavers]

V E R Y     I N T E R E S T I N G...............Alan, thanks for posting.

It's good that the small flowers are in scale to the rest of the snowdrop.

[mark smyth]

Photo of my seedling when I get home. Close by Trumps, Lady Elphinstone and Ecusson

[John Aipassa]

That would be some awesome mix of (yellow) genes than?