Galanthus in April 2013

[johnw]

I adore you a bit.

Armin  - I feel a tad dashed...... 

Snooping in frame #3 yesterday.  You can see Tramp (my trym impostor) against the back wall in photos 1 & 2 which has finally opened properly and with stable marking this year.  For the hawkeyes there is a Poseidon with 2 flowers in the mix there.  Despite the long moderately cold winter there's not a miss in the frames, even woronowii has survived.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

I think my eyesight is not up to it John!

[Maggi Young]

I think my eyesight is not up to it John!

Couldn't resist exposing John's Tramp...... Tramplet

[johnw]

Brian  - You might want to have a gander at pic 3 and compare Cicely Hall in the upper right corner - the big one - with the 2 Foxgrove Whittalliis along the back wall.

Sorry Maggi, my memory..... it's not Tramp it's Tramplet.

johnw

[Maggi Young]

 

Sorry Maggi, my memory..... it's not Tramp it's Tramplet.

johnw

  I read that as     trampette.......

[Leena]

In Finland most of the snowdrops are still !! under snow, but the first are coming up.

[Hagen Engelmann]

To see the first tips of the galanthus is a god feeling, isn`t it Leena ?
Our snow is over. x x x

[Tim Ingram]

I think Maggi must have satellite vision! Exciting frames full John. This is G. 'Cicely Hall' in our garden, one of the latest varieties we grow and a superb garden plant (ex. Graham Gough and Washfield nursery).

[Brian Ellis]

Couldn't resist exposing John's Tramp...... Tramplet
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You are too kind Maggi, but my hawkeyes were needed for Poseidon!

[Brian Ellis]

Brian  - You might want to have a gander at pic 3 and compare Cicely Hall in the upper right corner - the big one - with the 2 Foxgrove Whittalliis along the back wall.

Duly gandered and suitably impressed with those Whittallii

[Leena]

To see the first tips of the galanthus is a god feeling, isn`t it Leena ?
Our snow is over. x x x

Yes 
This winter has been very frustrating and seems never to end, but the snowdrops peaking from the ground give hope, the spring will come. And the first flowers are always the most precious.
I have add how much I have enjoyed spring pictures from countries with milder climate, thank you.

[johnw]

Tim - How odd Cicely should be so late with you.  It was the very first one up here this year, up in fact when it was too cold for anything to be up.  It was one of the last up in the greenhouse this year but mid-season as a rule.

Rosemary Burnham in the ground flowered completely yellow this year yet in the frames which were lidded so no light could get in they are green.   

Lord Lieutenant is just showing......it was early this year in the greenhouse...................

johnw

[Gerard Oud]

The very last ones of this season i think

The first one is not with a chevron but with a W or M. And the sinus is double split  with a extra not.So far as i can remember, have i never seen this before

The others are just selections even a yellow/green form

[johnw]

Quite extraordinary Gerard, I've never seen double sinuses (or is it sini?) either.

Here a terrible shot of Poseidon. It's beastly damp and chilly and I'm not venturing out to photograph.  I will try to get better shots tomorrow.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

Cheers John, yes those double sinuses are different aren't they!