Galanthus in January 2014

[Alan_b]

No, that's the clump in Cliff Curtis's garden on 24th February 2013.  Mine is a single long shoot from which the leaves have not yet unfurled.  A flower is weeks away.

As the entry for Yvonne Hay in The Book points out referring to 'Maximus'

since this name has been used as a botanical epithet it is not available for use as a cultivar name

It seems it may have been often applied to snowdrops in the past, sometimes making the transition from an epithet to a name.

 

[RichardW]

this is what I grow as Bill Baker's Early, I have a few of my Dad's old note books/lists and it's not listed as Green Tipped, although some do produce green tips but very rarely.

is a short plant not getting much above 10cms, main clump is in a shady spot so not early here, I have another at home which is probably about a week away from being open.

[Hagen Engelmann]

first fine flower of MOYA`S GREEN this year

[Hagen Engelmann]

And also the yellows start to show color.
Here SCHORBUSER IRRLICHT begins to change from green to yellow.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Also the first VIRESCENS-type is blooming:
CASTLE GREEN DRAGON

[Brian Ellis]

Also the first VIRESCENS-type is blooming:
CASTLE GREEN DRAGON

Ah Hagen, how lucky you are, I presume they are flowering indoors?

[Hagen Engelmann]

Yes Brian so it is.
First time in my life I have one season instead of two. Begun in October 2013 and will end in april 2014.
So I'm a lucky man. It was a long long way.

[Tim Ingram]

These are a whole different range of snowdrops than I have seen or know about; really intriguing. Hope to go to the snowdrop event at Myddleton House and see some of the variety that I have only read about, even if these ones will be absent!

This is a seedling from 'Trym', not flowering yet but presumably very similar to others? This has just been split up and planted out under the apples, so will be nice to see how it looks in a month's time. The coming season looks as though it will be an exciting one with so many events listed by Brian.

[Cyril L]

Tim, this is a nice 'Trym' seedling, perhaps better than 'Trym' itself as it has more green on the inner petals.

Hagen, your Castle Green Dragon is very early.  Mine (in the greenhouse) will flower in about 2 weeks.

Here is G. fosteri var. antepensis (from Norman Stevens 2010).  Has since clumped up well.  In his catalogue (2010), Norman said "it is a new taxon, not yet published as valid.  Early form, more robust than the type flowering Nov-Dec.  Grow as tender."

I wonder how tender it is, G. fosteri itself seems fine outside.

[uvularia]

this is what I grow as Bill Baker's Early, I have a few of my Dad's old note books/lists and it's not listed as Green Tipped, although some do produce green tips but very rarely.

is a short plant not getting much above 10cms, main clump is in a shady spot so not early here, I have another at home which is probably about a week away from being open.

That looks like it is a hybrid? Nice.  It is later than the Bill Baker's Green Tip, which is out now. I hope to get together any material that came out of Bill Baker's Garden and try to make sense of it. There may be just too many. Here is a picture of the inner markings of the 'Bill baker's Maximus'.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Hi Cyril,
my G. fosterii is weeks later !

[Cyril L]

Yes Hagen, for me too typical G. fosteri flowers much later.

[Ru]

Tim, Cyril, Uvularia, remarkable snowdrops you have!
Hagen, each time, as I look at photos of your remarkable snowdrops, I understand, why such contented (joyful) face on your Avatar

[Hagen Engelmann]

Yes Ru, so it is.
And I have also a smile on my lips, when I see your avatar.
In the deep of the internet I also found a pic with a very joyful Ruslan!

[Alan_b]

Just a quick note to say that all of the 'Trumps' I sold last year were originally twinscales (five bulbs) planted in 2004 and thereafter resulted from natural increase only

Looking through my records, I saw that my own  'Trumps' actually came from Matt but 'once-removed'; that is to say I got a bulb from somebody who got their stock from Matt.  Looking at the number of noses poking through the soil this year, it is actually very easy to understand how Matt achieved his excellent numbers by natural division.