Galanthus in January 2014

[Uwe]

Hello Hagen,
it is 3 x Cornus sanguinea Midwinter Fire and 1 x Cornus stolonifera. I hope ,the snowdrops grow still good. Next to it is a Corylus and leaf-humus comes every year to. This bed i will plant with bulbs until next fall.

[Brian Ellis]

Hagen that is so much nicer in that photograph.  The cream and white contrast shows well.  Really lovely while the cream lasts

[Ru]

The most intensiv coloration (5th day).
Now cream fades to white.

Hagen, your snowdrop, is a fantastic! ! !
Such photos inspire on new searches!

Richard Thank you that I can see it again! ! !
Very much I wait when my 'EB' will blossom.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Ru, I wish you best results.
Fingers crossed!

Here is a last pic from creme green white type.
Now the cream turns to white.
The inner segments show us a fine dark green color.

[Brian Ellis]

Not only a good bold inner, the outer marks are good and strong!

[Mavers]

I like it at all the stages you have shown us Hagen.

[mark smyth]

Its good to have snowdrops pushing through fast now. I think the majority are now through the ground with some very early - Wind Turbine, Godfrey Owen, Fieldgate Prelude, Melvillei or is it?, Haydn, Zwanennberg and more

[Leena]

The weather in Finland has been very mild so far this winter, the ground isn't even frozen at all yet, but that is going to change this week according to weather forecast, snow and cold from Friday on. 
My snowdrops are peaking from the ground (pictures from yesterday), also almost all bulbs which were planted last summer and autumn, too. 'Mrs Macnamara' planted last August is showing the bud already, while most of the others look like these G.nivalis and G.nivalis 'Flore Pleno' in the second and third picture.
It is so hard to look at your flowering snowdrops and think that we are still going to have snow and freezing for at least two months, possibly three, and only in April my snowdrops are going to be flowering well. I have been trying to stick to the decision to buy only late flowering (or mid season at the most) snowdrops which would be ready to come up when our snow melts, and not start to flower inside the snow, but it is hard when you show nice snowdrops already now.
Which are the best late snowdrops, what do you think?

[Mavers]

Yes it is very mild Leena & Mark.

11.30 last night I went out to check my greenhouse was still standing (gales) before going to bed. Stepping outside I was amazed how mild the air was.......the outside thermometer showed 12 degrees C.

What is your soil like Leena?

Mike

[Leena]

What is your soil like Leena?

I started to explain but it isn't so easy because I'm not sure I know the right words in english.
I have different kinds from loam to stony sand, and I have tried to make the soil better with leaf mold in the beds where I planted the newest bulbs, so that it is not too wet, and I also added sand under the bulbs when planting them. My older snowdrops (G.nivalis and G.elwesii mostly) seem to like in places where the soil is more sandy and a little drier than what hellebores like. The soil in woodland beds is in acid side, I think.
I have mulched the woodland beds with oakleaves, they also protect the soil from freezing so deep (if we get cold without the snow).

[Hagen Engelmann]

Leena,
here are a few late flowering types:

White Gem
Bohemia White
Hugh Mackenzie
Fiona Mackenzie
Witchwood
Marchwood
Prague Spring

[Hagen Engelmann]

Mark,
here are on the way to flowering:
COLOSSUS
MRS MCNAMARRA
EVY COTTAGE CORPORAL
SCHORBUSER IRRLICHT
ILSE BILSE
G n IMPERATI
FLY FISHING
a lot of Gem-types

[Leena]

Thank you Hagen, I will have to study those in the galanthus book.

[Alan_b]

I think all snowdrops will poke their noses up to near the soil surface in autumn and early winter then wait for some milder weather to send up a flower and leaves.  But different snowdrops have different opinions on what constitutes good enough weather to do this.  Sooner or later all snowdrops will get caught-out and end up in leaf and flower buried under snow.  They don't seem to mind this much; what they dislike is extreme cold and no snow.  Leena, if you can rely on the snow coming then perhaps you do not need to confine yourself to late-flowering snowdrops?       

[hwscot]

I'm very jeslous of your stump, Uwe. It'll look fantastic with snowdrops coming up around it.