Galanthus in January 2014

[Ru]

Shelves with lighting, Ru?  I would be interested to see a picture of what those look like.

Each rack has 4 functional regiments.
This rack was made by my wife (I was at this time in expedition in Siberia) .

[Ru]

Now I got from the refrigerator chips from sectorial chimeras.
I want to allocate separately mutant sectors.
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And others 8 .

[Ru]

 Emerald Bells 

[uvularia]

I have a nice clump of Galanthus elwesii 'Maximus'. Originally from Bill Baker. This name doesn't seem to exist anymore? Can anyone help? The inner perianth markings are 'Grumpy' - like. It has been in flower since Christmas. Can anyone enlighten?

[uvularia]

A bit bigger!

[Maggi Young]

Beats me - I thought that Galanthus elwesii var. maximus (Velen.) Beck - Wiener Ill. Gart.-Zeitung 19: 55 1894 was just thought to be a big form of  Galanthus elwesii Hook.f..   - and I thought it had a large solid green  inner mark .....  but hey, I'm a croconut!

[Hans J]

After the snowdrop bible :

G.elwesii ' Yvonne Hay' ( syn. Maximus )

I have this plants ....from a friend which had it direct from Harry Hay

furter I have G. 'Maximus' ...this plant Comes from fom the former DDR ( also a G.elwesii form )

Hans

[Hans J]

here are some ( old ) pics :

[uvularia]

Definitely not Yvonne Hay as she has a solid green inner perianth. I have found it on an old post (2010) of RichardW. As 'another from Bill Baker'
I wonder if he came up with anything?

[uvularia]

This is RichardW's picture of my plant I think?

[uvularia]

Quite similar to Hans 'Maximus' photo!

[RichardW]

My Dad knew Bill Baker well, I remember him but only being dragged to see gardens when I was young and had no interest in snowdrops 

Bill lived in Tidmarsh Berkshire & had many drops and gave several to my Dad which he gave to me over the years, my Dad passed away a few years ago so his collection came back to Benington.

He had 3 only marked as "Bill Bakers Large", "Early" and one that was just labelled "Hybrid" which has a double mark so it maybe that one, I will photograph mine when it's out to compare if it helps.

[snowdropcollector]

Ruslan, see that you are doing a good job and that your chippings grow wel  .
Good to see that Emerald Bells is growing, hope they do well for you !

Re to maximus......think there is also a Maximus overhere in the Netherlands. I do not grow it, so do not know how this one looks. There has been a green tipped version of this so called maximus, and that has become a new name when I am informed well. It is named 'Green Diamond'.

[uvularia]

My Dad knew Bill Baker well, I remember him but only being dragged to see gardens when I was young and had no interest in snowdrops 

Bill lived in Tidmarsh Berkshire & had many drops and gave several to my Dad which he gave to me over the years, my Dad passed away a few years ago so his collection came back to Benington.

He had 3 only marked as "Bill Bakers Large", "Early" and one that was just labelled "Hybrid" which has a double mark so it maybe that one, I will photograph mine when it's out to compare if it helps.

Thanks Richard, It would be great to see a photo. The one I have from Bill Baker is a lovely thing. He was my Dentist and my nursery is in Tidmarsh, so I am trying to get together a few of Bill Baker's plants. He gave me a few over the years.

Ruslan, see that you are doing a good job and that your chippings grow wel  .
Good to see that Emerald Bells is growing, hope they do well for you !

Re to maximus......think there is also a Maximus overhere in the Netherlands. I do not grow it, so do not know how this one looks. There has been a green tipped version of this so called maximus, and that has become a new name when I am informed well. It is named 'Green Diamond'.

I will post a photo of the inner perianth which has distinct 'face'

[RichardW]

Do you have Early & Large? Early I have several in pots and my clump of Large needs splitting this year so I can probably spare both if you are interested in a swap for some of his others, would also like a few more.