Galanthus in February 2014

[Tim Ingram]

For more details please refer to my Diary entry on the AGS website.

[Alan_b]

The Goodnestone Park event looks rather sparsely attended, Tim.  Or did you just take advantage of a quiet time to take the photographs? 

[mark smyth]

I'm trying to find the top 20 snowdrop list that the AGS or daffodil year book compiled but cant find it. Does anyone have it?

[Brian Ellis]

 1.   'S. Arnott'
=2.   elwesii 'Comet'
=2.   'Magnet'
  4.   plicatus 'Three Ships'
=5.   'Atkinsii'
=5.   'Bertram Anderson'
=5.   plicatus 'Wendy's Gold'
=8.   'John Gray' 
=8.   'Mrs McNamara
=10. plicatus 'Augustus'
=10. 'Bill Bishop'
=12. gracilis
=12. plicatus 'Trym' 
=14. ikariae
=14. 'Cicely Hall'
=14. nivalis 'Lady Elphinstone'
=17. elwesii 
=17. 'Galatea'    Mackenzie £5
=17. plicatus 'Gerard Parker'
=17. 'Hippolyta'

[Tony Willis]

They're quite lovely Tony.

I have 7 gracilis and 10 elwesii seedlings from Mt. Vermion via Melvyn and am hoping they will flower this year or next.  2009 or 2010 seed as I recall.  The gracilis are desperately  slow and very small.  I may have reversed the labels and the counts. 

johnw

John

I see from my label the gracilis were sown in June 2008. They flowered for the first time last year. I have an August 2010 sowing which will flower next year.

[mark smyth]

Thanks Brian

[Tim Ingram]

Alan - sparse in some ways and not in others; there were some 600 people over the day but perhaps most of them wandered around the garden and had tea and cake rather than buying snowdrops and other plants! (I did take the photos in a lull though).

[mark smyth]

here's a nice stable 'eyed' woronowii. I got them a few years ago at a local snowdrop day and grabbed them quickly

[MR GRUMPY]

here's a nice stable 'eyed' woronowii. I got them a few years ago at a local snowdrop day and grabbed them quickly

I like it Mark.

[Uwe]

today in garden:
1. Rodmarton Arcturus
2. Emperor Augustus
3. Diggory

[mark smyth]

today in garden:
1. Rodmarton Arcturus
2. Emperor Augustus
3. Diggory

Not much difference in those three

[Uwe]

especially the Rodmarton Arcturus and the Emperor Augustus are very similar , but they differ in the leaves.

[johnw]

Diggory seems to have more shapely hips.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

Diggory seems to have more shapely hips.

...and of course is flattened underneath.

[mark smyth]

G. ikariae from the same person who sold the lovely G. woronowii above. The leaves, quite narrow, and inner mark aren't as dark as I would expect for G. ikariae

He has G. ikariae and G. woronowii mixed up in the same group so many they might have crossed