Galanthus in March 2014

[mark smyth]

Isnt this a fantastic spathe? Its very distinctive

[art600]

Were you a premature baby? 

[mark smyth]

I don't see the link

[MR GRUMPY]

Wow,March already?

[mark smyth]

I know - crazy. Two extra hours daylight since Christmas. Plants in the green house jumping for joy because the sun, when its out, now shines on them again

[Oakwood]

ouaiiiiii! c'est parti le printemps!!! 

angustifolius
nivalis
trojanus
alpinus
lagodechianus

G. trojanus - a unique relic species, the most ancient and plesiomorphic Galanthus species morpha with chracteristic i.p.s. sinus, standing cladistically alone between Platyphyllys clade the most ancient species (krasnovii, panjutinii and platyphyllus) and all the rest Galanthus species.

[Paddy Tobin]

Not well distributed to date but I think this will take the accolades as the best of Irish snowdrops.

Galanthus 'Barnhill'

[Brian Ellis]

Very nice Paddy, is it tall?

[Maggi Young]

Not well distributed to date but I think this will take the accolades as the best of Irish snowdrops.

Galanthus 'Barnhill'

What is the story behind it, Paddy?   (The name  strikes a chord with me because a wonderful SRGC stalwart, the late Joyce Halley, who worked tirelssly for the Seed Exchange over many years, lived at "Barnhill" in Broughty Ferry , so it would be a name easy to remember!)

[Paddy Tobin]

Brian,

I was very kindly given a bulb last year and it produced two flowers this year - a good start to its time in our garden. In its first season with me it is about 6inches tall.

Maggi,
It came to me from a lady who lives near Dublin and she had it from the garden of the late David Shackleton in Cloncilla, Co. Dublin. I am nearly certain of these facts though not entirely certain. I had seen it in this lady's garden over the previous two seasons and was very impressed by it. She says it is very vigorous and generally produces two flowers per bulb.

Here is a shot of a clump in her garden.

[Maggi Young]

'Barnhill' looks to be a robust upstanding sort of 'drop - I like that!

[chasw]

Well I am so ooooo pleased I have had this since 2008 and it is the first time that  has flowered in all that time.............................but I think it was worth the wait

[FrazerHenderson]

I provided the link below in the February web-stream but then remembered that today is actually St David's Day 1st March!

So here goes a second time!


 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningpicturegalleries/10631794/Beautiful-snowdrops-in-bloom-in-pics.html

[Leena]

In Finland this winter has been very mild and in the south with very little snow, and even that has melted during the last week. The temperatures have been now little over 0°C in the daytime and below 0°C during nights. The ground is still frozen, but not so much as usually. The weather forecast is promising the same mild weather to continue all March  (last winter all March was -15-20° with lot of snow still), so this is going to be  a wonderfully long season for snowdrops this year, compared to last year when they flowered  in the last two weeks of April, after the snow finally melted.
These pictures are from today, just to show how the snowdrops are doing here right now.
In the first picture there is G.nivalis 'Flore Pleno' and on the right a possible 'Atkinsii', the person who gave them to me wasn't sure, but it is one of the earliest now, just little behind 'Mrs Macnamara'. Only now I realized that 'Flore Pleno' is earlier now than my normal G.nivalis.
Second picture is 'Magnet'
Third picture is 'S.Arnott'

[mark smyth]

Not well distributed to date but I think this will take the accolades as the best of Irish snowdrops.
Galanthus 'Barnhill'

Looking great.