Galanthus in March 2014

[johnw]

Mark - Here's a blurred picture of 'Robin Hall' at Primrose Hill from way back.  It was slightly bigger than 'Cicely Hall' but not unforgettable.

johnw

[Tim Ingram]

Everyone's comments about 'rowing' seem quite apt when you miss out on this thread for a few days! I'm also very taken with 'Cowhouse Green' - it seems a very refined sort of snowdrop with such a subtle colouration, and the photo really does capture that - it seems very slow to increase with us which perhaps makes it even more special. Where do you go beyond 'Fortissimo'? We have the tiniest and most delicate form of reginae-olgae quite early in the season and from then on snowdrops just seem to get bigger and bigger! Flowering now is 'Marjorie Brown', which looks a nice thing, along with 'The Linns', a quite distinctive very upright plant with short pedicels and good in the garden.

[mark smyth]

The Linns is a fabulous snowdrop that takes the season in to March. Just when I think its not going to come up it almost suddenly appears above ground

[mark smyth]

elwesii Robin Hall?

This is as far as I can tell Straffan.

[Maggi Young]

Sue and Wol Staines have been kind enough to supply this information about Galanthus 'Fieldgate Fortissimo'

"On a visit to Glen Chantry in 2010 Matt Bishop saw our plants of what was labelled Fieldgate Forte. He instantly said that it was not Forte but something that was much better and got quite excited!  A flower was taken by Matt to Margaret Owen’s Party where Matt and Colin Mason decided it should be called Fieldgate Fortissimo continuing Colin’s musical theme and acknowledging its superior quality.

The outer of the flowers have green claws and solid, much heavier green tips. The inners are a solid green. It is a very distinct  later season snowdrop. I attach a photo where sunlight has faded the right hand claw mark a little. A pretty rare event this year!!"



Many thanks to Sue and Wol for their help.

[Maggi Young]

Sue and Wol also said that " Perhaps more people have Fortissimo than they realize" 

[Alan_b]

I was about to say that as 'Fieldgate Fortissimo' was found in 2010 then surely only Gen Chantry, where it originated, could possibly have stock to sell before this year.  But now we get into the grey area that if you bought a 'Fieldgate Forte' but now decide it looks like 'Fieldgate Fortissimo', can you change the label on the assumption that you suffered from the same happy accident as Wol and Sue?

[mark smyth]

So Fortissimo looks like Forte except it has better green tips ... and we know green tips can be variable

[steve owen]

Made time today to get the camera out; here are
1. Alburgh Claw
2. Boyds Double (the first time I have persuaded it to flower in eight years.
3. Carolyn Elwes.
4. Cicely Hall, now a nice clump.
5. Esther Merton, just losing its bandbox freshness.

[steve owen]

And a few more:
6. Marlie Raphael - a variable clone.
7. Moonlight outside. A tiny nivalis, little more than 3 cm high. Found on an embankment at Edgware tube station.
8. Moonlight inside.
9. Nero - an Italian jobbie.
10. Sweetheart.

[steve owen]

And finally
11. A late seedling, un-named.
12. Virescens.

[MR GRUMPY]

Steve,Beautiful plants .I like Moonlight and Sweetheart.It's first time i've seen those two,lovely.

[mark smyth]

Yeah Moonlight is lovely

[Martin Baxendale]

And finally
11. A late seedling, un-named.
12. Virescens.

Ahah! Now I know who to go to for 'Virescens' pollen 

[Gerard Oud]

Today i had a visitor here called the Snowdropcollector Together we walked through the wild plicatus and found this one!
In the pic its the one in the middle, very strange drop