Galanthus in March 2014

[Maggi Young]

a few  more

[mark smyth]

Maggi are you sure you two have no interest in snowdrops?

[Matt T]

Maggi, not enough YELLOW!

[mark smyth]

Tim I also find allenii very slow. ikariae dwindles for me and never set seed. Nice to see you have the 'eyed' woronowii also

[Maggi Young]

Maggi, not enough YELLOW!

Trust me, Matt - there's plenty yellow, but I'm pandering to the drop fiends here     
( not too many daffs out yet though....)

[Maggi Young]

Maggi are you sure you two have no interest in snowdrops?

Only in filling up the spaces between crocus, corydalis and erythronium, Mark, honest!

[Tim Ingram]

Love that wonderful mix of plants Maggi; this is what I am aiming for with the woodland plantings but we have a long way to go, and we keep digging things up to divide them! So Emma's mum has woronowii seeding and Mark has ikariae not - completely the opposite to me - what a perverse world we live in sometimes (I shall have to send you some of my ikariae seedlings Mark, and talk kindly to Emma to get some seed of woronowii!). I just have to show this white daff. now - N. panizzianus - could be a sort of closet snowdrop!

[Gerard Oud]

You are right, Alan. I do grow G. nivalis 'Charlotte' and it is not different.

It is a pity Huisman named it.

Lina.

Lina, the late Jan Huisman had this snowdrop named after his granddaughter because it gives a lot of flowers from a small clump, thats the difference! There are snowdrops that give a lot of leaves and almost no flowers, i prefer the first ones! For the rest its a normal snowdrop! If i had found it, i probably given it away!
But people have different tastes, and about taste you cant argue!

[Margaret]

Maggi, the garden looks great with all those drops, leucojum and white corydalis.

[Lina Hesseling]

Gerard, I bought it because I have a granddaughter called Charlotte too.
And that is why I grow it sepparatly in my garden. Otherwise I would have put them together with the normal nivalisses.
The german G. 'Charlotte' is now on top of my wishlist.😀
And so are plants with the names of my other two granddaughters, Maren and Sophie.

I am just a silly oma.☺️

Lina.

[Leena]

Maggi, your garden is a paradise and an inspiration!

About G.woronovii: I think I saw seedlings around my G.woronovii last spring, I will have to check this year if they are G.woronovii-seedlings and if there are seeds pods in the adult plants. This is G.woronovii bought just from supermarket some years ago.

[ichristie]

Dear Maggie we know you really love the wee white flowers. Weather here strange had hailstones snow showers and sunshine today some snowdrops just starting to flower, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Maggi Young]

Weather here strange had hailstones snow showers and sunshine today some snowdrops just starting to flower, cheers Ian the Christie kind

We had a beautiful day here, Ian - we were really thinking it must be spring - but if you had hail and snow we might be getting ahead of ourselves and maybe winter is not over yet.

[MR GRUMPY]

Maggi    Isn't spring a wonderful thing.....specially in your garden  Beautiful.

[emma T]

Love that wonderful mix of plants Maggi; this is what I am aiming for with the woodland plantings but we have a long way to go, and we keep digging things up to divide them! So Emma's mum has woronowii seeding and Mark has ikariae not - completely the opposite to me - what a perverse world we live in sometimes (I shall have to send you some of my ikariae seedlings Mark, and talk kindly to Emma to get some seed of woronowii!). I just have to show this white daff. now - N. panizzianus - could be a sort of closet snowdrop!

I will talk to the mum and get you some of the seed for you to try