Galanthus in April 2014

[carolesmith]

Glen Chantry list this year for sale at Harvey's was:
Amy Doncaster £40
Priscilla Bacon £35 and I find they are as reasonable as anyone.

[Alan_b]

I have had two clumps destroyed by our neighbour

If it was just the above-ground parts that were destroyed there may be some hope for the bulbs.  We are getting quite late in the season now so hopefully the bulbs will be strong enough to survive.  But I would be incredibly cross if that happened to me!

[fermi de Sousa]

Tell him they were Elizabeth Harrison!
cheers
fermi

[Alan_b]

It was Snowdrop Day, yesterday (19th April) according to an Armenian web site http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2014/04/19/day-of-snowdrop/ .  I wonder how such misinformation gets started?  However the tale about the origin of the snowdrop has not been invented by the journalist who wrote the article (although I myself had not heard it before).  You can read a poem about it here: http://mrssymbols.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/seeing-snowdrops-on-candlemas-daie.html

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks Carole et al, I like your style Fermi!

Yes leaves ripped off and trampled so a great deal of tissue damage, I doubt whether they will be of much use to the bulb now and my concern is attracting the dreaded narcissus fly or virus.  It's not as though he didn't know they were there, but the thing that really annoys me is that nothing was said beforehand and he waited until we were out until he did it

[Martin Baxendale]

Thanks Carole et al, I like your style Fermi!

Yes leaves ripped off and trampled so a great deal of tissue damage, I doubt whether they will be of much use to the bulb now and my concern is attracting the dreaded narcissus fly or virus.  It's not as though he didn't know they were there, but the thing that really annoys me is that nothing was said beforehand and he waited until we were out until he did it

Brian, I'm finding that most snowdrops have pretty much completed their growth cycle and have already formed good firm bulbs ready for dormancy thanks to the mild winter and ample winter rain. I should think they'll be fine. But maybe best to lift them in the summer and relocate or replant in case the soil around them has been compacted too much by the trampling, causing drainage problems next season.

[Brian Ellis]

Cheers Martin, a good idea which I will follow - strange how everyone else has them except me

[David Nicholson]

Gives you somewhere to chuck the slugs and snails Brian :Pi

[Ossy]

Hello, just nipping back to comments on Beechgrove, it is a gem of a programme and the snowdrop film was a particular delight. I love the unassuming style of the presenters which welcomes everyone in.  Chris still appears on Gardener's Question Time and is now fronting an interesting series on gardens of note, well worth  seeing.

[Leena]

In Easter we had very warm weather in Finland, over 20C (but now it is back to 10-15C and nightly frosts), and most of the snowdrops are now over, and in my garden only late nameless G.nivalis (planted last autumn from garden center bulbs) is still good, as is 'Cordelia'.
This picture was taken Thursday evening of the nameless G.nivalis.

[Alan_b]

Perhaps it's a late form of Galanthus nivalis?  Joe Sharman sells one called G. nivalis ex Slovakia which is most notable for being late flowering.  You will have to see if yours is reliably late or just delayed this year through being planted last autumn.

[Leena]

Perhaps it's a late form of Galanthus nivalis? You will have to see if yours is reliably late or just delayed this year through being planted last autumn.

I hope it is a late form.
This winter/spring has been extraordinary here because the snow melted already in February (after being in the ground only for a month) and we could also see differences in the flowering time of snowdrops. Usually they all flower about the same time in April, as soon as the snow melts away. The only difference we might see is that some snowdrops have grown more inside the snow and some just come up from the ground. I really hope next winter will be as short and the spring comes as early as this year, and I will see how this unnamed nivalis behaves then.