October snowdrops

[Brian Ellis]

Cheers Brian, what conditions do yours grow in?

They are in full sun, well drained on the edge of the vegetable patch with other r-o's and peshmenii Kastellorhizo form which is also in flower.

[Jo]

Probably the wrong thread to ask on but does anyone know a snowdrop called G. Richard Handscombe ?  It's an elwesii sold on eBay last March.

I've just met it's namesake and he's never heard of it ?

[Brian Ellis]

I think you will find it is Richard Handscombe Jo.  I don't think you met his real namesake as he definitely knows about it!

[Brian Ellis]

Funnily enough it was found in the next village to us and it's a whopper

[Jo]

Hi Brian,  thanks,my tablet keeps changing my spelling or I'm hopeless at little keyboards. I've corrected it.

I'm in Spain and Richard is a keen gardener here and was offered this snowdrop and assumed it was a scam.  So thanks for that,  I'll assure him its worth the money,  ha !

[Rick Goodenough]

Sorry chaps only just got back to the forum.......I planted two bulbs in 2010 Rick. One bulb has produced this nice clump & the other bulb planted just 24" away never came to anything.

It gets warm & dry at the base of this young Scots Pine Maggi & it seems to suit them.

Cheers Brian, what conditions do yours grow in?

Thanks Mike... a very good increase.

[Leena]

I have forms of Galanthus reginae-olgae that flower with leaves, with tips only and without any leaves showing at all, but they are all G. reginae-olgae.

This quote was from Colchicum-thread, but it was interesting, because I have thought that autumn flowering snowdrops won't probably do well here when the winter may come in early November (and frosts in October or even some in September), but if there were cultivars which are earliest possible and grow leaves at the same time as flowers then they may be able to gather enough food for the bulb before winter and thrive also in the long run. Could someone give names of such cultivars of G.reginae-olgae, please.

[Brian Ellis]

I'm in Spain and Richard is a keen gardener here and was offered this snowdrop and assumed it was a scam.  So thanks for that,  I'll assure him its worth the money,  ha !

It certainly is Jo.

[RichardW]

Elwesii Barnes is flowering here, a few weeks earlier than usual & looks to be a nice clump now with plenty of spikes on the way. Bought Peter Gatehouse last year and is still in a pot but that's not quite as advanced.

[Alan_b]

cultivars which ... grow leaves at the same time as flowers ... may be able to gather enough food for the bulb before winter and thrive also in the long run.

I would have thought that the vast majority of 'food gathering' is done in the warmer longer days of late spring, irrespective of whether a bulb flowers in autumn, winter or early spring.  Leaves could be damaged by the rigours of winter so it might be better if they came later rather than sooner.

[Tony Willis]

three pots open today

galanthus peshmenii
Galanthus reinae olgae
Galanthus reginae olgae 'Sofia' from Melvyn

None of these will grow outside with me both because it is too wet and if flower buds are formed they are eaten at soil level by slugs.

[Gerard Oud]

Actually a pic from lat week Friday when it was raining G. elwesii Kinn Macintosh

[Alan_b]

Is "Kinn Macintosh" your earliest elwesii, Gerard?

[johnw]

Tony  - The peshemenii in the centre is a bruiser.

johnw - summer here, sunny & 25c.  Bracing for a brush with Hurricane Gonzalo, we may just get some much-needed rain.

[krisderaeymaeker]

G. reginae -olgae 'Tilebarn Jamie ' .