October snowdrops

[RichardW]

elwesii Barnes yesterday, moved a few times but doing well now.

[Alan_b]

What conditions were required to make Barnes happy, Richard?

[Brian Ellis]

elwesii Barnes yesterday, moved a few times but doing well now.

Interesting Richard, I would be interested to know too.  I moved my Barnes from the front garden (shady) to the back in full sun and it seems to have made a difference in flowering of weeks!  Now flowering as everyone else's does

[RichardW]

What conditions were required to make Barnes happy, Richard?

Like Brian's mine were shady but now in a very sunny spot + some added drainage which I generally do when planting anyway.

[Paddy Tobin]

Alan, G. 'Barnes' never gave  more than a sprinkle of flowers for many years and then last year, out of the blue, there was a big display. I had done nothing to them but won't complain about the change in performance.

[Natalia]

Hagen, I plant the young bulbils in the beds protected from the bottom grid of mice and the mole. Surface mulch of pine bark or leaf.  This week I will try to photograph and show you.
  Unfortunately I do not have a heated greenhouse, but in small pots in the winter bulbils are much colder, and in summer the earth in the pots too quickly dries.

[Alan_b]

"Hollis" from the elwesii Hiemalis Group and new with me this year.  The leaves grow very  large and, perhaps because of this, it did not transplant too well in February and the leaves remained semi-prostrate for the rest of last season.  Now it seems fine but set-back, with this the only flower.  The outer petals are still coyly concealing the inner marking.   

[pehe]

Pehe. Who were the parents of your fine poc sedling?
I cannot believe that you fine seedling had normal parents!
Well done, Poul 

Thank you Hagen!
The parents are the group shown on the last pic even if the pic-text says seedlings.
None of them show any poc sign.

Poul

[Rick Goodenough]

"Hollis" from the elwesii Hiemalis Group and new with me this year.  The leaves grow very  large and, perhaps because of this, it did not transplant too well in February and the leaves remained semi-prostrate for the rest of last season.  Now it seems fine but set-back, with this the only flower.  The outer petals are still coyly concealing the inner marking.   

Alan, My first seeing this handsome cultivar, thanks for posting...a beauty.

[Alan_b]

'Hollis' originates from Dr Dowling Munro, who is now an occasional contributor to this forum.  Maybe he can tell us the story behind its discovery? 

[Philip Walker]

My single bulb of G.peshmenii

[Alan_b]

My single bulb of G.peshmenii

'Great oaks from small acorns ...' and big clumps from a single bulb - eventually.

[mark smyth]

My G. reginae-olgae that live in a south facing trough. They get baked in the summer if it gets hot enough and drenched when its wet yet they thrive. The label is long gone but I suspect they are 'Cambridge'. They look like my 'Cambridge'

[RichardW]

That's encouraging, did the same with most of my RO after losing so many a few years ago (thought being able to protect them from heavy snow might help) and wondered if I had done the right thing, what else if growing in the trough?

[annew]

My trough full of G reginae-olgae was doing very well, but all were killed in the bad winter of 2010-11.