November 2014 snowdrops

[penstemon]

It finally opened....just in time for bitterly cold weather to arrive.
The main snowdrop season here usually begins about the third week of January, lasting into February, but unfortunately the weather patterns seem to be changing, and not in a way I appreciate.

[Leena]

monostictus, which is a classification for elwesii with 'a single apical segment marking'.

Are all G.elwesii which have only a single apical mark monosticus? I have an unnamed G.elwesii with only singe mark, but it flowers quite late, at the same time as G.nivalis or even later, here usually in April.

[Alan_b]

Are all G.elwesii which have only a single apical mark monosticus?

Yes.  Monostictus is just a descriptive term (when applied to elwesii).  They can flower at any time.

[Leena]

Thanks.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Sometimes the Galantus elwesii monostictus are real gems.....

[mark smyth]

wow, Hagen! 

[Brian Ellis]

Wonderful variety in the marking Hagen.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Brian, I needed a little bit time to understand your smiley!
Now my world is OK again 

[Roma]

Galanthus corcyrensis

[johnstephen29]

Hi Roma I've never heard of this snowdrop, is it a cultivar or another name for a species? It is a loverly snowdrop all the same.

[Alan_b]

From Bishop, Davis & Grimshaw, page 127 of the first edition.

Despite being reduced to synonomy of G. reginae-olgae by Davis (1999), the name G. corcyrensis is likely to prove difficult to dislodge as it is widely used by gardeners to to refer to later clones that flower with the leaves present.

So the prediction made in 2001 has proved true; here we are in 2014 and the old name is still in use.

[johnstephen29]

Hi Alan thanks for that, I have some Reginae Olgae still flowering, but I'll stick to this name easier to pronounce.

[Anthony Darby]

I still have my pot labelled corcyrensis as that is what I obtained it as. I suppose originally it was described as "coming from Corfu", but where my stock originated I don't know. I have seedlings of reginae-olgae from Sicily seed and elsewhere, and look forward to seeing them flower.

[Tony Willis]

Galanthus reginae olgae ssp vernalis out at the moment

[mark smyth]

Galanthus reginae olgae ssp nivalis out at the moment

I don't know this one.