List of early-flowering snowdrops

[emma T]

A week later than three ships here

[Alan_b]

At some point in the future I'll list the names of the near-misses also.  I have 'Colossus' in flower here, about two weeks earlier than ormal.

[RichardW]

Three ships a few days from flowering here, also have Colossus out but it's at home in a sun trap.

[Alan_b]

It's autumn again and I am resurrecting this topic to add a snowdrop mentioned by Roger Harvey in his article in The Garden October 2015 page 66.  This is an unnamed Hiemalis Group elwesii distributed as 'from Broadleigh Gardens'.  Roger describes it as "One of the best most reliable selections of this group...'.

The list of snowdrops is in the first post of this topic - which I edit to add new entries.  If anyone has further entries please post them here or send me a message.  To keep the list to a finite size I have chosen to exclude reginae-olgae and peshmenii.

[michael broadhurst]

Hello Alan

I was interested to see your post about early snowdrops.
I have have been growing seedlings for several years with the aim of trying to find new snowdrops that are either early (according to your definition) or late (March).
I may have had some success but plants are still under observation to ensure meet their early promise. Some look like early hybrids which would be a nice variation from the usual r.o or elwesii.
Watch this space!!

Michael Broadhurst

[Maggi Young]

That's an exciting prospect indeed, Michael. 

[Alan_b]

Thanks, Michael, that's very interesting.  I have already included some of your snowdrops in my list; I hope I have them all and that the details are correct.

[Alan_b]

By the way, I recently added two snowdrops from the back section ('for sale by tender' page 42) of the North Green catalogue http://www.northgreensnowdrops.co.uk/Catalogue/NorthGreen2015.pdf .  These were "Hogget's Narrow" and "Manor Farm Early".

[johnralphcarpenter]

`Faringdon Double` is showing above ground here today.

[Alan_b]

From the ones on the list that I have managed to acquire, 'Barnes', 'Hollis', 'Remember Remember' and 'Peter Gatehouse' are all in flower now.

[art600]

Alan

I have both Yvonne Hay and Howard wheeler in flower today.

Yvonne Hay is not on your list 

[Maggi Young]

Wouldn't photos of these  early flowers be nice to see? 

[mark smyth]

I agree. A photo for all those listed on page 1 would be great also

[art600]

Wouldn't photos of these  early flowers be nice to see? 

If the weather is better tomorrow I will try.

[Alan_b]

I'm not sure about 'Yvonne Hay', Arthur.  It seems to be extremely variable in flowering time but mostly a good deal later.  The next earliest reference I can find is here http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=4674.0 on 14th December 2009 when some people report 'Yvonne Hay' in flower but you say yours has only just broken the surface.