List of early-flowering snowdrops

[Alan_b]

I read about 'Gabriel' on the Avon Bulbs website here http://www.avonbulbs.co.uk/s/galanthus-gabriel/3488/Product.aspx .  Seems to me that

its habit of raising its outer segments when brought into the warm, reminding one of an angel's wings.

is a rather tenuous claim on a name but as it has been named, I will add it to the list.

[ruben]

It is already a nice list! I hope to make a pictures coming week of 'Gabriel' - Only the weather forecast does not look good.

[Alan_b]

I've added 'York Minster' based on the eBay description here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Galanthus-elwesii-YORK-MINSTER-/261681042096?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item3ced67d2b0. 

[Hagen Engelmann]

Alan, the time of blooming is a always question of fall and winter weather. last year YORK MINSTER bloomed at the end of January.
So you will have some shaky candidates in your list

[Hagen Engelmann]

I forgot to say, it is also a Gem, a Galanthus elwesii monostictus

[MR GRUMPY]

Alan,
      Here is a picture of 'York Minster' taken today(30/11)in North Yorkshire.I agree with Hagen,it's a real gem.

[emma T]

  very nice

[Hagen Engelmann]

Good made Steve!!!

Here is another one for Alans early list: GRÜNE WEIHNACHT. 
The flowering time is now, so it should be a Gem again.
But if we get a white christmas,
please forget the date of flowering time!!!

[Alan_b]

Thanks Hagen and Steve.

Hagen:
Is 'Grüne Weinacht' an elwesii?
Have you distributed it at all or is it exclusive to you?
Is it always earlier to flower than 'York Minster'?
Do we know why Jörg Lebsa chose such an English-sounding name?

[mark smyth]

Hagen I hope you are chipping, chipping and chipping again these lovely snowdrops so we can all buy some from you?

[Alan_b]

So far I have tried and failed, twice, to establish 'Three Ships'.  But it's a very early season, I have seen 'Three Ships' in flower locally and as that is my (arbitrarily chosen) end-marker then I have to rule out anything else not yet in flower in my garden from being added to the list.  How is everyone else doing with their 'Three Ships'?

[Brian Ellis]

Hagen I hope you are chipping, chipping and chipping again these lovely snowdrops so we can all buy some from you?

I'm sure there are a multitude of forum members supporting that hope

So far I have tried and failed, twice, to establish 'Three Ships'....How is everyone else doing with their 'Three Ships'?

Third time lucky for me, and mine is now fully out.

[Alan_b]

Thanks for letting me know that, Brian.  I'm going to have to try again myself with 'Three Ships'.  Do you have anything else that beat 'Three Ships' to the post but is not on the list (which, by way of reminder, is in the first post on this thread). 

[Alan_b]

I've added some information about 'Sweetheart' sent to me by Michael Broadhurst.

In the November thread, Uvularia mentions Galanthus rizehensis Trabzon in flower for three weeks.  I cannot find much about this snowdrop, even whether 'Trabzon' is a name or just short for the description 'Trabzon form' which I find referenced elsewhere.  There is already a reference to early flowering forms of G. rizehensis (thanks to Hagen) so for lack of information I have not (yet) included Trabzon in the list.   

[Maggi Young]

Paraphrasing from http://citesbulbs.myspecies.info/category/galanthus-wild-species/galanthus-rizehensis -

G. rizehensis ( note spelling) was first collected and introduced by E.K. Balls and W. Balfour-Gourlay in 1933 from plants near Trabzon in north-eastern Turkey.  While early collections were from that area it  has since been found that the species is more widely distributed than was first assumed.


It would seem that Paul's  ( "uvularia") plant  has its origin from the Trabzon area.