Galanthus - January 2015

[art600]

I found this elwesii yesterday. As you can see, the inners are all white. In a sunny position, the green lines on the inside of the inners shine through vaguely. I like it, but what do you think? Is it interesting, different, enough to nurture it?

I like it very much.  I would definitely keep it and see what happens next year

[Brian Ellis]

Yes well worth seeing what happens next year.

[Maggi Young]

I found this elwesii yesterday. As you can see, the inners are all white. In a sunny position, the green lines on the inside of the inners shine through vaguely. I like it, but what do you think? Is it interesting, different, enough to nurture it?

I like it very much.  In spite of the degree of success that Hagen has had in seducing me with his Green flowers, I really like the white ones best!

[snowdropcollector]

Great find Sven  , hopefully it will come back the same next year ! If it is, than it is certainly worth growing on and hopefully it will
multiply well.

[hwscot]

I found this elwesii yesterday. As you can see, the inners are all white. In a sunny position, the green lines on the inside of the inners shine through vaguely. I like it, but what do you think? Is it interesting, different, enough to nurture it?

I'm with Maggi in liking the whites .. this one is very elegant. Feel free to invite people in the NE of Scotland to trial it

[hwscot]

G. r.o. Alex Duguid been flowering for a week or so, here photographed at a murky moment.

G. r.o. Vernalis nicely overexposed in the afternoon sun.

[Hagen Engelmann]

Bedankt Sven, good pictures to show the possibilities of differences of ICC.
Here I had the first two years normal flowers and this, the third year I have unusual patterns.
The bulbs are not younger now, but they are smaller, because last year I got a lot of daughterbulbs.

A white Ge is a special and I do not know an official plant which is named.
So fingers crossed

[SnowClock]

You are very welcome, Hagen. So your bulbs "renewed" themselves recently, another hint that maturity of the bulbs is the reason for the difference in the inner marks.

Thank you all very much for your comments on the white elwesii. I will give it some TLC and hopefully next year we know more about its stability.

I'm with Maggi in liking the whites .. this one is very elegant. Feel free to invite people in the NE of Scotland to trial it

Your request comes a little early. There only is one bulb with an offset. But if it proves to be stable and multiplies, I will certainly think of the Scots...

[loes]

Nice one Sven,hope it will be stable.

[johnw]

G. nivalis coming up on this mild day though the temperature is plummeting and the high tomorrow will be circa -9c!

johnw

[Rick Goodenough]

Ouch...John...stay warm...afraid we are getting a dose of the same storm here. And Sven, that white elwesii is terrific.  I hope it holds and bulks up nicely for you. Exciting to see a new find that is unique, and like Maggi, I really like the white forms. Rick

[RichardW]

Would prefer -9 over this mild damp stuff, back to work and plodding around with boots caked in mud again

Varieties are racing up now, have a nice clump of Peardrop that is almost in flower, others that are generally earlier still behind. Mild winters just seems to confuse a lot of them! still 5 weeks until we open.

[johnw]

Richard  - Would -11c do?  Mind you that won't move the mud.

I was sitting with my back to the window some 12ft away from me and the sun on my back was hot.  No doubt the greenhouse temp is soaring making ventilation very tricky indeed as we found out last week.  A clay 30" windowbox in front of a vent froze solid on one end due to a stuck vent fin, all Lachenalia Quadricolor in that end of the planter froze out completely even though the temp rebounded the next morning.

Earth bare, snowdrops on their own.

johnw   

[RichardW]

-11 and no wind I could live with, it's like the sale at Myddleton 

[art600]

-11 and no wind I could live with, it's like the sale at Myddleton 

Richard

Hopefully this will scare off a lot of the buyers