Galanthus - January 2015

[Ru]

Now in my garden -13 degrees Celsius at night is -20. In the alpinhause flowered Galanthus rizehensis and forms Galanthus transcaucasicus. After 2-3 days, take photos.

In my collection there was a commemorative coin of the Republic of Adygea (Russian Federation).

A similar coin is available in ebey
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Republik-Adygea-1-Rubel-2013-/151537100020?pt=Papiergeld&hash=item234850a4f4

[ruben]

Some snowdrops in the garden today:
Galanthus elwesii 'Paradise Giant' - one with huge flowers
Galanthus 'Rosie' - a very good early double
Galanthus elwesii 'Fieldgate prelude' -
Galanthus 'Mrs Mc Namara'

[RichardW]

Richard

Hopefully this will scare off a lot of the buyers 

I'm not sure anything would do that, even with several feet of snow I'm sure some would be found digging their way in 

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Ruben,
       What do you mean by ''huge flowers''  ?
       Please could you measure the length of the outer petals??

Tim DH

[Maggi Young]

Attention you  USA snowdrop lovers  !
 
It occurs to me that there is sometimes talk in these pages about the lack of galanthus available in the US of A  and some of you may be relative newcomers here and not know that Carolyn - yes, that plant-loving person from Pennsylvania - has a snowdrop list so that American 'drop lovers (I'm sure they're too nice to be "fiends"  there !!) can source some goodies mail order from Carolyn.
Carolyn has a good eye for companion planting too- and sells a few of those too - see the list and her blogs on her website
I'll bet she still has a few drops left to cheer some new American collector ..... take a look and see 

[Irm]

Hi, I'm a new galanthophile - little bit. I bought some snowdrops last year. They are all in my Berlin garden, I'm not a "pot gardener" 
In the moment, G.'three ships' is in flower, I bought three last year, now I have 5   

[Tim Ingram]

'Three Ships' is one of those classic snowdrops that we once had but never established - must try it again, especially to get more early forms going in the garden. Most of these are normally a little later, or from a few flowers only just beginning.

The four taller and larger flowers at the rear (from left to right):-
'Reverend Hailstone' (very good early variety given to us by David and Anke Way)
elwesii var. monostictus  (ex. Kath Dryden, originally listed as caucasicus 'Late Form'. Excellent plant)
elwesii 'Mrs McNamara' (nice tall and striking early New Year variety that has been pictured a few times)
plicatus 'Colossus' (not so colossal, but normally about the earliest of these)

In the middle-back with a typically yellowish ovary:-
'Sutton Courtenay' (this does stand out when it clumps up well in the garden - a little way to go with us)

In the front (from left to right):-
'Richard Ayres' (super double)
plicatus 'Roger's Rough' (flower still to open - named for Richard Bird's garden and a good compact well flowered plant)
nivalis 'Anglesey Abbey' (green leaves, tending to poculiform, really distinctive form)
elwesii 'Kyre Park' (new to us but a very nice well marked double)
woronowii (quite an early clump of this, well worth growing in more variety)
plicatus 'Gerard Parker' (really superb garden plant which self-seeds and is named after one of the most eminent Galanthophiles of past years)

Several of these came from the Myddelton House event last year, not so hard for those living way down in the south-east to get to; (some very nice strong looking plants like 'Diggory' and 'Wasp' still to look forward to from here last year). No virescent or yellows flowering yet, and not many of these in the garden either!

[Tim Ingram]

And here is the picture

[Alan_b]

This seems unusually early for 'Anglesey Abbey' to be in flower; any nivalis in fact.  'Reverend Hailstone' also comes originally from the garden at Anglesey Abbey.

[Carolyn Walker]

Attention you  USA snowdrop lovers  !
 
It occurs to me that there is sometimes talk in these pages about the lack of galanthus available in the US of A  and some of you may be relative newcomers here and not know that Carolyn - yes, that plant-loving person from Pennsylvania - has a snowdrop list so that American 'drop lovers (I'm sure they're too nice to be "fiends"  there !!) can source some goodies mail order from Carolyn.
Carolyn has a good eye for companion planting too- and sells a few of those too - see the list and her blogs on her website
I'll bet she still has a few drops left to cheer some new American collector ..... take a look and see 

Thanks so much for mentioning my snowdrop business, Maggi.  I do have a lot of fun snowdrops left in my catalogue but not for long as I am about to send it out by email to my customers.  The current post on my blog is titled "Companion Plants for Snowdrops" and can be found here: http://carolynsshadegardens.com/2015/01/05/companion-plants-for-snowdrops/. 

[Maggi Young]

Its good  to keep the American snowdrop lovers happy, too, Carolyn!  Thanks for your notes about the USA  "happenings"  in the events thread -  hope we'll hear more about the Winterthur event  later.... 

[Mariette]

elwesii 'Kyre Park' (new to us but a very nice well marked double)

Does Your ´Kyre Park´ actually flower as a double? Mine never did nor was expected to do so, so Yours might be a mutant.

[Cyril L]

G. elwesii 'Glenchantress' (a seedling of 'Comet') in flower today.  Is this early?  There are actually 2 flowers on different scapes from the one bulb (second picture).

[Tim Ingram]

No, you are quite right Mariette - not double at all, it just gives the impression of this because it's such a small and broad flower superficially very like the doubles we grow (thank goodness for these little emotions we can use!)

[Mariette]

Indeed, it´s such a chunky one that it might be taken for a double. With me, it´s just out, but not yet open. Unfortunately, I never detected the violet scent ascribed to it.