Galanthus - January 2015

[Maggi Young]

How lucky you are , Cyril to get down to the south to see these 'drops and access them.

[Rick Goodenough]

The first Sandersii of the season for me. One I found by a stream near Old Bewick Northumberland.

John(M)

John...fun to see this pretty little sandersii that you found by the stream. Hats off. Rick

[Blonde Ingrid]

Morning roll call is getting very interesting! For a change, one of the early drops has emerged before some of the later varieties. Today 'Nice 'n' Early' and 'Yaffle' have made an appearance.

[Maggi Young]

I am using this  quote and photo from Tim purely as an example: Tim posted this the other day- with a photo that was rather large - which made it hard for folks to look at the flowers and be able to read the names in the text  , without scrolling back and forth - here is the same picture, resized to the Forum recommended size of 760 pixels wide.

While a large photo  can be  glorious and can look very good when it is displayed alone on a page,  in the Forum the restrictions of the text boxes etc do mean that photos larger that 760 pixels wide will not be seen to their best advantage.
 I take this opportunity to once more urge members to re-size their photos to a maximum of 760 pixels wide  - it is possible, as is made clear by the number of very excellent photos on the forum which adhere to this ruling, to have perfectly good quality photos displaying the details and beauty of a plant while remaining within the 760 pixels wide and under 200kb limits.

'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!

 

[johnstephen29]

Hi here is my first snowdrop of the season, galanthus Gracilis, getting blown about in the storm raging here at the moment.


Galanthus Gracilis by johnstephen29, on Flickr

[mark smyth]

If it wasn't so windy it would be a perfect day for photographing snowdrops

'Wind Turbine' - a reliable twin scaper

[mark smyth]

A terrible angle to show a pot of elwesii 'Godfrey Owen'

[mark smyth]

The earliest of the composers to flower and often in mid December - elwesii 'Haydn'

[Hagen Engelmann]

Fine triple Mark. Not only bad winter weather.......

May I use the pics of GO for a lecture please?

[Tim Ingram]

Sorry about that Maggi - I've been using yet another different method on our Mac to reduce photos assuming that they are OK below 200kB - didn't realise this would end up over 760 pixels wide! Nice to see it full screen like that. Will have to play with the method John has mentioned.

Mark - is Godfrey Owen usually so early? Or is it because it is under cover? Haven't seen 'Wind Turbine' before - very aptly named. Would be good to get a little colder weather to slow things down a bit!

[mark smyth]

Fine triple Mark. Not only bad winter weather.......

May I use the pics of GO for a lecture please?

Of course. Do you want the originals so you can edit them yourself?

[mark smyth]

Mark - is Godfrey Owen usually so early? Or is it because it is under cover?

Grown under cover without heat. Its flowering about 10 days earlier this year. Warm last winter and this winter. 12c the other day here

[mark smyth]

Another nice snowdrop which may have come from Ian Christie is 'Mona'

[Maggi Young]

Mark- I'm gonna be nit-picky -  would you start resizing your pix to 760 pixels wide for the forum , please?
See reminder: http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=65.msg321035#msg321035 

[Maggi Young]

Another nice snowdrop which may have come from Ian Christie is 'Mona'

Yes, I think   'Mona ' is one of Ian the Christie kind's - so that's probably who you got it from.