Galanthus - January 2015

[Tim Harberd]

Hi Maggie,
   Apologies from me… I see I have been an offender on the pixel size. I didn’t realise there was a problem, because (under 200kb) the website accepts them, and I don’t tend to look at photos I’ve posted on the forum.

   My pictures were coming in at anything up to 1280 pixels wide.. Which I now see (having looked at some of them) does create problems… I’ll change the settings!

   However Mark’s pictures…. At 800pixels…. Don’t create a problem on my screen… Am I missing the point here?

Tim DH

[Maggi Young]

Thanks for this ,  Tim.

We have found, over the years, that 760 proves the best size to be viewable on the majority of screens- just that!

[mark smyth]

Yes I'll do that

[Hagen Engelmann]

Thank you Mark. I would like to use GO and GO3, first and second picture. Send to my e-mail please?
A friend of mine starts a Galanthus festival. So I have to tell a lecture.....and Godfrey Owen is a snowdrop star.... in my eyes....

[ruben]

Very windy but a Sunny day! A good day to fotograph some drops in flower.

Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Llo n'green'
Galanthus 'Franz Joseph' (a very good early double one)
Galanthus gracilis, a good species

[Alan_b]

Galanthus 'Cressida' (neat plicatus/nivalis hybrid double) with 'Green Light' in bud to the right.  'Cressida' always flowers in January and this year I have noticed that a number of the 'Cressida' bulbs are producing two scapes; quite a feat for a double snowdrop.  I don't know if this is something I have failed to notice hitherto or whether this is just a particularly good year. A couple of other forum members have 'Cressida' so I would be interested to know if they have ever noticed her doing this.   

[Tim Ingram]

Alan - 'Green Light' is not quite at that stage in our garden, but now I see where the name comes from - the foliage really does light up. Will be exciting to see this in flower 

[snowdropcollector]

Alan, your Cressida does behave the same with me. It produces, with larger bulbs, two scapes. I noticed it last year and this year some bulbs are doing it again. It is also a good multiplier  .

[Maggi Young]

Gentleman,  please note :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12602.msg321033#msg321033 

[Cyril L]

Very windy but a Sunny day! A good day to fotograph some drops in flower.

Galanthus reginae-olgae 'Llo n'green'
Galanthus 'Franz Joseph' (a very good early double one)
Galanthus gracilis, a good species

Ruben, G. gracilis is a very dainty species.  My G. gracilis 'Corkscrew' is nearly open but we are now having very windy, wet weather.  G. 'Franz Joseph' must be one of the best 'double' selection.  Must search for it but have not seen it on any list.  I think 'Llo n' Green' is a G. nivalis selection.

[Carolyn Walker]

Hi Maggie,
   Apologies from me… I see I have been an offender on the pixel size. I didn’t realise there was a problem, because (under 200kb) the website accepts them, and I don’t tend to look at photos I’ve posted on the forum.

   My pictures were coming in at anything up to 1280 pixels wide.. Which I now see (having looked at some of them) does create problems… I’ll change the settings!

   However Mark’s pictures…. At 800pixels…. Don’t create a problem on my screen… Am I missing the point here?

Tim DH

Mark's photos at 800 display on my screen with a bar under them that I have to move to see the whole photo, and I can't see it all at once.  I don't think it's my screen which is actually quite large for a laptop.  Also the parts of the photos that I can see are too big and don't look right.  I think even smaller than 760 actually looks better, not so in your face.

[freddyvl]

I think 'Llo n' Green' is a G. nivalis selection.

Formerly classified by G. reginae-olgae ssp vernalis based on the faint mid-line stripe on the leaves but now considered to be a G. nivalis.

[Alan_b]

I must admit that I have great difficulty telling nivalis and reginae-olgae ssp vernalis apart.  Some reginae-olgae have very narrow leaves with a very obvious stripe but in general I don't believe that the presence or absence of a mid-line stripe down the leaves is a reliable indicator of species.   

[Dean C]

A couple in bloom for me now. Deer Slot showing a 'proper' mark not a 'cow hoof'. An unnamed elwesii which I refer to as 'Pisces' due to a friend pointing out the inner looks like a decapitated fish and it being my zodiac sign!

[Cyril L]

Formerly classified by G. reginae-olgae ssp vernalis based on the faint mid-line stripe on the leaves but now considered to be a G. nivalis.

Thank you for the clarification.  Like Alan said, it is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between the two species.