Galanthus - February 2015

[mark smyth]

I've lent my book to someone who is getting hooked on snowdrops, evil lol. She doesn't know what's around the corner!

Is this 'Miss Behaving' or 'Miss Adventure'?

[emma T]

Miss adventure

[mark smyth]

Thanks. Is it a reginae-olgae?

[Tim Harberd]

End of season for me. Perhaps I ‘need’ to invest in some later cultivars!

Augustus….. Photographed this morning, two different clumps…. This afternoon I noticed the pigeons (I assume) had also been to admire one of them.

Tim DH

[colineddie1]

Sunny day and another delightful morning inspection of the troops.  Out today was another new variety from Avon, 'The Wizard', great addition to the 'green team'.

'Washfield Colesbourne' continues to bulk up beautifully and has been flowering for 5-6 weeks!

My Wizard has disappeared - hopefully he will come back next year - only got the bulb last year and not seen it in proper flower so ever hopeful here 

[Anne Repnow]

Sunny day yesterday - at last. So I managed to get a shot of G. elwesii 'Godfrey Owen' - almost gone over now.

[mark smyth]

Only the other day I was thinking this is the first winter my green house glass hasn't been broken by wee sh1ts. Found this this afternoon. No thefts thankfully

[Anne Repnow]

Oh no - who does things like that? Very annoying.

[angie]

Only the other day I was thinking this is the first winter my green house glass hasn't been broken by wee sh1ts. Found this this afternoon. No thefts thankfully

I can imagine what you would like to do to those wee s...s . It's so madding that they get away with destroying other peoples property.

Angie 

[Jupiter]

Augustus is stunning. I love the squat round tepals, all puckered like that. Probably not in Australia though...

[Alan_b]

Miss adventure

Thanks. Is it a reginae-olgae?

She had been previously identified as a reginae-olgae ssp. vernalis, along with her sister 'Miss Behaving'.  But somebody said recently that now they were not so sure.  I think that was Matt Bishop - in which case you were there at the time, Mark.

[mark smyth]

I must have been day dreaming about the sales in the town hall 

[Blonde Ingrid]

My Wizard has disappeared - hopefully he will come back next year - only got the bulb last year and not seen it in proper flower so ever hopeful here 

Hi, and thanks once again for the Ipad intell in the queue at Myddelton 

I am interested in how you dealt with your resting bulb (I assume it was a resting bulb from Avon) when it arrived? Mine has come through quite strongly and I wondered if there is any difference in handling.

[mark smyth]

Dormant bulbs bought in the summer sometimes come up late

[Brian Ellis]

We spent the day with June Boardman and others last Saturday and June came round the garden this Tuesday to look at the snowdrops.  Today I went to see what was happening in her garden.  Some years ago plicate snowdrops began to appear in their garden - Bill says he never had bought any, and then yellows appeared too.  Many of you will grow Galanthus 'June Boardman' and the next one to appear was named G.'Bill Boardman' sadly he died last year before it has appeared in the sales lists.  June was telling me that there were more appearing year by year and so I was interested to see the patch today, here is a picture of the size of the patch where this occurs in their garden and you can see there are now a great number of yellows.