Galanthus - March 2015

[Leena]

I'm glad that one survived the rigours of it's first winter with you, Leena.  I cannot help admiring any picture of it that I see.

Thanks Alan. This winter was not as cold as it could have been, but I hope 'Green Light' now settles well before a very cold and snowy winter comes (hopefully never again).

[Leena]

This is 'Lord Lieutenant', planted last August. The markings don't match to pictures of it, perhaps this is due to it's first year here?

[ichristie]

Hello just found the discussion about Galanthus Brinn this was found at Dick Trotters garden near Inverness about 4 years ago and named Brinn by Catherine Erskine the flowers look like a good G. S. Arnott, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[ichristie]

Hello again Cyril and I went to the castle today to have another hunt around some snowdrops were going over but others superb a few pictures, cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[ichristie]

A few more, Ian

[mark smyth]

Hello just found the discussion about Galanthus Brinn this was found at Dick Trotters garden near Inverness about 4 years ago and named Brinn by Catherine Erskine the flowers look like a good G. S. Arnott, cheers Ian the Christie kind

Is there a chance it could be 'S. Arnott'. How different is it?

[Alan_b]

I fear there is quite a good chance that 'Brin/Brinn' is a lost and found snowdrop.  It has been described a like a stronger version of Atkinsii, which must make it about six feet tall, and like a good S. Arnott, which would make it S. Arnott in my book. 

[ichristie]

Hello Mark, I can only say that all these snowdrops including S. Arnott  are most likely hybrids with G. plicatus o/k at different times and different places difficult to tell apart, chees Ian the Christie kind

[mark smyth]

I fear there is quite a good chance that 'Brin/Brinn' is a lost and found snowdrop.  It has been described a like a stronger version of Atkinsii, which must make it about six feet tall, and like a good S. Arnott, which would make it S. Arnott in my book.

Just like 'Compton Court' 

[Alan_b]

I'm sure Catherine Erskine knows her stuff but none of the comparatives used on the here to describe 'Brin' make any sense to me.

[Cephalotus]

Yesterday was a cold day because of night rain, so all Snowdrops were closed. I decided to have a last, goodbye walk among those white carpets. I was not expecting to find anything but I just couldn't stop myself from constant searching. In the end I found a clump of complete poculiform, with large flowers. I just wish I could have seen it when all those flowers were opened the day before. Plus there was a clump with still flowers in buds. I forcibly opened one of them and it also was a complete poculiform. It is interesting how much difference in flowering there is between those two plants growing side by side.

I couldn't imagine a better goodbye to the spot, so after that I just went back to my car.
That was my last find for this year:

[Carolyn Walker]

'Bowles Large' and 'Galadriel' are the only fresh looking snowdrops in the garden  .

You should come visit me, Mark---every main season snowdrop is fresh looking and most are not blooming yet in the northeastern part of the U.S.  Parts of the Boston area still have three feet of snow.  You could start the season all over again.

[Alan_b]

Galanthomania as viewed from Toronto: http://www.thestar.com/life/2015/03/06/snowdrop-craze-is-here-with-prices-to-match.html

[ichristie]

Hello Carolyn, you are welcome to the snow here in the North East of Scotland we are still in mid winter some days bright sunshine todat hard frost and very dull, cheers Ian the Christie kind

[Maggi Young]

            Ingrid - I am sending medication by courier, please take it and lie down in a darkened room until this sympathy for deformed flowers passes.  This may seem drastic - but it's for your own good