Galanthus - March 2015

[Maggi Young]

Leena,  I love your photos - the composition is lovely and the quality of  the lighting lends a charming "extra"  to the effect.

[Blonde Ingrid]

            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 

Thanks Maggi, but as you know I have vast experience of Baconesque deformed things 

[Maggi Young]

I couldn't possibly comment, Ingrid ........      I will trust you on the  odd 'drops  meantime!

[Gerard Oud]

Here are my latest findings from today, probably the last ones this spring!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/160399837333841/933413520032465/?notif_t=like

Do enjoy them 

[Cephalotus]

It seems I have to be accepted to the group to be able to see your finding. :/ I love the set of forms in the photo.

I have a question, maybe a bit in a wrong topic. Is there a form of Galanthus nivalis which has normally green leafs and not typical gray-green?

[Leena]

Leena,  I love your photos - the composition is lovely and the quality of  the lighting lends a charming "extra"  to the effect.

Thanks Maggi.  We've had now very sunny days and freezing nights, but the snowdrops don't seem to mind the cold, and G.nivalis is still in bud here.

[Alan_b]

Is there a form of Galanthus nivalis which has normally green leafs and not typical gray-green?

Green-leaved forms of galanthus nivalis are found amongst some nivalis populations.  Although they were once regarded as very rare, I find them too numerous to be of any great interest unless they have some other noteworthy feature.    There is a well-known cultivar called 'Anglesey Abbey' which has green leaves and a tendency towards being poculiform.  And another one I can think of which modesty forbids me to mention.  But AFAIK there is no known flore pleno form with green leaves so be on the look-out for that. 

[Alan_b]

For Cephalotus:

Here is a pot of an unnamed green-leaved nivalis which I keep:

• To prove my point.
• Because in a garden the green-leaved ones make a pleasant contrast to the others.

[Cephalotus]

Thank you for your reply Alan. Such green-leafed form would definitely make a nice contrast with other plants, with typically coloured leafs.

[mark smyth]

Alan would be referring to his nivalis 'Green Light'

[Brian Ellis]

Sadly it is getting very late in the season and I am perhaps a bit late showing this as it is starting to go over, but I did say I would post a picture to another forumist so here it is.  Galanthus 'Twilight' - a gracilis seedling as can be seen from the slight twist to the right hand leaf!  I wish I had taken my camera out when it was looking fresher as it looks as though the sun has just hit it with that yellowey receptacle.

[Blonde Ingrid]

Sadly it is getting very late in the season and I am perhaps a bit late showing this as it is starting to go over, but I did say I would post a picture to another forumist so here it is.  Galanthus 'Twilight'

As you said Brian, it is a very nice drop indeed...another one joins Lemongrass on the list 

[Alan_b]

... And another one I can think of which modesty forbids me to mention.

Alan would be referring to his nivalis 'Green Light'

There I was, however the picture is not 'Green Light', just a 'normal' nivalis with green leaves.

[mark smyth]

Sadly it is getting very late in the season and I am perhaps a bit late showing this as it is starting to go over, but I did say I would post a picture to another forumist so here it is.  Galanthus 'Twilight' - a gracilis seedling as can be seen from the slight twist to the right hand leaf!  I wish I had taken my camera out when it was looking fresher as it looks as though the sun has just hit it with that yellowey receptacle.

Love it!

[mark smyth]

Only two fresh looking snowdrops in the garden 'Cicely Hall' and 'Big Eyes'  but there is yellow and cream everywhere