Galanthus - March 2015

[Brian Ellis]

That would explain the look of the chip in her hand.  Did she say what the growing medium was?

[mark smyth]

That would explain the look of the chip in her hand.  Did she say what the growing medium was?

No I've asked if she means planted out in soil

[johnw]

That machine! 

And I thought aphis were the vector for viral transmission.   Should be good for stag too.

[art600]

The last two galanthus in flower in the garden are the poculiform 'Francesca de Grammont' and 'Squire Burroughs', however the garden is beginning to be more colourful with corydalis and this Fritillary raddeanna.

What no Erythronium Brian !

[Brian Ellis]

What no Erythronium Brian !

Not yet!

[Carolyn Walker]

It seems like everyone has moved on, but in the mid-Atlantic US we are just starting.  Hope you are still interested:

1. A new favorite, 'Melanie Broughton'

2. New this year, 'South Hayes'

3.  'Sprite' for Mark

4. and 5. Absolutely gorgeous, 'Flocon de Neige'

[Alan_b]

I'm getting withdrawal symptoms already Caroline, so please keep the photos coming.

[latestart]

I used to think there was single snowdrops G. Nivalis and double G. nivalis flore pleno until I joined SRGC. I now look at all the ones I don't have at shows but more importantly I look more closely at what I am growing in my garden. I enclose a photo of a double G. which looks like G. flore pleno except that it has bigger flowers and a different looking inner petal from the others growing in my garden. Is this the result of a virus or is it quite common? See the attached photo.

[mark smyth]

That nursery chops bulbs in November and immediately plants in the soil

[Brian Ellis]

That is  amazing Mark, so many are already in root growth then.  Thanks for finding out.

[mark smyth]

That is  amazing Mark, so many are already in root growth then.  Thanks for finding out.

No problem. So why do people need to sterilise, skin, chip/twin, fungicide and put in plastic bags for 12 weeks? I'll definitely try this method this year

[mark smyth]

I don't think I've showed these two elwesii before.

They were among the 50 I bought as dry bulbs last autumn from my local garden centre. The variety of flower and leaf type was amazing. Huge flowers, small flowers, elwesii elwesii, elwesii monostictus, elwesii elwesii but only one mark, all green inners, reduced green, 'Magnet' types, big leaves, small leaves, twisted leaves and one 4x4

[Rick Goodenough]

Carolyn, great to see your beautiful photos of your drops that are in bloom in late March. And Mark, you got some fine lookers amongst your elwesii dry bulbs. I had a few good ones sourced similarly as well...

This is my 'Ophelia' and 'Melanie Broughton' both newly acquired "in the green" and still blooming nicely today.

G.elwesii 'Fenstead End' is still looking terrific after starting its bloom at Christmas and surviving the very long and snowy winter under a cloche which was buried under several feet of snow much of the time. Just beginning to enjoy snowdrops locally, here in Massachusetts, U.S.
Enjoy,

Rick

[Leena]

This is nothing special, but I think it was good value for the little money. It is 'Lerinda', I planted two bulbs in summer 2013, last year there were two flowers and now six, and what I most like it is that it is quite tall, 23cm (my other snowdrops are 20cm or under, even 'Atkinsii' at the moment), and very upright, and it's leaves are short.
In the second photo 'Lerinda' is in the background.

[Matt T]

'Lerinda' looks good, Leena. A nice strong scape too, to keep the flowers from flopping. It appears to have good presence in the garden.