Galanthus February 2008

[Maggi Young]

David, it's okay, your secret is safe with me.

[johanneshoeller]

Some Galanthus from my garden. Nothing extraordinary - I have only a few.
Hans

[johnw]

Hans - Very nice pictures and an impressive double yellow. I can't recall seeing one before. What's its background?

regards

johnw

[Paddy Tobin]

JohnW,

It is indeed an excellent photograph of G. nivalis 'Lady Elphinstone' which is a gorgeous light yellow. It is a yellow form of the double Galanthus nivalis - G. niv 'Flore Pleno', It has the reputation, borne out in my garden also, that if moved it can take a year or two to settle back into producing this delicate yellow. Well photographed by Hans.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

I noticed that one of the elwesii I bought in a garden centre the other week has four outer petals.

[Anthony Darby]

Hi all,

here is a nice plant :

G. 'Bohemia White'

A lovely plant. Very simple but effective. Not one I know.

[mark smyth]

I'm home!!! I met the seller of Floccon. Most of his choice snowdrops sold on Ebay have gone to Holland

[Anthony Darby]

How is Eddie? Did you get anything special Mark?

[mark smyth]

Eddie is fine and very calm about the whole Ebay situation. I didnt probe too much.

Over the weekend I got more unusal photos than snowdrops. Lost all my camera batteries during the weekend. I was given Amy Doncasters Green tipped which is a tint green tipped nivalis. Anything else was to bulk my own clumps. I did get Narcissus pallidiflorus praecox.

Someone gave MO a gift of a stunning minature nivalis looking just like Trym that was found in Scotland on Friday. At a guess the flower is now more than 1cm from tip to ovary

On Friday I saw some great looking gracilis hybrids looking like South Hayes x Flight of Fancy

Later this year I might be offering some snowdrops but just now dont know how to make them fairly available

[mark smyth]

very tired but have time to edit a couple of photos for you all to see

G. gracilis x?
G. Trymlet with twin flowers. Three bulbs in the clump doing this

[Maggi Young]

Was the weather good in Englandshire, Mark?
If it's good here tomorow, I may be going snowie spotting......but only if it's a nice day, it's not as if they were rhodos or crocus 

[johnw]

Paddy -  I had better wake up as I got 'Lady Elphinstone' a few years ago. I'll say it hasn't bloom to save face.

john

[mark smyth]

Maggi this weekend is the first time in 6 or 7 years that there hasnt been snowd on the ground or a hard frost. Not even a slight frost over night. Max temperatures was 13 n Saturday

[johanneshoeller]

John, in the background you can see a rock and black earth. The Galanthus are growing in my alpinum between Cypripedium, Trillium, Primulas, Crocus and Saxifraga.

[KentGardener]

Over the weekend I got more unusal photos than snowdrops. Lost all my camera batteries during the weekend.

Hi Mark

sorry to hear about the camera problems, it must have been really annoying - I hope you have still managed to get some good pictures to share with us.

cheers

John