Galanthus - October 2015

[Brian Ellis]

Great to see it Hagen, hope your season is now progressing well!

[MR GRUMPY]

I have to echo Mr Ellis's comment Hagen . .

[Rick Goodenough]

Beautiful Hagen, you seem to have the corner going on good greens...way to go! Rick

[Paddy Tobin]

I've missed the wonderful posts and information on these pages - busy with a gardening society here in Ireland and unable to find the time for everything. However, I really must try to be a more frequent visitor as nowhere matches the quality of information found here.

Now, to say "Hello" again, here is a little clump of G. reginae-olgae 'Tilebarn Jamie'.

Despite appearances, these are pot grown in a cold glasshouse and were simply taken outdoors where I buried the pot in fallen leaves for the photograph - a little artistic licence!

[Paddy Tobin]

I received these bulbs some years ago as G. reginae-olgae 'Sofia' but I am fairly certain that they are not and are, perhaps, G. reginae-olgae 'Tilebarn Jamie' again.

Any opinions?

[Blonde Ingrid]

Made an excellent trip to The Cyclamen Society Autumn Show at RHS Wisley today!

Great to meet Melvyn Jope and relieve him of some lovely early flowering drops.

I had heard from Brian Ellis how lovely G.r-o Autumn Snow is but to see it up close is very special. I also managed to get G.r-o Eleni and Lefki which are lovely additions.

Luckily I was not subject to the steely gaze of Melvyn and the judges as they went about their work! 

Just for the record I also bought a lovely Cyclamen and a fern!  Keeps the acquisition team guessing!

[Maggi Young]

With your 'drop fixation, Ingrid, I'm a little surprised they let you in! Hope you made some encouraging noises about the cyclamen ? 

[Blonde Ingrid]

With your 'drop fixation, Ingrid, I'm a little surprised they let you in! Hope you made some encouraging noises about the cyclamen ? 

Oh yes, I bought a beautiful dark one and a fern!

[Maggi Young]

Oh yes, I bought a beautiful dark one and a fern!

 Hmm, sounds a bit like Ian's description of his car - "it's a blue one" ...........

[Blonde Ingrid]

Hmm, sounds a bit like Ian's description of his car - "it's a blue one" ...........

You are closer than you think! Delegated the previous response to my acquisition team while cooking lunch! ' A beautiful dark one ' I mean really!

Although, I have to say that its not far from accurate ! It is apparently a hederifolium bred from x nos of generations of dark magenta seedlings such that if grown in the shade, the flowers are a glorious purple!    The fern is a polystichum setiferum, it should survive being neglected for snowdrops but provide some evergreen background. possibly to my next Ian Young inspired pot!!

[Maggi Young]

There was a fair degree of mumping about the effort your last IY inspired pot created for  your ATeam - so perhaps you'd better keep quiet about any future plans for fear of mutiny!!

[Leena]

This morning there was a welcome sight: an unnamed G.reginae-olgae has come up. I had to fetch the camera right away.
This was planted last spring, and is the first to come up. I also planted 'Cambridge' and 'Tilebarn Jamie', they don't show yet.
I've been thinking if the day length is a factor to when they come up? I have watered the place where they grow since the end of August.

[Mariette]

Congratulations! With me, ´Cambridge´and ´Tilebarn Jamie´are slightly later than some others, which are flowering since a week. But of course, we had 100 mm of rainfall during August.

[mark smyth]

Paddy 'Tilebarn Jamie' should have twin scapes

[mark smyth]

I'm torn between putting these in the garden or leaving them in the pot. I did get 14 bulbils from 10 chips of a bulb and daughter this year so maybe in a few years I can experiment.

I've ordered a lot of 13cm terracotta long toms for the new plunge but they are late coming and I'm not about to start to repot again.